Web Video / theLittleFears

theLittleFears is a YouTube channel that makes videos of creepypasta stories and such, both ones from the internet and ones made up by the channel's user herself, a nice Canadian woman with a soothing voice. Not related to Little Fears in any way.

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theLittleFears provides examples of:

• Ambiguous Situation:
  • The brunt of the video for "A Trick of the Light" is of a dark room, with only a sliver of light being shown; we come to learn this is because the light was left on in the hallway. Which only raises concern when said light briefly gets obscured.
  • invoked "Garlic Road" is primarily footage of a news broadcast concerning a problem in Lawndale, CA involving the garlic plants that grow in town; they're getting too smelly, and members of City Council are considering means of removing them. One of the reporters interviews one particular City Council member who is against removing them, as ever since they were planted, "the vampires" have been kept out of town.^note Please note that at no point is it clear if he is joking, he is insane, or he's being serious.
    Narrator: Naturally.
  • "I HATE SNOW" sees the narrator take her dog for a walk on a snowy day, only to discover a trail of bare footprints leading into her open house when she gets back. The video stops before we learn more.
  • Given the content of the story in question, one must question the Narrator's intention of filming a mall Santa during "Like Pennies and Gasoline"...
  • "Belle Plaine, 1965" ends on a note that the narrator admits was never truly resolved: Was Susan Wright actually found and returned to her parents, and if so, what is the story behind the corpse the cops discovered shortly thereafter, wearing clothes similar to Susan?
  • "Psalms 77:6" is only 38 seconds long, and what little context there is already present doesn't bode well: It's the middle of the night, and the Narrator has discovered that the light is on in one of the downstairs rooms, and someone is singing "Let It Be". Upon rushing downstairs, she turns on the lights, approaches the room in question, abrupt end to video.
• Adaptation Expansion: The Creepypasta "La Nuit" concerns a French ambient musician deciding to record himself sleeping, going so far as to set up his sensitive recording equipment in a rural area to remove any ambient background audio, and record only the noises of his sleep. After recording himself, he came to learn through reviewing the audio that "3 hours and 24 minutes in," something entered his room. How does the video version^note implied to be filmed inside a pitch black room expand upon that? By having that same individual approach the camera and turn it off.
• Bait-and-Switch: At the start of "Urban Exploration", the Narrator explains she and her friend had done some urban exploration the winter prior, exploring an abandoned farmhouse, playing some footage from said exploration. Except, as she later reveals, the footage being played isn't of her and her friend; they had found a digital camera in the basement of said house, containing said footage.
• Based on a True Story:
  • "Belle Plaine, 1965" is based on the true story of Pauline Picard. A child, Susan Wright, goes missing for several days, and is then found and returned to her parents, even though she does not recognize them. A couple days later, the corpse of a child is discovered in a field, matching the description of Susan Wright.
  • "A Burial On Box Hill" is entirely nonfiction, with the exception that the end of the video implies that Anthony Wayne and Peter Labiliere would turn into zombies if their burial requests were not met.
  • In The Deep Sea, Everything Is Death describes an actual process male anglerfish go through to mate with females: a complete fusion of the male into the female and transformation into a pair of gonads that release sperm, indicating egg release.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In "Like Pennies and Gasoline", a child asks a mall Santa for a Sega Genesis for Christmas. The mall Santa promises to do so... after he eats his little brother first.
• Cozy Voice for Catastrophes: The lady's voice is pleasant, quiet, and often explaining terrifying things.
• Establishing Series Moment: The very first video, "A Trick of the Light", sets the stage for the channel on the whole: While showing footage of a dark room, with only a sliver of light being shown, the Narrator explains how when they were younger, due to having car sickness, they would be left home while their family went on vacation. Due to being afraid of the dark while being home alone, she had once made the mistake of leaving the light in the hallway on. No sooner does she say this, the crack of light briefly flickers, as if something is out in the hall.
• Feghoot: "Sound Asleep", in a sense: after discussing how loud something needs to be in order to wake up an individual, seemingly building up to Jump Scare the audience, the video ends with the sound of an alarm clock going off.
• Formula-Breaking Episode:
  • "The Roundhay Garden Scene", outside of ending with playing the clip upside-down with a blare of audio, is just the Narrator briefly describing the history of the clip, and how several people involved died shortly after.
  • "Corrupted Bootleg" and "Re: Corrupted Bootleg", together. With the former, there's no narration from the narrator, only footage of her putting her The Last House on the Left DVD on, and showing that it is only able to produce flashing static-like images and garbled audio. With the latter, not only is it the only video that is a direct sequel to another, but it has more of a behind the scenes vibe with the narrator following up on a Youtube comment and attempting to upload the footage, but only able to present the audio.
• Halfway Plot Switch: At first, "Urban Exploration" appears to be nothing more than the Narrator showing off footage of her and a friend exploring an abandoned farmhouse. It then turns into a found footage video when she admits the video being shown isn't hers, but rather footage she got from a camera she found in the basement... that was still in mint condition.
• Innocence Lost: "Like Pennies and Gasoline" concerns a child realizing there's no such thing as Santa Claus thanks to a mall Santa kidnapping, and then eating his younger brother.
• Jump Scare:
  • "Mount Pleasant" ends with one, blaring the corrupted audio of a broken video camera, and what sounds like an aggressive feline.
  • Discussed Trope: "Sound Asleep" makes mention of how loud a noise needs to be to rouse a sleeping individual (louder than 40 decibels, upwards of 60). "Luckily, most things aren't that loud." Cue alarm clock.
