Got a suggestion you guys might really like, but it's a long read it's like a mutant hunting military operations creepy pasta called "blood locusts" if you wanna screen it a little I think doctor creepen did a read of it
I would love to order merch, but unfortunately, the website doesn't ship to APO. If you didn't know, all military living overseas will have APO/FPO addresses. Sometimes, it's just an extra selection you need to click in the settings, and some websites don't offer it at all. Fingers crossed it gets added. Love the shoe!
I love creepypasta names, it's either "midnight blood" or something like "my cat is acting strange and keeps bringing bloody limbs home while I'm asleep"
I wish books had titles like that. I like the wheel of time series but "the world's eye" is a title that barely comes up in the story. Imagine it was called "Mutants are trying to kill me and the witch says she needs me", would be way cooler
Similar to anime names either “overlord” or something like “that time I got reincarnated into another world as the only son of a poor house to practices magic”
Just as they escape the house he pulls up in a black sedan smoking a cigar and says "So a little bird told me there was a job in town. Seems like she's right behind you, isn't she?" before casting the creep all over the place.
Not gonna lie, I am a 33 year old grown ass man who works night shift. Was listening to this on my way home from work. Got home, transferred it to my TV. When it hit the shower sequence I noped the hell out. Finished it later, under the sanitizing light of day. Good job guys.
I personally lean towards the interpretation that it's literally just his wife, because it's so much scarier. If any of you have ever had a loved one have a psychological break, in a metaphorical way it's just like this. They do something that frightens you, won't stop, it gets worse, they don't seem to understand why you're bothered, they stalk you, other people don't necessarily believe you. Just the general vibe of someone you trust literally turning into someone else, a stranger, is so upsetting. And you still want to get them help.
After what I've seen with my cousin last month, I believe this. It's one of the craziest things to witness someone you knew for years turn into a psychotic stranger over night. Almost like they're possessed, but worse.
I have a relative with dementia, and when the symptoms first started showing, that was the exact feeling. Even something small and completely nonviolent can just immediately chill you when it's strange enough or comes out of nowhere.
@@Snowmanse That's why the end of the story kind of takes it too far for me (still really good though), because the real scary part isn't that she might stab him, it's that he knew her for years and now she's just kind of gone
Here's where I thought the story was going: When Ben mentioned the rotten smell coming from his wife's bedroom, I thought that maybe she died because she stayed in the closet for days without moving, waiting for him to come home and find her peeking, still wide-eyed with that big grin on her face.
I had the same thought, that when she was unable to get to him anymore at his brother's house, they would find her in that same closet. Or one of my earlier theories was that Lynn and weird Lynn were two completely different entities and real Lynn was either oblivious to all of it or was also being 'pranked' by another Ben and while Ben was gone, the real Lynn had been killed. The animal eye thing just felt random
@@shinigamiinochi That would have been a good ending too. Miscommunication and then your wife being killed by the entity driving you two apart from fear when you should have been home to protect her.
I like that it is literally only funny if you know what it's from. Otherwise, this comment sounds like rambling from someone with dementia trying to write a story.
From someone who had an ex who had meth induced psychosis who swore I was watching him but he would crawl up into the crawl space and would stare at me through the vents or try to slip a phone or mirror under wherever I was, this is hell. It's horrifying.
@@cecizilla yes :( he was so paranoid I was watching him and I was like dude you're not that interesting and then I remember he pretended to leave, parked around the block, walked back and climbed up into the crawl space from outside and I was sitting on the couch and heard crawling above me and looked up and saw him staring at me through the vent trying to catch me cheating which never was
When Lynn said, "You creep me out too" (or something to that effect), I honestly thought the twist was gonna be that this was happening to the both of them, and the mimic was pranking the both of them, disguised as the other. Continuing along this line of thought, I also guessed that this creature was a thing that menaced the mother as well, but she figured out that not giving it a reaction, is what stops it. Which would have also explained her lack of wanting to acknowledge the issue whatsoever and her general cold demeanor.
