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Story by Maxwell 7670. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
"Jeff picked me up from elementary school the day he bought it in 2015. He had wrecked his 2008 Kia and the insurance paid out. I was as freaked out when I was eleven-years-old as I was when he pulled up into the driveway tonight...'' Story by The Blue Bomber. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music is credited to the wonderful Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Lovecraft's classic tale of Antarctic science-terror, At the Mountains of Madness , follows geologist Dyer and his team of experts — including Pabodie, the engineer, Lake, the biologist, and Danforth, the neurasthenic youth — as they traipse across our southernmost continent, taking bores of ancient strata of rock. Sane men going insane in an utterly blank terrain. Early on, Lake sees a set of inexplicable triangular tracks in the rocks and eventually sets off to lead a small team further inland, arriving at a previously undiscovered and incredibly tall mountain range in the wild land's heart. There, Lake finds an aeon-spanning cave, from which he recovers the desiccated bodies of several radially symmetric, many-tentacled, starfish-headed, half-vegetable, man-sized beings — the aliens who left the strange tracks, millennia ago.
''Turns out, if you ask around, almost everyone has had some sort of paranormal encounter or another they're willing to share...'' Story by Manen Lyset. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
Story by Cozmik Dawn. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
''Admittedly, it was a little uncomfortable going down an elevator that likely hadn't been serviced in who knows how long. The creaks and moans of the rusty lift only added to my growing paranoia...'' Story by Bryan Young. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
A worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer. He describes Slater as a "typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region, who corresponds exactly with the 'white trash' of the South", for whom "laws and morals are nonexistent" and whose "general mental status is probably below that of any other native American people". Although Slater's crime was exceedingly brutal and unprovoked he had an "absurd appearance of harmless stupidity" and the doctors guessed his age at about forty. During the third night of his confinement, Slater had the first of his "attacks". He burst from an uneasy sleep into a frenzy so violent it took four orderlies to strait-jacket him. For nearly fifteen minutes he gave vent to an incredible rant. The words were in the voice and couched in the paltry vocabulary of Joe Slater but the onlookers could construe from the inadequate language a vision of: green edifices of light, oceans of space, strange music, and shadowy mountains and valleys. But most of all did he dwell upon some mysterious blazing entity that shook and laughed and mocked at him. This vast, vague personality seemed to have done him a terrible wrong and to kill it in triumphant revenge was his paramount desire. In order to reach it... he would soar through abysses of emptiness 'burning' every obstacle that stood in his way. The ranting stopped as suddenly as it had started. This was the first of what would become nightly "attacks" of a similar nature. The peripheral otherworldly images of Slater's visions were different and more fantastic with each successive night, but always there was the central theme of the blazing entity and its revenge. The doctors were perplexed with the Slater case. Where did a backward man like Slater get such visions, when surely an illiterate rustic like him would have had little if any exposure to fairy tales or fantasy stories? Not that there were stories similar to Slater's. Why, too, was Slater dying? As an undergraduate, the intern had built a device for two-way telepathic communication which he had tested with a fellow student with no result. The device was designed around his principle that thought was ultimately a form of radiant energy. Heedless of any ethics, he attached himself with Slater to the device as Slater lay near death. With the device switched on, he received a message from a being of light whose experiences had been what were transmitted through the medium of Joe Slater. This being explained that, when not shackled to their physical bodies, all humans are light beings. The thought-message went on to explain that, as light beings within the realm of sleep, humans can experience the vistas of many planes and universes which remain unknown to waking awareness. The intern understood that the light being would now become completely incorporeal, and undertake at last a final battle with its nemesis near Algol. Joe Slater died then, and there were no further transmissions. That night an enormously bright star was discovered in the sky near Algol. Within a week it had dimmed to the luminosity of an ordinary star and in a few months it had become barely visible to the naked eye.
