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The Internet's First Cryptid: The Rake
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2022
- OutHello everyone, the internet has created some of the most creepy and fantastic things to come from the horror community. Ones of those things is the Rake. The Rake is one of the scariest creepypasta creatures ever created.
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I think the Rake perfectly captures that raw, almost primal sense of fear only a handful of things can really cause. It would make for a perfect horror movie monster given the horror renaissance of recent years and I'm genuinely mad he's not as relevant given that he's still pretty scary.
As much as I want that, I can only think back to how the slenderman one went out
There is a Rake movie called The Rake, but it sucks ass
@@aidenmb7932 yeahhh….we don’t talk about the slenderman movie lol
@@crippled_cactus3001 I still remembering actually wanting to see it. Never ended up watching it. For a good reason
honestly the sad part is that they'd manage to make him look silly instead of scary with the way all the horror movie cgi is
I had the personal misfortune of stumbling onto creepasta lore when I was too young to discern it from reality. This dignified lad along with Herobrine and the Russian Sleep Experiement traumatized my little kiddie mind and really makes me question what I was doing on the internet at that age.
Me stumbling upon the anime Elfin lied at the ripe age of 12 and thinking she was real. I really thought she was gonna come and kill me because she was gonna read my thoughts about her 💀
What WERE we doing at that age on the internet 😂
@@whatsup9993 mostly dumb self traumatising stuff, but it’s okay because we have something cool to share… right?
😂
@@hudsontille8630 oh absolutely
I’m actually glad that I discovered creepypastas when I was a wee little lad. I wish I could go back and be scared again.
@@starfreak2349 Same
The image of the rake on the bed made me fucking die laughing because all I could think of is how it looked like the depressed wojak with the extreme shading
The Rake invades peoples homes to doomer post on their computers
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
this is cannon and no one can convince us otherwise.
Kids when they couldn’t sleep
THANK GOD SOMEONE ELSE SAW IT
To be honest, I liked it better when it was a creepy thing that came into peoples homes, observed them, and ran off. We don't have enough cryptids like that who are just kind of weird and creepy. Once all the gore and tearing people apart came in it cemented itself as just another cheesy over the top gore fest character.
Agreed, I’ve always found the weirder, mundane cryptids a lot more interesting. Plus, it seems more like a real creature that way, less horror story serial murderer and more intelligent, curious ape/alien like creature.
@@nrollins442 couldn't put it better myself!
Yeah, I love the Rake being a violent monster, but there's something so much more interesting about a humanoid creature that seemingly does have human intelligence, and prefers to stalk and observe its prey over killing them right away.
Oh did you know that wendigos technicaly exist they are just lost and hungry left with no choice
@@Ultiminium (fnaf at freddy)
The ability for the internet to create mythology and fictional creatures that while nonexistent are conceptually horrifying never fails to impress me.
Creepypasta are the modern folk tales
@@vapor404 indeed, and like folk tales, they’re as fake a Kardashian.
@@Tarnished-bn5gq all myths are based on something take shamans and skinwalkers actual history is canibals and natvie americans fighting
@@thewildcardperson myths are the explanations for things when science didn’t exist. Nowadays science has set a standard for fiction and reality, and creepypastas/horror stories fit in the fiction category.
Wym i caught homeboy. I’m feeding him steak
It is captivating how The Rake image came from being ripped straight out of a promo from a horror video game and became one of the first creepypasta monsters to ever created. Imagine if that creature got his own game.
He’s got one on Roblox ngl kinda creepy first playthrough
he got few games
In silence
Lmao as soon as I read the last part of your comment, the video said "The Rake has an indie game."
From the creators of Spyro the Dragon, no less.
I liked The Rake better when it wouldn’t attack you unless provoked and was more curious than anything. Monsters that randomly attack anything pull you out of the story.
What if it just wants a friend but can't because people get scared away?
@@blockstacker5614 well then it’s not scary
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
@@Redacted_Ruler Idk man, even if I knew it was nice Id be shitting my pants everytime it came around
@@blockstacker5614 that’s not scary
I love how much of a contrast the rake has compared to some of the other creatures that the internet has made over the years. Like while most of them are out for blood, The rake could easily kill you if he wanted to but he usually doesn't because all you have to do is see him and that'll drive you insane enough where he doesn't need to do anything to you. He finds joy in screwing with people, implying that he's going to go after their friends or even them one day. Whether he ever actually does that or not is unimportant, if you saw that thing standing at the foot of your bed and it told you it was going to go after one of your friends or family members you probably wouldn't be the same afterwards either. That's what he wants, and that to me is a lot more unnerving than your standard killer.
