The internet has been full of repulsion - themed legends for geezerhood , copied and paste in assembly and on societal medium feeds with such tenacity that they occasionally get turn into a feature pic ( Slender Man).These Creepypastas ( like the unhinged character Jeff the Killer ) are n’t genuine but often based on tangible crimes , forgather by imaginative storytellers keen on entertaining adolescent .

The stories tramp from the supernatural to the utterly gruesome , and can often focus on uncomfortable issue like suicide and execution . They seemed to reach their tiptop in 2018 when a plastic film made out of their most famous fiend " Slender Man " was relinquish to little buzz . Was it the final nail in the coffin of the cyberspace fandom ?   Does anyone care if Jeff The Killer is real anymore ?   Creepypastas just do n’t seem to hold   the same sick fascination they once did .

update on   October   quaternary , 2021 by Kayleena Pierce - Bohen : As the enchantment with the True Crime genre grows , fans want to know the real details behind the world ’s most perturbing crimes . Podcasts give to real sequent killers and unresolved mysteries have taken anteriority , with the caption of Slender Man , the Jeff The Killer story , and several more Creepypastas fleet into the shadows . These Creepypastas just ca n’t contend –   the real cosmos is scary enough .

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Jeff The Killer

One of the most notorious Creepypastas to circle around the cyberspace was created by   deviantart memberSessuerin 2011.Jeff The Killer   was the given name of a 13 - class - one-time boywho , after surviving a brutally disfiguring attack by yob , had a genial break and slaughtered them in payback .

The bully attack had left Jeff bad burned , and to keep his spirits up , he carved a tatty smiling into his case . When his parents became concerned about his spiraling behavior , he murdered them with a knife . The Jeff The Killer story might as well have been The Joker ’s inception , and with the   equivalence to the infamous Batman villain made in recent years , compound with his presentation , Jeff The Killer has drop off all of his shock .

Slender Man

One of the most well - known Creepypastas in their canyon , Slender Man was created by Eric Knudsen in 2009on the Something Awful forum . He ’s depicted as a tall , impossibly thin man with pallid skin , most oftentimes seen wearing a black suit , who appear to children .

What supposedly makes Slender Man fearsome is the fact that he has no face , and uses some sort of mind control to fudge the victims -who stumble upon him cuckold near abandoned buildings- into performing slaying on his behalf . Slender Man himself is n’t nearly as terrific as the real - life homicide he inspired in 2014 involving two girl stab a victim because the " Slender Man told them to " .

The Russian Sleep Experiment

The Russian Sleep Experiment concern to the Creepypasta legend make by user OrangeSoda , with enough details to make it seem like a existent diachronic upshot in the Soviet Union . Five   political prisoners were purportedly divest of sleep for 30 straight days for a armed forces - sanction experiment done at a examination facility , locked in a elbow room where a specific chemical compound   was distributed to keep them awake .

They   became more crazed as the days went on , tearing themselves apart in the process .   The story was hailed upon its release for being an bona fide account , despite the fact that no humans could survive what occurred in the adroitness . The inauthentic premiss , use of the " Spazm " Halloween ornament as photographic " proof " , mate with   its   clamorous political fear - pitch made it fall behind its impingement finally .

Smile Dog

One of the first chain letter of the alphabet Creepypasta caption to encounter a long life on the cyberspace , Smile Dog ( also know as Smile.jpg ) begin as a Polaroid of a creepy eye tooth   look to smile with very human teeth . There is a script near the dog seeming to beckon the looker who , upon receiving the image , must kick the bucket it on to their friends .

If they do n’t send the double on , their dream will be infiltrated by the wiener , who will take on more disturbing cast as they continue to dilly-dally . The victim are usually driven to insanity and in some extreme case , self-destruction . The legend , away from showcasing readers ' credulousness , has fall back its appeal for generally being regarded as nonthreatening and more amusing than anything else .

The Backrooms

A more recent Creepypasta that first appeared on 4chan , The Backrooms refers to a simple photograph of a yellow - carpeted hall with matching wallpaper , which a person may " enter "   by noclipping ( a bearded darnel full term used to describe moving through walls and other object in first - individual games ) .

By entering The Backrooms , an eternal series of corridor and empty hallway , they will be trapped there forever in a macrocosm of monochrome yellow , plagued by the sound of humming fluorescent lights , with the fear of malevolent entities around every box . No one has been able to describe the origin of the photograph , and it remains one of the less dreaded Creepypastas to date .

The Rake

The Rake , a prominent Creepypasta go back to 2003 , pertains to a bizarre humanoid / heel - comparable creature with pale tegument , vast knifelike claws , and a sunken brass . It often visits victims in the night while they sleep and whispers strange thing to them before brutally ripping them aside .

The Rake became an urban legend , pluck up momentum in the mid-’00s when internet sleuth begin sum up information about sightings of the creature , in anecdotes from a mariner ’s logarithm in 1691 , to personal report from the modern day . Eventually , it was made into a   moving-picture show in 2018 that miss any of the nuances of the original story , and the legend passed into irrelevance .

NoEnd House

NoEnd House start as David Williams ' fascinating journey through a haunted house with nine elbow room , each new room more terrifying than the last . say of a $ 500 reinforcement by a ally , Williams went to make it through all nine rooms and exact his prize , only to find NoEnd House really had no end .

Creepypasta fans revel the long account and descriptive item of David Williams ' descent into craziness but did n’t appreciate that the author ruin his own crook ending by fix several sequels , eventually declaring the friend who originally put Williams up to the pursuit to be its mastermind .

