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Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet.[1][2][3] These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten or discomfort readers.[1][2]

List of creepypastas

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Slenderman, one of the most popular creepypastas

Slender Man

Main article: Slender Man

Slender Man is a thin, tall humanoid with no distinguishable facial features, who wears a trademark black suit. The character originated in a 2009 SomethingAwful Photoshop competition, before later being featured as a main antagonist in the Marble Hornets alternate reality game. According to most stories, he targets teenagers who supposedly go into his forest looking for him. The legend also caused controversy with the Slender Man stabbing in 2014. Two 12-year-old girls stabbed a classmate, leaving her in the forest to die. Luckily, the girl crawled her way out of the forest and got help. The two girls were arrested and, when questioned, all they would say was “Slenderman told us to”.[4]

Abandoned by Disney

Abandoned by Disney is a creepypasta about a man exploring an abandoned Disney resort, named Mowgli's Palace.[5] The story’s climax comes when the man finds a room marked "CHARACTER PREP 1" in which the mascots seem to be alive, and flees when he witnesses one rip off its own head.[5]

Jeff the Killer

An image of Jeff the Killer

Jeff the Killer is a story accompanied by an image of the title character. In the story, a teenager named Jeff is attacked by a group of bullies. The fight ends with Jeff being doused with alcohol and set on fire. After being discharged and having his bandages removed, Jeff becomes insane; carving his own face to leave a smile-shaped scar, burning off his eyelids, and killing his family.[6] He becomes a serial killer who sneaks into houses at night and whispers "go to sleep" to his victims before killing them.[6][7] The story quickly became one of the most popular creepypastas and would inspire many other stories, including Jane the Killer.[6]

The character of Jeff was created by DeviantArt user Sesseur. The story above wasn't made by Sesseur himself, but rather "a fan of his earlier work." A 2013 article asserted that the original image of Jeff the Killer was an extensively edited picture of a girl who committed suicide in the fall of 2008.[8] However, in 2018, after extensive research on 4chan's /x/ board, this rumor was debunked; the original image came from Japanese website pya.cc from September and November 2005.[9] The image of "Katy Robinson" was also found to be a hoax; it was taken from a girl on the Christian website TrueChristian.com.[citation needed]

Ted the Caver

"Ted the Caver" began as an Angelfire website in early 2001 that documented the adventures of a man and his friends as they explored a local cave. The story is in the format of a series of blog posts. As the explorers move further into the cave, strange hieroglyphs and winds are encountered. In a final blog post, Ted writes that he and his companions will be bringing a gun into the cave after experiencing a series of nightmares and hallucinations. The blog has not been updated since the final post.[10] In 2013, an independent film adaptation of the story was released, called Living Dark: the Story of Ted the Caver.[11]

Penpal

Main article: Penpal (novel)

Penpal is a six-part creepypasta novel by Dathan Auerbach. The original stories were published on reddit, and were collected as a self-published paperback in 2012.[12]

The Russian Sleep Experiment

Main article: Russian Sleep Experiment

"The Russian Sleep Experiment" tells of Soviet Union agents and scientists experimenting on both political prisoners and prisoners of war during World War II, in which the prisoners are kept in a sealed-off room which was filled with an experimental gas to prevent sleep. This mysterious gas turns the prisoners into violent zombie-like monsters. In the end, the commander demands a researcher to enter the room and start killing the prisoners.[13] With one of them uttering "So nearly free" before they die.[14]

1999

1999 is a creepypasta that started as a blog by Camden Lamont which was updated in real-time.[15] It tells the story of a Canadian man named Elliot, who is investigating a mysterious public access channel called Caledon Local 21. The mascot of the channel is "Mr. Bear", the star of the series Mr. Bear's Cellar. Elliot remembers writing to Mr. Bear when he was younger, and during the investigation, he finds a police station with several Mr. Bear tapes, including an episode where Mr. Bear murders several children. In one of the last updates, Camden says he was contacted by an email address that supposedly belongs to Mr. Bear. The blog ends on a cliffhanger after Camden mentions the email address.[16][17]

A few years after the story started spreading around the internet, plagiarism accusations were thrown in Camden Lamont's way after a version of the story was published to Fandom's Creepypasta Wiki. In this version, several accounts of a series on Caledon Local 21 named Paint With the Soul closely resemble several videos uploaded to YouTube as part of the web series AlanTutorial. This version was later removed from FANDOM sites by a DMCA from Camden Lamont himself, who released a statement that he was unaware the story had been posted and continuously updated for several years, all without his consent.

