(siren blares)
- Ah, what the...
- Oh, okay, Siren Head.
- I don't like the noise, I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared.
- I'm like getting Stranger Things vibes.
- It just looks like, it looks like a walking lamp
type of thing, I don't know, it's weird.
- Oh my gosh, that was so scary!
- I don't know exactly what it is, but like, I've seen it.
It's a TikTok thing, it's funny, it's [censored].
- It's cool, but not really that scary.
I mean, he's big.
You can kinda see him coming from a mile away,
so he's not really that scary.
- Well, we have a lot more to show you
but that was a TikTok which recently went viral
depicting a famous creepypasta called Siren Head.
- Creepypasta.
I used to like go on Creepypasta
when I was like 10 years old, on like a trip with my friend,
and we were trying to like scare ourselves,
so we'd read about like Slenderman, we'd read about the lady in the mirror
like if you sleep facing a mirror. I never heard of Siren head though.
- Siren Head is described as a 40 foot tall humanoid creature
covered in mummified flesh, having long, thin arms,
almost as long as its entire body,
and two sirens replacing where its head would normally be,
often playing tornado sirens, AMBER Alerts,
as well as mimicking voices.
- Yeah, that's the noise, the noise really got me.
I was so scared, it was really creepy.
- We'll get more into like the lore of Siren Head in a little bit
but with this clip going viral, it actually spawned a lot of memes,
so we have some of those to show you.
- Ooh, memes, you can never go wrong with those.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
(Jayka laughs)
- So somebody took his, and made it dance?
That's so fun!
- ♪ Buh, duh, duh, duh ♪ ♪ I hate this meme ♪
- I like that, it's cute.
- Why did I have a feeling they were gonna do that?
It's kind of an iconic dance, for better or for worse.
- A lot of creepypastas that get out there
just kinda lose its scariness if they're constantly out there
and being memed and all this kinda stuff.
It just loses what made it scary in the first place.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- I actually saw this one. (laughs)
- Oh my gosh, that looks so realistic,
like it's actually there.
- I like still like that I can't really wrap my head around
what I'm watching.
- ♪ Where they strung up a man ♪ ♪ They say who murdered three ♪
- If I saw that in someone's front yard,
I'd probably take it, and then use it to host parties.
- I saw it, but I like didn't think anything of it,
like I was just like oh,
like TikTok is filled with random surprises
every time you scroll through your For You page,
so I just kept going. (laughs)
- (Paul) I loaned it to Nash.
- Jurassic Park?
- (Paul) He must have had it when he...
(siren blares)
- See, that noise, oh my gosh, it's like The Purge!
♪ (tense music) ♪
- How do they put Siren Head like into the movie so well?
- Stop! (laughs)
(gasps) ♪ (playful music) ♪
- I mean that one, okay, that was better.
Okay, that was cool.
- Why are people so good at video editing?
Like that, it looks so realistic. How do they get that?
Like, I don't understand, I can barely use Photoshop.
- That was really good editing.
See this is why people should respect memes as a form of art,
rather than a joke.
- The story of Siren Head has actually been around for a few years,
and similar to some other creepypastas,
Siren Head had sparked some creativity in the gaming world
with people making indie games based off the character,
and even recently became a part of the Whispering Hill mod
for the popular game Fallout 4.
- Okay, making its way into pop culture.
- So we have some of the gameplay to show you next.
- Okay.
(birds tweeting)
- Is something gonna pop out at me,
because I will literally freak out. (laughs)
- If there's something that's gonna jump at me, I'm gonna scream.
- Oh my God that's scary.
- Okay, the memes made it look so funny and like silly,
and now I feel like creepy, like dark vibes now.
- It kinda, it reminds me of like Slenderman games.
(emergency alert echoes)
- This one, I don't find as scary as the ones that could've been.
- This just seems like horribly made, I don't know who would play this.
- (Siren Head) This is a test...
- I'm telling you, this is like straight from a nightmare.
- (Siren Head) Potentially dangerous weather situation.
- (gasps) Oh my gosh.
Wait, so like what was he supposed to do,
just like run away from it? Like, what's the game?
- [Inaudible] Slenderman,
but like, Slenderman was scarier than Siren Head.
- This kinda stuff is cool, it just kinda loses it though.
I mean, I don't know, there's something about it.
Maybe it's just the style of the game
that doesn't make it as scary as it could be?
