When he was talking about his take on ghosts in the beginning it reminded me of Shane Madej. Then I had a Spider-Man meme moment when I realized they are both Shanes 😂
Baby Shayne: "I'm the scariest thing here." Adult Shayne: "The little creatures are the scariest." I think you internalized the wrong message there, buddy
Hahah, I had the same kinda imagination as a kid. I'm the scariest thing here, I'm one with the darkness, I let it flow through me and absorb it becoming darker than dark. Probably why I still enjoy sleeping in the pitch black so much.
I was like Amanda, grew up orthodox, and when I was scared my mom told me guardian angels were watching over me. I took that literally, and imagined vague human shaped figures of light but with wings of an eagle. I dreamt of them too, and legit feel safe whenever I'm in an 'off' situation if I imagine them standing next to me. Pretty sure it's a placebo effect/me mind effing my self, but it's cool nonetheless lol
@@tinaday189 There's guardian angels that protect you from accidents and there's record keeper angels that write down every deed you make good or bad for the judgement day.
the candle cove one is so good bc its actually a real experience that people had before streaming and stuff in the 80's in irland, there was this kids show called zig and zag. I dont really know much about the show cause this is my parents experience, not mine but i know that alot of the characters were puppets. Either zig or zag, I don't remember but i think its zag, had a toy puppet called modge or something (even though zig and zag were puppets, i guess they weren't within the shows universe while modge was. puppetception). a while after modge was introduced, they stared doing this thing where zag would be left alone with modge and he would start to talk to zag which he hadn't done previously. modge was an entirely inanimate object that zag pretended would talk, kinda like rocko from elmo. over time modge got progressively meaner and more aggressive towards zag and since no one else knew that modge was alive, zaag couldnt tell anyone. THEN modge TOOK OVER THE SHOW for a few episodes and it all just went back to normal, traumatizing kids all across irland and making them think they were insane. Since this was in the 80's, all of the episodes where this happened weren't saved. Modge ended up getting his own adult tv show and that combined with every child in irland remembering this is the only proof that this ever even happened
The puppets for Zig and Zag appeared on an episode of The Big Fat Quiz of the 80s. They acted like it was a well known TV show. I'm American, so I have no idea. But I immediately knew what you were talking about because of it.
Honestly I feel like Mr. Wide mouth is death personified. Trying to tell you it's your time but the kid is fighting off death, rejecting it and telling it not today.
No it’s not, the kid wasn’t deathly sick. Although there are entities that exist between dimensions whose job is to trick you to other side. So basically they snatch your soul. This entity was trying to trick him.
yesssss, but personally i feel that Mr. Wide Mouth is more a personification of suicide/suicidal ideation. i know that's a little intense considering OP was 5, but the way he was trying to get the kid to jump was a big red flag for me
The Mr. Wide Mouth story hit for me specifically because I had a ghost experience as a child where a figure I called "Mr. Nobody" wordlessly beckoned me to jump from the second story. I had seen him often before this. He never spoke - just stood nearby watching. I was stunned for a few moments but I said "no thank you" and walked away. After that I stopped seeing him - it went from every day to a couple rare glimpses before he was gone.
As soon as Shayne started talking about Courage the Cowardly Dog, everyone that's ever watched that show immediately knew that Amanda was about to learn about King Ramses.
I thankfully don’t think I ever caught that one? The foot, however, freaked me the hell out. Not the voice, obviously, but the animation was just so OFF that it gave me the creeps to an insane degree.
I mean, spirits are spirits with different vibrations, and if we talk about demons, or low vibrational beings, they are more active than usual spirits at higher vibrational levels, depending on other stuff as well. I've been an avid person interested in spiritual and paranormal stuff for a long time, and it makes me kind of giggle when people say "Ghosts aren't real, but demons are" or "All ghosts are demonic" because they're probably not aware that their loved ones are also on the other side and they try to show signs that they are near. So my mind imagines like a silly comedy/horror film where a person who is alive experiences paranormal stuff and assumes its evil, but it's actually just their grandma who is bouncing around, doing silly stuff to make herself known, or a male family member being grumpy, rolling their eyes at the person freaking out.
Not quite the same, but Wendigoon and Meat Canyon recently started a podcast doing just that! So far they've covered Jeff the Killer and Russian Sleep Experiment, and one more I can't remember off the top of my head Edit: Search and Rescue was the first episode!
You should check out the Scared to Death podcast. This husband and wife read scary stories, he reads a couple found online or in books and then she reads a couple of stories listeners have sent in that happened to them. I freaking love it.
@@ccbot5000omg why did RUclips not notify me about these replies?? Nd my likes 😱 anyway thank you! I guess their podcast isn't on RUclips? I can't find it
It would be so cool to do an episode where smosh cast and crew members make up their own scary stories and present them like they’re real, but there is ONE story that IS real, and then Shane and Amanda have to guess which one it is.
The story of Mr. Widemouth oddly reminds me of a story from my own history that I only very recently got the "full" details of. When I was little, my mother (a drug addict at the time) lived with a handful of friends who were also addicts. My sisters and I lived with our dad but there was a point of time where we did stay with her for reasons i cant really remember because i was too young. I remember this guy (im gonna call him johnny) that lived in the basement, He wasnt a creep or anything, he was actually one of the only people there, outside of my mom, that i was even remotely comfortable around. I remember him vividly. He had blonde hair and colorless tattoos on his arms that he used to let us color in with markers when we were bored. He used to babysit us from time to time. He taught me magic tricks with cards and coins and he let us play with his atari all the time. He was also more often than not the one who made sure we ate when our mom was... I dont know if she was out or locked in her room high on something, i honestly dont remember. All i know is he was a super super nice guy who I always enjoyed hanging around. Eventually, we went back to living with our dad, im not sure how long a span there was between us moving back, and us seeing our mom again, but i know when we finally did see her again, Johnny had moved out, leaving all of his stuff behind, including his bed, the Christmas lights he had strung along the ceiling, and his atari. One day, a few years ago, after my mother had gotten clean i got curious and asked her whatever happened to johnny, and why he left the way he did. She had no clue what i was talking about. I described Johnny and she just shook her head, insisting he must have been an imaginary friend. Which i might have believed, except no other man in my life knew magic tricks at that time. I didnt learn card tricks out of thin air and this was a time before easy access to the internet, so i couldnt have taught myself. And i just remember im so so vivedly. I asked my sisters and they both had VERY vague memories of him that they argued could have been memories of other males in our life that they were just confusing. I asked my mom again and she insisted there wasnt any man living in our basement, and even if there had been, she certainly never would have left us alone with him, which... i cant actually argue. Despite all her flaws growing up, one thing she WAS always careful about was who she left us alone with and she almost NEVER left us alone with men. So after a while I decided she must be right. After all, i was young enough at the time I could have confused my memories, even if some things still didnt add up, like how my mother who was struggling to afford food could have possibly gotten a nice, brand new atari, or why not a single male in my life has the colorless tattoos i remember so clearly. Even my sister remembered those. But like i said, i chalked it up to coincidence. At least, until I ran into an old friend of my moms, one of which used to live in that house with us. And not even trying to prove anything, purely curious, i asked her if she ever remembered a man living in the basement. She got kind of weird when I described him and after a while she said yes. She remembered him. At first i was super excited, becasue it meant i was right and he had existed. I figured maybe my mom had just been in too bad a state back then to remember. My excitement shriveled up and died when she proceeded to say she was surprised i even remembered him though, because according to her, i only ever met him once, our very first day living there. Said he overdosed on something that very night. I want to say i think she was confused, but the crazy thing is, after she said as such, i vividly remember my mom waking us up super early and taking us to the park and us staying there for like a crazy long time, and her refusing to take us home when we asked, not until one of her roommates walked down and got us, just like the woman told me. I dont know what to believe. On the one hand, I know how crazy it sounds to believe we spent time with a ghost or spirit or something, but there are so many memories i have of him that im CERTAIN happened, all of which couldnt have happened in one day. And when it comes to the minds of an addict, you have to be weary with what you believe. On the other hand, a lot of arguements my mom made about this man not living with us make sense. And I DO recall that day, our mom forcing us out of the house and keeping us at the park for way longer than reasonable. Maybe long enough to have emts collect a body? All I know if I remember Johnny being a kind, caring man who worked hard to keep us happy and safe. Whether he did that in the form of a man or a spirit, doesnt matter, I will always be grateful.
I know not all addicts are bad people they just made a bad mistake that is hard for them to pull themselves out of the lucky ones are the ones who do before they die
I don't believe in ghosts or anything supernatural until proven otherwise, and scientifically there's no possibility of ghosts, so I believe there's a logical explanation for this. We're aware that human memory is unreliable, in fact it's one of the most unreliable things, it's really easy to even implant false memories into people, there were science experiments about it where people people after a few sessions started to believe in things that never happened, they even swore by them, so I think it's possible that one of you misremembered. You could've because you were a child, but you have some memories that are harder to disprove. Your mother also could've misremembered because she was high (I used to be an addict as well so I know how easy it is to forget things, or mix up the days, so many people I've met that I don't even remember). But also your mom's friend could be wrong, was she an addict as well? It's possible that he was there longer but she only remembered meeting him and him overdosing because those are more memorable. Or maybe you saw it on TV if you had one? Or one of your friends taught you magic tricks or something else? Or like you said there were multiple people but your memory combined all of them into Johnny, because he was the most memorable physically. I'm not sure but either way it's a fun story. I'm glad your mom is sober now. Hope you're having a great day! 💜
Oh and I forgot to add, I also have false memories as well. For example, I vividly remember my dad taking a photo of me when I was really young, and I remember I was drooling as the photo was taken. My mom said it was impossible because I was a little older than a newborn, and that I probably saw the photo that was taken when I was a little older and I imagined it and it became my memory. The other thing I vividly remember is that my dad was holding me up above his head and he accidentally smacked me into a ceiling lamp. I'm really convinced I remember it, and I remember how I felt and that I didn't want to cry because I didn't want to make him feel guilty and stop playing with me (probably because he was and still is abusive and this was the only memory I had in my entire life where he was smiling and not yelling at me or something worse). But my mom says that I was too young to remember and that she told me that story when I was a little older and I imagined it while she was telling me, so I believed I experienced it. Those two examples, no matter how impossible it sounds that I remembered them, I still can't fully believe it was just my imagination, although I know it's not possible, I still have a really vivid memory of those events. It's like I can't trust my mind at all, and it's strange that something false feels so real.
When I heard 'Ive taken many friends around your age down this trail' i was not excepting a cemetery I thought it would be a 'he led them there at night in the dark off a cliff.' type thing
I love the Mr Wide Mouth story cause it feels like Mr Wide Mouth is like an amalgamation or metaphor for suicidal thoughts the OP might have been feeling while sick and helpless, especially with all the moving they'd to do. I'm not even sure if OP knew they had them. Almost like their mind created Mr Wide Mouth as a way for them to confront those thoughts and fears. Either to give into them or reject them as they did, they needed to be confronted and making them an entity to physically deny is a way to do that.
