[HN Gopher] List of Creepypastas
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List of Creepypastas
Author : luu
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-08-29 07:40 UTC (1 days ago)
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| planetsprite wrote:
| >Order by Name
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| >Order by Date
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| >Order by Cringe
| Unbeliever69 wrote:
| We've all been down the Ted's Caving Page rabbit hole.
| dvh wrote:
| Surprisingly "then who was phone?" is not on the list
| watercooler_guy wrote:
| I've always been a big fan of creepypastas --- they can be really
| well done and scary in novel ways. To some extent, I believed
| some of them to be real when I was a kid.
|
| If creepypastas were "invented" today, would they have made as
| big of a cultural splash? Or would they get lost in a sea of
| other content, or be debunked and discarded too quickly?
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| Edit: I re-read the list and noticed some more recent creations
| on there, like The Backrooms. Maybe it's less about believability
| and more about being a good story, which the Internet is still
| great at facilitating. So I guess my question is, did anyone else
| believe some of the earlier creepypastas, and was believability
| important to the popularity back then?
| pawelduda wrote:
| Personally I've been felt a lot more scared by creepypastas (or
| still images/photos of creepy places, entities or w/e) than
| horror movies for instance. Especially when it comes to images
| - some have such unnerving vibe to them that I find it
| fascinating (smile.jpg anyone?).
|
| I was always skeptical (aka treated it as fantasy) of
| supernatural things these stories are about, but I think the
| mere fact of getting engaged into reading them and using your
| imagination (suspending the disbelief) was enough.
| bitwize wrote:
| I don't think believability as in fooling you into thinking the
| events were real are as important as verisimilitude, the
| feeling that it _could_ happen.
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| An example: In the late 90s, back in the days of pervasive
| browser pop-ups, there was a Japanese creepypasta-equivalent
| called "The Red Room", about a browser pop-up that read "Do you
| like the red room?" Ignoring or closing the pop-up was said to
| seal your doom. The most popular form of this story took the
| form of a Flash animation which depicted a boy who saw the
| popup appear on his computer.
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| As a finale, after showing the boy meeting his grisly fate, the
| Flash site caused the popup to appear on _your_ computer.
|
| Not really believable when you think about it. But scary,
| because it gets you into a headspace of the fictional universe
| and then breaks the fourth wall, giving you a fleeting feeling
| that the Red Room curse is real.
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| I think if creepypasta didn't exist we would have to invent it.
| It's part of a horror tradition that encompasses Poe and
| Lovecraft, and even before. Creepypasta comes from the same
| place as primordial ghost stories told around a campfire, just
| with updated media and sensibilities.
| wsinks wrote:
| Ha - how about "Bloody Mary"? I was 8 and that story scared the
| shit out of me. I love reading creepypastas, and when I was
| younger, I never knew if they were real or not. It was part of
| learning how to trust information. They always had enough of a
| disturbance in the story that made me feel odd.
|
| I JUST saw The Backrooms (the one where she puts the tape
| measure down the portal) and... holy shit. This is the same
| level of odd feeling. I can only imagine what sort of VR stuff
| is out there... That Black Mirror episode has me wondering if
| I'll actually do something like that.
|
| I think it's also the same sort of thing as the innocuous
| conspiracy theories I've seen like "Did you know that Spongebob
| characters are based on the seven deadly sins?" Could be true,
| you'll never be able to fully verify it unless you know the
| person who made the content, and ... sounds good and seems to
| hold up. Why would you want to dispel the theory even if it is
| untrue? It's kinda fun.
| bentcorner wrote:
| While it wasn't a creepypasta, The Blair Witch Project tried
| really hard to convince movie-goers that it was found footage
| and wasn't a scripted movie. I think it was certainly a product
| of its time and a similar effort today wouldn't be nearly as
| successful.
| lelandfe wrote:
| Right! And the marketing materials said the actors involved
| were missing or dead.
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| It kicked off an era of "found footage"-style horror movies,
| with things like Paranormal Activity using security camera
| tape, improv, and unknown actors to make the film seem more
| real. Great call out - that's definitely the film equivalent
| of a creepypasta.
| actually_a_dog wrote:
| Not exactly creepypasta, but I do believe the SCP Foundation
| would make a cultural splash if it were invented today:
| https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-series
| bpiche wrote:
| Weird, I didn't see candleja
| fferen wrote:
| No doubt my favorite creepypasta is the Interface series:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9
| devindotcom wrote:
| I liked when it was appearing randomly in reddit threads but
| ultimately the story kinda fizzled out. Creepypasta type
| fiction tends to do that, big concept, scope expansion, then a
| rushed ending. Actually it's kind of a hallmark of SF/F in
| general...
| bitwize wrote:
| Build tension and then... man door hand hook car door
| Liquix wrote:
| BEN Drowned, smile.jpg, The Russian Sleep Experiment.. Some of
| these were so well done and haunting. What a macabre thing to get
| all nostalgic about!
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| For further reading - this site has been up for over a decade and
| is fairly comprehensive:
| https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Creepypasta_Wiki
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| A personal favorite:
| https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Memetic_Symbol
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