• From haunted video games to sadistic kids’ shows, we count ten creepypastas from the
darkest corners of the internet!
10 – BEN Drowned, • This popular creepypasta is about a corrupt,
seemingly haunted copy of Majora’s Mask for the Nintendo 64.
• The player receives a used copy of the game from an old man and, upon booting up
the existing save file, discovers a series of strange, unscripted events.
Songs play in reverse, statues appear at random and the player gets transported without warning
to various areas of the game.
• It turns out the creepy occurrences are communications from a boy named Ben, who drowned.
Cryptic messages play – things like: ‘BEN is getting lonely’, ‘You’ve met with
a terrible fate, haven’t you?’ and ‘You shouldn’t have done that.’
Like Majora’s Mask needed to be any creepier!
• Accounts on Ben’s death vary, but some believe he drowned at camp with a copy of
his favourite game – Majora’s Mask – in his pocket.
• Check out the chilling game footage.
‘BEN Drowned’ demands to be experienced firsthand.
9 – Candle Cove, • In this story, members of an internet
forum discuss a children’s show called Candle Cove, which they remembered watching back
in the ’70s.
The show was about a little girl who imagined she was friends with pirates.
• In one memorable episode, every character spent the whole time screaming.
The little girl just stood there, moaning and crying as though she’d been forced to
endure this for hour.
• As more memories were exchanged, it became clear that this was a deeply sinister show.
The main villain was a skeletal character known only as ‘the Skin-Taker’.
His mouth slid back and forth instead of opening and closing and, when the little girl asked
about it, the Skin-Taker replied that it was ‘To grind your skin’.
• One commenter asked his mother if she remembered a low-budget kids’ show called
Candle Cove.
She said yes and that he regularly asked for permission to watch it.
When he got it, he tuned the television to static and sat, staring blankly, for thirty
minutes.
8 – The Rake, • In 2003, documents detailing the existence
of a mysterious creature were destroyed.
It was a cover-up, but public sightings grew more frequent.
• In 2006, nearly two dozen documents were unearthed, dating from the present day all
the way back to the 12th Century.
The documents described numerous sightings of the creature known only as ‘The Rake’.
• In one terrifying account, a couple woke in the middle of the night.
With a gasp, the man grabbed his wife after spotting a big, hairless dog-like creature
seated at the foot of their bed.
• While the couple adjusted to the darkness, the creature sprang up, crouching less than
a foot from the husband’s face.
Its cold eyes stared at him for awhile, then it dashed towards their children’s bedrooms.
• The terrified couple chased it, but were too late.
They found their daughter in her bedroom, mutilated and close to death.
Her final words were: ‘He is The Rake.’ 7 – SCP Foundation,
• The Secure, Contain, and Protect Foundation is a shady organisation that first emerged
in 2007.
On its staff are doctors, researchers and agents, and their aim is to research and catalogue
strange creatures and objects known as ‘SCPs’.
• The foundation’s goal is to prevent SCPs from reaching the outside world and,
in the name of successful research, scientists often performs sadistic experiments on death
row inmates.
• The creature that started it all was the SCP-173, a statue-like monstrosity with short
limbs and a bloody face.
This creature must be constantly monitored.
It’s been determined that it cannot move while in direct eyesight; however, once eye
contact is broken this lethal creature immediately kills its victim by breaking their neck.
Don’t approach at any cost.
6 – 1999, • In ‘1999’, a Canadian blogger tries
to uncover the chilling truth behind a mysterious TV station he watched in 1999.
He fears it was run by a local predator.
• His investigation reveals that the man behind the channel attempted to lure children
to his house to sacrifice them.
The deranged man would torture and kill children in his bear costume and called himself ‘Mr
Bear’.
• Some disturbing ‘shows’ ran between 4.00 and 9.00 pm.
One low-budget show called Booby featured live-action hand characters on a tabletop.
• During an episode called ‘Playing with Scissors’, the main character, Booby, appeared
holding a pair of scissors.
Meanwhile, another, smaller hand jerked violently in the background, as if being forcefully
held in the air.
Booby repeatedly stabbed the smaller hand with the scissors while a muffled child’s
scream could be heard.
The scissors eventually made a disturbing crunching sound, indicating that Booby had
struck bone.
• Police eventually intervened and the sadistic station was shut down.
5 – Normal Porn for Normal People, • ‘Normalpornfornormalpeople.com’ is
a website whose tagline claims that it is ‘Dedicated to the Eradication of Abnormal
Sexuality’.
On the surface, it seems like a pretty normal, text-based site.
However, users discovered hidden links to various distressing videos.
• One video shows a man creepily feeding his dog a peanut butter sandwich for half
an hour.
Another features an obese mime quietly sobbing.
• ‘Stumps.avi’ is a five-minute video of a legless man trying to break dance in
a dirty kitchen.
He collapses in exhaustion and begs for rest, but the off-screen person screams for him
to continue.
• The video ‘privacy.avi’ shows a woman masturbating on a mattress while a legless
man walks around on his hands wearing a goblin mask.
In the background, a strange animal is seen darting past the doorway.
• The eighteen-minute video ‘useless.avi’ is the most confronting video.
It shows a woman tied down with her mouth taped shut.
After seven eerily uneventful minutes, a man in a suit appears and the animal from the
previous video enters.
The animal is an abused chimpanzee that’s had its hair shaved and its skin painted red.
The man closes the door behind him, leaving the bound woman alone with the animal.
The starved chimp sniffs the woman out and mauls her alive, feasting on her for seven
minutes.
Very disturbing!