That's always my thought whenever I hear the story. I mean not exactly with suicidal thoughts specifically because, although possible, it's weird to think about a 5 year old contemplating suicide. Rather it was always fever induced hallucinations and intrusive thoughts being manifested into reality.
I have struggled with suicidal thoughts in the past and have had a similar “vision.” Definitely not to the extent as Mr. Wide mouth but there was this person I’d talk to who’d try to convince me to follow through. Though the person was more a mangled image of myself rather than a gremlin and could not physically manipulate things which makes me think he’s a demon of some sort. All deffinelty interesting though
and that mr wide mouth would go away when his parents would come in, like he was hiding how he felt for their sake but was too young to make sense of having that reaction because its a bit complex to make that connection whether hes aware hes doing it or not or in a less poetic interpretation there was a very sneaky, creepy man trynna kill kids and burned the house down after they moved out
24:46 monsters that are portrayed as little things are always scarier to me because it feels like a disguise. like "oh look, im just a little thing, i cant hurt you, im so small"
oh my god the staircase story! i immediately went “no fuck off!!” when i realized what story shane was reading. my god i went far far DEEP into the story, i read too many parts and it freaked me out so bad i stopped reading creepypastas altogether. the scary thing is is that i don’t know whether this story is real or if it’s just a creepypasta. i assumed it was because it was on reddit but it is also written in a way that rings truth. but then again, if it is just a story, it’s scary in and of itself
That one messed me up when I first read it because I had found a staircase in the woods when I was growing up. Chills. Like I’m sure it was actually just some leftover foundation, but yikes!
The staircases are really out there but they are apparently a leftover art installation - I saw a RUclips video where someone had researched the origin of the woods stairs 😅 dunno if that makes it less creepy 🤷
The RUclips videos I've seen about the stairs in the woods messed me up. Couldn't sleep, had to go lay down with my kids and put on some happy sleep music or lo-fi or something, couldn't watch anything dark or spooky or even true crime. The stories about what happens in the Appalachian mountains creep me out too
Kinda random, but does anyone else think Shayne should read for audible or something? His voice is so even and he reads things so easily. Anyway, loved the episode as always.
i was literally thinking while watching this " smosh should have a show where shayne just reads books to us" lol and they decorate it like a study in a mansion
SAME (except northern swede here)!!! there was also a like youth counselor person who told tons of scary stories that were literally so iconic with like faeries and trolls and also the devil and sstuff
Mr. Wide-Mouth story is amazing. Imagine making it a thriller and unfolding the history of that entity when the kid grew up? The potential is just amazing.
I IMMEDIATELY knew Shane was gonna talk about Ramses when he mentioned Courage. The “return the slab” shot still haunts me. Cartoon Network kids got to watch all the horrifying stuff.
this feels so crazy cause everyone got traumatized by that episode but it was a regular ctcd episode for me 😭😭 cause as a kid i basically mindlessly watched things (like not reacting to any show whatsoever) cause there was nothing else to do
Candle Cove is a perfect example of a good horror story because it relies on a known feeling and environment that you can relate to but hasn't been used much as a trope (Old childhood show memories and online forums) and it builds a creepiness factor up in a way that can almost sound real. The ending is the perfect conclusion to instill fear because it raises a million questions and preys on the fear of the unknown and stays grounded instead of like what Shane said where it becomes "and then they tried to kill everyone."
I thought it was the weaker story. Having the comments post detailed descriptions for every element felt stilted plus the climax kind of jumped the shark because not only is a shared delusion by completely unconnected people just beyond comprehensible, it also had no real threat.
@@Droid6689also it's just one singular mother saying the show didn't exist. The lady's in a nursing home, she might have memory issues lol. Now if all parents couldn't see the show it would be different
The moment Shane said 'Courage the Cowardly Dog', I said "RETURN THE SLABBBB" very dramatically. I started laughing like crazy when he started talking about that same episode. It's the only episode I truly remember I'm glad that I'm not the only one who can't forget it.
So sad Damien couldnt be here for this episode, you guys should definitely do a rain check and do another scary, creepy episode with him even if it isnt Halloween season anymore then.
22:50 once my kids started to work about monsters in their room I told them that monsters don't come into our house because they are scared of us. It really works.
The mirror story gets me thinking about that old tradition of covering all the mirrors in a house when someone dies, because their soul could get trapped in the mirror when it tries to go to the afterlife.
I have bought mirrors from thrift stores or antique stores and I have to cleanse them bc the one time I didn’t I was so scared of even looking into the mirror or having it hung up. There was something about it that made me feel so terrified.
At one point in my life I was an occult specialist for a paranormal investigation team. Shane's attitude towards the unexplained is the healthiest attitude and the attitude you want your team to have.
I think it’s why the only RUclips paranormal team I enjoy watching is twin paranormal. They’re so respectful on their hunts even when they’re scared and they apologize for scaring the spirits or reacting certain ways. That’s how I think more people need to be and I honestly buy that they get more responses because they are respectful
Just adding in that believers are also more likely to "experience" things like headaches, nausea, dizziness, anxiety, etc. when investigating even when there is no other sign or experience that points towards paranormal. I'm not discounting feelings because I have had feelings about things/people/places that have turned out to be true and have seen others with abilities that I can't completely explain away (also met plenty of fakes too). The fake feelings someone has because their brain gives them what they want can be very harmful when investigating because the point isn't to prove somewhere is haunted but to try and disprove everything. If you find something you can't disprove then you can start exploring the possibility of it being paranormal. Also feelings aren't evidence unless the can be backed by more tangible evidence. We had a girl who joined us on a trial basis who would get "feelings" and then have scratch marks appear where she felt like she had been touched, then I caught her on hidden camera scratching herself on purpose so she could get attention and pretend to be sensitive. Scratches can be evidence but are treated with suspicion unless caught on camera and since feelings can't be caught on camera and be undeniably real and not faked they aren't evidence.
@@Allunastarr8 I literally seen My high school Crush's FULL apparition (died By suicide) And Its actually hardest death ive ever had to deal with where i literally couldnt go to the funeral Because i couldnt see him like that and that part of me didnt want to believe it if that makes sense. but i've been trying to tell him he needs to go to the light and that hes loved and That There's hope and love waiting on the otherside for him. (crush cause i couldnt go out with him cause i had homophobic parents that made me suppress my urges/sexuality (bisexual). and also wiht all that being said even when i was growing up i was more sensitive to things then others like I could feel The emotions off people but thats about it.
my creative writing degree is screaming. I took a class on writing the uncanny, which is really close to what creepy pasta is. It is a very hard genre to write and to write well. So hearing people who write these creepy pastas that are done so well, I love it
one of the creepiest stories ive heard was one that loeylane read years ago called Dear David. the story alone was creepy but with the pic/video evidence it was so much more scary.
The staircase is legit. Tons of park rangers and SAR officers have reported them in many different national parks. The last guy's stories ring true to a lot of missing 411 cases. They're real and truly terrifying
i saw a tiktok of a guy who walked from his house to the woods with a door and then got mad because there was already a door there LMAO so now im imagining people just taking stairs to the woods 😭
@@clownbattery there’s so many stories/cases documenting the stairs in the woods, crazy disappearances, and even rescues where rangers find the missing kid/person in a place they couldn’t possibly have gotten on their own (or at all). There’s also plenty of found kids that talk about a “Bear Man”, “Hairy Man”, etc., that abducted them, carried them, or helped them. Really insane stuff 😳
the staircase thing is somewhat real: i’ve been hiking with a friend and we’ve found several of them. however, they’re usually a part of some long forgotten mining operation. still gives me the creeps though
If it’s mining then it makes sense why in the story he’s told not to go near them. I think the stories are fictional but I wonder if a hiking experience inspired it.
@officialmilkman491 common folklore where? The internet told me about the staircases in the forest and it was the first time I heard about it (like ten years ago) and I grew up being able to explore the forest to my discretion
Those stairs are real, I was always told to never walk near/up them because the faeries would take you away forever. I’m still scared shitless of them because of the Search and Rescue stories.
Dude I love how it’s so popular with spooky side of gen z. Like I remember watching reruns of it, since it had ended before I was allowed to watch tv, but it’s such a good show
41:37 That episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog was creepy but the one with the creepy, psycho barber who just kept saying "I'm just a little naughty" sent chills down my spine. I don't remember anyone else being scared of it beside me, but that episode still stays with me.
The one that got me was the puppet episode. I was of course horrified by the fact that Muriel and Eustace became human puppets, but more so that Courage just... kept living life with them? There was no resolution, they DIED. And he kept acting out their life and I was just like WTH
That barber guy was the absolute bain of my existence I HATED him because he just reminded me of a creepy old man that would creep but not enough to actually get caught or in trouble which always made me feel worse.
@@hannahbaldwin7248 omg both these episodes were always so freaky to me, the human puppets especially, just watching that even when I'm no longer the small child I was back then, I'm still freaked out, BUT the episode that absolutely horrified me was the one with the spirit of the harvest moon
Shayne's point of view on ghosts is like, the exact reason I'm agnostic, there are things that are completely beyond human understanding, and until they are confirmed , to me, you need to just accept uncertainty to a certain degree
That said, the brain is soooo powerful that it so easily explains “ghosts” and such. Your body can move on its own volition without you ever comprehending it. It’s pretty insane everything our brains are doing.
I’m Norwegian, and I got so exited when they stared talking about trolls lol, it made me remember a different monster from Norwegian folklore called ‘Nøkken’ it’s basically this man-ish hairball with teeth looking creature that lures people to drown, it can transform itself into a horse, a beautiful man, or just straight up invisible and its especially dangerous past sunset. I learnt about it in I think history class or something one time (I think we were learning history, and my teacher pulled up a picture and told us about it) just wanted to tell bc it made me remember, love it when content creators give my country a cameo lmao
Yes!!! I'm Norwegian too (hei forresten) and I f-ing LOVED Nøkken when I was young, like 5yo. Read all about him on my slow-af brick laptop and in brick sized books at the library, utterly fascinated by the myth of a creature hiding in a forest pond/lake, looking like a wet hairball with teeth, as you said! I was obsessed lol. It still brings a huge smile to my face whenever I'm reminded of Nøkken, even though it's a bit macabre maybe, it was my first memory of the fun of learning about spooky stuff!
