"If only we all were that lucky."
Don't be spooked by its nightmarish tales, Creepypastas also has the ability to make readers feel blue.Moment Subpages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.
- Dead Bart
. Especially if you lost a young friend or relative. - The same goes for "Doors" and "Jessica.". The first one in particular involves a dog losing its owner, who is kidnapped.
- Jeff the Killer's origin story may qualify, as well. He may be insane and murderous, but remember: he's human, and if the story is any indication, he's just a kid. Think about it. All of that happened to a child.
- The Medic. After an Allied mortar bombardment, a Nazi medic who has run out of supplies doctors his wounded men by using his skin for bandages and his own blood for blood transfusions, then dies. However, this being late-WWII Nazi Germany, every man in the company is KIA within a month.
- The Cell Phone Game Starts off as a generic "ritual game" story; until the rules of the game are revealed. Entering the game gives a two-week death countdown, you have only two ways of delaying your death: The first is dragging somebody else into the countdown, but every time you do so, the time bonus is halved, and the second way is finding and wearing an object that will cause you incredible pain for the rest of your days.
- Stephanie chooses to sacrifice around 9 of her friends, buying herself only 2 weeks in total, she ends up robbing Rottenbacher for his barbed cilice to save herself, knowing or at least thinking it would doom him as well. Stephanie ends up getting dragged off to hell anyway, with her last words begging for her life.
- Rottenbacher is first seen as a Card-Carrying Jerkass being a Nazi edge lord who nobody likes; he also wears a barbed cilice at all times which makes his life painful in every way. However, he was dragged into the game years ago against his will. The cilice is not his protective item, the swastika armband and the social ostracization caused by it is his protection. A genuinely good person has to suffer his whole life due to a game he didn't even want to play!
- Experiment 84-B. You'll never feel the same way about the Slender Man again.
- A lot of the theories for famous cartoons, which usually either have a character in a coma or hallucinating all the events, or the creator made the show off of someone who died.
- The Sandman is equal parts Nightmare Fuel and this. Unlike most Creepypasta villains, the Eldritch Abomination in this story seems to have good intentions. The protagonist is lonely and longs for a son, so the Sandman makes him one out of parts of his own body. But eventually it needs those parts back.
- The story Play With Me is depressing too. It's about a girl named Sally who is molested by her uncle, and the fact her parents pass it off as a nightmare does nothing to stop her uncle from abducting, raping, and killing her. What else is Sally's ghost doesn't become evil as a result, just a hurt ghost of an innocent little girl.
- Bizarre ending and complete butchering of medical concepts aside, A Cure For Cancer is a truly twisted love story that is equal parts reprehensible and heartbreaking.
- This creepypasta involving Wally from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire is really sad. It shows the tragic results of what would happen if Wally wasn't completely over his respiratory issues by the time you meet him in Victory Road...
- While it's also prime Nightmare Fuel, Max and Ruby 0004 is also one of these, considering the fact that one of the images in it is Max and Ruby standing in front of their parents' grave. Considering the fact that on the show, we never do see their parents at the time and Ruby tends to act more adult than a girl her age should...
- Pro Ana Messed Up, about a website that promoted anorexia. It ends with said website being rightfully closed down because a girl died from a mix of taking their advice and implicitly bullying from a member of the website. The fact that this story presents a very realistic scenario is particularly heartbreaking.
- Autopilot: a father takes his young daughter to daycare. There's nothing supernatural. The father isn't evil or abusive. It's just a normal, loving family, an innocent little girl, and one horrible real-life mistake—he leaves her in the car by accident on a hot summer day because he wasn't paying enough attention. Autopilot is surprisingly one of the most grounded Creepypastas of its type, and as numerous real world studies have shown, this is a tragic scenario that could happen to almost anyone under the right conditions and with the right chain of events at play...
- While the rest of it is pure distilled Nightmare Fuel, the opening to the "Chuckie's Mom" Lost Episode pasta is heartbreaking. It shows Chuckie, sitting next to his mother on her hospital bed, as she pets his head and sings to him. She passes away shortly after.
- The disturbing audio described in this South Park lost episode pasta is strongly implied to be the real life suicide of Mary Kay Bergman.
