About
Creepypasta is a form of Copypasta and are short scary/horror stories that are regularly posted on message boards or sent via email intended to scare or unnerve the reader. Some are completely made up where as others are derived from old Urban Legends.
Encyclopedia Dramatica has a comprehensive list of the most well known Creepypastas floating around. ED has also split these into seperate creepypasta rankings, includingAwesome Creepypasta, Mediocre Creepypasta, Retarded Creepypasta, and Lengthy Creepypasta.
Origin
As of yet unknown. While stories intending to frighten the reader/listener have been around for years the art of creepypasta itself looks to have originated from the 4chan image boards.
Example of a Creepypasta
The Girl in the Photograph
One school day, a boy named Tom was sitting in class and doing math. It was six more minutes until after school. As he was doing his homework, something caught his eye.
His desk was next to the window, and he turned and looked to the grass outside. It looked like a picture. When school was over, he ran to the spot where he saw it. He ran fast so that no one else could grab it.
He picked it up and smiled. It had a picture of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She had a dress with tights on and red shoes, and her hand was formed into a peace sign.
She was so beautiful he wanted to meet her, so he ran all over the school and asked everyone if they knew her or have ever seen her before. But everyone he asked said “No.” He was devastated.
When he was home, he asked his older sister if she knew the girl, but unfortunately she also said “No.” It was very late, so Tom walked up the stairs, placed the picture on his bedside table and went to sleep.
In the middle of the night Tom was awakened by a tap on his window. It was like a nail tapping. He got scared. After the tapping he heard a giggle. He saw a shadow near his window, so he got out of his bed, walked toward his window, opened it up and followed the giggling. By the time he reached it, it was gone.
The next day again he asked his neighbors if they knew her. Everybody said, “Sorry, no.” When his mother came home he even asked her if she knew her. She said “No.” He went to his room, placed the picture on his desk and fell asleep.
Once again he was awakened by a tapping. He took the picture and followed the giggling. He walked across the road, when suddenly he got hit by a car. He was dead with the picture in his hand.
The driver got out of the car and tried to help him, but it was too late. Suddenly he saw the picture and picked it up.
He saw a cute girl holding up three fingers.
-Taken from Encyclopedia Dramatica’s “Awesome Creepypasta” page.
Video Creepypasta
A recent trend has occured where creepypasta has couplings or is comepletly represented in YouTube videoes. Notable ones include “Smile.jpg”, “The Grifter”, “Squidward’s Suicide”, and, arguably the most notable one, “suicidemouse.avi”. Creepypasta videoes took the experience of these pastas to a whole new level, letting the viewer experience the horror refrenced in the Creepypasta. Here’s an example of a coupling:
Taken from it’s YouTube Video:
The Scariest Picture on the Internet
The story is this, in Japan shortly before a teenage girl comitted suicide, she drew this picture, scanned it and posted it online. In korea this story broke out and it spread like wildfire. There are various posts around in korean forums that say that the viewer gets drawn to the girls blue eyes, they say they can detect a hint of wraith and sadness within the eyes. Maybe the girl had died with so much sadness and anger that her spirit haunts the image, or maybe the image provoke sadness, similar to the song ‘Gloomy Sunday’.
The freaky bit is this, they say it is hard for a person to stare into the girls eyes for longer than 5 minutes, there are reports that some people have taken their own lives after doing so. People say the picture changes, as you view it there is a hint of a growing taunting smirk appearing on the girls lips or a dark ring grows around the girl or her eyes.
One thing is for sure, the picture has sparked a curiosity in me that I must find out, i do feel a presence when I look at the image, whether it is evil or not I can not judge. I would like to know what the global online community feels and maybe even experts in art would be able to resolve why the eyes of this image can draw the viewer in so deeply?
Some Creepypasta get more coverage than the normal, causing fervent spamming of the text/videos in question. Here are some notable textual creepypastas: Video Creepypastas tend to get bigger, ammassing hundreds of thousands of views, an incredible feat for any and all Creepypasta. Here are some of the biggest Video Creepypastas, including the viral Majora’s Mask Creepypasta: Majora’s Mask/BEN Creepypasta First Video Pokemon is also a prime target for Creepypasta, possibly due to it’s nostalgic factor and the overall innocence of the games. Some of the most famous Creepypasta’s are in this category. Some creepypastas are here: There are also several sites dedicated to collecting Creepypastas, sites include:Notable Creepypastas
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