Case file 4: What are Creepy-pastas?

Creepypasta Wiki:What Is Creepypasta?

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Creepypasta are essentially internet horror stories, passed around on forums and other sites to disturb and frighten readers. The name "Creepypasta" comes from the word "copypasta", an internet slang term for a block of text that gets copied and pasted over and over again from website to website. Creepypastas are sometimes supplemented with pictures, audio and/or video footage related to the story, typically with gory, distorted, or otherwise shocking content.

While creepypasta today varies greatly in length and quality, older ones tend to be very short and follow one of the following set of formulas:

• Anecdotes. The narrator remarks on a scary legend, news story, or event from their own past.
• Rituals. A list of instructions for the reader, claiming that if they go to a certain place at a certain time, and perform specific actions, something remarkable and/or horrifying will happen.
• The "Lost Episode." The narrator tells the story of a never-before-seen episode or scene from a famous TV show, typically a comedy or children's cartoon, where the audio and video is heavily distorted and characters begin acting strangely or violently, killing themselves and/or each other. This style of creepypasta has fallen out of favor nowadays, as it is seen as cliché.

Examples of Notable Creepypasta

Down below are some of the most noteworthy creepypastas in our archives (and some outside of our archives). Many of them can be found in the Historical Archive.

• Suicidemouse.avi

  A very early example of Lost Episode creepypasta. The story revolves around a video which depicts a saddened Mickey Mouse walking down a poorly drawn, never-ending street while random piano keys play in the background. After some minutes of Mickey walking, the video starts to become corrupted, with the keyboard being replaced with static, the street starting to become impossible to fully walk in, and the video starting to swirl around while the sound of a horrific female scream starts playing. After that horrific scene, the viewer is treated to a scene of a man saying "Real suffering is not known" seven times followed by a gunshot, implying that he shot himself. Legend has it that the first person to have had the misfortune of watching it has committed suicide for an unknown reason.

  Suicidemouse.avi is often considered one of the forefathers of the Lost Episode creepypastas (along with Squidward's Suicide, Candle Cove, and Dead Bart) and is mentioned frequently on the web.

• Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv

  This pasta is centered around a video which supposedly made over a hundred people kill themselves and mail their eyeballs to YouTube Headquarters, even though they had died. The video has an image of an unknown man in front of a background, with a red hue. After a while, the video starts making noises that sounds like a high-pitched drill.

• Smile Dog

  A picture of a dog with human teeth and a bloody hand that apparently causes its unfortunate viewers to kill themselves for unknown reasons. The image first originated on a blog post about a somewhat unknown user finding an unfortunate female viewer who killed herself from looking at the picture. The user followed the dog's advice of 'spreading the word' by posting the image virally.

• Slenderman

  This one isn't really a pasta so much as it is a creepypasta-based character/meme. Originally conceived as a part of a Photoshop contest on the Something Awful Forums around 2009, the Slenderman is depicted as an abnormally tall and thin noppera-bō with a gentleman's suit who abducts his victims (typically children) for reasons unknown, and sometimes burns down the place where he claimed his victim.

• Zalgo

  This is a trend of images of fictional (and real) characters modified to have black stuff bleeding from their eyes and mouths, usually said to have been done by an eyeless, 7 mouthed, blob-like abomination who 'waits behind the wall' and calls himself "Zalgo". Like Slenderman, this is really more a creepypaste-based meme than a creepypasta.

• Candle Cove

  There creepypasta is told in the form of a forum thread in which members discuss a disturbing children's show called "Candle Cove" which supposedly aired sometime in the 70's. At the end of the thread, one of the members reveals something with the implication that the show was not real, but rather some kind of mass hallucination.

• So ur wid yo honi and ur makin out wen the phone ringz. U ansr it n da voice sayz "wut r u doin wit ma daughter?" u tel ur girl n she say "ma dad is ded." THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
• BEN Drowned

  There is this story of a Majora's Mask cartridge that has been "haunted" by Ben, the previous owner of the cart, broken up in 4 chapters, each with its own video. The Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge Hoax is a retelling of pseudo-paranormal events that occurred between the days of September 7 and September 15, 2010 to Jadusable, a sophomore at an undisclosed college. Upon receiving a second-hand Nintendo 64 from a friend and buying a nondescript Majora's Mask cartridge from an eclectic old man, the narrator begins to notice seizure-like graphics and strange connections to a boy named Ben, who was said to have drowned as a child in a lake, from within the game.

