2:21 No End House 5:01 Jeff the Killer 19:02 Jane the Killer 20:16 Vincent Vena Cava (Author) 22:00 K. Banning Kellum (Author) 22:55 Slenderman (and Marble Hornets) 25:26 (Bless your heart, Jay) 25:50 Smile Dog 27:45 Eyeless Jack 31:58 Laughing Jack 40:53 The Rake (and EverymanHybrid) 42:40 Candle Cove 45:04 Red Mist, AKA Squidward's S-cide 48:06 Dead Bart 49:15 Ben Drowned 55:02 Herobrine 55:47 Sonic.EXE 57:17 Where the Bad Kids Go 59:42 The Russian Sleep Experiment 1:05:06 Rap Rat 1:08:49 Abandoned By Disney 1:18:19 Conclusion (Recommended creepypastas, @TheSoulCarnie) Thanks, @DissonantSynth. Channel Zero is a TV show with it's first season based on Candle Cove. What a trip down memory lane!
Does anyone remember Penpal? It was an incredibly long creepypasta and ended up becoming a published novel. Went back and read that recently and it's still eerie.
@@freelanceartist1456 it’s one of the few that still hold up EXTREMELY well. Creeped me out the first and 100th time reading. It’s from before creepypastas were essentially “look at this fucked up little guy. He likes murder >:)”
That "Jeff The Killer" creepypasta is sooo bad, I can't believe that story is the basis for one of the most iconic creepypasta characters, actually blown away by how bad that was. I had actually never heard the OG Jeff creepypasta until now, the writing reminds me of those old rpgmaker horror games I used to play. It's so bad, it's amazing honestly, I love it.
46:20 To be fair to the original Red Mist story, I think what the writer was going for were those scenes in old-era spongbob when the camera would zoom in on a scene in an 'hyper realistic' art detail style, like the zoom in on the Nasty Patty or that one image of Squidward frowning and pointing at his face, ( i forget the context), Its just that other creepypastas saw how popular red mist got and took the hyper realistic aspect for themselves and kinda grew a new trope from that
I didn't even think about that being the intent. I always interpreted it as a regular cartoon art style with real footage over it or something. This makes WAY more sense.
Yeah, the hyper-realistic bit generally made sense for me when it came to SpongeBob creepy pastas, since it’s a direct reference to something the show does. But it being used elsewhere doesn’t really work, it comes off much more as trying to emulate/copy something.
I always saw Jeff the Killer as an extremely cringey edgelord revenge fantasy, I think the face is goofy but understandingly unnerving enough that some would see it as horror.
@@nicholasholguin5550 I got jumpscared by a bait “when you see it” video when I was like 9 years old. That image has forever scarred me lmao. I’m a grown ass woman now and even when the picture showed up in this vid I shat myself for a second
I always liked it because that meant that someone in real life wanted to do that to someone, wanted to mutilate someone beyond what they had originally done to them, even as that which had started it was already horrific enough to be inexcusable.
I remember once when I was really young, my friend and his other friends pulled a Jeff the Killer picture in front of me while I was playing on his computer. Scared me so much I ran away from his house.
What intrigues me about Mr. Widemouth is that there's a million pieces of fanart of it smiling, but not a single one portraying his angry, hateful face at the window. Also, if you ever do cover small/micropastas, I suggest you look at 'I Found A Digital Camera In The Woods', a pasta that only uses images to tell its story.
Honestly that story is my favorite. Probably because I had some odd imaginary friends as a child, and sometimes I wonder if they were more real than it seemed. Still, it’s so underrated.
Honestly same. I think it’s because of the image the character immediately invokes. Even if you haven’t seen a single piece of fanart, most people have an image in their head of what Mr. Widemouth looks like from the way he’s described in the story. He’s quite similar to the Cheshire Cat to me, his smile is his most noticeable quality and is his signature. It’s a special kind of off putting seeing a character that’s so defined by their smile **not** smiling. Kinda wish people actually did take it upon themselves to visualize it, the possibilities are interesting and endless.
Gotta give props to the Dad from Laughing Jack: As far as Creepypasta parents go, he was pretty reasonable and alright (leaving out the whole "tricked into murdering your child" thing). Didn't immeadietly get mad at his kid, assumed no paranormal stuff for most of it. Definetly better than "Honey, get the shotgun. Our son has gone insane"
"Candle Cove" is probably my favorite Creepypasta (I'd love to see someone make a short film of it), but I also really like "Where the Bad Kids Go". It doesn't get enough love, imo, so it was nice to see someone acknowledge it. (-:
@@bloodfalconfantastic4445 I've seen Channel Zero! I liked it (the last season was my fave), but I wish they had stuck closer to some of the actual creepypastas. Honestly, what I'd love to see is a "Night Gallery"-like show where the episodes sometimes have 2 (or more) stories in them. Hell, with streaming, they could be any length they needed to be to tell the story; maybe even have each 'pasta be its own "episode". That way they could feature short creepypastas without turning them into 6 hour-long stories... I've thought about this a *lot*.
Candle cove probably can directly be traced as the root for analogue horror as it stands today not the least but due to the ones who made that also did local 58
"Where the bad kids go" is one of the few creepypastas that I fully remembered the ending of. All the others in this video I knew of, but forgot almost all the details. I haven't read most of these in like a decade though
Honestly, when I always go back to creepypastas. It tends to be, at least for me, both a nostalgic and sometimes hilarious retrospect. But I'll admit, some still sit in a special place in nostalgia for me. Always fun looking back at some creepypastas that are also known, unknown, or even forgotten.
Whats always annoyed me about haunted video game creepypastas is that theres a potential for a really good story there. Imagine finding a hacked game where a killer or some crazy person has tampered with it - kind of like finding a confession letter or home movie from a psychopath. Instead its ALWAYS some kid died and is a ghost in the machine lol
Normal P*** for normal people was always the scariest to me. There’s something about the randomness of the videos, and like the sick sense of humor of whoever is producing them that always struck me as insanely frightening. Also the fact that the videos seemed to have some esoteric purpose that we can never know.
Not to mention the actual website that got made based on it. I don't think there was any gore or REALLY inappropriate stuff, but some of the videos uploaded were creepy as hell
NPFNP got me as a teen! I’m pretty sure I stumbled across the reddit post through tv tropes, but it fooled me into thinking it was real for a long time. I remember the old website too. It had a page with a manifesto against “abnormal sexuality” and an FAQ and a bunch of creepy ass videos. Sadly the OG website seems gone.
I was very into creepypastas as a kid but rarely got scared by them. When I started taking medication that induced a lot of dreams I started seeing a lot of horror concepts in my dreams though. One time I remember dreaming about Laughing Jack, I unfortunately don't remember a lot of the dream plot anymore but I remember that as soon as he popped out and showed himself I looked at this goofy ass clown and my brain basically went "Even if the supernatural is real there is No Way something this stupid exists", and then I immediately woke up.
Does anyone else think that Smile Dog was inspired by those Pedigree Dentastix ads where dogs & cats would be given a mouth of human teeth? Cuz those were unintentionally creepy, and the first photo always reminds me of those ads.
I think for me The Russian Sleep Experiment was a great pasta. It was good enough that some people genuinely beleived it was real. Unfortunately, some inconsistancies made it too easy to pick apart but on first blush it was realistic enough to get under your skin a bit.
