In the black and black city: 10 kripipast for a long weekend
Even if you do not know what kripipasta is, You must have met at least one of them. "Creepypasta" comes from the words "creepy" ("creepy") and "copy paste", that is, "copy and paste" - in fact, these are the same urban legends, just migrated to the Internet, scary stories and videos. Not all of them are of good quality (it even gave birth to a meme), but some crypipasts became very famous, for example smile dog - a photo of a dog with a terrible grin that supposedly drives those who saw it, if not send it to another; Killer Jeff - the story of a schoolboy who went crazy after getting burned and killed his entire family (his catchphrase is "Go to sleep"); or the rake man - a creature that sneaks into the homes of its victims at night. We have collected ten more famous and not very stories that can be read alone in the dark.
Candle cove
This crypipasta is written in the form of a dialogue from the forum, where users remember the children's program "Candlestick Bay", which was briefly on television in the early seventies. Together, they gradually reproduce the details: the heroine, the girl Janice, who imagined that she was friends with the pirates, the puppet-pirate Percy and his ship. The transfer is overwhelmed with new eerie details: it turns out, for example, that the main villain is the skeleton devouring the skin of children, and in one of the episodes there was no plot - the puppets just screamed, and Janice wept for horror. But that's not the point, but the fact that (spoiler!) Was actually no “Candlestick Bay”: the children simply looked at the empty screen with white noise.
Unlike other kripipasts, this story has a specific author - graphic designer and web comic book author Chris Kraub. Kripipasta became so popular that on YouTube you can find several “series” of “Candle Cove”, and SyFy channel devoted this story to the first season of the series “Channel Zero”.
The Russian Sleep Experiment
This story allegedly happened in the forties of the last century: Soviet scientists decided to put an experiment on prisoners - with the help of a stimulating gas, they had to hold out for thirty days without sleep. At first, everything went fine, but after a few days the prisoners stopped talking to each other and became anxious. On the ninth day, one of them began to scream until he lost his voice. For several days, the researchers tried to understand what was happening in the room, but could not see it - and on the fifteenth day they decided to open the door. It turned out that one of the prisoners was dead, and the others were seriously injured - they began to tear off pieces of their own flesh and eat it. Scientists have tried to save the participants of the experiment, but this, of course, did not end with anything good.
Despite the blurred end and the apparent lack of attention to detail (do not try to calculate how many prisoners are still alive and how many have already died, and don’t think about the year the KGB was actually formed), this story continues to be regularly included in the lists of the best kripipast thanks to creepy bloody descriptions.
1999
Another kripipasta associated with television. This is a pseudo-investigation, rather long and periodically receiving a sequel. The author of the blog, Elliot, recalls his childhood - or rather, 1999. He liked to watch "Pokemon" very much, but due to the fact that around the same time his father always included news, he managed to catch only one series of two. In the end, his father bought Elliot his own small TV set - however, he caught only twenty channels, and the one on which Pokémon was walking was not among them. One day, the boy came across a strange twenty-first channel: he was broadcasting only a few hours a day, and strange programs were running on it — for example, Mr. Bear’s Cellar, where a child visited the host, dressed in a bear costume.
Elliot watched the channel for a while. In one of the programs, Mr. Bear invited the children to visit - Elliot wrote him a letter, and the unsuspecting father, who had never seen the program of the twenty-first channel, decided to take him there. As you may have guessed, Mr. Bear kidnapped children, and the worst thing in "1999" is that all this could well have happened in reality. Described above is only part of the story: in his blog, adult Elliot studies the events of 1999.
Psychosis
The protagonist of this story, John, is a programmer who lives in the basement and rarely communicates with people. Because of this, he develops paranoia: it seems to him that the surrounding world and all people began to be controlled by an unknown entity that can subdue electronic signals. It seems to John that he is constantly monitored, he cannot remember the last time he talked to someone face to face, refuses to use the equipment and does not dare to go out - even his best friend Amy does not help him and persuades to open the door.
The advantage of this story is not only that it keeps in suspense, but also that the plot is not so simple as it seems at first glance - but for this you have to finish reading to the end.
