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.
Hell’s Library – The Secret Atlas
Prologue (The Librarian) I’ll confess that it’s been very difficult for me to write this account, as I finally reveal my family’s dark secret to the world. A few years…
Read Now
Don’t Ever Look Back
You know that feeling you get when you walk down a dark hallway? The feeling you get when the lights are out in the room behind you, the feeling that…
Read Now
Sea of the Fractured Circuit
There’s never one point where something ‘clicks’. Some like to believe there is, that hobbies or skills reach a well-defined turning point, an ON-OFF switch. It’s never that simple. Even…
Read Now
The Doors of Stone
The elevator rumbled and shook as it descended. I could hear the massive gears grinding into place as they lowered the cage-like box deeper into the earth. I felt my…
Read Now
A Mysterious Elevator Took Me To a Hidden Floor
As a traveling convention planner, I stay at many hotels over the course of a year. I spend about a week per trip in an all-expenses-paid suite of my choosing,…
Read Now
The Mannequin Farm
I think I’m finally at the point where I’m able to talk about it. It’s been several years since it happened. None of us - not me, nor my friend,…
Read Now
The Strangest Security Tape I’ve Ever Seen
I work at a gas station in rural Pennsylvania. It's a boring job, but it's pretty easy and it pays all right. A few weeks ago, this new guy started;…
Read Now
The Tale of Sam Fuller
Before I get to me, I need to start here. There's a story people began telling in our town of Casper. They call it the Tale of Sam Fuller. A…
Read Now
Something was Following us When we were Stranded in the Middle of the Sea
"Dad, look!" I looked up from the dusty and dirty old map I had been examining for the past seventeen minutes to see what Liam was pointing at through the…
Read Now
Blood Trails
Part 1 I was nineteen years old in the late summer of 1997 when my maternal grandfather suddenly became ill and passed away. He was seventy-two years old. In the…
Read Now
Crossroads
In the middle of nowhere, under a sky of darkness filled with unrecognizable stars, there is a crossroads. Its roads are made of rocks and dirt, and walking along them…
Read Now
The Lover’s Tree
I had recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales with my rescue dog, Splash, so-named for his love of puddles, and this summer past we had ambled through the woodland on…
Read Now
The Current Settlers
[upset] I knew it! I knew you’d come today of all days. Damnit, we gotta get you out of this forest! … … One day a year – one! And…
Read Now
The Backroads: Witches & Honey Traps
JESSE:[a small fire crackles nearby over the clacking of a keyboard][paranoid] Hey again,I’m glad the last update got out before everything fell apart. Please, you’re our only hope. I never…
Read NowHell at High Altitude
To whoever may find this – My recently deployed expedition into these vast mountains has been proven fruitless to say the least. In the past twenty-four hours I have witnessed…
Read Now
My school thought it was a serial killer. They were wrong
It started about a week after the first snowstorm of the winter season. I go to a private university in the Midwest. I won’t name the school or the state…
Read NowThe Campus Tour
I can't prove that this is true. Noone I've told believes me, and I'm really just tired of telling the story and getting into the inevitable debates over plausibility. But…
Read NowI wish I could forget… The house across the field
You ever have a memory you wish ya could just burn out of ya skull? A memory that pops up every now & again and when it does all the…
Read NowWhen You Go to Heaven, They Take Your Skin
The car accident was a blur. A symphony of shrapnel flying across the highway; the debris of at least three vehicles. At the time, I didn't know who was at…
Read NowPerfectown
I was exhausted. I had just gotten home from another day of forced monotony that we call a job. I wanted nothing more than to kick back with a cold…
Read Now
I dove to depths uncharted. The ocean isn’t safe anymore
The first thing I felt when I hit the water, was fear. It had been months since I’d last dived, hell, I even got nervous when I took showers. But…
Read Now