Oh interesting, that would fit well with some of the threads this story laid. Maybe the frantic texts he gets from his wife asking where he went are part of her also panicking that he might be still in the house peeking at her from somewhere.
@@heatgerm My thought's exactly! I kinda want to try doing a version of this story using my theory; but at the same time, I don't wanna be disrespectful to the writer. I wouldn't want to come off as one of those twitter/tumblr "fixed it" types.
Seriously, I get not wanting to involve his brother in this but why not go to the cops with that message and get into some kind of witness protection program?
I don’t like criticism like this I think that the fact no sleep has the limitation is very silly it it just a outlet to post fun horror stories it shouldn’t have to justify it being there
@@forsakenparadise6828it’s just a relic of how creepypastas were in the old internet. It’s just a shame that nosleep is by far the biggest place to get noticed bc it does limit you a little bit
@@forsakenparadise6828 Oh yeah totally, this wasn’t really meant as an honest criticism. I was just trying to poke fun in general at how many of these stories have people fending for their lives while also having them take the time to sit down and write down everything in excruciating detail
“My Dog Was Lost for Three Days, What Came Back Wasn’t My Dog,” is one of the few creepypastas that actually gave a me a shiver down my spine at certain parts. This story reminds me of how that one made me feel. It’s a really, really good one, it has that classic, uncanny valley, “This normal thing is now slightly alien” vibe.
I forget which narrator I listened to read it but "Dog Stands Up" actually unsettled me for once for a creepypasta, for some reason pets and animals acting outside their regular behavior messes with me. Its why I like not-deer as a concept but with skinwalkers it doesn't hit the same way, they're either eldritch or actual monsters rather than the funny shapeshifter men who feed on fear then giggle and run away after pranking you for a meal
Something I appreciate about this story is that there really isn’t an obvious explanation at any point. People have good theories, and there are parts that definitely play off of common tropes, but it keeps you guessing with how things actually escalate. My favorite example is how the writer handles the main character confronting his wife while she’s “back to normal.” It would be so easy and predictable for her to just act confused and insist she doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but instead she fully remembers, laughs it off, and refuses to explain herself. It throws off your expectation that this is a straightforward possession/doppelgänger story, while also making you more uneasy since it lets you know that even when she’s “normal,” the main character isn’t safe.
How is it ever confirming she's not a doppelgänger? If anything her "normal" behavior is a clear indicator that something's very obviously wrong with her and she's not acting like her usual self. A normal person, especially a stoic one that's rather stiff and not known for jokes would have an actual explanation on hand. Like, it CEMENTS that this is not actually his wife anymore, over and over. The writer just couldn't decide exactly what the origin story for his monster would be, so it was never even sufficiently hinted, causing the ending to kinda flop in the very standard nosleep kinda ending blurb and story outline.
@@dowfreak7Yeah def I had these exact thoughts when reading this story myself, its creepy how she actually doesn't deny it, but she doesn't fully admit to it except when they're watching netflix, and its so bizarre because its like the original commenter says, you'd expect her to deny it which she sort of does the first time, but she gives ZERO explanation. To me, it tells infers she's fully commited to this now, whatever the past 6 years were means nothing, which is either a mental or shapeshifter deal, both of which are scary but id be disappointed to find its just a shapeshifter tbh
To me it's scarier to think someone would start acting like this because they're developing dementia or a severe mental illness, you don't need to add demons or doppelgangers to the situation
When I first read the story I thought it was very similar to that time a bf of mine started meth. Which yeah, I guess addiction also counts as a serious mental illness
One of my favourite 'takes' on this story never really included an explanation for the events as such, but I thought it was a really cool read on things. The idea being that while the husband sees the wife going weird and eventually turning dangerous, the wife saw her husband doing the same, with the end result of an escalation in this strange conflict between them. They aren't talking to each other, or communicating, and their relationship is rapidly deteriorating into violence. And having no explicit explanation for the catalyst would actually make this a really tight, tense thriller.
