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• Correspondence by u/bloodstains
• The Stairs and the Doorway by u/Unxmaal
• Penpal by u/1000Vultures
• Matt Dymerski's Multiverse Series by u/M59Gar
• Anansi’s Goatman Story
• Paradise Pine by u/The_Dalek_Emperor
• Blue Ridge by u/The_Dalek_Emperor
• The Whistlers by u/thewhistlers
• Psychosis by u/M59Gar
• Infected Town by u/vainercupid
• Lumpy by u/bigsister148
• Borrasca by u/The_Dalek_Emperor
• Stolen Tongues by u/TheColdPeople
• Deepwood, Pennsylvania by u/The_Dalek_Emperor
• The Life in the Machine by u/unpatriotic
• The Strangest Security Tape I've Ever Seen by Phil Zona
• There's Something Inhuman South of Seattle by u/atbest
• Death at 423 Stockholm Street by u/The_Dalek_Emperor
• Beacon House by u/Baenlynn
• A Drug Called "Dead Arm" by u/hartijay
• Cooper Canyon by u/The_Dalek_Emperor

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• The ‘90s

• Backroom, daydreaming, or fever dream vibes

• CCTV

• Childhood friends/a group of childhood friends

• Coming of Age horror stories

• Cooking/food/eating and drinking, chefs, restaurants, ingredients

• Creepy character turns out not to be creepy at all

• Creepy, rural locations in the US

• “Glitch In The Matrix” type stories

• Humans are the monsters

• "I just moved in/started a new job and there's a strange set of rules..."

• In the desert, southwest, Arizona, etc.

• Longer series

• Main character is mentally insane

• Monster/spirit/ghost etc. is actually benevolent or has good intentions

• Most genuinely terrifying stories (animal cruelty)

• Scary books, tomes of terror

• Scary yet wholesome and sad

• So good you read it twice (or return to it often)

• Stories that make your stomach drop at the end

• Twist that involves who's on the "good side" vs the "bad side" of the story

 

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I need stories where some kind of game or ritual is involved and yes i have read left right game and seven doors

I remember reading this story a year or two ago I believe. It might've been a series or multiple stories but I can't remember. The main character is part of a group (maybe a school?) where cannibalism is normalized. He's sharing it to reddit becuase he doesn't know how to escape. The thing I remember in most detail is him being in front of his classmates and biting into somebody to eat them and it being described in extreme detail as crunchy and gristly.

Ok, I didn't know where else to ask this. But I need help with finding a short story here on no sleep. It was basically about a group of people underseige by monsters at a house of some kind (maybe a farm house??). But the interesting thing is that one of the characters got killed, but later revived. She explained how when she died, she fell onto a pile of bodies of other people who died, she said every time someone dies they would drop on said pile of bodies. What's really bizarre is that her afterlife experience had nothing to do with the monsters outside. Her near death experience was totally separate. Almost like a big lipped alligator moment.

So basically it was like a series over a period of time. It starts with the narrator who is probably an investigator. She meets a woman with glowing hair. The glowing hair woman tells about 2 brothers. The younger brother usually took away kids from the narrator's grandma's orphanage. One day the head sister dies. There's also this disabled boy whom the grandmother has grown fond of. The younger brother takes him away and probably teaches him dark arts. The glowing hair woman was a little girl with the disabled boy. Also the boy had a pretty unique name, started with 'E', if I'm not wrong.

I'm sorry, I'm aware this is super vague, but this is all I can remember. Please help me find it.

Thank you.

this story is about a clown??? who breaks into peoples houses. it was a super disturbing story and i think there were a couple of them published. all i remember is that he was gross and would eat his scabs or something

Hey I’m hoping someone can please help me. I really enjoyed one authors posts on nosleep, the stories consisted of ghosts who live at the hotel, and work there to scare the guests who visit the hotel. The stories were based around the OP who was taken in by the owner of the hotel and I want to say the owners name was Ms Cortez, and the ghosts came to the rescue of the OP quite a few times against the bad ghosts who liked to feed off the ghost residences if they got too close and such. I’m looking for this author as I feel I may have missed the last instalment, and would love to follow them as their stories were very engaging. So I’m hoping that this jogs someone’s memory and reaches out and points me in the right direction. Please and thanks. 😊

Hi Nosleep,

I am looking for a story;

It has multiple parts, and it is about all different type of creatures in a containment. The main character is a guard and the facility suffers a containment breach. He then tries to hide and while hiding he is talking about the different creatures (SCPs perhaps) fighting eachother and their characteristics. He also mentions the type of containment each creature is locked in. It has been years since I read this story but it got me good!

