Myths and Legends - Creepypasta

01 Nov The Witch of Arlena Falls

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Myths and Legends, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Strange and Unexplained, Urban Legends 0 Comments

5:58 AM “There is an unexpected turn in the weather this morning, say our local meteorologists. Instead of seeing a warm day, we are getting a snowstorm that sources are saying could turn into the storm of the century.” Dad turned off the radio, grumpy as hell...

14 Sep Little Dead Nancy

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Part One ‘Little Dead Nancy, Sitting on the bench, One eye long, and one eye gone, Little Dead Nancy, The red swing’s open, come take a seat, and swing with me!’ I almost completed the summoning of Nancy back when I was a kid. I was somewhere in the second grade, I’d just moved...

13 Aug My Middle School Had Its Own Variation of Bloody Mary, But She Was Real

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Everyone knows the story of Bloody Mary and everyone knows how to “summon” her: say her name three times in front of a mirror with the lights off. Of course, there are slight variations to the exact story depending on where you live, but it’s...

22 Jul The Truth About Peter Pan

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Peter Pan is not what most people think he is...

14 Jun The Deef

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We called it The Deef. It was supposed to be a joke. We had a game, the group of us. It didn’t really have a name. It was just the cryptid game. It was simple: every time we got together, one of us had to...

08 Jun Floor Zero

Posted at 11:00h in Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Myths and Legends, Psychological Horror 0 Comments

You'd finally done it. After weeks of digging around and bugging the lady at the front desk, you'd found it: the elevator code for floor zero. You make your way to the nearest elevator, trying your hardest to contain your excitement. You've been told so...

30 May Whistling

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When people whistle, it kind of irritates me. Not like Axl Rose from "Patience" whistles, but just does so to pass the time. When people whistle or hum to themselves it's always just kind of grated on me, but only when it's been tuneless. When...

20 May Henry

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The rain beat a steady rhythm on the asphalt. In the dark sky above, the rumble of distant thunder rolled slowly toward us. “Daniel.” The sound of my name pulled me from my reverie. I turned my head away from the drenched playground and toward Miss...

12 May The Monkey’s Paw

Posted at 15:47h in Artifacts and Objects, Classic Horror, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into...

12 May You’re a Guardian, Not a Killer

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Dark Fantasy, Jobs and Occupations, Journals and Diaries, Myths and Legends 0 Comments

I was 22 and a bored young woman with a nearly useless degree in French Literature. It was only natural that I worked at my mother’s bookstore until I found a “real job.” I preferred the afternoon shift because it consisted of some high school...

29 Apr The Roots of Wewoka Cemetery

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After a short time of exploring the Oklahoma territory where they were forced to go, a group of Native Americans stumbled upon a mysterious plant while hunting. This plant looked like a gnarled tree root, with so many twists and turns within its seemingly fragile...

29 Apr The Hollows and the Hills

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Part 1 I am often asked how it was that I first became interested the true crime genre. It's the sort of question I frequently get at conventions, book signings, panel meetings, and interviews, but the actual answer is fairly mundane. What I find more interesting...

27 Apr Miracle Girl

Posted at 11:00h in Demons and Possession, Ghosts and Spirits, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Strange and Unexplained, Zombies and the Undead 0 Comments

“When is Miracle Girl coming?” I asked and got a stony look of disapproval from my uncle in return. If he read comic books, he’d appreciate my nickname for an immortal elementary schooler. Grandpa laid his good, gray eye on me. The filmy, unseeing one wandered...

31 Mar I Drive for Cerber

Posted at 11:00h in Ghosts and Spirits, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

My name is Jim. I’ve been in and out of construction contracts for the last seventeen years. Between those contracts, I do what I can to make a few extra bucks, since you never really know when the next contract will show up and unemployment...

27 Feb The Blooming

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“Millie, wake up! Come on, it's your birthday! Today's a very special day! You're 18! Mum's working so you get to spend the whole day with me. Meet me in the living room when you're ready!” my sister Elena sings cheerfully at me while shaking...

02 Feb The Unicorn in the Woods

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We all have that friend who we wish we could have done more for. Who we wish could have done better. I’ve been thinking about that a lot recently. See, it all goes back to my friend Clark, and the horror we both encountered six...

23 Jan Ghost Lights

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I grew up in a small town in the Midwest. Now when I say that it’s a small town, I mean other people from my state have never even heard of it. That being said, for such a small town it actually has a pretty...

16 Jan Camper Appreciation

Posted at 19:00h in Beings and Entities, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained, Urban Legends 0 Comments

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2uYqfVMcvQ[/embedyt] “Come on, Jim, you know it’s going to suck.” I didn’t nod, though I wanted to. Mark was right, as usual. Most of camp had sucked, to be honest. Tom, on the other hand, tried once more to be the voice of reason, even as he...

29 Dec I Met the Rat King

Posted at 19:00h in Animals and Wildlife, Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I found it three weeks ago, or rather, I found them. A knotted circle of fur, claws, and death. Six rats, tangled together by their tails, thrashed about my front lawn with little direction. Their shrieks pierced the air of what was normally a quiet...

27 Dec Bigger Fish

Posted at 19:00h in Animals and Wildlife, Beings and Entities, Halloween Stories, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnG1wIzX_k[/embedyt] My friend and I have always known not to go into the woods around my house at night. I live in a really, really rural area. Like, the nearest house is about a mile away kind of rural. I love it; I grew up in suburban areas,...

19 Dec Campfire Stories

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[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXIhvCIrU1Y[/embedyt] “In the morning, she goes to wake her friend, so she won’t be late for class. She doesn’t realize right away why her friend isn’t answering, why she’s not getting up. Then she pulls back the blanket. Her friend’s throat has been cut open...

26 May How It Began

Posted at 12:26h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends 0 Comments

The wind was blistering cold, the kind of wind that would pierce any clothing you happen to be wearing no matter how thick. Something about cold air makes sound travel further, especially high-pitched screaming. Even today, with our substantial medical advances, giving birth can be...

13 Mar The Molendinar Burn

Posted at 12:58h in Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Jack Mckay huddled in the cold midnight street with a pale green sleeping bag encasing his lower half. Spindled trails of light reflected off the gleaming roads from damp lampposts. But the cold wasn’t what gave Jack his nightly jitters—not by a long shot. The...

28 Jan Lydia’s Bridge

Posted at 03:36h in Ghosts and Spirits, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained, Urban Legends 0 Comments

With the windshield wipers swishing back and forth against a heavy late-autumn rain, I chased my car’s headlights down a long stretch of two-lane country road deeper into the odd hours of the night. I couldn’t see much aside from the glistening black asphalt rolling...