That was my first creepypasta and I love how realistic it is, no need for supernatural stuff (until the end at least). It was great for me to start exploring other stories and diving deep.
Yeah. I thought it was true initially but then I realized that the worst that’s happened to anyone I know who has been awake for longer than 80 hours has been that they began to feel afraid they’re going to die if they don’t sleep (my mom, one of my brothers, and myself have all done this), and at about 120 hours of not sleeping I hallucinated, laughed about the fact I was hallucinating, then passed out for 6 hours.
@@darkstarr984 yer takes a fair while for the really bad stuff to happen to you from not sleeping i used to regally do 3-6 days awake on stimulant binges mostly just shadow people becoming more and more real clear to see and the like also lost of delirium actually kind of like being in that state for some reason most iv done was 11 days but im sure there was some micro sleeps of a few seconds to like 5 mins in there somewhere apparently without stimulants and where micro sleeps are prevented say during sleep deprivation torture it can be lethal around the 10-15 day mark oxidative stress on the brain and regular extreme stress causing massive amounts of hormones and neurotransmitters to be released that can be lethal in those quantities but the longest people have been awake for is around 3 mouths this is caused by a really horrifying but fortunately extremally rare condition called "fatal familial insomnia" look it up its a primarily inherited condition so far only documented in like 3 families but its not actually a genetic condition but a kind of prion disease (all pretty horrifying as well look up mad cow disease ,kuru and cjd they are all caused by misfolded proteins that cause other proteins to also become misfolded in a chain reaction in practice causing tiny holes to form in tissue most damagingly in the brain and worsted of all they are all completely untreatable and 100% fatal once you get them they can occur randomly but are most often a result of ingesting the meat of an animal with the disease particularly the brain and spine but no meat from an infected animal is advisable to eat its primarily spread by cannibalism of the brain within a species but some forms like mad cow disease can jump species causing vcjd in humans) these prion diseases can also be transmitted from parent to child (as in fatal familial insomnia (f.f.i) however and from direct exposure of the brain to material from the brain of an infected individual and as neither heat nor radiation will destroy prions a lot of people are infected via reused surgical equipment in brain surgery. anyway point is in f.f.i the members of these families when they reach the age of around 50 slowly develop insomnia that worsens over time until after years of sleeping less and less they never sleep again eventually dying about 3-4 months later and its not just insomnia the whole process is horrifically painful and unpleasant in many other ways fortunatly some small scale eugenics is practiced and anyone with this condition in the rare event they would and to curse and offspring with this is prevented for reproducing.
The original Slenderman images and the smile dog images were the creepiest things to me as a child. They for sure kept me up at night. The Slenderman ones definitely changed my brain chemistry lol. Nowadays, the smile dog images look a bit silly, but they're all really cool
I love how you used the old creeps mcpasta background music!! I used to listen to his videos all the time and hearing that in the background again really gave me flash backs!
@Mirthandir He "allegedly" groomed and had inappropriate interactions with a young girl a couple years back. She recently came out about it a year ago now I think, I think Lazy Bedhead and ThatCreepyReading have videos on it
The abandoned by Disney story actually has an entire SAGA and it is actually pretty cool! (I was more tensed listening to that while playing Papa’s Hotdoggeria lol)
As someone with major paranoia as a symptom of mental illness, really appreciate the assurance that everything is make believe. Even when you know rationally things are false, your brain can convince you otherwise. Hearing it said out loud by the person telling you is so helpful. So thank you very much for reassuring your audience ❤️
im right there with you! i have autism and adhd, and i remember being a little kid when my friend showed me slenderman. it gave me awful anxiety and paranoia. to this day i have persistent paranoia over being watched and im pretty sure it stems from slenderman. despite this i still love horror and marble hornets is one of my favorite ARG's. It just puts the mind at ease to have someone tell you its not real
That's understandable. I have anxiety but I don't really get scared of these stories, but it's nice to know that affirmation of something being purely fiction can be helpful.
Feel this. I first got into creepypastas about the same time I was subject to some absolutely fucked up child abuse, and that was a TERRIBLE combination. I have ASD but no history of psychosis disorders, but I still more or less had a several-months long psychotic break where I was terrified of the Pokemon Ghost Black pasta specifically. It was a genuinely screwed up time in my life. I'm okay now, and the most mentally well I've ever been, but damn if that didn't make my chronic insomnia even worse in the long run.
I have a strong amount of paranoia and looking at the Smile Dog image always gives me at least some amount of fear that the Smile Dog curse might happen to me, even though I reassure myself that it's just a story.
My fave creepypasta is 1999 but unfortunately it’s had some weird issues with copyright iirc. I also remember there being a lot of unofficial additions that I didn’t realize weren’t by the original author back when I was reading reuploads of it on Wattpad
The fact that you made sure to use Myuji for the background of most of this as well as making sure the right themes played at the right stories. 100% respect XD you triggered all of my nostalgia
The best creepypastas are always the ones that feel like lost Twilight Zone episodes, like the aforementioned "Penpal" & "No End House"; as well as "The Art of Jack Emory" or "The Hidden Webpage." All the premises are simple, but go well beyond what they would seem to entail. So many creepypastas, past and present, forget to actually instill a sense of mystery and uncanny valley that really make for a good story. The best were always more cerebral, rather than overtly gorey and edgy.
I like how serious you sound while telling the creepypasta stories but I can't take more than half of them seriously because of how stupid they usually are
As someone who grew up in *that* side of the creepypasta fandom, it’s wild to me to remember when people were actually scared of them. I can’t recall ever truly being scared of a creepypasta character aside from a few uncanny/disturbing images. I’m still part of the creepypasta fandom to this day after 9 years. Ticci Toby, Jeff, Eyeless Jack, and Jane were always my favorites- Toby stills stands as a comfort character for me, and I regularly write and draw things related to him. Something that irritates me (mildly) is how watered down these characters were when I was growing up with them. I learned about these fictional serial killers from a perspective of them being “sweet babies”, father-figuring Slenderman, etc. and while I still have a love for that nostalgic narrative, since then I have fallen in love with the darker, morbid side of the fandom that it seems most people in these comment sections were associated with.
i remember being 10 and absolutely obsessed with creepypasta, specifically the fandom part that included fanart and fanfiction. i wanted to see some fanart of jeff v slenderman but accidentally types jeff x slenderman instead.
fr it had me at 20 years old feeling the same damn fear i had reading creepypasta at night as a kid. ive had freaky experiences in out of the way places all alone before so i guess it just hits an all to familiar kind of fear
2:21 No End House 5:01 Jeff the Killer 19:02 Jane the Killer 20:16 Vincent Venacava (Author) 22:00 K. Banning Kellum (Author) 22:55 Slenderman (and Marble Hornets) 25:26 (Bless your heart, Jay) 25:50 Smile Dog 27:45 Eyeless Jack 31:58 Laughing Jack 40:53 The Rake (and EverymanHybrid) 42:40 Candle Cove 45:04 Red Mist, AKA Squidward's S-cide 48:06 Dead Bart 49:15 Ben Drowned (sorry but I don't have the patience to finish this list)
One thing I liked about the slenderman movie, was the costume if you can find one of the behind the scenes images, it shows that they didn’t go with an actual suit like most if not all fan interpretations, it just the way his natural body looked, with a white symbol of sorts that allowed it to look like a suit and tie but only from the right distance or angle, which they surprisingly did well utilizing, and the fact it’s not an actual suit also adds to the sort of uncanny nature the original had.
