I remember that someone is reading about an old legend in some small village. Either a central/eastern european village or a old colonist village in the US. The monster stands above people’s beds as they sleep but it turns out it was guarding people or something. The monster kinda resembles the Rake or a Wendigo. Like long and thin with creepy arms. The story is very sympathetic to the monster and how it’s just misunderstood which the villagers realise by the end.

Does anyone know of some good scary cryptid/humanoid stories set in or around the rockies? Taking a trip there in a couple weeks, in the mood XD. Preferably things more unique/original than the usual batch of Werewolf, Sasquatch, and Wendigo stories.

I know that’s really vague and the story might not have even been posted on nosleep, but I remember reading a creepypasta about a U.S. Marine who lands on some pacific island with his unit. Rather than a Japanese garrison there to resist, they find the island completely empty, with a massive, upside down pyramid in the middle, which descends so far underground they can’t see the bottom. The narrator’s unit is attacked by zombies of the island’s former Japanese garrison, and the narrator flees into the ocean as all his friends are slaughtered. The story ends with the narrator saying he’s seen maps of where they tested the hydrogen bomb in the pacific, implying that the U.S. used nuclear weapons to wipe out the undead.

Like weird weird. Concepts that are fuckin out there an when you finish you feel a little emptied out an just go "....what?"

I can't think of too many examples, but like just weird. The orange story, David FUCKING King, there was this one series about an exorcist that seemed like Constantine, anything by Mike Jesus (Mambo Number Six); things like that.

This would be between 8 and 13 years ago so I'm not holding much hope.

I THINK the story starts with a kids (teenager?) body being found maybe in a trunk/chest, maybe burned, i feel like with a rare flower growing from their skull remains. The flower could be a different story.

What I am fairly certain of. There has been a couple kidnappings in the town, a girl hears a noise outside her house, sees her (maybe) brother being taken.

They both get taken.

They are then held in a room with a clear wall in-between them. The lights never get turned off. I'm pretty sure the only water they get has a hallucinogen in it so they drink it sparingly. Experiments may be done in them.

The girl counts to pass time.

Only she makes it out

I once read a post about how bad authors overuse uncanny smiles in order to provoke a sense of horror. Now I see these smiles everywhere and it’s ruining my reading experience.

I’d like an opposing argument about uncanny smiles. I’d also love some story recommendations where these smiles are used to great effect.

I’m looking for a story about an evil radio station.

The main character first heard the station as a child or teenager, and it specifically advertised itself as a nostalgia station, with “best hits of the 90s”. OP eventually notices they seem to zone out for hours when listening to this station.

I’m certain there’s a bad incident that happens during this period, but all I remember is the story time skips and OP has forgotten about it, until they hear “Welcome to XXX.X, with the best hits of the 2000s!” on the radio in their kitchen. It ends with OP coming to on the kitchen floor, seemingly having passed out for several hours.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Possibly a monster under the bed? But he becomes kind of a protector and "takes care" of people that hurt her.

I can't even remember if I read it or heard it on the podcast but it's been a few years.

Editing with more details: pretty sure it kills her brother at some point after he does something harmful to her. And I wanna say it was a big, fluffy monster. I am relatively sure there was a Nosleep podcast episode about it, but idk if I read it first or listened first.

This is driving me nuts. I'm pretty positive that I read this in the no sleep however I could be completely wrong. The story as I recall was either written from two different perspectives or different timelines or something like that and one section was in italics and the three "..." would Segway seamlessly into the other timeline or perspective. I seem to recall a man being in a traffic jam and an ambulance up ahead and then he realizes there is a car accident and his girlfriend or wife was killed in that car accident and at some point towards the end of the story he was able to talk to her spirit. the story was sad and tragic and beautiful all at the same time. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? Thank you in advance!

does anyone remember the no sleep story where the main character is a child actor and he trapped on a film set with a couple other actors and theres a laughing gas leak and everyone goes crazy

I am not interested in creepypastas about existing video games or fictional titles of real franchises, I am looking for ones about completely original games that don't exist in real life.

I swear a week ago I watched a video of a reading of this story while I was falling asleep, so I’m not even sure if it was a nosleep story or just a creepypasta, but it’s essentially just a story about a girl who went missing without a trace, after attempting to start a modeling career, while at the same time her family happened to lose all existing photos of her after a recent move, leaving them without anything to put on the missing posters for months until the modeling shoot for kmart became available.
The story ends with the narrator asking us if any of us had the original physical prints of her so that she could finally disappear permanently.

I do remember this story did have a real photo stances of some girl, supposedly the very modeling photo the narrator is looking for (to which, I wouldn’t be surprised if using a real persons photo for a online horror story caused it to eventually be pulled down). Whatever video I watched to hear this story I just can’t find again, even when searching my watch history from the night I first heard this.

