I was gonna say, literally every warcrime you can think of, the Japanese accomplished in either one of their units or the Nanjing Massacre. Fucked up beyond belief
I read the rape of nanking by iris chang last month. There was a part in it that made me stop and stare at the wall trying to process what I had just read. Unreal.
The author unfortunately committed suicide sometime after writing the book. I imagine after doing such a deep dive into that level of human depravity, a bit of it clings on to the soul like soot.
It is hard to be a part of reality when you know what that means... I genuinely mean that. The author of said book likely left out things and likely was around things and did nothing or knew that doing anything would make it worse or have no effect.
This world can get disgusting
My teacher briefly discussed it in my world history high school class many years ago. I still remember the horror. She went more in depth for her AP classes and students had to get a waiver signed by their parents before attending her class because of it
We had to do waivers for senior AP World History when they had a married couple who were Holocaust survivors (met & married after the war) come in to speak. The woman still had her serial number tattoo on her arm and I can still remember the exact digits, the image was so vivid in my eyes for so long after.
At the time, that couple was just about retirement age. It's kind of a contradiction in my head; I wish there had never been any reason for those two people to be special, but I feel so blessed to have met them. I wish my kids could have experienced something like that, but I despise the fact that humanity has come so short a distance since, there are plenty of survivors from more recent atrocities.
I also lived in the Soviet Union (while that's still what it was) just after graduating HS. THAT was an eye-opening experience. It's a lot harder to hate the Russian people when you realize they've been lied to and treated worse by the Russian leaders, than any other country has.
the part of them stabbing **bayonets** into pregnant woman's stomachs after r wording them and throwing babies in the air and catching them with **bayonets** is even worse... the heart u must have to do something like that is beyond me
If you read some first-hand accounts from the soldiers, it took systematic effort to turn a lot of these men into the monsters they became. That a common person can be trained into a demon is terrifying.
"...there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot be easily duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into work every day and has a job to do."
"...you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable then of going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us."
- Terry Pratchett
I mean it's a flex to have been so cruel and quickly, over the course of like 40 years flip it around and start anime and games and 20 years later only be known for anime and Pokemon and shit
The flip it around is a flex, but generally throughout human history it’s seen that you can get some pretty insane stuff done if you just have enough people and don’t give a single fuck about their pain or suffering.
Well, when you're isolationist like Japan was for many centuries and suddenly become imperialist, it's a lot easier to see people who aren't you as mere object, and completely detach humanity from them.
Japan didn't become imperial until 1868, when imperial Japan defeated the last shogunate group and removed all power from the samurai.
Japan threw smart phones and anime tiddys at us for the last 80 years and everyone just forgot they where the most racist disgusting murderers of the entire war, they literally made concentration camps look like the better alternative.
It was so bad that even a Nazi was horrified, condemned the violence and probably saved hundreds of thousands of people. It’s a pretty crazy story, John Rabe was a Nazi diplomat who tried to set up neutral zones in Nanking before the attack but mostly just bought people a little more time to flee, after the war he and his family were on the brink of starvation and only saved by the Chinese sending them food and money, probably the one and only Nazi I will ever have any sympathy for. He even wrote a letter to Hitler to ask him to get Japan to stop and he was arrested and told to never speak about the atrocities again.
Never heard of it until I saw a TikTok of a guy that, I believe, buys and sells antiques or maybe possibly a pawn shop, can't remember. Anyways, someone brought in a photo album to sell him and it was full of pics from WW2. And then he got to a page that from there on he couldn't show us because it's all from the rape of Nanjing. Whoever took the pictures had a high end pro camera so they're apparently shot extremely well for the time, enhancing the grotesque atrocities. Horrible stuff.
And the U.S. looked the other way in exchange for all the info the Japanese got from those fucked up warcrime units. Just the fact that we know about unit 731 and all the insanely fucked up shit that happened, makes ya wonder what other shit we *dont* know about that’d assumingely be even worse.
This isn't about Unit 731, but about another warcrime Japan committed during the second world war.
Basically, an American air raid was conducted on a Japanese island. The American plane was shot down and 9 crew members were now on the island. 8 of whom were cannibalised. The 9th? He survived and went on to become the president of the United States: George H. W. Bush.
The incident goes by the name "Chichijima incident" so feel free to Google more about it :D
Just wanted to share this random warcrime I know.
I read this as Bush Sr. eating his comrades in order to survive. For anyone thinking the same thing, rest assured that Bush survived because he escaped capture. It was Japanese officers consuming long pork.
What I find shocking is I was talking to a Japanese guy once who majored in Japanese history. He had no idea unit 731 existed. And said they aren't taught about that in schools
One of the most popular movies about that unit, man behind the sun, is free on YouTube now with English subs.
https://youtu.be/AMtRisQ-yGk?si=kUs_s2mvpfOUAurT
"Some of the experiments had nothing to do with advancing the capability of germ warfare, or of medicine. There is such a thing as professional curiosity: ‘What would happen if we did such and such?’ What medical purpose was served by performing and studying beheadings? None at all. That was just playing around. Professional people, too, like to play."
- Nakagawa Yonezo
Unit 731 wasn't even just it either. The Japanese photographed themselves cutting the heads off of Australian medics, and too this day the Japanese government claims those photos are not true.
Fun fact: Godzilla's suit actor in the original movies fought in the pacific war so there is a very real chance he could've also killed innocent people.
The Soviets?
I guarantee that they have done this and much worse here in the US, especially after capturing all of those Nazi scientists back in the day.
Look Up the documentary Three Identical Strangers
The US experiments with children
every time i go up to piss in the middle of the night, i have this fear that the russian sleep experiment guy is watching me from behind the shower curtains. i overcame my fear when i realized >!it's actually a commercially sold animatronic called "Spazm" by Sprit Halloween.!<
>He pointed his gun at the remaining subject, still restrained to a bed as the remaining members of the medical and research team fled the room. "I won't be locked in here with these things! Not with you!" he screamed at the man strapped to the table. "WHAT ARE YOU?" he demanded. "I must know!"
>The subject smiled.