@@hudsontille8630late response but I looked it up, pretty sure they're talking about the nosleep post titled *"My student submitted the most disturbing "Living History" project I've ever seen."* Its a great read though its.. More depressing than scary.
26:50 even when I was a little kid I always thought this version of smile dog was the less scary one cause to me it wasn't scary, it was confusing, I remember staring at it thinking "how is that a dog...?" and now I feel like it's a bit try hard with all the red and stuff, the image with the dog that actually looks like a dog smiling in a very human way is more scary and uncanny to me
Great video! This era of retrospective long form RUclips content is my favorite era so far. Creepypasta were so huge to me as a kid and even now I listen to them occasionally while working. Subbed!
The Jeff the Killer creepy pasta was the goat for me when i was a young teen 😂. However the part with Randy, Troy and Keith bringing a gun to a party... Would it really be surpiring in the u.s?
Honestly its iconic. How many of us who wrote terrible, silly fanfics/semioriginal stories as kids can say we became legends? Stories like My Immortal and Jeff the Killer aren't one in a million but sometimes the right circumstances skyrocket a story to infamy and the tween author will grow up and have to live knowing their shame will not be forgotten 😂
Normalpornfornormalpeople and broadcast interuption were two of my favorite lesser known ones I loved them so much even tho today they’re probably super cheesy
Same, i was absolutely terrified yet intrigued by him. Now he's actually my favorite creepypasta character! I even have a plush of him rn on my side lol
I had Sonic R. Tails Doll as a creepy pasta made sense. But the unnerving feeling I got was always from the game and not the story. The games jank combined with the little guy freaked child me out.
No End House and Penpal are still TWO of my MOST favorite creepypastas... when I learned he compiled his story and published it, i bought it in heartbeat
I love how you pointed out points about the Jeff the Killer story that I have always pointed out! Burned skin goes pink, red, black depending on the severity of the burns. Burned hair is burned away, not turned black. It's impossible. Also, how he is able to beat up three people attacking at once.
When I was younger I was way too scared to read up on more creepy pastas after loving mlp and seeing the mlp ones and crying, but I’m glad you made this video it’s a nice introduction to someone who doesn’t know much about creepy pastas!
this is such a wonderful video! i’m honestly hoping it reaches the next generation of kids with unrestricted internet access…i’d love to see how the next generation reactions to these stories 🤭 you did an excellent job of telling them and i even felt myself getting a little anxious, despite hearing these stories hundreds of times! keep up the amazing work :)
I remember hearing that Abandoned by Disney was written as a joke. The author made a bunch of other pastas, but that one was one of his cheesey on purpose stories
It's not at all its actually really good especially compared to these ones since it has a deeper meaning about the corrupted side of disney and how it all came together to produce a monstrous mickey mouse like a horror political satire
this video is so great to listen to in the background, and also super interesting. you have literally the perfect "video essay" voice, if that makes sense. it's very calming and monotone in the best sort of way.
I always loved Godzilla: Monster of Monsters (The story about the game, not the actual game haha) but with the Godzilla art in the background I was kind of surprised you didn’t mention it.
I was hoping to see dionaea house in the mix but overall this really beautifully covers the birth of creepypasta and the wild, weird places it went before solidifying its own tropes and becoming more echochambery.
Dionaea House goes SO unbelievably hard, yet it's sadly pretty underrated to this day. That story and House of Leaves made me realize just how much I adore horror involving eldritch locations/architecture
I came into this video excited for a. A refresher on old creepypastas (I loved Mr. Widemouth, Candle Cove, Where The Bad Kids Go, and Abandoned By Disney when I was younger; creepy stories with slow buildup and unanswered questions always give me the creeps!) and b. To learn about other old creepypastas I never bothered to look up when I was younger (I had HEARD of Laughing Jack and Eyeless Jack back in the day but like...never bothered to google the stories lol) When I tell you I was here clamoring for Abandoned By Disney (my train of thought was like "okay, lost media and gaming creepypastas HAS to lead into Disney, it HAS TO"), I was R E A D Y!! And you saved it for last, yay!! I haven't finished this vid yet but I'll be so happy if you mention the other stories written by the author- last I remember, it was like they were going for a connected literary universe thing with weird phenomena~ Great vid!!
Creepypasta came from the term 'Copypasta', a play on words to the original play on words, since copy/paste was so prevelant, the long story memes became known as copypastas. Creepypasta later on became a play on words since it was meant to be a horror story or a creepy short that people would copy and paste, so it's a creepy copypasta, thus a creepypasta. The term 'creepypasta' did *not* come from copy/paste as you mentioned, it came from the already existing 'copypasta.'
I was super into creepy pastas as a kid. However, even back then some of them were just simply not it. Jeff the Killer, Eyeless Jack, Ben Drowned and smile dog being the ones that even 11 year old me found them so horribly corny. The rake though? That laid the foundation of my fear of uncanny valley humanoids.
The 1999 creepy pasta is one that isn’t super popular (I think) but I’ve never forgotten about it. I always go back to it and it’s not as scary as it used to be when I was younger, but I still think about it a lot.
It’s kennedy davis! Your channel came into my recommended recently and I’ve watched all your videos and can’t wait for more. You were the one who introduced me first to creepy pastas in middle school, and probably are to blame for my true crime obsession lol. You remind me of wendigoon in the best ways and I can’t wait to watch your channel grow. Sky is the limit!!
I’m so glad you visited these older creepypastas and shared them on yt. Makes it a little easier for me to find older horror content without doing too much digging 👏❤
I fully gasped when you started speaking about Lavender Town. I feel like not enough people give it the credit it deserves in the scope of creepy pasta.
New here. Super glad this popped up in my recommended and brought this era of my life back to memory. Definitely gonna get more into internet horror again, and definitely subscribing
Abandoned by Disney was my introduction to creepypastas. As a kid I watched that video and (thinking it was real) was terrified. I fell down a rabbit hole of Disney creepypastas and couldn’t stop. I couldn’t decide if they were real or not but I knew for some reason they fascinated me.
Whenever I practice a new voice, accent, etc. for a tabletop character, I record myself reading 'The Portraits' creepypasta. It just always stuck with me. Short, sweet, spooky.
You're a very good storyteller. Your sense of pacing is phenomenal, the way you slow down or speed up according to the intensity of the action being described
"Gateway of the Mind" sounds extremely similar to a movie that was released a while back. I think it was called Martyrs or The Martyr. Something like that.
If you had a podcast I'd listen to it 24/7 like your voice is so pleasant and soothing if the topics of your videos weren't so interesting I'd instantly fall asleep
Was waiting very anxiously for the Rake from the beginning as well, because I feel like of the more creature-feature pastas, the Rake and Smile.jpg did it better than most. I really am overjoyed that someone else knew about penpal. There were a couple of other longer ones like Return to Oz and Penpal that I can't remember off the top of my head, but they were better than most Where the Bad Kids Go was one of the ones that super scared me as a kid lol
I absolutely adore the revival of creepypastas as they mix into the analogue horror medium. Like just recently, smiledog got some kinda revival of sorts, its got some very clever tricks in it, like the image itself is alive and actively changes itself to communicate with the recipient. But my favorite part is the fact it isn’t completely malevolent, yes it’s evil, but it’s helpful in some ways, it helps the MC with her webseries, however it continues to sorta lord itself over her and insult her for attempting to “delete a life”. It’s so eerie. Its done with season 1 but more is to come, even then the. First season goes so hard, you should check it out!
