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
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
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
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
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?!
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.
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*
Ending was a bit of a let down for me…
Wasn’t really creepy.
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.
it’s a mass mental illness?
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…
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 :/
HOLY FUCK. That was creepy as hell! Awesome pasta right there.
AMAZING
…that was THE BEST EVER creepypasta.
holy s**t.
There’s definitely something about this pasta… can’t quite put my finger on it…
I thought it was gorgeous! I loved the format, quite refreshing, and this was a great concept.. childhood memories are so often vague that it was a good idea to tackle them and make them creepy. OMNOMNOM. Delicious!
but WHO WAS INSIDE?
but seriously, really creepy one, I liked that.
Wow that was SCARY. I didn’t get how it was going to turn creepy at first, just adults reminiscing.
The thing is, the show’s description was so vague, it can sound familiar even if it never existed. The skin-taker was my favorite part though. Seems like it could actually happen so A++ on this creepypasta. This is why I love originality.
<3
i’ll never ever watch static again. ever.
FAVORITE. EVER.
Love the format, love the growing sense of nostalgia being replaced by thank-god-thats-over, love the lack of “and now it’s going to eat YOU THE READER” at the end, love the sudden BUT WHAT CHANNEL WAS PHONE?! twist.
This is delicious bacon alfredo pasta and I don’t care if I get fat!
Wow…
wait, why does this sound so familiar?
It didn’t really have anything until the end,
but the end was decent.
Holy crap, this scared me! It was kinda dull, just people talking about a old kids show (like we’ve all done at some point), then BAM! Chills racing up my spine.
i reallyyyy like that one.
like, a lot.
that is a brilliant pasta, the best I’ve read in a while…wow
I don’t get how it’s creepy. I mean yea the characters and screaming was creepy but the ending seemed cut off. I really don’t get it at all.
Mass hysteria?
though I think if I saw that “screaming” episode I would let out a laugh along the lines of “lolwut?”
Which I did upon reading it.
Wow. This was just, amazing. Probably one of the best creepypastas I’ve read. Delicious.
Fantastic.
A very well done twist at the end, though it was slightly predictable that the show didn’t actually exist. It felt unnecessarily long building up to the finish, but in the end it was actually a pretty decent pasta. I’d come back for seconds.
8/10, one of my favorite pastas in quite some time.
Why do I suddenly feel like making some puppets and getting a spot on public access TV?
jeeeeez i got the heebs and the jeebs. gewd pasta is gewd.
WHOA.
Way to start out innocent, then freak us right the @$#% out at the end.
First genuinely creepy one I’ve ever read. Well done.
I like how it was written. And the creepyness was all in the build-up. The final was a bit comforting, oddly enough…
:]
Weird.
I love this. Who doesn’t have a creepy kids’ show that we barely remember the existence of?
Scared me more than any creepypasta ever before.
Seriously, I was shitting myself by the end of it. O_O
This is the best pasta in ages. I loved it.
I grew up in eastern KY and Ashland, KY and Ironton, OH are nearby. I’m seriously CREEPED OUT now!
Honestly, I thought you were going to say it was Mr Cartoon and Beeper. But you didn’t mention Huntington, WV.
I’m still creeped out!
Liked it
I don’t get it :\
I mean, I do… But I don’t get what was so creepy~ about it.
I loved this pasta!!
this one actually gave me the chills, i’m impressed.
Oh. I like this one. =)
It slowly panned from normal discussion to something very wrong.
I was wary about the forum format, because I’ve seen so many format deviation types (emails, journal logs, scientific files) that didn’t really work out in terms of the writing, but this one was a pleasant surprise. The one other format deviation type of story I loved was the Dionaea House.
Awesome. The whole time I was reading it, I was wondering how it could have a scary ending… but then it did anyway! Great story, didn’t see the ending coming. I like it.
ok, no joke.
When I was a little girl there was a programme about witches on, always at weird times. I thought it was really cool and I decided to get a disposable camera and take a picture of it on the tv…
I got the film exposed 6 years later, after finding the camera…
every picture was normal, except the one of the tv.
…the tv screen was black.
veryyyyy niice. ;P
Pretty interesting approach. Didn’t scare me tho.
I loved this. Set very realistically, and it gradually descends into the paranormal so gracefully I barely realized. All the characters were extremely believable.