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
God the Rake is still easily one of my favorite Creepy Pastas. It’s just way too good.
the rake is a real thing i seen one before all the creepy pastas came out about it
@@torquetheprisoner wendigo
@@a_sage4535 im in the uk so i don't think that was a wendigo i seen
@@torquetheprisoner meth'd out druggy lmao
Your mom
Ironically enough my local news station posted the iconic photo of the rake calling it the "Louisiana zombie" claiming it was captured on a hunters game camera.
Edit: I remember I was young at this time and the whole ordeal made me so interested in the supernatural/creepypasta and the associated
I was horrified of the rake when I was 10 and went on vacation to New Orleans 😭😭 I was so scared it would get me
That was the story put out by insomniac games to help promote their game resistance 3. They always do wacky internet marketing stuff😂
Yeah the picture was also featured on the T.V show "Fact or Faked" as a trail cam zombie. Even as a kid I was thinking "Nah mate, that's the rake"
Even when I was a kid, I could tell that it was photoshopped
@@enbykeith the rake wouldn't even be the most dangerous thing there lol
I still fondly remember being 12 years old and discovering the rake through slenderman stories. I spent the first day watching a bunch of "proof" videos and reading as many stories as I could. I got like 3 hours of sleep that night and for months after I had a subconscious fear when I was alone that something was stalking me from behind.
I'm not nostalgic over much cause my childhood was pretty sad and weird but that was genuinely a really good time.
Ty Mr. Rake, you were a real one.
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
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ngl I want to be the rake, enter home, scare the shit out of the tenants and leave, funny as hell
Well with the resurgence of creepy pastas getting remade… hopefully we can get a re-updated version of the rake
Interesting idea
Doesn't need one. Just needs more mystery footage
@what’s up You called?
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not... There is no "updated version," it is what it is...
I’d honestly want a marble hornet or Everyman HYBRID mini series for the rake and any other creature that are similar to it like B.O.B or the Seed Eater.
Shout out for insomniac games creating the iconic picture at 14:48. The picture was a promo for the third resistance game and the monster in the picture is a lesser enemy from the game.
Can I get a link to the specific promo!
@@Duckbusinessman It was part of a ''viral marketing'' scheme were they photoshopped a Grim enemy into a night camera picture taken by a random dude online. If you google ressistance 3 promo its litteraly the first picture.
There even was a tweet from insomniac from back in the day and there even an 11 year old video called ''Monster Picture in the news'' on youtube and the description of the video even states that it was later found out to be a ressistance 3 game hoax.
@@triledink thanks
How have I never put this together. I played the resistance franchise when I was really young and absolutely love them still. I’m just now realizing the similarities between the grims and the rake😂
Man, I loved Resistance as a kid!
The reason so-called 'sightings' of the rake are so common is the same reason sasquatches seem to appear so common in culture. A pale, thin humanoid that lacks certain facial features is like, the thing people go to when they want to make a scary monster and have no ideas for a design.
Meanwhile the idea that there’s a big ape like creature in the woods has existed since, well, humans were big ape like creatures in the woods.
And it works,you dont want to see it at night
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
Sasquatch is far from thin, pale and faceless, but point made
Not making a defense for bigfoot, the likelihood is that it's fake. Would've found a corpse or at least some feces or hair
I would have to say a big reason why we fear the rake is because we almost always sleep in a place we know as safe and to wake up seeing something stare at us while we are at our must vulnerable probably triggers something primal in us
You cannot rest while enemies are nearby
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
@@butchbabytoaster lmao minecraft reference
Excellent work man. You described this creature perfectly. Halfway between a serious description a fictional one. Great work man.
Thank you
How in your 16 years of youtube have you not gotten 1 subscriber ill be your first
@@Sirrudybiego57 I am the second
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
@@nefritees i'll be the 3rd
Oh boy,it’s 8pm in my area while it’s dark and I’m in a big house alone watching this.
The perfect time.
And place
Its actually 10 for me and in a big dark house lol,I'm not actually scared of the dark,at least,I dont care that much,and if I needed to go to the bathroom while it was dark I would just go
It’s almost 10 for me too it’s all dark and I hear shuffling 😭😭😭 (it’s probably my birds lol)
I should really stop now….
As a kid i was scared shittles from the rake. Until i found a "creepypasta" that just gave them a back story and it lost all the spooks. It was something about the rake being a cursed pirate and that he wears an amulet that gives him powers/made them like that and if you take it away the rake gets badly hurt/weakened. It was basically a origin vid plus a big self insert character beating the rake. As much as I love origin Storys and weird cryptic things being explored and given history, the story gave too much making the creepyness of it suffer greatly. Can't remember who made the video nor who wrote the story since it was many years ago that i listened to it
Are "shittles" like skittles?