@@tinaday189 heiii haha, det var kult å høre! Vet sikkert ikke i nærheten av likt mye som du gjør om Nøkken men er enig, det er en kjempekul myte og skapning! Og gleder til å lære mer om den, gøy å høre om noen som syntes det samme :D
In Britain our drowning monster is the kelpie. For some reason it looks like a horse most of the time, but it shapeshifts to lure people into water too. Obviously there's a lot of crossover between Norwegian and British mythology, but I wonder if that idea of a monster that can disguise itself to lure the unwary to a watery grave is more universal. These stories usually have their roots in some real world lesson; perhaps it's just "water can be dangerous, be careful when you're near it", but water bodies can have quite a hypnotic effect; the shapeshifting may be inspired by the way water reflects light, or just how it can seem much shallower than it actually is. Or maybe the lesson is "don't go swimming with attractive strangers: I don't want any grandchildren just yet".
@@18Hongo I love the kelpie! Me and my cousin used to play that we were it as kids haha.. and it is interesting to think about how these things became stories, what people saw(or thought they saw) and what meanings they were trying to convey,, also I read your whole comment in a British accent lol Also it’s definitely interesting that there are two drowning monsters that look like horses, makes me wonder why people associated horses with the water and drowning lol
Shayne just coming up with his own bigfoot story off the top of his head like that and be able to tell it like an actual believable memory is so impressive to me. I wish I was able to tell stories like that. Also Amanda's reactions felt like she had legitimately forgot that the story was supposed to be fake lmao
Shayne constantly blows my mind with how intelligent he is, in-tune with himself, and is respectful and always willing to listen when others have a differing opinion. I wish I met a guy like this! You can tell he’s a psych major!
Hearing that staircase one really freaked me out. A few years ago i was doing reasearch on unexplained missing persons cases for a story i was working on. I read one artical about a woman who had gone missing for a while before eventually showing up in the middle of the woods looking ragged but not like she had been gone for as long as she had been missing. She said she had been on a walk when she came across a a set of stairs and a door (or maybe one or the other i cant remember) and when she went though the door she ended up in another dimension. She said she eventually found her way back but no one believed her. I had totally forgotten about it until shayne read about the stairs, and i remeber the article saying that if you ever find stairs or a door in the woods, dont go near it
to me ghosts/spirits are what christians call "Angels" which are dead humans who are usually attached to something if they didnt go to the light/heaven if that makes sense
32:58 Shayne encounters a word he’s definitely only read and never heard out loud, a universal experience for people who read a lot (if you’ve also never heard it out loud, it’s calliope, kuh-lie-oh-pee)
I only know this word because of Manfred Mann's Blinded by the Light, one of the best most under-rated songs ever made. "With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin' The calliope crashed to the ground"
he also said bow instead of bow, when it's actually pronounced like bow....he said bow like to tie a bow around a present, when the bow of a ship is the same as to take a bow . B-aa-ow? I would and will definitely get Calliope wrong
YES! I hoped we'd hear about some stairs in the woods stories. I love the community that developed around around that lore. I also think about that ALL THE TIME.
Amanda, I have the same types of dreams/nightmares where you see the room around you just like it is, but there are other things in it (occasionally terrifying enough to wake me screaming). I spoke with a sleep doctor about them and he said they are called hypnogogic hallucinations (not night terrors). They are basically lucid dreams, where you are still asleep, but your eyes are open so you see your surroundings and your subconscious brain is adding in other elements that aren’t there. Some of my most memorable ones: I couldn’t tell who was sleeping next to me, so I jumped out of bed and stared over the edge at him. My husband then looked over and said, “Cris, what are you doing?”, which woke me up enough to realize it was my husband, so I wordlessly just crawled back into bed and fell asleep again. That one gave us a good chuckle the next morning. The scarier ones were things like giant spiders descending from the ceiling or small alien ships sweeping down to attack us. But the worst one was when we rented a cabin for our anniversary one year (so different bed/room than I was used to). I thought I woke up and saw a strange person enter the room and approach the bed really fast. I have never screamed so loud in my life… Completely freaked my poor husband out as well! He quickly tried to calm me down and asked what was wrong, and when I said someone came into the room, he just said, “no, it’s okay, there’s no one here.” But it took him a while to convince me because when I shot up in bed screaming, I saw the person turn around and run out of the room, so I thought maybe they were still in the cabin. I’m not easily scared, but that one terrified me!
I had some dreams and they are the same asleep in bed and look over tv was with static and a dark figure of a head and shoulder basically moved into screen look like it's looking into the room then dissapears. Goes on for a couple hours and doesn't change even if I look away and try hide
I got those dreams when I was a kid but can't really remember what they were about. I've had only one dream like that in my adulthood, and I was sleeping with my fiancé, and a man entered the bedroom, he had a mask on and a knife in his hand, and I remember seeing him at the foot of the bed like, it was so real !! My fiancé woke up, shook me awake, and said I had started to breath heavily like I was in a panic attack ! That was freaking scary !!
This happened to me! One time and only once but im so glad it’s actually a thing and im not crazy! I was basically laying in my bed when I saw this man in a wheelchair come into my room and then wheel up right next to my bed and I felt him looming over me. When I jolted myself awake in fear, I was in the same exact like position that I was in during my dream and everything in my room looked exactly the same like my eyes had been open the whole time and it was only that the man in the wheelchair was gone now.
So stoked to hear Shane is a Courage fan. That show remains a favorite of mine. The spooky scene that always sticks with me is the Violin Girl who turns around and shrieks at Courage. Stuff of nightmares
I just fucking love Courage bc he's portrayed as this coward but if you think abt it, the shit he has to deal with to protect Muriel makes him so damn brave. He really is the embodiment of courage :(
@@irenic_raccoonThat's the crux of the show, courage is not the absence of fear, that's recklessness. Real courage is doing what you feel is right even when you are scared, and that describes our little pink dog to a tee.
wasn't their an episode where we see courage's real parents sent to space to die or smthn and it almost happens to courage as well also i remember the freaky Fred episode where he had a big scary smile and kept saying naughty in a weird voice, and his whole thing was like he tried to steal courage's fur and he talked in rhymes
I’ve rewatched/listened to this episode a bunch of times and I cannot stress enough how much I would enjoy listening to Shayne and other cast members read each other short stories or long stories idk anything, like they all have such great voices especially Shayne since he’s had so much practice lol. Y’all should make that “show”. Doesn’t even have to have visuals you could could like pull a Buzzfeed Unsolved and put the words on the screen as they read the story and others react to it
WOW, Candle Cove is such a great story. It's super believable because of how relatable it is when you try to remember stuff and unlock memories like that of weird stuff from your childhood.
That Courage the Cowardly dog episode with the slab really freaked me out too. It's the alternate animation style that did it for me, like, he really didn't belong on the same plane of existence as the rest of the characters
LOL!! RIGHT!!! 💯 Good call. The show, What We Do In The Shadows had an episode where the (Eastern European comedic) vampires living in The States received one!! LOL
I’ve never heard these stories before, and Candle Cove was by far the most unsettling to me! Recollection is always a fun time until you remember why you forgot about it. And the twist at the end is crazy good!
i got so excited when you started reading candle cove, but then i quickly realized i didn't actually know it like i thought i did. the most intense deja vu i've ever had. really fun that it happened on a creepy pasta episode!! i wonder if i had actually heard it when i was in middle school... the ending really got me and i feel like i would've remembered it. maybe it was a different story told through a fake forum.
The storytelling was great but the details got him. One is only calling Bigfoot, Bigfoot and not Sasquatch and the other is the Colorado setting like he even said PNW and then made it Colorado 😂
Mirrors are what freak me out, because I’m always scared that my reflection would start doing whatever it wanted, while I remained motionless or vice versa.
dude the mirror thing that amanda mentioned is so relatable bc a few years back my mom’s friend brought over a few things from her moms house bc she had just passed away & they were moving stuff around. well one of those things was a vintage mirror, it was in the living room & i was in my room and i heard glass break, mind you i’m home ALONE. i walk out into the kitchen and a glass that was on a stand on the dish drying rack, had fallen and landed all the way across the kitchen. it happened again and my mom forced the mirror out of the house 😭
22:25 I relate with this so heavily, i get sleep paralysis pretty often and I’ve tried standing up or screaming in the dream as a way to “fight back” or to take control over the perceived darkness. It seems to work honestly.
I've only had sleep paralysis once, and it felt like it lasted hours when it was probably 5 minutes. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced, and I get a LOT of bad night terrors that stick for ages. I sympathise so hard, so glad you found something that works!
Holy shit, Amanda talking about her mirror story unlocked a memory from my childhood. When I was younger I would spend the night at my grandparents' house a lot. They had a guest room that I would stay in at night and in that room they had a mirror. I don't know if it was just sleep paralysis or fear induced paralysis but I would always see something in the mirror behind me but I could never roll over to look away or close my eyes.
Poltergeist 3 was the most scared after of any scary movie I've seen when I was a child. I couldn't look in a mirror for DAYS after watching that movie. I think I was 9 when I saw it. When I would go to the bathroom, I would stare at the toilet and keep my head down so I wouldn't look up and see the huge bathroom over the sink/counter, lol.
As a kid I was afraid of staring at a flame, and public bathrooms - all because of Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes. Fire because of the episode where if you look directly into a flame, the "Fire Ghost" will be freed. Public bathrooms because of the "Ghastly Grinner" episode. That episode freaked me out, especially the bus driver scene. For years, I also thought there was a scene where the kids hid in a bathroom stall (or something like it) and the blue slime started pouring over the top of the door, so they crawl through the gap under the door and run. Turns out, there's no such scene, and it's a nightmare I had after watching the episode. Also had nightmares of blue slime pouring out of people's mouths. Never could watch that episode again. I also remember an episode where a vampire was using a hospital as a feeding ground. I was a sick kid so I ended up at ERs a lot. Sometimes I would see the red eyes and yellow fangs in the dark, and also my nightmares, especially if I'd been to the hospital recently. But I could still watch that episode if it came on. The other two? Nope.
Same. Also, after hearing about people that hide/live with others inside their home in secret... The thought that Mr widemouth isn't just imaginary gave me the most chills.
In regards to the staircase in the woods, I've seen one before. I was up north in the woods of Washington, visiting grandparents, and going for a walk. I got separated from the path for a second and turned around and couldn't find my way back, everything just looked the same. I was young, maybe about 14, and alone. I didn't think I'd gotten that far from camp but I couldn't hear anyone anymore. I knew there were bears around the area, and moose and large deer, so being off on my own already wasn't the greatest idea but I'd only expected to go down the path and loop back. I shouldn't have been gone for more than ten minutes. Trying to find my way back, I see a break in the trees and step out into a clearing, and in the dead center is a random staircase. My first thought was that maybe someone had started building a house here and then gave up for whatever reason, but the longer I stared at it the weirder it seemed. The ground around it was rotten, and the stairs looked too old to be a modern house. It looked like someone took a section of dead land from an ancient part of Europe and then dropped it in the middle of the woods. I also distinctly remember that there was no wind, but I heard breathing moving through the air as if the wind were suddenly loud. I didn't go anywhere near the staircase, I didn't want to walk through whatever was rotting on the ground, or touch whatever mold was clinging to the stairs themselves, so I turned around and walked the other way, eventually making it back to camp. In the end, I wasn't gone much longer than the planned ten minutes, maybe fifteen tops, so no one bothered asking me any questions and at the age I was I didn't talk much anyway so I didn't say anything. I hadn't thought about that in so long, and didn't even think much of it at the time either. I just thought it was odd. I was also way into Creepy Pastas at the time, so I'm surprised I never heard of this one until now. I don't think I'll be back in that area any time soon, but whenever I go back up I'll keep this story in mind.
