InfiniteJest
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Post some scary stories (aka creepypasta) that you've found around the web or you've written yourself. For the record, if you're easily scare use your common sense. It's a horror stories thread no replying with "HDSGBGGEGDCHHCEEDJNHDJSD IM SO ANGRY I DIDNT SLEEP LAST NIGHTHFYUEUFVHHV" 'tis your own fault. :lol: anyways, on with the show. Heres some OC I created a while back.
My birthday was a few weeks ago and I have to say it was a great one. I got a ridiculous amount of presents from my family and my friends didn't skimp on the gifts either. I wound up netting around 400$ total in cash and a good 150$ in gift cards. I found this especially nice as i'm usually not one to have a lot of excess money but when I do have it, I'm usually at a loss for how to spend it. After consulting with my friends as to what would be the best course of action I decided to purchase a Nintendo Wii. I've never really been terribly interested in video games, but after playing a few rounds of Wii Sports at my friend's house I was hooked. I spent a good 4 hours scouring the internet for the best deal (not that I didn't have money to spare at that point) when I found an eBay listing for a lightly used Nintendo Wii for only 100$. The seller didn't list too many details as to the condition of the console but he uploaded pictures and they looked well enough. I was slightly hesitant to buy the Wii as the seller was a new account and didn't have any feedback to go off of as far as his reliabilty, but I figured i'd give it a shot anyway. When the Wii arrived the I noticed something peculiar about the box. It seemed to have mold growing from the corners of it, causing it to wreak to no end. I disregarded this as I was excited to play my new console, so I hurriedly opened the box and hooked up the Wii. At first I was unsure of what to do, when I turned on the Wii there was a whole bunch of stuff left behind from the previous owner.
Boy was I lucky, it turns out he had purchased a ton of games from the virtual marketplace. At my disposal was Yoshi's Story, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Legend of Zelda, Super Mario World and a bunch of other classics. I was in heaven. I played the games for a good 6 hours straight (I know, no life) until I eventually got tired and went to bed. When I woke up in the morning I decided I would look through all of the channels on the Wii to see what kind of fun I could have. Most of the channels were Virtual Marketplace games up until the last page where there was just one Icon. It looked as if there was some sort of problem with the image for the Channel as it was just a static like box. Not to miss out on a potentially fun experience I decided I would check it out and see what game it was.
When I clicked the icon I was brought to a grey screen with the phrase "persevero" (which I later learned to mean continue in latin) in red text. Not knowing what it meant, I decided I would select it anyway. Upon selecting it I was taken to a menu with 4 symbols on it. Each symbol had a sort of menacing look to it, I don't really know why but they were just....unsettling. Once again curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to click on some of them. The first symbol I clicked was a vertical line with a circle running through it, underneath an X. When I clicked the symbol I was taken to a virtual world very similar to my own. It was as if the general layout of the city was a carbon copy of mine, but I digress. The game was like one I hadn't seen before it was a first person game, but there was really no objective. You started out in a house (one bearing a remarkable resemblance to mine) and you were just free to roam about. I spent a good 3 hours walking about the virtual world when I decided I would see exaclty how close this game world parallelled mine. It was truly remarkable. Everything seemed almost exactly the same. After another 2 Hours of wandering around I was booted back to the menu with the symbols, only now there were only three. I checked my clock and I saw it was getting late so I decided I would call it a night and head off to bed.
The next morning I was eager to play out the next three symbols of the mysterious game I had found so I quickly turned on my Wii and launched the channel. I once again was brought to the menu with now three symbols. The second symbol was an upside down cross with a triangle going from the arms to the bottom of it. I selected this symbol. The game I was taken to was essentially the same as yesterday's only now there were people. They didn't really have any features so it looked like there were a bunch of mannequines walking about the town. I explored the town some more before being booted again to the symbol menu. I continued to click the next symbol which was just a square inside of a circle. The game I was taken to this time was slightly offputting. The world I was in seemed to be drearier and the characters moved more sluggishly. Upon further exploration of the town I noticed there were random onjects lying around you could interact with most of which seemed to be knives. I decided I would interact with one of the knives to see what I could do, and of course one of the options was to kill a few mannequinesque citizens of what seemed to be my town. As sadistic as it sounds, it was actually pretty entertaining. When you killed a person they would drop to the ground and writhe in pain until they finally just vanished. It was strangely...satisfying. After around 20 minutes of killing random civilians I was booted back to the symbol menu again. By this time it was getting late and I decided to get some sleep, i'd get around to the last symbol in the morning.