@@JTB-1 i think they meant shitless
Can't have anything nice without a kid tossing in a self-insert to ruin it
same i was i remember i was on my bed then my flipping dog laid on my bed i thought it was him
@@unusual_sandwich Remember how Jeff the Killer was initially just a creepy as fuck picture written "GO TO SLEEP"? Well, people decided it wasn't enough for them, so they created a long origin story about a boy that had his skin burnt in a fight against bullies and then got mad and killed his own family, and to add more shit to the steaming pile some girl decided to create a self insert called "Jena the Killer" as Jeffs yandere girlfriend, so Jeff started as a monstruous image but ended up as an emo boyfriend.
that story in the beginning just made me think “what if the rake was just someone’s weird looking dog” for some reason
When I was little, My mom got me to watch the Lord of the Rings, and when Gollum was on screen I was always terrified, because of how both human and inhuman he looked like, as well as his introduction, him crawling around down in the ruins of the dwarf tunnels, Frodo seeing him and going to Gandalf to ask what that was, and Gandalf's explanation of who and what Gollum was, and in the third film, seeing his transformation haunted me, I would have nightmares of me being chased by a demonic Gollum that looked just like the Rake, and till this Day, the Rake is the only good Creepypasta that keeps me up at night, and now since I've been having sleep paralysis sometimes, I just see the Rake's head poking up from the foot of my bed...
Staring at me...
Little Update, I've been destressing with Virgil's theme from Devil May Cry 5 whenever I feel like something is watching me...
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APRROACHING!
Makes me feel powerful, a fearless now
@@DarkShadow-ne3bu nice man
@@DarkShadow-ne3bu hopefully u get better
Stuff that keeps you up is stuff you know is well made. For me it was the Mandela Catalogue. Because I always slept with my door half closed, I was always terrified of waking up at 2:00 am and just seeing myself staring at me through the door. Probably what caused most of my paranoia. That and IT.
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
my older brother used to think the rake was just some dude with a rake. until he searched it up.
He lost the copyright in a legal battle with the current rake and was forced to change his name. Unfortunately nothing really matched his weapon of choice and so eventually after a handful of titles he gave up his iconic rake and just started using knives like every other serial killer. Not sure how he managed to attack people with something like a rake to begin with though.
@@princetchalla2441 you sharpen the ends of the rake and then iether stab or rake Thier flesh off,
I know from experience.
@@princetchalla2441 now um just imagining some old guy with a rusty rake dragging this 6 foot gray demon creature into a courthouse over copyright theft
@@princetchalla2441 How do you copyright the word "rake"?
@@Admiral_Jezza He copyrighted his whole identity
Man i remember this creepypasta, when i was a kid i used to think the rake was real i thought its gonna come at me n kill me i was too afraid to sleep alone
Honestly revisiting the creepypasta i think the rake has became my favorite creepypasta, its an interesting n terrifying cryptid Honestly
I used to look outside the window at the dark wilderness behind my house and wonder if the Rake was lurking in the bushes somewhere.
@@samoblesk2 Ever seen him?
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
The first time I heard of the Rake was... Monsters & Mysteries in America.
Knowing now that it was made up by the internet and they treated it completely serious with interviews with a "survivors" in hindsight is absolutely hilarious.
Imagine being the Few guys who made the rake just as a scary creature. The conversation would probably be like:
"Dude."
"What?"
"You know that random creature we made out of boredom."
"Yeah?"
"Welp, the show Monsters and Mysteries just made a episode talking to "real survivors", and they are taking it seriously."
"Wait, REALLY?!"
"Yep, they are calling it the Rake."
"Oh my God, and people are believing it?"
"Yep."
"Dude, we made history."
My dumbass heard about it from there too so I got whiplash when I saw this vid and saw it was just a creepypasta
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
The Rake going from a creepy but fairly harmless cryptid that only wanted to observe people but in a scary way likely unintentionally to Just Another Murder Monster™️ is some solid evidence that gatekeeping is important
I understand why the trademark is there
If i can be honest i like these individual deep dives much more than the rapid shallow pass of a thousand entries on an iceburg. It lets you immerse yourself into a topic for more than 15 seconds
Use them to look up specific stories, wut I do
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
The Rake always remembers me of the scariest thing that has happened to me. I was never a person to believe in horror stories and I never had problems sleeping. When I became 18, living in a foster home, I was moved into the house of the old owners right beside for 'observative living' so I can learn how to live on my own. As soon as I got there, I've got massive sleeping issues, only being able to sleep with lights on. One night, the lights turned off during my sleep and I woke up with a pure feeling of horror. I felt like someone was staring at me, sitting at the end of my bed. It was like sleep paralysis, only that you are able to move but you choose not to because the presence you feel is so disturbing. A few years after, I read about the Rake and was directly reminded.
I always thought that the rake lost popularity, because that one SCP that hates having its face seen, was basically just a better version of the rake, since they basically look indistinguishable, and the SCP has a much more solid and easy to understand lore.