@@alexandriav3956 I don't know what the original story is based on, considering I didn't know before this video that there WAS an original story, but yeah I'm being serious. Near where my grandparents live, I found an old creepy staircase in the woods. True story.
I seem to recall reading a story recently of a really old house that keeps decaying but one thing that seems to remain is the staircase...Aha, I found it. Madame Sherri Forest in Chesterville New Hampshire.
@@IzumisChild Holy crap that's legitimately cool! It's a lot more fairy tale looking than creepypasta horror-- as in those are stairs I wouldn't mind climbing to the the top of-- but awesome that there's pictures of this particular "Staircase in the woods." Not to mention a history behind it. I'm making a note of this place, maybe I'll visit it someday.
@@alexandriav3956i think they’re just playing around. Cause they said visiting grandparents but then say that they got “too far from camp” plus as someone who is from Washington, people are so obsessed with the woods around here that it would be a known thing especially if it’s anywhere near civilization/ a camp site Edit: To add, it’d be one thing if they meant like random stairs that are a part of a path/ blended into the earth because you do see those, they’re all man made from however long ago to make trails easier and sometimes they can look out of place but there is no random house steps like the ones described in the other posts or what you see online
Reading the candle cove story always gives me chills. I grew up in the early 2000s and talked to my friends about a disturbing show that always played after SpongeBob on Nickelodeon. I couldn’t remember the name but once I googled it with its description I found it was called Mr. Meaty, I used to be so scared of that show and used to cry when it came on. For anyone wondering from what I remembered the show had characters that looked like puppets and claymation had a love child. Where they ran a store (possibly a fast food place) that only sold meat and it always looked rancid. Such a strange show
that was early 2000s??? man time flies by fast, but i know what you mean. it had the same gross vibe of fanboy and chumchum but i didnt even realise those were over 10 years ago. x.x
I knew of its existence, but I never actually saw Mr. Meaty as a kid. For me, my fever dream childhood show that, although it never gave me the creeps, didn't feel real was the one with the talking hands with googly eyes. I can't remember the name of it now, starts with a "G" I think. I'm sure someone will know what I'm talking about. I honestly for the longest time thought I made that show up though cause no one talked about it and I was never able to describe it well enough to find anything about it online
Amanda playing with the flame at 51:20 had me laughing for no reason. I thought she was spooked by the story but had burned herself instead on the fake flame
Trolls isn't just a norwegian thing, it is scandinavian folklore so much so that we have a saying in swedish "när man talar om trollen" which translates to "when you speak of the trolls" which is basically a swedish/scandinavian version of "when you speak of the devil" it is really nice that Amanda got a tester of that folklore :D
i remember having nightmares after watching a powerpuff girls episode where the teacher is in like black and white and she standing in the playground and shes says in a monotone voice 'we've been standing here, waving goodbye, for 50 year' it still creeps me out now
you guys gotta do a spooky episode with damien even though its after halloween!!! you should read "scary stories to tell in the dark", im pretty sure the girl with her hand hanging off the side of her bed is from that book
22:34 omg yes me too! Sometimes, I look at a dark room and roll my eyes. Or sometimes I stare blankly. Or just say 'Oh, hey, what are you doing here?". And you know just randomly blurp out "Get out of my house or pay the bills!" haha
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Smosh Shayne: “Might not believe in ghosts, but let’s not test my luck”
Ghost files Shane: “Hey there, demons it’s me, ya boy”
When he was talking about his take on ghosts in the beginning it reminded me of Shane Madej. Then I had a Spider-Man meme moment when I realized they are both Shanes 😂
Smosh Shayne respects the Goat Man’s bridge
@@perfessorclown5543what bridge is that? I only know the ghoul boys bridge
@@weirdo337ha!
Shane is polish - so that hella tracks
"I respect peoples beliefs, and I respect that I don't know most stuff" is one of the most important sentences a human has ever said. Loves it.
Shayne Topp being the most goated human being and a gift to this earth
Then again it is important to challenge harmful beliefs - it comes with an asteriks.
FR
Although that's true, especially for Shayne, but sometimes "respect" isn't enough, because that "respect" is lacking respect.
@@Gya.. I don't really understand that?
Baby Shayne: "I'm the scariest thing here."
Adult Shayne: "The little creatures are the scariest."
I think you internalized the wrong message there, buddy
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
Hahah, I had the same kinda imagination as a kid. I'm the scariest thing here, I'm one with the darkness, I let it flow through me and absorb it becoming darker than dark. Probably why I still enjoy sleeping in the pitch black so much.
I was like Amanda, grew up orthodox, and when I was scared my mom told me guardian angels were watching over me. I took that literally, and imagined vague human shaped figures of light but with wings of an eagle. I dreamt of them too, and legit feel safe whenever I'm in an 'off' situation if I imagine them standing next to me. Pretty sure it's a placebo effect/me mind effing my self, but it's cool nonetheless lol
@@tinaday189 There's guardian angels that protect you from accidents and there's record keeper angels that write down every deed you make good or bad for the judgement day.
@@SuperFlawless2010 Never heard of those types before, even as a kid. Sounds more like Catholicism, like the guilt/Ave Maria thing?
the candle cove one is so good bc its actually a real experience that people had before streaming and stuff
in the 80's in irland, there was this kids show called zig and zag. I dont really know much about the show cause this is my parents experience, not mine but i know that alot of the characters were puppets. Either zig or zag, I don't remember but i think its zag, had a toy puppet called modge or something (even though zig and zag were puppets, i guess they weren't within the shows universe while modge was. puppetception). a while after modge was introduced, they stared doing this thing where zag would be left alone with modge and he would start to talk to zag which he hadn't done previously. modge was an entirely inanimate object that zag pretended would talk, kinda like rocko from elmo. over time modge got progressively meaner and more aggressive towards zag and since no one else knew that modge was alive, zaag couldnt tell anyone. THEN modge TOOK OVER THE SHOW for a few episodes and it all just went back to normal, traumatizing kids all across irland and making them think they were insane. Since this was in the 80's, all of the episodes where this happened weren't saved. Modge ended up getting his own adult tv show and that combined with every child in irland remembering this is the only proof that this ever even happened
Oh, but you can still found footage of Podge. In fact, there is an St Patrick episode here on youtube where he's the villian.
And the show you're saying it's called Podge & Rodge (also in RUclips)
The puppets for Zig and Zag appeared on an episode of The Big Fat Quiz of the 80s. They acted like it was a well known TV show. I'm American, so I have no idea. But I immediately knew what you were talking about because of it.
@@CharlesinTampa I mean, it was well known enough to get an animated reboot in the uk
Please do another creepypasta episode with Damien! Doesn't need to be halloweeeeeeen I want it
Damien AND Amanda, no reason to not have all three of them. there are way too many cryptids in the world to not explore the lore.
@@danilooliveira6580I mean Amanda hosts the show so I think it's automatically assumed that she'll be there.
@@offthesidelines ah, I assumed it would be a Damien and Shayne episode, but yeah, it makes sense.
Please!!!
I would love love love for them to talk about the fae folk, including pan's labyrinth
Honestly I feel like Mr. Wide mouth is death personified. Trying to tell you it's your time but the kid is fighting off death, rejecting it and telling it not today.
That’s what I was thinking, it sounds like someone coming to pick him up or anything, perhaps all happening in a dream but still
No it’s not, the kid wasn’t deathly sick. Although there are entities that exist between dimensions whose job is to trick you to other side. So basically they snatch your soul. This entity was trying to trick him.
yesssss, but personally i feel that Mr. Wide Mouth is more a personification of suicide/suicidal ideation. i know that's a little intense considering OP was 5, but the way he was trying to get the kid to jump was a big red flag for me
@sam.058 Plus he was trying to get him to juggle knives, which could be seen as him trying to get him to cut him self
I almost get the vibe that Mr. Wide Mouth is a Puckwudgie. A little fey creature thats known for mischief and potentially harming kids.
Amanda inviting Shane to see fairy houses is totally something that a Faerie would do…
The fae do tend to be tricksters and quite inviting, at least in the beginning...
Facts haha
AHA! This makes sense! Amanda is one of the Fae
You guys want to have history so bad 😢
The Mr. Wide Mouth story hit for me specifically because I had a ghost experience as a child where a figure I called "Mr. Nobody" wordlessly beckoned me to jump from the second story. I had seen him often before this. He never spoke - just stood nearby watching. I was stunned for a few moments but I said "no thank you" and walked away. After that I stopped seeing him - it went from every day to a couple rare glimpses before he was gone.
As soon as Shayne started talking about Courage the Cowardly Dog, everyone that's ever watched that show immediately knew that Amanda was about to learn about King Ramses.
The second he was like "there's an episode that haunts me and it haunts everybody," I knew exactly where he was going with it.
I thankfully don’t think I ever caught that one? The foot, however, freaked me the hell out. Not the voice, obviously, but the animation was just so OFF that it gave me the creeps to an insane degree.
He did the exact voice too
YES thiissssss
@@andrewepsilantis6574
"return the slab"👻
😱
The most terrifying thing growing up was the fact that my mom doesn't believe in ghosts, but she does believe in demons.
I had a coworker like that. He insisted that ghosts were demons.
Tomâto, tomáto.
All interpretations of spirits acting on our lives
That's fascinating. Do you mind expanding? No pressure.
I mean, spirits are spirits with different vibrations, and if we talk about demons, or low vibrational beings, they are more active than usual spirits at higher vibrational levels, depending on other stuff as well. I've been an avid person interested in spiritual and paranormal stuff for a long time, and it makes me kind of giggle when people say "Ghosts aren't real, but demons are" or "All ghosts are demonic" because they're probably not aware that their loved ones are also on the other side and they try to show signs that they are near. So my mind imagines like a silly comedy/horror film where a person who is alive experiences paranormal stuff and assumes its evil, but it's actually just their grandma who is bouncing around, doing silly stuff to make herself known, or a male family member being grumpy, rolling their eyes at the person freaking out.
Lol I’m the same as your mom
I wish y’all would create a separate horror podcast with reading stories just like this and not just for Halloween
Yessss
100 percent i was just thinking this
Not quite the same, but Wendigoon and Meat Canyon recently started a podcast doing just that! So far they've covered Jeff the Killer and Russian Sleep Experiment, and one more I can't remember off the top of my head
Edit: Search and Rescue was the first episode!