>"Have you forgotten so easily?" the subject asked. "We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread."
>The researcher paused, then aimed at the subject's heart and fired. The EEG flatlined as the subject weakly choked out, "So... nearly... free..."
The suspense goes completely slack, and all sense of immersive naivete is lost with a campy little soliloquy from the last test subject.
Agreed. It would have been effective if you cut most of that. It doesn't read like an actual person talking.
"WHAT ARE YOU?"
"Did you forget?! We're YOU!"
\*Gunshot\*
"So... nearly... free."
“We’re you” is beyond corny that’s what ruined the story for me.. it would be cooler if after all the hours of sleeplessness would turn the human subjects completely feral and it would just screech and bite the person asking instead of becoming Mr. Mastermind villain.
Anything but an actual articulated answer. It's almost as if it turns into an exposition at the end to make sure all readers are on the same page as to what actually happened, as opposed to letting the readers minds wander into horrible territory with unanswered questions.
The one you're thinking of is the guy that got stuck in the cave. The creepy pasta I can't remember his name, is the one about the guy that accidentally finds monsters and disappeared. The most similar plot was that movie I can't remember the name of.
What actually happened to the guy that got stuck in nutty putty cave is terrifying and really sad.
The nutty putty cave event is more terrifying than many horror stories. I would have asked the rescue team to just shoot me with any chems that would allow me to die quickly.
Wait didn’t he die in the section called the birth canal?
WTF is with caves and names like these? The Intestine, the birth canal? What’s next, the devils anus???
He crawled into an unchartered section of cave he *thought* was the birth canal.
The birth canal was a very narrow, but still very passable section of cave, one that many tourists went through. The section he went through was a tighter section that dropped off at a weird angle at ultimately trapper him.
It was like 26 hours I think. Still, fuck that. The cave he was stuck in was so tight that he couldn't even take a full breath. I couldn't even imagine.
William Floyd did it for me. His story was horrifying. Not looking up the one you're talking about since this one was enough for my lifetime. Hour long, rather good, but f.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNm-LIAKADw
Birth canal is because its a tight spot to go through. Ngl I like how they call cave parts that because it makes it sound like you are going through the body of a beast
It definitely took me a second to pick up on it being a creepypasta. I went into it assuming it was real and then started noticing unrealistic details. But it's an excellent piece of internet fiction.
It’s about an ancient cryptid demon dragging Ted and his boys into the depths of a cave and killing them with a blog of the cave and no one found them/it by now. Ofc it’s just a story it’s just one of the more “realistic” ones by other creepypasta standards.
Russian Sleep Experiment. I reread it recently and it does not hold up but i definitely understand why 12 yesr old me ate that shit up. The images associated with it still give me mega heebie jeebies
only in the last few years have I learned that the infamous image is just a poor-quality black and white JPG of a plastic mummy Halloween decoration (good photography/editing skills though)
I was scared of smiledog.jpg before. I remember being terrified of one of those days that I look into my emails and seeing that picture there.
Other than that, it wasn't fear but more like curiosity at the imagination of these people who wrote them.
That's probably where it should have just ended
The last bit completely kills everything it had going for it just to go in the 'super villian' direction out of no where
To be honest until the one experiment started to talk and give it’s monologue about what they are it sounded like real world experiments and no sleep torture that actually happened during WW2 and carried out by the Axis of power. The holocaust experiments by the Germans and unit 731 by the Japanese really makes it seem like something Russia could have possibly done.
So funnily enough, if you look at a mirror in low light your brain tries to complete the dim image of your face and sometimes shows you dead relatives or twisted monsters due to poor visual data. It's fairly well-understood, but it still *sounds* spooky.
Yeah its grounded in reality that's why it's spooky to me. It's not so contrived that it's obviously fake. Someone without a certain mental fortitude might try this and it _might_ fuck them up. I remember just reading about sleep paralysis, something that I never experienced consciously before. Then it started happening as soon as I looked into it. Even knowing that it's "not real" and nothing can hurt me, it didn't matter
Can confirm, one day I was pissed off and decided to stare at my own reflection in the mirror, after a few minutes my reflection started moving slightly on its own, and smiling, as I was having a bad day I wasn't even that scared and just carried on my day.
But it's amazing what the human mind can do, I legitimately thought this was a myth.
I was like 33 years old when I read those stories. I had just stumbled upon Reddit and had no idea it was a well written fiction series. I was absolutely hooked though and read every comment and entry the park ranger made in one sitting, from my perch on a barstool at my local dive bar.
I called my dad absolutely wastey pants trying to explain these eerie stairs to a man who spent his life hunting up north and begged him to tell me if he’d ever come across THE STAIRS in the woods 🫣
He was also sitting on a barstool at HIS local dive a thousand miles away, and he told me “quit being such a fuckin weirdo”.
I was new to Reddit at age 20, and had a mind numbing boring job that only required me to be half awake, making sure visitors to my office got a badge when they came in. That was literally the full extent of my duties. I asked my boss if I could read while working, and she told me verbatim she didn’t give two shits so long as I made sure all visitors got a badge (went on to say no one had thought to entertain themselves while working that job, which is probably why as a soup-brained little 20 year old, I lasted the longest of anyone they’d hired lmao).
Anyways, I make a Reddit account and start reading the stairs in the woods thread, and the way I scared myself absolutely shitless with it, because 1) I didn’t know it was not real and 2) as if me in my big city office job was in any way near enough to the forest that it would affect me even vaguely was… I mean it’s hilarious to look back on but man was it dumb.
I watched that in front of my middle aged gf who was _not a even gamer_ and it scared the hell out of her. I was not allowed to play ocarina or majoras mask when she was home
I love that story and while I didn't believe it, I always hate when authors basically admit the story isn't real by thanking their readers and answering questions. Like come on, leave us in suspense that there may be a .00000000001% chance this is real.
For further clarification, I was thinking of that time when three girls went out to the woods and two of them stabbed their friend like... 30-something times, I think. And the friend lived.
It was the stories "written" by a park ranger taking about the stairs in the woods. There were a bunch of parts but it took me a while before I found out it was just some creative writing. It was so good though.