I’m not sure about the ending - could have left us guessing, but then it might have felt incomplete. I dunno - it kinda needed closure, I suppose.
And the nightmare part was absolutely /perfect/. When I first began that section, I was thinking “oh, great. Another OMG SCARY NIGHTMARE story” but nononono.
Mass nightmare.
Genius.
I loved this. I mean, I completely freakin loved this. The only thing was that the ending was a little off. I can’t get into a group hallucination thing, but everything before that was pretty much perfection.
Really liked this one. The type of media it’s supposed to have come from suits the material well.
Hey, I remember that show!
Hollllly sweet mother. This was amaziiiiing. I loooooved loved loved the setup. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
OMNONOMNOMNOM.
No,seriously.Amazing,chilling,ahhhh.I’m going to surf that site now.Kudos.
This. Was. Fucking. Awesome.
OMG I REMEMBER THAT SHOW!1!!
Am I the only one who doesn’t think it was a hallucination? I assumed it was something only children could see, or some sort of paranormal message.
You have…to go…INSIDE!
Bricks were definately shat.
HALP-that probably had to do with the glare of the TV screen if anything.
Hmmm. Intriguing more than terrifying. But still, oddly creepy. Not ‘gah, something’s going to GET YOU’ creepy, but I don’t know….just….SOMETHING that we don’t understand is in control of something. Maybe I’m just creeped out because I have those moments of remembering a TV show or movie, but I can’t quite remember because I was so little……
Why does everyone love this pasta so mucho?
I really liked the format and such… I just don’t get what makes it super creepy.
Maybe i just dgi.
Hey, look, I just wanted to borrow some pirate booze.
It just proves don’t watch static.
It makes you shit brix n see scary shit.
That was really great. The dream is probably gonna leave a lasting impression. I wish somebody would make that episode into an actual video…that’d be excellent.
it was a very good pasta… im now intrested in the idea of an actual case like this happening, i remember hearing somthing about it before a couple months ago…
OH MY GOD NEW FAVORITE. The people who said this wasn’t scary apparently don’t know what scary is. Seriously, think about this for a second. Put yourself in this situation. You and a bunch of other people all remember a completely fucked-up children’s show only to find out that you were watching absolutely nothing.
The vague implications are mind-blowing and horrifying. The scariest part is just how vague they are.
Jesus Christ.
I just … I …
This is now my favourite story on this site.
One of the few creepypastas that really made me stop and think.
Noice
That was really good. Very sinister.
I think it works because, not only does it use a believable format, it plays on childhood memories, and how even simple things could terrify you as a child, once your imagination distorts them.
Really good, I thought the ending was a little bit too abrupt, but apart from that, really good stuff.
I loved this…
the ending was a big sudden and plain…
I don’t really “get it”, but it still made me shit bricks.
Loved it
Loved it, it really creeped me out
Finally a good pasta! ^^
Loved it… absolutely loved it.
Why can’t more pastas be like this?
D= Oh fuck, why does that name sound so familiar?! DDD=
Thank you for that, I needed a good pasta for supper.
Excellent, keep up the good work. The only thing that would be good is extending the ending a smidgen and adding in Grammatical errors and the like for realism. Otherwise, Great.
I loved this story, although I do have to wonder how all these different people managed to imagine the exact same show. I wonder if it would have been creepier if it was somehow made clear that the initial poster had likewise dreamed up these various personalities and had posted as each person himself.
But like I said, I really do love this story. Simply excellant.
I loved Horace Horrible. He was my favorite character.
He made me laugh.
I have no idea how people could not find this terrifying even to a small-degree.
BUT WHO WAS SKIN?!
@everyone who doesnt think this is creepy: WHY?!
it totally is
how many effed up things must be happening if all these different kids saw the same effed up things in STATIC?
wicked messed up
idk how anyone could think thats not creepy
Delicious pasta is delicious o.o
I give this… 10 SKULLS
When I read the end, I started tearing up.
O_O
Loved it! Very creepy…only the children could see the show. Nice job. Unique story
Bricks were shat.
I live in Eastern KY as well– and the mentions of Ironton and Ashland made me SHIT BRIX
the skellington was eating the fat man behind the couch, but I didn’t like the fat man at all….
(this creepypasta reminded me of that very vivid nightmare when I was a kid and OMG this was great)
Holy shit….that was actually really creepy! Well-done!!
Holy shit, I’m officially creeped out.