Hey, as someone with... not the best mental health, like, anxiety/delusions and the like, I REALLY appreciate the way you go about certain topics in the video. Reminding the viewers that all these creepypastas are fiction and didn't happen and that while Smile Dog is also very fake, you gave a warning before showing it, all of that is just.. a small little thing that most would find unnecessary, but would've saved me a lot of distress had I been in a sort of episode, where I could have thought, against all rationality, otherwise. It's a small thing to note, and while I don't need it too much anymore with these old, well-known stories I grew up with, I'm still really grateful to you for doing something like that.
Excellent video, Jay! Like you, I’ve grown up on these characters and stories…so much so that I now author stories on the CP wiki. I could feel your passion in this vid and just subscribed!
The Rake scared the hell out of me when I was younger. Something about the images of it on your bed and the fact I often had sleep paralysis growing up.
I'm glad this popped up in my recommendations. I really enjoyed this video. I remember reading most of these back in the day. The Russian Sleep Experiment was always my favorite, but as a Pokémon and Zelda fan, I also loved Ben Drowned and Lavender Town Syndrome. I remember one day I was re-reading Lavender Town while listening to an extended version. I then took a shower and felt incredibly uneasy. Never felt that before and I did not like it. Good times.
I loved creepy pastas as a young teen all those years ago! The only one that really scared me for some reason was Smile Fog??? It made me so anxious that still to this DAY I havent seen the actual image of the dog on my own. Im sure ive come across it randomly, but because I have no idea what it actually looks at, ill never really know LMAO
it's wild as hell that minecraft mod showcases were also what got me into creepypasta. it was skydoesminecraft's video for me specifically, and I think that was also one of the early videos that got me into sky's content as well. I'm still a huge fan of horror and Minecraft to this day, nearly 11 years later.
I was never a Laughing Jack fan either, but in retrospect he’s probably the most effectively scary of the popular ones. At least in his original story lol
I never read Jeff the killer before and I would hear stories about it and just last week I finally listened to it on incongnito’s channel and I was laughing on how bad it was 😂😂😂
thank you for mentioning Where The Bad Kids Go. I feel like it's not talked about enough, despite being one of the best creepypastas I've read. (and I've read a lot)
2:21 No End House
5:01 Jeff the Killer
19:02 Jane the Killer
20:16 Vincent Vena Cava (Author)
22:00 K. Banning Kellum (Author)
22:55 Slenderman (and Marble Hornets)
25:26 (Bless your heart, Jay)
25:50 Smile Dog
27:45 Eyeless Jack
31:58 Laughing Jack
40:53 The Rake (and EverymanHybrid)
42:40 Candle Cove
45:04 Red Mist, AKA Squidward's S-cide
48:06 Dead Bart
49:15 Ben Drowned
55:02 Herobrine
55:47 Sonic.EXE
57:17 Where the Bad Kids Go
59:42 The Russian Sleep Experiment
1:05:06 Rap Rat
1:08:49 Abandoned By Disney
1:18:19 Conclusion (Recommended creepypastas, @TheSoulCarnie)
Thanks, @DissonantSynth. Channel Zero is a TV show with it's first season based on Candle Cove. What a trip down memory lane!
Thanks king
Also, 37:54 Mr. Widemouth, 54:08 Lavender Town Syndrome & 58:10 Gateway of the Mind
King indeed
Does anyone remember Penpal? It was an incredibly long creepypasta and ended up becoming a published novel. Went back and read that recently and it's still eerie.
I never heard of it but it sounds really interesting. I’d like to read that story ngl
@@freelanceartist1456 it’s one of the few that still hold up EXTREMELY well. Creeped me out the first and 100th time reading. It’s from before creepypastas were essentially “look at this fucked up little guy. He likes murder >:)”
That story is amazing!!! I remember not really understanding it when I was younger, but rereading it now it's super creepy and sad!!
Penpal is kinda goofy in some aspects, but I do really love it. lots of nostalgia. Never knew it was turned into a novel!
We need more of those! Not these bootleg campfire stories
That "Jeff The Killer" creepypasta is sooo bad, I can't believe that story is the basis for one of the most iconic creepypasta characters, actually blown away by how bad that was. I had actually never heard the OG Jeff creepypasta until now, the writing reminds me of those old rpgmaker horror games I used to play. It's so bad, it's amazing honestly, I love it.
it’s a beautiful level of trash, it’s just so fun for some reason
Internet Historian's adaptation is hilarious though.
Mark Zuckerberg with Chills' voice will always be JTK to me now.
That’s not even the first Jeff the killer origin
The original has him spilling chemicals on his face while cleaning a toilet
@internet traveler Bruh I gotta hear that one lol
@@ergoth154 It might still be available on RUclips, it’s by Sesseur
46:20
To be fair to the original Red Mist story, I think what the writer was going for were those scenes in old-era spongbob when the camera would zoom in on a scene in an 'hyper realistic' art detail style, like the zoom in on the Nasty Patty or that one image of Squidward frowning and pointing at his face, ( i forget the context),
Its just that other creepypastas saw how popular red mist got and took the hyper realistic aspect for themselves and kinda grew a new trope from that
"Does this look UNsure to you?"
I didn't even think about that being the intent. I always interpreted it as a regular cartoon art style with real footage over it or something.
This makes WAY more sense.
Yeah, the hyper-realistic bit generally made sense for me when it came to SpongeBob creepy pastas, since it’s a direct reference to something the show does. But it being used elsewhere doesn’t really work, it comes off much more as trying to emulate/copy something.
I always saw Jeff the Killer as an extremely cringey edgelord revenge fantasy, I think the face is goofy but understandingly unnerving enough that some would see it as horror.
When I was a teenager Jeff the killers face horrified me. To this day it’s still hard to look at
@@nicholasholguin5550 I got jumpscared by a bait “when you see it” video when I was like 9 years old. That image has forever scarred me lmao. I’m a grown ass woman now and even when the picture showed up in this vid I shat myself for a second
He's gonna jeff the kill you!!
I always liked it because that meant that someone in real life wanted to do that to someone, wanted to mutilate someone beyond what they had originally done to them, even as that which had started it was already horrific enough to be inexcusable.
I remember once when I was really young, my friend and his other friends pulled a Jeff the Killer picture in front of me while I was playing on his computer. Scared me so much I ran away from his house.
The thing leans in. It gets close to the boy and says one phrase that will haunt him for the rest of his life:
"I've come to Jeff the kill you"
He's gonna tie me to a radiator and Jeff me! He's gonna Jeff me in my mouth!
@@firstnext5482 is that a wkuk reference lol?
@AlexIsACarrot 10 It's just a grape commercial. ;)
*laugh track*
Why did you have to remind me now that meme will be stuck inmy head again!!!
What intrigues me about Mr. Widemouth is that there's a million pieces of fanart of it smiling, but not a single one portraying his angry, hateful face at the window.