The night went by relatively quickly and I awoke to a strange odor in my house. I assumed I had forgotten to take out the trash and continued on with my morning. I turned on my Wii and I once again loaded the channel, when I did I was brought again to the symbol menu. The last remaining symbol was a simple X. I clicked it. I was taken back to the same game world I was in before only now, everything was tinted a dark red, and I started with the knife in my hand. I assumed I knew what had to be done. I ran around stabbing countless citizens of this virtual town for what seemed like a good 5 hours when I was booted to the menu. It was blank. I was relatively dissapointed at such a dull ending to what seemed to be such an interesting game. I decided I would head off to bed for a nap as 5 hours straight of gameplay was rather tiring having to flail my arms as if stabbing for so long.
While asleep I had a very weird dream. I was alone in a black room holding nothing but a knife, and another man came in. He had a distinct gunshot wound on his forehead and he reached his hand out to me. I stood staring back at him not knowing what was happening. In a very distorted almost demonlike voice he repeated "Congratulations, you are done now." for the remainder of the dream. Upon waking I noticed the stench from earlier in the morning had gotten much stronger so I decided to spray some febreeze and get some lunch. While eating I checked my email and noticed a message from the eBay seller who had sold me the Wii. It read "Congratulations, you are done now. Sincerely -Arnold Vonmarshall". This creeped me out a huge amount as these were the exact words said to me in my dream. I shook it off as a coincidence and continued with my day.
The stench I had smelled earlier was now overbearing so I decided I would take a look around to see what was causing it. I looked just about all over my house before I realized it was coming from the basement. I opened the door and walked down the stairs to find a pile. A pile of dead bodies. I was horrified. I looked in absolute terror before running upstairs and trying to make sense of everything. After a good hour or two of staring terrified at the wall I decided to go back down and try and see things through. I slowly opened the door and walked down towards the pile when I noticed something pinned to the stairs. It was a print out of a shipping label for some address in Houston. The return address was to an Arnold Vonmarshall. I immediately ran upstairs and searched his name on Google. It turned out Arnold Vonmrshall had killed 23 people in a small german town before killing himself. His obituary said he died four months ago. Just after having read this I heard a bang at the door. It was the police.<br /><br />-- 08 Aug 2010, 21:35 --<br /><br />Heres a story I found online it's a transcript of a forum convo:
NetNostalgia Forum - Television (local)
Skyshale033 Subject: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
YES! Okay I’m not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
Jaren_2005 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
ha ha i remember now too. 😉 do you remember this part skyshale: “you have…to go…INSIDE.”
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_2005 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s skin??
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN”
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
Jaren_2005 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it back on.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”
My birthday was a few weeks ago and I have to say it was a great one. I got a ridiculous amount of presents from my family and my friends didn't skimp on the gifts either. I wound up netting around 400$ total in cash and a good 150$ in gift cards. I found this especially nice as i'm usually not one to have a lot of excess money but when I do have it, I'm usually at a loss for how to spend it. After consulting with my friends as to what would be the best course of action I decided to purchase a Nintendo Wii. I've never really been terribly interested in video games, but after playing a few rounds of Wii Sports at my friend's house I was hooked. I spent a good 4 hours scouring the internet for the best deal (not that I didn't have money to spare at that point) when I found an eBay listing for a lightly used Nintendo Wii for only 100$. The seller didn't list too many details as to the condition of the console but he uploaded pictures and they looked well enough. I was slightly hesitant to buy the Wii as the seller was a new account and didn't have any feedback to go off of as far as his reliabilty, but I figured i'd give it a shot anyway. When the Wii arrived the I noticed something peculiar about the box. It seemed to have mold growing from the corners of it, causing it to wreak to no end. I disregarded this as I was excited to play my new console, so I hurriedly opened the box and hooked up the Wii. At first I was unsure of what to do, when I turned on the Wii there was a whole bunch of stuff left behind from the previous owner.
Boy was I lucky, it turns out he had purchased a ton of games from the virtual marketplace. At my disposal was Yoshi's Story, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Legend of Zelda, Super Mario World and a bunch of other classics. I was in heaven. I played the games for a good 6 hours straight (I know, no life) until I eventually got tired and went to bed. When I woke up in the morning I decided I would look through all of the channels on the Wii to see what kind of fun I could have. Most of the channels were Virtual Marketplace games up until the last page where there was just one Icon. It looked as if there was some sort of problem with the image for the Channel as it was just a static like box. Not to miss out on a potentially fun experience I decided I would check it out and see what game it was.