This was chilling.
It is theoretically inpossible that the airwaves only broadcast to select people. LOLOLOLOL
I used to watch static channels all the time when I was little.
Thinking about that right now is so scary I could cry.
This is some well cooked Pasta, best one I’ve read yet.
This really creeped me out.
As soon it was starting to get further down the conversation, I was like “WTF, what kind of show did they watch when they were a kid?”
Then the ending was so unexpected, I just shat brix.
God it gives me the shivers when thinking about what had happened.
I am in love with this pasta. Fantastic. I wanna go watch that show.
awesome! terrific ending
holy shit i loved this pasta.
BUT WHO WAS…
Screw it, this pasta is too good for that kind of thing.
wow, I loved it!
…There’s this show my sisters used to watch late at night. I think.. It’s called Happy Tree Friends and its about cute animals dying happily ever after… do you know this show?
Now THAT was a good read!
Totally did not see that ending coming, and love this pasta for that. I was getting so tired of seeing cookie-cutter stories with predictable turns. Thank Odin for this pasta!
omg omg that show seems familiar to me i wasn’t even born around the 70’s ahhhhhh~! seriously that was an AWESOME story!
Absolutely loved it, I got so scared when they said they remembered his ‘nightmare’
This was just brilliant. The style was crazy awesome, and the idea was flawless.
maybe it wasn’t the kids who were hallucinating… but the mom? plus she could just have a bad memory since she’s so old
I want to watch this show. Loved this pasta. It sent shivers down my spine.
Dead by dawn
Why in the FUCK does this kid’s show sound so familiar?
@Femanon
gb2/kitchen and make me a sandwich, tits or gtfo
BEST PASTA EVER
I feel like i’ve seen this show before.
lol i didnt read the whole thing and then i looked it up on youtube and couldn’t find it
Damn creepy static puppets -.-
this was good pasta. i could feel it building up because it started so mundane and just got more gruesome ;D i was dieng for the plot twist i knew was gonna come…i spelled dieing wrong -.-
This is a pasta best-served hot.
DELICIOUS. wonderful. so creepy.
This is fucking beautiful. The format alone gets mad points for originality,THE TWEEST was awesome,and once it switched from bizarre to all-out fucked up,I went “holy shit this is wonderfully messed up.”
DELICIOUS.
ehmigawsh bricks of horror ^_6 were shat
OM NOM NOM
This gave me SERIOUS chills.
This is better than pasta, creepylasagna
It makes you think you’ve seen it, and I was born over 20 years after the show was supposedly on. Everything about it… it sounds really authentic.I had to look up ‘calliope music’ on youtube. That shit is scary and it makes you envision the whole thing.
10/10
The captivating part of this is that there really are some very creepy children’s shows. Search for “claymation mysterious stranger” on Youtube some time.
I remember this show
that gave goosebumps on my balls.
om nom nom
@Rape My Shitter
no u
YARR HARR FIDDLE DEE DEE, YOU ARE A PIRATE!!
super fantasic pasta
Ok… creepy… ._. I’m guessing that only kids could see it because they were being targeted by something supernatural… What if some of the shows we watch… *shudder* Ok, discontinuing that thought…
@ Mister Bate
I love Happy Tree Friends! XD I have a Flippy obsession… ^^;
Hahaa; Big Imaginations, alright(:
I think I’ve seen that.
Came on after the Big Comfy Couch. D :
!!! Seriously! It was only a few days ago that all my TV channels turned to static!
BUT WHO WAS DIGITAL BROADCAST?
Wait a minute… I think I used to watch this show. I don’t get the ending though. Brings back alot of memories.
This was very cool - and creepy. Well done! I give it 5 out of 5 shakes of the cheese grater.
Damn, that was too realistic.
scary
This, honestly, was the best creepypasta I’ve read yet,a nd I’ve lurked here for ages. The format, the concept. Very realistic and vivid. , unlike most ritual cliches. Relatable
I liked it.
As the story went on, I kept thinking “this sounds like a cool show,” though.
Wowow.
That….was truely disturbing.
Loved it! -claps-
I really liked this one. Oh wow. ^_^
Awesome! it takes alot to creep me out. Scarily enough at first I thought it was a real show because alot of it sounded familliar(even though I didn’t grow up in the 70s at all, not even close). It also reminded me of Punch and Judy for some reason. Now that was horrible for kids, anyone else know the old English puppet show I’m talking about?