You should check out the Scared to Death podcast. This husband and wife read scary stories, he reads a couple found online or in books and then she reads a couple of stories listeners have sent in that happened to them. I freaking love it.
@@ccbot5000omg why did RUclips not notify me about these replies?? Nd my likes 😱 anyway thank you! I guess their podcast isn't on RUclips? I can't find it
It would be so cool to do an episode where smosh cast and crew members make up their own scary stories and present them like they’re real, but there is ONE story that IS real, and then Shane and Amanda have to guess which one it is.
The story of Mr. Widemouth oddly reminds me of a story from my own history that I only very recently got the "full" details of.
When I was little, my mother (a drug addict at the time) lived with a handful of friends who were also addicts. My sisters and I lived with our dad but there was a point of time where we did stay with her for reasons i cant really remember because i was too young. I remember this guy (im gonna call him johnny) that lived in the basement, He wasnt a creep or anything, he was actually one of the only people there, outside of my mom, that i was even remotely comfortable around. I remember him vividly. He had blonde hair and colorless tattoos on his arms that he used to let us color in with markers when we were bored. He used to babysit us from time to time. He taught me magic tricks with cards and coins and he let us play with his atari all the time. He was also more often than not the one who made sure we ate when our mom was... I dont know if she was out or locked in her room high on something, i honestly dont remember. All i know is he was a super super nice guy who I always enjoyed hanging around.
Eventually, we went back to living with our dad, im not sure how long a span there was between us moving back, and us seeing our mom again, but i know when we finally did see her again, Johnny had moved out, leaving all of his stuff behind, including his bed, the Christmas lights he had strung along the ceiling, and his atari.
One day, a few years ago, after my mother had gotten clean i got curious and asked her whatever happened to johnny, and why he left the way he did. She had no clue what i was talking about. I described Johnny and she just shook her head, insisting he must have been an imaginary friend. Which i might have believed, except no other man in my life knew magic tricks at that time. I didnt learn card tricks out of thin air and this was a time before easy access to the internet, so i couldnt have taught myself. And i just remember im so so vivedly. I asked my sisters and they both had VERY vague memories of him that they argued could have been memories of other males in our life that they were just confusing. I asked my mom again and she insisted there wasnt any man living in our basement, and even if there had been, she certainly never would have left us alone with him, which... i cant actually argue. Despite all her flaws growing up, one thing she WAS always careful about was who she left us alone with and she almost NEVER left us alone with men. So after a while I decided she must be right. After all, i was young enough at the time I could have confused my memories, even if some things still didnt add up, like how my mother who was struggling to afford food could have possibly gotten a nice, brand new atari, or why not a single male in my life has the colorless tattoos i remember so clearly. Even my sister remembered those. But like i said, i chalked it up to coincidence.
At least, until I ran into an old friend of my moms, one of which used to live in that house with us. And not even trying to prove anything, purely curious, i asked her if she ever remembered a man living in the basement. She got kind of weird when I described him and after a while she said yes. She remembered him.
At first i was super excited, becasue it meant i was right and he had existed. I figured maybe my mom had just been in too bad a state back then to remember. My excitement shriveled up and died when she proceeded to say she was surprised i even remembered him though, because according to her, i only ever met him once, our very first day living there. Said he overdosed on something that very night.
I want to say i think she was confused, but the crazy thing is, after she said as such, i vividly remember my mom waking us up super early and taking us to the park and us staying there for like a crazy long time, and her refusing to take us home when we asked, not until one of her roommates walked down and got us, just like the woman told me.
I dont know what to believe. On the one hand, I know how crazy it sounds to believe we spent time with a ghost or spirit or something, but there are so many memories i have of him that im CERTAIN happened, all of which couldnt have happened in one day. And when it comes to the minds of an addict, you have to be weary with what you believe. On the other hand, a lot of arguements my mom made about this man not living with us make sense. And I DO recall that day, our mom forcing us out of the house and keeping us at the park for way longer than reasonable. Maybe long enough to have emts collect a body?
All I know if I remember Johnny being a kind, caring man who worked hard to keep us happy and safe. Whether he did that in the form of a man or a spirit, doesnt matter, I will always be grateful.
I know not all addicts are bad people they just made a bad mistake that is hard for them to pull themselves out of the lucky ones are the ones who do before they die
That's actually beautiful.
@@MsKaz1000 well said. I've always been grateful my mother managed to be one of the lucky ones who did pull herself out, even if it took a while.
I don't believe in ghosts or anything supernatural until proven otherwise, and scientifically there's no possibility of ghosts, so I believe there's a logical explanation for this. We're aware that human memory is unreliable, in fact it's one of the most unreliable things, it's really easy to even implant false memories into people, there were science experiments about it where people people after a few sessions started to believe in things that never happened, they even swore by them, so I think it's possible that one of you misremembered. You could've because you were a child, but you have some memories that are harder to disprove. Your mother also could've misremembered because she was high (I used to be an addict as well so I know how easy it is to forget things, or mix up the days, so many people I've met that I don't even remember). But also your mom's friend could be wrong, was she an addict as well? It's possible that he was there longer but she only remembered meeting him and him overdosing because those are more memorable. Or maybe you saw it on TV if you had one? Or one of your friends taught you magic tricks or something else? Or like you said there were multiple people but your memory combined all of them into Johnny, because he was the most memorable physically. I'm not sure but either way it's a fun story. I'm glad your mom is sober now. Hope you're having a great day! 💜
Oh and I forgot to add, I also have false memories as well.
For example, I vividly remember my dad taking a photo of me when I was really young, and I remember I was drooling as the photo was taken. My mom said it was impossible because I was a little older than a newborn, and that I probably saw the photo that was taken when I was a little older and I imagined it and it became my memory.
The other thing I vividly remember is that my dad was holding me up above his head and he accidentally smacked me into a ceiling lamp. I'm really convinced I remember it, and I remember how I felt and that I didn't want to cry because I didn't want to make him feel guilty and stop playing with me (probably because he was and still is abusive and this was the only memory I had in my entire life where he was smiling and not yelling at me or something worse). But my mom says that I was too young to remember and that she told me that story when I was a little older and I imagined it while she was telling me, so I believed I experienced it.
Those two examples, no matter how impossible it sounds that I remembered them, I still can't fully believe it was just my imagination, although I know it's not possible, I still have a really vivid memory of those events. It's like I can't trust my mind at all, and it's strange that something false feels so real.
“Ghosts are just people without sweaters on” I love it
In another recent video Shayne claimed that "ghosts are just people without their armour" 😭 Mans has the view on ghosts of all time
@@BusinessSkrub He says “ghosts are just people without their armor”, but I say it’s the opposite. Ghosts are just people without their weaknesses.
@@BusinessSkrub he says that a surprising amount LMAO
“RETUUUURN THE SLAAAAAB” I love how everyone remembers how uncanny and horrifying that was lmao
I love that show so much but THAT EPISODE TRAUMATIZED ME TO THIS DAY! 😭😭😭
That's one of my favorite episodes!
When Shayne said "The one Courage the Cowardly Dog episode that haunted everyone" I immediately knew it was that episode xD
The one with the fetus thing was worse
@@ckirradOMG!!! Yeah! That one HAUNTED me when I was younger! That show had no business being geared to kids.
When I heard 'Ive taken many friends around your age down this trail' i was not excepting a cemetery I thought it would be a 'he led them there at night in the dark off a cliff.' type thing
the lore drop of Amanda’s sister being a hypno-therapist… love that.
My dad is one,it didn't surprise me lol
Are you surprised she’s a therapist?
@@Gizbi no. why would her being a therapist surprise me?
I love the Mr Wide Mouth story cause it feels like Mr Wide Mouth is like an amalgamation or metaphor for suicidal thoughts the OP might have been feeling while sick and helpless, especially with all the moving they'd to do. I'm not even sure if OP knew they had them. Almost like their mind created Mr Wide Mouth as a way for them to confront those thoughts and fears. Either to give into them or reject them as they did, they needed to be confronted and making them an entity to physically deny is a way to do that.
That's always my thought whenever I hear the story. I mean not exactly with suicidal thoughts specifically because, although possible, it's weird to think about a 5 year old contemplating suicide. Rather it was always fever induced hallucinations and intrusive thoughts being manifested into reality.
I have struggled with suicidal thoughts in the past and have had a similar “vision.” Definitely not to the extent as Mr. Wide mouth but there was this person I’d talk to who’d try to convince me to follow through. Though the person was more a mangled image of myself rather than a gremlin and could not physically manipulate things which makes me think he’s a demon of some sort.
All deffinelty interesting though
and that mr wide mouth would go away when his parents would come in, like he was hiding how he felt for their sake but was too young to make sense of having that reaction because its a bit complex to make that connection whether hes aware hes doing it or not
or in a less poetic interpretation there was a very sneaky, creepy man trynna kill kids and burned the house down after they moved out
That was my first thought too. But if that was the intent I like it wasn't outright stated. I like the ambiguity.
It's a creepypasta don't give too much thought into it
Sidenote: I love how real the fake flames of the candles look, it took me a good 5 minutes in the beginning to notice that the wax wasn't melting.
me too dude, me too😂
I’ve been staring at these damn candles the entire video
It adds to the supernatural aesthetic, honestly.
@@paolopasaol9700almost like they’re there on purpose to enhance the set.
they look so real but what makes them eerie is that the flames don't move at all with their breath
24:46 monsters that are portrayed as little things are always scarier to me because it feels like a disguise. like "oh look, im just a little thing, i cant hurt you, im so small"
oh my god the staircase story! i immediately went “no fuck off!!” when i realized what story shane was reading. my god i went far far DEEP into the story, i read too many parts and it freaked me out so bad i stopped reading creepypastas altogether. the scary thing is is that i don’t know whether this story is real or if it’s just a creepypasta. i assumed it was because it was on reddit but it is also written in a way that rings truth. but then again, if it is just a story, it’s scary in and of itself
That one messed me up when I first read it because I had found a staircase in the woods when I was growing up. Chills. Like I’m sure it was actually just some leftover foundation, but yikes!
The staircases are really out there but they are apparently a leftover art installation - I saw a RUclips video where someone had researched the origin of the woods stairs 😅 dunno if that makes it less creepy 🤷
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they were like, 50-80% true, with the fake ones sprinkled in on BOTH ends of believability.
It’s all fake. It’s work by an author on r/nosleep, a horror-fiction subreddit where the gimmick is all stories must be treated as nonfiction.
The RUclips videos I've seen about the stairs in the woods messed me up. Couldn't sleep, had to go lay down with my kids and put on some happy sleep music or lo-fi or something, couldn't watch anything dark or spooky or even true crime.