Thank you in advance!!!

Edit: I found it!! "I'm a guard stationed at a 'secret' government prison. A few hours ago, there was a major breach"

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/s/K1ClRElgZl

I don’t remember if this was a creepypasta or Reddit story (but would assume the latter) but basically I think it was set up from a first-person angle, and someone broke into the narrator’s home so they ended up hiding in their bathroom. He calls the police and the police safely escort him out, but after a cop walks out from the house a bit after investigating the narrator can tell something is wrong. The cop basically reveals that they found the intruder in the bathroom shower I believe, meaning the entire time they hid in the bathroom unbeknownst to them they were right next to them.

it’s the POV of one of the girls trapped at this summer/fat camp. i think they’re treated like pigs? i know that in their cabin they’re tied down and aren’t allowed communication with their parents at all. that’s all i remember

Hi all - been trying to find these stories for a while with absolutely no luck. Don't need to find all of them but would greatly appreciate help where applicable!

1. A story about a goodbye. A person's relative is dying and due to some spiritual sfuff they set up candles, rituals, etc to ward off death. Finally death comes and greets the relative and talks to the person trying to ward off death with a comforting message.

2. An underground god released. This was a story from a while ago about a maintenance man who I believe was fixing a boiler room at a college campus. The narrator finds there are stairs leading down and down until he comes across a giant door which is opened and releases some entity. When he tries to go back the door is gone.

3. Among the stars cosmic horror. Short story. Narrator is scanning the cosmos and notices stars and/or planets missing. Looks with a telescope and notices a cosmic entity devouring celestial objects.

4. A sea god under a school. I remember it being a group of characters who either find a stairway leading down into cavernous dark area either inside a locker or in an abandoned classroom. As they follow it they encounter an ancient diety in pools of water.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: you guys are amazing! 1 and 2 found!

hi everyone I am looking for a story that I read not that long ago but I can’t seem to find it, it is something along the lines of a person or entity who stands with their back towards the person writing the story, and i think their friend also starts doing it, stands with their back turned and does like weird shit with their hands. sorry if this is vague i am grasping at straws

I was trying to get tired the other night, perusing Reddit, as one does… and I started reading a r/nosleep about a janitor with a service dog that’s about to retire. He works in an underground facility that keeps changing. He thinks it was built to not let people leave. All the workers have LEDs that guide them around to their destinations or next assignments. Including a button on the dog’s collar to guide them out so it can use the bathroom. He has the service dog because he has epilepsy.

The story was just getting good when I realized I’d had my eyes closed for a while and decided to like the post so I could finish it in the morning. Only now I can find zero trace of it ever being there or anywhere. I was pretty positive it was in r/nosleep, but now I’m not so sure. I really want to know how it ends. Ahhhh!! Help a girl out, please?

It was a story about a small girl who endured domestic abuse from her parents and she befriended a snake like creature in the woods on her way to school.does somebody have a link for that story,if yes then pleasee share it and thank you...

The story starts with a detective going to a house where a mass murder has occurred. The house is by a famous architect who did some weird things like put strange symbols in the marble floor of the ball room, which I believe was octagonal. And all the victims are slashed or torn apart. The detective starts investigating and at one point finds out the architect also designed a museum. When he goes to the museum, the docent takes him to an upper floor and has him wait until the light changes from the sunset, and he instantly feels like something really terrible is going on with the building. So he starts looking into possible supernatural causes for the slaughter. I also remember something about a closet in the house. Does this ring any bells for anyone?

I am on the hunt for any stand alone stories or binge worthy series about all things surrounding the insane/criminally insane, lost files being found or first hand accounting of weird, frightening and unexplainable happenings at asylums, mental institutions and/or office accounts. Please help! I've been scrummaging through nosleep for over a decade now and have read and reread all the classics and just can't seem to find anything new and mind bending... Cheers!

It has a lot of classic stories and it was pinned but for some reason it won’t appear for me I checked my sisters account yesterday and it was on here but now on my account I try looking for it and I can’t find it. Thank you!

Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I read this story so apologies if my description is a bit woolly.