Kinda but like the whole keeping their eyes open and looking at you all night bit moves it into unbelievable. I don't think there's a mental illness that makes you capable of not blinking an entire night unless you're so far gone you're in hospice care. That part is what makes it a lot more terrifying but also what gives it just enough of a supernatural edge to make it fun. That and her straight up being able to find him at some random motel which is NOT something she should be able to do You don't NEED to add demons to the situation but that's kinda how stories go. Sometimes they're supernatural sometimes they're not and in this case they went with very lowkey unclear supernatural which I personally like more. Its more terrifying if its something you can't even get away from. He can't just divorce her and leave like normal she is STAYING with him until one of them dies I imagine.
I think it's hereditary. They made sure to press that both the mom and the daughter were overly serious, I think it's because whenever they "let loose" even the tiniest bit it opens the door to whatever is possessing them. I think that's also why Lynn hated horror movies. She had to grow up watching those exact things happen in her own life.
Makes sense why they start with going on about not liking horror movies. I was wondering why they talked about it so much if wasn’t an integral part of the story.
Just imagine they have guests come into their house, one of them looks up and there's a little kid staring while clinging to the ceiling fan or something with a demented look .
That would be a great ending! Even better to me since I have a daughter. Would be really interesting if she were really young. My daughter's 19 months old; a girl just a little bit older doing this would be pretty creepy.
my gf has had a rough history, part of that manifests in her refusing to get my attention when she needs me. I'll be playing a video game or something, headphones in, and she will silently stand just off to the side and wait. It ALWAYS catches me off guard and scares me.
@corporatecapitalism personally, it makes me feel sad. She grew up in a world where she had to wait quietly for her needs to be addressed, instead of being able to just ask. From her father to ex boyfriends, several men in her life would yell at her if she had to interrupt their video games or TV watching? That's disgusting. But, beneath the cold exterior she likes to wear, and beneath all the odd quirks she's developed. There's a beautiful, funny, and very smart woman in there. And yes, she is rather cute when she does it.
Just got back from playing Catan and watching Gargoyles on Disney XD while my lovely wife was eating pears and crocheting, so ready to watch my favorite podcast with Hunter and that guy :)
Just a theory: Going with the idea that Lynn is possessed by a creature that feeds off of fear, it makes sense as to why it hates Chris so much. Through cracking bad jokes, it takes both Ben's and the reader's attention away from the terror they are feeling. This would naturally disrupt the creature's food supply, making it hungier and more dissatisfied. That could also be the reason why "Lynn" was in such a deshevled state upon coming back to the house, the creature hasn't been fed in a long time and is desperate to get that food back from its primary source. Except, the food supply brought along someone who is trying to ease the tension. Does this make Chris a good character? No not really, his jokes do disrupt the story. Is this digging wayyyy to deep into this story? 100%, but it's interesting if you think about it.
i would also build on that theory that the creature needs way less food from MC, it feed from him watching horror movies before but at some point it gets too far and gets addicted, probably after it peeked at him the first time, and starts escalating thats why its so "happy" when scaring him, its basically high.
Yes! I believe this theory too! To also go off this theory, I think the eyeballs were an escalation to induce more fear. Lynn starts with peeking in obvious spots and then escalates to hiding to create even more fear. Lynn escalates again and follows Ben to Chris’s house and stares through the window. Maybe stabbing Ben was another way to create fear in Ben because he was trying to actually help her and she needed that fear back. Maybe the eyeballs were another shock factor??
Met wendigoon one time after noticing him around a corner in the city. He took a crowbar to my knees. The doctor says i may never walk again but that means i have more time to watch these videos. Thanks creepcast!
With Chris, it's not even his quirkiness that ruins it, but just the utter obliviousness of him even in the face of obvious danger or something clearly being wrong.
