You may recognize some of these stories that've been circulating online.
Fortunately, they're only the scary results of active imaginations.
Here are 5 creepypasta you will be glad are not real:
Number 5: Smile.dog The Smile.dog creepypasta is centered on the
image of a husky dog with human teeth that is ominously smiling at the camera.
In the background of the photo, which has been circulating online for quite some time,
there is also a human hand which many have described as beckoning.
The original creepypasta is about a writer who follows the mysterious effect that a jpeg
entitled Smile.dog reportedly has on those who gaze upon it.
He attempts to interview a woman called Mary E. who was among the first to look at the
picture.
However, when he arrives at her home the woman refuses to talk to him and locks herself into
one of the rooms in the house.
Some time goes by and the writer receives a letter in which Mary E. apologizes for her
behavior.
She goes on to explain that the picture had haunted her for fifteen years.
She describes having vivid nightmares in which the dog appears to her asking her to ‘spread
the word’ by sharing the picture with someone else.
She also said that many of those who had seen the picture before had either committed suicide
or disappeared entirely.
Mary also admitted that she intended to share the picture with the writer in order to get
rid of the curse, but that she ultimately reconsidered, as she did not want to condemn
him to the same fate.
She concludes her letter by warning him to not pursue the matter anymore.
The writer later finds out that Mary had killed herself.
After some time passes he receives an email with an attachment entitled smile.jpg.
He knew immediately what it was.
The creepypasta concludes with the writer expressing doubts over the alleged curse behind
the picture and over sharing the picture in order to rid himself of the curse, which had
ruined so many lives.
As you scroll down, you can read that he ultimately decides to not take any chances and that he
‘spreads the word’.
The image of Smile Dog is commonly included at the end of the story, usually with bloody
fingerprints on it.
Number 4: The Russian Sleep Experiment Another creepypasta story is that of the Russian
Sleep Experiment.
The story is mainly focused on five political prisoners, who, during World War 2, were placed
in a room by Russian researchers and told that they would be freed if they could not
sleep for thirty days.
The researchers were experimenting on a gas based on a stimulant, which they would release
into the room at certain intervals.
The room was also equipped with microphones.
As the days went by the prisoner’s mental state slowly started to deteriorate.
They started to experience paranoia and agitation.
They went from sharing increasingly more traumatic memories to scheming behind each other’s
backs in order to earn favor with the researchers.
Some even started screaming until their vocal chords gave out.
By the fifteenth day the researchers became worried that no sounds were coming from the
room anymore.
They told the prisoners that the door would be opened and that one of them would be freed.
They only heard one faint voice reply that they no longer wanted to be free.
Instead they begged the researchers to turn the gas back on.
When they opened the door they saw the frightening state that the prisoners were in.
One of them had died and the others had torn chunks of his flesh off and used them to clog
the room’s drains.
A mixture of blood and water had accumulated inside the room.
The prisoners also had a number of extremely severe wounds, which appeared to have been
self-inflicted.
They had ripped the skin from their faces and pulled out the organs from their abdominal
cavities.
Large portions of tendon and muscle had also been ripped from their bodies.
Their lungs and hearts were visible as they peeled off the skin from their ribcages.
The food rations were untouched and it was soon discovered that the prisoners had been
eating their own flesh.
Even though they were in deplorable states they fought back extremely hard when the facility’s
staff tried to take them to the medical bay.
One of the Russian soldiers from the facility died when one of the prisoners ripped his
throat out.
Traumatized by what they had seen inside that room, five other soldiers committed suicide
in the weeks that followed.
As they were operating on one of the prisoners, the doctors could see that he was trying to
say something but that he couldn’t because he had torn out his lips and tongue.
He was given a pen and a piece of paper on which he wrote ‘Keep cutting’.
The prisoners kept shouting that they wanted more gas and that they needed to stay awake.
Eventually, one by one they all died.
The last one to survive was put back on the gas.
He smiled and with his final breath he said to one of the researchers ‘So…nearly…free’.
Number 3: Slenderman Slenderman is among the most popular creepypasta
legends on the Internet.
He looks like a man with a featureless, ghostly face which almost appears to be wrapped in
a white cloth.
It is said that his face looks differently to each person that sees him.
Slenderman’s arms and legs are very long and thin.
Some crepypasta claim that he has the ability of extending his arms and legs to great lengths.
He is often depicted wearing a black suit and tie.
He also has several tendrils on his back, which he can extend and use to ensnare and
trap his victims, the majority of whom are children.
It is said that Slenderman wanders the forests and woods around suburban areas kidnapping
children and taking them to an undisclosed location where they are never to be heard
from again.
According to the legend, he enjoys psychologically torturing his victims as he follows them around
giving them just glimpses of himself.
The paranoia of his existence then slowly begins to haunt his victims, driving them
mad.
He has allegedly been captured in several photographs, and many have reported Slenderman
sightings.
The obsession with this mysterious figure has even lead to real-life crime.
In order to prove Slenderman is real Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, two 12-year-old girls
from the United States, lured one of their classmates into the woods and stabbed her
19 times.
They hoped that by killing her they would prove Slenderman is real.
They also hope to join his cult and gain his favor, as killing someone would bring them
closer to ‘his realm’.
Fortunately, the victim, whose identity was not released to the press, managed to crawl
out of the woods and alerted a passing bicyclist who called 911.
She survived but needed extensive treatment and counseling.