The Ayuwoki

"The Ayuwoki" began as a YouTube video created in 2009 by fiction writer Thomas Rengstorff, to promote an animatronic robot with a mask resembling a distorted likeness of the late Michael Jackson. In early 2019 it morphed into a meme, a challenge, and an urban legend that also spawned a video game; it caused several authorities to calm any fears regarding the meme's influence.[18] The Ayuwoki gets its name from a Spanish misspelling of the lyrics "Annie, are you okay?" from the song "Smooth Criminal". [19]

The Backrooms

The Backrooms is a short passage originally posted to 4chan's /x/ board in 2019 as a caption to a photograph of a hallway with yellow carpets and wallpaper. The story purports that by "noclipping out of bounds in real life," one may enter a realm known as the Backrooms, an empty wasteland of corridors and rooms with nothing but "the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in,"[20] as well as malevolent entities that hunt the traveler across three separate areas of the Backrooms, "Levels 0 through 2." The location in the original photograph which spawned the Backrooms story is unidentified as of 2020.[21]

Local 58

Main article: Local 58
Local 58

Local 58 is a YouTube web series created by Kris Straub revolving around a news channel which is being constantly hijacked.[22] The web series is notable for its effects to make it look like an actual television. Each episode revolves around a different scenario in which the news channel is being hijacked. For example, "Contingency"[23] shows a hijacking where a foreign country had captured America and the broadcast tells the viewers to commit suicide via gunshot. The broadcast then concludes that "the 51st state is not a place" before the broadcast abruptly changes to a message apologizing for the 'hoax' that had been played on-air. Another entry in the series, "Weather Service", details through Emergency Alert System messages a seemingly-apocalyptic alien event involving the Moon or a force based on it 'infecting' those who gaze at the satellite. The video culminates in a person attempting to implore the audience not to look at the Moon, only to become 'infected' themselves after fighting with an entity instructing the audience to do the opposite, the final shot being that of the 'infected' human turning the camera feed to the full Moon while a large number of people can be heard screaming in terror in the background.

Siren Head

Siren Head is a fictional cryptid created by the Canadian artist Trevor Henderson.[24][25] It is an enormous emaciated being with a pair of sirens where a head would normally go, which are capable of emitting various noises both natural and man-made, including sirens, radio broadcasts, white noise, and human voices.[26] An ambush predator, it always hides in plain sight and sometimes mimics the voices of its past victims to lure any potential prey closer. The creature is one of many monsters in Trevor Henderson's found-footage[27] style drawings, and has been the subject of multiple video games, the most popular being a short horror game independently developed by Modus Interactive with the permission of Henderson.[24] The game was originally created in 2018 for a PlayStation-themed Game Jam, and gained an increase in popularity in 2020 after being showcased by various big gaming YouTubers and streamers, including PewDiePie, Markiplier, and Jacksepticeye.[24][28][29] Siren Head was also included in a popular Fallout 4 mod, called Whispering Hills.[25] Another game, titled Sirenhead,[30] was developed by UndreamedPanic and praised for its visuals and sound design.[26]

The Rake

The Rake is a strange humanoid creature whose sightings have been reported on four different continents, sometimes being referred to as a "Skin-Walker", with the earliest known account being a mariner's log in 1691. Named for its massive, incredibly sharp claws, the Rake lacerates its victims in their sleep and sometimes whispers to them in a frightening voice. Those fortunate enough to survive a sighting of the Rake suffer from the traumatizing thoughts of its appearance and behavior.[31]

The Rake has been list as one of the most famous Creepypasta monsters.[32] In 2018, a film based on the Rake was released on TubiTV and Amazon Prime.[33] The film was poorly received by critics.[33]

Torture Soup (Blank Room Soup)

