For years, people have claimed to see, hear and feel 'paranormal activity' or what you might call 'ghosts, demons', etc. For as long as humans have spoken, ghost stories have been around . Many people are strong believers in ghosts and the paranormal; others are not.
Ghost stories are now used not only to freak your friends out at sleepovers, but you can now just send them an link or an email to a story. I'm sure we've all gotten the spam mail with threats like, "Send this to 15 people in 10 minutes, and a ghost will come into your room!" Or something like that.
Now that the Internet is around, these ghost stories are now more popular and have become spread out. Now you can read about all sorts of different creepy stuff! It's almost created this fandom of... Creepy-ness.
We read and see all sorts of scary stories and maybe occasionally get scared TV, books, radio, Internet, it's everywhere now!
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I would like to talk about one of my personal favorites on the Internet, creepypasta! 'Creepypasta' are Internet horror stories. They are passed around the web through forums and other sites to disturb and frighten readers. The name 'creepypasta' comes from the Internet slang word'copypasta', which means that a block of text is copied and pasted over and over again from place to place, website to website.
Creepypastas are sometimes pictures, audio and/or videos related to the story. (Usually with generally creepy and shocking content). It's all usually posted on the website, 'CREEPYPASTA.com'.
I love reading creepypastas. Although I wouldn't suggest reading them before bed.... Unless you don't want to sleep for the next few days.
Here are a few of my favorites.
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Smile dog: A picture of a dog with human teeth and a bloody hand. Supposedly it causes the viewers to kill themselves upon looking at the photo for unknown reasons. The caption with smile dog is usually says, "Spread the word..." When the picture of smile dog is sent to someone, therefore killing more people and 'spreading the word'.
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Slenderman: Slenderman is a rather tall, and well, slender man. The well known game, 'Slenderman', features him as the enemy. You are a character running around in the woods, at night. You are looking for the '8 pages'. Each page you collect, the game gets a little bit harder. He tries to catch you/kill you before you find them all. There are a lot of reaction videos to this game on YouTube.
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Herobrine: He is a person in Minecraft who is not a character and not in the game. He is a 'human' with no pupils and hunts, traps, and kills players in order to steal their items and destroy their creations. He is also rumored to be Notch's dead brother (created of Minecraft).
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Jeff the killer: When Jeff, his parents, and his brother move into a new neighborhood, Jeff feels like something is wrong, or off. The next day while waiting for the school bus to pick him and his brother up, some bullies mess and threaten Jeff's brother and him. The one bully has a knife. Jeff feels that weird feeling again and he grabs the knife from the bully, stabbing him in the arm and running off.
Jeff runs into the bullies again the next day and now Jeff really feels something snap again, only this time he is officially insane. He ends up killing the bullies with a knife and getting badly burnt and hurt in the process.
When Jeff sees himself in the mirror for the first time since the killings, he smiles and laughs with joy at his face and hair. His hair is now burnt black and his face a leathery pale white. He cuts off his eyelids and carves a smile into his face. In the end he kills both his parents and his brother.
Just before he kills his victims, he whispers, "Shhh... Just go to sleep.". He always uses a knife to kill the victim.
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Are these hoaxes? Yeah, maybe some of them are, but when you read enough of them, they start to seem realer, and realer.
Some of them are sometimes categorized under 'true stories', but with the Internet, you can never tell what's real and fake, true or photoshopped.
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Do I believe in this? Well, I've read and watched many horror stories, varying from creepypasta to 'chucky' and TV shows like 'American horror story' to 'Paranormal activity'. I believe in this sort of thing and I've always believed in ghosts. I've always thought that ghosts were friendly, like someone's watching over me, or something like that. Is that creepy? Maybe a little, but I think that they can chose to be nice. Nice to good people, bad to horrible people.
I do think that they exist, but I just hope that they're nice to me. I wouldn't mind thinking that I had a few ghost friends watching over me. Maybe I wouldn't be so 'forever alone'. Just kidding.
As far as I know, I don't think that they are a hoax. Everybody has a different say in this, and I say that they go exist.
I just hope I don't get a visit from anybody over at creepypasta.
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Note: I'm sorry for not posting in a few months... Really sorry... Actually, I think I last posted in 2013... Oops? Anyways, I think I'll be posting a little more often (hopefully, don't hold me to anything)
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