Yeah I don’t mind characters that have some goofy traits but cracking a “girls and their shoes huh??” joke while staring at a pile of eyeballs just makes me remember I am reading a story.
It's not quirkiness or him being oblivious. Chris is a goofy character in a sitcom. He's not a real human. Meanwhile he's standing next to a husband whose personality you have been entwined with for an hour and who's never broken character or done anything fantastical or storylike. Chris may as well be fucking Bugs Bunny, that's how immersion-breaking his remarks and actions are. He's so clearly not real that you don't even get a chance to pretend this situation is tense. Imagine finding a bunch of bloody eyeballs in your house and your brother goes "teehee, got the 3d googly eyes, huh", instead of "holy shit, get outta there, I'm calling the police".
Fun fact: There's a japanese urban legend called the Sukima-onna, a woman who hides in crevices, corners, and gaps around the home. She's said to peek out from these gaps, often startling or frightening people who notice her. She's described as having large, unblinking eyes and sometimes a wide, eerie smile.
I had a nightmare when I was a kid of hands reaching out from crevasses in furniture, like between couch cushions and stuff, trying to drag me inside. It terrified me for a long time but I ended up forgetting about it until a few months ago when I suddenly remembered the dream and how it made me scared of gaps in and around ordinary furniture. When I told me friend about it she told me about Sukima-Onna and was like "maybe you saw her and that's what inspired your dream"
There are two types of names for internet horror: short and vague or “a man named Juan comes to my house every day at 2AM and stares into my eyes while he aggressively pisses his pants - it traumatized me”
Honestly I prefer the shorter vaguer stories lol. I think it's just because I get so many recommendations of stories like what you said and it just gets obnoxious after a point.
Sometimes I distract myself with the comment section when ads are read, but with papa meat and his editor, I can’t look away. It IS like having a gun to my eyes
Cause he doesn't actually like it, he prefers his natural smell of 2nd hand smoke and gas station burritos... hence why he only chose food related scents 😅
I think it would be a cool concept if instead of the confrontation at the end they just never find her and she dissappears completely. Like he goes on with his life and always has a feeling that she's still there watching him but she's "gotten so good at it" that she became a almost like a ghost that haunts him wherever he goes. It would leave it ambiguous and instead of having this huge climax there's just no end to the torment of Ben.
That could be a movie version... They get to the house, search everywhere with no trace, days pass he can't stay in the house, moves from place to place, never feeling alone. Starts therapy starts to feel better, new place far away finally happy alone, and then he either hears a moan or sees the tiniest glimpse in a reflection. It may be too much that way but something a long those movie tropes.
@@bacidbrain9884When Ben goes to give his “I want to help you” spiel, Lynne instead slowly fades out of a smile and crawls back under the bed. After that, then he just never sees her again because she dedicates herself so deeply to get good at peeking he can’t even notice her in his life anymore besides that sinking feeling
I was SO hoping it would go somewhere, but the line "You creep me out sometimes too, so I guess we're even" I was hoping like she was seeing shit too and it was gonna be this weird like two dopplegangers situation
I swear there was more to this story, I remember hearing it a while ago and the ending was where the op actually had psychosis triggered by some medicine he mistakenly took, and actually the whole time this was happening he was the one who was acting weird and awful to her, and she was scared of him. Now I feel like I'm the one who's hallucinating because where tf did this entire ending I remembered go....
@@AverageZardySimp yeah, I asked reddit about it cus it bothered me so much, and I ended up merging this story with an r/relationships one that was actually real
@@trash.j that was a completely different story, that as far as i know was actually a real thing that happened, and its notable for the repeated seemingly random phrase he'd keep hearing from her in these psychotic episodes "better hoagie down"
As a person who was in a relationship with a girl who became addicted to drugs, this felt very allegorical to those experiences. She became a completely different person. Violent, stalking, made me unsafe in my own home, very threatening to me while acting emotional about me to her friends and family and strangers on social media. She tried to make herself seem normal and maybe even a victim, but as soon as people saw who she truly was, they started to understand what was really going on. It's not something you can easily explain to people who haven't seen that side of her. But that's just my interpretation of what's going on.
