The Town Of Blanche
If you visit France’s Cote d’Azur in your lifetime, do everything you can to avoid a small town called “Blanche”. I was in the country once with my parents, around 8 years ago (I was 12 at that time; we were on a family vacation), and we found ourselves looking for a place to get some rest and enjoy some of the local color. We were getting really hungry on the road, so it was with some luck that a town, unmarked on our map, rose unexpectedly on the horizon. This was the town of Blanche.
Immediately after we entered Blanche, we noticed that the colors of the houses were darker than anything I had seen in my entire life - it’s not like they were black or grey, they were normal colors for walls - they just look… not right. It’s hard to explain; almost like it was a color that we don’t even have a word for because it’s so dark and strange.
A few minutes after driving around the town, we all began to notice the fishy stench - like a Friday market, except for the fact that no fish were being sold. The people in the town also had a really weird skin tone, almost frostbitten and tinged a deep blue - if I recall correctly, my father said something like “These guys sure look like the sea.” We had originally planned to stay in the town for a while, but my mother and my sister were so disturbed by the creepy atmosphere and the town’s denizens that they insisted that we keep driving and find a different town to stay the night.
When we arrived in the next town, it was like we all gave a gigantic sigh of relief at once - we felt that we were back in normal civilization. However, the people who ran the inn that we stayed at in the second town did tell us some very freaky stories about Blanche - stories that made us really glad that we didn’t stay there…
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September 29th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
BUT WHO WAS TOWN?
September 29th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
They were crab people, right?
September 29th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Hey, I’m suing!
September 29th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Could have been better…
September 29th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Uhhh. What? Can we hear the freaky stories? Because this one wasn’t freaky at all.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Meh, It sounds too familiar, like something that I’ve read on here before. =/ It would have been better if they would have at least incorporated some of the stories that were retold back to them. All in all it wasn’t that bad though.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
wouldnt the pasta be the stories about the town?…instead of the anecdote?
its like saying ¨omg, once someone told me this really creepy story about ppl that looked like zombies¨…?>< y?
September 29th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Backstory plz?
September 29th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Hello.
Worthless.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
omfg H.P. lovecraft comment was brillaint. i was about to say the same thing
September 29th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
WHO WAS STORIES?
also WHO WAS FISH SMELL?
and WHO WAS LOVECRAFT?
September 29th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
…What kind of stories? Now I want to hear how the whole town flooded and all the denizens they family saw were actually drowned ghost victims and such…
September 29th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Sounds like Innsmouth to me! I think we have a lawsuit on our hands, H.P. Lovecraft!
September 29th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Where is the ending?
September 29th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
And those stories are…?
September 29th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
The author of this one tried too hard to be vague, and it failed.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Pretty much a failure. Not written very well, a terribly ambiguous ending, which, for this story, doesn’t work at all.
Just not particularly interesting overall, and no payoff.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Stories like..?
September 29th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Not cool, that fishy smell is an actually disease called Trimethylaminuria.
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Story?id=2287206&page=1
September 30th, 2008 at 12:07 am
How boring…
September 30th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Then what kind of freaky things happened in Blanche, excuse me???
(this is NOT directed at WHO WAS PHONE.)
September 30th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Um yeah, so if you’re gonna go for a creepy story, perhaps you should actually include, i dunno, creepiness?
I mean, you can’t expect to creep someone out by saying ‘OMG, this one time, I was in a bar, and a dude told me a scary story. The end’
*sigh*
And it could have been interesting, had the creepy stories actually been included
September 30th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Me and my family drove through this weird town once. Then we heard stories about it. Freaky shit, man.
It’s like someone read The Shadow Over Innsmouth and thought it would be more awesome if nothing happened in it at all.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:47 am
lol @ fcf and mr. welldone
yeah…stories like what…that’s more interesting than a family road trip or picnic in france.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Nah that wasn’t us
September 30th, 2008 at 9:18 am
IT WAS REALLY SCARY. I PROMISE.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Blue balls from Hell. Could this story try harder to let me down. Why didn’t the writer think the narrator would want to tell us some of those “freaky stories” instead of just giving us a big lead up to them and dropping us before the climax?
September 30th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Why didnt this creepypasta actually tell the scary stories of Blanche instead of just saying they exist? FUCKING DUMB.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
All it was missing was chinless albinos. And, you know, a resolution. And a point. And something not stolen wholesale from Lovecraft.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
sorry for freaking you out,the stories arent true btw.we all got really cold,and found out blue and white paint together keep our special bodies warm,so we dive int opaint everymorning,as for the walls,its cuz we keep painting of them with a darkwas hof black ink and water.also, we creepy for teh lulz
September 30th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
This was more of an introduction than an actual story. It could’ve been better if you told us one of the scary stories instead of telling us that the stories exist. It’s like me telling you about a really nice car and right before I tell you how to get it, I just stop.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Umm.. this wasn’t particularly that well-done.
Maybe if the we could hear the stories, it would be better. Or have some situation happen at their hotel and ask others about it, like the man staring through the key hole at that hotel.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Story rewrite: I was drivin’ through this zombie-fish-man town, and then I was like, oh shit, I better get out of here. So then I drove out and I talked to this guy in the next town, and I’m like, that Blanche town about 30 miles from here is pretty freaky, and he’s like, there’s nowhere called Blanche anywhere near here… BUT WAIT, THEN WHO WAS TOWN?!
September 30th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Postscript: turns out the guy had Alzheimer’s.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Hey, Crab man, how you been? It wasn’t us either.
You guys coming to the fish fry?
September 30th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
WHO WAS ENDING?
October 1st, 2008 at 12:15 am
Hey, can we come?
October 1st, 2008 at 2:29 am
Not untill you eat all of your sprouts.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:04 am
Hell no we got coked last year and that was enough
October 1st, 2008 at 7:20 am
I thought it was creepy.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
This sucked. Seriously. Really bad story. Maybe add something, I don’t know, creepy?
October 1st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
No John you are deep one!
October 1st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
yawn.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 am
This story sucked. I kidnapped the author just for failing so hard.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
…Maybe if it had said WHAT the stories were, it could’ve been an okay pasta. But as it was it was just bad.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:24 am
THE BLUE MAN GROUP IS IN FRANCE.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:40 am
This story was as vague as that one store that was on this site.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:02 am
I agree the stories should have been told!i was waiting for somthing to spooky too happen in the town :\
October 11th, 2008 at 3:04 am
This one time, a man was talking to me, and he told me a lot of scary stories.
Have you shit bricks yet guys?
October 11th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
This story fails at being creepy. So you went to a town and heard some things. Care to SHARE WHAT THOSE THINGS ARE? Like, for all we know, the blue people could have been smurfs or something!
Now THAT would be a creepy tale.
October 12th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
D:<