  • Downplayed: "One in the Oven" concerns an incident during the summer of 1983, where a woman's charred corpse was found in a kitchen stove, with a camera positioned near by; an unlabeled tape is soon discovered, revealing that the woman had willingly climbed into the stove herself, having had turned it on beforehand, and violently burning to death inside... only for it to then be discovered that the woman in the video did not match the proportions of the corpse in the stove. All of this is bad enough on its own, but the presentation of the video makes it worse: The narrator is filming it in their own kitchen, in front of their own stove... Shortly after the video goes black, the oven timer goes off.
• No Ending:
  • "Curiosity". The narrator has been noticing that the clothes she keeps in her dresser (which she meticulously organizes) keep getting disarranged. Feeling that her sister is responsible, she decides to film her dresser; she hides the camera in a box by it, and lets it record for the entire day. Following the drawer opening on its own, the narrator refuses to show the rest of the footage.
  • "Re: Corrupted Bootleg" ends anti-climactically, with the narrator abruptly becoming bored of the investigation of her DVD. Concerningly, she decides this after showing the audio of one section in spectral view, displaying the word "THIRSTY".
  • "Psalms 77:6" is potentially the one video with the most abrupt ending, as it quite literally stops mid-camera swing.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Repeatedly invoked to its full, chilling potential.
  • "A Trick of the Light" concerns an anecdote from the Narrator, where she explains that one time where she was left home alone, she left the light in the hallway on at night, which shown from under the crack of her door (as shown in the video). Said light proceeds briefly flicker, as if something was in the hallway...
  • "Curiosity" stands out as the strongest example. How else do you describe the Narrator ending the video right as the drawer opens on its own?
    Narrator: Now, you're going to have to trust me on this... but you don't want to see what comes next.
  • "La Nuit" comes in a clear second, due to the viewer not being able to see the person who enters the room, and then approaches and turns off the camera.
  • "Psalms 77:6" is the only other video to date to contain no dialogue from the narrator. It's 38 seconds long, and consists only of the faint, faint sounds of someone singing (what appears to be) "Let It Be", as the narrator proceeds to enter her living room and turn on her light, as if to locate the source of the sound, before the video abruptly ends.
  • "Urban Exploration" consists of two individuals entering an abandoned house, footage from a camera the Narrator found exploring that same house, with such abysmal microphone quality, that one can't clearly make out what is being said. The video then ends with the Narrator showing a picture she had taken of the basement, and because of the lighting in the basement, it looks like there's two figures hidden in the background...
• Riddle for the Ages:
  • By the end of "Mount Pleasant", there have been two occurrences that have occurred in the community during the week of March 12th, 2008, that appear to have no answer but are implied to be related: a random, additional street lamp that appeared on March 12th with no clear explanation for its existence, only to just as suddenly disappear the next day without a trace, and the sudden disappearance of 15 local outdoor pets that went missing around the same time.
  • This is the note "Belle Plaine, 1965" ends on: Despite the fact that Susan Wright was returned to her parents, a corpse matching her description was soon thereafter discovered, forcing the police to figure out what is going on, and if the girl that was found was Susan Wright. There is no recorded evidence stating this was resolved.
• Sanity Slippage: "The Hitchhikers" details a phenomena to the listener where, if they go driving down the road at night, they will come across a hitchhiker on the side of the road, who will politely ask to be taken to the next town over. If you decide to kill them, they will turn out to be not quite human; their bodies will actually have a hollow cavity inside that contains a random object... and once you get one, you will soon become consumed with the desire of finding another such hitchhiker and taking their hidden object. And since you can't tell from first glance if they are human or not, there's only one real way to tell...
• Schmuck Bait: The basic plot of "Fridge": Supposedly, there is a switch underneath the listener's refrigerator, set to the right. If you move it to the left, nothing will happen... until two days later, whereupon the listener will die, and their stomach will be filled with "an odd number of fingers, toes, and eyes".
• Shout-Out: "One Thousand Californians." The statue found at the murder scene is Izumi Kato's "Untitled 2004," best known as SCP-173. However, it's never made clear whether the statue is actually supposed to be SCP-173. Its method of killing is never described.
• Squick: invoked The punchline of "I HATE COKE": after pouring herself a glass of Coca-Cola, the narrator came to discover a dead house centipede was in the can.
• Spiritual Successor: Both "A Trick of the Light" and "La Nuit" both concern an unknown entity potentially appearing in an empty house in the middle of the night, and are presented in their respective videos as a recording of a dark room, with the only difference being that "La Nuit" lacks any form of light. As such, while we are able to see the unknown entity briefly in the former (via the sliver of light from the hallway flickering), in the latter, we can only hear the entity.
• Wham Line:
  • In "What People Will Believe", two things are presented to the viewer: a segment of a medical podcast involving a patient collecting parasites that he would pull out of his nose, and a video clip of a person's nose filled with maggots. The narrator then asks a question:
    Narrator: Does your nose feel itchy?
  • "Raucous Noël" concerns the narrator showing off her prized music box snowglobe, mentioning that it tends to make a peculiar noise as it winds down, making the video in particular to show this off. Sure enough, as the song ends, you can hear gurgling.
    Narrator: Did you hear it?
  • "Belle Plaine, 1965" ends on a rather distressing note: shortly after the parents of Susan Wright are reunited with their daughter, a corpse matching Susan's description is discovered. The police are then tasked with identifying the corpse, identifying the murderer, and determining whether or not Susan Wright was in fact returned to her parents. And according to the narrator?
    Narrator: I can't find any evidence that they succeeded.

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