• Herobrine

  This is about a person (Notch's dead brother) in Minecraft who is not a character, but a superstition, often sighted as a pupilless human miner who tries to entrap and/or kill players in order to steal their items & destroy their creations.

• Squidward's Suicide

  One of the most famous "Lost Episodes" ever made, it is story of a lost episode of Spongebob Squarepants, which starts with Squidward Tentacles failing another clarinet recital. After the booing (with even Spongebob booing) & some creepy minutes of Squidward looking at the camera, flashes of dead bodies, and listening to murmurs, he points a shotgun at his face & pulls the trigger, thus killing himself & ending his life.

• Dead Bart

  Another example of a famous lost episode, it involves the death of Bart Simpson after getting sucked out of an airplane window.

• Happy Appy

  A show about an apple who helps kids in need, and seemed suitable for Nick Jr at first, but got darker as the show progressed. The "show" is also the topic of a occasionally updated Wikia blog post created by a man who wants to know more about the show, while being stalked by a horrific creature that he dubbed "Forenzik". There is also a poorly designed game where Happy must find a golden apple.

• Username: 666

  This is what happens when someone goes to the YouTube user page, puts in the id for user '666' and refreshes a couple times: the backgrounds turn hellish, the videos turn creepy and it's just horrible. Upon going to a certain video by the user, close, back, pause & shut down are disabled & after the "video" ends, A HAND POPS OUT OF THE MONITOR TO GRAB YOU!

• The Grifter

  An alleged video that was first mentioned somewhere on /x/'s imageboard. Watching it is said to be a soul-rending experience, far more horrible than anything one could imagine. The image on the left (on the page) is said to contain screenshots of some of the scenes in the video. The few that have watched it are said to have been killed in their own homes, with only one thing in common, a strange doll hidden somewhere in their homes

• Polybius

  A supposed arcade game featured in an Internet urban legend. According to the story, the Tempest-style game was released to the public in 1981, and caused its players to go insane, causing them to suffer from intense stress, horrific nightmares, and even suicidal tendencies. A short time after its release, it supposedly disappeared without a trace. Not much evidence for the existence of such a game has ever been discovered. Polybius gets its name from Polybius, the Greek historian who among his other works, was also known for his works in relation to cryptography and for developing the Polybius square.

• Pokémon (Creepy) Black

  “Defending Pokémon were unable to attack Ghost -- it would only say they were too scared to move. When the move “Curse” was used in battle, the screen would cut to black. The cry of the defending Pokémon would be heard, but it was distorted, played at a much lower pitch than normal. The battle screen would then reappear, and the defending Pokémon would be gone. If used in a battle against a trainer, when the Poké Balls representing their Pokémon would appear in the corner, they would have one fewer Poké Ball.” It is implied that the selected Pokémon died.

• Pokémon Lost Silver

  this famous story is about an unknown person who buys a Pokémon Silver game and starts to realize that it is much more then meets the eyes; the player is constantly stalked by the previous unnamed owner who causes weird things to happen, such as most of the captured Pokémon being Unown that spell out mysteriously horrifying words, and the player sometimes being trapped in dark rooms.

Case File 3: Nightmare Ghost

Nightmare Ghost is something you don't want to get trust me when I tell you this. This type of ghost is know be part of the many of ghost that a person can summon while playing with a Ouija Board
once's its summon it would attach itself to someone who is stress and tired and once its in the persons home it then takes over same persons bed. And once's its in the bed it invades a persons mind while its sleeping and make the victim talk,Scream, or feel pain when effected by the ghost. How I know this.. is because I had a friend who got effected by this ghost. How i knew was because my friend started acting different such as he would claim of blacking out only to find out that he went somewhere. then he started sleeping alot and wouldn't stop talking in his sleep but then by the 12th day. I heard that he stayed home from school so being a good friend that i am, I went to his house only to see his family's car is gone so figured he went out of town for the week only to see a dark figure in his bedroom window, so i knock on his front door only for him to answer. He look tried like he hasn't slept in weeks he said come in, he was glad to see me. So we started to talk only for him to freeze and then he fell to the ground breathing really fast then suddenly blood came from his mouth and nose i panic and rush to the kitchen to grab a wash cloth only to come to the room to see him crying and then he fell asleep. So i brought him to his bedroom and left his house only to hear the next day that he killed himself he shot himself in his parents bedroom with to words written in blood on the wall was No more.

