He drops words like "morose" like it's no one's business! And it immidiately breaks the illusion that it's a real story because nobody writes in that way. I feel like the author may have been trying to go for a Lovecraft thing where the narrator doesn't even know where to begin describing something, completely missing why that worked.
@@yggdrasil2 i know u commented forever ago but im just watching this video-- i checked out the stories and the author has multiple series in the same "universe" with the same characters (i guess kinda like a prequel and a sequel.. sort of?) but it seems like part of the forgetting of words is explained later. def check it out if youre into it
@@HeyitsCat13 A person losing words sounds more like something to reserve for dialogue or a general fictional narrative. The fact that the main character is writing the story is what makes it lose credibility.
“Fun” fact that everyone should know: If your job in the US has a contract where you aren’t allowed to talk about it (an NDA, etc), that part is null and void if said job is involved in criminal activity and you witness it.
@@DiMagnolia I know, I am just saying in case anyone in a real situation like that is unsure. Just something informative but it's fine to give it a pass on a fun story!
I was doing my shift watching Rachel when a tall... what's the word... detective looking man came through the door. He took off his hat and said "Thomas, my name is Markus. I'm here to talk about the thing in the basement."
me and Markus went to a cafe, discussing the thing in the basement when suddenly, a convoy of cars drove past us, and from the first one.. whats the word ... descended a healthy lookin man. "Hey. I'm Rob and this is Bristol. We're playing a game."
@@RangeetChLahiri We had started following the convoy in Markus's car, when we arrived at an old mining town to get some sandwiches. That's when the horrible sound of metal screeching on other metal started.
As the metal screeching continues they make a right down a dirt road nearing closer to the noise, as the convoy was about to take a left they stopped in shock and saw something far off into the distance of the woods… stairs.
@hulyensantago8899 after finishing my sandwich in the small artisan sandwich shop in the small mining town, I suddenly remembered that I had forgotten to respond to my... what did my mom say it was called? A pen-pal? All I know is he sure knows a lot about my sister Bonnie and keeps telling her about a small town by the sea.
I love how Wendigoon said "If this ends with him holding her hand looking at the Sunset..." and that's literally how it ends and he doesn't even talk about it lol
only at 39 mins and they made the joke about my mom talks about angels, then to read that it does include the mother and angels, ik it’s spoiler for me but that def sets them up for “i’m sure i call whatever horror cliche is about to happen”… i used to do it with crime shows just bc the plot for every episode was “thinks person is bad as they meet someone they think is totally good until person they think is bad gives info about ‘good dude’ and have to quickly snuff ‘plot that True Bad guy(guy they think good) was about to murder or whatever’’’”
@@paintingdemonsis it? Because this was such garbage that I feel I actively hate it. Jeff the Killer is terrible but it’s so bad it’s fun. This was some of the worst shit I’ve read or listened to in a looooong time
"As he stood up, he was holding a... what's the word? It's a thing I remember from mama's exciting action books. A GUN! That's what they were called yes. He was holding a gun."
This entire story felt like a dream you have of something that would make for an awesome book or movie when you first wake up, only to realize that it doesn't really make any sense and kept changing.
Having your protagonist being seen as mentally challenged, when the author meant them to be completely normal is hilarious to me. Like an unintentional Forrest Gump.
Honestly. This story is strung along like the thought process of someone deep the throes of a psychotic episode. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ending was just him in a straight jacket bouncing his head off the wall.
It’s funny when you slowly start to lose faith in the writing and realize everything you thought was intentional or maybe misdirection was just . . . Not that. This is the only story I think I actively despise.
@@Nightmare-pj4fg Genuinely thought that every time the character fails to remember a word it's actually some hint and if you put all the words together it spells something or leads into the big reveal. A lot of things were bad but you can see how it can be a setup for something, and then the payoff never comes
@@trixxie02 I think it was the episode about the story where the guy who went to Nebraska and found a bunch of kids hanging out in a group shower under a barn.
My favorite part is how he talks like Forrest Gump a lot, then does not act like someone with any kind of mental difficulties except for stupid decisions. The MC is like Schrodingers Character where he has the vibes of like 3-4 different people but somehow manage to be none of them.
The moment SEX!!!!!!!! Became a factor the Sonichu medallion materialized like a Power Cell in Jak and Daxter. Good God this was the only time I found Cringe Humor tolerable and it's because we're all in on it
The biggest problem with the story to me is why it was even uploaded to nosleep. This story started off with a horror premise only to trick the readers into reading about some supernatural, mystery romance story. If you like that’s fine but this should never have been posted on nosleep or creepypasta wiki
I agree that this shouldn't be on nosleep, but disagree with how it was handled by this podcast, which was due to its miscategorization. Do you happen to know if a forum that would've been better suited for sci-fi and metaphysical material? I think the biggest reasons it was hated is because it was pointed to the wrong audience. This channel has enjoyed amateur writing in horror before. And I've seen both sci-fi and romance in the creepypasta genre. Just wondering where this would've been better respected.
@@ShadowPhoenix82They could’ve uploaded it to Wattpad, AO3 or any other writing platform that lets you upload any genre of story. Nosleep is specifically for horror stories. This story in particular feels more like a failed attempt at a nosleep story considering all of the common nosleep tropes in the story, so I’d say the issue is more so a core horror writing issue and less of an audience mixup. I know plenty of supernatural romance lovers who wouldn’t enjoy this story (myself included) due to the insane amount of exposition, unintentionally dumb character choices, and complete lack of plot cohesion.
@@ShadowPhoenix82 I like fantasy stuff but even then I haven't really... Enjoyed the writing style. As somebody who can like this kinda stuff it doesn't come off as that well constructed. Both that and it's prequel I don't think are very good stories, horror or not.
@ShadowPhoenix82 as someone who would like stories like this... no, it's a crappy story regardless The dialogue is so stiff and just serves as exposition and it's execution was painful
In a broad, overall sense, the story of a man communicating and bonding with a woman outside of the boundaries of time, through a camera years apart, as she paints these prophetic images to guide him to a place where he can rescue another version of her and be happy together, while knowing that she herself will die without ever meeting him or experiencing any of the happiness, is pretty incredible. The execution was absolutely abysmal but the core foundation could be something really special.
She exists for one sole purpose: Say things Hunter cant pronounce so he starts screaming expletives for our entertainment. When Hunter stops screaming, she stops being.
The borderline psychotic pacing of the story and narration of the protagonist makes the payoff fall flat on its face. You see the "twist" light years away and so the mysticism of it all evaporates long before the conclusion. The protagonist also doesn't actually do anything noteworthy throughout the story, which leaves you feeling as though they didn't actually earn the happy outcome that they got in the end.
each week, this pod is truly a coin flip between reading Stephen King-esque horror masterpieces & “I’m the only one they call when shit gets spooky. And, let me tell you, this shit is very f*cking spooky.” this is the beauty of creeping your cast
I would have never thought that Hunter would stand up at the end of the video and show his honey hole to the camera for millions to see. So inspiring and brave of him.
My God I thought it was was going to be a fairly average psychological horror but instead it was the narrative equivalent of a guy having a ketamine overdose and shitting himself in the skytubes at Chuck E Cheese.
This story feels like it was written in a single long session. The longer the author went without sleep, the more unhinged, disconnected, and ridiculous it got.
What’s funny is Isiah immediately assumed Thomas was slow but my immediate reaction was the author was just super young and just wasn’t very good when he wrote this lol. I’ve read a lot of Wattpad as a woman who grew up in the MySpace era and the amount of stories I’ve read with the same feeling of oh this character is slow it usually just turned out the author was 12 trying to write an adult character and it just didn’t work well lol
I wanted to mention Felix Blackwell who wrote stolen tongues, has quit writing because of life complications but mostly because he is taking care of his dad, so every book sale helps, if you enjoyed the story!!
I had to lay there paralyzed while Soloman did... what was that word... exposition-dumping. I watched her last day, she laid down on her bed... the screen faded to black... and i heard the words "You're finally awake" as I realized my hands are bound on a wooden carriage rolling through a snow-covered forest.
I’m so happy we all thought the same thing while listening to this. This is the sims. Hell, there’s even a mysterious tree you can crawl into in the sims 4 😂
The story doesn't trust the audience with anything. He talks to melanie *long exposition*, he talks to Solomon *long exposition*, and then at the end when he finally talks to Rachel there's more. This story would have been much better if it built up details over time and rather than delivering almost all information through dialogue.