I would not call the SCP Mythos "easy to understand", nor say that the Rake and 096 are all that similar
@@uncroppedsoop I agree
@@uncroppedsoop white skinny sharp teeth claws no eyes
@@user-wu9fv5vn5v 096 has eyes, there's no mention of sharp teeth or claws anywhere, and the Rake is typically depicted as more of a grey. but I do realize now they probably meant specifically 096 lore is straightforward and not the whole ass SCP Mythos
@@uncroppedsoop you do read on 096 right?
It's weird nobody ever talks about Rakeguy's follow up threads in videos like this or that the rake was inspired partly by redcaps and can only be harmed with iron.
What else did the og end up making
I almost hit one with my car at 75 mph. It sped up and avoided getting smashed and got across the sidewalk and was disappearing in seconds. I braced for impact as it shot in front of my car crawl running in a strange motion very very quickly almost impossibly fast and it looked effortlessly. This creature was white/gray with a shimmery/translucent body it was about 5-6 feet long and it had human mixed paw looking hands. And it had a bald head, when everything was fast I did not see its eyes or mouth as its head was blurry but the bald shape was there. Very strange experience.
@@anthonyfalcon2113 💀
This is one of the only Cryptid/monster that has actually ever scared me, and trust me I’ve heard a lot of stories, a including different monsters and or legends. Not one is come close to this thing…
Jeff the killer
I am pretty sure the Rake is also the DNA that the shyguy scp is based upon if you look at how similar the physical descriptions are which means the rake also helped popularise the whole scp world by being the foundation for one of its most well known entries
Yeah no.
@@Wafflss Just because they aren’t the same doesn’t mean one can’t take inspiration from the other
The best creepypasta I've ever read. Been a fan of creepypastas since 2015 and this one is still my favorite. The way it was written really scared the shit out of me when I was a child.
Riddle me this how did the creepypasta community go from fictional cryptid that terrorizes people in their sleep to edgy teenagers who apparently can kill fully grown people without an issue?
They didn't change. Both existed at the same time. And both sides are still going
Jeff the killer??
@@doomslayer6075 I think
They should make a movie that’s more faithful to the original stories and make the Rake as invisible as possible. Only comes out at night. You only really see it’s eyes and brief glimpses of it in very low light settings. Emphasize the horror of the unknown.
So of all the creepypastas, the Rake was my haunting. The one I believed in the longest, and the one my preteen self dreaded waking up and seeing starring at me from the corner of my rural childhood home.
Because of this, I am, if partially out of disappointment from the movie, a bit inspired to maybe try and give the internet a glimpse of my own interpretation of the creature. You see, what got me was the fact that, once you saw the Rake, it didn't have to kill you.
Yes, a lot of the time it did, and usually pretty gruesomely, but it was always a drawn out process. I believed it would be slow. Once you see the creature, it imprints upon you in some fashion, and your life becomes cursed. It will prophet the end of all you love, all the while making everything and everyone around you its hostage.
Yet it almost never makes a demand. After all, the Rake needs nothing from you. Though it might try to break you and see how far into the depths of morbidity it can drive you, that's only if it decides your best use is as a piece of amusement. It could also demand you be witness to horrors, both committed by it, and other peculiar beings.
It could lead you on to whatever ends it wanted, perhaps even offering devilish deals for your acts in its favor, which might even feel so cryptic they don't even come off as evil. You don't know however, and that's what's scary. The fact that this thing is so nebulous, you'll never truly get a read on what it is or what it wants.
The only thing you know for sure, is that from the moment you wake to see those voids starring back at you, your life will be defined by death.
Mine is a mixture of the hat man, the weird smiling humanoid shape in the corner of my apartment, and the fuckin long haired faceless woman I see whenever I have sleep paralysis or nightmares.
@@MagikSpellzz Idk why but smiling faces with an unnerving/ eerie vibe are the scariest thing to me
Um Jeff the killer
The Rake was and still is my favourite creepypasta-esque creature, it's just so raw and to the point.
Its design is horrifying and since I discovered it as a child I have been terrified of that kind of general design, long spindly limbs, uncanny valley type face, distorted features overall, and deceptively strong or deadly.
Spindly pale things are pretty much the only type of horror monster I find scary. Big, bulky and tough monsters just feel like standard beasts, but the lanky jittery ones still tap into that primal fear of being hunted, while still feeling other worldly to add an extra layer of fear.
may i introduce to you a little fictional creature called SCP-096
@@lucassism6726 heh don't worry I'm fully aware of most scp's, been reading them and watching content about them for years
I've been researching the Rake for a Decade... unfortunately, it's real... Humans can not walk on all fours with their back level to the ground, watch video "cops checked, no body" you'll see it doing so. Humans do not have "eye shine" the Rake does. Rakes make a pig squeal that reaches notes and octaves humans are incapable of making. Rakes have a 3 segment rear leg, like a horse, humans do not. I've seen at least 30 videos (double that of videos I HAVE debunked) that I can not poke a hole in, disprove or debunk, that's too many to be a hoax... The name may be derived from a creepypasta, but that's not because the creature is "made up," it's because the real creature is similar to the creepypasta creature with 3 eyes, which is why videos of the real creature were dubbed with that name... The watching people sleep part is made up, but finding them in quiet, darkened and/or empty houses is not...