"Torture Soup" or "Blank Room Soup" is a video in which a man is seen eating a bowl of soup. Midway through the video, the man begins crying while two masked people caress him. There are several theories, one of them affirms that the man who appears in the video had four days of starvation, and then he was forced to eat the remains of his dead wife.[34]

The video was uploaded to YouTube under the headlines "Blank Room Soup" and "Torture Soup" and quickly became popular. The costumes used in the video are costumes of characters known as RayRay, created by Raymond Persi, the characters were originally devised in 2002 when Persi began to draw these characters based on his vision of himself. There are claims that the video was not created by Persi, and that the costumes featured in the video were stolen after a live show, and that the video was later released to him.[34]

The Expressionless

"The Expressionless" is a story that was added to the Creepypasta Tumblr in June 2012. The story is set in June of 1972, where a woman appeared in Cedar Senai hospital wearing only a gown drenched in blood. Bloodied patients aren't uncommon in hospitals, but there are a few things that make her stand out more than the rest. One of these things is the fact that her face resembled a mannequin face. The other thing is the fact she had a kitten clamped in her jaw, which was bleeding a large amount. She pulled the animal out and threw it aside, and then collapsed. The doctors, freaked out by her unresponsive-like state, decided sedating her would be best. They attempted to sedate her, and as they did, she rose from the bed. The staff attempted to restrain her, and she turned her vacant gaze towards a male doctor. As she did this, she revealed a set of spiked, inhuman teeth. Her appearance shocked the whole staff. She stared at the doctor until he got distracted by the footsteps of the security guards. She saw the opportunity, and pounced on him, sinking her teeth into his neck and ripping out his throat. She leaned in and whispered to him the last thing he would hear, "I.. am... God...". She continued to devour the security crew. One female doctor survived and nicknamed her 'The Expressionless'.[35]

Zalgo

Main article: Zalgo text
Zalgo text

Zalgo is a recurring creepypasta character who is alternately interpreted as a deity, an abstract supernatural force, or a secret collective.[36] The concept originated in 2004 on the Something Awful forums, with edits of cartoons to depict characters mutating and bleeding from their eyes while praising Zalgo. The depictions were coupled with a unique form of distorted text that became known as Zalgo text.[37]

Hi Im Mary Mary

Hi Im Mary Mary (often stylized as hiimmarymary) is a story told through multiple YouTube videos. The story follows Mary, a woman who one day woke up in a house similar to her grandparents' home, however, nobody else is there and nothing can be done to escape. Mary decides to record her experiences in the house to keep herself occupied. During the day, the house is mostly normal and calm. However, during the night, strange and demonic figures representative of mental illnesses appear to torment her.[38][39]

Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv

Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv is the title of a twenty-second-long video uploaded to YouTube in 2008 by a user called erwilzei. It depicts footage with a red filter, of a man silently staring into the camera.[40] A slightly longer version was later produced, depicting the man suddenly smirking towards the end; this was accompanied with a short story which claimed that several viewers who saw the footage in its entirety, which ran for approximately two minutes, were driven insane by what they saw, cutting out their eyes and mailing them to YouTube's headquarters.[41]

Lost Episode creepypastas

Lost Episode is a common subgenre of creepypasta, and revolves around Lost episodes of various media properties. These lost episodes are usually explained as having been prevented from airing, or pulled during broadcast due to controversial, mature, or unsettling aspects being shown, such as graphic violence, gore, and adult themes.

Candle Cove

Main article: Candle Cove

"Candle Cove" is a story by Kris Straub written in the format of an online forum thread in which people reminisce about a half-remembered children's television series from the 1970s involving a young girl - the series' protagonist - going on adventures with a cast of pirates, represented through puberty. The posters share memories of the creepy puppets from the series, and discuss nightmares that resulted from watching certain episodes (such as those involving a villain called the Skin-Taker, and one that had no dialogue other than screaming). One poster then asks their mother about the series and is told that the mother just used to tune the television to static, which the child would watch for thirty minutes.