I just commented on a different thread about this, because you're right, I think. Up until the later parts, this story felt very genuine under the slightly generic "creepy staring" part. Everything else falls a little too close to home in regards to certain types of negative behavior, and I was really, really uncomfortable during the first few bits of this story. This really is, at the end of the day, a story about abuse I feel, until the creepy stuff is played up for the ending. If it leaned into that a bit more, this story would've been really good, but extremely disturbing.
Facts, same here as a dude, expect for her it was alcohol not drugs, she was like 17-18 at the time we were seniors and she started to binge drink (her parents let her or didn’t know either way) she started to act distance from me, do things I told her I was uncomfortable with like going to parties with alcohol without me or without telling me before hand, she started acting flirty with other guys, come to find out after she dumped me she cheated on me with some frat guy at a party I told her I didn’t feel comfortable with her going to without me, she tried to blame me call me abusive and manipulative, but once the story got out that she cheated on me at some frat party the tables turned pretty quick
I dealt with something similar to your experience in nearly everyway except that I don't think she was addicted to anything just severely mentally ill (her doctor accused her of being addicted to pain killers so maybe she was afterall idk) but she would accuse me of cheating on her with litterally any girl she saw me talking to in any context and would spam me and my female freinds with really creepy inappropriate messages at all hours of the night for hours and scream at us in school litterally follow me around from s distance and text me angrily asking where I was and why I was hanging out with girls she'd argue with me over everything and scream at me for anything she could to the point of making me cry multiple times snd just act like it was an annoyance to her even when i was having a breakdown crying in her bed because of what she had litterally just said to me litterally telling me she hated me and hated when i stayed over at her house and that i was an embarrassment to her and she only ever went out with me cuz no other man would give her attention she also tried to make out to my freinds and teachers that I was the one who wasn't trying to do anything with our relationship and that it was only her who was trying to fix things when she wasn't at all and I'm thr same to this day I still don't know how to fully explain the way she acted and now you mention it I can really see that kind of vibe in this story
@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 This just gave me the thought process of Lynn doing the “I have a body of a pig!” Scuttling away out of a window and then just returning with glass on her pixelated hands or eyeballs.
I would love a prequel story that talks about lynn’s dad and how he was her first victim when she was a child. He kept getting scared by her (at first humoring) but it kept getting worse and her mom told him to just ignore her and it would stop. Well she continued to feed off of his fear until he couldn’t take it anymore while her mom kept on ignoring her and not showing even if Lynn did startle her and that’s why her mom is so subdued emotionally now. She was forced to hide her fright since she unintentionally found out that’s what makes lynn continue and get worse and worse with her scaring since she’s chasing the dopamine high (whether this be super natural or not). The first time both her parents knew but maybe she realized she did it another time before Ben ans found out its more enjoyable to break someone down if no one else around them believes them about her scaring/ being creepy. That’s why she reacted so extremely to Ben’s brother being there. Since he say her acting strange that means she can’t get the additional pleasure of no one believing Ben as he descends into madness. The brother ruined her game and that’s why she got out from the bed after seeing him. Maybe these are some kind of strange episodes and theres a trigger to them. Like accidentally startling someone. Maybe the first time she peaked around the corner is was an accident that she scared him but startling him was enough to kick start it back. Which i think explains why the kitchen scene was such a jump from the first incident. Lynn’s mother Mary Ann couldn’t tell ben because she fears that if her daughter some how found out how rattled she was by it all those years ago then she might come back and try to scare her next after she’s done with ben. Maybe even she doesn’t know whatever caused this and that scares her because she doesn’t know if this can ever end.