The stories about what happens in the Appalachian mountains creep me out too
Kinda random, but does anyone else think Shayne should read for audible or something? His voice is so even and he reads things so easily. Anyway, loved the episode as always.
i was literally thinking while watching this " smosh should have a show where shayne just reads books to us" lol and they decorate it like a study in a mansion
When Anthony and Ian come out with their Smosh biography Shane will be the audiobook narrator 😂
@@laylamh318I think they’ll get t-pain again
Ok but what about The Chosen as an audible reader
@@sisterpwincess9772lol I would love that!
As a Norwegian, when I was little, my dad used to tell me the huge rocks and boulders in the woods were trolls asleep.
that must be what inspired frozen
Because they are.
SAME (except northern swede here)!!! there was also a like youth counselor person who told tons of scary stories that were literally so iconic with like faeries and trolls and also the devil and sstuff
@@yoshita4140 the second Frozen movie is inspired by Sami culture who still live and herd reindeer in the area now called Norway.
Mr. Wide-Mouth story is amazing. Imagine making it a thriller and unfolding the history of that entity when the kid grew up? The potential is just amazing.
I want Shayne to go on Watcher's "Are You Scared?" series SO BAD
Oh God YES this would be so fun. There's a ton of opportunities for Smosh/Watcher crossover content
REALLL or ghost files investigating haunted areas omgg
Ayes
Dude I love watching that and this gave me the same vibe! That’d be such a good crossover!
I love how Shayne is a skeptic like Shane Madej but copes with his fears like Ryan Bergara, trying to be scarier or crazier than what scares him
5:38 reminded me so much of something Shane Madej would do
Would love to see him ghost hunt with them 😂 the perfect in-between
I IMMEDIATELY knew Shane was gonna talk about Ramses when he mentioned Courage. The “return the slab” shot still haunts me. Cartoon Network kids got to watch all the horrifying stuff.
That episode turned me off of the show. I loved the show until that episode.
I thought he was gonna talk about cousin fred
this feels so crazy cause everyone got traumatized by that episode but it was a regular ctcd episode for me 😭😭 cause as a kid i basically mindlessly watched things (like not reacting to any show whatsoever) cause there was nothing else to do
That scene was so haunting to me as a child. There were so many mature storyline shows that I'm supposed how dumbed down the current kid ones are now
@@archer2858traumatized 😭 but I still loved courage
22:35 That's literally me when I turn my head, acting like I'm locking eyes with a demon in the darkness. "You dare waltz into MY dance floor?"
Candle Cove is a perfect example of a good horror story because it relies on a known feeling and environment that you can relate to but hasn't been used much as a trope (Old childhood show memories and online forums) and it builds a creepiness factor up in a way that can almost sound real. The ending is the perfect conclusion to instill fear because it raises a million questions and preys on the fear of the unknown and stays grounded instead of like what Shane said where it becomes "and then they tried to kill everyone."
There's a Tv show based on that story called Channel Zero!!
you should look up clips of “The Brothers Grimm”. it’s basically the same idea as pirate cove except Grimm is actually real and has horrifying images
Thought for a second he meant crystal cove like Scooby Doo 🤣😭
I thought it was the weaker story. Having the comments post detailed descriptions for every element felt stilted plus the climax kind of jumped the shark because not only is a shared delusion by completely unconnected people just beyond comprehensible, it also had no real threat.
@@Droid6689also it's just one singular mother saying the show didn't exist. The lady's in a nursing home, she might have memory issues lol. Now if all parents couldn't see the show it would be different
The moment Shane said 'Courage the Cowardly Dog', I said "RETURN THE SLABBBB" very dramatically. I started laughing like crazy when he started talking about that same episode. It's the only episode I truly remember I'm glad that I'm not the only one who can't forget it.
Saaame!! Hahahaha I knew he was going to mention that episode. 🤣
LITERALLY!!!!
Glad I'm not the only one. Did the exact same.
That episode just lurks in the depths of my mind and comes up randomly and I’m just disturbed for a second 😂
Me too 😂😂😂😂
Shayne saying “I respect that I don’t know most stuff” is honestly so intelligent and respectable. Like I love that so much.
he is so me. and i always respect people who aren't hard-headed and completely closed-minded with that stuff
41:06 as soon as Shayne says courage, I KNEW it was about returning the slab. Lol
So sad Damien couldnt be here for this episode, you guys should definitely do a rain check and do another scary, creepy episode with him even if it isnt Halloween season anymore then.
I second this!!
agree!
Yeeessssssssss!
The truly scary shit is that Shayne completely convinced me he had seen Big Foot, even when I had just listened to him say “THIS IS NOT REAL”.
Agreed
22:50 once my kids started to work about monsters in their room I told them that monsters don't come into our house because they are scared of us. It really works.
My grandma told me that they only come to hotels. My mom got so mad at her but it actually worked
told my kid our 110 lb dog eats monsters and that’s how he got so big 😂
I NEED MORE SPOOKY SCARY SMOSH CONTENT
The mirror story gets me thinking about that old tradition of covering all the mirrors in a house when someone dies, because their soul could get trapped in the mirror when it tries to go to the afterlife.
I have bought mirrors from thrift stores or antique stores and I have to cleanse them bc the one time I didn’t I was so scared of even looking into the mirror or having it hung up. There was something about it that made me feel so terrified.
At one point in my life I was an occult specialist for a paranormal investigation team. Shane's attitude towards the unexplained is the healthiest attitude and the attitude you want your team to have.
I think it’s why the only RUclips paranormal team I enjoy watching is twin paranormal. They’re so respectful on their hunts even when they’re scared and they apologize for scaring the spirits or reacting certain ways. That’s how I think more people need to be and I honestly buy that they get more responses because they are respectful
Why? Serious question
Just adding in that believers are also more likely to "experience" things like headaches, nausea, dizziness, anxiety, etc. when investigating even when there is no other sign or experience that points towards paranormal. I'm not discounting feelings because I have had feelings about things/people/places that have turned out to be true and have seen others with abilities that I can't completely explain away (also met plenty of fakes too). The fake feelings someone has because their brain gives them what they want can be very harmful when investigating because the point isn't to prove somewhere is haunted but to try and disprove everything. If you find something you can't disprove then you can start exploring the possibility of it being paranormal. Also feelings aren't evidence unless the can be backed by more tangible evidence. We had a girl who joined us on a trial basis who would get "feelings" and then have scratch marks appear where she felt like she had been touched, then I caught her on hidden camera scratching herself on purpose so she could get attention and pretend to be sensitive. Scratches can be evidence but are treated with suspicion unless caught on camera and since feelings can't be caught on camera and be undeniably real and not faked they aren't evidence.
@@Allunastarr8 I literally seen My high school Crush's FULL apparition (died By suicide) And Its actually hardest death ive ever had to deal with where i literally couldnt go to the funeral Because i couldnt see him like that and that part of me didnt want to believe it if that makes sense. but i've been trying to tell him he needs to go to the light and that hes loved and That There's hope and love waiting on the otherside for him. (crush cause i couldnt go out with him cause i had homophobic parents that made me suppress my urges/sexuality (bisexual). and also wiht all that being said even when i was growing up i was more sensitive to things then others like I could feel The emotions off people but thats about it.
my creative writing degree is screaming. I took a class on writing the uncanny, which is really close to what creepy pasta is. It is a very hard genre to write and to write well. So hearing people who write these creepy pastas that are done so well, I love it
one of the creepiest stories ive heard was one that loeylane read years ago called Dear David. the story alone was creepy but with the pic/video evidence it was so much more scary.
The staircase is legit. Tons of park rangers and SAR officers have reported them in many different national parks. The last guy's stories ring true to a lot of missing 411 cases. They're real and truly terrifying
i saw a tiktok of a guy who walked from his house to the woods with a door and then got mad because there was already a door there LMAO so now im imagining people just taking stairs to the woods 😭
@@clownbattery there’s so many stories/cases documenting the stairs in the woods, crazy disappearances, and even rescues where rangers find the missing kid/person in a place they couldn’t possibly have gotten on their own (or at all). There’s also plenty of found kids that talk about a “Bear Man”, “Hairy Man”, etc., that abducted them, carried them, or helped them. Really insane stuff 😳
Reminds me of Jenna and Julien's podcast where they were talking about it in the beginning of the podcast because it freaked Jenna out so much
and you know damn well I'd step up em
I've seen these staircases, just don't go near them peeps. They're real.
the staircase thing is somewhat real: i’ve been hiking with a friend and we’ve found several of them. however, they’re usually a part of some long forgotten mining operation. still gives me the creeps though
If it’s mining then it makes sense why in the story he’s told not to go near them. I think the stories are fictional but I wonder if a hiking experience inspired it.
@officialmilkman491 common folklore where? The internet told me about the staircases in the forest and it was the first time I heard about it (like ten years ago) and I grew up being able to explore the forest to my discretion
@officialmilkman491 i think folklore and legend are both acceptable. I just wanna know where people are finding these staircases lol
Those stairs are real, I was always told to never walk near/up them because the faeries would take you away forever. I’m still scared shitless of them because of the Search and Rescue stories.
I’m sorry but Amanda at 51:15 touching the flames on the (presumably fake) candles and mouthing “ow!” every time killed me 😂😂😂
Same 😂😂
Even if they're fake, Im sure that the bulbs are still pretty hot. Still brings into question why she would touch them regardless lol
Thanks for pointing that out 😂 I missed it the first time
@@I-do-what-I-want impulsive
@@I-do-what-I-want what are you talking about? Each action would be classed the same lmao
Re-warching while waiting for today's new creepy pastas smoshmouth 😊😊
THIS IS THE BEST PART OF MONDAY
Too true
AMEN! I’ve got this hooked up to AirPods during class….
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Same
Monday is like my second favorite day recently lol
Hearing Shayne describe Courage the Cowardly Dog is exactly what I needed today 😂
Dude I love how it’s so popular with spooky side of gen z. Like I remember watching reruns of it, since it had ended before I was allowed to watch tv, but it’s such a good show
41:37 That episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog was creepy but the one with the creepy, psycho barber who just kept saying "I'm just a little naughty" sent chills down my spine. I don't remember anyone else being scared of it beside me, but that episode still stays with me.
The one that got me was the puppet episode. I was of course horrified by the fact that Muriel and Eustace became human puppets, but more so that Courage just... kept living life with them? There was no resolution, they DIED. And he kept acting out their life and I was just like WTH
Me, it terrified me! And I tried explaining it to my husband and he looked at me sideways 😂
That barber guy was the absolute bain of my existence I HATED him because he just reminded me of a creepy old man that would creep but not enough to actually get caught or in trouble which always made me feel worse.
@@hannahbaldwin7248 omg both these episodes were always so freaky to me, the human puppets especially, just watching that even when I'm no longer the small child I was back then, I'm still freaked out, BUT the episode that absolutely horrified me was the one with the spirit of the harvest moon
Duuuuudeee courage was something I definitely shouldn't have watched. The barber STILL haunts me and it has been 20 years 😂
What bothered me the most about Candle Cove is the fact that some kids probably kept watching the show after the screaming episode.