When questioned by the police Geyser expressed feeling surprised as stabbing the girl made
her feel no remorse.
Detectives found a number of troubling pieces of evidence when searching the girls’ houses.
These included Slenderman drawings, mutilated Barbie dolls, a sketch depicting a girl saying
‘I love killing people’ and the words ‘I want to die’ written on numerous notebook
pages.
Number 2: The Expressionless This story begins with a woman dressed in
a blood covered white gown who appeared at a hospital.
The attending staff rushed to her aid but as they got closer they were all terrified
by what they saw.
Even though the woman moved like an average human being her head resembled that of a mannequin.
She had no eyebrows and her face was smeared in makeup.
Before the woman fell to the floor she took a dead kitten out of her mouth and threw it
on the floor.
The nurses took her to a room and prepared her for sedation.
The woman remained motionless, expressionless and calm throughout the whole process.
None of the attending staff could look at her blank expression for more than a few moments
as they would quickly become afraid.
Not knowing exactly what they were dealing with the doctors attempted to restrain her
before calling the authorities.
As soon as they tried to sedate her, the woman started fighting back.
She turned to a male doctor and for the first time the staff could see a reaction from on
her mannequin face.
She smiled.
Then one of nurses screamed when she noticed that in her mouth the woman did not have human
teeth but long, sharp spikes.
Terrified the male doctor called for security shouting ‘What in the hell are you?’
The woman then lunged at him and bit him on the neck slicing his jugular vein which caused
him to choke on his own blood.
As the man was gasping for air, the woman leaned towards his face and whispered in his
ear ‘I…am…God’.
As the doctor lay dying he saw her moving towards the security guards.
She then started to devour them as they helplessly attempted to fight back.
The woman then disappeared out of the same door where she came.
The nurse that survived named her ‘The Expressionless’.
Number 1: Jeff the Killer Jeff the Killer’s disfigured face is the
most familiar image in the creepypasta universe.
The story is about a teenage boy’s descent into murderous madness.
Most of the times the story involves a young boy named Jeff who moves into a new neighborhood
along with his younger brother Liu and his parents.
One day, as Jeff and his brother are waiting for the school bus, they are approached by
three boys who try to bully them and take their money by threatening them with knives.
It is during the course of these events that Jeff first begins to feel a killer instinct
taking over.
Despite his younger brother’s protests, Jeff beats up the three bullies.
He avoids their knife swings, and sends them to the ground.
Their leader, Randy, is left with a broken nose.
When the police arrive at his house and Jeff’s mother asks her two sons about what had happened,
Liu takes responsibility for hurting the boys and is ultimately sent to a juvenile detention
center.
Jeff once again begins to feel the same way he did before the fight.
The three bullies eventually track down Jeff.
They find him at a birthday party for one of the children in the neighborhood and try
to get revenge for the beating they had previously received.
As Randy attacks Jeff, the other two pull out their guns and warn the people attending
the party not to interfere.
During the fight Randy hits Jeff on the head with a vodka bottle, causing blood and alcohol
to drip down his clothes.
As he keeps getting hit, Jeff can feel something breaking inside his psyche.
The need to kill takes complete control over him.
He pummels Randy to the ground and punches him in the chest until his heart stops.
The other two open fire on Jeff but he quickly makes his way up the stairs and into the bathroom.
The boys enter the room with their knives out.
Jeff uses a towel rack to send one of them to the ground.
As the other one pushes Jeff into a wall, some bleach from an upper shelf pours onto
his face.
Jeff wipes his face as best he can and even though he feels a burning sensation in his
eyes, he still manages to hit the boy in the throat with the towel rack.
With his last breath, the boy smiles at Jeff, takes out a lighter, lights it and then throws
it at him.
The alcohol and bleach ignites and Jeff bursts into flames.
A few weeks later, he woke up in the hospital with his face covered in bandages.
In the meantime the police had uncovered the truth about the fight and his brother Liu
was released from the juvenile center.
His family nervously waited for the doctors to remove the bandages.
As the bandages came off, what they saw terrified them.
Confused by their reaction Jeff went to look at his face in the mirror.
He could see that the burning bleach had left his face with a pure white leathery texture.
His lips had burnt up until they had a bright red color.
His family expected him to be distraught and sad but instead Jeff started laughing frantically.
He told them that he thought his new face was beautiful and that it suited him perfectly.
His doctors said that this reaction was a side effect of the painkillers he was under.
Jeff’s family took him home.
That night his mother heard sounds coming from the bathroom as if someone was crying.
She walked in to find Jeff on the floor holding a knife.
He slowly turned around showing his mother a wide bloody smile.
He told her that he wanted to smile all the time to show everyone how happy he was with
his new face.
He told her that he had tried to keep smiling but it hurt after a while so he cut into his
own cheeks so that he could smile forever.
Jeff had also burned his eyelids so that he could always see himself and the face he loved
so much.
His mother walked away calling for his father, but Jeff took the knife and stabbed both of
them to death.
Liu heard some of the noise but everything had happened so quickly that he decided to
go back to bed.
While he was on the edge of slumber, he saw Jeff’s horribly disfigured face standing
above him with the knife raised.
All he heard next was ‘Shh just go to sleep’.
As the legend goes, Jeff the Killer still roams the world, hiding in people’s closets
and whispering ‘Go to sleep’ to them before murdering everyone
in the house.