@@Luminousreign that's because it's the second story in a full series called "The Ghost Tree", a lot of the stuff makes a lot more sense and is much more built up if you've read the first of the series which is "Come Live in the Ashes of my Heart"
$35 an hour in 2019 would be $43.06 an hour nowadays. in my state minimum wage is $7.35 still. There's very little they could show me that would make me jeopardize this job lmao
I mean $25 is the typical wage, top 20% make 50+/hr. I'd reckon easy a quarter of the population can make 43.09 an hour. It isn't that astronomical, and 86k a year isn't a crazy amount of money. Also the legal minimum wage isn't the effective minimum wage. Like here it's 7.25 but Walmart and McDonald's hire for 15, so it's doubtful you can say that the minimum wage is truly 7.25 when nobody's actually offering that, that's not the true minimum wage you can work for if nobody offers it.
@@sirllamaiii9708you have absolutely gotta try looking for a job in the south. My girlfriends got a law associates and still dreams of getting $22 an hour. Most places she’s seen - outside of the law field tbf - will tout competitive wages and offer 10.
Another thing I find weird about the story is the fact that the main character (an adult) falls in love/becomes obsessed with Rachel who was underage (17) when he first sees her. Like making her underage seems weird and unnecessary for the story.
She started to be the test subject when she was 17 and she was in the experiment for 6 years if im not mistaken. So she'd be in her 20's when she made that "help me thomas" painting
i kept feeling like i wasn’t following well and rewinded the video to try and catch what i was missing, then i realized that’s just how it’s written. the ending was just “and then and then and then”
I thought it was my ADHD brain not getting it but it was actually the way the story is. I had to backtrack several times to understand what was going on
Same shit I’m still confused about her name being Melanie or Rachel even after rewinding bc I thought I missed something but I don’t think I did, he just keeps calling her Rachel after being told her name is Melanie and only tried to correct himself once. Also Solomon calls her Rachel too. Maybe Melanie was a fake name but why give a fake name? Especially when it doesn’t end up mattering. Also I thought Rachel was just the name he gave her? Idk I’m confused about all that lol
This one actually had potential. One of the saddest concepts in fiction is, in my mind, putting the mentally disabled into dangerous situations that they can’t/don’t/lack the ability to understand the danger of. But apparently the dude is just supposed to be normal.
"The Outwaters" is a movie that sort or does this. It's a found footage, and the person filming suffers a serious head injury while in the desert. Definitely, the scariest part of the film was when I realized how bad his situation had become. It's a pretty good movie, though not very coherant.
I'm imagining him saying something like: "Yeah, nothing unusual this shift. Just those people taking her out of the room and bringing her back 3 hours later..." And everyone else being like: "WHICH PEOPLE?! There is nobody else working for us. WHY DIDN'T YOU PUSH THE RED BUTTON?!?! HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN HAPPENING?!" 😂😂
Yeah no I’m gonna need to be explicitly told what “normal” is if I gotta be on the lookout for weird shit, especially if employer KNOWS the normal is fuckin weird
After he went in the woods and was looking around before finding the well I couldn't stop myself from thinking "all I could see were bushes, trees, and... A movie theater with a hammer on the screen "
To the people complaining about the story being derailed, in my opinion, that’s what makes this podcast so much fun. I like being able to listen to creepy stories and I also enjoy having Isiah and Hunter break up the tension with their jokes. If you want to just listen to creepy story narrations there’s a million channels that do just that :)
Facts bro I love this channel for that exact reason I have tons of creepypasta channels let us have this one horror comedy themed one please people jeez it’s so unique come on lol
I thought they were being mean and it had promise until Melanie appeared, what the fuck was EVERYTHING after Melanie 😭 thank you Hunter for telling us to click off near the end because we didn’t deserve this 💀
It's so sad because this story is a part of a 4 part series, this one being the second part and you're supposed to read it after the first part. There's a 5 hours very high quality video on RUclips called "I'm being hunted across realities" in which all 4 parts are being read, and the comments are loving it.
My favorite part of this episode was them acting like the narrator was an idiot for seeing his name in the painting and writing it off as a coincidence, followed by the literal next line of the story repeating the exact things they were just joking about unprompted, and they’re just like “huh what a weird coincidence” lol
I would like everyone to bully Wendigoon. Not because the story's good - it's not - but because birds do in fact navigate via the Earth's magnetic field.
"yggdrisal is, what's the word for that, my mom used to use it when she read technical documentation to me, oh, yeah a linux distribution, it was the first linux distro from what I know. I found a computer on the table and then decided to install the disk right into it, the default date was 42.22.6, I wonder what that could be. This reminds me of the numbers that Rachael wrote for me. Coincidentally that was the password for the computor..."
Its crazy how i find so much of this piece to be the antithesis of quality storytelling. Like you could write an entire chapter/part of this story just on the first week of his job watching Rachael, culminating into a huge event and his feelings of her being taken out of the room, and coming back hours later. There is a TON of meat on that bone, but it just doesnt happen and instead YEARS blur by for the author. Its nuts how bad it is.
The real problem is the story never actually feels like it starts. What i mean by that is we get basically 2-3 setups for stories but never a payoff like it kept restarting.
I think the issue is that the story they are reading isn't really the start, it's actually the second part of the full story. They skipped ALOT more context that is even more confusing than what we got. Dark Sodium The Ghost Tree is the full story to what they were reading and missing
@@DaedricTalks15I don’t think that’s the issue. The root issue isn’t the lack of context, it’s just the writing itself. I don’t think reading the other parts of the story will magically fix the underlying flaws of this story having terrible character writing, no real horror or tension, or the overabundance of exposition in the characters’ rambling dialogues. Tbh if this is the level of writing quality we should expect of the other parts, there’s really no reason to read them at all.
@@catcactus1234 that's the thing with the story, sure that story we got really isn't good at all. Hell when I first heard it I completely toned out this and another part of the story that I completely don't recall nor care to look for again. But just because one part isn't good doesn't mean a story is bad or isn't worth looking into. Not every story you read (or listen to) has a flawless story/chapter. There will be some outliers that really could have been left out or done better. The creator of Penpall before publishing his book made some changes of certain parts from his original story. Also I think context does matter in a story, imagine if Creepcast read Penpall, but instead of reading it from the beginning of the story they instead started at the Penpall mailing and judged it from there. Sure you could read it from that later chapter and make your judgement, but I don't think starting from the middle and making a judgement call from there really makes sense? Now assuming if they don't read it from the beginning would that MAGICALLY fix everything? No it wouldn't fix it, but it would help for an understanding of the story. Imo I would say that they should try reading the story from the beginning and see what they think? If they don't like it then they don't like it. Tldr: Context is important to a story and I think if they had started reading it from the beginning of the story it would help with some of the confusion and possibly make the story more interesting.
@@SirWinnigton I agree and I really don't like how you have to find other stories to figure out that it's all connected. That is my biggest complaint about it
It feels like the author had a really cool idea, had no way of landing it, and then just kept going to see how far it can go before the readers lose their mind
Yeah, it's like when you're in middle school like "I have the BEST BOOK SERIES IDEA EVER" and you don't even make it to chapter three of the first book
Normally it's Isaiah bullying hunter. This podcast really makes wendigoon seem insecure in how quick he is to start trashing on hunter. It's not funny either, just feels pathetic and unnecessary
@@SomeGuy-mt4hqagreed it’s really distracting, they’re gonna milk as many sponsorship $$$ as they can out of it before they get truly sick of each other tho
I love how the person at the movie theater saying "hi, my name is Rob and this is Bristol, would you like to get in? We're playing a game" is the author implying that this is in the same world as "Left Right Game". Like no dude, that story was WAY better than this one. This story seems like it was written by the child from Left Right Game lmao
Yeah I am 93% certain that was just some error the editors made in post or possibly on purpose, and that it was really just Wendigoon making a joke. Considering that the Rob and Bristol bit goes nowhere and is not acknowledged by either host, its safe to assume they recognized it as a joke.
@@britishaviator5942 see I thought that too and had to rewind and make sure it was in the on screen text bc usually it cuts to them when they make a joke and then they’ll laugh for a second. I did think it was weird that it wasn’t acknowledged by either of them but I thought maybe it went over their heads in the moment or something
When Thomas learned that Melanie didn't paint the beautiful, wonderful paintings he reacted like Amouranth's simps when they learned she had a husband. "You mean she doesn't actually want to date me?!?!"
I had this thought too lol. The woman in the box instantly loves this a dumb guy because he "helps" her. I brought her a sledgeham- I mean, what's the word again? Twitch donation
Had me tweaking a bit bc my first name is Travis. Peacefully listening and then hearing my own name blurted out by these two will never not freak me out for a millisecond or two. Fucked with me a bit last episode too since they mentioned the author of that story was named Travis. I binged these two episodes back to back aswell, maybe the Creep Cast boys are tryna tell me something.