@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202 I mean you CAN cook them but I don't see why you would lmao that why it threw me off cause I'm like "wait a minute I eat pears raw wtf am I a weirdo?"
The image of his wife shaking in joy from seeing him was maybe one of the scariest things I’ve heard. Like her moaning in anticipation and glee over seeing him. Like she’s crazed to see his fear or just him. That she was just waiting and was just overwhelmed by him finally seeing her. Ughhh! We need horror writers like this more!
I'm not even gonna lie, when I was listening to the bathroom segment, I was also coincidentally in the bathroom. When I ran to bed in the dark I heard my brother cough and nearly screamed LMAOO
Fun Fact I learned from Roanoke Gaming, the feeling of being watched is actually your brain letting you know that you have already seen what is watching you. But consciously, you have not recognized it. Your Lizard brain has caught on to it though.
It doesn't even have to be actually visual, your subconscious is great at picking up on all kinds of minor context clues. Small noises, an absence of small noises, things being out of place, spots and locations that *could* have something there (like, in nature, a predator lying in wait). It's a billion years of your ancestors not getting eaten before reaching adulthood and procreating, telling you that something isn't quite right. Little Lizzie up there is just doing it's best to give a heads up to your slowpoke conscious mind to figure out exactly what isn't right.
You ever notice how Creepypasta names are either short and vague like “no end house” or “left right game” while others are like “my neighbor keeps slpooging during the night and I think he’s an alien trying to probe me” or “god came from the moon and is real and is driving everyone mad”
My guess is the older ones have shorter titles because they were more like recounting some kind of myth/object/location and readers would seek out explanations by visiting their dedicated website, but nowadays most creepypasta stories are posted on r/nosleep where viewers judge whether to read your story based on the title/short description on Reddit, so the writers try to include the premise in the title to hook them in.
on the "being able to tell when you are being watched" thing ive read somewhere that in reality you cant maigcally tell that you are being watched, BUT rather you subconciously SAW whatever was looking at you at least once while doing something, and you just kinda get put into high alert mode to conciously find whatever is looking at you which honestly makes this story like 100x scarier for me
I will continue to remind our boys that “The Strangest Security Tape I’ve Ever Seen” is a fantastic pasta until i DIE, so much love, looking forward to the merch order coming in!!!!
My theory on her collecting eyeballs - I think the entity enjoys being seen. So when the husband leaves she doesn't have someone to 'find/stare' at her, and she collects eyes to get her high
I really like wendigoon’s proposed ending of Lynn being less of a horror movie villain and more just psychologically demented. It grounds the story and makes it more unsettling.
Part of me genuinely thought it would’ve been an entity that shape-shifts so when she said “ oh you always creep me out too “ it was her also experiencing Benjamin smiling and peeking at her as well at other times
Did anyone else think when the wife said that he scares her too that she’s was experiencing the same thing as him but in reverse? Like something that looks like him keeps scaring her but it isn’t our main character.
Oh, that could explain the idea that her hiding was fear and she had been further along with what Ben was experiencing and the last straw was to kill him
that was exactly my thought, that they were each experiencing an entity that looked like each other, so when he mentions it, she just thinks he's teasing her.
I like the idea that Lynn says ‘okay’ after the Ben asks to help her, and her behavior changes back to normal within the next few days. He has to live with the events that happened, still living with her, not sure if she truly got better, or if she’s still watching him when he’s unaware.
That would be great because it’s pretty similar to just more normal relationship struggles, like the whole thing could be a metaphor for drug use damaging a marriage or something like that
@@frog2444 I'm kind of tired of metaphor stories. I just want a story, sometimes. Something cool, thought provoking, but not easily discarded into the metaphor category.