Syfy announced a television drama based on the story in 2015, adapted by Max Landis.[42] The story makes up the first season of Channel Zero, which premiered on October 11, 2016.[43]

The Wyoming Incident

The Wyoming Incident is the case of a video that interrupted the transmission of several television stations in Niobrara County, Wyoming in 2006. The video showed human heads without bodies doing various gestures, poses, and emotions and even the position of the camera moved from time to time (mostly for five to ten seconds after every scene), all the people who saw the video suffered from hallucinations, headaches, vomiting, etc. While some believed that it was something paranormal. This is believed to have been caused by the strident noise that sounded during the video. All attempts to capture the hacker who caused this was in vain.[44]

As a tribute to the creepypasta a video game was released in 2010, the video game was developed using the Raycasting Game Maker program.[45] The game used images from The Wyoming Incident video for walls, enemies, and more.

Life Sucks

Life Sucks is a partially completed episode of Ren and Stimpy, which had a large part of its storyboards finished, but ultimately went unreleased. The episode, which was conceived after series writer John Kricfalusi left Nickelodeon, deals with themes of optimism, pessimism, and evil.[46]

The episode begins with Stimpy very cheerful admiring the beautiful nature and greeting the insects, and smiling at the flowers. However, Ren (the dog) appears who is very bitter and violent, he approaches Stimpy, asking him why he is so happy. To which Stimpy responds: "Mother nature is wonderful, and it is beautiful that plants and animals exist to be admired and cared for by us." To which Ren replies angrily "you're an idiot, life sucks", Stimpy tells Ren that he shouldn't say that, that his way of expressing himself is not pleasant, that's when he encourages you to observe his beautiful flowers and his beautiful colors. He glances at an insect walking on a plant stem, whom he greets in a friendly manner; The insect responds pleasantly, but a praying mantis appears and eats the insect in a highly graphic way, eating it from top to bottom. Meanwhile, the insect screams in agony the insect dies eaten by the mantis, while blood comes out of its mouth. Terrified Stimpy asks Ren "What's going on?", Ren replies "That's what life is about, Murders! This is how life works, it's a fight for survival". Stimpy tries to escape from the place scared and frightened, but Ren takes him by the neck and smashes him to the ground, crushing his head, obligating him to see how the insects kill each other, killing from butterflies, caterpillars, and other insects. "Can you see it now, Stimpy? Torture, homicide, mutilation, there is your nice life", Ren takes out a calculator and shows Stimpy that scientific findings conclude that 99.9999% of all existing lives, will be eaten, they will devour someone, or they will die of a terrible disease. Stimpy becomes distressed and begins to shout: "Enough!" This is where he seems to show symptoms of some kind of disease, welts begin to appear on his skin and he begins to cough.[47]

Stimpy falls to his knees totally disturbed. Stimpy on his knees starts to cry, but Ren keeps exclaiming "Life is a constant struggle for survival, murdering, murdering, and torturing!" Stimpy explodes into a scream asking him not to talk about it anymore, but Ren keeps exclaiming that those are the laws of nature and that he should accept the reality of life. At the end of his speech, Ren ends by saying, "I told you life sucks!" Later Ren is shown reading a story to Stimpy called "The Children's Crusade", this story tells the story of a boy who longs to reach a wonderful and peaceful place, (a promised land). The boy decides to recruit several children to be able to take them to that place, they walk for a long and long time, that even their shoes ended up wearing out. When children are crossing a river, many children are drowned and others are eaten by piranhas (in one image you can see the corpse of a child with one eye out being eaten). The children who managed to continue their journey reached a mountain, some died of hypothermia, while others died of frostbite in some of their limbs. The pictures in the story show the toes of the amputated children, and it was even possible to appreciate how a wolf was about to take the life of a child, the children cross a forest where they are ambushed by warriors. Children are butchered and crushed; Stimpy bursts into tears and demands that his partner please tell him that if some children made it to the promised land. Ren sarcastically replies: "Yes, a few and they lived long lives serving as slaves and being tortured." Stimpy starts crying again, but that's where Ren beats him up and finally says, "That's life, Stimpy, empty, meaningless, cruel! Life sucks!" The episode ends with a "To be continued".[47]

