Have you ever stayed up late looking up horror story after horror story?
Reading so many that your brain starts to see things out of the corner of your eye that
may or may not exist? Had trouble pulling yourself away from whatever
screen you’re using and making it up the stairs without running full speed?
There’s probably a reason you did that. And that reason is more than likely scary
internet monsters. Creatures from creepypasta, beasts from ebooks,
vermin from videos, etc. You understand the terror that stems from
considering the possibility of any of these things springing forth from the land of ones
and zeros into our world of threes and dees. Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the
scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos. I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and
today we’re gonna be counting down the Top5 Scary Internet Monsters That Can Never Escape.
Close your windows, both physical and digital, because there are some things out there that
you don’t want looking at you. Before we get started, make sure to give this
video a big thumbs up, and subscribe for more viral villains.
Outrageous, let’s get going. NUMBER FIVE: THE BLIND MAIDEN
Our first contestant is one that requires some very specific circumstances before they
make an appearance. If folks would just, you know, NOT visit this
website during the active hours, we wouldn’t have this problem.
But curiosity tends to kill the cat, now doesn’t it?
The Blind Maiden is a website that can only be accessed at exactly 12AM on the night of
a new moon. They also need to have all of the lights out
in their home at the correct time. That means folks can only try this out a maximum
of twelve times a year, and that’s if they get the timing right.
If you’re one of the lucky few to be let in, it will offer you the choice to experience
“the ultimate horror.” And honestly, who wouldn’t want that? Years
of advertising campaigns promising the same have desensitizes us all.
The site itself is dedicated to a doomed spirit who enters your home if you lay eyes upon
it. Initially, it just appears to be a website
full of photos. Pictures of boys and girls, eyes plucked out,
faces twisted in fear. Like a torture porn archive of sorts.
Then, text appears. “This website will take you to a whole new
level of horror. A horror that will use all five of your senses. You must be very careful
not to click on anything by accident. You will be faced with a real experience of absolute
horror. Click the accept button to engage actively in the experience.”
Now at this point, most people would click decline, which then takes them to the full
archive of mutilated faces. But if you click accept, your fate is sealed.
The site will play a video featuring a silhouetted figure walking towards your house.
You’ll watch as it enters your home, and then walks into the same room as you.
Users then freeze in fear when they recognize their own back, and the Blind Maiden reaches
out to tap them on the shoulder. It’s at this point they realize it’s all
too real, and turn to face the Maiden. Remember the faces from earlier? Well, you’re
about to become one of them. The Blind Maiden will then pluck out your
eyes, and take a picture of you experiencing “the ultimate horror.”
Do yourself and everyone else a favour, and don’t log on.
NUMBER FOUR: JEFF THE KILLER At this point, Jeff the Killer has reached
icon status. Anyone even remotely interested in online
horror lore has heard of him, or seen his haunting, grinning face.
He’s tailor-made to kill horror fans, too. His modus operandi is to seek out and murder
people who are awake way after they should have dozed off.
“Go to sleep.” This worries me, because I always stay up
too late, whether it’s watching horror movies or reading creepy lit.
So yeah, I suppose we could keep Jeff the Killer at bay if we all agreed to go to bed
on time, but that’s never gonna happen, is it?
Jeff was once a nice young man who was very protective of his brother.
Unfortunately, he did not remain that way. One fateful day, Jeff and his brother were
attacked by some sleazebags. Jeff’s killer instinct kicked in, and he
handily took care of the assailants. This was the beginning of all the terror.
Soon after, the police got involved, and took away Jeff’s brother.
He had taken the blame for the fight, filling Jeff with guilt and sadness.
After moping around for days, Jeff’s mother sent him to a birthday party in an attempt
to raise his spirits. What ended up happening was much more sinister.
The very same guys who got his brother arrested were at this function, and another fight broke
out. This one ended in tragedy, with Jeff being
set alight and pushed down the stairs. Upon recovering, Jeff was a different person.
He torched his eyelids off, and carved a Joker-esque smile into his face before brutalizing his
family in the night. Saving his brother for last, he murdered each
and every one of them. When he got to his brother’s room, he told
him what was to become his most famous phrase “Go to sleep.”
So again, I reiterate: if you have a habit of staying up til the wee hours of the night,
keep an eye out for a pale figure in a bloodstained hoodie.
NUMBER THREE: MOMO First and foremost, let’s be exceedingly
clear about something: neither Momo or any of the other monsters on this list are real.
Time and time again, they’re proven as hoaxes. They’re just fun to talk and tell spooky
stories about. So when you see things like “hoax” and
“moral panic,” you don’t need to worry. They’re only as real as you make them.
If Momo WERE to escape from the confines of the world of internet hoaxes, we’d be cooked.
Momo is a weird, huge-eyed sculpture of a bird woman thing.
