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| 08 Aug 2013 11:28 PM |
Before, I'd consider myself a casual reader of Creepypasta. I'd read it whenever I found a story that looked particularly interesting. Mainly, I found them through ROBLOX.
This whole…. thing started in the Video Game Fans forum on that website.
There was a thread about the urban legend game Polybius. Of course, being a viewer of the channel TheGamerFromMars, I knew Polybius didn’t exist due to there being a video on that channel disproving its existence. I linked to this video, and like always with these popular threads about urban legends that I attempt to debunk, I had no response.
There was this one guy, though. His post wasn’t a response to my post, sadly, but it did have some interesting bit of information.
He talked about this one well-done Creepypasta known as the “NES Godzilla Creepypasta”. I was intrigued, since most of the Creepypasta I was exposed to through ROBLOX wasn’t very good. I might have been a little bit uneasy after them, but I got over them by the next day. So, naturally, I Bing’d it.
I now wish I hadn’t.
Not because it was bad or because I regret using Bing and am no longer a Bing fanboy like you might expect, but rather because the story was the best Creepypasta I had ever read. Close to the end I decided, hey, why not see if it has an article on TV Tropes?
So I searched for it and, lo and behold, it did! I looked around, careful not to be spoiled by anything, and then I decided to go back to reading.
Eventually, I finished the story, and was able to now read the trope listing in its entirety.
My train of thought eventually drifted to the thought of an article on Creepypasta itself. It was likely, given how popular the genre is. I searched for Creepypasta.
There was a link to an article on the Creepypasta Wiki about different clichés you should avoid using when writing one, and that had a link to an article about not using the “Jeff Formula”.
The Jeff Formula was basically this: Kid gets bullied, becomes serial killer. It was named after Jeff the Killer, a story that popularized it, and was not very good. I know this, because I read it. There was a link. After reading Jeff the Killer, I went back to the TV Tropes article and there was a link to Jeff the Killer. Okay.
There was also a link to another story, called “Abandoned by Disney”.
I didn’t read this one. Instead, I went to the WMG section. It is my favorite part of the site.
There was one WMG that had Lost Episodes as the focus. Most of the Creepypastas I read before NES Godzilla were of this sort, so I was intrigued. It was a theory that some force was driving cartoon characters insane, which is why there are so many lost episodes.
There, I found a link to a Creepypasta called “Lost Episodes”. The basic story is that this kid watches Old Yeller, doesn’t like the ending, so he changes it so the ending is happy. His friend, the narrator of the story, tells him to try to make the films more awesome. This eventually evolves into him making the films and cartoons more gruesome, as he thought bad endings were better than happy endings at that point, and it acts as a sort of origin story for the Lost Episodes subgenre.
I won’t spoil the ending, but man, is it insane.
The user who wrote it, Slimebeast, had written many other stories and I decided to read some of them.
One of them was the aforementioned Abandoned by Disney, so I read that.
Here, the protagonist goes into an abandoned Disney resort called “Mowgli’s Palace” in an attempt to find something cool about it. Also had an insane ending, but overall wasn't as scary as Lost Episodes, which at this time of writing I am no longer scared by.
The next one I read, “Whimsywood”, was about a theme park. Not much else to say without giving it away.
After all of these, I went outside.
I heard something. It sounded like people talking, and it sounded like it was coming from our garage. I looked over.
The only thing there were too insects, flying around.
The noise sounded vaguely “buzzy”, but the insects didn’t make a single noise, and after looking over there it stopped.
So I came inside, being thoroughly freaked out.
I sat at my computer, and read another one of Slime’s stories, Perfectly Normal Eric. This one wasn’t even scary, but it was still good, like something you’d find in a Goosebumps book.
I heard a noise near me.
It was like a sort of ruffling, mixed in with a noise from some kind of animal. I looked down, where it was coming from, and the noise stopped.
Just like when I was outside.
What I saw was my sister’s cat licking itself so as to be clean.
When I remembered the sound, I realized that could very well be what sound I was hearing. I realized I had somehow managed to gain super hearing. I didn’t know how to control it, because it happened randomly. But I think if I could master it, I could use it in any manner possible.
So next, I read another one of Slime’s Creepypastas, “Watch For Willy”.
This one was so scary I’m not going to say anything about it because if I gave even just enough for you to understand it you’d know where it was going. It’s on the Creepypasta Wiki. Check it out, it’s a great read.
My mother called for me to go to the kitchen to eat spaghetti that she had made, and the United States version of the television show The Office was playing.
I sat down and was thinking about how to describe how awesome Slime’s stories were. The ones I’d read (excluding Perfectly Normal Eric) were about things related to childhood, like Disney and theme parks. I formed a speech of sorts about how Slime was able to take something apart of childhood and twist it in to something eerie. In my speech I came to the word “childhood”.
When I said “child” I heard it come from the television.
The word had nothing to do with what the character was saying, and nothing she said afterwards. This scared me a bit. It was at this point that I realized this ability was directly related to my reading of Creepypasta.
Before, I was just amplifying the sounds because I read moderately-scary Creepypastas. Then I read Watch For Willy and was able to create entirely new sounds.
At the time of this writing, I am still slightly un-nerved by Watch For Willy, but I’m getting over it and I haven’t heard anything weird.
I decided to share my story here, and see what you guys think of it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is legit, but I wrote it as a narrative to be more interesting to read. |
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| 08 Aug 2013 11:30 PM |
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i am a carrot now pls stop looking |
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| 08 Aug 2013 11:33 PM |
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"Here's a touching story. Once upon a time you died, and I lived happily ever after. The end." Quote from the Sniper ~ TF2
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| 08 Aug 2013 11:35 PM |
| TS;DR (Too short, did read.) |
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