SpongeBob Bootleg

The SpongeBob Bootleg Episode was a story originally written by user Snozberry on the Creepypasta Wiki. The only surviving evidence of this bootleg tape, found by five teenagers (two have committed suicide and one is reported missing) dumpster-diving near an abandoned mental facility, is an edited image from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Dumped." The image consists of a dimly lit background of SpongeBob's living room and a mouthless SpongeBob with bloodshot eyes. Many images of this are GIFs of SpongeBob blinking if the viewer stares at it for long enough.[48]

Suicidemouse.avi

"Suicidemouse.avi" is a nine-minute Mickey Mouse video uploaded to YouTube in 2009, with the video posing as being forgotten Mickey Mouse footage made by Walt Disney himself during the 1920s golden age of American animation. The "banned" cartoon begins with a 3-minute animation loop of Mickey walking down a street with a dull, almost depressed look on his face. All the while, the sound of a piano being played poorly can be heard in the background. Bit by bit, the video begins to warp, glitch, and distort as the sound of tv white noise replaces the original banging piano music. Accompanying this music change is Mickey himself, who starts sneering after a while and his movements speed up. It is at the 8-minute mark that the audio changes once again, this time to a woman crying in agony, and as the crying got louder and louder, the picture changes. The streets and sidewalks Mickey is walking on start to travel in impossible directions. Mickey's face begins to fall apart as his eyeballs roll to the bottom of his chin like marbles in a fishbowl and his smile creeps up to the left side of his head. The screaming continues until the 9-minute mark when the episode ends with an image of Mickey's head appearing on the screen (similarly to the ending of classical Mickey Mouse cartoons around the time) for approximately 30 seconds, while what sounds like a broken music box plays in the background. The remaining 30 seconds is supposedly unknown to the public, though it is suggested that whatever took place during those last 30 seconds was so mentally traumatic, that it resulted in the employee who first screened the episode committing suicide after watching it and uttering the phrase "Real suffering is not known."[49]

This creepypasta was adapted into a movie on June 15, 2018, directed by Christo Lopez. The budget was over $ 5,000 and it was filmed in the United States.[50]

Dead Bart (7g06)

"Dead Bart" is a story by writer K.I. Simpson. It features the Simpson family going on a plane trip together, but while being his usual, mischievous self, Bart ends up breaking a window on the plane and getting sucked out, falling to his death. After an apparently very realistic view of his corpse, the show's second act features a surreal take on the Simpson family's grief. Act three opens with a title card saying one year has passed. Homer, Marge, and Lisa are skeletally thin, and still sitting at the table. There is no sign of Maggie or the pets. They decide to visit Bart's grave. Springfield is completely deserted, and as they walk to the cemetery the houses become more and more decrepit. Emotionally abandoned, they arrive at Bart's grave where Bart's body is simply lying in front of his tombstone, appearing similar to the corpse in act one. The family starts crying again, but eventually, they stop and blankly stare at Bart's body. Near the end, the camera starts to zoom into Homer's face and according to summaries, Homer also tells a joke during this part. The episode ends with a zoom-out of the cemetery, featuring the names of every single Simpsons guest star on the tombstones, with the ones that have not died yet all having the same death date.[51]

Squidward's Suicide (Red Mist)

The full story is told from the perspective of a person who interned at Nickelodeon Studios in 2005 as an animation student. The student and some other coworkers received a tape to edit titled "Squidward’s Suicide" for the series SpongeBob SquarePants. The staff initially assumed it was just an office prank. In the firsthand account, the video consists of Squidward preparing for a concert. After Squidward finishes playing at the concert, the crowd jeers at Squidward. The next shows Squidward forlornly sitting on a bed, while strange and upsetting noises play and become louder in the background. The scene is spliced with quick flashes of murdered children, each time the noises getting louder when cutting back to Squidward — now bearing red 'hyper realistic' eyes. Eventually, Squidward shoots himself after a detached, deep voice commands it, and the video ends.[52]

The circulated image of red-eyed Squidward associated with this creepypasta was referenced in the series and included in the original airing of the season 12 episode "SpongeBob in RandomLand". According to Vincent Waller, the purpose of the reference was to make fun of "try-hard edgy fanfiction", and he has referred to "Squidward's Suicide" as a "ridiculous fanfiction". He further clarified that it was only intended as a reference and that the "Red Mist Squidward" character is "FAR from canon".[53] The scene was later replaced with baby Squidward filling his diaper, due to a Standards and Practices issue.

