Creepypastas are widespread on the Internet - short stories designed to shock or frighten the reader. Did everyone sit around the fire as a child and tell each other creepy stories? Creepypasta is the same thing, only on the Internet. Here are ten of the most interesting such stories, sometimes frightening, but more often stupid. Just don't read it at night - just in case.
1. 1999
Known simply as "1999," the story is one of the most realistic and chilling urban legends on the Internet. The main character of the story is a Canadian blogger named Elliot, who was trying to unravel the mystery of the mysterious TV channel that he watched in 1999. The transmissions were too sketchy, so Elliot somehow realized that the channel was most likely run by a local thug.
Elliot continued to search for information and eventually learned that the owner of the television station was luring children to his house in order to sacrifice them. Elliot also realized that this psycho not only tortures and kills children, but also wears a bear costume and calls himself “Mr. Bear.”
There were only a few shows on the mysterious TV channel; it worked from four to nine in the morning. The first show was called “Boobie” - the heroes in it were living hands on some cheap table. The main character (the hand) was called Bubi, she was in every episode. However, as time passed, the episodes became more and more strange.
During an episode called "The Scissor Game," Boobie was holding a pair of scissors while her other, smaller hand was twitching as if she was being forced there. Then Boobie stabbed her other hand several times with scissors, and at that time a muffled child's cry was heard. Eventually the scissors reached the bone and there was a terrible crunching sound. Elliott never saw any more episodes with Booby.
Next came Mister Bear's Basement, which featured a psycho dressed up as Mister Bear. We will not describe what actually happened on the screen - there are too many gory details. Finding stories online is easy, so you can do it yourself if you feel like it.
In the end, the police intervened in this chaos, and the sadistic TV channel was closed forever.
Elliot, by the way, is a strange guy - would you watch this?
2. Candle Bay
The story appeared in a forum thread that was talking about an old children's show from the 1970s. There was a girl in it who imagined she was friends with pirates. The show was somewhat controversial as throughout one episode all the characters screamed without stopping.
All they did was stand still and scream for the entire episode while the little girl cried. Various people commented on their memories of it, and it became clear that there was something dark and disturbing about the "sweet" low-budget show.
Recent comments made it clear that the show was much more sinister than childhood memory retained. The show's main villain, a skeleton named "Kozhnik", stood out from the rest. Apparently his mouth was moving back and forth rather than up and down as it usually does. The commentator even remembered that when the girl asked why he had such a strange mouth, he looked straight into the camera and replied: “To chew your skin.”
Another commenter questioned whether the show even existed and asked the mother if she remembered a children's show from the 1970s called "Candle Bay." She was sincerely surprised that he remembered this. Apparently, he asked if the program was still on and tried to tune the TV to the desired channel. Then the air in the room became stale and remained so for 30 minutes.
3. Rake
In 2003, an incident involving a strange humanoid creature occurred in the northeastern United States, which attracted a lot of attention from the local media. After this, most written evidence of what happened mysteriously disappeared from web pages, and people began to see the creature more often. The strange thing is that people reacted to it in different ways - from attacks of panic to almost childish curiosity.
The creature continued to appear, and then the hunt began for it - after all, we must, in the end, find out who or what it is. Finally, in 2006, researchers working together made a frightening discovery - they unearthed almost two dozen documents dating back to the 12th century, all of which spoke of the appearance of a creature called the “Rake.”
One of his most impressive appearances was described by a woman. Here is how it was.
In the middle of the night, the woman suddenly woke up and accidentally woke up her husband. She apologized and her husband turned to look at her. He gasped with fear and hugged his wife - something clearly frightened him very much. At the foot of the bed sat, every now and then turning away from them, that most infamous creature, resembling a large hairless dog.
The couple's eyes were not yet accustomed to the darkness. The creature jumped up and sat down less than 30 cm from the husband’s face. It looked at him for a while and then rushed towards the nursery. The frightened spouses immediately rushed after him, but it was too late: their daughter was lying in her crib covered in blood and dying. Her last words: “It was Rake.”
The rake disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. No one ever saw him again.
4. Where bad children end up
This creepypasta is about a photographer who decides to find out information about an old children's TV show he watched as a child during the Lebanese war. All he remembered was that the half-hour show contained graphic images and scare tactics, apparently to deter children from misbehaving.