Annora Petrova

Wikipedia has been a reliable root of info for over a 10 , and in the case of Creepypasta Annora Petrova , the reference of a scary fable . The tale begin with Annora Petrova ’s Wikipedia page , which features in the story about Petrova , a fictional figure skater who make a " Help Me " ( a Creepypasta template ) attract to readers about her context .

She explains that an unknown entity began adding nefarious thing to her public Wikipedia page , and each fourth dimension it did , the events finally get unfeigned . From the death of her parents to spell out her own death , it seemed to be spookily prescient . The news report recede steam when it ends on a cliffhanger , and rather than make readers aroused to rule out the destiny of Petrova , they ’re left bored and confused .

Ayuwoki

What began as a YouTube video in 2009 after the expiry of Michael Jackson , the Ayuwoki by Thomas Rengstorff is a legend that arose from the writer ’s promotion of an animatronic automaton wearing a foreign masquerade party based on superstar Michael Jackson .

Supposedly , a reader could invite Ayuwoki by reciting its name at three in the dawning , after which time it would seem to them while they slumber and say , " Hee hee " after Jackson ’s unequaled laugh . With time it ’s become seen as a mimicker of the democratic Momo meme that has a similar mythos .

Have You Seen This Man

The Have You Seen This Man tale arose from an range of a function circulating around the internet of an incredibly nondescript man who , accord to a young man , paralyzed him with his stare and then killed his dog in front of him . The man ’s image was shared in the manner of a wanted bill poster ,   demand exploiter if they ’d seen him ,    inspiring anxiety exactly because the gentleman’s gentleman depend so mundane he could be anywhere .

While the story remains gently disturbing , at its heart it ’s a social experimentation to see how many people will say they ’ve both seen the man and share the image . reader exact they ’ve seen him everywhere because his picture , which resembles a reprehensible sketch , reckon so ordinary . An exercise in the futility of eyewitness financial statement is hardly terrific .

Eyeless Jack

According to his story , Eyeless Jack appear to a young male child for mean solar day , a tenuous figure standing over his bed in a sorry hoodie with   no optic , merely orotund black holes . Jack cuts out and consumes the organs of his victim , before prompt on to another one ’s bedroom to look on and waitress while they sleep .

In 2009 , an image began go around the internet boast a photograph from the point of aspect of someone lying in bed , with a hooded trope standing over them with two gaping holes where eyes should be . While gently unsettling at first , it ’s no   longer the " nightmare fuel " it used to be while being shared on sites like 4chan .

1999/Mr. Bear’s Cellar

1999 or Mr. Bear ’s Cellar , as the Creepypasta is also known , focuses on the titular children ’s boob tube serial on a public access code channel performed by a mystical man in a moth - bitten old bear suit . Any children that are featured on the serial publication eventually go missing , and their burnt bodies call on up later in the forest outside the cellar where " Mr. Bear " films his series .

Camden Lamont ’s narrative , which is one of the lengthier Creepypastas that was made pop in 2009 , pretends to be a real account , with Lamont peppering it with the sort of underage details that make it believable . But the details design to give it legitimacy only consider it down , sucking all of the terror out of it .

Candle Cove

Much like Mr. Bear ’s Cellar , Candle Cove also concerns a fictitious kid ’s series , only this metre it is n’t compose by just one writer , but contributed to by several forum participants that claim to all have memory ofthe child ’s display dark moments . Each of them bestow a portion of the tale , feature more and more distressful characters , including Horace Horrible , Pirate Percy , and Skin - Taker .

While Candle Cove certainly has a unique approach , the problem inherent to its machinist lie in the fact that each bring author has a chance to make the subject issue more terrific or a sight less . After take a lot of the forums where Candle Cove emerged from , it ’s open that eventually , it degenerate into self - spoof .

(He Comes) Zalgo

Zalgo , or Lord Zalgo as he ’s often referred to , comes from a supernatural Creepypasta involving a crimson and black demonic entity that excruciate a homo with its foreshadowed presence while he ’s in the thick of focusing on his married woman ’s maternity . finally , the baby ’s life is imperil , and the man ’s sanity slowly devolves .

The story was written by Chris Phoenix , and while it comes acrossas ominous and threatening asRosemary’sBabyinvolving the sudden coming into court of a Satan - like being , its   climax fails to instill the sort of experiential fearfulness that   comes with the inevitability of let loose the end of the world .

Mr. Widemouth

Mr. Widemouth , a creature who resembles a Furby toy with a blanket grin full of sharp teeth , is featured in the Creepypasta of the same name , in which he tries to lure a immature boy into playing increasingly dangerous games . The boy reject once he realizes that Mr. Widemouth is n’t his friend , and may in fact be trying to get him to   do violent things for his own grisly entertainment .

What start as a novel premise is too long ( with odd tempo ) to be truly effective , while unforesightful enough   to lack enough detail to make Mr. Widemouth very direful . The story reason out with the boy bring forth off from Mr. Widemouth without any veridical flood tide , meaning he does n’t follow in any of his gruesome plans , robbing the floor of its latent hostility .

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Jeff the Killer smiling

Slender Man Creepypasta

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Smile Dog Creepypasta

The Backrooms Creepypasta

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Noend house creepypasta

Annora Petrova creepypasta

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Have You Seen This Man Creepypasta

Eyeless Jack Creepypasta

1999 aka Mr. Bear’s Cellar Creepypasta

Candle Cove Series Creepypasta

He Comes aka Zalgo Creepypasta

Mr. Widemouth Creepypasta