The Hiker
I was through hiking the Appalachian Trail last year, when I got lost and found myself off the trail, in a strange, dark hollow with heavy moss and one running stream. It was getting dark, and starting to rain. I found a cave just above the creekbed, and there were no bear-tracks, so I went in for shelter.
Sometime in the night, a bear DID come, right into the cave, and I had no way out! Keeping my head, I crawled deeper into the cave and found a passage too small for the bear to fit. It led to a long crawlway ending in a little alcove.
I had no light, and was terrified. But the sound of the bear in the bigger room faded away. This new room was cozy, with what felt like mounds of soft moss and crackly leaves all over the floor. A breeze blew through, and the leaves, though I couldn’t see them, seemed to move all over, they tickled me all night long, making it hard to sleep.
The next morning I crept back out to see if the bear was gone – he was. So I exited back into the hollow. I had a terrible rash all over my body from the itchy bedding I had slept on, and couldn’t stop scratching as I gathered my stuff and went down the creek looking for a road and some directions back to the trail.
I found another trail along the creek, and in a few hours, it ended at a dirt road. There I rested, trying to decide which way to walk for help. My skin was bleeding in spots now, and pustules were forming at the itchiest places. I thought I might need some cream or something.
A Game Warden jeep came around the bend, and when the Warden saw me sitting at the trailhead, he stopped.
“You planning on going up there?” he asked, gesturing up the trail I had come down.
“No, actually-” I began, but the itching on my skin made me stop short to scratch.
“Well, if you are, just stay the hell clear of Spider-Nest Cave.”
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Credited to BlackEyedClown.
Ouch. D:
Ah shoot, the biggest giveaway was the “rustling leaves that tickled all night”.
Oh and finally a creepypasta that’s not supernatural. And doesn’t involve a creepy person.
That was funny. The writing seemed quickly written though.
Kind of silly to name a cavern “Spider-Nest Cave.”
Other than that, it was good. Also, ew.
Ouch. And I found a spider in my room just before reading this, too.
O_O
DO NOT WANT! *flails in arachnophobia horror*
Lol, ew xD I liked it though
<3
@RedKamo
Why is that silly. It would keep people out of it, like “Ah shit, can’t be going there, fucking spiders.”
But yeah, was funny.
If you were crawling all over spiders wouldn’t you feel the squishing and gooeyness?
Also, this isn’t really creepy. I would expect to see [a shortened version of] this on fmylife.com. x3
ASFDAERHEH RYJTKWAQEWWR.
Is all I have to say to that
ALSO, wouldn’t the game warden have noticed his horrible patches and bleeding?
Poorly written, not creepy, just ironic/morals blah bhla bahl
Yeah, what Mreee said.
Blind warden is blind >.<
Lol what’s the moral in this story?
“Don’t go into a dark space without knowing what’s in there. Allow yourself to be mauled by a bear instead!”
Sup, Dawg. We put a Spider-Nest in your cave so that you can get bitten by spiders while you hide from a bear.
That actually sounds pretty painful.
And how can someone think spider bites feel like tickling leaves?
hjhfdjkhefhjhdgsuidvguoebfnklbvsjdk i fucking hate spiders. so. fucking. much.
BUT WHO WAS BEAR?
mmk watevz..
That Xzibit comment was supreme win.
Gahhh. I hate spiders. -twitch-
This story sounds like it should end with FML
BUT WHO WAS XZIBIT?
the arachnophobe in my loves this pasta.
Gods I hate spiders. And that was pretty neat to have a creepy pasta with no paranormal element to it.
HAHAHA,Xzbit,man you win at life.
ANyway,that’s FUUUUUUUUU- worthy.
not creepy at all..but it was sorta silly
MAEH
CREEPYpasta.com
Does the word creepy have some whole other definition that I’m not aware of?
I threw up in my mouth. Fucking spiders. -shudder-
Only creepy due to my spider fear.
Written like the stories I read that my husband wrote in elementary school. Bah.
BUT WHO WAS BEAR?
Larry got this one spot on. Really doesn’t fit into creepypasta. Maybe if there was really no cave, or inner cave, or they were zombie spiders (okay not really but..)
That was incredibly predictable.
Did kinda make me cringe though.
SHIIIIIIT. D: And I just came back from a camping trip today.
completely predictable…
a bit amusing, though
Spiders…*shudder*….
Ewwww.
God, i hate spiders D:
Ahaha, that amused me. Of course, saw it coming a mile away. Entertaining, though of course it wasn’t all that creepy.
Not bad, but sounds like it should have been an Urban Legend or something.
When he mentioned ‘Soft moss and crackly leaves’ I was half expecting the cave to be full of rotten flesh and broken bone fragments as if a murderer had been hiding body parts there
Not creepy at all.