Epic.
Creepy as shit, too.
gave me shivers down my spine. i have moments where i remember shows but cant find anything on them. cReePy
That was very inventive…I love it. I’m now jealous that I didn’t write this, it’s so clever.
Kudos!
awesome ending. didn’t see it coming.
Um….. OHSHI- crap
Haven’t read any creepypasta in awhile and this one really took the cake for me… Especially since nostalgia can be kinda scary sometimes xD
This is freaking brilliant.
Wait, there was a channel 58 in the 70’s? I thought the max channel was like 12 or something. Anyways, this was awesome, creepy and odd, just the way I like it.
The format isn’t really original; it’s an updated idea, but not really original. I enjoyed the story, though. Except for the “twist” ending, this is something that could possibly happen. People think back to old shows from their childhood, and realize “Wow. That was creepier than I thought back then.” Nicely done.
i loved that..
really creepy..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGGAjMg9vw
scary. watch. similar to pasta.
Didnt really get it O_o
Haha, loved it!
It makes me wish that this was an actual show!
Good… very, very good.
This was very creepy.
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LOL that was actually creeppy and I don’t like that.
Valences up…
Damn! I want more. This is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever read anywhere.
…Imaginary (butt) pirates?
kinda disappointing ending, though good work
Weird, … (which I find a compliment on this site)
@ DoNotFeedMe: I’ve seen that before and I thought it was pretty disturbing
Holeee Moleeee
I read this first at… idk, four in the morning? This is scary right now at 5:00 in the afternoon, reading it then just scared the bajeebus outta me. I almost started crying.
Kudos, this one is definitely one of the better ones.
When he described the dream part it kinda sounded like what an actual dream would be. No “Slowly walking through a dark alley and a monster jumps out bullshit.” That sounded (read) like a dream.
i grew up in ashland in the 80s. i remember there being a couple of uhf stations before we got cable, one of which was wtsf. it was mosty a christian station, but would show local programming like a cable access station sometimes. i also grew up with mr. cartoon and beeper woooo!
i may just have to make some video related to this pasta this weekend, as it really hit close to home and made me shit brix, and i would love to see an episode of candle cove.
Thank you guys! I wanted it to feel authentic. The story was actually inspired by that old Onion article about the guy who still had nightmares about the shitty Sid and Marty Krofft show “Lidsville.”
There was such a treasure trove of unwatchable, awkward, indistinct kids’ programming with puppetry in the early 1970s. I was born in 1979, and cartoon and puppet production values were a little better in the 1980s. I get scared thinking about all those dimly-remembered childhood experiences that were a product of your undeveloped worldview being invaded by something completely alien that assumed you’d be entertained.
This is the first story here that has actually scared me a little.
10/10
ps. OMG look at this!!!!! Somebody actually did a mockup of the final episode!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h5ym6ZlVY
HOLY FUCKING SHIT I SHAT >9000 BRICKS OVER THAT VIDEO!! It goes excellently with the story and should probably be linked at the bottom for new people reading it.
The video jumped me (n__n’)
This was excellent pasta. Just the descriptions scared me haha
wtf guys i found the website for this show:
http://www.candlecove.net
There’s character Bios and episode synopses and everything. You can even find the screaming episode here:
http://candlecove.net/episodes/-#a1355
Twitch, that video is just 75 seconds of static. Complete and utter waste of time… I thought I’d actually get to watch Candle Cove again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h5ym6ZlVY
oh my gooood
i saw the video, then searched for the story. creepiest fucking thing ever.
(SUPPOSEDLY some people just see static in the vid, but it matches up with whats in the supposed last episode)
fuuuuuuuuck
The descriptions of the screaming and Janice’s agony are what make the ending so fucking chilling. This is some gourmet pasta!
The descriptions of the screaming and Janice’s agony are what make the ending so fucking chilling. This is some gourmet pasta!
As weird as this is, this actually sounds really familiar to me, particularly the characters of Captain Percy and the Laughingstock. Although I’m pretty sure the girl’s name was Janine.
I was thinking about this last night and became genuinely terrified.