“Hi I’m Rob, and this is Bristol, and we’re playing a game” I wasn’t looking at my screen and thought Isaiah was joking around at how bad the writing was BUT ITS ACTUALLY IN THE STORY WHAT
I DUG WAY TOO FAR DOWN BEFORE I FOUND THIS COMMENT!!! Are we really not addressing this??? Or was it a joke that somehow got added to the text accidentally? It’s nearly midnight and I’m losing it. 😂
@@linkin2363 it’s legitimately in the text that’s on screen as if it’s part of the script they’re reading. If it’s snarky banter or casual conversation there’s no text on screen if it’s something they’re saying. So yeah seems like it’s in the story ☠️
@@jarednahulu i read a few more comments and it seems like it was just an editing mistake? everyone has confirmed that it's not in the actual nosleep post.
1:35:05 when Wendigoon says this, it makes me think that the girl, and basically the entire story is just a different version of the game Beyond Two Souls
@@firefly9838thank you, finally someone understands, when the narrators are clowns making jokes of every paragraph ofc the story will sound goofy. The Dark Somnium did an amazing job on this
Your antics are what make the episodes fun. I could text to speech these stories on my own if I didn’t want that. I want Hunter to snort and then laugh at his own snort. Even if it’s a bad story, know that we are having fun because it’s you two who are reading it.
To be honest, I watch you guys because of the off topic conversations and jokes. I don't how people get upset about that when there are 50 other youtube channels who read these stories seriously.
The off-topic conversations and jokes are what makes this podcast unique _because_ every other creepypasta podcast is a straightforward serious reading of the story. Just let us have this one good thing, god.
The weird quirks the main character had like “What was that word again?” were definitely things the author slapped in there because they read somewhere that quirks can make your character more interesting but instead of choosing fun quirks they chose ones that made their mc incompetent and annoying (which is a very common incident among new writers who don’t quite understand how to make good main characters).
This is part of a larger story and the quirk was explained as his mind pretty much rotting because he was in a timeline he didn't belong to or something like that.
@@TalkativeHands yeah exactly, eventually the story realises it's complete shit and tries to retroactively justify why its shit. Doesn't save it tho, its still shit
I shouldnt be bothered by him opening with "i can post this now" and the story ending with him in another dimension where he couldnt possibly have posted this but it does. This feels like a bad version of the left right games ideas
Especially considering the fact that he brings up telling the story despite the NDA he signed. Like brother, you're in an alternate universe. You don't need to worry about an NDA
this story was definitely written in the beginning intending to be something else and then the author just went off the rails without bothering to rewrite the beginning
2:17 bro speaking facts. Borrasca was impactful but relied a lot on shock value. Penpal was written immaculately. The disorder of timelines, the slow realisation of what happened. Masterpiece. Best one so far.
There's a story called "I watch people in cages" that's a bit more like what Wendi mentioned. Random guy gets a job at a secret place to sit there and watch people in cages and sometimes give them food or stuff. There's 5 cages (I think) and the people in them almost all get replaced within a few days, each cage having a specific 'type' of person inside. Is rather good and I think he might enjoy jt.
I love how he had this big sidetrack talking about how his dad hunted, his dog’s nickname and real name and how it used to get hyper focused in a hunt like it was in a trance All that just to say "it was like I was in a trance" 😂
I was scared reading that because it put me back in the shoes of 10 year old me setting up a clumsy analogy similar to this and then becoming embarased and erasing it 😂
"Thomas, somewhere there is a tree. A very special tree." the way I immediately went *like a triple tree?* Borrasca traumatised us in ways we still don't understand.
43:14 “I met the man I came to know as Charles Jeffries.” I’m so confused by this portentous introduction for someone whose character turned out to be ‘fat, nervous, and insufficiently frightening.’ EDIT: And who also _never appears again._
The switch from past tense to present tense while supposedly recounting a story that’s already happened is so frustrating! When Wendigoon pointed it out Hunter says “it doesn’t matter” but it TOTALLY DOES! That’s the core conceit of these NoSleep style stories, once you break the rule it totally takes you out of the story
@awwmahbreadsticks1094 I'm just joking around, haha! There are tons of times that the text being read comes across like someone telling a story and not like what someone has written down. Every time he had one of those "what's the word" moments really messed with me. After all why the heck would the character write down "what's the word" while they are thinking it and writing down the story 😖
@@Hary_Half-Mast oh right lol yeah the switch between past and present was weird Also the random “btw I’ve been working here for 6 years now" back up wait what!?
So, this shadowy government organization has sunk millions of dollars and countless man hours into finding this perfectly linked Thomas...and the way they went about finding this guy was posting a job ad in a random newspaper? And even after all of that effort, they only found 43 potential candidates to choose from? What even is this organization?
I mean, the real us government drugged unsuspecting citizens with psychedelics just to see what would happen. And that's just ONE of the things they've admitted to doing. Then there was the whole dolphin thing...
And their hope/plan is that they truly find someone psychotic enough to do the thing they're asking with no additional context... that will believe the Melanie story. They're looking for a maladjusted nutjob the whole time. Truly a "either the dumbest organization ever created... or the most genius", which is another reason the story fails. Things happen because they have to, not because they make any sense.
So my husband had talked about a RUclips creator he really loved that went by the name "Wendigoon", so I signed up to be alerted when new merch of his dropped and have bought the last two releases for him because I'm pretty fucking amazing. He started telling me about this channel that he also really loved and once I heard the kind of topics/stories featured here I was like fugg yeh, that's right up my alley! So we started watching these uploads together. This story, though... whew... this one was a rough one to get through to be honest... it probably took us breaking it up into like 5 or 6 days, you both and your tomfoolery were the only redeeming factor and reason for watching the entire thing 😂I love you two together so much, the different voices, the back and forth in between the stories makes me actually laugh out loud... my husband is the Isaiah to my Hunter. 💕 I need to give my husband Chris a shout out for introducing me to the existence of Wendigoon which led to CreepCast, and Papa Meat, which we've also started watching together. I'm really sad I missed the merch drop for CreepCast because that design was sick , but I won't miss the next one. Anyway. New loyal viewer from your favorite city in the world: St. Louis 😘😆
I know that some people don’t like it when you guys stop in the middle of stories to make jokes or tell stories of your own, but honestly that’s what I like most about this podcast!! I like making jokes character details too so this hit the right spot for me! Loved this episode!
Ikr. I was actually surprised when I heard people are complaining about the derailing. They made so many episodes, how has that not been expected at this point? Just move on to another audio or read the og story yourself.
Agreed! The story was boring as hell and Hunter and Isaiah's banter saved it. If people want to read the story with no comments or banter then they should just go to the source and read it. We come here for a story but also for quips and jokes about it!
A big point for me is that it’s never taken away from stories that I actually liked. If I felt like genuinely good writing was getting derailed and interrupted, I’d have more of an issue with it, but their banter always seems to flow so well with the stories. You can tell that they love Borrasca, for example, even when doing their bits - it feels like the jokes don’t come from not wanting to engage with the story, but rather the fact that they’re entertainers, and in my opinion, they are very entertaining. For people who want more serious readings, I’d suggest The Dark Somnium. There’s some great voice acting, and lots of background music that helps with immersion.
I love that at the start of this, they were like, "Oh, this author made a lot of stories. I wonder if theres a physical copy. Hopefully we can read a few of his stories" then by the end it was like "is everyone in this story mentally handicapped"
@@MrBrad12435honestly if they can just read a story without hunter throwing a temper tantrum or wendigoon aggressively saying yes! Every 2 seconds I'd be happy. I just want left right game energy again.
You guys should post an unedited/uncut version of these episodes. I enjoy hearing you guys ramble and just shoot the shit about the story. It’s funny and it makes my time at work more bearable.
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she’s the sim you lock in the basement and force to paint non stop
that's the first thing i thought too!
@@prenzeaME TOO, to the point where for a hot minute I thought that would actually be the twist.
look, as a kid painting was the only source of income I knew for my sims
OH MY GOD
the famous Paint Goblin strategy
“I don’t actually paint the paintings Thomas”
Thomas then proceeds to believe the next concerning painting the next day
heh.. baaaka....sigma sigma in ohio....
@@Ryablol????
@@AIA2637 don't worry, he's just roleplaying as Thomas.
didn't even consider that, that's hilarious.
@@bungiecrimes7247 BELAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
"I have to save the Rachel!"
"No, Thomas... you ARE the Rachel."
And then Thomas was a tree.
Wish I found this comment sooner. Would’ve saved me two hours
The creature behind me laughed
Death stranding
I saw this when I was an hour in and wondered how it could possibly be relevant... I know better now and everything is worse
And his Momma was fish.
