That's a popular urban legend.

Yeah, I've heard it before - I just like how bluntly it's written here.

Here's a piece I wrote a couple years ago that seems eerily similar in style to a lot of things on that page:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/view...y.asp?id=37165

LMAO

That's not a good thing... This is my work computer... And they know how to trace cookies... :eek:

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Thanks for the help with the UI. When I go into one of the forums I'm just overwhelmed by all of the posts and I'm not sure what I'm looking at, you know? It's like sensory overload, but not necessarily in a good way...

Haha I was just guessing that's how their ads work, because that's how most work, like google based ads. 4chan might just be "brought to you by" insert porn site here.

First dozen times I went on 4chan were really bad. I have friends who would just send me links to things they found on 4chan. I click away from that link and before I know it I've seen pictures of cats that were run over on the street, or likely underage naked girls and I'm afraid of what would happen if my laptop were ever seized by the police for any reason. So I don't go on /b/ anymore. hehe

This thread is really great and makes me wish I knew how to navigate 4chan. :(

It's OK. I STILL don't. lol

www.creepypasta.net keeps me occupied.

"Carol was a young film student. She was recently engaged to a nice boy she had been dating for three years. She liked hanging out with her friends, going to the movies and listening to music. Really, she was quite typical for a girl her age.

Every once in a while, Carol liked to take her camera, drive out to her parents summer home in the woods, and film the wildlife. She entered the footage in wildlife photography and video competitions, hoping to make a name for herself.

One spring day, Carol loaded up her car with her camera equipment. She said told her roommate she would be back in a couple of days, and asked the roommate to feed her fish. She called her fiancé and let him know she would be at her parent’s summer home this weekend. She let him know her cell didn’t get signal out there, and that they didn’t keep a landline. She told him she would be out of touch for the entire weekend.

The drive up to the summer home was pleasant enough. She got there with no problems. Her parents were not due to the summer home for another couple weeks, so she had the place to herself. By the time she got unpacked, it was getting late so she went to bed deciding she would start shooting in the morning.

At sunrise the next morning, she gathered her camera equipment and went out to shoot some wildlife. It was a tiring but productive day. She got some great footage of an eagle catching a mouse. At one point she nodded off while waiting for a deer to come to a pond she knew the animals frequented. When she woke up, she found a pair of young deer drinking the water. She spent a little bit of time filming a humming bird darting from flower to flower. She caught footage of a huge rattlesnake resting on a rock. Then she took a long hike up a hill to try and catch some footage of fireflies lighting up a clearing.

By the time she got back to her parents summer home, it was just after dark. She had been lugging her equipment around all day and was very tired. She didn’t even bother showering. She just dropped her hat and camera on the chair next to her bed and passed out.

The next morning she was reviewing her footage on her laptop. The eagle was majestic. Probably some of her best work ever. She watched the footage of the deer. She thought they were very cute. Something in one of the deer shot caught her eye though. It was only there for a second. She thought she saw a very tall man with very pale skin in the bushes. It looked like he was watching her.

She rewound the footage, and looked again, this time in slow motion. She could certainly make out a figure, but she couldn’t tell if there was actually someone standing there, or if it was just a trick of light on some bushes.

Carol put the strange image out of her head and kept reviewing her footage. The humming bird footage didn’t come out well. The little guy was moving too fast, and the light was bad. The rattlesnake was cool though, even if it was a little boring. After she watched the bit with the fireflies, she was pretty sure she was going to win some kind of award. The natural lighting was just perfect. When the firefly footage cut off, she noticed that she still had one video file left to watch. Curious, she opened it. It was a video of her, sleeping in her bed. Her insides turned to ice when she noticed the reflection in her bedroom window. There was a very tall, naked, albino man with a scraggly gray beard wearing her hat and filming her sleeping. He was breathing heavily.

Carol slammed her computer shut, not wanting to see any more. The video stopped. The heavy breathing did not. "

Love that!

This creepy thread is great, I don't think I've been disappointed by any of these stories yet. That one about the pirate is just...*Shudder*

I kept away from it for fear of stumbling on child porn - if u stay clear of /b/ are safer?

When I went on /x/, the ads were for hentai and there were definitely some pics of women's nether-regions... At least it wasn't CHILD porn, but still. When I want to look at women's nether-regions, then I'll look for women's nether-regions...

I'm sure there was more interesting "paranormal" stuff but my snobby UI sensibilities get frustrated when I encounter a poorly-organized site. It's SO EASY to develop well-organized sites. Just no excuse anymore.

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Ok, I'm going to try again...

You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that.

I must admit I do like some of their trolling like the Oprah show and them destroying that cat torturers life...

Have you seen this one where the killer whose poster the body location on 4chan before the actual police discovery.( i dunno how this could be faked)

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...chanmurder.jpg

This one was fake though (an hour or so after the event still pretty sick):

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...hanmurder2.jpg

@Ferox Worst thing I've ever seen on /b/ was of a guy who stole a skull from the catacombs, and upon pressure from /b/ anons he proceeded to skull fuck.. the skull. With pics. So bad.