Ben drowned
Let's face it, this is not the worst story on the list (if urban legends scare you at all), but it’s definitely one of the most carefully thought out - for example, it is accompanied by a video. This is one of the many kripipasti about the damned versions of the famous video games: student Matt receives the cartridge of the game Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask from an unfamiliar elderly man. It soon becomes clear that the game is cursed, and its past owner, a boy named Ben, drowned. There are a lot of glitches in the game, and when Matt tries to use the bug in the game and add another game day, in order not to go through all over again, quite strange things start to happen - besides, the game constantly gives him the words "You shouldn't have done this" and "You there is a terrible fate, isn't it? "
Kripipasta ends up with a roommate Matt, who says that Matt left, but left him the video and the last file - apparently Ben’s ghost had snuck into his computer, and now he is trying to take over the world.
Homeless man
Not the most famous and not the most terrible kripipasta, which is still worth reading in its entirety. The main character lives in Osaka and, on his way to work, notices a homeless person who says something about each of the passersby and, as he initially thinks, offends someone of them - for example, a passing full woman calls a pig, although a man says "man." The next day, the hero decides to follow the homeless, but he is even more perplexed - now he says “cow”, “potato”, “rabbit”, “sheep” or “onion” about passers-by. The confused hero finally decides to ask the homeless man what he says about passersby - it turns out that the man has a rather useless superpower: he can name the last thing a man ate. If you do not understand what is special about this story, re-read it again.
The slender man
This list would be incomplete without perhaps the most famous crypipaste in the world. Slenderman is a supernatural being, resembling a human being, very tall, with long slender arms and legs. He appeared thanks to a blogger under the pseudonym Victor Serg: the participants of the forum Something Awful invented a new urban legend, and he photographed the creature on a photograph of children who allegedly disappeared or are presumed dead. Slenderman quickly became popular - new photos and videos began to appear with him.
But a truly terrible turn in this story took place three years ago: two twelve-year-old American schoolgirls lured a classmate into the forest and hit her several times with a knife - they hoped to kill her and sacrifice Slenderman, but, fortunately, the girl managed to survive.
SCP Foundation
SCP Foundation - a database of classified experiments. The Foundation explores paranormal creatures and phenomena, and on the site you can find files that describe each of them in detail. This is not exactly kripipasta, because from the very beginning it is clear that the site was created by users like a regular wiki page, and on the page of the most famous object of the SCP-173 project it is even spelled out why you cannot use his photo for commercial purposes (in fact, this is a sculpture Izumi Kato). Nevertheless, everything looks quite impressive together: in the descriptions of many objects there is not only a photo, but also a video, and for some objects, such as SCP-087, there are even games.
In the Darkness of the Fields
A little-known story from the Reddit / nosleep branch where kripipastes are published. A man tells how in childhood he traveled with his parents to visit his grandparents. One night outside, he saw a woman dancing in a field — she looked very strange and scared the boy. The next night, going to bed, the boy saw that the window in his room was open, and decided to close it. When he went to the window, he saw the woman again - but this time she stood just a few meters away and looked straight at him. The woman began to go to the house, and the boy noticed that she looked even more strange than he had thought at first - as if her skin was sewn from different pieces. At the cry of the boy's parents came running, and this frightened the woman.
Years later, when the boy once again came to visit his grandmother and grandfather, in the newspaper he saw a note that the man he had once seen in the city was arrested: many decaying human remains were found in his house - he was digging up corpses graves and decorated the house with skulls. It turned out that from the skin of several corpses he made himself a "woman's suit" - it was him who was seen in the field by a boy.
What is the worst thing about this story? Maniac actually existed.
The basement
A little known, but creepy kripipasta. The main character decides to live for several months with his parents so that he and the bride can save money for the wedding. He gets a good room in the basement, but he is constantly worried about something - it seems to him that some invisible creature is silently watching him, that at night someone enters his room and looks at him. Finally, two days before the wedding, the hero finally decides to overcome his fear and find out what a creature is watching him - and the outcome is much more unpleasant than you think.
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