There is a youtube video of the screaming episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h5ym6ZlVY
You might say I’m just trolling but I swear to god this sounds so familiar to me, i even remember the screaming part, but they were all in once scene together not like in the mock up. the camera’s view didn’t change or anything and the girl was alot older (like 8, the actor was at least) I’m not shitting you or trolling and I’m scared shitless after reading this. I thought the whole show was like Wondershowzen just a big joke at the time.
i have to agree the show seems very familiar and i thought it was ajoke also. i dont remember much of it but i do remember a show where this big old weird pink guy lump thing had a handle bar mustache but the main villian was a chick and they would go around after this little girl and like five or six different puppet people. i dont remember the ship from but when i think about it i think about the puppet from “Big”
Shit I`m fucking shitterefd drunk, but that was fucking insane, definitely soem of the best creepypasta ive read, ever
iif You Go To Youtube And Type iin Candle Cove You Get That Epiisode Of Them Screamiing…………….. iit So Horriibble
Gosh, I didn’t know Flapjack was around then.
AWESOME. PASTA.
Brilliant.
now this is a great scary story. there are some lovely gems on this site and this is one of them. wonderful, creepy read.
lawl, but that video that goes along with it made me laugh so hard. just some seconds of puppets jumping around and screaming, then white noise. the beginning was hysterical, though; not very creepy. i like that dude in the pig’s mask in a laundry room right before it cuts to static.
weird…
Thanks for the nightmares…
And the image…
but I mean that in a good way!
That was pretty cool.
I guess it’s like where only a few people can see the show. Idk, anyway grate story.
Still not scared but grate.
This is the fucking best pasta ever.
It will always be my favorite.
Some local show, sounds like it was pretty out there. Had a scout around, some talk on Google groups about it, and an entry in Wikipedia in local Children’s TV. Its Candle Cove, not Candel Cove which some people seem to be misspelling.
I still don’t see how people can see any images in this static…is there more than one clip, like a shortened one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_local_children%27s_television_series_(United_States)
This pasta is wonderful. I shat an entire city block, and I certainly wasnt expecting the ending.
Stories are so much better when what’s behind the ‘horror’ is never revealed.
The reveal at the very end makes this pasta. Tasty indeed.
Saved, best, most delicious pasta I have ever read.
Creepy and realistic. Nightmares….ooooo the nightmares!
here is the last ever episode s01e12 of candle cove, for your viewing pleasure. this is actually the one mentioned in this supposed creepypasta.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h5ym6ZlVY
Wow, very creepy.
Holy shit. Even after reading through most of the comment’s I’m still feeling chills. By far the best pasta I’ve read yet. It’s the middle of the day, and there are people in the next room, but I’m still sort of freaking out.
I’m too scared to watch that video.
What Ralion said. It’s 11 in the morning, (mostly) sunny outside, and yet I’m in some sort of paranoid, semi-freaking-out state.
I don’t usually read Creepypasta on the actual site, so when someone direct-linked me to this, I thought it was an actual discussion page.
It was such a realistic mind screw that I don’t even feel very confident that the comments section is real. I’m just posting to dead air. Excellent pasta.
This isn’t scary… not even the implications. Wow, we all thought we remembered a tv show, but then it wasn’t real.
Yeah, terrifying -_-
Things like that happen all the time. Someone starts talking about a tv show you vaguely recall, and says a specific event. Even if you don’t remember it, you end up nodding along and adding to the grand picture.
Liked the forum post format though. 3/10.
whoah…that was amazing.
whoever wrote this, had an amazing way of making it sound real. this show even sounds vageuly familiar. like all kids have this dark creativity lurking somewhere in the corners of their minds..
This is one of my favorites. ^^
Correction, my favorite. =D
wow that is one of the creepiest stories i have ever read
wtf and his mom let him watch static for half an hour like a retard?
GOD i love this pasta, its the best the best the best
Definite mindfuck, lol. I think this pastas greatest strength is that as you get more and more paranoid, you yourself being to remember Candle Cove, and just wait til you yourself gets that fateful nightmare.
ITS REAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h5ym6ZlVY
Oh, this has to be my favorite one.
im sooooo going to make this show know
kids these days need a good jarring
Pure Brilliant.