- The The Ren & Stimpy Show lost episode creepypasta My Poor Stimpy, an eerily realistic story about Ren killing Stimpy over a simple mistake, ends with Ren crying over what he did while watching the Muddy Mudskipper show.Ren: This was his favorite show...
- The I Just Bought My Childhood Home series. The narrator's condition falling apart as he explores the unnaturally cold tunnel under the house also in part from the lethally high radiation he didn't know he was exposing himself to until after the fact. When he finally struggles his way to the end, barely conscious, he finds his father's corpse, who made the same journey when the narrator was a child and was killed and replaced by whatever monster was sealed down there. To make it all worse, the narration strongly implies that the monster itself may not even be malicious. In the call the narrator received years ago from his father, telling him that his mother died from cancer, he notes that he sensed guilt in his father, and couldn't figure out why at the time. It's only in hindsight that the narrator realizes that the monster had already replaced his father at that time, and had accidentally killed his mother with its radiation.
- Psychosis is a genuinely terrifying story about a man's descent into madness note , but the ending where he pokes out his eyes, is confined to a mental hospital, and drives away his love interest with his (maybe) delusional fears is utterly heartbreaking, especially for those who have personal experience with mental illness, whether they've suffered from it or someone they love has.That's the worst part, the part I almost can't handle. The thing comes to me, masquerading as Amy. Its recreation is perfect. It sounds exactly like Amy, feels exactly like her. It even produces a reasonable facsimile of tears that it makes me feel on its lifelike cheeks. When it first dragged me here, it told me all the things I wanted to hear. It told me that she loved me, that she had always loved me, that it didn't understand why I did this, that we could still have a life together, if only I would stop insisting that I was being deceived. It wanted me to believe… no, it needed me to believe that she was real.
- The entire Abandoned by Disney saga is a hellish ride for the narrator. One day, he happens across an article about Treasure Island, and decides to pay a visit to a similar site not far from where he lives. It's at said visit that he realizes Disney is hiding some dark secret- one he encounters firsthand- and gets to work investigating it. Disney tries everything in their power to keep him on edge for the next two years to make sure he stays quiet, but he keeps posting about the strange occurrences surrounding the company thanks to the efforts of a few anonymous people. By the events of Corruptus, he's lost his ISP, his phone's been bricked, he's being stalked, and he's fairly certain someone is out there using his identity to commit a crime that'll discredit him or get him committed. In a final act against Disney, he distributes thousands of copies of the information about Corruptus to as many people and places possible, lamenting that this'll probably be the last time he'll ever talk to any of his followers again. The saga ends with him wishing them all good luck, knowing he'll need the same from them, and thanking them.
- I Need to Believe in Ghosts: The narrator tells a story about getting out of an elevator on a dark, creepy night, to find a hollow-eyed, croaking, bloody creature creeping towards him. He barely gets away. Then comes the Wham Line at the end:And I must, must ignore the newspaper reports that she had crawled on her stumps, bleeding gallons, dying only inches away from the elevator door.
- The reveal is made even more heartbreaking by the fact that this has happened in real life at least once, in the case of Mary Vincent, though thankfully she survived. The Fridge Horror creeps in when you start thinking about how many victims had similar experiences, but didn't live to tell the tale.
- The reveal is made even more heartbreaking by the fact that this has happened in real life at least once, in the case of Mary Vincent
- Chupacabra. Everything needs to provide for their young, even vampiric troglodytic monsters, and seeing a mother go out in one final blaze of desperate violence to protect her (ultimately doomed) newborn babies is absolutely heartbreaking.
- My Dog Was Lost for Three Days hits hard for anyone who owns or has ever lost a pet. The narrator's grief at losing his dog is all too real.
- Laughing Jack:
- The titular Laughing Jack is an entity that horrifically kills children. At the end of the story, Laughing Jack mutilates the narrator's child (who was still alive afterwards) and he tricks the mother into killing her son. She's utterly distraught at what she's done as she failed to protect her son like she promised. Additionally, with the site of the crime and no killer clown in sight, she's framed for causing it all, which results in her getting institutionalized.