In other news, I was watching Bleach online tonight, so I turned out the lights in my room just so I wouldn't get a migraine (happens when i watch videos sometimes). Then after I decided to check in on /x/ and found mention of some j-horror movie. I watched the trailer, but didn't even notice til half way through that my lights were off and now I'm paranoid.




EDIT: ugh, okay, I just made my first actual post on 4chan. Couldnt help it, someone didn't know the name of Eraserhead. He was describing every scene and didn't know it. oi

So out of boredom I've been going way back on the /x/ boards and found a thread asking for people to post pics of the "slender man". Googled a bit and found out that it was a creature created on Something Aweful's forum in a thread where people made up mythical creatures.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...1&pagenumber=5


Then I found these youtube videos about the Slenderman. Obviously fake, but really well done and scary. First one made me cry a bit.

I'm going to come back and read more in a bit. But somebody please use the idea of Skin-Taker for a movie or comic book. Please. Best villain ever.

I wanted to take a shot at one. I tried to type it like a news story on a blog about haunted locations, I might try to turn it into a short story or something later because I like the idea.

Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery cool and creepy. Thanks for sharing. You should make your own pics!

I got my little (read 15 year old) brother into creepypasta recently. Most of my life I've been obsessed with horror movies, and have had morbid curiosities. My mom has been cool with that based on the understanding that I would not get my brother involved because she thought he would have nightmares. As a result, he's never really had any supernatural type dreams.

The past 2 nights he has told me about his nightmares and I am surprised at his imagination! I wish I had such scary dreams. 2 nights ago he had a pretty basic "Slenderman was in the back yard when I looked out my bedroom window" dream. I dubbed it as nothing special, but it shook him up so I felt kind of bad. Then last night I guess he had a dream where he was looking out his window again to check if Slenderman was there. He wasn't, but there was a "demon priest" (described as a clergyman who looked slightly zombified) flying around outside. He was in shock and couldn't look away, when suddenly the priest crashed into the window and was face to face with him, speaking in tongues. Poor kid.




In other news, I did have an idea for a creepypasta, but I'm not much of a writer so I might do a few sketches and see how that turns out, maybe make a short comic.

I can't find my art thread. Oh well... here's a Slenderman.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...ely/slendy.jpg

Well I think the above is the beginning of a fantastic Creepypasta entry... Or just a good short story... The concept of a person obsessed with horror who never passed it along to their sibling but then the sibling starts to have dreams/visions that our protagonist wishes they had... Good construct for a creepy unreliable narrator. Good conflict too. Good supernatural elements. It's kinda Poe-ish in a way if you're really subtle about the jealousy.

New Marble Hornets should be up any minute now. Yay!

That is pretty interesting. Particularly if it goes into what the narrator goes through to get the nightmares they want.

I love the idea, I'm just not a writer. Don't have the patience for it.

Here's a thought, don't watch Marble Hornets while on cold meds. I know I'm probably the only person on here who has such wacky side-effects when taking decongestants but now I'm really scared and this is fucked up.

I... Have no idea what that means...

I'm obsessed with The Slender Man, though - Wish I had PhotoShop skills... Stupid question, but where's a good place to start to learn?



HA! Maybe I'll STEAL it.

Marble Hornets is a youtube series about a few people on the set of a movie, and their experiences with the Slenderman. They update periodically.

As for Photoshop, I learned most of what I know self taught. Then I had a class about using photoshop to make website components. It was only semi-useful as it taught a few good ways to work with transparency, and layer masks. I have a book that went with that class, and it helped with some finer points of using the program, things like using guides, and rulers and stuff to make sure everything is aligned.

Try googling what you want to learn. There are a lot of good tutorials out there, and they teach step by step. All you really need to know before that is where things are in the UI.



It was technically your idea. :p

No, alot of ppl have side effects, I know there are only a few over-the counter drugs I can take safely.
Some ppl don't even know it...I know someone that got really angry after taking meds for colds but didn't even realize it was a side affect.

I hope you are feeling better.

http://www.livestream.com/randomentertainmentlive

Streaming Alien. I don't know the people in chat so discussion quality is questionable.

I just found these narrated creepypastas on youtube. They are very well done and there are a bunch of them. Here is my favourite. http://www.youtube.com/user/theLittl.../0/qX5aJgtoeqc

I wish I could partake in this little horror story fest you're hosting, miss, but I'm too easily frightened to ever read anything from creepypasta or the likes. Even a simple screamer can give me nightmares for weeks. ='(

What fun, thanks for the link!

Bad creepypasta from the pages of 4chan, because we can all use a laugh.

my personal favourite:

Those were awesome MM :)

Love that last one. Made me laugh out loud.

Pretty creepy, I want more answers though.


I want to play Zelda now