Hi, I read this story a long time ago (probably at least 4 years). The imagery has really stuck with me. It’s hard to even describe in the post title. As I remember it, the protagonist was looking outside the car window in the back seat during a road trip. They notice the silhouette of a man running alongside them in the distance, and slowly approaching. The man is described as being layered with each layer being slightly younger overlayed on top of each other. The imagery was really surreal and incomprehensible and I would love to read the story again. It might have also been on r shortscarystories.

It was one about how everyone in this religious town suddenly vanished one day, possibly because they believe the end of days was coming. In the end it's revealed they might have gotten trapped underground and had been living down there ever since.

Please help me find it.

I listened to a narration of it on YouTube in around 2020 maybe? It had a generic title like "I Wish I Never Clicked The Image" or "The Scariest Image I've Ever Seen" but the story just made no sense at all. It read like an AI generated story but this was all before that was a thing. It was about an hour long, if I had to guess it was probably either written by the YouTuber who narrated it or it was a fan submission.

The plot was as follows: a guy gets a mysterious email with an image link in it. He clicks it and it takes forever (like, days) to load. The image is of a figure with a deformed, angry face and wearing a cowboy hat. The narrator is horrified by this when the face part of the image finally loads and reaches out to his friend to talk about it. There was no actual image shown in the video, it was just described in the story.

Anyway, the "twist" was that the person in the picture is the narrator and his friend's other childhood friend, he always wore a cowboy hat and his face was disfigured due to injuries after they either bullied him physically or he got into an accident that was their fault, and now as an adult he sent them the image (which I guess was just a selfie?) as "revenge" or something. But they already knew he looked like that, so it made no sense why they did not recognize him in the image and the whole first act of the story was them being scared of a "horrifying" image. I believe it was also mentioned that he has a wife who hates them, or something. They are wracked with guilt and that's how the story ends. The whole plot was just so nonsensical.

The cowboy hat detail was the most important thing I remember and I've been searching for cowboy hat Creepypastas for hours lol. It is not The Hat Man which is the only thing that wants to come up when I search that.

There was this story about OP being in the deep country with his neighbor and sister; and somwthing was shown to stalk them through the woods before taking his neighbor and calling OP using the phone and threatening his sister; does anyone know what story this is?

So basically, it’s written from the neighbours perspective. One day, a guy in the neighbourhood just decides to stand in the middle of the street and he can’t move. I think people were eventually yelling and throwing stuff at him and all he can do is cry. He stands there for months and months like a scarecrow

I read his entries years ago, way before pandemic since I can't remember the specific year. His entries were like episodal and they were either things he was tasked to do and/or he was searching for them. He always has a sign off at the end, i think it was Dr something but I could be wrong. The guy in the story was writing on a notebook as it was research (I'm not sure if the poster eventually published it too because vaguely recall him posting about it). One of the settings was the basement of a school or something type of building, another were railroad tracks, another he was looking for this fortune teller kinda thing. It was like supernatural ngl. The last entries were him talking about how he knows he will die soon after looking for the "fortune teller" and how he's essentially cursed.

I really can't recall much but it was multiple entries years ago and I suddenly remembered about it and want to look if he made more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/s/0dZag41aJc

This is the story. I tried searching up the word “Handi” thinking it would be unique enough for reddit to find but it keeps thinking I’m making a typo? It’s absolutely useless and keeps throwing out irrelevant posts. If anybody can post more stories by this author or on this series I would appreciate. Thanks a lot!

Looking for a story about a person who I think goes into a tree or something and they find themselves time travelled into the past and they meet a little girl and they play. After some scary event they time travel back and they find the girl's grave I think or the girl as an old lady. It was wholesome and bittersweet.

I don't remember too much, just that some kids. Sneak at night into a park with demon statues that come to life and hunt them down, one of them survived I think. This was in some place in Asia, if I remember more details I will add them. Also, it's a really old story, from earliest 2000 more or less

ive been looking for this one for years. a scientist is racking his brain trying to make something and comes across a chemical process that makes a microscopic big boom in a petri dish. he keeps zooming in and find that on one planet, there are humanoids. and somehow he ends up on the planet, unconscious. one of the humanoids helps him get up and he learns about the society of the planet, the rich living above ground away from the "ugly ones" who are an entire underground society of serfs, living out of sight, mining. somehow, the scientist starts a revolution i think? and the serfs just flip the system the other way around maybe. it was a very existential story i woke up to in a compilation.

I'm not sure if the fact he killed his girlfriend was told to the reader upfront or if it was revealed at the end. But he definitely killed his girlfriend and now he sees some kind of gross creature stalking him. I think he is the only one who can see the creature and it's getting closer. I think maybe it was made up of bits of the girlfriend that he dismembered, but not sure.

Been trying to find this for a while now. Thanks for any help!!