Every episode, I learn so many wild/cool facts about Amanda. The fact that one of her sisters is a hypnotherapist is perfect
Dude I’m actually so happy Shayne mentioned the “return the slab” guy he haunted me too
Shayne's point of view on ghosts is like, the exact reason I'm agnostic, there are things that are completely beyond human understanding, and until they are confirmed , to me, you need to just accept uncertainty to a certain degree
Like there is a philosophy of science that talks about things like that if one wants to learn stuff.
@@Jimunu tell me more
That said, the brain is soooo powerful that it so easily explains “ghosts” and such. Your body can move on its own volition without you ever comprehending it. It’s pretty insane everything our brains are doing.
The fact that Mr. wide mouth was the first story and I watched that back and I think 2015 probably on snarled they made a animation for it so cool!
I’m Norwegian, and I got so exited when they stared talking about trolls lol, it made me remember a different monster from Norwegian folklore called ‘Nøkken’ it’s basically this man-ish hairball with teeth looking creature that lures people to drown, it can transform itself into a horse, a beautiful man, or just straight up invisible and its especially dangerous past sunset. I learnt about it in I think history class or something one time (I think we were learning history, and my teacher pulled up a picture and told us about it) just wanted to tell bc it made me remember, love it when content creators give my country a cameo lmao
Yes!!! I'm Norwegian too (hei forresten) and I f-ing LOVED Nøkken when I was young, like 5yo. Read all about him on my slow-af brick laptop and in brick sized books at the library, utterly fascinated by the myth of a creature hiding in a forest pond/lake, looking like a wet hairball with teeth, as you said! I was obsessed lol. It still brings a huge smile to my face whenever I'm reminded of Nøkken, even though it's a bit macabre maybe, it was my first memory of the fun of learning about spooky stuff!
@@tinaday189 heiii haha, det var kult å høre! Vet sikkert ikke i nærheten av likt mye som du gjør om Nøkken men er enig, det er en kjempekul myte og skapning! Og gleder til å lære mer om den, gøy å høre om noen som syntes det samme :D
In Britain our drowning monster is the kelpie. For some reason it looks like a horse most of the time, but it shapeshifts to lure people into water too.
Obviously there's a lot of crossover between Norwegian and British mythology, but I wonder if that idea of a monster that can disguise itself to lure the unwary to a watery grave is more universal. These stories usually have their roots in some real world lesson; perhaps it's just "water can be dangerous, be careful when you're near it", but water bodies can have quite a hypnotic effect; the shapeshifting may be inspired by the way water reflects light, or just how it can seem much shallower than it actually is.
Or maybe the lesson is "don't go swimming with attractive strangers: I don't want any grandchildren just yet".
@@18Hongo I love the kelpie! Me and my cousin used to play that we were it as kids haha.. and it is interesting to think about how these things became stories, what people saw(or thought they saw) and what meanings they were trying to convey,, also I read your whole comment in a British accent lol
Also it’s definitely interesting that there are two drowning monsters that look like horses, makes me wonder why people associated horses with the water and drowning lol
@@ihyenayou That association between horses and drowning is curious, isn't it?
Shayne just coming up with his own bigfoot story off the top of his head like that and be able to tell it like an actual believable memory is so impressive to me.
I wish I was able to tell stories like that. Also Amanda's reactions felt like she had legitimately forgot that the story was supposed to be fake lmao
I actually saw a clip of this segment before watching this episode and legit thought it was real.😂
I know it was amazing. 😂
@@Karia_Winchester me too! It's why I watched this specific episode in the first place 😂
I definitely saw the clip first and thought it was real LOL thatll teach me to double check sources haha
Shayne constantly blows my mind with how intelligent he is, in-tune with himself, and is respectful and always willing to listen when others have a differing opinion. I wish I met a guy like this! You can tell he’s a psych major!
Hearing that staircase one really freaked me out. A few years ago i was doing reasearch on unexplained missing persons cases for a story i was working on. I read one artical about a woman who had gone missing for a while before eventually showing up in the middle of the woods looking ragged but not like she had been gone for as long as she had been missing. She said she had been on a walk when she came across a a set of stairs and a door (or maybe one or the other i cant remember) and when she went though the door she ended up in another dimension. She said she eventually found her way back but no one believed her. I had totally forgotten about it until shayne read about the stairs, and i remeber the article saying that if you ever find stairs or a door in the woods, dont go near it
I love that Amanda is so comfortable with the smosh crew and feels like she can open up about her "beliefs"- even if she isn't certain of some
to me ghosts/spirits are what christians call "Angels" which are dead humans who are usually attached to something if they didnt go to the light/heaven if that makes sense
32:58 Shayne encounters a word he’s definitely only read and never heard out loud, a universal experience for people who read a lot (if you’ve also never heard it out loud, it’s calliope, kuh-lie-oh-pee)
I only know this word because of Manfred Mann's Blinded by the Light, one of the best most under-rated songs ever made.
"With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin'
The calliope crashed to the ground"
That's how people from the Midwest say it... kal-ee-ope 😂😂
he also said bow instead of bow, when it's actually pronounced like bow....he said bow like to tie a bow around a present, when the bow of a ship is the same as to take a bow . B-aa-ow?
I would and will definitely get Calliope wrong
tma reference
Shayne really, really likes his “ghosts are just people with out their armor” line
right 😂
YES! I hoped we'd hear about some stairs in the woods stories. I love the community that developed around around that lore. I also think about that ALL THE TIME.
Amanda, I have the same types of dreams/nightmares where you see the room around you just like it is, but there are other things in it (occasionally terrifying enough to wake me screaming). I spoke with a sleep doctor about them and he said they are called hypnogogic hallucinations (not night terrors). They are basically lucid dreams, where you are still asleep, but your eyes are open so you see your surroundings and your subconscious brain is adding in other elements that aren’t there. Some of my most memorable ones:
I couldn’t tell who was sleeping next to me, so I jumped out of bed and stared over the edge at him. My husband then looked over and said, “Cris, what are you doing?”, which woke me up enough to realize it was my husband, so I wordlessly just crawled back into bed and fell asleep again. That one gave us a good chuckle the next morning.
The scarier ones were things like giant spiders descending from the ceiling or small alien ships sweeping down to attack us. But the worst one was when we rented a cabin for our anniversary one year (so different bed/room than I was used to). I thought I woke up and saw a strange person enter the room and approach the bed really fast. I have never screamed so loud in my life… Completely freaked my poor husband out as well! He quickly tried to calm me down and asked what was wrong, and when I said someone came into the room, he just said, “no, it’s okay, there’s no one here.” But it took him a while to convince me because when I shot up in bed screaming, I saw the person turn around and run out of the room, so I thought maybe they were still in the cabin. I’m not easily scared, but that one terrified me!
Yes thank you! I have both hypnagogic (falling asleep) and hypnopompic (waking up) hallucinations
I had some dreams and they are the same asleep in bed and look over tv was with static and a dark figure of a head and shoulder basically moved into screen look like it's looking into the room then dissapears. Goes on for a couple hours and doesn't change even if I look away and try hide
I got those dreams when I was a kid but can't really remember what they were about. I've had only one dream like that in my adulthood, and I was sleeping with my fiancé, and a man entered the bedroom, he had a mask on and a knife in his hand, and I remember seeing him at the foot of the bed like, it was so real !! My fiancé woke up, shook me awake, and said I had started to breath heavily like I was in a panic attack ! That was freaking scary !!
Yup. These are a key symptom of (but not exclusive to) Narcolepsy Types 1 and 2
This happened to me! One time and only once but im so glad it’s actually a thing and im not crazy!
I was basically laying in my bed when I saw this man in a wheelchair come into my room and then wheel up right next to my bed and I felt him looming over me. When I jolted myself awake in fear, I was in the same exact like position that I was in during my dream and everything in my room looked exactly the same like my eyes had been open the whole time and it was only that the man in the wheelchair was gone now.
So stoked to hear Shane is a Courage fan. That show remains a favorite of mine. The spooky scene that always sticks with me is the Violin Girl who turns around and shrieks at Courage. Stuff of nightmares
He was feeling...Naughty... 😊
I just fucking love Courage bc he's portrayed as this coward but if you think abt it, the shit he has to deal with to protect Muriel makes him so damn brave. He really is the embodiment of courage :(
@@irenic_raccoonThat's the crux of the show, courage is not the absence of fear, that's recklessness.
Real courage is doing what you feel is right even when you are scared, and that describes our little pink dog to a tee.
wasn't their an episode where we see courage's real parents sent to space to die or smthn and it almost happens to courage as well also i remember the freaky Fred episode where he had a big scary smile and kept saying naughty in a weird voice, and his whole thing was like he tried to steal courage's fur and he talked in rhymes
@@Therian13I wrote a paper in college on that episode 😂
Ok these were WAY creepier than the last scary stories session. This was a completely elevated creep vibe. I may not sleep tonight lol
Me too 🥲🥲🥲🥲
shayne's bigfoot story actually had me in tears wtf i got goosebumps
I'm so glad creepy pasta is still around after all these years. They're freaking wild and I'm glad you guys made this ep
r/nosleep is equally as good.
Amanda and Shayne have such excellent chemistry, I beg that you guys do another creepy pasta episode. Nothing beats friends telling spooky stories!
Shane:
*Recounts story about how a CGI scene disturbed him so much he remembers it form childhood*
Also Shane:
"CGI will never scare me."
I think he meant CGI in live action movies
I’ve rewatched/listened to this episode a bunch of times and I cannot stress enough how much I would enjoy listening to Shayne and other cast members read each other short stories or long stories idk anything, like they all have such great voices especially Shayne since he’s had so much practice lol. Y’all should make that “show”. Doesn’t even have to have visuals you could could like pull a Buzzfeed Unsolved and put the words on the screen as they read the story and others react to it
I know that Damien was supposed to be in this one today, but please do the spooky ones more often and have him do them! 👻
Back to back spooky stories is a win in my book
WOW, Candle Cove is such a great story. It's super believable because of how relatable it is when you try to remember stuff and unlock memories like that of weird stuff from your childhood.
There's a TV show based on that story called Channel Zero!!
That Courage the Cowardly dog episode with the slab really freaked me out too. It's the alternate animation style that did it for me, like, he really didn't belong on the same plane of existence as the rest of the characters
I feel like maybe the original creepypasta would be those spooky chain emails we all used to get lol
LOL!! RIGHT!!! 💯
Good call.
The show, What We Do In The Shadows had an episode where the (Eastern European comedic) vampires living in The States received one!! LOL
I’ve never heard these stories before, and Candle Cove was by far the most unsettling to me! Recollection is always a fun time until you remember why you forgot about it.