Fanfictions

While the following stories do not fit the typical definition of creepypastas - often being written from an in-universe perspective, they are sometimes associated with the genre:

Cupcakes

Originally posted to the /co/ board of 4chan by Drecker Jones, under the pen name "Sergeant Sprinkles",[54][better source needed] Cupcakes is a fanfiction based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. In this story, Rainbow Dash visits Pinkie Pie after getting invited by her to the bakery. Rainbow Dash was told she'd be making cupcakes with Pinkie Pie, however, Pinkie Pie knocks her out with a drink. Rainbow Dash is taken to a dark room full of severed pony heads. Pinkie Pie states that she will be making cupcakes out of Rainbow Dash. The story describes the ways Pinkie Pie mutilates Rainbow Dash to death. The story ends with Apple Bloom joining Pinkie Pie, who is now making cupcakes out of Diamond Tiara.[55][better source needed]

Rainbow Factory

Created by internet user Aurora Dawn, "Rainbow Factory" is a fanfiction of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic that tells the story of two Pegasi, Scootaloo and Orion, who fail a flight test due to trying to help a third Pegasus, Aurora, who broke their wing while flying. They are transferred to a large weather factory that is managed by Rainbow Dash. After being locked in a large room with several others, Rainbow Dash reveals how rainbows are made through the use of mutilated, live Pegasi being put through a machine called a Pegasus Device that converts their corpses into individual colors (known as Spectra), which are then mixed to make rainbows. After attempting to retaliate against Rainbow Dash and the cruelty in the factory, Orion is chained up to the machine and is twisted until his ribs shatter, before being tossed in the Device. Scootaloo attempts to escape from a now-maniacal and insane Rainbow Dash, but is proven fruitless as she is captured by guards and attached to the machine, where she utters her last words to Rainbow Dash; "You have beautiful eyes." The ending of the story is ambiguous as to her fate. There is a sequel to this set twenty years later, centered around two other foals who escape being turned into rainbows, and the lives of the workers in the weather factory.[56]

Videogame creepypastas

These creepypasta focus on video games containing grotesque or violent content; this content may spill over into the real world and cause the player to harm themselves or others. Many video game creepypastas involve malevolent entities such as ghosts or artificial intelligence.

BEN Drowned

Main article: Ben Drowned

Created by Internet user Alex Hall (a.k.a. "Jadusable"), Ben Drowned tells a story of a college student only identified as Jadusable who buys a used copy of the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask from an elderly man at a yard sale. Jadusable finds that the cartridge is haunted by the ghost of a boy named Ben, who drowned, as well as an entity that seems to have taken his name only identified as BEN, and an enigmatic force known as the Father. After performing the Fourth Day Glitch, Jadusable encounters disturbing glitches and ominous messages such as "You shouldn't have done that ..." and "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?", and begins to encounter Ben in the game, who takes the form of the Elegy of Emptiness statue. The story would later spiral into an Alternate Reality Game with the introduction of an in-universe website belonging to the Moon Children, a mysterious cult. After an eight-year-long hiatus, the story returned in 2020, once again in the Alternate Reality Game format, for its final arc, dubbed "Awakening", which featured adjacent plotlines about a man calling himself Jadus recounting his experiences during a societal collapse due to a virus known as H.E.R.O.E.S, people waking up in a mysterious hotel run by a man named Abel, and a return to the haunted Majora's Mask cartridge.[57]

Lavender Town Syndrome

Main article: Lavender Town § Lavender Town Syndrome

This legend purports that, shortly after the original Japanese release of the video games Pokémon Red and Green in 1996, there was an increase in the death rate amongst children aged 10–15. Children who had played the games reportedly screamed in terror at the sight of either of the games inserted into the Game Boy handheld console, and exhibited other erratic behavior, before committing suicide through methods such as hanging, jumping from heights, and creatively severe self-mutilation.[58] Supposedly, the suicides were connected to the eerie background music played in the fictional location of Lavender Town in the games. In the game's canon, Lavender Town is the site of the haunted Pokémon Tower, where numerous graves of Pokémon can be found.[59]