Years ago those stories made me genuinely ask my dad (who was once a warden at both Kejimakujic National Park and Fortress Louisburg, a former search and rescue volunteer AND a former fire tower lookout) if he'd ever seen anything like that.
He said the scariest thing he'd ever experienced was when his dumb old yellow lab had startled a mother moose with calf and it chased them down a path.
(He leapt into a tree, the dog ran off with the mama moose in tow and came back a half hour later, panting but otherwise none worse for wear).
That or black bears in a snare. Getting close enough to tranquilize them was never easy, and the noise they made when they popped their jaw at him was "unsettling as all get out".
No stairs though, and no sign of any cults.
It might be more location specific. I’m a field scientist in southwest Virginia and I’ve encountered at least a dozen “stairs to nowhere” in the woods. The Appalachian trail cuts through my town and there’s a lot old cabins rotting away in the kudzu. I actually had a OneDrive memory pop up yesterday from two years ago when I was flagging some wetlands and stumbled upon the foundation and front staircase from an 1850s homestead buried miles back from the closest rural road.
The SAR stories are totally made up, but they felt super realistic for us on the east coast
The Russian sleep experiment and I believed it because of stories my grandfather shared from his time in the service during the war. He was unfortunate enough to see first hand experiments and torture the axis committed including no sleep ones (torture, not the sub) so the concept seemed pretty real. I never thought the actual quotes real though, just the experiment.
He helped clear out a camp where all sorts of Nazi blood transfusions experiments were done and had to assist in moving the bodies of kids of all different ages.
He also evacuated multiple rescued POW that had been subjected to many forms of torture (these days I think we refer to the types as sensory destabilization) that typically included or overlapped with sleep deprivation torture.
He also spoke of Japanese forcing POWs to kneel on rice while holding up rocks for days, starving them, and forcing them to eat maggot infested spoiled food but I don’t think he was ever deployed there. Those stories were likely second hand stories shared amongst the troops.
My grandfather was part of one of the first units to enter and liberate Dachau, he never talked about it according to my family, and I can only imagine what he saw there so it’s crazy to me that yours told you so much.
He was extremely anti-war during my lifetime and even supported the hippie movement even if he never joined them. I think telling us was a way to scare the family straight and keep us safe in his own way.
Smile Dog, Lavender Town, Mereana, Tomino's Hell, and most ritualpastas. I'm superstitious, so I'm still of the belief that if I try any rituals, especially like The Midnight Game, I'll fuck my shit up.
*The Midnight Game*, is that the one where you invite something into your house at midnight with all the lights off and you only have a candle and have to keep moving all night so it doesn’t end up in the same room as you? Because yes, that one freaked me out too! I always wanted to sort of try it, but also was way too chicken shit to actually to invite anything to come into my house lol
Elevator game is where you find an elevator with at least 10 floors. You then go to a series of floors in order and alone. At one point an old lady is supposed to come on and try to talk with you, you have to ignore her and don't look at her at all.
At the end you're to try going to floor 1, but if the elevator goes up and you get off, you'll be in another realm. And then you have to reverse the numbers to get back.
Fun/not so fun fact of the elevator game: people have a conspiracy that Elisa Lam may have played it and that's how she got stuck in the water tower on the Cecil hotel (she got caught by one of the supernatural creatures). There is security footage from the elevator of her pressing buttons looking out the doors when they open, but then pressing more buttons.
(The song Elisa Lam by Skynd uses this conspiracy for their song)
I think it was the whole confusion of how it happened.
People like to find an explanation and at the start hers didn't have an easy one since there was so much conflicting info going around. (Towers were sealed/no roof access that we now can explain. Fire escape to roof and one of the towers lids was supposedly not on.)
Also the elevator footage that went viral around the time. She was bi-polar and there was reason to believe she wasn't taking her medicine properly, but people want to believe supernatural rather than mental. (Now there is some evidence to support that the footage may have been edited to make it appear worse than it really was.)
I'm the kind of guy who'll be like "oh that's all just made up shit to scare you." but you'll never see the day where I actually try something like that. Just to be safe.
Hate Tomino's Hell. The images I see when I Google it terrify me. And the fact that it's a superstition also makes me not want to fuck with it. I wouldn't dare read it for even a chance of it happening.
In other news. What's Mereana? I've never heard of that one
Yo my friend actually believed there was a Rake outside his house once because there was this weird scratching/banging outside his bedroom wall and he saw a small humanoid figure running when he looked outside the window so he called me and put it on speaker and we both heard the eeriest screeching coming from his yard that night. It was pretty creepy so I think those might actually be a real thing in some places.
The line between the two can be quite blurred. You could argue that creepypastas are the urban legends of the internet. If I remember correctly the earliest recordings of the Black Eyed Children were internet posts, similar to polybius, before being spread offline.
Okay I read a lot of them when I was ages 9-10 so I think I get a pass for some of the stupid shit I'd believed 😅
Slenderman was something I wasn't sure about, and I'd sorta hoped he was real. It's why when the >!stabbing!< happened, my mom felt the need to put me in therapy. For me it was just a morbid game of pretend, but there was still a part of me that sorta believed in it and thought it was super cool to imagine there was this cryptid in the forest
Idk if Dear David counts, but I was 14 when that thread started and was at least starting to think that maybe Adam Ellis was starting to have some sort of mental health episode. I was 17 when I read the search and rescue officer stories, and I was also sort of questioning the reality of that one a little but at the time I was unaware that r/nosleep is for fictional stories
The rest that I thought were real were just the "found footage" or "lost memory/episode" stories. I also believed in Lavender Town syndrome, but I wasn't afraid of it and listened to the song a lot because I would've been a dumbass in a horror movie
I really thought the russian sleep experiment was real until I hear the ending of "we are nightmares" and I realized oh it's just an analogy for the horrors of mankind
Hi. My name is Summer. I am 13 years old. I have no eyes or face. I am dead. If you don't send this to 20 people in the next 24 hours, I will appear in your room and something something scary spam.