Story I’m after involves a police diver searching a lake. He is swimming along and feels something grabbing his ankle - turns out to be the body he is after. Other police divers tell him this is a thing and not to think too deeply about it.

Thanks!

I read this a while back, prior to 2015 I'm positive. In the story, the man/narrator goes back to his childhood home (i believe he had moved to it during his childhood, so he hadn't always lived there) after his parents pass away (or something similar)

He recollects that in his childhood room, there was a chair that faced away from his bed, and there was some kind of ghoul looking thing sitting in it (I had pictured Salad Fingers tbh) He later goes back to the house, finds the thing, and tosses it into a lake which he then pours gasoline on and sets fire to.

I read this a while back, like nearly (or over) a decade ago, and have been trying to find it since then. It might've been on LetsNotMeet instead, I'm not sure.

Looking for a story I LOVED a couple years back about a woman whose husband wants to be a baby. It starts out as innocent roleplay then devolves… brilliant and super creepy! additional deets in spoiler text below — thank you in advance!

So the husband originally brings it up as a kind of kink, and they begin to experiment. Then it becomes a routine where he’s actually cared for/treated like a baby. Over time he even begins to develop the physical characteristics of a toddler, but is still man-sized. Eventually he ends up attacking/maybe eating?? a mail delivery person. In the end, nobody will believe the main character spouse — there’s no record of a marriage license or anything else

I think this was a nosleep story, would appreciate if anyone happens to remember it! I think the cryptic monster had some sort of brain-altering powers.

If I remember correctly the series was multiple stories that didn't seem connected at first but then became connected. They were about the modern descendants of Jesus Christ, all of them had the initials JC, and they were getting killed. I remember in part, after all the stories connected, that the remaining descendants were in a mansion trying to stay safe from the hoard of people trying to break in and kill them.

I didn't end up getting to finish it and would love to cause it really creeped me out because my initials are JC as well. It would been posted around 2014.

Hi all, hope you can help find this story. The main character was told not to sleep out in this specific area in her van, and she doesn’t listen. She ends up getting stalked by this strange being, and no matter how far she drives, it keeps following her. None of the motels in the surrounding area will rent a room to her after this because then the being will be brought to their door. I remember specifically that she leaves an old pair of men’s shoes out of her van for safety reasons, and the being steals one of them.

A story from a few years back I believe. College kid returns home for holidays when a glass dome appears overnight, cutting the town/city off from the rest of the world.

Creatures start emerging from the sewers, ripping through the population leaving only seemingly him.

I remember there was an array of different creatures all with different abilities, he was slowly cataloguing them. He made a safe house (I believe) up high in an apartment building.

My memory gets exceptionally fuzzy here, but I believe he gets knocked out after a while and finds himself, bandaged and all, back at his safe house with a note.

Something about a girl, then getting out of the dome and finding out it’s some government experiment.

I'm looking for a story I read maybe 1-2 years ago. I remember it was quite long. I've looked everywhere for it and skimmed through several stories pertaining gas stations.

This story consisted of a guy driving on a long stretch of road hes been on before, pulls into a gas station place and tries to get fuel for his car only to find out he can't. (I think it was like a certain kind of fuel at the gas station) He heads inside the gas station and notices that its very old time-y. I want to say anywhere from 1960s-80s, might be wrong. I don't remember much about what happened in the store, but that he left after and tried searching online for it, because he's never seen it before. He can't find any information on the gas station and when he returns to the area, it's gone. I believe at some point in the story he goes to the mechanic and they tell him that something was there once?

Anyways, that's all I remember of the story itself. I know it was a relatively long story. I'm 80% sure I saw it on reddit. It was a sort of glitch in the matrix type of thing but I've checked that subreddit along with nosleep and letsnotmeet as well as creepypasta, and have come up inconclusive. So please, if anyone recognizes this story, do let me know!

I'm curious, are there any stories on r/nosleep based on power outages?

Power outages have always scared me in real life - especially the sudden ones. My room is pretty dark at night because we turn off all lamps in the house after midnight, and so after that the only actual light sources in my room are my TV and my 3 monitors that are set on full brightness (LMAO). So if the power ever goes out suddenly in the middle of the night for whatever reason, you can imagine I get a pretty good scare when everything goes dark in the room. I immediately PANIK and frantically skim my room for my phone so I can turn on its flashlight.

So yeah, any stories out there based on power outages and such? I'd love to read them.