When I was 14 , the rake terrified me to the point I had nightmares. Now I'm 21, about to turn 22 and last night I tried to watch this video at night around 11 pm. First image popped up and I couldn't do it . The rake still terrifies me
I'm old enough to no longer think it's real but it still freaks me the f**k out
The Rake is definitely a creepypasta/fictional cryptid that holds up to its horror factor to this day. It’s one of my favorites!
Nostalgia bomb man. The classic creepypasta reading music, along with the story I heard so many years ago, sends me back.
The rake is the scariest creepypasta monster in my opinion. Why? The rake is an apex predator. The rake is old so it knows what it's doing, it's been doing this since the 16th century, which has given it plenty of time to perfect its methods, and it enjoys what it does it takes pleasure in being that white flash in the corner of your eye, the tapping on your window or the scraping against your houses walls at night, the reason you feel like you're being watched, those weird scratches you'll find on yourself in the morning, it smiles to itself as you're slowly driven insane by it not by any magical means like slender but simply through being those unexplained noises and experiences that you know about but can't tell anyone about for fear of being ridiculed. It enjoys every, single, second of it. It isn’t doing this for food or any logical reason. To the rake the torment it inflicts is just a game. And then when it's had its fun with you as it's plaything you'll wake up one night to find it sitting at the foot of your bed where it will make one final decision before moving on to another poor soul. "Will I maul you and leave your mangled corpse for others to find? Or will I tell you my name and leave you a broken delusional wreck of a human being?"
Good thing it ain’t real cause if it was I would just use a flamethrower
@@DjDog447 something tells me that wouldn't be enough
Man, I remember losing sleep when I first heard about The Rake as a kid. Looking back now, it really is an amazing story with a great creature. Thank you for bringing back such great and horrifying memories 😆
I'm a horrible person and I told my younger brother if he didn't go to sleep the Rake would get him
It’s one of the few creepy pasta idea that’s simple enough to not age horribly and still be a little creepy. There are a ton of them that make me wonder why they were ever popular but the rake is a short and sweet concept, with the exception of some of the stuff people have added on to it over the years.
It's interesting how you could actually buy costumes based on the rake from Spirit Halloween. If I had to guess it's probably because he has no real copyright status being made by a collective of anonymous users.
Which is in contrast to the creature that would usurp The rake slender: Man whose copyright is still held by the original Photoshop creator
It's like that primal fear of seeing something that isn't human but is like a mimic of one. It's weird that we have that sense, but I almost don't want to find out why it exists.
I often think about this. What if there was an ancient creature that preyed on early humans and we’re hardwired to be afraid but such things
I believe it's supposed to keep us away from dead bodies, since you can probably get a bunch of diseases from them. That's not quite as fun of an idea as an ancient super predator though
@@Robin-tt4lo you’re probably right too be honest but it’s just fun to think about
@@Robin-tt4lo like a creature that’d disguise its self as a human but maybe it had slight imperfections that gave it away
Realistically it's probably because of how often different types of primates were among us so we learned to stay away from the ones who were different
I remember that short film made by college students about the rake involving the three going into the woods and one getting taken by The Rake. It was so freaky watching that back on 2013(?). Idk if it's still up and I'd have to search for it and there might be others. It was them filming it Blair Witch style for specifics and I believe it was around a half hour.
Edit: it might be the one in the video here but it looks unfamiliar
I learned about The Rake at the rip age of around 6-7y/o, and it's been the boogeyman for me ever since.
When I was 8y/o and explored more horror content via Top Ten scary videos, ScareTheatre, etc. and later on people like Nexpo and a few others that I don't really watch anymore. Videos talking about scary shit like godlyrecon, ruth 911 call, and other bizzare strange media that at the time i had a hard time telling what was real and what wasn't. Heck, when I first heard the Sonic.exe creepypasta, or I guess the gameplay video of it, especially the Sally one, those ones scared the shit out of me. The sally one still does!
Anyways I'm getting off track, the internet made young me paranoid. I'd think someone was gonna break into our house and kill us when we were all asleep, so I'd stay up really late just to make sure that nothing would happen. Man the amount of times I'd get in trouble is unbelievable, but surprisingly at the time I didn't know why'd I'd stay up so late at times. Like it had become instinct.