I can imagine all that right now….oh damn! I won’t be sleeping tonight…
Ugh… If you go to youtube and look up candle cove, you can actually get the last part of the final episode. It is quite literally of all the puppets flailing violently, the little girl crying, screaming, and wailing, and it just sounds like people are dying. *shudders* I watched it and just about cried. It was SOOOO freaky and something just wasn’t right about it. Mind you, I don’t have sound on my computer, but my best friend does. I watched it WITHOUT sound first, and it just gave me the creeps. Talk about something to scare the sh*t out of you for no apparent reason. >.<
Oh come ON, people are saying this pasta is “the only one on the site that freaked them out” and /I’m/ not remotely scared by it? I understand what’s going on and everything
One, what’s in this pasta, it’s AWESOME!
and two, I’ll contribute to the list of old creepy childhood shows you barely see anywhere with Dinosaurs, it took me the longest time to figure out the name cause I never had a good memory back then. I remember a weird episode, but it was probably a dream, since it had the black and white deal most of my dreams had… But I distinctly remember what I now assume was the final episode… some extinction thing…. As for the potential dream….I think I remember part of it involving them eating someone…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h5ym6ZlVY
if you guys think reading it was scary…watch this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h5ym6ZlVY
What the fuck, all I can see is static!!!
I know! I don’t get what was so scary!
Ugh… During a trip to Portland, Oregon, I got into the habit of reading this site before bed, because it was a time I wouldn’t be disturbed and the worst I’d get is a little creeped out. Then I read this… There go my plans for actually sleeping tonight.
I wondered about the authenticity of the video and have come up with this conclusion. This so called “show” was something subliminal that is if this was something that actually aired, etc. Now what we see on the web video could have been what was seen to those who watched it when they were young. However due to the fact that it was a subliminal white screen no parent would even notice what was actually going on. If they could see the screaming or whatever was actually on the show they’d probably keep their kid from watching it.
The audio strobe sound reminds me of brainwave files mixed with static. When listened to long enough it would probably induce effects similar to LSD to someone listening and lsd can be used to program people; The thing is, because a kid wouldn’t have that shielded of a mind, it’d be pretty easy to influence the brainwaves of a child through simple static and an audio strobe in the background, if that wasn’t enough the sound of “white noise” is a commonly understood part of psychedelic effects, which again could easily go back to and LSD type effect of some sort.
After all the brain can pick up on things that the conscious mind cannot, therefore it would not be surprising if someone years later asked about a show simply because the thought came to mind even though back when the show was first watched someone could be around 9 years old. How else would someone remember a show if it wasn’t anything but white noise and static imagery? I don’t know about you but that sounds subliminal to me.
What are everyone else’s thoughts?
@anonII
I didn’t pick up anything like that. What I got was that there was something being shown to children that adults couldnt see that took the form of a TV show. Maybe the skin-taker? who knows. But I don’t think it was meant to be ‘real’ broadcasting, but was definitely something else that a generation of kids were aware of and were traumatized by it
I love this pasta. By far the most delicious I’ve ever had! I find it strange though how as I read a lot of the comments (though not all) that people are set on thinking mass hysteria for being the reason of the show appearing to just them. =/ Honestly, who knows how many kids “saw” the show. (speaking hypothetically for the sake of the story of course) Often children are known to see things that adults can’t. The author could have been playing off of that, and that it was a sort of “ghost” show. A paranormal channel putting on a show for the kids for whatever reason. o-o
Sometimes I think a few people on this site are far too logical to appreciate these stories. XD
Thank God, I can finally (not?) sleep tonight for I have finally found a pasta that sent a chill down my spine!
That is some sick kids’ show- I wanna watch it.
Fan-frickin’-tastic. C:
I think I shat a hospital, a factory, several suburbs, a highway, and many people before I freaked out too much and curled up on the ground, hallucinating and screaming violently, scratching till my fingers were only bits and pieces…
This pasta wasn’t creepy..More like a BATSHIT INSANE mindfucking.
….Damn pasta made me its bitch…
I still can’t figure out if this is real or not.
Either way, great pasta…
Best I’ve read on here.
Hey guys, I uploaded s1e04 to youtube. Thought you might appreciate it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjP6eVDjuIM
Yikes. The Skin-Taker… reminds me of when my parents showed me Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang when I was 5 or 6. None of this shit is inappropriate for kids really, but the Kid Catcher (think that was his name) freaked me the hell out for a couple of years after that.
Oops. Moderator, please fix ‘inappropriate’ to ‘appropriate’, then delete this. Thanks.
…I’m a little freaked now ’cause my lil brother spent a half hour watching static this morning O.O
This shit was not creepy in the least bit.