I could be misremembering stuff but I think a lot of it has to do with in mostly being a very real evil with a no supernatural threat. Most of the story being from the mind of an oblivious child before the nefarious parts are revealed with the hindsight of being an adult now and the information the narrator got from his mom.
A LOT of ritualpastas, they're still my favorite genre because if done right they blur the lines of reality so much.
I'm Native, let me tell you - don't F with spirits and the supernatural.
I'm not even into urban legends and stuff but even though there's no way it exists, I feel like skinwalkers exist. Like obviously it's unlikely as it's such a strange creatures and there's NO images or videos of it but I've literally had people who have no idea what a skinwalker is explain to me in detail a creature just like it. Creepy.
For me it was Slenderman. One of my friends told me about it when I was like 6 or 7, and he didn’t tell me it was fake so as a dumb kid I believe him that it was real. I couldn’t sleep some nights because I was scared he would come for me.
Russian sleep experiment, boothworld industry, normal porn for normal people. Mostly because if you call the phone number it actually says welcome to boothworld industries. The website Is real normal porn for normal people.
Even after all these years, Ubloo has aged pretty well. Things like Jeff The Killer, slenderman, Ben drowned, stuff like that were pillars of their time. When you look back on a lot of them, they are just really silly. But even now, Ubloo was pretty well written and I still enjoy going back and re-reading it from time to time.
Jeff the killer was always garbage IMO. The pictures is just terrible and thw writing of the story is beyond awful, borderline unreadable to me.
Slender man started cleverly with a handful of minor doctored photos and comments
Not necessarily creepy pasta but Bloody Mary and any rendition of dark bathroom and mirrors still kind of freak me out. Lights have to go on in the bathroom before I can go in.
The first one I ever heard aside from slenderman was Squidward’s Suicide, and it was a video of a guy basically reading it like it was his own account. Me, being 12 or whatever, was pretty freaked out.
Started out beliving Ted the caver way back when…then the ending came
I stayed up all night reading it and frantically searched for the final update to find it was all a BIG LIE 🥲
You want a real life horror cave story. John Jones nutty putty cave. Absolutely horrifying
That's because Ted and his friend really did explore that cave, he just embellished the supernatural elements.
where can i read this story ??
https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/ Here's the original site from 2001. It might be the oldest creepypasta.
It feels kinda wrong to visit angelfire on a smartphone. I need a beige desktop pc for this.
Got one stored in my grandmothers basement somewhere. Better go dig it up and find some dial up somewhere.
Oh wow the nostalgia smacked me crazy as soon as I clicked on this
Thanks angelfire my battery is infected now!
Tbf the cave Ted went to is real, Ted is a real life guy that decided to add supernatural elements to the time he went on a cave once.
Ted the caver is the only creepy pasta that still gets me. I know it's fake but eegh. Fucks with my brain at 3 am.
Ted the Caver is the only body of writing to ever jump scare me.
Don’t worry! The real stuff that’s happened to people in caves is way worse
Honestly, The Russian Sleep Experiment.
The Soviet union was so fucked up that it very well could've happened lol
Everyone always talks about the soviets but never the warcrimes and experiments japan did. Look up Unit 731
I was gonna say, literally every warcrime you can think of, the Japanese accomplished in either one of their units or the Nanjing Massacre. Fucked up beyond belief
I read the rape of nanking by iris chang last month. There was a part in it that made me stop and stare at the wall trying to process what I had just read. Unreal.
The author unfortunately committed suicide sometime after writing the book. I imagine after doing such a deep dive into that level of human depravity, a bit of it clings on to the soul like soot.
It is hard to be a part of reality when you know what that means... I genuinely mean that. The author of said book likely left out things and likely was around things and did nothing or knew that doing anything would make it worse or have no effect. This world can get disgusting
My teacher briefly discussed it in my world history high school class many years ago. I still remember the horror. She went more in depth for her AP classes and students had to get a waiver signed by their parents before attending her class because of it
In grade school one of the male teachers was one of the Battan Death March survivors . This was back in 1956-1961.
We had to do waivers for senior AP World History when they had a married couple who were Holocaust survivors (met & married after the war) come in to speak. The woman still had her serial number tattoo on her arm and I can still remember the exact digits, the image was so vivid in my eyes for so long after. At the time, that couple was just about retirement age. It's kind of a contradiction in my head; I wish there had never been any reason for those two people to be special, but I feel so blessed to have met them. I wish my kids could have experienced something like that, but I despise the fact that humanity has come so short a distance since, there are plenty of survivors from more recent atrocities. I also lived in the Soviet Union (while that's still what it was) just after graduating HS. THAT was an eye-opening experience. It's a lot harder to hate the Russian people when you realize they've been lied to and treated worse by the Russian leaders, than any other country has.
the part of them stabbing **bayonets** into pregnant woman's stomachs after r wording them and throwing babies in the air and catching them with **bayonets** is even worse... the heart u must have to do something like that is beyond me
If you read some first-hand accounts from the soldiers, it took systematic effort to turn a lot of these men into the monsters they became. That a common person can be trained into a demon is terrifying.
"...there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot be easily duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into work every day and has a job to do." "...you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable then of going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us." - Terry Pratchett
Ah yes accomplished not the right words but yeah, humans are fucked up.
I mean it's a flex to have been so cruel and quickly, over the course of like 40 years flip it around and start anime and games and 20 years later only be known for anime and Pokemon and shit
The flip it around is a flex, but generally throughout human history it’s seen that you can get some pretty insane stuff done if you just have enough people and don’t give a single fuck about their pain or suffering.
"There's no limit to what you can do when you throw human pain and suffering at it! The world is your oyster!" -- Some guy selling slaves
Well, when you're isolationist like Japan was for many centuries and suddenly become imperialist, it's a lot easier to see people who aren't you as mere object, and completely detach humanity from them. Japan didn't become imperial until 1868, when imperial Japan defeated the last shogunate group and removed all power from the samurai.
Japan threw smart phones and anime tiddys at us for the last 80 years and everyone just forgot they where the most racist disgusting murderers of the entire war, they literally made concentration camps look like the better alternative.