The legend alleges that children, besides being the primary players of the games, are more susceptible to the effects of the Lavender Town music, because it supposedly incorporates binaural beats and a high-pitched tone that adults cannot hear.[60] It has been speculated that the legend was inspired by an actual event in Japan in 1997 in which hundreds of television viewers experienced seizures due to a scene with flickering images in an episode of the Pokémon anime, titled "Dennō Senshi Porygon".[58][61]

NES Godzilla Creepypasta

NES Godzilla Creepypasta is a story written by Cosbydaf, who also produced the sprite artwork for the story. It relates the tale of a character named Zach who plays an unusual copy of the Nintendo Entertainment System game Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!. As Zach progresses through the game, simple glitches begin to turn into entirely new content and new monsters, and eventually, a malevolent, supernatural being by the name of Red reveals himself. As the mystery behind the nature of Red unravels, it is revealed that the demon has closer ties to Zach than he ever could have expected. The story concludes with Zach - having defeated Red during the final battle - selling the game on eBay, unable to bring himself to keep or destroy the mysterious cartridge.[62]

File:Net appearance.png
Different phases of the Red monster in the creepypasta

A sequel to the story, dubbed Godzilla: Replay, is being written by the same author as the first, and five chapters have been completed so far. This story features a largely different cast of monsters, with Red's role as an antagonist replaced by a demon named Warlock and his subordinates who represent the seven cardinal sins.[citation needed]

The story is often praised for its new approach to the traditional video game creepypasta formula,[citation needed] and for its extensive use of custom-made screenshots, depicting thousands of sprites created by the story's author. A fangame based on the story is being developed;[62] a demo was released in 2017.[63]

Toonstruck 2

Toonstruck 2 is a story revolving around the sequel to the video game Toonstruck, which was developed but not released due to the commercial flop of the first game.[64][65] The protagonist of the story, an adventure game geek named Dave, buys a rare copy of the game from a creepy man in a black raincoat; as he plays Toonstruck 2, its atmosphere becomes increasingly sinister, and the game begins to change the real world around him (the original Toonstruck was about a cartoon animator transported to the toon world through TV). The story alleges that Toonstruck 2 was based on art from the sketchbook of a mentally ill cartoon animator who murdered his boss, bought by one of Virgin Interactive's executives at a murderabilia auction, and the real reason for its cancellation was that its contents were too shocking.[66][better source needed]

SVG's Christopher Gates wrote: "The incomplete storyline has proved to be fertile ground for fans, who seem more than happy to fill in the blanks… If Toonstruck had been finished, maybe it would've faded away. But it wasn't, and the mystery has kept Toonstruck fans engaged for over 20 years — and counting."[67]

Sonic.exe

Sonic.exe is a creepypasta created by JC -the-Hyena. The original story follows a teenager named Tom, who receives a CD from his friend Kyle and a note telling him to destroy it. Finding Kyle's warning to be a joke, Tom decides to play it, finding it to be a haunted version of Sonic the Hedgehog.

The original story was posted for the first time on the Creepypasta Wiki in August 2011 and was removed in January 2014 due to complaints of its poor quality when compared to other gaming creepypastas, despite it being somewhat influential. The growing backlash towards the story led its author to publish a protracted diatribe about his grievances with the Creepypasta Wiki's decision, which only fuelled further criticism.[68]

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Petscop

Main article: Petscop
File:PetscopTitleScreen.jpg
The title screen of the fictional game Petscop.

Petscop is a web series released on YouTube which purports to be a Let's Play of a "lost and unfinished" 1997 PlayStation video game of the same name. In the game, the player character must capture strange creatures known as "pets" by solving puzzles. However, after the narrator of the series enters a code on a note attached to the copy of the game he received, he can enter a strange, dark, and hidden section of the game: the Newmaker Plane and the depths below it.[69] Although the puzzles continue, the game's tone shifts dramatically, and numerous references to child abuse appear; Newmaker appears to refer to Candace Newmaker, who was murdered during rebirthing therapy.[70]

Polybius

Main article: Polybius (urban legend)

An urban legend claims that in 1981, an arcade cabinet called Polybius caused nightmares and hallucinations in players, leading at least one person to suicide. Several people supposedly became anti-gaming activists, after playing Polybius.[71][72] One of the oldest urban legends regarding video games, Polybius has entered popular culture, and numerous fangames exist as attempts to recreate the game from numerous accounts of its nature.