Also, if you ever do cover small/micropastas, I suggest you look at 'I Found A Digital Camera In The Woods', a pasta that only uses images to tell its story.
Honestly that story is my favorite. Probably because I had some odd imaginary friends as a child, and sometimes I wonder if they were more real than it seemed.
Still, it’s so underrated.
oooh that's a good one
Honestly same. I think it’s because of the image the character immediately invokes. Even if you haven’t seen a single piece of fanart, most people have an image in their head of what Mr. Widemouth looks like from the way he’s described in the story. He’s quite similar to the Cheshire Cat to me, his smile is his most noticeable quality and is his signature. It’s a special kind of off putting seeing a character that’s so defined by their smile **not** smiling. Kinda wish people actually did take it upon themselves to visualize it, the possibilities are interesting and endless.
I'll have to check that one out!
I'd imagine it to be just as intense as the bear dog plushie image
Gotta give props to the Dad from Laughing Jack:
As far as Creepypasta parents go, he was pretty reasonable and alright (leaving out the whole "tricked into murdering your child" thing). Didn't immeadietly get mad at his kid, assumed no paranormal stuff for most of it. Definetly better than "Honey, get the shotgun. Our son has gone insane"
he didn't even murder his kid! Jack had literally set him up
"Candle Cove" is probably my favorite Creepypasta (I'd love to see someone make a short film of it), but I also really like "Where the Bad Kids Go". It doesn't get enough love, imo, so it was nice to see someone acknowledge it. (-:
@@bloodfalconfantastic4445 I've seen Channel Zero! I liked it (the last season was my fave), but I wish they had stuck closer to some of the actual creepypastas.
Honestly, what I'd love to see is a "Night Gallery"-like show where the episodes sometimes have 2 (or more) stories in them. Hell, with streaming, they could be any length they needed to be to tell the story; maybe even have each 'pasta be its own "episode". That way they could feature short creepypastas without turning them into 6 hour-long stories...
I've thought about this a *lot*.
Candle cove probably can directly be traced as the root for analogue horror as it stands today not the least but due to the ones who made that also did local 58
@@creed8712 I love Local 58, didn't realize it had Candle Cove connections, pretty cool
They made a TV series out of it!
"Where the bad kids go" is one of the few creepypastas that I fully remembered the ending of. All the others in this video I knew of, but forgot almost all the details. I haven't read most of these in like a decade though
Honestly, when I always go back to creepypastas. It tends to be, at least for me, both a nostalgic and sometimes hilarious retrospect. But I'll admit, some still sit in a special place in nostalgia for me. Always fun looking back at some creepypastas that are also known, unknown, or even forgotten.
Whats always annoyed me about haunted video game creepypastas is that theres a potential for a really good story there. Imagine finding a hacked game where a killer or some crazy person has tampered with it - kind of like finding a confession letter or home movie from a psychopath.
Instead its ALWAYS some kid died and is a ghost in the machine lol
The Mario rom is pretty similar to what you're describing, but you prob already know about it. either way, I would love more stories like that
I think We Never Left falls in this category too but its a real game
@@chiariscuro What's that
@@Quackervoltz its part of the dread x collection i think, its on steam
Wasn’t that a whole ARG type thing?
Normal P*** for normal people was always the scariest to me. There’s something about the randomness of the videos, and like the sick sense of humor of whoever is producing them that always struck me as insanely frightening. Also the fact that the videos seemed to have some esoteric purpose that we can never know.
its so creepy 😵💫😵💫😵💫
I never can remember if this is a creepypasta or an SCP. I think both?
@@rando843 NPFNP is a creepypasta.
Not to mention the actual website that got made based on it. I don't think there was any gore or REALLY inappropriate stuff, but some of the videos uploaded were creepy as hell
NPFNP got me as a teen! I’m pretty sure I stumbled across the reddit post through tv tropes, but it fooled me into thinking it was real for a long time.
I remember the old website too. It had a page with a manifesto against “abnormal sexuality” and an FAQ and a bunch of creepy ass videos. Sadly the OG website seems gone.
I was very into creepypastas as a kid but rarely got scared by them. When I started taking medication that induced a lot of dreams I started seeing a lot of horror concepts in my dreams though. One time I remember dreaming about Laughing Jack, I unfortunately don't remember a lot of the dream plot anymore but I remember that as soon as he popped out and showed himself I looked at this goofy ass clown and my brain basically went "Even if the supernatural is real there is No Way something this stupid exists", and then I immediately woke up.
Does anyone else think that Smile Dog was inspired by those Pedigree Dentastix ads where dogs & cats would be given a mouth of human teeth? Cuz those were unintentionally creepy, and the first photo always reminds me of those ads.
Nah because that's fr all I think about when I see the image. I can never unsee it
I think for me The Russian Sleep Experiment was a great pasta. It was good enough that some people genuinely beleived it was real. Unfortunately, some inconsistancies made it too easy to pick apart but on first blush it was realistic enough to get under your skin a bit.
That was my first creepypasta and I love how realistic it is, no need for supernatural stuff (until the end at least). It was great for me to start exploring other stories and diving deep.
I agree, you should watch meat canyons and wendigoon's video about it (if you havent)
On their podcast. I think its called creepycast.
Yeah. I thought it was true initially but then I realized that the worst that’s happened to anyone I know who has been awake for longer than 80 hours has been that they began to feel afraid they’re going to die if they don’t sleep (my mom, one of my brothers, and myself have all done this), and at about 120 hours of not sleeping I hallucinated, laughed about the fact I was hallucinating, then passed out for 6 hours.
@@darkstarr984 yer takes a fair while for the really bad stuff to happen to you from not sleeping i used to regally do 3-6 days awake on stimulant binges mostly just shadow people becoming more and more real clear to see and the like also lost of delirium actually kind of like being in that state for some reason most iv done was 11 days but im sure there was some micro sleeps of a few seconds to like 5 mins in there somewhere apparently without stimulants and where micro sleeps are prevented say during sleep deprivation torture it can be lethal around the 10-15 day mark oxidative stress on the brain and regular extreme stress causing massive amounts of hormones and neurotransmitters to be released that can be lethal in those quantities but the longest people have been awake for is around 3 mouths this is caused by a really horrifying but fortunately extremally rare condition called "fatal familial insomnia" look it up its a primarily inherited condition so far only documented in like 3 families but its not actually a genetic condition but a kind of prion disease (all pretty horrifying as well look up mad cow disease ,kuru and cjd they are all caused by misfolded proteins that cause other proteins to also become misfolded in a chain reaction in practice causing tiny holes to form in tissue most damagingly in the brain and worsted of all they are all completely untreatable and 100% fatal once you get them they can occur randomly but are most often a result of ingesting the meat of an animal with the disease particularly the brain and spine but no meat from an infected animal is advisable to eat its primarily spread by cannibalism of the brain within a species but some forms like mad cow disease can jump species causing vcjd in humans) these prion diseases can also be transmitted from parent to child (as in fatal familial insomnia (f.f.i) however and from direct exposure of the brain to material from the brain of an infected individual and as neither heat nor radiation will destroy prions a lot of people are infected via reused surgical equipment in brain surgery. anyway point is in f.f.i the members of these families when they reach the age of around 50 slowly develop insomnia that worsens over time until after years of sleeping less and less they never sleep again eventually dying about 3-4 months later and its not just insomnia the whole process is horrifically painful and unpleasant in many other ways fortunatly some small scale eugenics is practiced and anyone with this condition in the rare event they would and to curse and offspring with this is prevented for reproducing.