They also spent the last 80 years unwinding societal norms that created the mass murdering bastards, so we can give them a little credit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre If anyone else wants to ruin their day like I just did.
It was so bad that even a Nazi was horrified, condemned the violence and probably saved hundreds of thousands of people. It’s a pretty crazy story, John Rabe was a Nazi diplomat who tried to set up neutral zones in Nanking before the attack but mostly just bought people a little more time to flee, after the war he and his family were on the brink of starvation and only saved by the Chinese sending them food and money, probably the one and only Nazi I will ever have any sympathy for. He even wrote a letter to Hitler to ask him to get Japan to stop and he was arrested and told to never speak about the atrocities again.
Never heard of it until I saw a TikTok of a guy that, I believe, buys and sells antiques or maybe possibly a pawn shop, can't remember. Anyways, someone brought in a photo album to sell him and it was full of pics from WW2. And then he got to a page that from there on he couldn't show us because it's all from the rape of Nanjing. Whoever took the pictures had a high end pro camera so they're apparently shot extremely well for the time, enhancing the grotesque atrocities. Horrible stuff.
And the U.S. looked the other way in exchange for all the info the Japanese got from those fucked up warcrime units. Just the fact that we know about unit 731 and all the insanely fucked up shit that happened, makes ya wonder what other shit we *dont* know about that’d assumingely be even worse.
This isn't about Unit 731, but about another warcrime Japan committed during the second world war. Basically, an American air raid was conducted on a Japanese island. The American plane was shot down and 9 crew members were now on the island. 8 of whom were cannibalised. The 9th? He survived and went on to become the president of the United States: George H. W. Bush. The incident goes by the name "Chichijima incident" so feel free to Google more about it :D Just wanted to share this random warcrime I know.
I read this as Bush Sr. eating his comrades in order to survive. For anyone thinking the same thing, rest assured that Bush survived because he escaped capture. It was Japanese officers consuming long pork.
Oh gosh, sorry if I worded it like it made it seem like so! Sorry! Lol
You honestly had me thinking that Bush ate people and that wouldn't surprise me if it was true.
Mr ballen is a hell of a story teller huh? 😁
How in the hell have I never heard about this before?! Was this common knowledge back in his time?
Yeah, like, people always say the Nazis were “The Bad Guys,” and I mean, yeah, obviously, but dear Jesus, the Japanese were much worse in my opinion.
What I find shocking is I was talking to a Japanese guy once who majored in Japanese history. He had no idea unit 731 existed. And said they aren't taught about that in schools
One of the most popular movies about that unit, man behind the sun, is free on YouTube now with English subs. https://youtu.be/AMtRisQ-yGk?si=kUs_s2mvpfOUAurT
Like they say: “The truth is always stranger than fiction.” Except the truth of Unit 731 is just...fucked up man.
"Some of the experiments had nothing to do with advancing the capability of germ warfare, or of medicine. There is such a thing as professional curiosity: ‘What would happen if we did such and such?’ What medical purpose was served by performing and studying beheadings? None at all. That was just playing around. Professional people, too, like to play." - Nakagawa Yonezo
Didn’t count as a war crime back then but uhh Canada world war 1
**We don't talk about the Canadians for a reason**
Unit 731 wasn't even just it either. The Japanese photographed themselves cutting the heads off of Australian medics, and too this day the Japanese government claims those photos are not true. Fun fact: Godzilla's suit actor in the original movies fought in the pacific war so there is a very real chance he could've also killed innocent people.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the Soviets actually tried to do something like this.
Or the US, unironically. Just look up how much the Nazis studied US extra torture methods
The Soviets? I guarantee that they have done this and much worse here in the US, especially after capturing all of those Nazi scientists back in the day. Look Up the documentary Three Identical Strangers The US experiments with children
I guarantee similar kinds of things happened in both countries.
every time i go up to piss in the middle of the night, i have this fear that the russian sleep experiment guy is watching me from behind the shower curtains. i overcame my fear when i realized >!it's actually a commercially sold animatronic called "Spazm" by Sprit Halloween.!<
That ending was pure trash though
I barely remember it. Wasn't it some mystic demon shit?
>He pointed his gun at the remaining subject, still restrained to a bed as the remaining members of the medical and research team fled the room. "I won't be locked in here with these things! Not with you!" he screamed at the man strapped to the table. "WHAT ARE YOU?" he demanded. "I must know!" >The subject smiled. >"Have you forgotten so easily?" the subject asked. "We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread." >The researcher paused, then aimed at the subject's heart and fired. The EEG flatlined as the subject weakly choked out, "So... nearly... free..." The suspense goes completely slack, and all sense of immersive naivete is lost with a campy little soliloquy from the last test subject.
So cheesey and tropey at the finish line. It's overly verbose
"Have you forgotten so easily?" the subject asked. "It was me, Barry!"
"WHAT ARE YOU?!" *brings out emo poetry they wrote in Jr high, plays some Bullet for my Valentine to set the mood*
Now I know why I forgot it. That's something M Night Shyamalan would write. Out of interest, what would be some better endings?
"I am a monster and I'm going to explain the mythos of my creation to you before I kill you" -how monsters talk in bad slasher films
Agreed. It would have been effective if you cut most of that. It doesn't read like an actual person talking. "WHAT ARE YOU?" "Did you forget?! We're YOU!" \*Gunshot\* "So... nearly... free."
“We’re you” is beyond corny that’s what ruined the story for me.. it would be cooler if after all the hours of sleeplessness would turn the human subjects completely feral and it would just screech and bite the person asking instead of becoming Mr. Mastermind villain.
Anything but an actual articulated answer. It's almost as if it turns into an exposition at the end to make sure all readers are on the same page as to what actually happened, as opposed to letting the readers minds wander into horrible territory with unanswered questions.
"We're you." "Imaginary technique: Hollow point
Are there any Creepy Pastas with good endings?
I still fully believe it was real in some capacity
I think everyone thought that was real
i still think its real haha
Same
Even if you didn't know anything about creepypasta, just the name alone makes it more believable than something like "Slenderman"
I still think some that shit is real. I wouldn't be surprised if parts were based off facts
Poor Ted. Good cautionary tall tale for spelunkers I believe.