Aint no way this man doesn't know "Zipties" "Wonder" and "Skeptic" but doesn't pause at the words "Hydraulic Breaks" or "Newfound Intuition"
THATS WHAT IM SAYING
He drops words like "morose" like it's no one's business! And it immidiately breaks the illusion that it's a real story because nobody writes in that way. I feel like the author may have been trying to go for a Lovecraft thing where the narrator doesn't even know where to begin describing something, completely missing why that worked.
@@yggdrasil2 i know u commented forever ago but im just watching this video-- i checked out the stories and the author has multiple series in the same "universe" with the same characters (i guess kinda like a prequel and a sequel.. sort of?) but it seems like part of the forgetting of words is explained later. def check it out if youre into it
@@HeyitsCat13 A person losing words sounds more like something to reserve for dialogue or a general fictional narrative. The fact that the main character is writing the story is what makes it lose credibility.
Wtf is obscure about Hydraulics
Cant wait till you guys read "My friend can control fire and I have big lips" . I sleep with the lights on after that one
creepypastas are named so fucking insanely nowadays that i can’t even tell if this is a joke or not
It's a joke, it's a reference to Hunter and Isaiah
We don't know if he can control fire, but he looks like he could.
LMFAO
This made me laugh so hard
Top 3 quotes
1) "Mm." -Hunter
2) "Mm." -Hunter
3) "Mm." -Hunter
You forgot *loud snort*
*farting noises*
He was SO bored in this. It annoyed me at first and then I just felt the same as him. This sucks.
I read this comment as he did that; my life is a movie fr fr
Hm
Hm.
Mhmh.
Riveting
“I'm the one they call when shit gets... what's the word? Spooky. And let me tell you, this shit is very fucking spooky.”
Mama used to say I'm some kind of monster hunter
This was still better than the monster hunter story
You magnificent mofo. I needed that. Thanks.
@@pucktoad hell nah at least that was bad in a funny way, this shit was just boring
gold
“Fun” fact that everyone should know: If your job in the US has a contract where you aren’t allowed to talk about it (an NDA, etc), that part is null and void if said job is involved in criminal activity and you witness it.
Yeah I don’t think that was his primary concern with exposing them
@@DiMagnolia I know, I am just saying in case anyone in a real situation like that is unsure. Just something informative but it's fine to give it a pass on a fun story!
Oh yeah lol, Solomon and the gang really thought no one would report them lol?
Dawg if that’s the case they will just kill you 😭
Sure, if corruption wasn't a thing, that works.
I was doing my shift watching Rachel when a tall... what's the word... detective looking man came through the door. He took off his hat and said "Thomas, my name is Markus. I'm here to talk about the thing in the basement."
I love how he pauses to say “what’s the word…” and says the most generic word literally everyone knows multiple times in the story is hilarious
me and Markus went to a cafe, discussing the thing in the basement when suddenly, a convoy of cars drove past us, and from the first one.. whats the word ... descended a healthy lookin man. "Hey. I'm Rob and this is Bristol. We're playing a game."
@@RangeetChLahiri We had started following the convoy in Markus's car, when we arrived at an old mining town to get some sandwiches. That's when the horrible sound of metal screeching on other metal started.
As the metal screeching continues they make a right down a dirt road nearing closer to the noise, as the convoy was about to take a left they stopped in shock and saw something far off into the distance of the woods… stairs.
@hulyensantago8899 after finishing my sandwich in the small artisan sandwich shop in the small mining town, I suddenly remembered that I had forgotten to respond to my... what did my mom say it was called? A pen-pal?
All I know is he sure knows a lot about my sister Bonnie and keeps telling her about a small town by the sea.
My job is watching two sweaty men reading old scary stories.
You get paid for this?
what's the pay?
I just pictured Hunter making funny voices for Poe’s Raven
it’s the editors alt account
You guys are getting payed??
I love how Wendigoon said "If this ends with him holding her hand looking at the Sunset..." and that's literally how it ends and he doesn't even talk about it lol
Just seems so done at the end lol
only at 39 mins and they made the joke about my mom talks about angels, then to read that it does include the mother and angels, ik it’s spoiler for me but that def sets them up for “i’m sure i call whatever horror cliche is about to happen”… i used to do it with crime shows just bc the plot for every episode was “thinks person is bad as they meet someone they think is totally good until person they think is bad gives info about ‘good dude’ and have to quickly snuff ‘plot that True Bad guy(guy they think good) was about to murder or whatever’’’”
aka ig hunter knows them as “ha that would subvert expectations” as Wendi knows “this would be the DUMB version of how an ARG should go
Spoiler alert fucker
Last place I'd expect to see you lol
I love how after traveling the multiverse in a magic tree, he specifies that he gathered the courage to write this despite the NDA he signed
I love that you can accurately gauge how bored or annoyed Hunter is with a story by how absurd or over-the-top his voice acting is.
the whole series itself is actually really good (the ghost tree)
@@paintingdemonswell at least it good to hear that it improves
@@paintingdemonsis it? Because this was such garbage that I feel I actively hate it. Jeff the Killer is terrible but it’s so bad it’s fun. This was some of the worst shit I’ve read or listened to in a looooong time
@@paintingdemons idk man this is pretty bad and poorly written
@@paintingdemons why are simping for this steaming pile of shit in all the comments and trying to gaslight people into believing it gets better?
The real psychological experiment was trying to get to the end of the story
FR
These comments are killing me 😂
The real social experiment was the friends we made along the way.
There is no story he is just being tortured
Unwilling participant just being tortured please intervene
"As he stood up, he was holding a... what's the word? It's a thing I remember from mama's exciting action books. A GUN! That's what they were called yes. He was holding a gun."
Excitin*
“He was holding a metal box thing, what’s the word? A gun? Yeah he was holding a-
He shot me 5 times in the stomach and I died”
@@kecoma9449momma always said life was like a metal box thing
@@zach415you don’t how many- what was the word??? Bullet! Yes you don’t know how many bullets in a metal box.
This entire story felt like a dream you have of something that would make for an awesome book or movie when you first wake up, only to realize that it doesn't really make any sense and kept changing.
Having your protagonist being seen as mentally challenged, when the author meant them to be completely normal is hilarious to me. Like an unintentional Forrest Gump.
Some truly horrible character writing
Honestly. This story is strung along like the thought process of someone deep the throes of a psychotic episode. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ending was just him in a straight jacket bouncing his head off the wall.
It’s funny when you slowly start to lose faith in the writing and realize everything you thought was intentional or maybe misdirection was just . . . Not that. This is the only story I think I actively despise.
@@Nightmare-pj4fg Genuinely thought that every time the character fails to remember a word it's actually some hint and if you put all the words together it spells something or leads into the big reveal.
A lot of things were bad but you can see how it can be a setup for something, and then the payoff never comes
In the other stories its revealed that the universe is actively causing extreme mental deterioration to the mc
Wendigoon pretending that this isn't the story he wrote about Jacoby in highschool has me dead rn
LMAO
Try as he may to hide it, we can tell
what episode is jacoby spoken about i can’t find it
@@trixxie02 I think it was the episode about the story where the guy who went to Nebraska and found a bunch of kids hanging out in a group shower under a barn.
My job is watching a woman trapped in a room. But no one warned me that she would milk the creature right behind me.
😳
God I love how insane the comment memes would be out of context
@@Tickerchickeni havent watched the video yet and this looks diabolical 😭😭
Creature. LOL
Almost Lovecraftian in my minds eye.
The inability to articulate the protagonist's mental state, thought process, intentions, and even the PASSAGE OF TIME is astounding.
My favorite part is how he talks like Forrest Gump a lot, then does not act like someone with any kind of mental difficulties except for stupid decisions. The MC is like Schrodingers Character where he has the vibes of like 3-4 different people but somehow manage to be none of them.
“You got soft hands boy.”
“Thank you! 👶🏻”
"Thank you! 🍅"
“Thank you! 👄”
you got soft hands so soft it ain't natural ruclips.net/video/xM48_GebL1o/видео.html
Why is no one answering: "your daughter likes them"
Responds with “Yup, I just jacked off”
I love how the main character went from an Everyman to Forrest Gump to Chris Chan
@@Psudostooge underrated comment
i thought he was giving chris chan too w/ the instant belief in his divine mission, and also instantly falling in love with strange women
The moment SEX!!!!!!!! Became a factor the Sonichu medallion materialized like a Power Cell in Jak and Daxter. Good God this was the only time I found Cringe Humor tolerable and it's because we're all in on it
😂😂😂 at least you didn't have sex with his mom
Holy fuck this is accurate and I'm mad
hunter interrupting his soft valley girl accent with an abrupt "FUCK!" in his normal deep man voice has me in absolute TEARS
timestamp pls :)?