I'd create, I suppose intrusive thoughts? Not sure, but I'd like imagine a creature, horrifying and honestly even today they mostly have their base be that of The Rake (y'know deviantart bases? yeah kinda like that I think, but with The Rake). Usually this Rake-like creature would peak around the corner of the door that my parents kept open, or I'd walk down the hallway and imagine it just sporadically sprinting towards me in the most inhumane way possible. Any spot where a monster could be, it could be, and either it would just notice me, or be running straight at me with malicious intent.
I assume these are intrusive thoughts of some kind, because they're supposed to scare you and are abrupt. Like I'll imagine what the monster looks like, then vividly imagine it running towards me, not like, imagine the scenario in my head, if that makes sense.
Seems a bit extreme for intrusive thoughts though, 'cause I usually hear of it being things like "stab the person next to you" while you're chopping vegetables or something, which I used to get, but idk. Maybe these are the ones no one talks about, or I have some mental issues. (probably the latter.)
TL;DR
Don't let kids (or teenagers, or anyone below the age of 25) on the internet, it'll fuck them up!
Bro you was watching scare theatre at 8 years old?
@@RxSpyder I think so, if not 9 or 10 probably
Do you go to therapy?
@@calthegreatest ha, no. I'd want to but it's expensive, and I'm 15y/o rn so it's not like I can afford to get it myself atm. When I'm older definitely tho :)
I was about ten or nine getting into horror content on youtube but I’m older now. and I kinda got “the scary” out of me at a younger age.
I've always wondered why it's called "The Rake." Out of context, it sounds like some notable piece of gardening equipment. Maybe it's because The Rake is lanky, rigid, and sharp, kind of like an actual rake? That explanation is kind of loose though. Maybe it's just random.
I thought it was because the hands might be like a rake.
While Slenderman was kind of meme'd into not being scary, The Rake still creeps me out. It's more grounded to me, a plausible beast that can stalk the forest like an animal, and I find that more scary than something super out of the realm of plausibility.
The rake reminds me of the sleep paralysis demons. Maybe a a almost human monster just chilling at the edge of vision when someone wakes still sleepy after a nightmare. I remember waking from a nightmare and seeing a gaint cockroach the size if a man on the wall.
I’m actually really happy that the Rake has been recognized again because I was really fascinated by the Rake
12:26 I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the deer-headed depictions of 'wendigos' are highly disrespectful to Native American culture. The tribe from which they originate have even outright stopped telling outsiders of their folklore due to the cultural bastardization of a creature they still believe in to this day.
The Rake had a lasting mental impact on me that no other scary piece of media ever has. After I first read it I had many sleepless nights. I knew logically that it wasn't real, but that didn't stop my mind from being completely freaked out by it. Even now, I get put on edge if I think about it too much in bed at night. It's become the monster my subconscious mind fears. It's the default creature that appears in my nightmares, and in the few times in my life that I've experienced sleep paralysis, the Rake was the creature that my mind manifested multiple times. The worst sleep paralysis I ever had involved a smaller version of the Rake climbing onto my bed and sitting on my chest, staring at me with those empty black eyes. I was only broken out of it because my dog ran into my room, I guess he could sense I was in distress. So props to the creators of the Rake for making something that had a permanent psychological impact on me.
Looks like I'm not the only one..
My theory for the rake was that it really was trying to make people fear of the future by either serving as a precursor to tragedy or simply too terrifying for someone to keep witnessing after sleep, until people started hunting and trying to lure it out that drove it to murder. Or maybe the woods are its home and it’s trying to protect what it considers its territory, and the people that see it at home were just witnessing the rake’s curious side when it comes to human settlements.
How to defeat goofy ahh rake:
1. Get your fists out
2. Scream " I WANT TO SLEEP, LET ME SLEEP OR YOU'LL HAVE TO DO MY MATH TEST "
3. If it doesn't work, just kiss it on the cheek if you are close enough
Its not gay if its your inhuman homie :3
I was so happy for the EMH shoutout. ARGs are such an underrated form of horror, especially the Slenderverse ones like Marble Hornets.
Bro's named after a gardening tool 💀
For me, there’s nothing that scares me like the rake. When I was 9 I went to a rural cali hippie school, none of us had internet access. We didn’t read scary stories, our media consumption was controlled. Except this one kid.
I honestly think he thought the rake was real too, but let me tell you when he told me that a weird skin creature was gonna open my door in the middle of the night and stare at me.. it ruined my LIFE. In a good way haha. I had no concept of scary stuff at that time, and for a full five years I just thought the rake was a real creature, just one I hadn’t encountered. Like a capybara or a scorpion.
Anyway that kid is married with kids of his own now. Weird how that stuff pans out
The Rake was one of the very few things in my childhood that actually gave me nightmares. I was a fan of horror stories, always going after creepypastas and stuff, I loved the chills of a well told horror and was always happy to scare my friends with them (sometimes even adding something to the story just to scare them even more, I was a troll). I distinctly remember enjoying Slenderman in particular for no specific reason, and that was what caused me to search more and more until I found the fucking Rake.