Me and My boyfriend tripped over this, and it gave him some creepy dreams. For me, it didn’t do anything, but hey… The show seems really really REALLY familiar…
Disturbing.
But fascinating how each poster slowly changed a simply memory to a bad memory, then a chilling memory, and finally onto a nightmare.
First it was nothing and no big deal. Then it was the Pirate Percy made from random parts, like some Frankenstein monster. After that you had the ship, which probably had some freaky crazed, axe murderer style grin on it. Then Horrible Horace, with the single eye. And the Skin Taker? That’s just a little messed. The scream episode was just.. I mean, what would make something called the Skin Taker scream like that? Think about it..
Something I found really interesting is the brothers that watched it together…
I found 2 videos of this show on Youtube.
Hey posters. This reminded me of something long ago that I saw on TV. You absolutely must email me if you remember it…
I was really little and was watching what I think was Sesame Street. They decided to sing the alphabet, and proceeded to do so. It was so happy and kiddy… The letters were colorful and would dance around the screen. Nearing the end of the song- around Q,S, or T- a giant red and black 5 intruded on the song. It announced itself with a loud creepy voice screaming “FIVE!” as the music stopped… for hours…
I never watched the Sesame Street again. It scarred the hell outta me…
I dunno why but Candle Cove sounds vaguely familiar.
Now THAT’S creepy, and original.
Lol, the show reminds me of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, though. Perhaps this is why everyone feels like it’s so familiar? Or maybe this author is just really good at implanting false memories.
Bland.
Well if the show had existed, I’d theorize that everybody screaming at the end was Janice going insane. The plot took place in Janice’s imagination, didn’t it? So the last episode was Janice losing her mind, thus Candle Cove being destroyed. That’s why the characters were screaming. They were dying agonizing deaths.
Also if it does seem familiar to anybody, it could be that you’re thinking of LazyTown, theodore tugboat, or various other low-budget kid’s shows this is patterned after.
Why is this familiar? I’ve watched it when I was 7 or 8. I found this playing when I was in Germany. This was a creepy show to begin with, but after seeing it again, I can see it in my mind all over again.
i’ve read this story more than 10 times now, and i still absofuckinglutely love it. it’s one of the few stories that make me feel all chilled up and i can’t help but look behind me. ten thumbs up to it.
OMFG I FUCKING LOVE NEUPHORIC STORIES. AND ICE CREAM AND PASTA FUCKK YUU U KILLED SONIKU BITCHHHHHH
Wow. Just, just fucking wow…
i searched candle cove intro on youtube and all i saw was static. o.o
I finally gathered up the courage to watch the video. Of course I’m the only one still awake now. This is great.
Also @Lazy: What the hell. It started playing, even though it said it was paused.
Well, definitely not sleeping tonight.
ok…i watched the static, i got nothing, however, from watching the static, minutes later, my head began to spin, per say, my stomach was in a twist, and i began hallucinating, i still am, its been nearly an hour, this is either a sickness, or the video is just down right haunted, dont think im weird, this is probably the best mystery i have ever heard of
I’ve read this pasta like 4 times now. :L It’s my favorite.
When I read when they describe the Skin-Taker and the girl asks, “why does your mouth move like that?” and he says “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN” freaks me out everytime.
Nom nom nom nom nom.
Also, I searched for it on youtube.
…
Oh my god.
It just occured to me, but…
Did anyone think of Poltergeist?
This is one of my favourite scary stories, ever. It doesn’t devolve, it’s not cheesy (”I am being watched by a girl with long black hair and no face, and she’ll come and get me any time… Now that you’ve read this she’ll get you too…”), and it’s not too far fetched either. A lot of horror stories are well written, but just SO out there that you just can’t relate any more.
This is just simple, subtle, CREEPY. I love it forever.
na na niiiinnnneee
Woah, a good pasta with a satisfying ending, Omm nom nom.
Oh Christ, I just looked it up on YouTube and found the screaming episode. When I paused it (because frankly, that shit is creepy), there was a dude in a fucking bear mask in some basement apartment or something staring at me.
Fuck that shit.
Delicious pasta.
Ichor Falls and Kris Straub are awesome! One of the best stories out there!
for some reason the second i read this i started thinking “aww yeah i think i used to watch something similar to this when i was younger” and when i read the end i was like
thats what makes it creepy. it makes you think you were a part of it.