List of creepypastas

The story purports that by "noclip[ping] out of reality", one may enter a realm known as the Backrooms, an empty wasteland of corridors and rooms with nothing but "the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in",[4][5][6] as well as malevolent entities that hunt the traveler across three separate areas of the Backrooms, "Levels 0 through 2".

[19][20] Since the original upload, Parsons has expanded upon his take on the Backrooms lore with more videos,[6][21][22] including a film adaptation based on his shorts, which was announced by A24 in February 2023.

The story is set in June 1972, where a woman appeared in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center wearing only a gown drenched in blood and with a kitten clamped in her jaw.

A female doctor who survived the attack nicknamed her "The Expressionless", as throughout the entire incident, even during the peak of her furious assault against the staff, the woman's face remained completely absent of expression.

A 2013 article asserted that the original image of Jeff the Killer was an extensively edited picture of a girl who reportedly committed suicide in the fall of 2008 due to people online ridiculing her appearance.

[29] However, in 2018, after extensive research done by the users of 4chan's /x/ (Paranormal) board, this rumor was debunked; the earliest known instances of the image that was used in the creepypasta appearing online at the time had been found on the Japanese imageboard website pya.cc, dating back to September and November 2005.

[32] The Rake is a strange humanoid creature described as resembling either a naked man or a large hairless dog whose sightings have been reported on four different continents, occasionally being referred to as a "Skin-Walker", with the earliest known account being a mariner's log in 1691.

In the end, the commander demands a researcher to enter the room and start killing the prisoners,[35] with one of them uttering "So nearly free" or "Finally put to rest" before they die.

It was featured in viral YouTube and TikTok videos, as well as numerous indie games with retro aesthetics, leading Henderson to gain many teenage fans.

[40] In a Viz Media YouTube video where horror mangaka Junji Ito was shown pictures of internet monsters, he deemed Siren Head the best.

These lost episodes are usually explained as having been prevented from airing, or pulled during broadcast due to controversial, mature, or unsettling aspects being shown, such as graphic violence, gore, and adult themes.

"[citation needed] The episode ends with a zoom-out of the cemetery, featuring the names of every single Simpsons guest star on the tombstones, with the ones that have not died yet all having the same death date.

The scene is spliced with quick flashes of murdered children; each time, the noises get louder when cutting back to Squidward—now bearing the same red hyper-realistic eyes as the audience.

Eventually, the camera zooms out to reveal Squidward holding a shotgun which he uses to shoot himself after a detached, deep voice commands him to do so, and the video ends, leaving the staff horrified.

[52] The circulated image of red-eyed Squidward associated with this creepypasta was referenced in the series; an altered version was included in the original uncut airing of the season 12 episode "SpongeBob in RandomLand".

Mickey collapses to the ground, apparently dead, and Russian text is displayed which roughly translates to: "The sights of Hell bring its viewers back in.

After an eight-year-long hiatus, the story returned in 2020, once again in the Alternate Reality Game format, for its final arc, dubbed "Awakening", which featured adjacent plotlines about a man calling himself Jadus recounting his experiences during a societal collapse due to a virus known as H.E.R.O.E.S, people waking up in a mysterious hotel run by a man named Abel, and a return to the haunted Majora's Mask cartridge.

[60] Originally posted by an anonymous user on 4chan, Herobrine is a supernatural being or ghost that haunts single-player worlds of the sandbox video game Minecraft.

[61] This legend purports that, shortly after the original Japanese release of the video games Pokémon Red and Green in 1996, there was an increase in the death rate amongst children aged 10–15.

[63] The legend alleges that children, besides being the primary players of the games, are more susceptible to the effects of the Lavender Town music, because it supposedly incorporates binaural beats and a high-pitched tone that adults cannot hear.

[64] It has been speculated that the legend was inspired by an actual event in Japan in 1997, in which hundreds of television viewers experienced seizures due to a scene with flickering images in an episode of the Pokémon anime, titled "Dennō Senshi Porygon".

The story concludes with Zach - having defeated Red during the final battle - selling the game on eBay, unable to bring himself to keep or destroy the mysterious cartridge.

[69] An urban legend claims that in 1981, an arcade cabinet called Polybius caused nightmares and hallucinations in players, leading at least one person to suicide.

The original story follows a teenager named Tom Miller, who receives a CD from his friend Kyle Scott and a note telling him to destroy it.

The growing backlash towards the story led its author to publish a protracted diatribe about his grievances with the Creepypasta Wiki's decision, which only fueled further criticism.

The story alleges that Toonstruck 2 was based on art from the sketchbook of a mentally ill cartoon animator who murdered his boss, bought by one of Virgin Interactive Entertainment's executives at a murderabilia auction, and the real reason for its cancellation was that its contents were too shocking.

For example, "Contingency"[79] shows a hijacking where a foreign country had allegedly captured America and the broadcast tells the viewers to commit suicide via gunshot.

Another entry in the series, "Weather Service", details through Emergency Alert System messages a seemingly-apocalyptic alien event involving the Moon or a force based on it 'infecting' those who gaze at the satellite.

The series shows the contents of a set of VHS tapes produced by various entities and released by the eponymous Gemini Home Entertainment, a fictional media distributor.

Over the course of the series, it becomes apparent that the material the tapes contain represent information about an ongoing extraterrestrial assault on the Solar System masterminded by 'The Iris', a sentient rogue planet, which has created numerous alien and paranormal entities to subjugate humanity and invade the Earth.