According to the photographer, the show was an attempt by the media to keep children under control - every episode kept saying that “bad children go to bed late” and “bad children steal food from the refrigerator at night,” and that this should not be done.
The photographer remembered that in each episode there was a final scene, each time the same - an old rusty iron door slowly grew in the frame, and as the camera approached the door, someone could be heard screaming. The closer to the door the camera was, the louder and clearer the screams became. And then the inscription appeared: “This is where bad children end up” - this meant the end of the episode.
The photographer managed to find the studio where the show was filmed. Although the place seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, the ill-fated rusty door from childhood was still there. Behind the door was a small room with traces of blood, feces and bones. But what scared the photographer most was the microphone hanging in the middle of the room.
5. Keyhole
This is a legend about a man who stayed in the same hotel for several nights. When he received his room keys, the woman at the desk warned him that there was a door with no number on the way to his room. She explained that the room was locked, all sorts of things were kept there, and under no circumstances should he go there or even look inside. The intrigued man went straight to his room and did not ask any questions.
By the second night, curiosity got the better of me. He tried to turn the handles on the door without a number, and realized that the door was closed, as the woman had said. But our hero was not going to give up so easily - he looked through the keyhole. Behind the door was a room very similar to his own. And in the corner opposite the door stood a woman with very fair skin, leaning her head against the wall. The embarrassed man returned to his room, but on the third day he decided to look through the keyhole again.
This time all he saw was red. Just a deep, rich red color. Perhaps the woman in the room realized that someone was spying on her and plugged the keyhole with something.
Our hero decided to ask the woman at the counter about all this. She sighed and asked if he had looked through the keyhole. He replied that yes, he looked, and then the hotel owner told him everything: many years ago, a husband killed his wife in that very room, and now her ghost is looking for him. They say that the ghost itself is very pale, almost white, but its eyes are red as blood.
6. Angel Statue
This story is about a couple who wanted to leave home at night and have fun. They had children, so they decided to call a nanny who had looked after children more than once. When the nanny arrived, the children were already asleep, so she decided to watch TV.
The house, unfortunately, only had one television in the marital bedroom, and the nanny called her employers to ask if she could watch it there. They allowed it, but then the nanny called again and asked if it was possible to cover the angel statue with something, because it made her very nervous. Hearing this, the father fell silent for a while, and then ordered the nanny to immediately take the children out of the house and call the police, because they did not have any statue of an angel.
When police arrived, the nanny and children were found dead in a pool of blood. The statue disappeared.
7. Grifter
"Grifter" is a scary Internet legend that first appeared in 2009. She talks about a video that is apparently so horrific that it scares or makes anyone who watches it hysterical. Apparently, the video contains dying children, agonizing screams and close-ups of corpses.
“Grifter” is truly terrible - yes, yes, the clip exists. Fortunately, the footage is not real: the creator of the legend admitted in 2009 that he borrowed the so-called “documentary footage” from the film “Log.”
And while most people now know it's a hoax, The Grifter is still a scary story worth telling around the campfire. Some viewers even tried to arrange the footage from the video in chronological order to make it seem as realistic as possible.
8. SCP Foundation
Special Containment Procedures, also known as the SCP Foundation, is a fictional organization with a dark past that first appeared in 2007. The Foundation supposedly consists of many doctors, researchers and agents whose goal is to understand and compile a complete catalog of anomalous creatures. And, of course, the Foundation “does everything possible to ensure that materials do not fall into the wrong hands or into the outside world.” And to study all sorts of anomalous problems, the Foundation conducts experiments on death row prisoners.
It all started with a creature codenamed "SCP-173", which is described as a statue with a bloody face and short limbs. It was found that the creature is unable to move while being looked at, but as soon as eye contact is broken, the creature immediately kills the victim - breaking his neck. Well, so that they don’t take their eyes off him, probably.
SCP-682
Another example is "SCP-682": it is said to be a reptile-like creature that cannot be killed. By the way, it is most popular on the SCP wiki.
9. Jeff the Killer
Jeff was a little boy. His family moved to a new house, and the very next day after the move he was invited to a neighbor's birthday party. He decided to take his brother Liu with him.
While Jeff and Liu were waiting at the bus stop, they were attacked by three teenagers. Jeff successfully defeated and left his attackers lying in the street with broken arms and stab wounds. And then Jeff realized that his greatest pleasure was inflicting pain on others. This feeling was always with him, but it became stronger when someone made him angry.
