Candle Cove
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Skyshale033
Subject: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
YES! Okay I’m not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
ha ha i remember now too. 
do you remember this part skyshale: “you have…to go…INSIDE.”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s skin??
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033
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No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart
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maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it back on.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”
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Source: This story is from Ichor Falls, an absolute must-read site if you dig creepy stories. Seriously, I’m so in love with that website, you all need to go there right this instant, dammit!
BUT WHO WAS STATIC?!
It’s not a person. Have you ever turned on your TV to a channel you don’t have and you just see the black and white dots constantly moving with that loud noise that sounded like things being scraped together? That is static, also referred to as white noise.
Have you ever noticed that he is referring to the "WHO WAS PHONE?" post and is probably not a complete idiot
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Welcome!
i believe that’s tv static
that’s tv snow
Eh? What are you all talking about? That’s just when Candle Cove is on. So wait, TVs can have static?
No, this was back in the 70′s. They didn’t have programming on all the time like we do now, so when there was free time in the middle of shows, it’d have nothing. But the signal of the tv would still read, causing the static.
In a nutshell:
“Oh, there’s nothing on next? Okay” *static until 30 minuets ’till an hour later* “Hey look, another show is on!”
Er no it’s because old TV’s had to be tuned manually, with a dial, how one would tune a radio. great story, though.
I love to play in the TV snow, the snowballs make loud noises.
NO shit Bro
i thought ze screaming episode sounded ze funny no?….. with ze dolls flailing like applesauce no?
Applesauce flails?
It does…?
I do
wut
is it me or the likes on this comment is dirty?
i’m scared now D:
i must say, one of the first creepypastas i’ve read lately that made me so freaked out.
written perfectly.
That’s because Josef K is a borderline genius when it comes to writing compelling micro fiction. Which reminds me: anyone know if he’s still active?
He contacted me to get his links updated a month or two ago, so I assume so.
Unfortunately, going to his site makes my antivirus freak out, so I can’t tell if he’s updated recently. Seems he may have fallen prey to similar issues that we’ve been having here.
Hey, guys! It’s the famous DerpButt!!!
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That gives me an idea for a pasta…
hey, just out of interest did you write Ickbarr Bigelsteine
I know what you’re thinking, and please do it. That story would be amazing if you did it right.
Josef K wrote this?!
No, Kris Straub did.
Read BEN
Ben is an awesome creepy pasta, I even had some conversations with clever bot, and I said Ben drowned and it said no he was murdered
This does not sound creepy at all. Im from finland, and when i was 5 or 6 there was a kids show that had an horrible puppet in it. Type “morso” to google and watch the pictures for a thing with milk glass.
Whoo I’m tingly now
I was curious what the ending would be for this one, since I didn’t really see how it could have a scary… punchline, or whatever.
OMG, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! AHHHHH!!! *faint*
*cough*
Ending was a bit of a let down for me…
Wasn’t really creepy.
what are you talking about? this was scary you troll
what about the fact the persons mum said she had imagination with the static when it was on and lots of people remember it, also i asked MY mum about it and she said `I REMEMBER THAT SHOW, MY GRANDAD USED TO SAY I WAS WIERD WHEN I TURNED IT TO STATIC AND WATCHED IT.` almost exact words from her
Really?
OMFG o-0 *faint*
Yeah, my mom (born in 63′) told me she remembered the show, but couldn’t remember what it was about or when she watched it.
Changed my life.
._.
I…wut?
I lovd the ending
Best pasta in a while. Good show, old chap.
Wasn’t really that creepy.
Nice, though.
The ending wasn’t as creepy as it was intriguing.
Fucking loved the ending.
WOW.
That was a good’un…
really a nice one.. love the begin, like the end. but it could have been made a bit better by stretching the end for a few lines..
One of the best pastas posted in a long time.
holy FUCK that was a delicious pasta. really digging the original format of a forum, and i shat a house when they described the screaming episode.
this is what all pastas should strive to be.
Shat a house, eh?
it’s a mass mental illness?
Or maybe some negative… Force or creature messing with childrens minds?
Candle Cove is actually a show only childeren can watch for some reason. Most parents played it off as an over-active imagination & didn’t think it was anything else.
No it’s not it’s a;; fictional. There really was never a show.
There was, otherwise how would more than one person remember it?
Of course there was. Don’t you remember the candles? The candles were from the Skin-Taker. That was how he worked: candles around the altar, and they called to you.
ugh, people. i hope you’re a troll, because it’s a story, a fictional story. it’s not true!
Thank you
There was a show.
That’s the idea the author implied in order to scare the readers. But think logically: his mother saw static while numerous children watched the show. Would you believe in the mother’s insanity or insanity of group of people from totally different places with exactly the same hallucination? The answer is kind of obvious.
There’s some speculation that it was some gov operation to see if they could simulate a show at a frequency only children could see – that seems the most likely explanation, but the whole “ogm it wuz GUVERMENTS!” thing is so overused that I sincerely doubt it.
It was ok
A tad confusing at parts, but it was ok
omg freeeeeaky
It was freaky. Especially since Candle Cove sounds vaguely familiar… Hmmm…
I know!! It seem familiar somewhere in the back of my mind!! now that i look back on it *quiet sobbing in hands* ;-; HALP ME
Okay, so I’m NOT the only one who thinks it’s sounds familiar?!?! Dude I was born in ’93. Like I wasnt even born when everyone claims to have watched it! Yet it sounds so familiar
Lovely premise with an interesting execution. I enjoyed that one.
… awesome. And really original, too.
That was very creepy. I liked it.
I’m loving it…finally one of those stories that ain’t litter with I’m watching you and you don tknow it, so many “you’s” even Soulja boy is scared.
So much imagination for children to think of everything like that. It’s quite good and very original. I liked it though what if such a show might have existed?
Not too bad, but not too good :/