The highest-rated creepypasta stories, ranked by more than two million reader votes since 2008. Filter by category or story length, or switch to the best stories of the past month or year.
Recarnomania
My parents took care of everything: my plane ride, luggage, tuition enrollment, and accommodations with Uncle Garry. I couldn’t wait. Since I was five, I’ve wanted to become a farmer;…
Read Now
The Crooked Room
Call me Bramwell Alden. I can't give you my real name because my prick of a family is too well known. My ancestor William Alden came over on the Mayflower,…
Read NowThe Music Box
Isabella walked to the front of her grandmother’s casket. Her grandmother looked peaceful in her repose, wearing her favorite dress. Isabella guessed that she just didn’t understand what had happened.…
Read Now
What Lies Within the Hollow Tree
I recently inherited my grandfather’s rural home. A log cabin buried deep within 100 acres of woodland— a picturesque scene untouched for decades and a perfect dwelling that I am…
Read NowHenrietta: A Whirlwind of Imagination
The house on 4th Street didn’t break all at once. It fractured slowly, in the quiet spaces between arguments, until the tension became a living, breathing thing that crowded seven-year-old…
Read NowThe Mummers
When I was a child, the mummers came to town. It was not quite Solstice’s Eve yet. The nights were long and dark, and most nights a thin, jagged coat…
Read Now
A Warning About Silence
Everyone, regardless of their particular mental state, has a curious kind of background noise in their minds. When that noise takes the form of original music, we call it being…
Read NowDead Silence
I didn’t choose the dead minute. It chose me.The first time it happened, I was twelve, hiding in my bedroom while my parents screamed downstairs. Plates shattered. Something heavy hit…
Read Now
I Found a Tree in my Backyard: The End May be Nigh
My name is Erica Bell, and my friends and I have been closely following a worldwide phenomenon that’s been taking place over the last 16 years, or so, and we…
Read NowFor The Few
I'm the easiest to talk to because I go by so many different names. Every person in every country has heard of me, and spoken of me when things are…
Read NowMy Wife is the Only One who can See Something is wrong
It was the sound of sobs, soft...muffled, miserable and tinged with a sort of echoing hollowness, that woke me. It was furitive, almost guilty misery..but with the strange quality of…
Read Now
I don’t believe in Karma
I don’t believe in Karma, never have. How many times has a good person been unfairly condemned or contrarily a bad person got exactly what they wanted? A big house,…
Read NowThe Art of Persuasion
I have reached the top. I have become the molder of other people’s destinies. What began as a reluctant career I only embarked upon to please my father has ended…
Read NowTorture.avi
I'm bawling my eyes out as I type this, locked in my closet. For those of you who think this is one of those internet ghost stories, then I envy…
Read NowTo My Ex-Husband
I can just imagine your face right now as you get this message, that same look where you unconsciously clench your teeth out of stress, making those whining lips of…
Read NowThe Plague Artist
If you're reading this right now, it means I am no longer of this world. Either I've committed suicide or the Plague Artist has grown bored with my existence. I…
Read NowThe Glaring Mirror
I'm not one for superstition or believing in the paranormal. But some things can't be explained. I suppose we resort to the "Supernatural" as a last resort. Well, after what…
Read Now
The man in the window
“I want you to know I'm not crazy. What I tell you in this office today is just to clear my head so I can get past all the damn…
Read NowConstruction Site Entity
To this day, I have no idea what I saw. People I tell seem to not believe me, but I swear this is true. A little background before I get…
Read Now
My Boyfriend’s Dreams Are Starting to Scare Me
My name is Harley, and I've been with my boyfriend Dan for five years, lived with him for three. I love Dan more than anything in this world. He's my…
Read NowThe Hitchhikers
There are stories about a certain kind of hitchhiker - they only ever appear at night on quiet roads, seeming to flicker into existence in the very edge of headlights,…
Read Now