Nor did it interest me at all.
slightly grotesque but not enough.
I agree with everyone, only a silly story.
We know how much you like being bitten, so we put a spider nest in your cave so you can get bitten while you sleep.
Would have been much better if it hadn’t been revealed what the things were.
Thought the same thing as Double L, too.
Silly pasta is silly. BUT W-… Oh, do I dare? I’ll save it for another day.
OHSHIT
holy crap!!!
i would die
im highly alergic to stupid spiders
i would die in the middle of the night and never wake up how sad
“My skin was bleeding in spots now, and pustules were forming at the itchiest places. I thought I might need some cream or something.”
YA’ THINK
pasta is horrible and boring.
I definitely liked that one.
I also figured it would be dead bodies or something, but I couldn’t see how anything like that could feel like leaves. The “tickled all night long” part was a dead giveaway that it was something alive, though.
PWN’D.
I was kind of thinking when he crawled into the inner cave and all that ” He’s gonna wake up, the light will shine through the cave, and he’ll be lying next to some skeleton or something.”
Blew my prediction away.
WTF?!!! How is it creepy or scary when you don’t find out until the next day when he is totally safe and after he:
DIDN’T get eaten by a bear and he
DIDN’T get trapped in a time-warp cave and he
DIDN’T wake up and realize he was sleeping in the dinner bowl of a troop of zombie goblins
that sometime last night he got bitten by a few spiders?
hahaha made me laugh! kool story!
I wonder what’s in Spider’s Nest Cave…
Is it lollipops?
Ha, cool story bro.
That’s not funny my brother died that way.
To me it sounded more like an FML than a creepypasta.
@ LULZ:
LOL That’s what I thought. The next day, he’d come back with a light only to find that he’d been sleeping next to a dead body or something.
“they tickled me all night long”
Don’t you guys get it?! The spiders weren’t biting him, they were LAYING THEIR EGGS IN HIS FLESH. D8
@ Twitch
One can imagine the horror 3 months after the event, when spiders scuttle down the man’s staircase in a grotesque parody of the Brady Bunch.
I think all the comments I’ve read were better then the pasta itself.
@ sex me softly yea
@ xzibit you through my family away D8
Kinda reminded me of that one time when my friend went camping and pitched her tent on an ant’s nest. She and her tent-mates woke up in the middle of the night scratching their head wondering wth were they feeling so itchy… *shudders*
So the ranger was blind and didn’t notice the postules that were sprouting all over his skin?!?
Other than that, this was so spider-licious! -pukes-
Very nicely written & not cliche.
DID HE DIED?!
I WAS IN THIS CAVE THEN A BEAR CAME AND THEN THERE WAS SPIDERS
Damn, my eyes involuntarily jumped down to the last sentence and ruined the whole story for me.
but who was warden
@induction
I love how you said theyll come down the stairs in a brady brunch paradox. Imagine they made the poor guy the maid.
Good pasta although it does seem more FML
@induction
I love how you said theyll come down the stairs like in a brady bunch parady. Imagine they made the poor guy the maid.
Good pasta although it does seem more FML
The bear: Ummm… Yeah. So I’m going to wait til you get lost and find my cave and I’m going to scare the bejeezus out of you and make you crawl into my spider friends’ cave so they can nom on you tonight. Then I’ll leave just as pointlesly as I showed up, you’ll leave with spider nomnoms all over you and we will all live happily ever after.
The End.
BUT WHO WAS SPIDER-NEST CAVE?
Poorly written, but a creepy idea.
I AM DISAPPOINT.
…And arachnophobic. FFFFFFFF-
BUT WHO WAS WARDEN?
I love the idea of spiders lating eggs under people’s skin, but it doesn’t actually work like that, I’m afraid. Also, I, for one, would be slightly more worried by bleeding lumps under my skin than this chap.
Fear the Darkness
-Nex
NO JOHN, YOU ARE THE NEST
AND THEN JOHN WAS THE INCUBATOR
BUT WHO WAS SPIDERS?
Bawt wat about the leefs?
so, he was sleeping with spiders,not leaves… yeah he’s stupid.
i think the moral is never hide in a cave, sleep somewhere else!
I’d rather get raped by a group of bears than sleep on top of spiders.
OH DEAR LORD HE ENDS UP WITH A RASH??!!? The horror.
I lol’d.
…Ok, when the spiders leave your flesh like that, you should be going to a hospital
Anyways, for those who are complaining about the story, I cooked up an ending for you:
“And then there were skeleton spiders that ate all the people everywhere and made them bleed bloody blood for the rest of their lives the end”
Honestly, the fact that he had all those spiders on him all night, crawling in and out of god knows where, and leaving his skin in THAT condition should be creepy enough for you