@@michael-np8xgaround 58:14
@@princessesyes yippee
same. i watched this in bed next to my fiancee while she was sleeping and had to giht to hold back bursting out laughter
Isn't that just a valley girl
The biggest problem with the story to me is why it was even uploaded to nosleep. This story started off with a horror premise only to trick the readers into reading about some supernatural, mystery romance story. If you like that’s fine but this should never have been posted on nosleep or creepypasta wiki
I agree that this shouldn't be on nosleep, but disagree with how it was handled by this podcast, which was due to its miscategorization. Do you happen to know if a forum that would've been better suited for sci-fi and metaphysical material? I think the biggest reasons it was hated is because it was pointed to the wrong audience. This channel has enjoyed amateur writing in horror before. And I've seen both sci-fi and romance in the creepypasta genre. Just wondering where this would've been better respected.
@@ShadowPhoenix82They could’ve uploaded it to Wattpad, AO3 or any other writing platform that lets you upload any genre of story. Nosleep is specifically for horror stories. This story in particular feels more like a failed attempt at a nosleep story considering all of the common nosleep tropes in the story, so I’d say the issue is more so a core horror writing issue and less of an audience mixup. I know plenty of supernatural romance lovers who wouldn’t enjoy this story (myself included) due to the insane amount of exposition, unintentionally dumb character choices, and complete lack of plot cohesion.
@@ShadowPhoenix82 I like fantasy stuff but even then I haven't really... Enjoyed the writing style. As somebody who can like this kinda stuff it doesn't come off as that well constructed. Both that and it's prequel I don't think are very good stories, horror or not.
@ShadowPhoenix82 as someone who would like stories like this... no, it's a crappy story regardless
The dialogue is so stiff and just serves as exposition and it's execution was painful
Maybe he took the subreddit literally and posted a story he wrote in one session 💀💀
In a broad, overall sense, the story of a man communicating and bonding with a woman outside of the boundaries of time, through a camera years apart, as she paints these prophetic images to guide him to a place where he can rescue another version of her and be happy together, while knowing that she herself will die without ever meeting him or experiencing any of the happiness, is pretty incredible. The execution was absolutely abysmal but the core foundation could be something really special.
She exists for one sole purpose: Say things Hunter cant pronounce so he starts screaming expletives for our entertainment. When Hunter stops screaming, she stops being.
this is the homestuck lore
The borderline psychotic pacing of the story and narration of the protagonist makes the payoff fall flat on its face. You see the "twist" light years away and so the mysticism of it all evaporates long before the conclusion. The protagonist also doesn't actually do anything noteworthy throughout the story, which leaves you feeling as though they didn't actually earn the happy outcome that they got in the end.
@@eltiolavara9I... Fuck, FUCK I'm so mad that you're right. The nature of humanity and so forth I suppose
Your Name is a way better version of this. Made me cry. This wasn't that good though lol
each week, this pod is truly a coin flip between reading Stephen King-esque horror masterpieces & “I’m the only one they call when shit gets spooky. And, let me tell you, this shit is very f*cking spooky.”
this is the beauty of creeping your cast
I creeped so hard when hunter said his catchphrase
“Hm”
'So, monster hunter, huh?'
*Pulls out business card*
@@DumpsterRacoon there needs to be an avengers style meet up with the very fucking spooky crew
@@catpoke9557 which video is that?
I burst out laughing at 1:14:53 “Now Thomas is hard and confused, he’s hard and confused, apes don’t like that.”
Me too 😂
I think about this daily
Thomas trying to blow up Solomon's head with his incel rage
I would have never thought that Hunter would stand up at the end of the video and show his honey hole to the camera for millions to see.
So inspiring and brave of him.
timestamp?!
i need a timestamp, for a friend of mine
So courageous. Very cutsie, very mindful, very demure
@@fakename658quite lovecraftian, that honey hole is
Timestamp, please? For ... Research purposes.
My God I thought it was was going to be a fairly average psychological horror but instead it was the narrative equivalent of a guy having a ketamine overdose and shitting himself in the skytubes at Chuck E Cheese.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
This description is diabolical 💀
😂😂😂
this description is far more entertaining than the story itself
it was the Galaxy Gas, dude…
Me 20 min in: Is this Character slow?
Me 2 Hours in: Is the Author slow?
Unfathomably based.
"Maybe both. But hey, I think what was the word... Good enough? Momma says don't read a book by its cover"
This one one of the first author stories they said
“at first I was afraid”
Hunter and I in unison: I was petrified
My job is watching a woman trapped in the basement and it’s getting better at mimicking Jeff the Killer
Once a week they take her to go play the Left Right Game
But she’s also my dead girlfriend who likes to look at stairs in the woods
Who lives in the Neverglades.
Lobotomy
This story feels like it was written in a single long session. The longer the author went without sleep, the more unhinged, disconnected, and ridiculous it got.
This isn't the beginning of the story, or the end, this is the middle of the story and all the context is missing sadly
@@Fazburrit should still be able to hold up on its own. It doesn't.
@@Fazburr The writing still sucks no matter where it is.
Sounds like poor storytelling then@@Fazburr
@@dracotoy how if you're reading from the middle??
"Hunter, please stop doing a silly voice and try to take this seriously."
*A few sentences later*
"Okay, you can go back to the silly voice."
It was more like the next sentence down. I wonder if They'll stumble on a story so bad they just close it and start over.
What’s funny is Isiah immediately assumed Thomas was slow but my immediate reaction was the author was just super young and just wasn’t very good when he wrote this lol. I’ve read a lot of Wattpad as a woman who grew up in the MySpace era and the amount of stories I’ve read with the same feeling of oh this character is slow it usually just turned out the author was 12 trying to write an adult character and it just didn’t work well lol
I wanted to mention Felix Blackwell who wrote stolen tongues, has quit writing because of life complications but mostly because he is taking care of his dad, so every book sale helps, if you enjoyed the story!!
Aw. Poor guy. I'll definitely buy a book when I can.
I got my copy this week! Super hype to read it 😊
@@cthuuuwu highly suggest grabbing his other books too if you like ST!
Just picked up a copy for a family member! might grab one for myself!
Stolen Tongues was stellar. The name the story this video is about should’ve been called Stolen Time
I had to lay there paralyzed while Soloman did... what was that word... exposition-dumping.
I watched her last day, she laid down on her bed... the screen faded to black... and i heard the words "You're finally awake" as I realized my hands are bound on a wooden carriage rolling through a snow-covered forest.
"You were tryin' to hop the border right? Griddied into that simperial mog?"
“Same as us. And that thief over there.”
A Nord's last thoughts should be of home.
@@warbossgegguz679a rizzlers last thoughts should be of Ohio.
Watch your tongue! You're speaking to Ulfric Stormcloak, the true High King.
‘You aren’t really painting those wonderful pictures?!?’ Had me absolutely dying
"MY ENTIRE LIFE IS A LIE!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S REAL!! oh hey a cool tree behind a movie theatre."
"You got soft hands boy" being a quote Isaiah used for Mr Wellers is hilarious now knowing it's from his father-in-law
"Ex boyfriend tricked me into moving to the hyperdimensional tree so he could tie me to it" we've all been there at some point in our life
She's just like me fr
That line had me wheezing
Isekai titles be like.
These aren't... connected... Are they? Fuck....FUUUUCCKKK. they Marveled Creepy pasta??? Noo
It really is like Scott Pilgrim
a woman locked in a room, constantly painting, being observed all time? this just sounds like a regular sims player's way of making money
it paints a masterpiece or it gets the pool again
Jim Pickens strikes again
...The painting goblin...
I’m so happy we all thought the same thing while listening to this. This is the sims. Hell, there’s even a mysterious tree you can crawl into in the sims 4 😂
ngl had the same thought. dude probably got stoned while playing sims and came up with this
My job is watching two men trapped in my phone screen.
My job is watching a person watching two men trapped on their phone screen
@@ArmourKnighti watch you for free
Wait you’re getting PAID for this?
@@ArmourKnightmy job is watching a person watching a person watching two men trapped in their phone screen
@@dillonjones8540my job is watching a person watch a person, watching a person watching 2 funny people talk
Poor Rachel. Imagine being an artistic genius with supernatural powers, but your conduit is Forrest Gump.
The story doesn't trust the audience with anything. He talks to melanie *long exposition*, he talks to Solomon *long exposition*, and then at the end when he finally talks to Rachel there's more. This story would have been much better if it built up details over time and rather than delivering almost all information through dialogue.
it's just bad writing lmao
So fucking bad
It doesn’t build up anything that is the problem. It just jumps from one thing to another raising the ante
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
@@Luminousreign that's because it's the second story in a full series called "The Ghost Tree", a lot of the stuff makes a lot more sense and is much more built up if you've read the first of the series which is "Come Live in the Ashes of my Heart"
$35 an hour in 2019 would be $43.06 an hour nowadays. in my state minimum wage is $7.35 still. There's very little they could show me that would make me jeopardize this job lmao
Worth it
rip Rachel but times are tough
I mean $25 is the typical wage, top 20% make 50+/hr. I'd reckon easy a quarter of the population can make 43.09 an hour. It isn't that astronomical, and 86k a year isn't a crazy amount of money.