Shortly after this incident, Jeff's mother woke up in the night due to screams coming from the bathroom. She walked in and found Jeff carving a permanent smile into his cheeks with a razor. He also managed to cut off his eyelids so that he would never sleep. Realizing that her son had gone crazy, she ran to the bedroom to wake up her husband, but Jeff stood in her way with a knife in his hand. The last thing she heard was: “Mommy, you lied.”
Jeff killed both parents - only his brother remained. Liu woke up when he heard muffled sounds coming from his parents' bedroom. When everything calmed down, the boy tried to sleep again, but could not get rid of the feeling that someone was watching him. Suddenly someone's hand covered his mouth, and he felt a blade plunging into his stomach. Liu tried to break free, but it was too late. “Shh,” Jeff said, “you just need to sleep.”
Jeff was never seen again, but legend has it that he is still in the house, waiting for his next victim.
You live on the sixth floor of an apartment building. But one day, looking out the window, you saw passers-by walking past your window.
After burying his mother, the guy returned home from the cemetery. Entering his room and sitting down on the bed, he heard from the kitchen: “Son, go eat!”
Having thrown a stone into an abandoned well, the girl did not expect that someone would throw a stone at her from the well into the opposite direction.
The pathologist quit his job. They brought him a dead man with a severed head. The body lay in the refrigerator for two days, and then the pathologist began the autopsy. He sewed the head back to the body, after which the deceased opened his eyes, looked at the pathologist and said with blue lips, “What do I look like?”
Having woken up at night to drink water, you go to the kitchen. Walking back to the bed, you see yourself sleeping on it.
During the funeral, when they were about to lower the coffin into the grave, everyone standing nearby heard loud knocks coming from the coffin. In a panic, the men began to unscrew the lid of the coffin, but when they opened it, they saw the same numb body unchanged, and in bewilderment they twisted the lid and lowered the coffin into the ground.
A fortune teller predicted to one woman that her son would drown at the age of eight. At that time, my son was five years old. His mother never took her eyes off him, punishing him every time and warning him about the water. The boy turned 8 years old. In the summer they went to the dacha. The child was playing in the yard under the supervision of his mother. But, having gone into the house for a while, the mother returned to the yard and saw a terrible picture. Near the fence there were large buckets of water for watering the garden. Her son was on his knees with his head in the bucket.
One guy was riding a motorcycle along the highway at night. Suddenly, on the side of the road, he saw a girl walking slowly forward. The guy stopped and offered to give me a lift, to which the girl silently climbed onto the motorcycle. After driving a little, the guy felt something wet and slippery on his neck. Looking around, he saw that instead of a human face, the girl had a horse's face. Yelling in fear, the guy lost control and the motorcycle skidded. Having fallen to the ground and immediately jumped up, he began to look around, but the girl with the horse’s head was nowhere to be found. The guy started the motorcycle and took off down the road at high speed. Ahead, he saw the same girl again, this time she was standing on the side of the road, waving and smiling.
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At night, my dog woke me up by jumping on my bed. Out of habit, I opened the blanket slightly, the dog climbed under it and lay down at my feet. Suddenly I opened my eyes and my heart began to beat wildly. My dog was hit and killed by a car three days ago. Who is lying at my feet under the blanket?!
The security guard went to work on the night shift. Arriving at the duty room, he saw his sleeping partner on the bed. Having made himself some coffee, the man sat down at the table to check the visitor log. The phone rang and the man heard his partner’s voice on the receiver, he said that he couldn’t go out today. Without answering, the man slowly turned his head towards the sleeping man on the bed. The “partner” was no longer asleep, but looked at the man and smiled ominously.
I went fishing with my girlfriend overnight. We decided to sleep in a tent. In the morning I woke up and crawled out of the tent, my girlfriend was sitting in the car and drinking coffee from a thermos.
“You were completely icy last night when I hugged you,” I told my girlfriend.
To which she looked at me and, after a short silence, answered:
I slept in the car all night and didn’t even look into your tent.
Today I saw a man who seemed familiar to me. I remembered that I worked with him a long time ago. Except I’m 64 years old now, and he still looks the same as he did thirty years ago.
It became cold at night and I tried to adjust the blanket in my sleep. But now, they carefully cover me and stroke my head, but I can no longer sleep, since I live alone.