Case File 2: Ouija Board

In February, 1891, the first few advertisements started appearing in papers: “Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board,” boomed a Pittsburgh toy and novelty shop, describing a magical device that answered questions “about the past, present and future with marvelous accuracy” and promised “never-failing amusement and recreation for all the classes,” a link “between the known and unknown, the material and immaterial.” Another advertisement in a New York newspaper declared it “interesting and mysterious” and testified, “as sProven at Patent Office before it was allowed. Price, $1.50.”

This mysterious talking board was basically what’s sold in board game aisles today: A flat board with the letters of the alphabet arrayed in two semi-circles above the numbers 0 through 9; the words “yes” and “no” in the uppermost corners, “goodbye” at the bottom; accompanied by a “planchette,” a teardrop-shaped device, usually with a small window in the body, used to maneuver about the board. The idea was that two or more people would sit around the board, place their finger tips on the planchette, pose a question, and watch, dumbfounded, as the planchette moved from letter to letter, spelling out the answers seemingly of its own accord. The biggest difference is in the materials; the board is now usually cardboard, rather than wood, and the planchette is plastic.

Though truth in advertising is hard to come by, especially in products from the 19th century, the Ouija board was “interesting and mysterious”; it actually had been “proven” to work at the Patent Office before its patent was allowed to proceed; and today, even psychologists believe that it may offer a link between the known and the unknown.

The real history of the Ouija board is just about as mysterious as how the “game” works. Ouija historian Robert Murch has been researching the story of the board since 1992; when he started his research, he says, no one really knew anything about its origins, which struck him as odd: “For such an iconic thing that strikes both fear and wonder in American culture, how can no one know where it came from?”

The Ouija board, in fact, came straight out of the American 19th century obsession with spiritualism, the belief that the dead are able to communicate with the living. Spiritualism, which had been around for years in Europe, hit America hard in 1848 with the sudden prominence of the Fox sisters of upstate New York; the Foxes claimed to receive messages from spirits who rapped on the walls in answer to questions, recreating this feat of channeling in parlors across the state. Aided by the stories about the celebrity sisters and other spiritualists in the new national press, spiritualism reached millions of adherents at its peak in the second half of the 19th century. Spiritualism worked for Americans: it was compatible with Christian dogma, meaning one could hold a séance on Saturday night and have no qualms about going to church the next day. It was an acceptable, even wholesome activity to contact spirits at séances, through automatic writing, or table turning parties, in which participants would place their hands on a small table and watch it begin shake and rattle, while they all declared that they weren’t moving it. The movement also offered solace in an era when the average lifespan was less than 50: Women died in childbirth; children died of disease; and men died in war. Even Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the venerable president, conducted séances in the White House after their 11-year-old son died of a fever in 1862; during the Civil War, spiritualism gained adherents in droves, people desperate to connect with loved ones who’d gone away to war and never come home.

Case file 1: My First Experience

Case File 1:

Name: Trick Doll

Origin: Made By Patrick.T.Montoya

Bio:Was Once a normal Puppet created by Me. He was supposed to be something for a school project but everything went wrong when i decide to a 3 am challenge. You know how everyone has a imaginary friend when you were a kid well i surely do and i want wanted to bring that imaginary friend back so i kinda of did this challenge that i read about online. I was Thinking i can finally bring my old friend back but what happen next is not what i wanted to happen. Ever since that night the Doll acted different. It was like if it was listening to me about my problems. The Bully's who kept picking on me stop. I wonder what it happen to them so i tried ear dropping on them whenever i could they would talk about seeing something in their dreams a smiling kid in a white shirt and blue pants. For me to realize thats the puppet my puppet its hunted. Not by a Ghost But by my 

dead imaginary friend. The lesson here never try to relive the times with your imaginary it'll only

bring u pain.