''It was another sign of something being unusually off about this trip. Before I could say anything though, Dad pulled the car up next to the fence, kicking up a small cloud of dust in the process...'' Story by Mandahrk. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by cesly1987. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music is credited to the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by Chilli 1220. Narration by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music is credited to the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
''Everything that I've seen up until this point - as sick and twisted as they might've been... at least they've made some kind of sense, or yielded some kind of logical conclusion. But this... I just don't know...'' Story by Mr. Outlaw. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
At the University of Zurich Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Herbert West brings his dead professor, Dr. Hans Gruber, back to life. There are horrific side-effects, however; as West explains, the dosage was too large. When accused of killing Gruber, West counters: "I gave him life!" West arrives at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts in order to further his studies as a medical student. He rents a room from fellow medical student Dan Cain and converts the house's basement into his own personal laboratory. West demonstrates his reanimating reagent to Dan by reanimating Dan's dead cat Rufus. Dan's fiancée Megan Halsey, daughter of the medical school's dean, walks in on this experiment and is horrified. Dan tries to tell the dean about West's success in reanimating the dead cat, but the dean does not believe him. When Dan insists, the dean implies that Dan and West have gone mad. Barred from the school, West and Dan sneak into the morgue to test the reagent on a human subject in an attempt to prove that the reagent works, and thereby salvage their medical careers. The corpse they inject comes back to life, but in a frenetic and violent zombie-like state. Dr. Halsey stumbles upon the scene and is killed by the reanimated corpse, which West then kills with a bone-saw. Excited at the prospect of working with a freshly dead specimen, West injects Dr. Halsey's body with his reanimating reagent. Dr. Halsey returns to life, also in a zombie-like state. Megan chances upon the scene, and is hysterical. Dan collapses in shock. Dr. Halsey's colleague Dr. Carl Hill, a professor and researcher at the hospital, takes charge of Dr. Halsey, whom he puts in a padded observation cell adjacent to his office. He carries out a surgical operation on him, lobotomizing him. During the course of this operation, he discovers that Dr. Halsey is not sick, but dead and reanimated. Dr. Hill goes to West's basement lab and attempts to blackmail him into surrendering his reagent and notes, hoping to take credit for West's discovery. West offers to demonstrate the reagent and puts a few drops of it onto a microscope slide with dead cat tissue. As Dr. Hill peers through the microscope at this slide, West clobbers him from behind with a shovel, and then decapitates him with it. West then reanimates Dr. Hill's head and body separately. While West is questioning Dr. Hill's head and taking notes, Dr. Hill's body sneaks up behind him and knocks him unconscious. The body carries the head back to Dr. Hill's office, with West's reagent and notes. In his re-animated state, Dr. Hill acquires the ability to control other re-animated corpses telepathically, after conducting brain surgery on them. He then directs Dr. Halsey to snatch Megan away from Dan. While being carried to the morgue by her reanimated father, Megan faints. When she arrives, Dr. Hill strips her naked and straps her unconscious body to a table. She regains consciousness as Hill's body and bloody, severed head begin to sexually assault her. Hill's body starts to place his head between Megan's legs, but is interrupted by the arrival of West and Dan. West distracts Dr. Hill while Dan frees Megan. Dr. Hill reveals that he has reanimated and lobotomized several corpses from the morgue, rendering them susceptible to mind control as Halsey is. However, Megan's voice reawakens a protectiveness in her father, who fights off the other corpses as Dan and Megan escape. In the ensuing chaos, West injects Dr. Hill's body with a lethal overdose of the reagent. Dr. Hill's body mutates rapidly and attacks West, who screams out to Dan to save his work before being pulled away by Dr. Hill's monstrous entrails. Dan retrieves the satchel containing West's reagent and notes. As Dan and Megan flee the morgue, one of the reanimated corpses attacks and strangles Megan. Dan takes her to the hospital emergency room and tries to revive her, but she is dead. In despair, he injects her with West's reagent. After the scene fades to black, Megan, apparently revived, can be heard screaming.
Story by Mr. Outlaw. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
''The rocky trail seemed endless as it separated the towering redwood trees. Malcolm Whitfield and his two kids, Jayden and Alisha, enjoyed their adventurous hiking trip together...'' Story originally titled ‘Doll-X' by SkyBruceLee23. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful Tanner Stokes (end credits).
"Schmidt checked his watch. He was coming to the end of his shift and this new kid seemed bright enough. He'd be fine on his first night he'd be fine on his first night with just brief orientation..." Story originally titled "Muffins" by Taxi Dancer. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. End credits by the talented Tanner Stokes.