Also the legal minimum wage isn't the effective minimum wage. Like here it's 7.25 but Walmart and McDonald's hire for 15, so it's doubtful you can say that the minimum wage is truly 7.25 when nobody's actually offering that, that's not the true minimum wage you can work for if nobody offers it.
@@sirllamaiii970825$ an hour typical wage????????? Are you on crack????????????
@@sirllamaiii9708you have absolutely gotta try looking for a job in the south. My girlfriends got a law associates and still dreams of getting $22 an hour. Most places she’s seen - outside of the law field tbf - will tout competitive wages and offer 10.
This title sounds like a two Sentence Horror Story.
My job is watching a woman trapped in a room.
I am self employed.
This is 10 times better than the actual story.
You, as a joke, made a better two scentence horror story than half the reddit.
this got a laugh outta me lol
it was fine until the creature came to the room
@@lus6448 I’m dead 💀
Another thing I find weird about the story is the fact that the main character (an adult) falls in love/becomes obsessed with Rachel who was underage (17) when he first sees her. Like making her underage seems weird and unnecessary for the story.
Very telling of the author.
This whole story SCREAMS 80s.
She started to be the test subject when she was 17 and she was in the experiment for 6 years if im not mistaken. So she'd be in her 20's when she made that "help me thomas" painting
because people still existed when they were underage and this whole like “story” spanned 8 years
i kept feeling like i wasn’t following well and rewinded the video to try and catch what i was missing, then i realized that’s just how it’s written. the ending was just “and then and then and then”
Literally same
yeah I kept just getting so confused with this story
same oh lord i kept rewinding it took me longer than it shouldve to get through this
I thought it was my ADHD brain not getting it but it was actually the way the story is. I had to backtrack several times to understand what was going on
Same shit I’m still confused about her name being Melanie or Rachel even after rewinding bc I thought I missed something but I don’t think I did, he just keeps calling her Rachel after being told her name is Melanie and only tried to correct himself once. Also Solomon calls her Rachel too. Maybe Melanie was a fake name but why give a fake name? Especially when it doesn’t end up mattering. Also I thought Rachel was just the name he gave her? Idk I’m confused about all that lol
"I don't think birds run on magnets"
Should we tell Wendi that birds do, in fact, use earth's magnetic field to navigate?
I honestly thought he was gonna joke about how "like magnets or how birds navigate" is literally the same thing.
Frogs are magnetic as well lol
Ran to the comments to say this😂
That's too smart for this story
Happy I found this comment
I remember that my mother would say...
"Who's up-" what was the word- "Creeping they Cast"
😂😂
What if I cast my creep? A wide net
Creeped on my boys Cast to this.
2:01:13 “She like, listens to it when she’s being possessed by like a burnt hot dog man” completely annihilated me.
"I don't hate fun"
Said the man who hates fun and babies and cuddling and pet names and inquisitive strangers
😂😂😂
Also pairs, bacon, Disney's Gargoyles, and Settlers of Catan
Hunter is really like me for real. Hating the most random nonsense that doesn't affect us in the slightest 😂
I know this comment is meant to be funny but some of us genuinely don't enjoy (or even dislike) that stuff lol
@@LoneLupine ... We know you're secretly a reptilian. All HUMANS enjoy those things.
This one actually had potential. One of the saddest concepts in fiction is, in my mind, putting the mentally disabled into dangerous situations that they can’t/don’t/lack the ability to understand the danger of.
But apparently the dude is just supposed to be normal.
I feel ya on that. The disabled dude in the cube comes to mind.
@@Lenny4Twenny Exactly what I was gonna say! Great movie
In your minds eye?
yeah for a brief time i thought it might go into flowers for algernon territory tbh
"The Outwaters" is a movie that sort or does this. It's a found footage, and the person filming suffers a serious head injury while in the desert. Definitely, the scariest part of the film was when I realized how bad his situation had become. It's a pretty good movie, though not very coherant.
I'm imagining him saying something like:
"Yeah, nothing unusual this shift. Just those people taking her out of the room and bringing her back 3 hours later..."
And everyone else being like: "WHICH PEOPLE?! There is nobody else working for us. WHY DIDN'T YOU PUSH THE RED BUTTON?!?! HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN HAPPENING?!" 😂😂
I did an audible LOL. 😄
That would have been so much better
Yeah no I’m gonna need to be explicitly told what “normal” is if I gotta be on the lookout for weird shit, especially if employer KNOWS the normal is fuckin weird
Dude, this is too funny, much better than the actual story.
Honestly would have been a much better twist
After he went in the woods and was looking around before finding the well I couldn't stop myself from thinking "all I could see were bushes, trees, and... A movie theater with a hammer on the screen "
Melanie leans in and whispers to protagonist Forrest Gump and whispers “you look like you control fire”
I'm halfway through the story, but I feel like the 6 year timeskip was the worst decision the author could've made for the story.
Edit: nevermind
Real
Aware
you poor soul
the defeat in this comment is amazing
Your edit took me out 😂
Thomas was acting like a insufferable mentally challenged anime protagonist who fell into a marvel movie rough draft
There are harem protags less dense than this.
There is tungsten less dense
@@warbossgegguz679 new manga just dropped called “that time I got reincarnated into a goth girl trapped behind concrete underneath a tree tunnel”
There's stars less dense
That is terrifyingly accurate
Thank you Hunter for cutting out Wendi’s Goldblum impressions. I shall remain forever grateful. 😂
To the people complaining about the story being derailed, in my opinion, that’s what makes this podcast so much fun. I like being able to listen to creepy stories and I also enjoy having Isiah and Hunter break up the tension with their jokes.
If you want to just listen to creepy story narrations there’s a million channels that do just that :)
Facts bro I love this channel for that exact reason I have tons of creepypasta channels let us have this one horror comedy themed one please people jeez it’s so unique come on lol
Fr they always have me cackling while im at work
Yeah if you want serious watch the dark somnium
The only story they've done that I hadn't already heard so far was Tommy Taffy and they are always my favorite way to hear them.
I don't understand people who complain about that. If you want a serious dramatic reading of the story, you are going to the wrong channel for that.
I thought they were being mean and it had promise until Melanie appeared, what the fuck was EVERYTHING after Melanie 😭 thank you Hunter for telling us to click off near the end because we didn’t deserve this 💀
Well, it is kinda the middle part of the story.
Exactly my thoughts lol, it felt like the author got bored and decided to write a different story 😭
@@donotsearchforme3977 again, this is apart two. It was always leading to that kinda ending tbh.
This was the biggest letdown they've ever read 😭 I was throwing a tantrum while watching 💀
@@donotsearchforme3977 you gotta watch the whole story
The rate at which this story completely devolved into nonsensical word soup by the end should honestly be studied
possibly the worst profile picture I have seen in all my years of internet browsing
@@breebs that pfp is scarier than the story ever was.
WTF is that! Nah, I'm going to bleach my eyes for this
maybe the real experiment was on the reader all along?
It's so sad because this story is a part of a 4 part series, this one being the second part and you're supposed to read it after the first part. There's a 5 hours very high quality video on RUclips called "I'm being hunted across realities" in which all 4 parts are being read, and the comments are loving it.
I lost it with Hunter at "you arent painting those wonderful pictures?"
COCKY WANT BOING BOING
My favorite part of this episode was them acting like the narrator was an idiot for seeing his name in the painting and writing it off as a coincidence, followed by the literal next line of the story repeating the exact things they were just joking about unprompted, and they’re just like “huh what a weird coincidence” lol
Blooms watches Creepcast? I didn’t think you could get more based. You make the best South Park videos hands down!
Heeyy it's the south park flower man
It's the south park guy!
"I don't want to be known as the South Park guy"
Hey South Park guy!
I have no idea who you are but apparently you’re the South Park guy.
I would like everyone to bully Wendigoon. Not because the story's good - it's not - but because birds do in fact navigate via the Earth's magnetic field.
Feckin' magnets, man
wait till he finds out about salmon
Hahaha what a nerd!!!!
Wendigoon, obviously. NERD everyone point and laugh at the nerd
TBH that analogy was one aspect of the story that actually made some sense lol
Final synopsis: A mentally incapacitated guy finds Yggdrisal behind a movie theater.
JS: Ygritte, is that you?