Beak-like mouth, dark stringy hair, bird legs, she’s a thing of beauty.
At the peak of her popularity, it was believed that she would contact people using different
apps and platforms. Sometimes she’d call on WhatsApp, or FaceTime,
maybe she’d find her way into a seemingly innocuous YouTube video.
Once she had the attention of whoever she was talking to, which was usually children,
she would start to challenge them to do different things.
Somewhat like the Blue Whale challenge that took the world by storm a few years back.
It would start out easy enough, with things like “stick out your tongue” or “yell
at the top of your lungs.” Soon enough, the challenges would get stranger,
and more dangerous. After reports surfaced of a young girl who
killed herself during one of these challenges, the world erupted into a panic.
It was then dubbed the “Momo suicide challenge,” and you’d be hard pressed to find a news
organization or mommy blogger who didn’t give their ten cents.
As the notoriety rose, more people started to insert Momo into content.
Copycats, if you would. New challenges popped up, and more people
got scared. And if Momo were real, had that kind of influence,
and decided to take things offline, let’s just say the storm drains would run red with
blood. If I’m not being too dramatic.
NUMBER TWO: SLENDERMAN There are so many iterations of Slenderman,
it’s hard to say for sure what would happen if he were to run free among the populace.
Nothing good, for sure, but the specifics get as hazy as the memories of people being
stalked by the Operator. This tall, pale, faceless, suit-wearing, individual
is well-known for the damage he deals. If we were to boil down his behaviour to a
few points, they would be stalking, abducting, brainwashing, and killing people.
And because he’s so transient, it’s impossible to truly stop him.
Sure, you can collect all the pages, and take your special pills, and run at him whenever
he appears, but it’s not going to do a gosh darn thing.
You can be sure that if he were wandering about, a lot of people would disappear or
die. This might look like donning a mask and shooting
your friends, or potentially like attacking teens with a knife.
The powers of Slenderman know no bounds. Okay, well, he’s mostly violent with them,
but you get what I’m saying. NUMBER ONE: THE RAKE
To top off our list of legendary internet monsters, let’s take a look at a creature
that has all sorts of forms, and no apparent motivation beyond driving people mad.
After a media blackout following some interesting stories back in 2003, a group of folks decided
to look a little deeper at what was going on.
They did not like what they found out, and probably wished they had left it well alone.
After a bunch of online speculation and storytelling, a few folks came forward with some particularly
chilling tales of terror. The Rake was seemingly a humanoid who would
appear all over the world, causing witnesses severe psychological trauma.
It often gruesomely injures folks, leaving their loved ones with nothing but the fact
that “he is the rake.” Apparently eyewitness accounts date all the
way back to the 17th century, as a mariner’s log actually identifies the Rake by name.
Another was found in 1800 that describes the creature as having hollow, black eyes.
In 1964, a suicide note mentions repeat encounters with the Rake, and claimed it played a big
part in their decision. They didn’t want to be haunted by it forever.
The most famous recollection, though, is that of a woman quite recently.
Something woke her and her husband up in the middle of the night.
Neither of them could believe their eyes at the horror before them.
It ran to their daughters room, leaving her body a mangled mess.
The father tried to rush her to the hospital, but ran his car off the road, killing them
both. Now the woman lives in fear, recounting her
tale online. She records her own sleep, just to see if
anything shows up. However, she can’t bring herself to listen
to the recordings. A merciless, sadistic, inhuman, immortal killer.
He is the Rake. OUTRO
Sssshyew! I’ll take movie monsters over these any
day. At least those have weaknesses for the protagonists
to exploit. These are like modern, Lovecraftian beasts:
no explanation, just terror. What did you think of the list?
Are there any internet monsters that I missed out on?
Should I have gone with my gut and included Shaye Saint John?
Make sure you let me know down in the comments. Speaking of comments, let’s take a look
at some of your more clandestine ones from the Top 5 SCP Monsters Too Dangerous to be
Kept Alive - Part 2: Connor Adams says “I’m glad you put a
picture of the one that kills people if we see it’s face in a picture.”
Me too! I’m excited to see how it all turns out.
Rick C. says “Dammit, now I want a chocolate sundae”
Well, if you’re going to make one anyways, mind whipping up a second?
Hotsaucemagicbox says “You brought Garfield Rule 34 to all our minds, and now you have
to live with it.” I think I can do that. Just don’t think
about the lasagna too much… Random Something says “BRO YOU KNOW THAT
EVEN IF SOMEONE DRAWED IT AND LOOK AT IT’S FACE IT STILL COUNTS”
Actually, looking at the containment log, artistic renditions don’t set it off. So,
I think you’re fine. For now. Mob Ties says ‘You guys work really hard
with the videos, I envy you all!” We do our best to keep the content coming,
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