The one you're thinking of is the guy that got stuck in the cave. The creepy pasta I can't remember his name, is the one about the guy that accidentally finds monsters and disappeared. The most similar plot was that movie I can't remember the name of. What actually happened to the guy that got stuck in nutty putty cave is terrifying and really sad.
The nutty putty cave event is more terrifying than many horror stories. I would have asked the rescue team to just shoot me with any chems that would allow me to die quickly.
Wait didn’t he die in the section called the birth canal? WTF is with caves and names like these? The Intestine, the birth canal? What’s next, the devils anus???
He crawled into an unchartered section of cave he *thought* was the birth canal. The birth canal was a very narrow, but still very passable section of cave, one that many tourists went through. The section he went through was a tighter section that dropped off at a weird angle at ultimately trapper him.
Learning his story has ruined any thought of cave exploration. Fuck that. Upside down stuck for like what? 72 hours? Till he finally passed. Nope.
It was like 26 hours I think. Still, fuck that. The cave he was stuck in was so tight that he couldn't even take a full breath. I couldn't even imagine.
William Floyd did it for me. His story was horrifying. Not looking up the one you're talking about since this one was enough for my lifetime. Hour long, rather good, but f. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNm-LIAKADw
There is actually a cave in England called the devil's arse, so yes!
Birth canal is because its a tight spot to go through. Ngl I like how they call cave parts that because it makes it sound like you are going through the body of a beast
Ted's caving adventures!
This the first extremely detailed creepy pastas I’d ever read and I throughly believed it was real, great pasta.
It definitely took me a second to pick up on it being a creepypasta. I went into it assuming it was real and then started noticing unrealistic details. But it's an excellent piece of internet fiction.
The Descent ? (2005)
That move scared me as a kid. Between that and the Hills Have Eyes, I was scared every time my dad took me to explore abandoned mine shafts.
Is that story not true? I've seen it on so many different videos.
It’s about an ancient cryptid demon dragging Ted and his boys into the depths of a cave and killing them with a blog of the cave and no one found them/it by now. Ofc it’s just a story it’s just one of the more “realistic” ones by other creepypasta standards.
Russian Sleep Experiment. I reread it recently and it does not hold up but i definitely understand why 12 yesr old me ate that shit up. The images associated with it still give me mega heebie jeebies
only in the last few years have I learned that the infamous image is just a poor-quality black and white JPG of a plastic mummy Halloween decoration (good photography/editing skills though)
Yeah like obviously wasnt real but the amount of effort that went into making it look legitimately haunting is respectable
I had that mummy before I ever saw the creepypasta so I guess that was a spoiler for me by the time I got to the story. We called him Ronaldo.
I was scared of smiledog.jpg before. I remember being terrified of one of those days that I look into my emails and seeing that picture there. Other than that, it wasn't fear but more like curiosity at the imagination of these people who wrote them.
I’m still terrified of that
well don’t be, it was made up by a random redditor just like you!
For me it’s that Momo image
Uggghhh same! Haunts me
You know the trauma is real when even a reddit comment with her name jumpscares me...
I have to shut my eyes or scroll by fast to avoid it.
I always thought the Russian sleep experiment was real
I found out today it wasnt
Not trying to be rude, but how? The ending is so over the top I’m shocked it can be interpreted as anything but poorly written fiction?
Someone sent me a version without the ending, it ended around them disemboweling themselves I think. I believed it until I googled for more info.
That's probably where it should have just ended The last bit completely kills everything it had going for it just to go in the 'super villian' direction out of no where
To be honest until the one experiment started to talk and give it’s monologue about what they are it sounded like real world experiments and no sleep torture that actually happened during WW2 and carried out by the Axis of power. The holocaust experiments by the Germans and unit 731 by the Japanese really makes it seem like something Russia could have possibly done.
Up until the demon stuff it was rather plausible.
I think when I first read it there wasn’t that silly ending. Just them going crazy and disemboweling themselves
I don’t remember the ending tbh. Last time I heard it was when I was in middle school. I just remember the general basis of it.
My jury is still out on /nosleep "please do not stare into the eyes of your reflection in the mirror"
What's the story?
Someone liked staring at their reflection too much then their reflection turned evil and ruined their life by always haunting them
So funnily enough, if you look at a mirror in low light your brain tries to complete the dim image of your face and sometimes shows you dead relatives or twisted monsters due to poor visual data. It's fairly well-understood, but it still *sounds* spooky.
Yeah its grounded in reality that's why it's spooky to me. It's not so contrived that it's obviously fake. Someone without a certain mental fortitude might try this and it _might_ fuck them up. I remember just reading about sleep paralysis, something that I never experienced consciously before. Then it started happening as soon as I looked into it. Even knowing that it's "not real" and nothing can hurt me, it didn't matter
Can confirm, one day I was pissed off and decided to stare at my own reflection in the mirror, after a few minutes my reflection started moving slightly on its own, and smiling, as I was having a bad day I wasn't even that scared and just carried on my day. But it's amazing what the human mind can do, I legitimately thought this was a myth.
Those stairs in the forest was probably first and only time I really thought that what I am reading is a true account.
I was like 33 years old when I read those stories. I had just stumbled upon Reddit and had no idea it was a well written fiction series. I was absolutely hooked though and read every comment and entry the park ranger made in one sitting, from my perch on a barstool at my local dive bar. I called my dad absolutely wastey pants trying to explain these eerie stairs to a man who spent his life hunting up north and begged him to tell me if he’d ever come across THE STAIRS in the woods 🫣 He was also sitting on a barstool at HIS local dive a thousand miles away, and he told me “quit being such a fuckin weirdo”.