Ygritte: You know nothing!
"yggdrisal is, what's the word for that, my mom used to use it when she read technical documentation to me, oh, yeah a linux distribution, it was the first linux distro from what I know.
I found a computer on the table and then decided to install the disk right into it, the default date was 42.22.6, I wonder what that could be. This reminds me of the numbers that Rachael wrote for me. Coincidentally that was the password for the computor..."
I am triggered
This sounds like the blurb for a much more interesting story
Yeah, up to then I was absolutely done with this story. AFAIK this ain't Fable. Or maybe it is??
Its crazy how i find so much of this piece to be the antithesis of quality storytelling.
Like you could write an entire chapter/part of this story just on the first week of his job watching Rachael, culminating into a huge event and his feelings of her being taken out of the room, and coming back hours later. There is a TON of meat on that bone, but it just doesnt happen and instead YEARS blur by for the author. Its nuts how bad it is.
The real problem is the story never actually feels like it starts. What i mean by that is we get basically 2-3 setups for stories but never a payoff like it kept restarting.
I think the issue is that the story they are reading isn't really the start, it's actually the second part of the full story. They skipped ALOT more context that is even more confusing than what we got.
Dark Sodium The Ghost Tree is the full story to what they were reading and missing
@@DaedricTalks15it probably shouldve said that and that doesnt help woth the ansurd amount of exposition dumps it just gets obnoxious
@@DaedricTalks15I don’t think that’s the issue. The root issue isn’t the lack of context, it’s just the writing itself. I don’t think reading the other parts of the story will magically fix the underlying flaws of this story having terrible character writing, no real horror or tension, or the overabundance of exposition in the characters’ rambling dialogues.
Tbh if this is the level of writing quality we should expect of the other parts, there’s really no reason to read them at all.
@@catcactus1234 that's the thing with the story, sure that story we got really isn't good at all. Hell when I first heard it I completely toned out this and another part of the story that I completely don't recall nor care to look for again.
But just because one part isn't good doesn't mean a story is bad or isn't worth looking into. Not every story you read (or listen to) has a flawless story/chapter. There will be some outliers that really could have been left out or done better. The creator of Penpall before publishing his book made some changes of certain parts from his original story.
Also I think context does matter in a story, imagine if Creepcast read Penpall, but instead of reading it from the beginning of the story they instead started at the Penpall mailing and judged it from there. Sure you could read it from that later chapter and make your judgement, but I don't think starting from the middle and making a judgement call from there really makes sense?
Now assuming if they don't read it from the beginning would that MAGICALLY fix everything? No it wouldn't fix it, but it would help for an understanding of the story. Imo I would say that they should try reading the story from the beginning and see what they think? If they don't like it then they don't like it.
Tldr: Context is important to a story and I think if they had started reading it from the beginning of the story it would help with some of the confusion and possibly make the story more interesting.
@@SirWinnigton I agree and I really don't like how you have to find other stories to figure out that it's all connected. That is my biggest complaint about it
2:09:03 WHAT "HI MY NAME IS ROB AND THIS IS BRISTOL. WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET IN WE ARE PLAYING A GAME" I choked and gasped.
Love that no one is talking about this lol
I almost screamed when I heard that
Seriously they just arnt gonna talk about that?
Yeah idk where that came from. I looked at the no sleep post and that line wasn’t in it.
I did a double take at the name Bristol (cause its not common) and was SHOCKED they didn’t say anything about it
I finally figured it out
Isaiah is the Creep because hes got all the cryptid and horror stuff
And Hunter is the Cast because he does all the voices
Given all the braindead 14 year olds in the community I feel like you're serious
And he casts fire spells 👉🏻🔥
@@NotesNNotes Glad I'm not the only one who thinks Hunter looks like he can control fire
@@EpicAguy000dude are you flirting with him?
Sick revelation dawg
This is the most Reddit fanfic ass story they've read so far. The true horror was having to endure that writing.
It feels like the author had a really cool idea, had no way of landing it, and then just kept going to see how far it can go before the readers lose their mind
Yeah, it's like when you're in middle school like "I have the BEST BOOK SERIES IDEA EVER" and you don't even make it to chapter three of the first book
@@localplaguenurse so true, like 11 pages of lackluster storybuilding and then you just give up
It's like Steven King, but ... ya know.
That's the beauty of story telling.
@@localplaguenursefelt this in my bones lol
CreepCast: 10% story, 89% Wendigoon and MeatCanyon bullying eachother, 1% MR WELLERS
Why'ja come down ova ta ol mister Wella's
Please tell me this means he makes an appearance
Normally it's Isaiah bullying hunter. This podcast really makes wendigoon seem insecure in how quick he is to start trashing on hunter. It's not funny either, just feels pathetic and unnecessary
@@SomeGuy-mt4hq if you don't like it why are you here?💀
@@SomeGuy-mt4hqagreed it’s really distracting, they’re gonna milk as many sponsorship $$$ as they can out of it before they get truly sick of each other tho
This is just Hunter’s way of confessing. The actual story is named “the spooky creature.”
It was rigth behind him
It's not his JOB it's his PASSION 😂
The scary skin guy
the organic organism
@@kans4629if you love what you do, you’ll never have to work a day in your life
I love how the person at the movie theater saying "hi, my name is Rob and this is Bristol, would you like to get in? We're playing a game" is the author implying that this is in the same world as "Left Right Game". Like no dude, that story was WAY better than this one. This story seems like it was written by the child from Left Right Game lmao
Yeah I am 93% certain that was just some error the editors made in post or possibly on purpose, and that it was really just Wendigoon making a joke. Considering that the Rob and Bristol bit goes nowhere and is not acknowledged by either host, its safe to assume they recognized it as a joke.
@@britishaviator5942 see I thought that too and had to rewind and make sure it was in the on screen text bc usually it cuts to them when they make a joke and then they’ll laugh for a second. I did think it was weird that it wasn’t acknowledged by either of them but I thought maybe it went over their heads in the moment or something
The thing is the guy at the theater doesn't say that. It's just a non-sequiter line that's in the story for no reason
When Thomas learned that Melanie didn't paint the beautiful, wonderful paintings he reacted like Amouranth's simps when they learned she had a husband. "You mean she doesn't actually want to date me?!?!"
His overreaction to the paintings, specifically, was what finally convinced me that he was cognitively impaired.
I had this thought too lol. The woman in the box instantly loves this a dumb guy because he "helps" her. I brought her a sledgeham- I mean, what's the word again? Twitch donation
@@hlc617yeah I have no idea why Rachel likes him
@@hlc617 This. Such an entiteled power fantasy.
@@maximillian1109seems like the author has the same faculties as the main character, so maybe he thinks it actually works like that
Them accidentally calling the character Travis after mentioning Travis the chimp had me in tears 😭🤣🤣
Both did that too! 😂
After that I just imagined our protagonist as a sentient chimpanzee made the story way better
Had me tweaking a bit bc my first name is Travis. Peacefully listening and then hearing my own name blurted out by these two will never not freak me out for a millisecond or two.
Fucked with me a bit last episode too since they mentioned the author of that story was named Travis.
I binged these two episodes back to back aswell, maybe the Creep Cast boys are tryna tell me something.
“Hi I’m Rob, and this is Bristol, and we’re playing a game”
I wasn’t looking at my screen and thought Isaiah was joking around at how bad the writing was BUT ITS ACTUALLY IN THE STORY WHAT
i listened on spotify and was so confused about that. it's actually written into the story? i thought it was just a joke that didn't land.
I DUG WAY TOO FAR DOWN BEFORE I FOUND THIS COMMENT!!! Are we really not addressing this??? Or was it a joke that somehow got added to the text accidentally? It’s nearly midnight and I’m losing it. 😂
@@linkin2363 it’s legitimately in the text that’s on screen as if it’s part of the script they’re reading. If it’s snarky banter or casual conversation there’s no text on screen if it’s something they’re saying. So yeah seems like it’s in the story ☠️
@@jarednahulu i read a few more comments and it seems like it was just an editing mistake? everyone has confirmed that it's not in the actual nosleep post.
@@linkin2363 whew 😅
1:35:05 when Wendigoon says this, it makes me think that the girl, and basically the entire story is just a different version of the game Beyond Two Souls
Was thinking the same thing.
This story was an absolute fucking disaster, but thankfully Isaiah and his imaginary friend made this video watchable.
Its pretty good when you find a serious narrator and start with part 1, not part 2 of the series...
@firefly9838 dude it's ass
@@firefly9838thank you, finally someone understands, when the narrators are clowns making jokes of every paragraph ofc the story will sound goofy. The Dark Somnium did an amazing job on this
@@STR-sd4rtIt is hard to take the story serious when the main character is written like a disabled person
@@firefly9838 I haven't listened and maybe I'll give it a try but I don't see how a part one could have made this any better
"They took me easily" All I could imagine was anytime homer simpson gets kicked out of an event and he just lets out that little groan.