The original Slenderman images and the smile dog images were the creepiest things to me as a child. They for sure kept me up at night. The Slenderman ones definitely changed my brain chemistry lol. Nowadays, the smile dog images look a bit silly, but they're all really cool
Same, eyeless Jack affected me the most. He’s the reason I sleep on my stomach lmao, the pov shot in his image is so creepy.
I love how you used the old creeps mcpasta background music!! I used to listen to his videos all the time and hearing that in the background again really gave me flash backs!
Too bad abt that drama, makes it hard to watch him without thinking abt him possibly being a groomer in the past..
@@JinxeBlaqHe what now???
@Mirthandir He "allegedly" groomed and had inappropriate interactions with a young girl a couple years back. She recently came out about it a year ago now I think, I think Lazy Bedhead and ThatCreepyReading have videos on it
The abandoned by Disney story actually has an entire SAGA and it is actually pretty cool! (I was more tensed listening to that while playing Papa’s Hotdoggeria lol)
it's pretty great, the only bad thing is I knew there was no disney park before the WWII so it broke my immersion
I have a soft spot in my heart for Candle Cove and Psychosis. They were truly the start for my love of horror media.
As someone with major paranoia as a symptom of mental illness, really appreciate the assurance that everything is make believe.
Even when you know rationally things are false, your brain can convince you otherwise. Hearing it said out loud by the person telling you is so helpful.
So thank you very much for reassuring your audience ❤️
i appreciate his reassurances and heads ups as someone with both anxiety and psychosis
im right there with you! i have autism and adhd, and i remember being a little kid when my friend showed me slenderman. it gave me awful anxiety and paranoia. to this day i have persistent paranoia over being watched and im pretty sure it stems from slenderman. despite this i still love horror and marble hornets is one of my favorite ARG's. It just puts the mind at ease to have someone tell you its not real
That's understandable. I have anxiety but I don't really get scared of these stories, but it's nice to know that affirmation of something being purely fiction can be helpful.
Feel this. I first got into creepypastas about the same time I was subject to some absolutely fucked up child abuse, and that was a TERRIBLE combination. I have ASD but no history of psychosis disorders, but I still more or less had a several-months long psychotic break where I was terrified of the Pokemon Ghost Black pasta specifically. It was a genuinely screwed up time in my life. I'm okay now, and the most mentally well I've ever been, but damn if that didn't make my chronic insomnia even worse in the long run.
I have a strong amount of paranoia and looking at the Smile Dog image always gives me at least some amount of fear that the Smile Dog curse might happen to me, even though I reassure myself that it's just a story.
My fave creepypasta is 1999 but unfortunately it’s had some weird issues with copyright iirc. I also remember there being a lot of unofficial additions that I didn’t realize weren’t by the original author back when I was reading reuploads of it on Wattpad
Came to the comments to mention 1999! It still remains one of my favorites from growing up, that and Penpal.
i read 1999 when i was 11 and it scared the shit out of me since i lived near caledon at the time
1999 seems like a weird memory. I remember listening to the story but after i could never find the original
Ohhh that makes sense. I couldn't find the video that I first watched on it but the thought of it is nostalgic for me
I remember 1999 existed but I weirdly have no memory of what it's actually about. Anyone able to enlighten me?
The fact that you made sure to use Myuji for the background of most of this as well as making sure the right themes played at the right stories. 100% respect XD you triggered all of my nostalgia
The best creepypastas are always the ones that feel like lost Twilight Zone episodes, like the aforementioned "Penpal" & "No End House"; as well as "The Art of Jack Emory" or "The Hidden Webpage." All the premises are simple, but go well beyond what they would seem to entail. So many creepypastas, past and present, forget to actually instill a sense of mystery and uncanny valley that really make for a good story. The best were always more cerebral, rather than overtly gorey and edgy.
ive met several ppl who genuinely believed the russian sleep experiment was real. it shifted from creepypasta to urban legend.
Wasn't it kind of real? Like, not to the exact extent of the Creepypasta, but based off an actual experiment?
Possibly? There are much worse experiments out there (Unit 731)
I like how serious you sound while telling the creepypasta stories but I can't take more than half of them seriously because of how stupid they usually are
Mitch lives in the US and has no health insurance, which makes the eyeless jack creepypasta a bit more realistic than other pastas
Sounds cool
Nah he wasn't charged just to be told he didn't have a kidney
in the canadian version the health care system just does eyeless jack's work for him
@@mistergrool3941 Damn lmfao
As someone who grew up in *that* side of the creepypasta fandom, it’s wild to me to remember when people were actually scared of them. I can’t recall ever truly being scared of a creepypasta character aside from a few uncanny/disturbing images. I’m still part of the creepypasta fandom to this day after 9 years.
Ticci Toby, Jeff, Eyeless Jack, and Jane were always my favorites- Toby stills stands as a comfort character for me, and I regularly write and draw things related to him.
Something that irritates me (mildly) is how watered down these characters were when I was growing up with them. I learned about these fictional serial killers from a perspective of them being “sweet babies”, father-figuring Slenderman, etc. and while I still have a love for that nostalgic narrative, since then I have fallen in love with the darker, morbid side of the fandom that it seems most people in these comment sections were associated with.
i remember being 10 and absolutely obsessed with creepypasta, specifically the fandom part that included fanart and fanfiction. i wanted to see some fanart of jeff v slenderman but accidentally types jeff x slenderman instead.
If you need to talk about it, I’m here 🥺
Man I loved being a kid and accidentally seeing stuff I wasn't supposed to see
using the same music that would always play in those creepypasta readings gave me such a nostalgia trip
I forgot how damn creepy the abandoned Disney park story was. Great job in setting the tone! This was a great walk down memory lane!
fr it had me at 20 years old feeling the same damn fear i had reading creepypasta at night as a kid. ive had freaky experiences in out of the way places all alone before so i guess it just hits an all to familiar kind of fear
2:21 No End House
5:01 Jeff the Killer
19:02 Jane the Killer
20:16 Vincent Venacava (Author)
22:00 K. Banning Kellum (Author)
22:55 Slenderman (and Marble Hornets)
25:26 (Bless your heart, Jay)
25:50 Smile Dog
27:45 Eyeless Jack
31:58 Laughing Jack
40:53 The Rake (and EverymanHybrid)
42:40 Candle Cove
45:04 Red Mist, AKA Squidward's S-cide
48:06 Dead Bart
49:15 Ben Drowned
(sorry but I don't have the patience to finish this list)
Thank you
You missed laughing Jack at around 32 minutes
@@jakekiper9294no he didnt
@@maxridesbikes8466 he edited it
@@jakekiper9294 oh
Amazing work Jay!!! im so glad to be here for your (no doubt) meteoric rise to popularity. Id love a "hi" so I can be a part of your history as well
Hi! Thanks for the nice comment, it made my day!