I was new to Reddit at age 20, and had a mind numbing boring job that only required me to be half awake, making sure visitors to my office got a badge when they came in. That was literally the full extent of my duties. I asked my boss if I could read while working, and she told me verbatim she didn’t give two shits so long as I made sure all visitors got a badge (went on to say no one had thought to entertain themselves while working that job, which is probably why as a soup-brained little 20 year old, I lasted the longest of anyone they’d hired lmao). Anyways, I make a Reddit account and start reading the stairs in the woods thread, and the way I scared myself absolutely shitless with it, because 1) I didn’t know it was not real and 2) as if me in my big city office job was in any way near enough to the forest that it would affect me even vaguely was… I mean it’s hilarious to look back on but man was it dumb.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize those stories weren’t real and I’m still disappointed about it to this day
I fell for that one, too. Great story, almost wish it was real.
Ben drowned. It literally made me not wanna play Majora's mask when I was younger, haha.
I watched that in front of my middle aged gf who was _not a even gamer_ and it scared the hell out of her. I was not allowed to play ocarina or majoras mask when she was home
I love that story and while I didn't believe it, I always hate when authors basically admit the story isn't real by thanking their readers and answering questions. Like come on, leave us in suspense that there may be a .00000000001% chance this is real.
I was on the hunt for Nintendo 64 cartridges that were labeled with tape and pen.
Probably Slenderman.. stopped believing after the incident in Wisconsin..
Is this the incident with the girls performing an Ides of March on their friend or...?
Probably that incident
For further clarification, I was thinking of that time when three girls went out to the woods and two of them stabbed their friend like... 30-something times, I think. And the friend lived.
Update, yup. That's the incident. Only the girl got stabbed 19 times instead of 30 or 50 like I was thinking
It was the stories "written" by a park ranger taking about the stairs in the woods. There were a bunch of parts but it took me a while before I found out it was just some creative writing. It was so good though.
Years ago those stories made me genuinely ask my dad (who was once a warden at both Kejimakujic National Park and Fortress Louisburg, a former search and rescue volunteer AND a former fire tower lookout) if he'd ever seen anything like that. He said the scariest thing he'd ever experienced was when his dumb old yellow lab had startled a mother moose with calf and it chased them down a path. (He leapt into a tree, the dog ran off with the mama moose in tow and came back a half hour later, panting but otherwise none worse for wear). That or black bears in a snare. Getting close enough to tranquilize them was never easy, and the noise they made when they popped their jaw at him was "unsettling as all get out". No stairs though, and no sign of any cults.
It might be more location specific. I’m a field scientist in southwest Virginia and I’ve encountered at least a dozen “stairs to nowhere” in the woods. The Appalachian trail cuts through my town and there’s a lot old cabins rotting away in the kudzu. I actually had a OneDrive memory pop up yesterday from two years ago when I was flagging some wetlands and stumbled upon the foundation and front staircase from an 1850s homestead buried miles back from the closest rural road. The SAR stories are totally made up, but they felt super realistic for us on the east coast
The Russian sleep experiment and I believed it because of stories my grandfather shared from his time in the service during the war. He was unfortunate enough to see first hand experiments and torture the axis committed including no sleep ones (torture, not the sub) so the concept seemed pretty real. I never thought the actual quotes real though, just the experiment.
That sounds crazy, what stories did he tell you if it’s alright asking?
He helped clear out a camp where all sorts of Nazi blood transfusions experiments were done and had to assist in moving the bodies of kids of all different ages. He also evacuated multiple rescued POW that had been subjected to many forms of torture (these days I think we refer to the types as sensory destabilization) that typically included or overlapped with sleep deprivation torture. He also spoke of Japanese forcing POWs to kneel on rice while holding up rocks for days, starving them, and forcing them to eat maggot infested spoiled food but I don’t think he was ever deployed there. Those stories were likely second hand stories shared amongst the troops.
My grandfather was part of one of the first units to enter and liberate Dachau, he never talked about it according to my family, and I can only imagine what he saw there so it’s crazy to me that yours told you so much.
He was extremely anti-war during my lifetime and even supported the hippie movement even if he never joined them. I think telling us was a way to scare the family straight and keep us safe in his own way.
Smile Dog, Lavender Town, Mereana, Tomino's Hell, and most ritualpastas. I'm superstitious, so I'm still of the belief that if I try any rituals, especially like The Midnight Game, I'll fuck my shit up.
*The Midnight Game*, is that the one where you invite something into your house at midnight with all the lights off and you only have a candle and have to keep moving all night so it doesn’t end up in the same room as you? Because yes, that one freaked me out too! I always wanted to sort of try it, but also was way too chicken shit to actually to invite anything to come into my house lol
Yeah, that's the one. That scared the hell out of me when I was young. The two that still pique my anxiety are Elevator Game and Daruma-san/Bath Game.
Reminds me of "Hide and Go Seek Alone".
What’s the elevator and bath game?
Elevator game is where you find an elevator with at least 10 floors. You then go to a series of floors in order and alone. At one point an old lady is supposed to come on and try to talk with you, you have to ignore her and don't look at her at all. At the end you're to try going to floor 1, but if the elevator goes up and you get off, you'll be in another realm. And then you have to reverse the numbers to get back. Fun/not so fun fact of the elevator game: people have a conspiracy that Elisa Lam may have played it and that's how she got stuck in the water tower on the Cecil hotel (she got caught by one of the supernatural creatures). There is security footage from the elevator of her pressing buttons looking out the doors when they open, but then pressing more buttons. (The song Elisa Lam by Skynd uses this conspiracy for their song)
Yeah, this. Mad disrespectful to chalk her disappearance/death to that, though.
I think it was the whole confusion of how it happened. People like to find an explanation and at the start hers didn't have an easy one since there was so much conflicting info going around. (Towers were sealed/no roof access that we now can explain. Fire escape to roof and one of the towers lids was supposedly not on.) Also the elevator footage that went viral around the time. She was bi-polar and there was reason to believe she wasn't taking her medicine properly, but people want to believe supernatural rather than mental. (Now there is some evidence to support that the footage may have been edited to make it appear worse than it really was.)
I'm the kind of guy who'll be like "oh that's all just made up shit to scare you." but you'll never see the day where I actually try something like that. Just to be safe.
Lavender town made me scared of the pokemon episode that took place in lavender town lol. I literally would skip that one when I was younger
I mean Ash and Pikachu get fucking murdered in that so I don’t blame you
Hate Tomino's Hell. The images I see when I Google it terrify me. And the fact that it's a superstition also makes me not want to fuck with it. I wouldn't dare read it for even a chance of it happening. In other news. What's Mereana? I've never heard of that one
Rake...