4 – Mr Widemouth, • Mr Widemouth is unique because he’s
extremely small and has been described as Furby-like in appearance.
• In the story, Mr Widemouth appeared to the author, who was bedridden with sickness
and then only five years old.
Mr Widemouth initially hung around reading kids’ books and keeping him company, but
he soon wanted new ways to play together.
• He suggested playing ‘pretend trampoline’, which is where children who believe hard enough
jump out of a window only to bounce back, light as a feather.
The boy considered it, but decided not to due to his lingering doubts.
• Mr Widemouth then suggested a nice game of knife juggling, at which point the boy
thought okay, I’m starting to think I need some new friends; this talking Furby is fucking
crazy.
• One day, Mr Widemouth mentioned a path behind the kid’s home that apparently led
somewhere really cool.
Sort of like how strangers’ cars are always fulls of really cool candy.
• Fortunately, the family relocated soon after, and the boy wisely left Mr Widemouth
behind, not telling him about the move.
• As an adult, the narrator revisited his childhood home.
It’d been so long he’d began to think all that Mr Widemouth stuff was just a sick
kid’s overactive imagination.
For a laugh, he decided to walk down that path Mr Widemouth once told him about and
was horrified to discover it led to a cemetery with many kids’ tombstones.
3 – The Russian Sleep Experiment, • Enjoy staying up for days at a time?
You may want to reconsider.
• In the late 1940s, Russian researchers subjected five unlucky prisoners to an experiment
involving prolonged sleep deprivation.
The prisoners were given a particular gas and promised freedom if they could stay awake
for thirty days.
• Initially, things went well, but paranoia soon set in.
On the ninth day, the prisoners ran around the chamber, screaming.
One screamed so loud he tore his vocal chords; others smeared their books with faeces and
plastered the pages over the glass portholes so they couldn’t be observed.
• Three days passed with no sounds inside the chamber.
Fearing the worst, the researchers addressed the subjects via the intercom.
Finally, a prisoner inside said: ‘We no longer wish to be freed.’
• Two days later, the researchers terminated the experiment.
They flushed the stimulant gas from the chamber in preparation for the subjects’ release.
The subjects screamed as if fearing for their lives and begged for the gas to be turned
back on.
• Armed soldiers entered the chamber and discovered one subject dead, lying in six
inches of bloody water.
Chunks of his flesh had been torn off and stuffed into the floor drain.
Each subject had been severely mutilated.
They had ripped open their own abdomens, disembowelling themselves with their bare hands.
Some had even eaten their own flesh.
• The four remaining prisoners seemed terrified of falling asleep and refused to leave the
chamber.
During a scuffle, one suffered a ruptured spleen and flailed about for three minutes
before dying.
• Two others willingly underwent surgery without sedation and fell into fits of hysterical
laughter on the operating table.
When asked why they were so desperate for the gas, each said: ‘I must remain awake.’
• The researchers wished to terminate the experiment, but were overruled by their commanding
officer, who demanded three of the researchers join the inmates.
Horrified, the chief researcher pulled out a pistol and shot the commanding officer.
He then shot each of the remaining subjects, putting a permanent end to the Russian Sleep
Experiment.
Reportedly, the final subject’s last words were: ‘So … nearly … free.’
2 – Slenderman, • Everyone and his dog knows Slenderman;
he’s easily the most popular creepypasta on this list, with his own games and merchandise.
• Slenderman’s appearance varies from source to source, adding to his mysterious
nature, but he chiefly appears as a gaunt, unnaturally tall man with long arms and a
blank, featureless face.
He wears a black suit and often appears as an obscured figure in the peripheries of old
photographs.
His imposing height, reportedly between eight and fifteen feet, strikes fear into adults
because it reduces them to a childlike stature.
• Slenderman stalks its victims – usually children, or those who’ve endured personal
tragedy – with dogged persistence.
It is invisible most of the time, and only reveals itself at will or if caught in the
lens of a camera.
• Its long, drawn-out stalking causes ‘Slender sickness’, an affliction causing severe
paranoia, nose bleeds, nightmares and hallucinations.
• For reasons unknown, Slenderman prefers child victims, and often masquerades as a
friendly figure to gain its victims’ trust.
Because of this, many Slender Man sightings occur at playgrounds.
• Slenderman is extremely malevolent and likes dispatching prey by impaling them on
tree branches.
It has also been known to hang victims’ bagged organs in trees.
• Disturbingly, there have been real-life cases of impressionable kids stabbing and
starting fires because they were obsessed with Slenderman.
1 – Jeff the Killer, • Jeff was an innocent but fragile boy who
moved into a new house with his family.
One day, while on his way to a neighbourhood kid’s party, three punk teenagers attacked
him and his brother.
Jeff defended himself, leaving his attackers laying in the street with broken wrists and
knife wounds.
Jeff had always been angry inside and the encounter taught him how fun it can be to
inflict pain on others.
• A few nights later, Jeff’s mother heard crying coming from the bathroom.
When she went to investigate, she found Jeff carving a permanent smile into his cheeks.
He had also managed to cut out his eyelids, so he could never sleep.
• Seeing that her son had gone insane, Jeff’s mother ran to wake up her husband, but froze
when she saw Jeff standing in the doorway, clutching a knife.
The last words she heard were: ‘Mummy, you lied.’
• Jeff promptly murdered the rest of his family.
He now hides in closets, whispering ‘Go to sleep’ to his victims before slaughtering
everyone in the household.
His face is smooth and pale, and he is easily distinguished by his huge insane grin and
lid-less eyes.