Okay, so it's Fallout.
- Fog makes everything so creepy.
♪ (serene music) ♪
- Why is he going towards it? What?
Wait, what happens if it like...
(siren blares)
- Eh, that kinda loses it, when it's running super fast.
Oh Jesus [censored]! Okay, [censored], okay.
- Oh my God, it's running after him, it's running after him.
(gasps) Oh my God, oh my God! (laughs)
- Why did I feel like when it would hit someone,
it would like fling them into like a tree or something.
Like I wouldn't expect it to be like ugh!
Like it would be like bam, and knock them into another dimension.
- The way that was executed is really cool,
in the fog, in the distance, like fear of the unknown.
That's what a lot of creepypastas and scary things are based off of
is because you don't know what's happening,
that's why you're scared of it.
- So, Siren Head was created by the artist Trevor Henderson,
where he posted an image of the creature on Twitter and Tumblr
along with a short fictionalized caption
about seeing the creature about.
A few months back, a creepypasta story
was written for this character,
letting more people kind of expand on it recently,
with a version of that character going viral on TikTok
with the video that we showed you.
So why do you think that this character in particular
became so popular as well as a meme?
- I think the way he like dances and moves
is like so funny.
Kids like my age have such a weird sense of humor,
like we'll think anything's funny.
- Every like once in a while, there's something big
that's supposed to be like creepy or scary,
like first it was like Slenderman,
and then it was like Five Nights at Freddy's for a while,
and then like now it's this.
It's just like, like a continuous type of trend thing.
- A lot of times it's like right time, right crowd.
Like even on TikTok, you'll see stuff on your For You page
where you're just like this isn't even that funny,
but like it has so many views,
and it's just because like it happened to pop up on so many people's,
they happened to share it and the algorithm kept sharing it,
you know what I mean?
- This is not the first time that a creepypasta
has kinda gone beyond its original story.
Characters like Jeff the Killer and famously Slenderman
also started out as creepypasta images and stories,
which grew a huge following online.
- Yeah, that's crazy.
I remember when Slenderman was a thing.
- From what you know about these stories
and pictures and stuff like that, why do you think
that so many people like to expand on the characters
and bring them to life in different ways?
- I feel like once you see something,
you like get a vision on how to make it your own.
Kinda like so you're not like copying them,
but then you're also like oh, this was a great idea,
like let me make an even better idea from my own stuff.
- Maybe they just want to add their own little spin to the story,
maybe they wanna make it more scary, make it more relatable,
make it, all these kinds of things to make it their own,
to make it seem more scary, I guess?
- I think people want to expand on them,
because like they're interesting,
their background, in a way, is kind of vague,
so there's a lot more to branch off onto it.
It's kinda like a choose your own story, or whatever,
where like there's a few givens.
Like okay, it has siren heads, it looks creepy, like Slenderman,
now go ahead, paint your canvas, do whatever you want with it.
- Because they can't speak for themselves,
there's no like personal backstory to them,
you just make it up yourself. (laughs)
People get so creative with it and you can literally be anything,
you could put Siren Head in like a fluffy cloud with unicorns and stuff
and it'd make sense,
you'd just be like oh yeah, that's a Siren Head,
like, (laughs), I don't know, the internet is a weird place.
I just don't understand things.
- Well finally, with Siren Head being so mysterious
and having a lot of different theories about why it does what it does,
we wanted to know if you were Siren Head,
what would you do?
- I would just be like a walking party.
I would just blast, like, the best music,
just making the vibe of the party literally awesome.
- I guess I would just like
annoy the [censored] out of people with the speakers.
Just, probably like a really old annoying song
that was just outplayed and everyone hates it,
just like all throughout the day.
- To be honest, if I was Siren Head,
I'd probably just chill in a field, hands over my knees,
kinda like this, just kinda relaxing.
Yeah, enjoying the life that I had
before I get targeted by the government
for being an anomaly or some [censored] like that.
- I don't wanna be evil and like attack everybody.
I wanna be a nice Siren Head. (laughs)
And meet a Siren Head woman
and start a whole new race of Siren Heads.
- I think I would just like go to a remote island
and find a Mr. Siren Head thingy so that we can
live our life and have baby Siren Heads
on our remote island resort.
That's what I would do.
I wouldn't go and like kill a bunch of people.
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- Hey everyone, Lauren, Producer here at FBE.
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