I never once left a video out of fear, but I think something about that corpse-like appearance just hit me in a very personal way, and the story was perfect to make a kid get scared. That was the day I stopped searching for creepypastas and horror stuff....... for about a month, but still.
Thanks to the amount of freedom little three year old me had on the internet I had the misfortune of stumbling down the creepypasta rabbit whole and the rake is probably the one figure who haunted me the most. I was thankfully aware enough to understand that it wasn’t real but during the night the horrific hallucinations i’ve had from an early age and my own paranoid mind loved to torment me. Safe to say I had a lot of sleepless nights cause of that thing lol
Jeff the killer
I remember a classmate in my freshman year who was convinced it was real. The power of internet folklore is not to be underestimated.
If the creature is the rake, does that make us leaves?
I dont get it
@@Emil_LLscpfan a Rake is a gardening tool used to collect fallen leaves into piles so as they can be discarded. Similar to how one would sweep a hard floor.
The only connection I had to the Rake was a Roblox game by the same name. It was, as best I can describe it, multi-player survival where everyone had to run and try not to get eaten.
The world map was dark, a few buildings for safety scattered about, including a light cabin. There was the burning bus that presumably brought us there, but no one knew for sure. We had to run, but we could choose to go it alone or stick with the herd. With the group, you were always scared that the Rake would come and that you wouldn't be fast enough to get away. Alone, you could hide better, but the paranoia could kill you before the Rake ever did. The Rake itself was gray, like in the stories, but its mouth was always open, filled with sharp jagged teeth meant for tearing off chunks of flesh. Its arms were unnaturally long, something not helped by the claws it had instead of fingers. It was fast, too, faster than anything human like should be. And it was so skinny. You could see its ribs and its chest heave when it caught you and ate you. I know because it did. Too many times. When you died, it wasn't the end. You were tossed back into the world to feed that, that thing. Whether you tried to run or hide, it didn't matter, tye Rake would find you. It would kill you. Then the chase would begin again.
There even is that creepy piano piece used in aaaalll creepypastas of my youth in this video. A really good job :D
I had no idea that not only did The Rake predated Slenderman but was also inspiration for Slendermans creation
Yeah, I didn't either until starting research for the video. This is the kind of stuff I love finding.
The drawing of the rake sitting on the foot of the bed looks like a wojak
Lmao I thought the same thing
I distincly remember one of my friend in middle school introducing me to the rake and other creppypastas at the time, I have now been a groomsman in his wedding.
Having Myuu background music makes this video so much better.
"The rake isn't dangerous unless provoked"
The rake: "I'm going to pull what's called a pro gamer move."
The rake story reminds me of draugr. Both appear as horrific monsters that sit on beds. The difference is that draugr occasionally take the appearance of cats and kill by sitting on their victims chest before increasing their considerable weight.
So I used to struggle with sleep paralysis a lot, and used to experience it a couple times a week. Luckily I don't experience it that often anymore, but I still get it around once a month and a couple months ago I saw something that pretty much matched that beginning description perfectly, only instead of sitting on the edge of my bed, it was crouched in the corner of the room
I distinctly remember things like this from my childhood, the rake and the SCP archives terrified me because I couldn’t tell fiction from reality. I remember being terrified of leaving my arm over the side of the bed because I read about an scp that would paralyze you if you did that wake you up and slowly cut your arm off. Same with the rake, any bump in the night and I was staring out the window into the woods behind our house watching for any movement.
This was awesome. You gotta make more of these types of videos👍😁
Plenty more planned. Glad you liked it.
@@Sacrow tbh i know no other creepypasta other than sonic.exe and fnaf
Some one should make a rake movie
I remember seeing what looked like one of these. I was downstairs, getting water. The sink is right by the largest window in the house, with a sweeping view of the yard. I looked up to take a glance outside as we were used to getting raccoons and other critters. In the darkness I saw what looked like a skinny, deformed and awkward humanoid creature around 6ft. It was grayish. My eyes slowly explored this odd being. My gaze fell upon it’s ‘face’. It was severely taut and twisted, as if somebody had stretched the face of a human over the skull of a dog. It’s eyes were small, eerily human-like, and I realized it had seen me. It scuttled away like some spider and within an instant it was gone. I never saw it again.
Sacrow: "That creature is called...."
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Omg that's names scarier than the rake 😱😱😱
Interesting thing about the rake is that it is similar to the native legends of windego, also I’d like to say I personally wouldn’t call this a cryptid. The idea of a cryptid is that it’s a supposedly real creature, this being made as fiction wouldn’t be a cryptid it would be more like a modern campfire story.