Story by Paty. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music is credited to The wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and The Fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by likeeyedid. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
THE TEMPLE The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a lieutenant-commander in the Imperial German Navy during the days of World War I. Altberg begins by declaring that he has decided to document the events leading up to his untimely end in order to "set certain facts" before the public, aware that he will not survive to do so himself. In the North Atlantic, after sinking a British freighter and its occupied lifeboats, the cruel and arrogant Altberg commands his U-boat to submerge, surfacing later to find the dead body of a seaman who died clinging to the exterior railing of the sub. A search of the body reveals a strange piece of carved ivory. Because of its apparent great age and value, one of Altberg's officers keeps the object, and shortly thereafter, strange phenomena begin to occur - such as the dead man apparently swimming away rather than sinking. An uncharted oceanic current pulls the sub southward, and several members of the crew suffer the sudden onset of severe fatigue and disturbing nightmares. One even claims to have seen the dead seamen from the freighter staring at him through the portholes. Altberg has him brutally whipped, rejecting the pleas from some of his men to discard the ivory charm. He eventually resorts to executing a couple of them when it is clear that they have gone insane from fright, ostensibly to maintain discipline. A mysterious explosion irreparably damages the U-boat's engines, leaving them without the ability to navigate. They encounter a U.S. warship, and Altberg kills several more crewmen who urge him to surrender. Later, when the U-boat faces ominous waves from a violent storm, Altberg orders the sub to submerge. Afterward, it is unable to surface when its ballast tanks fail to repressurize, leaving it being pulled southward without resistance while slowly sinking deeper into the ocean; they never see the light of day again. With the U-boat's batteries running low, and their chance of rescue non-existent, the six remaining, delirious crewmen attempt a mutiny, successfully disabling the U-boat by destroying several key instruments and gauges, even as they rave on about the curse of the ivory talisman. All are murdered by the venomous Altberg. His lone companion, Lieutenant Klenze, grows increasingly unstable and paranoid. Certain of their fate, the two pass the time in their drifting vessel by sweeping the sub's powerful searchlight through the dark abyss, noting that dolphins follow them at depths and for lengths previously unheard-of. Soon after, Klenze goes completely mad, claiming that "He is calling! He is calling!" Unable to soothe his insane companion, and unwilling to join him in suicide, Altberg agrees to operate the airlock, grateful to send Klenze to an assured death in the airless, crushing pressure of the deep. THE OTHER gods Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the "gods of earth", or Great Ones, attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple Atal. Upon reaching the peak, Barzai at first seems overjoyed until he finds that the "gods of the earth" are not there alone, but rather are overseen by the "other gods, the gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!" Atal flees, and Barzai is never seen again. THE UNNAMABLE Carter, a weird fiction writer, who is likely the Randolph Carter who features in some of Lovecraft's other tales such as "The Statement of Randolph Carter", meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area. He contends that because such an entity cannot be perceived by the five senses, it becomes impossible to quantify and accurately describe, thus earning itself the term unnamable. As the narration closes, this unnamable presence attacks both Carter and Manton. Both men survive and awaken later at St. Mary's hospital. They suffer from various lacerations, including scarring from a large horn-shaped object and bruises in the shape of hoof-prints on their backs.
''I haven't been able to properly sleep, eat or live since I made it back home. Plagued by feelings of tremendous guilt. I hope sharing this will help my conscience...'' Story by likeeyedid. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
''I'm going to tell you a secret. But first, you have to promise me you won't laugh. This is still an uncomfortable subject for me, so I'd appreciate your understanding. Do we have a deal?'' Story by HopelessNightOwl. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. End credits music by the wonderfully talented Tanner Stokes.
''That was the end. Every page was filled now with simple couplets and playful, itchy-scratchy drawings. But no worthwhile information. Nothing that told me what had happened to my family, to me, or to the cop. Nothing that told me what those horrific, misshapen creatures were...'' Story by Dopabeane. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
In the isolated, desolate, decrepit village of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by mad Old Whateley, as "Yog-Sothoth"). Strange events surround his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade. Locals shun him and his family, and animals fear and despise him due to his odor. All the while, his sorcerer grandfather indoctrinates him into certain dark rituals and the study of witchcraft. Various locals grow suspicious after Old Whateley buys more and more cattle, yet the number of his herd never increases, and the cattle in his field become mysteriously afflicted with severe open wounds. Wilbur and his grandfather have sequestered an unseen presence at their farmhouse; this being is connected somehow to Yog-Sothoth. Year by year, this unseen entity grows to monstrous proportions, requiring the two men to make frequent modifications to their residence. People begin to notice a trend of cattle mysteriously disappearing. Wilbur's grandfather dies, and his mother disappears soon afterwards. The colossal entity eventually occupies the whole interior of the farmhouse. Wilbur ventures to Miskatonic University in Arkham to procure their copy of the Necronomicon – Miskatonic's library is one of only a handful in the world to stock an original. The Necronomicon has spells that Wilbur can use to summon the Old Ones, but his family's copy is damaged and lacks the page he needs to open the "door." When the librarian, Dr. Henry Armitage, refuses to release the university's copy to him (and, by sending warnings to other libraries, thwarts Wilbur's efforts to consult their copies), Wilbur breaks into the library at night to steal it. A guard dog, maddened by Wilbur's alien body odor, attacks and kills him with unusual ferocity. When Dr. Armitage and two other professors, Warren Rice and Francis Morgan, arrive on the scene, they see Wilbur's semi-human corpse before it melts completely, leaving no evidence. With Wilbur dead, no one attends to the mysterious presence growing in the Whateley farmhouse. Early one morning, the farmhouse explodes and the thing, an invisible monster, rampages across Dunwich, cutting a path through fields, trees, and ravines, and leaving huge "prints" the size of tree trunks. The monster eventually makes forays into inhabited areas. The invisible creature terrorizes Dunwich for several days, killing two families and several policemen, until Armitage, Rice, and Morgan arrive with the knowledge and weapons needed to kill it. The use of a magic powder renders it visible just long enough to send one of the crew into shock. The barn-sized monster babbles in an alien tongue, then screams for help from its father Yog-Sothoth in English just before the spell destroys it, leaving a huge burned area. In the end, its nature is revealed: it was Wilbur's twin brother, though it "looked more like the father than Wilbur did."