"D'oh!"
Dont just call out my job like that bro 💀
Can't even have a normal, decent, humane job these days without being called out on it. The nerve of these people 💀
that's embarrassing bro...
you get payed
wow so edgy and different
@@raging100edge? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🌞😨👏👏👏🌛
Your antics are what make the episodes fun. I could text to speech these stories on my own if I didn’t want that. I want Hunter to snort and then laugh at his own snort. Even if it’s a bad story, know that we are having fun because it’s you two who are reading it.
To be honest, I watch you guys because of the off topic conversations and jokes. I don't how people get upset about that when there are 50 other youtube channels who read these stories seriously.
Short attention spans and thinking that they have to watch Wendigoon being the one to read and react to the story.
Facts, we watch this channel for the camaraderie between Hunter and Isaiah. The story comes second.
The off-topic conversations and jokes are what makes this podcast unique _because_ every other creepypasta podcast is a straightforward serious reading of the story. Just let us have this one good thing, god.
The weird quirks the main character had like “What was that word again?” were definitely things the author slapped in there because they read somewhere that quirks can make your character more interesting but instead of choosing fun quirks they chose ones that made their mc incompetent and annoying (which is a very common incident among new writers who don’t quite understand how to make good main characters).
He watched to much Disney marvel movies....
This is part of a larger story and the quirk was explained as his mind pretty much rotting because he was in a timeline he didn't belong to or something like that.
@@TalkativeHands yeah exactly, eventually the story realises it's complete shit and tries to retroactively justify why its shit. Doesn't save it tho, its still shit
@@harshulbarooah6556 k
It makes the character sound like a moron
I shouldnt be bothered by him opening with "i can post this now" and the story ending with him in another dimension where he couldnt possibly have posted this but it does.
This feels like a bad version of the left right games ideas
Especially considering the fact that he brings up telling the story despite the NDA he signed. Like brother, you're in an alternate universe. You don't need to worry about an NDA
this story was definitely written in the beginning intending to be something else and then the author just went off the rails without bothering to rewrite the beginning
@@michael17776 yeah
2:17 bro speaking facts. Borrasca was impactful but relied a lot on shock value. Penpal was written immaculately. The disorder of timelines, the slow realisation of what happened. Masterpiece. Best one so far.
There's a story called "I watch people in cages" that's a bit more like what Wendi mentioned. Random guy gets a job at a secret place to sit there and watch people in cages and sometimes give them food or stuff. There's 5 cages (I think) and the people in them almost all get replaced within a few days, each cage having a specific 'type' of person inside. Is rather good and I think he might enjoy jt.
I love how he had this big sidetrack talking about how his dad hunted, his dog’s nickname and real name and how it used to get hyper focused in a hunt like it was in a trance
All that just to say "it was like I was in a trance" 😂
I was scared reading that because it put me back in the shoes of 10 year old me setting up a clumsy analogy similar to this and then becoming embarased and erasing it 😂
The long ass part he went on explaining the beach only to go "but i didn't vibe with it so i went back" had me cry laughing.
"Thomas, somewhere there is a tree. A very special tree." the way I immediately went *like a triple tree?*
Borrasca traumatised us in ways we still don't understand.
You should watch The Monument Mythos so you can have a second traumatizing tree connection in your brain as well o7
@@syntheticat-3 Haha! I thought of The Monument Mythos as well!
43:14 “I met the man I came to know as Charles Jeffries.”
I’m so confused by this portentous introduction for someone whose character turned out to be ‘fat, nervous, and insufficiently frightening.’
EDIT: And who also _never appears again._
The switch from past tense to present tense while supposedly recounting a story that’s already happened is so frustrating! When Wendigoon pointed it out Hunter says “it doesn’t matter” but it TOTALLY DOES!
That’s the core conceit of these NoSleep style stories, once you break the rule it totally takes you out of the story
@@Jawbone_666 where was he even writing from at the end? It really does feel like the writer took a break and forgot what he was writing beforehand
@@awwmahbreadsticks1094Its interdimensional tree magic. Aint gotta explain shee
@@Hary_Half-Mast you do if you start your story with "that’s why I’m writing this"
@awwmahbreadsticks1094 I'm just joking around, haha! There are tons of times that the text being read comes across like someone telling a story and not like what someone has written down. Every time he had one of those "what's the word" moments really messed with me. After all why the heck would the character write down "what's the word" while they are thinking it and writing down the story 😖
@@Hary_Half-Mast oh right lol yeah the switch between past and present was weird
Also the random “btw I’ve been working here for 6 years now" back up wait what!?
So, this shadowy government organization has sunk millions of dollars and countless man hours into finding this perfectly linked Thomas...and the way they went about finding this guy was posting a job ad in a random newspaper? And even after all of that effort, they only found 43 potential candidates to choose from? What even is this organization?
That actually sounds like a normal government run program.
I mean, the real us government drugged unsuspecting citizens with psychedelics just to see what would happen. And that's just ONE of the things they've admitted to doing.
Then there was the whole dolphin thing...
@@mattmachado6449 Haha, true
Sounds about as efficient as I would expect the government to be.
And their hope/plan is that they truly find someone psychotic enough to do the thing they're asking with no additional context... that will believe the Melanie story. They're looking for a maladjusted nutjob the whole time. Truly a "either the dumbest organization ever created... or the most genius", which is another reason the story fails. Things happen because they have to, not because they make any sense.
1:59:58 “At first I was afraid…” “I was petrified” 💀😭 that shit had me in tearsss
So my husband had talked about a RUclips creator he really loved that went by the name "Wendigoon", so I signed up to be alerted when new merch of his dropped and have bought the last two releases for him because I'm pretty fucking amazing. He started telling me about this channel that he also really loved and once I heard the kind of topics/stories featured here I was like fugg yeh, that's right up my alley! So we started watching these uploads together. This story, though... whew... this one was a rough one to get through to be honest... it probably took us breaking it up into like 5 or 6 days, you both and your tomfoolery were the only redeeming factor and reason for watching the entire thing 😂I love you two together so much, the different voices, the back and forth in between the stories makes me actually laugh out loud... my husband is the Isaiah to my Hunter. 💕 I need to give my husband Chris a shout out for introducing me to the existence of Wendigoon which led to CreepCast, and Papa Meat, which we've also started watching together. I'm really sad I missed the merch drop for CreepCast because that design was sick , but I won't miss the next one. Anyway. New loyal viewer from your favorite city in the world: St. Louis 😘😆
I know that some people don’t like it when you guys stop in the middle of stories to make jokes or tell stories of your own, but honestly that’s what I like most about this podcast!! I like making jokes character details too so this hit the right spot for me! Loved this episode!
Ikr. I was actually surprised when I heard people are complaining about the derailing. They made so many episodes, how has that not been expected at this point? Just move on to another audio or read the og story yourself.
Agreed! The story was boring as hell and Hunter and Isaiah's banter saved it. If people want to read the story with no comments or banter then they should just go to the source and read it. We come here for a story but also for quips and jokes about it!
A big point for me is that it’s never taken away from stories that I actually liked. If I felt like genuinely good writing was getting derailed and interrupted, I’d have more of an issue with it, but their banter always seems to flow so well with the stories. You can tell that they love Borrasca, for example, even when doing their bits - it feels like the jokes don’t come from not wanting to engage with the story, but rather the fact that they’re entertainers, and in my opinion, they are very entertaining.
For people who want more serious readings, I’d suggest The Dark Somnium. There’s some great voice acting, and lots of background music that helps with immersion.
”My moma told me life is like observing a woman alone in a room” -Thomas Gump
The woman’s name was Jen-ay
I love that at the start of this, they were like, "Oh, this author made a lot of stories. I wonder if theres a physical copy. Hopefully we can read a few of his stories" then by the end it was like "is everyone in this story mentally handicapped"
And wendi wants to read more of this author's trash instead of giving the opportunity to a better storyteller. 😫
@@MrBrad12435honestly if they can just read a story without hunter throwing a temper tantrum or wendigoon aggressively saying yes! Every 2 seconds I'd be happy. I just want left right game energy again.
@@anthonyrooks7557left right game is my favourite! That being said, I think stolen tongues was in the same caliber
@@anthonyrooks7557 nah its so funny when they are just over it
@@anthonyrooks7557Thing is, Left Right Game was a well written story. There's the difference.
You guys should post an unedited/uncut version of these episodes. I enjoy hearing you guys ramble and just shoot the shit about the story. It’s funny and it makes my time at work more bearable.