@@jaybird160 AAAAAAA THANK YOU!! me and my friends watch your videos together every time you post! its so amazing to have gotten a reply
One thing I liked about the slenderman movie, was the costume if you can find one of the behind the scenes images, it shows that they didn’t go with an actual suit like most if not all fan interpretations, it just the way his natural body looked, with a white symbol of sorts that allowed it to look like a suit and tie but only from the right distance or angle, which they surprisingly did well utilizing, and the fact it’s not an actual suit also adds to the sort of uncanny nature the original had.
That one about the janitor who listened to the radio to stay sane is the only creepy pasta to ever scare me
Is there a title or something that you have because this sounds really interesting
@@hudsontille8630late response but I looked it up, pretty sure they're talking about the nosleep post titled *"My student submitted the most disturbing "Living History" project I've ever seen."*
Its a great read though its.. More depressing than scary.
That one was so good, I think I listened to Dark Somnium read through it ages ago.
I had a phase where I exclusively read lost episode creepypastas, and one for Alf freaked me out more than expected
Lost episode pastas were almost always trash, but I was addicted to them as a kid 🤣 Same with haunted website/computer program pastas
I think I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. Is it the one where Alf gets surgery on him while he's awake? Because that one was TERRIFYING.
wake up babes, new jay bird upload
And it’s almost an hour and a half 🚨‼️🥳
Oh shit yeah!!
yes.. honey..
26:50 even when I was a little kid I always thought this version of smile dog was the less scary one cause to me it wasn't scary, it was confusing, I remember staring at it thinking "how is that a dog...?" and now I feel like it's a bit try hard with all the red and stuff, the image with the dog that actually looks like a dog smiling in a very human way is more scary and uncanny to me
Great video! This era of retrospective long form RUclips content is my favorite era so far. Creepypasta were so huge to me as a kid and even now I listen to them occasionally while working. Subbed!
The Jeff the Killer creepy pasta was the goat for me when i was a young teen 😂.
However the part with Randy, Troy and Keith bringing a gun to a party... Would it really be surpiring in the u.s?
def not lol 😂
Honestly its iconic. How many of us who wrote terrible, silly fanfics/semioriginal stories as kids can say we became legends? Stories like My Immortal and Jeff the Killer aren't one in a million but sometimes the right circumstances skyrocket a story to infamy and the tween author will grow up and have to live knowing their shame will not be forgotten 😂
One can assume they live in Ohio
Normalpornfornormalpeople and broadcast interuption were two of my favorite lesser known ones I loved them so much even tho today they’re probably super cheesy
Tails Doll was always a huge source of fear for me as a kid, first time I legitimately feared a Sonic character.
Same, i was absolutely terrified yet intrigued by him.
Now he's actually my favorite creepypasta character!
I even have a plush of him rn on my side lol
i didn't really give a shit about other creepypastas in any way but i agree 100% tails doll definitely traumatized me and altered my brain chemistry
i remember seeing a video that just had a bright red light flying around attached to a tails doll and i thought that was the craziest shit
I had Sonic R. Tails Doll as a creepy pasta made sense. But the unnerving feeling I got was always from the game and not the story. The games jank combined with the little guy freaked child me out.
I remember watching videos of a red laser pointed at a dark room and that shit was horryfying to kid me
No End House and Penpal are still TWO of my MOST favorite creepypastas... when I learned he compiled his story and published it, i bought it in heartbeat
Yo! Thank you for the shoutout that made my day, congrats on 16k, great video!
yes. the old creepypastas still hold up. Abandoned by Disney, Ben Drowned, Abstergo man, ect
I love how you pointed out points about the Jeff the Killer story that I have always pointed out!
Burned skin goes pink, red, black depending on the severity of the burns.
Burned hair is burned away, not turned black. It's impossible.
Also, how he is able to beat up three people attacking at once.
Godzilla NES and its sequel are fucking awesome, looking forward to a possible video on the story in the future!
The art of Jacob Emory was always my favorite even as a kid. It was such a unique concept.
I really love the touch of adding the music that was used in MrCreepyPastas old videos, adds a lot of atmosphere. Amazing video!
This video makes me want to go listen to some of the old CreepyPastas I loved when I was younger again.
When I was younger I was way too scared to read up on more creepy pastas after loving mlp and seeing the mlp ones and crying, but I’m glad you made this video it’s a nice introduction to someone who doesn’t know much about creepy pastas!
SO REAL BESTIE
this is such a wonderful video! i’m honestly hoping it reaches the next generation of kids with unrestricted internet access…i’d love to see how the next generation reactions to these stories 🤭 you did an excellent job of telling them and i even felt myself getting a little anxious, despite hearing these stories hundreds of times! keep up the amazing work :)
I pictured Mr. Widemouth as a Furby as well, I'm almost positive he's described as being similar to one
Borrosca is one of my favorite creepypastas! Definitely underrated, it’s a bit long and in two parts but so worth the watch
I feel like when Jay is speaking he wants to cry
Thank you for covering “Abandoned By Disney” it was one of my favorites back in the ye olden days
I remember hearing that Abandoned by Disney was written as a joke. The author made a bunch of other pastas, but that one was one of his cheesey on purpose stories
It's not at all its actually really good especially compared to these ones since it has a deeper meaning about the corrupted side of disney and how it all came together to produce a monstrous mickey mouse like a horror political satire
this video is so great to listen to in the background, and also super interesting. you have literally the perfect "video essay" voice, if that makes sense. it's very calming and monotone in the best sort of way.
Holy shit another hour long video. Fantastic. Good job man.
I always loved Godzilla: Monster of Monsters (The story about the game, not the actual game haha) but with the Godzilla art in the background I was kind of surprised you didn’t mention it.
I was hoping to see dionaea house in the mix but overall this really beautifully covers the birth of creepypasta and the wild, weird places it went before solidifying its own tropes and becoming more echochambery.
There is a very, very good chance that I cover Dionaea House in its own video one of these days
Dionaea House goes SO unbelievably hard, yet it's sadly pretty underrated to this day. That story and House of Leaves made me realize just how much I adore horror involving eldritch locations/architecture
I really love this. The way you tell the stories and talk about it reminds me of sharing stories with my friends when I was a kid.it’s heartwarming.
I came into this video excited for a. A refresher on old creepypastas (I loved Mr. Widemouth, Candle Cove, Where The Bad Kids Go, and Abandoned By Disney when I was younger; creepy stories with slow buildup and unanswered questions always give me the creeps!) and b. To learn about other old creepypastas I never bothered to look up when I was younger (I had HEARD of Laughing Jack and Eyeless Jack back in the day but like...never bothered to google the stories lol)
When I tell you I was here clamoring for Abandoned By Disney (my train of thought was like "okay, lost media and gaming creepypastas HAS to lead into Disney, it HAS TO"), I was R E A D Y!! And you saved it for last, yay!! I haven't finished this vid yet but I'll be so happy if you mention the other stories written by the author- last I remember, it was like they were going for a connected literary universe thing with weird phenomena~ Great vid!!
Creepypasta came from the term 'Copypasta', a play on words to the original play on words, since copy/paste was so prevelant, the long story memes became known as copypastas. Creepypasta later on became a play on words since it was meant to be a horror story or a creepy short that people would copy and paste, so it's a creepy copypasta, thus a creepypasta. The term 'creepypasta' did *not* come from copy/paste as you mentioned, it came from the already existing 'copypasta.'
Pedantics lol
@@molotov6792 No, when you're making a documentary or a video of that style, getting your facts as correct as possible are pretty important.