The little boy received no presents at Christmas. His parents did not forget about him, their dismembered bodies were just lying under the tree.
A video was sent to my phone from an unknown number. I was in the video, filming myself and cheerfully saying that Moscow is very cool. Then the video ends with another recording in which someone cuts my throat. Thinking that this was all a montage and a stupid prank, I dialed this unfamiliar number, but the girl’s voice told me that this number did not exist. I deleted the video and went to bed. The next day, my boss called me into his office and said that he was sending me on a business trip to Moscow. But now I don’t want to go...
Having ended up in the hospital on the operating table with appendicitis, the doctors mistakenly amputated both of my legs.
This morning I was both surprised and scared. My husband brought me breakfast in bed, and my children gave me drawings that said, “Mom is 35, congratulations!” Everything is very nice, except I celebrated my seventeenth birthday yesterday with my parents.
I'm hungry all the time and want to eat. Mom feeds me, but I'm still hungry. This makes my stomach hurt and I can’t sleep. Mom said that something was wrong with me and tomorrow we would go to the doctor.
“There must be something really wrong with me,” I thought to myself as I finished eating my three-month-old brother. "That's why I'm full."
A selection of 4 scary fairy tales for children. For the best scare effect, it is recommended to read at night!
A fairy tale about a swing
One boy had a long nose. And his name was Yegor. One day Yegor came out into the yard and immediately sat down on the swing. And he began to swing - up and down, up and down. And back and forth. He rode for two hours and still wasn’t enough for him.
Other children in the yard began to ask:
Egorka! Let us have a ride too!
But Yegor did not answer, but only began to sway even more strongly - up and down, up and down. And back and forth. Only the long nose flashes. Then the other children joined hands and began to sing a teaser that they themselves had composed:
“Egor has a long nose,
"I've grown attached to the swing!"
Yegor was offended, but did not get off the swing. And the children were also offended and went to eat pancakes with sour cream. Egor swayed some more and decided that it was time to go home and eat something, but he couldn’t stop - the swing didn’t want to let him go! He was already spinning and screaming - nothing helps. The swing rocked even more and creaked so much that the sour cream on the other children's pancakes turned sour.
Then the Little Sorceress came out into the yard and shouted:
Egorka! Let's ride!
“I would give it,” Yegor answered, “but I can’t get off the swing!”
Why? What's happened?
Yes, I was swinging and swinging, and other children began to tease me with the Long Nose and also that I was rooted to the swing. Help me!
You've been bewitched! - exclaimed the Little Sorceress.
Well, break the spell on me!
“It’s not so simple, we need to come up with a spell that will stop the swing,” answered the Little Sorceress and sat down to think on the edge of the sandbox.
And Yegor kept rocking and screaming.
At this time, a policeman was walking by, who immediately realized that something was wrong. The policeman grabbed the swing to save Yegor, but only he himself stuck to it and they began to swing together.
“I think I’ve come up with an idea,” the Little Sorceress said quietly, “let’s try it now.” - And she muttered quickly and quickly:
“Swing-swing, forgive Egor
And let me go home as soon as possible.”
Then something jingled and the swing stopped. Yes, so quickly that the policeman fell into the flowerbed in surprise, and Yegor fell on him. Then Yegor jumped up and ran home to eat pancakes with sour sour cream. And the policeman smiled and went to his department to write a report about the boy’s rescue.
And the Little Sorceress sat down on the swing and began to swing - up and down, up and down. And back and forth. And when the next morning Yegor went out into the yard, she immediately gave way to him. Well... almost immediately.
A very scary tale
In one Sicilian city, boys began to disappear at night (girls if you are talking about girls in the ward), and only boys (girls if you are talking about girls in the ward) who did not sleep after the moonrise disappeared.
Moms and dads shed many tears until the terrible secret was revealed.
The fact is that at night a ship with blood-scarlet sails entered the bay. At night, sailors went to the shore in boats. Having found a boy/girl awake on the shore in some house, they put the child to sleep and took him away.
The ship's crew was cursed and in order to get rid of the curse it was necessary to collect a collection of 239 small children's brushes.
On the ship, a terrible doctor cut off his hand while the child was under anesthesia.
The child, waking up from anesthesia and not yet understanding what was happening, looking at the stump, asked the doctor:
Uncle, where is my pen?
To which the doctor replied:
Here she is.!!! Here she is!!! Here she is!!!