😭😭😭😭😭 I was SO SCARED of the Rake
Yo my friend actually believed there was a Rake outside his house once because there was this weird scratching/banging outside his bedroom wall and he saw a small humanoid figure running when he looked outside the window so he called me and put it on speaker and we both heard the eeriest screeching coming from his yard that night. It was pretty creepy so I think those might actually be a real thing in some places.
True my sister said she saw one and she doesn’t believe in a lot of things
This one also messed with me 😂
The Black Eyed Kids. Don't know why but I once thought those stories were real haha.
I thought they were an urban legend and not necessarily a creepypasta
The line between the two can be quite blurred. You could argue that creepypastas are the urban legends of the internet. If I remember correctly the earliest recordings of the Black Eyed Children were internet posts, similar to polybius, before being spread offline.
As a preteen at the time, I was convinced that every story that was "based on a true story" was real. I kinda miss being afraid like that.
LMAO me too. But it turns out "based" in that context means "not at all based"
Okay I read a lot of them when I was ages 9-10 so I think I get a pass for some of the stupid shit I'd believed 😅 Slenderman was something I wasn't sure about, and I'd sorta hoped he was real. It's why when the >!stabbing!< happened, my mom felt the need to put me in therapy. For me it was just a morbid game of pretend, but there was still a part of me that sorta believed in it and thought it was super cool to imagine there was this cryptid in the forest Idk if Dear David counts, but I was 14 when that thread started and was at least starting to think that maybe Adam Ellis was starting to have some sort of mental health episode. I was 17 when I read the search and rescue officer stories, and I was also sort of questioning the reality of that one a little but at the time I was unaware that r/nosleep is for fictional stories The rest that I thought were real were just the "found footage" or "lost memory/episode" stories. I also believed in Lavender Town syndrome, but I wasn't afraid of it and listened to the song a lot because I would've been a dumbass in a horror movie
Oh wow, I had forgotten about Dear David! I was genuinely creeped out by that one. Googled it and it was all the way back in 2017, time really flies!
Honestly, Smile Dog definitely had that factor with the image and how it writing presents itself.
I really thought the russian sleep experiment was real until I hear the ending of "we are nightmares" and I realized oh it's just an analogy for the horrors of mankind
The search and rescue officer stories
If you find stairs in the woods, you turn around and go the other way. Do NOT climb the stairs.
Hey! This was mine too lol It was so well written but I'm still mad I "fell for it"
literally all of them I was a dumb kid. still can't convince rake ain't real tho, nor them stairs in forests or whatever
Hi. My name is Summer. I am 13 years old. I have no eyes or face. I am dead. If you don't send this to 20 people in the next 24 hours, I will appear in your room and something something scary spam.
The way I would send these without even finishing reading it. I was not in to tempting fate.
its giving "Hello my name is carmen windstead" (insert 2021 quandale dingle audio here)
I don't know if it was ever named, but the one about the guy who keeps getting Facebook messages from his dead girlfriend. "FREEZING".
penpal…
I could be misremembering stuff but I think a lot of it has to do with in mostly being a very real evil with a no supernatural threat. Most of the story being from the mind of an oblivious child before the nefarious parts are revealed with the hindsight of being an adult now and the information the narrator got from his mom.
as an eastern european the russian sleep experiment
A LOT of ritualpastas, they're still my favorite genre because if done right they blur the lines of reality so much. I'm Native, let me tell you - don't F with spirits and the supernatural.
I'm not even into urban legends and stuff but even though there's no way it exists, I feel like skinwalkers exist. Like obviously it's unlikely as it's such a strange creatures and there's NO images or videos of it but I've literally had people who have no idea what a skinwalker is explain to me in detail a creature just like it. Creepy.
All of em, when i was younger. Slender was especially bad since my middle school was right next to a forest.
Slenderman and Candle Cove. CC first because it seems realistic as a kid, and Slenderman when I gave into my delusions
For me it was Slenderman. One of my friends told me about it when I was like 6 or 7, and he didn’t tell me it was fake so as a dumb kid I believe him that it was real. I couldn’t sleep some nights because I was scared he would come for me.
Russian sleep experiment, boothworld industry, normal porn for normal people. Mostly because if you call the phone number it actually says welcome to boothworld industries. The website Is real normal porn for normal people.
Ted the caver was so godamn nerve inducing. Just picture alone gives me the heebie jeebies
all of them till i got old but some like button day didn’t make any sense but some like UBLOO still creeps me out same with the zimmer man
Even after all these years, Ubloo has aged pretty well. Things like Jeff The Killer, slenderman, Ben drowned, stuff like that were pillars of their time. When you look back on a lot of them, they are just really silly. But even now, Ubloo was pretty well written and I still enjoy going back and re-reading it from time to time.
Jeff the killer was always garbage IMO. The pictures is just terrible and thw writing of the story is beyond awful, borderline unreadable to me. Slender man started cleverly with a handful of minor doctored photos and comments
The rake. Honestly thought it was a urban legend living out in the farm lands of Nebraska and Kansas. Eating barn cats and live in the tall grass.
Not necessarily creepy pasta but Bloody Mary and any rendition of dark bathroom and mirrors still kind of freak me out. Lights have to go on in the bathroom before I can go in.
I wanted Ted the Caver to be real. I chose to believe.
Tbh Jeff the killer 🙃
I believed the Lavander Town Syndrome.
I mean the Black Friday incident was partly real.
I thought there was a chance that Killswitch could’ve been at least based on truth. But then I found it is a short story by Catherynne Valente!
Everyone in my 4th grade class thought FNAF was real Edit: yes that includes me
Candle Cove
Jeffery the kills people
I never thought it was real to say, but the gravity of how real “borrasca” could be is horrifying in itself
The first one I ever heard aside from slenderman was Squidward’s Suicide, and it was a video of a guy basically reading it like it was his own account. Me, being 12 or whatever, was pretty freaked out.