Man I used to have actual nightmares and sleepless nights all the way until I was 16 about the rake. It really terrified me
The channel has the mid to early 2010s horror vibe, I like; subed
Ah, The Rake
I remember the first time I read, or listened, to the creepypasta story. It was about 10-11 PM during my first year of middle school, about 5-4 years ago. It creeped me out immensely, yet it intrigued me, so the next morning I kept researching, and I fell in love with creepypasta as a whole. But The Rake remains my favorite horror character of all time!
I also remember seeing the movie for the first time and not even being able to finish it, thanks to all the liberties the filmmakers took…
I wish it stayed as a creature that just liked to watch humans and not attack them. I don't really remember seeing a creepy pasta where the monster didn't hurt anyone, the rake could have been that first ever creepy pasta monster that was like that.
I somehow never encountered the original The Rake creepypasta, despite being obsessed with creepypastas as a kid. I only ever read the encounter where The Rake killed the girl and she said “it was The Rake” as it ended. I had no idea about the Rake so I just thought it was weird
I remember seeing that Rake image as a kid and having nightmares for days possibly weeks. That image is still unerving as hell
Hey, great video! This channel is gonna shoot right up in no time!
can't watch this video but I have things to say about this mf
"the rake" was and still is the ONLY /mainstream/popular/ creepypasta character that genuinely gets me.
jeff the killer doesn't fill be with even a grain of anxiety, neither does slenderman, ben drowned, hell! not even smile dog scares me
but the rake.
the gd rake.
I actively feared the thing even possibly existing and/or hurting me. even now, though I know it's not real, I still hate even seeing images of it.
I remember as a kid, I was terrified that one night I would get killed by the rake
Definitely not at all great and I'm very glad I at some point realized it was fake
I was caught off guard by that animation in the intro, when I saw it my hair stood up on the back of my neck!
Please keep making this kind of videos, they are really good to watch and your voice keeps everything perfect
Idk if it was the rake or sum random drunk but i saw it down the apartment when i was going to get my clothes from laundry it was 11-12 it was standing way back in the dark corner and it ran away very fast and i was so feared i climbed 3 floors in 10 seconds my whole body full of fear i never saw it again
I was 13 at that time and I'm not lying idk what i saw but my body was shivering
@@binglol_2345 yeez
There's this theory: Given an infinite universes, our legends take form and live and this other dimension. Sometimes they cross over to visit their creators...
All that would be needed is for Doom Slayer to crossover too.
the rake fucked me up as a young teen. i read a story abt it that involved seeing it at the end of a long hallway that led straight to my bed, and it dissapearing then reappearing close down the hallway then it eventually gets you. i had a hallway and door directly infront of my bed. i would be losing my shit imagining it killing me. 13 year old me sure was imaginative
seems like a great video to watch before going to sleep
i can agree
Oh hell yeah vintage horror from ye olde 2010
I saw something that looked so similar to that "photo" of the rake a number of years ago in the woods. I was only about 15 ft away from it, and it followed me briefly through the woods through the snow. I struggled with what it could have been for years until seeing the rake online and was sure it was this creature. Nowadays, after more research, the Wendigo seems to have more evidence of being what I saw, but ill never know and will forever be frightened by this Cryptid. Thank you for the great video!
Bro thinks the rake is real and that Ohio exists
Or maybe it was just a cat and you bent the truth
It could have been a humanoid crawler/ashman, or a fleshgait aswell!!
There was this one found footage film featuring a really realistic rake. I saw maybe 8 years ago and I've tried to find it again but have had no luck. It featured three campers all dudes just going out into the woods. They get lost and wonder through the woods. Maybe they get separated at one point or another, I don't really remember. Anyways the rake is in the background of some shots and it doesn't really actively pursue the hiker guys until the end. When the cameraman is alone and running in a field at night. The ending shot being the rake pouncing on him.
Imagine an atmospheric horror movie about the rake. Just being watched along with lore accurate stuff. Ngl I would love that.
Never knew The Rake was /b/‘s idea. Go figures, honestly
To be fair, 4chan do be influential in horror genres… For example, the SCP fandom originated from 4chan, with the first SCP being SCP-173 on /x/.
I'm surprised you never mentioned the rpgmaker games and the combination with "skinwalkers".
The Rake was so strangely comforting to me as a kid on the internet, I would read forum entry after forum entry on it and watch as many videos as possible about supposed "proof" of it's existence, this was not rare for me to do back in the day, I did much the same with Slender and Laughing Jack, Jeff even, but The Rake was special, I still think it's one of the best parts of the creepypasta boom of the 2010's, even now that I'm fonder of creatures like the ones in TMA, The Rake is one of my favorite entities.
I remember this legend fondly. I remember in the fifth grade me and my buddies thought the rake lived in the woods at the far edges of the play ground. Every recess me and my two friends would just stand and stare hoping to see something. The teachers probably thought we were crazy.
does this rake not understand how many americans are armed? bro is gonna get his brains used as wallpaint. 💀
Exactly what I was thinking