The last line is staged to the closest child... You simply shake your brush in front of his face.
The children are immediately scared, but then they start laughing.
Scary tale "Carnation"
Once upon a time there lived a mother and daughter. Nobody came to them because they had a nail sticking out in the floor. He stuck out in the very middle of the room and the girl had to walk around him all the time. The girl often asked her mother:
Mom, let's take out this nail!
What are you, daughter! Never, ever touch that nail. And never invite anyone into your house.
And why?
Because someone will want to pull out this nail, and then there will be trouble!
What will happen?
Better not ask me, daughter. A terrible, terrible misfortune will happen.
And the girl stopped asking. Years passed like this. The girl grew up and wanted to invite guests.
And then one terrible, terrible autumn evening, the girl’s mother went to the cemetery to get some fresh air; and the girl called the guests. The guests began to dance, but the nail kept getting in the way. Then the guests said:
Let's get this nail out!
And the girl screamed:
It is forbidden! No need! Something terrible is going to happen!
But the guests laughed at the girl and, seizing the moment, pulled out the nail. And then there was a terrible roar. Some time later the doorbell rang. The girl wanted to open the door, but the guests shouted:
No need! Do not open!
The girl was a pioneer and therefore still opened it. A woman dressed all in black stood on the threshold. She immediately began to enter the apartment. She kept coming in and coming in, and the guests and the girl backed away and backed away until the apartment ran out.
What have you done... - said the black woman in a quiet, creaky voice, like a dead man’s. - What have you done. - she repeated a little louder. “Under this floor, in my apartment...” and then she screamed in some terrible inhuman voice. - ... the chandelier fell down!!!
Scary fairy tale "The Flower of Seven Flowers"
Once upon a time there lived a girl, Zhenya. And then one day on New Year’s Eve she received a seven-flowered flower as a gift from Santa Claus. Zhenya was delighted, and in the evening she went to the disco. She tore a red petal from a seven-flowered flower and said:
I want to have sausage! - and began to hang out at the disco. Five hours later, Zhenya got tired of sausage, she tore off an orange petal and said:
I don’t want to feel like I’m getting sausage, and I immediately stopped doing it. She sat for a while and felt sad. Then she tore off a yellow petal and said:
I want me to have fun! - and she felt so happy that it’s impossible to retell that she soaked in joy. When there was no one to amuse, Zhenya tore off a green petal and said:
I don’t want to have fun, and I immediately stopped having fun. Zhenya looked around at the floor strewn with young corpses and decided to punish herself. She tore off a blue petal and said:
I want to be sad,” and then I started crying.
Zhenya reached her yard, knee-deep in tears. In the yard, she saw a neighbor’s boy, Vitya, who was trying to climb onto a bench so as not to get his shoes wet. Zhenya had long liked Vitya for his beautiful crutches. She wanted the same ones, covered with skillful intricate carvings, trimmed with gold and ivory, studded with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, but, unfortunately, she was not lame, like Vitya.
Now that Zhenya was feeling so bad, it seemed to her that Vitya was not happy enough. Maybe he needs something else besides crutches? My wife was prevented from thinking by the tears flowing from her eyes in continuous streams. She groped and tore off the blue petal and quickly said:
I want me not to be sad,” and, having stopped crying, she swam up to Vita.
Hello, Vitya. I've been wanting to tell you for a long time that you're a cool dude, and I want to do something cool for you so that you don't become a pussy on this bench.
With these words, Zhenya tore off the purple petal and said:
I want Vitya to have sausage...
And the good girl didn’t have any more petals...
“We have been together for more than seven years, and spent four of them apart. We started dating in high school, but he played hockey, began playing for the youth team, and he had to go abroad.
It was oh, how difficult it was for me to wait for him throughout my student years and see each other only once a year, during the holidays.
Several times we even decided to break up, but not even a week passed before we wrote to each other again. Ultimately, we passed the test! He returned home; Now we are together and happy.
I can say that the game was worth the candle. Of course, I was sad when my loved one was not there to spend time with. But nothing distracted me from my studies, and I was able to study with flying colors.”
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2. Strength test
“Our relationship was not easy at first - for several reasons. We both just recently broke up with our previous flames, we have a 12-year age difference, and we both love bossing. Those around us did not approve of our relationship. We often and passionately argued and quarreled about a hundred reasons: money, sex, how little time we spend together, life goals, careers, etc.
