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The Russian Sleep Experiment
Overview Widely regarded as one of the most popular and widest spread Creepypastas ever written, The Russian Sleep experiment is notorious as much for the gruesome nature of its content…
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Distorted Warning Signals
When I got the first one, I was literally seconds away from stepping onto the plane when a call from “UNKNOWN” blared from my cell phone. It was a ringtone…
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I Worked at a Top Secret Government Research Lab. I Need to Share My Journals.
These logs are from Senior Technical Operations Specialist III K.Z. Okpala's private files. These files have been compiled using an offline text software built by K.Z. Okpala. These files are…
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Sometimes It’s Better to Leave Survivors Behind
They said it was nothing. A routine rescue op at a facility known as the Tantalus Site. But that quickly proved untrue. Terribly, horrifically untrue. The report said we’d be…
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Campfire Tales
My name is Marcus, and I'm an alcoholic. I know what you're thinking: this is just another sob story about some loser whose life went off the rails after he…
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The Thing That Will Kill Me
I grew up in a tiny town in Vermont. Tiny in terms of population, not size—there were huge sprawling farms and wooded areas, but almost no people. More cows than…
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The truck's heater blasted hot air. Wipers squeaked across the windshield, clearing away the snow that melted on contact. The Deputy hummed along with the radio as it blared a…
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Grand Opening!
“Darren, did you know they opened a Target in Owingsville?” my wife Deborah asked me excitedly. “Grab the car keys and let's go check it out!” I rolled my eyes.…
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The Shadowlands Express
1 – The Train I can’t say why I was chosen to ride the shadowlands express. Why me, and not the countless others who have sinned during their mortal lives?…
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I was Earth’s ambassador to a murderous alien race. Negotiations have failed
My story begins several years ago when I was a rising star in the mechanisms of federal government and planning on a career within the political establishment in DC. This…
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Forever and Always
Everybody loves the woods, until they follow you home. When my father came back from the military, we bought our first house—a boxy, two-story affair on the woodsy outskirts part…
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SOS. I’m trapped onboard an alien spaceship on the edge of our solar system. We’re running out of time
Read Part one here Read Part two here I know someone will receive this broadcast. Sooner or later our signal will reach one of the parties involved in this conflict.…
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I am a foot soldier in a war against an alien race. This is my story.
Read Part one here Read Part two here Read Part three here This is a message to the citizens of the planet Earth. I am speaking to all races and…
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NoEnd House
Let me start by saying that Peter Terry was addicted to heroin. We were friends in college and continued to be after I graduated. Notice that I said "I". He…
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The Lake in the Woods
I used to like to go exploring in the woods. Not anymore. My name is Jake Somersville. My mom and dad both have advanced degrees in agricultural sciences, whatever that…
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I am stranded on a desert island far from home. Please send help.
I don’t know whether anyone will ever read this account which I’ve scribbled on loose sheets of paper using a leaking biro pen. I intend to stuff the papers into…
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The Backroads: Maintenance Tunnels
Hey again… Since that last post actually went through, I should probably let everyone know what happened. Consider it a public service; if you find yourselves getting lost on any…
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Leaves of Three
After the night I just had, I do not know whether I should call the cops, roll up in a ball and cry myself to sleep, or call my therapist.…
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I felt it that day, something in the air wasn't right. The morning heat was setting in, and the bugs were eating us alive. The men were tense as the…
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If you’re near Rochester Heights I need your help, the thing in the hallway won’t let me leave my room
I Through my peephole, I saw that it was still there. The flayed skin glistened under the dim glow of the hanging incandescent lightbulb. It knew I was watching and…
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I was Hired for the Weekend Nights Charge Nurse Position. It Came with a Strange Set of Rules.
I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever…
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A Survivor’s Accounts of the Depraved Funhouse: The Balloon (Part Four)
Read Part one here Read Part two here Read Part three here For at least a good ten minutes or so, I just laid there as the terrified adrenaline began…
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