Story by Bear Lair 64. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
''To the eyes of most newcomers, Crone's Hollow did not look much like a village at all, much less a moderately successful trading outpost...'' ‘Somewhere half a world away in the northernmost reaches of Nelgoth, someone else was also coming to terms with an inevitably long night, though for vastly different reasons...' Story by McSinister5674. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Inferno is a fourteenth-century epic poem by Dante Alighieri in which the poet and pilgrim Dante embarks on a spiritual journey. At the poem's beginning, Dante is lost in a dark wood, both literally and spiritually. He meets the soul of his poetic idol, the Roman poet Virgil, who agrees to guide him through hell.Dante and Virgil enter hell and explore its nine circles, observing the punishments suffered by the various categories of sinners. At the bottom of the Ninth Circle, Dante and Virgil encounter Lucifer. They climb the devil's back in order to ascend to Mount Purgatory.
''Cars lined both lanes of the highway he traversed. Bodies lay frozen in time within each seat. The television broadcast had told large cities to evacuate and they all tried...'' Story by L0CKED 334. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by Dogman 35 Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
14 Terrifying TRUE Stories (Told In The Rain) mostly paranormal stories, creepy kids, cryptids and more can you make it through these scary true stories listen and see. Story narrated by Goodnite Goosebumps Music by Myuuji, Kevin MacLeod and Doblado Studios
Story by Dogman 35. Music & Narration by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
EPIC TRUE Scary Stories Skinwalkers, BEK's, Cryptids,Paranormal, Stalkers Narrated by Goodnite Goosebumps Music by Myuuji Kevin MacLeod and Doblado Studios
Story by Mandahrk. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Reptilians, Wendigos, Skinwalkers, Mimics, etc. Narrated by Goodnite Goosebumps Music by Myuuji and Kevin MacLeod
''I always knew he'd pay for eating that shady food. I just thought it would end with him on the toilet, not a stretcher...'' Story by scribaphobia. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. End credits music by the wonderfully talented Tanner Stokes.
Story by Chili 1220. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by Chili 1220. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Featured are the fine vocal talents of Nature's Temper. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by Hearshotkid_33. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
Story by Nazisharks. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
Story by Ty Soprano. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
''Even though it was dark, Natalie's face lit up on my phone screen background. Her beautiful green eyes radiant as ever. I gave her once last look as I began to pass out. But right before I passed out, I felt the hand on my foot release...'' Story by Dark Hawkz. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
''Even though it was dark, Natalie's face lit up on my phone screen background. Her beautiful green eyes radiant as ever. I gave her once last look as I began to pass out. But right before I passed out, I felt the hand on my foot release...'' Story by Dark Hawkz. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
''The whole place was probably only ever one fault from depressurizing and spiraling back down to earth, as brittle as a feather...'' Story by The Babylon Project. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by Charles the Monster. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
Story 1. There's a Reason We Can't Watch TV After 830 PM And It's Not the Watershed by Deacon Clarke. 2. ‘The Game to End All Games' by Richard Saxon. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
''I know a lot of you have probably seen the Youtube videos of some loser using a chicken egg but those are all fake...'' Story by Getyaisha. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by Masaman15. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music by the wonderful Tanner Stokes (end credits).
‘‘Another blast of heat assaulted him, hot enough to cause him to wince beneath the cover of his folded arms, and he shook his head weakly from side to side…'' Story by rebecca_rjwriter. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story 1. ‘Hospital Halls' by Kalabac. Story 2. ‘Western Ainia Hospital Incidient' by Key Lucerna Charon. & Story 3. ‘Confessions of a Mortician' by AsAfterlife. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta.
Story by Nathan J. Jun. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).
Story by Chili 1220. Narration & Music by Dr. Creepen van Pasta. Other music used is credited to the wonderful The Dark Somnium (intro) and the fantastic Tanner Stokes (end credits).