Creepypasta does technically hail from copy/paste as copypasta comes from copy/paste, and creepypasta comes from copypasta.
But I will agree about what you said about documentary’s it’s very important
I feel like the mickey having inverted colors is another one of those hyper-realistic eyes-like tropes.
It's supposed to represent the dark side of disney the NEGATIVES and he's a representation of it
I was super into creepy pastas as a kid. However, even back then some of them were just simply not it. Jeff the Killer, Eyeless Jack, Ben Drowned and smile dog being the ones that even 11 year old me found them so horribly corny.
The rake though? That laid the foundation of my fear of uncanny valley humanoids.
The 1999 creepy pasta is one that isn’t super popular (I think) but I’ve never forgotten about it. I always go back to it and it’s not as scary as it used to be when I was younger, but I still think about it a lot.
interestingly "candle cove" was made by the same person who later made "local 58".
Wait what really??
@@JackTorryn-lp8pn yep.
I heard they’re in the same universe too
I always find myself going back and listening to Borrasca, not sure if that one is considered old or classic but it is hella good
It’s kennedy davis! Your channel came into my recommended recently and I’ve watched all your videos and can’t wait for more. You were the one who introduced me first to creepy pastas in middle school, and probably are to blame for my true crime obsession lol. You remind me of wendigoon in the best ways and I can’t wait to watch your channel grow. Sky is the limit!!
Haha that’s so awesome thank you! Happy to contribute to anyone’s true crime obsession
I love how you narrate the stories! The emphasis you put into it makes it waayyy more interesting :)
I’m so glad you visited these older creepypastas and shared them on yt. Makes it a little easier for me to find older horror content without doing too much digging 👏❤
The music of creepypasta narration evokes such specific emotions in me it’s a mix of forlorn nostalgia and tension. It’s just *chefs kiss*
1999 is still probably my favorite to this day. Very well written, def recommend.
I fully gasped when you started speaking about Lavender Town. I feel like not enough people give it the credit it deserves in the scope of creepy pasta.
the usage of myuu’s music really sets the ‘creepypasta story reading’ energy into full swing
New here. Super glad this popped up in my recommended and brought this era of my life back to memory. Definitely gonna get more into internet horror again, and definitely subscribing
You should try to make a video with Wendigoon I bet that would be a pretty good collaboration
Also, wendigoon seems like a really nice guy and you make similar videos so I’ll bet he will do a collaboration
If a Wendigoon collaboration were ever to happen then just know I will die a happy man
@Jay Bird I think wendigoon would be a happy man to collaborate with another awesome youtuber!!
Abandoned by Disney was my introduction to creepypastas. As a kid I watched that video and (thinking it was real) was terrified. I fell down a rabbit hole of Disney creepypastas and couldn’t stop. I couldn’t decide if they were real or not but I knew for some reason they fascinated me.
Whenever I practice a new voice, accent, etc. for a tabletop character, I record myself reading 'The Portraits' creepypasta. It just always stuck with me. Short, sweet, spooky.
Your content is great, I’m loving the topics you pick for videos
You're a very good storyteller. Your sense of pacing is phenomenal, the way you slow down or speed up according to the intensity of the action being described
"Gateway of the Mind" sounds extremely similar to a movie that was released a while back. I think it was called Martyrs or The Martyr. Something like that.
If you had a podcast I'd listen to it 24/7 like your voice is so pleasant and soothing if the topics of your videos weren't so interesting I'd instantly fall asleep
ahhh penpal was so good I hoped it would come up at some point! Great job on this video!
Was waiting very anxiously for the Rake from the beginning as well, because I feel like of the more creature-feature pastas, the Rake and Smile.jpg did it better than most.
I really am overjoyed that someone else knew about penpal. There were a couple of other longer ones like Return to Oz and Penpal that I can't remember off the top of my head, but they were better than most
Where the Bad Kids Go was one of the ones that super scared me as a kid lol
I thought return to Oz was an actual book in the series
@@fionnaandcakecosplay it is another book, the creepypasta is based on the movie adaptation of that book
@@sageopland3976 oh cool! I’ve wanted to watch that movie for a while
I absolutely adore the revival of creepypastas as they mix into the analogue horror medium.
Like just recently, smiledog got some kinda revival of sorts, its got some very clever tricks in it, like the image itself is alive and actively changes itself to communicate with the recipient.
But my favorite part is the fact it isn’t completely malevolent, yes it’s evil, but it’s helpful in some ways, it helps the MC with her webseries, however it continues to sorta lord itself over her and insult her for attempting to “delete a life”. It’s so eerie.
Its done with season 1 but more is to come, even then the. First season goes so hard, you should check it out!
Omg chainmail chasers?!
Hey, as someone with... not the best mental health, like, anxiety/delusions and the like, I REALLY appreciate the way you go about certain topics in the video. Reminding the viewers that all these creepypastas are fiction and didn't happen and that while Smile Dog is also very fake, you gave a warning before showing it, all of that is just.. a small little thing that most would find unnecessary, but would've saved me a lot of distress had I been in a sort of episode, where I could have thought, against all rationality, otherwise. It's a small thing to note, and while I don't need it too much anymore with these old, well-known stories I grew up with, I'm still really grateful to you for doing something like that.
an hr+ long jay bird video ab creepypastas? hell yes.
My favourite creepy pasta is Ubloo… idk if it’s considered a classic, but it’s a pretty good story with a nice plot twist. :)
This was such a cool trip down memory lane. Subbed
Excellent video, Jay! Like you, I’ve grown up on these characters and stories…so much so that I now author stories on the CP wiki. I could feel your passion in this vid and just subscribed!
The Rake scared the hell out of me when I was younger. Something about the images of it on your bed and the fact I often had sleep paralysis growing up.
I'm glad this popped up in my recommendations. I really enjoyed this video. I remember reading most of these back in the day. The Russian Sleep Experiment was always my favorite, but as a Pokémon and Zelda fan, I also loved Ben Drowned and Lavender Town Syndrome. I remember one day I was re-reading Lavender Town while listening to an extended version. I then took a shower and felt incredibly uneasy. Never felt that before and I did not like it. Good times.
I loved creepy pastas as a young teen all those years ago! The only one that really scared me for some reason was Smile Fog??? It made me so anxious that still to this DAY I havent seen the actual image of the dog on my own. Im sure ive come across it randomly, but because I have no idea what it actually looks at, ill never really know LMAO
Excellent videos always! You’re quickly becoming one of my favorite horror content creators on this site. Super excited to see your future videos!
it's wild as hell that minecraft mod showcases were also what got me into creepypasta. it was skydoesminecraft's video for me specifically, and I think that was also one of the early videos that got me into sky's content as well. I'm still a huge fan of horror and Minecraft to this day, nearly 11 years later.
your a really good storyteller, i hang on your words in the tense moments
I was never a Laughing Jack fan either, but in retrospect he’s probably the most effectively scary of the popular ones. At least in his original story lol
I never read Jeff the killer before and I would hear stories about it and just last week I finally listened to it on incongnito’s channel and I was laughing on how bad it was 😂😂😂
thank you for mentioning Where The Bad Kids Go.
I feel like it's not talked about enough, despite being one of the best creepypastas I've read. (and I've read a lot)
Thanks for the vid, jay!