Pale Luna

Pale Luna is a creepypasta of a video game of the text-based adventure from the 1980s, similar to games like Zork, or The Lurking Horror that was never distributed outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. In the game, commands had to be written and if the command was correct the game would advance and if the command was not correct the game did not advance. The game began with some texts that said "You are in a dark room. Moonlight comes through the window. There is gold in a corner, along with a shovel and a rope. There is a door to the east. Command?" In this level, if you choose "Use gold" it would show "Not here", and if you choose "Use shovel" it would show "Not now", and finally if you choose "Use rope" it would show "You've already used this", after completing the following text appeared "Reap your reward. Pale Luna smiles at you. You are in a forest, there are paths to the north, west, and east. Commands?". After completing level 2, the text would appear that said: "Pale Luna smiles wide. There are no paths. Pale Luna smiles wide. The ground is soft. Pale Luna smiles wide. Here. Command?".[73][74][75]

Most of the players who played the game after restarting the computer many times out of frustration destroyed their respective copy of Pale Luna and described the game as a sham. A player named Michael Nevins received a copy of Pale Luna. Afterwards, he bought a notebook and began to play Pale Luna. After 33 screens, Nevins managed to pass through trial and error, and even unplugging his computer, to reach the last level of the game. He spent an hour trying to pass the level and achieved it with a combination of commands that worked to pass the last level. After completing the level, the game stopped without first leaving a displayed a screen saying: "Congratulations 40.24248 -121.4434".[76] then the computer rebooted one last time. After much thinking, Nevins concluded that the numbers were coordinates of a real place. After searching, he narrowed the coordinates down to Lassen Volcanic National Park in northeastern California. Nevins decided to go there, armed with a compass, a map, and a shovel. He went to look for the gold that was hidden and he realized that many of the directions and objects that he saw were the same as those in the game, he found the destination and began digging.[77]

Soon after his shovel touched something hard and he began to dig with his hands. He realized that it was not gold, but that it was, to his horror, the head of a blonde-haired little girl in an advanced state of decomposition. After realizing the dark mystery of the game, Nevins went to the police to inform him about that girl. The girl was identified as Karen Paulsen, an 11-year-old,[78] who was reported missing to the San Diego Police Department as year and a half before the story's publishing. According to the investigation, the rest of Karen's body was never found and it is heavily believed that that murderer was the creator of Pale Luna. It was difficult to find the author of Pale Luna because the copies of the game were exchanged anonymously, without any type of accreditation or the name of the author.[79]

This creepypasta was adapted to the cinema in 2016 and 2018, the first film adaptation was directed and written by David Lauren, it was released on May 22, 2016, and filmed in France. It was acted by Dylan Pedron as Michael Nevins and Ines le Poullennec acted as Karen, the girl that Michael encountered. And it lasts around 15 minutes. The second adaptation was directed and written by Doug Gerash, Darly Hrdlicka was the only writer, the casting was much larger than the previous one and was filmed in United States and cost approximately $3,000. However, it lasts much less than the other adaptation of 2016, since it lasts 10 minutes.[citation needed]

Catastrophe Crow!

"Catastrophe Crow!", also known as "Crow 64", is an alternate reality game revolving around Catastrophe Crow!, a supposed German 3D platform game for the Nintendo 64 that went unreleased[80] and whose developer, Manfred Lorenz, disappeared.[81] The ARG was first released when a video produced by YouTuber Adam Butcher was released, entitled "What Happened to Crow 64?".[82] As the story unfolded, it was revealed that Catastrophe Crow! was originally intended for Lorenz's daughter named Thea who died of a head injury due to falling down a flight of stairs. Beset by grief since he was never there for his daughter in her final moments, Lorenz took all of the equipment from the offices at Opus Interactive and jumped off a boat while holding it.[83]

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