- The official prequel is pretty heart wrenching as well. Laughing Jack was once a joyful cosmic entity sent by a guardian angel to be friends with the lonely Isaac, and was made to adapt to Isaac's personality. After accidentally killing the neighbor's cat, Isaac was sent to boarding school, but promised to reunite with Jack one day, so Jack agreed to staying in his box, which could only open after returning. Years passed and Jack lost himself in his solitude so much that his colors faded away. Isaac returning just to show that he forgot Jack was real doesn't elicit anything in the colorless clown as he had become void of self-pity. Additionally, Isaac becomes a Serial Killer, and when they reunite at the end of story, in a combination of resentment and adapting to Isaac's new love for violence, Jack tortures Isaac before killing him.
- The final moments Isaac recalls as he bleeds out is that Christmas morning he met Laughing Jack, his first friend. Despite that said friend was now torturing him to death, Isaac is implied to have went out with a smile. For someone who was once a poor (although ambiguously innocent) boy turned twisted Serial Killer, it's oddly bittersweet that he dies remembering what's likely one of the few genuinely happy moments in his life.
- I discovered something horrible on an old family VHS is a mix of this and Nightmare Fuel, with the protagonist discovering through an old VHS that he had repressed the memory of his father abusing him and his mother.
- Why I Became an Atheist has the protagonist describe how he lost his faith because the cult he and his father got involved with carved 666 into his arm and killed his dog. The protagonist's rant on how no loving God would have let him endure what he's gone through and his lamenting the fates of the other teenagers in the cult are very heartbreaking.
- I Found a Letter From My Stalker. The "stalker" gave up his chance to live as a normal human to save the protagonist from a curse that makes everyone forget that someone exists. Because of his sacrifice, she regained her life, but forgot everything about him, as did everyone else on Earth, including his parents. The protagonist's ordeal before she was saved is this as well. Imagine waking up one day to find out that all records of your existence are gone and nobody recognizes you. You then spend the next three years with parents who do not know why they have an extra bedroom for a child they do not know exists.
- Don't Let Them In. Good lord. Even if you can see the reveal from miles away, it doesn't make it any less heartbreaking. Also note that Emilie casually notes near the beginning that Anne moved to New York when she was eighteen and never contacted her again, while the story reveals that she once found Anne drunk on whiskey, after all the stress of keeping the family together. Put the two of these together, and it becomes clear that addiction didn't just claim Mom's life.
- A Shattered Life. Once you get to the part where the protagonist is living as an old man, it's pretty obvious what really happened to him. Becomes sadder when you realize that Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease, meaning there's no turning back for it. The protagonist will continue to experience "time jumps" until the day he dies.
- I Stopped Urban Exploring After We Visited a Ghost Town. The whole traumatic experience in Kilmoure results in Eliza and Charlotte's friendship falling apart, and Eliza loses the sole outlet she had to deal with her mom's death.
- If you're armed and at the Glenmont metro, please shoot me. Imagine if you took a drug that accelerated your perception of time. Imagine if that perception accelerated to the point that just blinking plunged you into years of darkness and silence. Imagine it only affected your perception, so you can't coordinate your body, you fall and dislocate your shoulder, and find that the pain of it never subsides. That's the situation the narrator is in, curled up beside a bench in the metro for what feels like thousands of years, typing out the story so people will understand what happened and either let him throw himself under a train or be courteous enough to put him out of his misery. And this all happened less than four hours after taking the drug.
- I'm So Sorry Please Forgive Me.mp4 is the story of a narrator who discovers a haunted video created by a boy who committed suicide. The boy in the video broke up with his girlfriend and did not have anyone to help him cope. The situation here was very real considering how serious suicide very much is.
- Whilst Return to Return to Oz heavily contains Nightmare Fuel (especially because of the movie it discusses), the protagonist occasionally misremembers a scene in the movie with Dorothy falling in a lake, believing that she drowns (which doesn't actually happen in the movie). We eventually find out during the ending that the narrator once had a younger sister whom, despite the narrator's efforts, drowned to death, and that the narrator, now an adult, had been trying to forget such a memory for so long. The kicker? His mother named the sister "Dorothy".
- My Son Turned a Kid "Backwards" is mostly just pure body horror, but there's something saddening about the poor kid who was turned "backwards" — his last words before the unending agony kicked in and he started screaming were a confused, scared little "What's happening to me?"
