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/x/ and creepypasta
As I have found out, you guys don't really frequent 4chan but there is a board on there called /x/ filled with paranormal stories. Cleverly enough the people on there are called /x/philes. haha
There is also a thing called creepypasta which is defined as: "Any form of writing, usually fictional, that is read mainly for the purpose of spooking the reader. Anybody can write creepypasta, and there is a large collection of creepypasta on the internet. Creepypasta doesn't go through any approval processes — rather, the more the /x/ imageboard requests a certain story, the more reputation it gains. This is how the more well known pieces of creepypasta became successful." I'm basically gonna use this space to post my favourite /x/ hoaxes, and posts from www.creepypasta.net |
Candle Cove
http://www.creepypasta.net/candlecove.html
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Ghostwatch is another one of my favourite hoaxes. I watched it about 4 or 5 years ago on the Scream channel and immediately went into researching why the show has never been played in the UK since it originally aired.
Basically it's a faux documentary presented as a live BBC broadcast, following a little girl who claims her house is haunted. Since there were a lot of television shows about hauntings, and paranormal research at the time, and the use of real tv personalities, I can see why people would have believed this hoax at the time. Here's a link to a blog with some info that was collected for a documentary, about Ghostwatch (that may, or may not ever happen). |
This picture is a screencap of a /x/ post about "The Grifter". This article explains the hoax a lot better than I can.
Basically The Grifter is a story posted by a 4channer explaining a movie that was much like the vhs in Ringu. When you watch it you feel disturbed, maybe even kill yourself. He claimed that the video called "The Grifter" was posted on /x/ in 2008 but was quicky burried because it was too disturbing. For a week after it was posted people were freaking out over the validity of the post, looking for links to the video, and eventually the hoax caught on and /b/ came to troll any believers. The believers and trolls all seemed to disappear after some film school students recognized the screen caps from a movie called "Little Otik" and the original poster admitted to the hoax. Case closed. |
A few friends and I have been exchanging these all night. This one made us flinch a bit.
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Well, congrats MissM - Candle Cove has now officially destroyed a large portion of my mind and freaked me right. the fuck. out.
I'll check the rest out when I'm not to terrified to move. Not sure why that got to me so bad - maybe I'm just overtired. Also watched the video on YouTube - far more disturbing than you'd lead us to think. |
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Jesus H. Christ...WHY did you introduce me to this site? Petrifying doesn't even cut it:
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Just a question about 4chan.
Are parts of it work safe? Most of stories I've heard are about /b/ and their life destroying antics which are sometimes amusing and justified. However I have heard that the board posts a lot of 'illegal' porn. For this reason I have never visited it.. Ghostwatch was great - it really freaked people out in the UK at the time especially as it was done with a big name BBC presenters. It was hard to believe a 'War of the Worlds' incident would happen again on national TV.. |
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Though I have heard the one about the statue, only it was a clown (so even MORE terrifying to me...haha), they used it in the movie Amusement. Creepy as hell. |
Stumbled on this one a few weeks ago, and just found it again.
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It's 5am. Just realized I've been reading these since 10. Too scared to walk from here to my room though cause I'm in a basement and the wind is making my house creeky.
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FUCK. I was literally about to get up to go to bed. "Just one more story." and I get this:
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Ghostwatch was something like number 30 on the 100 greatest scary moments. The clips I saw made it look pretty damn real!
Most of those stories have ended up in my inbox as chain letters many, many times. The photograph one was good. |
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Cute little story
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One of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE online horror stories. Definitely creeps me out when I read it:
http://www.dionaea-house.com/ |
My favorite CreepyPasta today (like Deep Thoughts but BETTER):
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^^ haha awesome :D
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Ron Howard is the Antichrist
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laptop on my chest perusing the net in bed before dozing off,as usual
...spent the last hour reading creepypasta I'm spooked I admit it yep and I have to pee real bad goddammit:mad: |
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This one definitely creeped me out. The writing isn't fantastic, but it's like describing a horrible nightmare...
http://www.creepypasta.net/yokv33.html |
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Example: I assume that this is the board you're talking about: http://boards.4chan.org/x/ The ad across the top is for hentai and I scroll down and I see pics of women's nether regions! :eek: MM! Where are you SENDING me?! GET OFF MY LAWN! ... It could just be that I'm retarded; I've become a UI snob and when I hit a site that has an awful User Interface I get really frustrated with it... I honestly don't know what I'm looking at here. Please explain for us old unhip folks. |
Well Chrono you must be searching for hentai, cause I am under the impression that your ads are interest based. For example, yesterday I was searching for Gingerale flavoured kit-kat bars, and j-pop bands. Today my ads on 4chan are for a site that sells those kit kats, anime and lightsaber shaped chop sticks. I suppose they also cater their ads to the kind of people who usually frequent the site (and given that I go to school with a lot of 4channers, I can tell you, they have a one track mind).
That said, the UI is TERRIBLE on 4chan. I didn't mind it so much until my Interface Design class this year. Now I too am a UI snob. So 4chan: When you get to the initial site there are letters across the top and bottom. The letters correspond to different themes. I don't really know any but b and x. From there, there will be a picture (possibly unrelated to the topic, or just to get your attention. To the right of that is the original topic being posted, and everything under that is a reply to that topic. It doesn't display every reply, so you can click "reply" and it will show them all. Anything worth reading from /x/ has ended up elsewhere on the internet though. I just google stuff like "memorable /x/ topics" to avoid the crap. |
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My favorite piece of Creepypasta seems to be a parody of the phenomenon. This is really fucking funny:
In a certain area of a city somewhere in Western Philadelphia is an area of flat concrete, the kind of place used as a basketball court or similar, near to a school building. If you wait in this area on the 10th September, you will eventually be approached by two youths with an aggressive demeanor about them. The youths will challenge you to a fight, which you must accept. Following the brawl, return to your home. It is important that you tell your mother of this incident. She will become perturbed by your tale, and order you to leave for an area of Los Angeles. You will be compelled to obey her. At the nearest taxi rank, whistle for a cab and one will approach. You may see that its license plate reads "FRESH", and there will be novelty dice dangling from the rear-view mirror. Do not be disturbed by the odor of the cab's interior, and speak only the words "Yo home, to Bel Air" to the driver. When you arrive in Los Angeles, which should be around the hours of over 9000:00 or 8:00 PM, you must speak again to the driver, this time saying "Yo home, smell ya' later". DO NOT LOOK BACK AS THE TAXI LEAVES. You will be dropped off at the entrance to a large mansion. Approach the door and knock three times. If you follow these instructions exactly, you will be allowed to claim your place as the Prince of this area of Los Angeles, known only as "Bel-Air". You will be led to a room with an enormous throne, encrusted with the largest diamonds and fashioned from the purest of gold. This throne is object 539 of 538. Sit on it, and ponder what to do next. |
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Ran across this one a few times now...sends chills down my spine every damn time I read it:
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