And the twist at the end is crazy good!
"until you remember why you forgot about it." Ooh , perfectly said!!!
you should watch the first season of Channel Zero then. it's a great adaptation imo.
Candle Cove is a masterpiece!! I love the feeling of twisted nostalgia that it gives off. I bring it up every time creepypastas are mentioned 😂
If you ever heard of a welcome home, it is almost the exact same thing.
i got so excited when you started reading candle cove, but then i quickly realized i didn't actually know it like i thought i did. the most intense deja vu i've ever had. really fun that it happened on a creepy pasta episode!! i wonder if i had actually heard it when i was in middle school... the ending really got me and i feel like i would've remembered it. maybe it was a different story told through a fake forum.
the way shane prefaced his story by saying he's never seen big foot, and yet i still believed him proves how good of an actor he really is
The storytelling was great but the details got him. One is only calling Bigfoot, Bigfoot and not Sasquatch and the other is the Colorado setting like he even said PNW and then made it Colorado 😂
I loved Amanda's reactions
Mirrors are what freak me out, because I’m always scared that my reflection would start doing whatever it wanted, while I remained motionless or vice versa.
I’ve had this fear since I was a child because I watched the movie mirrors lol
Can we please have a Nightmare Before Christmas spooky session with Damien? I'm BEGGING-
SAME, he needed to be here 😔
dude the mirror thing that amanda mentioned is so relatable bc a few years back my mom’s friend brought over a few things from her moms house bc she had just passed away & they were moving stuff around. well one of those things was a vintage mirror, it was in the living room & i was in my room and i heard glass break, mind you i’m home ALONE. i walk out into the kitchen and a glass that was on a stand on the dish drying rack, had fallen and landed all the way across the kitchen. it happened again and my mom forced the mirror out of the house 😭
i’m so glad amanda brings new england to smosh because i thought everyone knew about fairy houses
22:25 I relate with this so heavily, i get sleep paralysis pretty often and I’ve tried standing up or screaming in the dream as a way to “fight back” or to take control over the perceived darkness. It seems to work honestly.
I've only had sleep paralysis once, and it felt like it lasted hours when it was probably 5 minutes. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced, and I get a LOT of bad night terrors that stick for ages. I sympathise so hard, so glad you found something that works!
Holy shit, Amanda talking about her mirror story unlocked a memory from my childhood.
When I was younger I would spend the night at my grandparents' house a lot. They had a guest room that I would stay in at night and in that room they had a mirror. I don't know if it was just sleep paralysis or fear induced paralysis but I would always see something in the mirror behind me but I could never roll over to look away or close my eyes.
Poltergeist 3 was the most scared after of any scary movie I've seen when I was a child. I couldn't look in a mirror for DAYS after watching that movie. I think I was 9 when I saw it. When I would go to the bathroom, I would stare at the toilet and keep my head down so I wouldn't look up and see the huge bathroom over the sink/counter, lol.
Best part of this video was Amanda's mirror story, so good! and the ending with the random woman picking it up instantly??? crazy
The "are you afraid of the dark" episode with the little girl in the mirror haunts me. Fun fact the protagonist character was called Amanda.
The one with the little kid who stood outside of the window saying "I'm. Cold." Freaked me the fuck out as a kid
As a kid I was afraid of staring at a flame, and public bathrooms - all because of Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes. Fire because of the episode where if you look directly into a flame, the "Fire Ghost" will be freed. Public bathrooms because of the "Ghastly Grinner" episode. That episode freaked me out, especially the bus driver scene.
For years, I also thought there was a scene where the kids hid in a bathroom stall (or something like it) and the blue slime started pouring over the top of the door, so they crawl through the gap under the door and run. Turns out, there's no such scene, and it's a nightmare I had after watching the episode. Also had nightmares of blue slime pouring out of people's mouths. Never could watch that episode again.
I also remember an episode where a vampire was using a hospital as a feeding ground. I was a sick kid so I ended up at ERs a lot. Sometimes I would see the red eyes and yellow fangs in the dark, and also my nightmares, especially if I'd been to the hospital recently. But I could still watch that episode if it came on. The other two? Nope.
@@thesalteatingslothOMG your comment freaked me out!
I deadass got a full body shiver at the end of the mr widemouth story
Same. Also, after hearing about people that hide/live with others inside their home in secret... The thought that Mr widemouth isn't just imaginary gave me the most chills.
Uhm and it's so nonchalantly referenced that the house has burnt down... hmmm and did a child do it 😂 for Mr Wide Mouth?
That one is my most favorite story yet. I need a shirt film of that story !
amanda and shayne are such a good pair when it comes to like these videos. they articulate their words so well and i love it - they super silly
In regards to the staircase in the woods, I've seen one before.
I was up north in the woods of Washington, visiting grandparents, and going for a walk. I got separated from the path for a second and turned around and couldn't find my way back, everything just looked the same. I was young, maybe about 14, and alone. I didn't think I'd gotten that far from camp but I couldn't hear anyone anymore. I knew there were bears around the area, and moose and large deer, so being off on my own already wasn't the greatest idea but I'd only expected to go down the path and loop back. I shouldn't have been gone for more than ten minutes.
Trying to find my way back, I see a break in the trees and step out into a clearing, and in the dead center is a random staircase. My first thought was that maybe someone had started building a house here and then gave up for whatever reason, but the longer I stared at it the weirder it seemed. The ground around it was rotten, and the stairs looked too old to be a modern house. It looked like someone took a section of dead land from an ancient part of Europe and then dropped it in the middle of the woods. I also distinctly remember that there was no wind, but I heard breathing moving through the air as if the wind were suddenly loud.
I didn't go anywhere near the staircase, I didn't want to walk through whatever was rotting on the ground, or touch whatever mold was clinging to the stairs themselves, so I turned around and walked the other way, eventually making it back to camp.
In the end, I wasn't gone much longer than the planned ten minutes, maybe fifteen tops, so no one bothered asking me any questions and at the age I was I didn't talk much anyway so I didn't say anything.
I hadn't thought about that in so long, and didn't even think much of it at the time either. I just thought it was odd. I was also way into Creepy Pastas at the time, so I'm surprised I never heard of this one until now.
I don't think I'll be back in that area any time soon, but whenever I go back up I'll keep this story in mind.
Wait, actually?? I thought this was a made up thing from that one original story about the rescue dude.
@@alexandriav3956 I don't know what the original story is based on, considering I didn't know before this video that there WAS an original story, but yeah I'm being serious.
Near where my grandparents live, I found an old creepy staircase in the woods. True story.
I seem to recall reading a story recently of a really old house that keeps decaying but one thing that seems to remain is the staircase...Aha, I found it. Madame Sherri Forest in Chesterville New Hampshire.
@@IzumisChild Holy crap that's legitimately cool! It's a lot more fairy tale looking than creepypasta horror-- as in those are stairs I wouldn't mind climbing to the the top of-- but awesome that there's pictures of this particular "Staircase in the woods." Not to mention a history behind it.
I'm making a note of this place, maybe I'll visit it someday.
@@alexandriav3956i think they’re just playing around. Cause they said visiting grandparents but then say that they got “too far from camp” plus as someone who is from Washington, people are so obsessed with the woods around here that it would be a known thing especially if it’s anywhere near civilization/ a camp site
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To add, it’d be one thing if they meant like random stairs that are a part of a path/ blended into the earth because you do see those, they’re all man made from however long ago to make trails easier and sometimes they can look out of place but there is no random house steps like the ones described in the other posts or what you see online
Reading the candle cove story always gives me chills. I grew up in the early 2000s and talked to my friends about a disturbing show that always played after SpongeBob on Nickelodeon. I couldn’t remember the name but once I googled it with its description I found it was called Mr. Meaty, I used to be so scared of that show and used to cry when it came on. For anyone wondering from what I remembered the show had characters that looked like puppets and claymation had a love child. Where they ran a store (possibly a fast food place) that only sold meat and it always looked rancid. Such a strange show
Yes omg you just unlocked a hidden memory! That show bothered me so much
that was early 2000s??? man time flies by fast, but i know what you mean. it had the same gross vibe of fanboy and chumchum but i didnt even realise those were over 10 years ago. x.x
I remember the show!!! The only episode I can recall is the tapeworm episode. So creepy and so gross
Oh god I remember mr meaty it freaked me out so much to the point I stopped watching Nickelodeon all together. I remember it was a mall food court.
I knew of its existence, but I never actually saw Mr. Meaty as a kid.
For me, my fever dream childhood show that, although it never gave me the creeps, didn't feel real was the one with the talking hands with googly eyes. I can't remember the name of it now, starts with a "G" I think. I'm sure someone will know what I'm talking about.
I honestly for the longest time thought I made that show up though cause no one talked about it and I was never able to describe it well enough to find anything about it online
Amanda playing with the flame at 51:20 had me laughing for no reason. I thought she was spooked by the story but had burned herself instead on the fake flame
Shayne bringing up the couragwvthe cowardly dog episode with the slab!!! When I tell you that episode terrified me when I first watched it. 😭
Return the SLAB!!!
I would watch a million episodes of Shane and Amanda reading and reacting to creepypasta
Love that you guys regularly have guests but also loving the rare 'just shayne & amanda' smosh mouth episode. Everybody has such great chemistry
Trolls isn't just a norwegian thing, it is scandinavian folklore so much so that we have a saying in swedish "när man talar om trollen" which translates to "when you speak of the trolls" which is basically a swedish/scandinavian version of "when you speak of the devil" it is really nice that Amanda got a tester of that folklore :D
i remember having nightmares after watching a powerpuff girls episode where the teacher is in like black and white and she standing in the playground and shes says in a monotone voice 'we've been standing here, waving goodbye, for 50 year' it still creeps me out now
do you remember the episode where there was like a magician that died and then he haunted them? that episode gave me a few nightmares it was so creepy
I love the Smosh lore of Amanda slowly turning Shayne into a Ghostbuster
you guys gotta do a spooky episode with damien even though its after halloween!!! you should read "scary stories to tell in the dark", im pretty sure the girl with her hand hanging off the side of her bed is from that book
OOH or read the subreddit "no sleep"!!!!
I agree! We need a video with Shayne, Amanda, and Damien reading spooky stories!
I need scary stories at least once a month 😭😭🙏❤️
@@jorgemolina5350 same here!
Yes! That's the one with the dog that... haunts me too much...
I’m sad Damien isn’t here but I hope he is resting and he feels better soon. Thank you guys for the spooky smosh mouth and Reddit episodes!
I knew something was wrong when Damien's hair was severely deprived of melanin.
22:34 omg yes me too! Sometimes, I look at a dark room and roll my eyes. Or sometimes I stare blankly. Or just say 'Oh, hey, what are you doing here?". And you know just randomly blurp out "Get out of my house or pay the bills!" haha