When I clicked the icon I was brought to a grey screen with the phrase "persevero" (which I later learned to mean continue in latin) in red text. Not knowing what it meant, I decided I would select it anyway. Upon selecting it I was taken to a menu with 4 symbols on it. Each symbol had a sort of menacing look to it, I don't really know why but they were just....unsettling. Once again curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to click on some of them. The first symbol I clicked was a vertical line with a circle running through it, underneath an X. When I clicked the symbol I was taken to a virtual world very similar to my own. It was as if the general layout of the city was a carbon copy of mine, but I digress. The game was like one I hadn't seen before it was a first person game, but there was really no objective. You started out in a house (one bearing a remarkable resemblance to mine) and you were just free to roam about. I spent a good 3 hours walking about the virtual world when I decided I would see exaclty how close this game world parallelled mine. It was truly remarkable. Everything seemed almost exactly the same. After another 2 Hours of wandering around I was booted back to the menu with the symbols, only now there were only three. I checked my clock and I saw it was getting late so I decided I would call it a night and head off to bed.
The next morning I was eager to play out the next three symbols of the mysterious game I had found so I quickly turned on my Wii and launched the channel. I once again was brought to the menu with now three symbols. The second symbol was an upside down cross with a triangle going from the arms to the bottom of it. I selected this symbol. The game I was taken to was essentially the same as yesterday's only now there were people. They didn't really have any features so it looked like there were a bunch of mannequines walking about the town. I explored the town some more before being booted again to the symbol menu. I continued to click the next symbol which was just a square inside of a circle. The game I was taken to this time was slightly offputting. The world I was in seemed to be drearier and the characters moved more sluggishly. Upon further exploration of the town I noticed there were random onjects lying around you could interact with most of which seemed to be knives. I decided I would interact with one of the knives to see what I could do, and of course one of the options was to kill a few mannequinesque citizens of what seemed to be my town. As sadistic as it sounds, it was actually pretty entertaining. When you killed a person they would drop to the ground and writhe in pain until they finally just vanished. It was strangely...satisfying. After around 20 minutes of killing random civilians I was booted back to the symbol menu again. By this time it was getting late and I decided to get some sleep, i'd get around to the last symbol in the morning.
The night went by relatively quickly and I awoke to a strange odor in my house. I assumed I had forgotten to take out the trash and continued on with my morning. I turned on my Wii and I once again loaded the channel, when I did I was brought again to the symbol menu. The last remaining symbol was a simple X. I clicked it. I was taken back to the same game world I was in before only now, everything was tinted a dark red, and I started with the knife in my hand. I assumed I knew what had to be done. I ran around stabbing countless citizens of this virtual town for what seemed like a good 5 hours when I was booted to the menu. It was blank. I was relatively dissapointed at such a dull ending to what seemed to be such an interesting game. I decided I would head off to bed for a nap as 5 hours straight of gameplay was rather tiring having to flail my arms as if stabbing for so long.
While asleep I had a very weird dream. I was alone in a black room holding nothing but a knife, and another man came in. He had a distinct gunshot wound on his forehead and he reached his hand out to me. I stood staring back at him not knowing what was happening. In a very distorted almost demonlike voice he repeated "Congratulations, you are done now." for the remainder of the dream. Upon waking I noticed the stench from earlier in the morning had gotten much stronger so I decided to spray some febreeze and get some lunch. While eating I checked my email and noticed a message from the eBay seller who had sold me the Wii. It read "Congratulations, you are done now. Sincerely -Arnold Vonmarshall". This creeped me out a huge amount as these were the exact words said to me in my dream. I shook it off as a coincidence and continued with my day.
The stench I had smelled earlier was now overbearing so I decided I would take a look around to see what was causing it. I looked just about all over my house before I realized it was coming from the basement. I opened the door and walked down the stairs to find a pile. A pile of dead bodies. I was horrified. I looked in absolute terror before running upstairs and trying to make sense of everything. After a good hour or two of staring terrified at the wall I decided to go back down and try and see things through. I slowly opened the door and walked down towards the pile when I noticed something pinned to the stairs. It was a print out of a shipping label for some address in Houston. The return address was to an Arnold Vonmarshall. I immediately ran upstairs and searched his name on Google. It turned out Arnold Vonmrshall had killed 23 people in a small german town before killing himself. His obituary said he died four months ago. Just after having read this I heard a bang at the door. It was the police.<br /><br />-- 08 Aug 2010, 21:35 --<br /><br />Heres a story I found online it's a transcript of a forum convo:
NetNostalgia Forum - Television (local)
Skyshale033 Subject: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
YES! Okay I’m not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
Jaren_2005 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
ha ha i remember now too. 😉 do you remember this part skyshale: “you have…to go…INSIDE.”
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_2005 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s skin??
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN”
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
Jaren_2005 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it back on.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”