We didn't think we could handle it. More than once we sat side by side, sighed and cried at the thought that we could lose each other. We loved each other very much, but we had no idea how to deal with all our problems.
We were angry, unhappy and completely at a dead end. And then we decided to set a final trial period for our relationship. We only gave ourselves six months to get everything right; if nothing changed in the meantime, we had to let each other go.
We agreed to remain ourselves all this time, without pretending, without hiding anything, without compromising our beliefs and desires. We needed to really see each other as we are, and not as we would like to appear or as our partner portrayed us. It was a time of revelations. We found ourselves trying to go overboard to demonstrate our love in ways that didn't impress our partner.
This was an amazing revelation! It turns out that she was not happy with my bouquets, but she was pleased with our joint budget planning. She learned that I preferred to discuss problems that she did not ask about, not out of inattention, but out of a sense of tact... Now our marriage is wonderful. We understand each other and are moving in the same direction. We do everything together and cannot live without each other. 10 years have passed and we are crazy about each other. I could never imagine such love before!”
3. Treason
“When I started dating my current man, an unearthly passion flared up between us. But almost a year later he cheated on me. When he confessed everything, I didn’t know what to do. After hard thought, after consulting with family and friends, I finally decided to stay.
It was very difficult. I couldn’t trust him anymore; I was wary of his every move. It took him about two years to completely regain my affection... Finally, I was able to forgive him. Eight years later, we are still together and love each other more than ever. I was convinced that he was my destiny and deserved a second chance.”
4. Science tortures young men
“I started dating my fiancé at the end of my first year of graduate school. It seemed like we were perfect for each other. Just a month later, our friends were joking that we were a happy married couple, and this was not far from the truth. But then I delved into my studies, and he began to prepare for exams. Stress came between us and almost destroyed everything.
I was constantly worried about my dissertation, and he was torn between work and study. Because it was so easy for us the first year, we both took our relationship for granted. Several times we were on the verge of breaking up. But something kept us together.
After I defended my defense and he passed most of his exams, we realized that we were truly a happy couple - and a few months later he proposed to me!
What we learned from all of this is that relationships require care and attention, and time spent in each other's company should always come first."
5. Theater by the phone
“We met at the wrong moment. He had just broken up with his girlfriend, and I was about to take the biggest adventure of my life - to go to the theater. We were suitable for each other from the very beginning, but he needed time to come to his senses, and I needed time to test my strength on the desired simpler.
We both came to the conclusion that if our relationship was meant to be, it would happen. We corresponded daily by e-mail and called each other - and this went on for four years... We have been together for ten years, married and happy. Even though I didn’t become a famous artist, I did find my ideal life partner.”
6. They each killed a dragon
“I met a man who said that he had not drunk for 20 years - and I believed him. But this was not entirely true. We met on the Internet, lived in different cities, and I couldn’t figure everything out right away. We were both going through a transition: he was on the verge of divorce after 18 years of marriage and was wracked with guilt about it. I haven’t been in a relationship for seven years, and now I’ve decided to rebuild my personal life again after losing 45 kilograms.
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September 20.
The fine rain beats mournfully on the glass, bringing more and more despondency. The last echoes of warm September are over - now only slush and autumn depression have replaced it.
This kind of weather, in theory, should help make you sleepy, but not in my case. It's all due to... how should I write it more correctly... rustling under the bed. Perhaps to some it would seem stupid, a minor incident, or just a fantasy running wild. Don't rush to laugh! Although whoever I’m telling, only I can read the text, which is why I started taking notes on my laptop. I remember doing the same thing at school and college - formulating all my thoughts, events, incomprehensible cases... what if it helps now? It will help you not to go crazy...
The rustling started a few days ago. I myself am a fearless person by nature - I like to watch horror stories at night or read creepy horror stories before bed. And it’s quite normal to feel afterwards. No, of course, horror films get on your nerves and calm a little, I lied a little here. Going to the toilet in the middle of the night, lying down looking into the darkness, or with your eyes closed feeling goosebumps from fantasies about a terrible, hungry creature lurking behind the curtain - all this, albeit in a small form, gives a charge of adrenaline and fear. Makes you believe for an hour or two that the otherworldly is present nearby. That maybe there is something incomprehensible to our minds and not amenable to logic. And then the fear disappears and everything again becomes ordinary and boring.