@@aliceiscallingthe vast majority of stories in general are metaphors if you don’t want it to be, just turn your brain off and take it at face value n don’t over think it
@@lewiitoons4227 Nah, the vast majority of stories _can be interpreted_ as metaphors, that doesn't mean they were intended as such. Any story can be taken as a metaphor for anything, it's why there are so many variants of Christianity spawning off from different interpretations of the same book. That doesn't mean that a story isn't what it literally depicts, sometimes monster is just a monster.
@@notsae66 writing is a symbolic medium it is very hard to write something creatively without even accidentally including metaphor and allegory just by virtue of living a life and trying to put something understandable to other readers. But as it’s symbolic it is free to interpretation, you can enjoy the monster just being a monster as well but that doesn’t necessarily remove any other meaning that may be gleaned from it
this one is so scary to me because it’s something i’ve experienced while in psychosis; people peeking around corners or hiding in places staring at me. fucking spooky, but it’s so cool to me that the author turned that fear into a story. i wonder if that was their inspiration for this.
The one part that always stuck out to me at possibly hinting to the motive of the possession is how the glass from the wedding photo is used. Because it feels too specific for the wife to use glass from the photo instead of like a knife or some other object but the wedding photo was used. Like whatever possessed the wife wanted to ruin their marriage specifically.
Eh, that one's explained pretty easily, though. In her rage that the husband is leaving the house, she smashes the photo as she walks past it and THEN picks up the glass shards after. Not to mention that we have no clue why it's enraged, why it needs a weapon, why it collects eyeballs, why it attacks, why it watches...too many questions to properly form any theory, tbh.
I’m so proud to be part of the podcast! As a 45 year old Catholic mother of 6 it’s nice to fit in with the cool kids, my sons talk about you two constantly! You guys did wonderful!
@@osoretro2721 my brothers in Christ I was making a joke related to Red Thread where there’s older moms that watch the show, my name happens to be Lynn but I’m not 45 I’m in my 20’😂
I think in his use of the word, he's saying raw as in not sliced or peeled. Still, weird descriptor for it cuz like, I think it'd be weirder to eat pear any other way besides just chomping on it with the skin on.
@@justcommoncurtI've never eaten a pear. They just look like an apple with the top going out instead of going in. Are they basically just different shaped apples?
Finally someone who understands. If my fiance was possessed by a demon, he's either been this way since before we met and I'm keeping it, or I won't notice anything is wrong until there are eyeballs on the floor.
I like the idea of the ending being the main character stuck in this constant feeling of paranoia not just because of his girlfriend's pranks, but also unsure if there is actually something wrong with her.
The bathroom/shower segment is SO GOOD. It stuck with me for a while after I first read the story. The big reveal that she never really left the room is like a punch to the gut in the best way possible. I honestly completely forgot about the section with her mom. That plot thread just goes nowhere lmao.
The mom scene really does feel pointless in hindsight. This had such a strong start, but once the mother-in-law picks up the phone the story gets a little bit worse with every scene. I much prefer the ending these boys suggested where the wife is committed to an asylum, and then the writer swears he saw Rebecca peeking at Chris from around a corner in the final scene.
i was listening to this after having heard the story like a year ago, and halfway through the bathroom scene i got that "ooooh shit" feeling as i remembered the punchline to the scene. great twist.
Being a married man who’s been with his wife for 9 years and married for 5 of those years this story fills me with dread and honestly sadness. I can’t imagine my wife’s personality changing this way so suddenly is truly scary and upsetting.
Whilst listening to this story and you boys discussing it's themes; I think this could be seen as a metaphor for an abusive/toxic relationship. Lynn torments Ben, makes him feel small and before the final confrontation; she portrays herself as a loving and worrying partner towards outsiders of the relationship. As someone who was in a toxic relationship; it really heightened the experience and made it feel like an awful domestic nightmare. Watching the person you thought you knew and loved; slowly showing their true colours as something much more malicious and hurtful. Definitely food for thought. Fucking love you boys and keep up the good work! ❤
This story genuinely creeped me out when i first read it, and it doesn’t help that my wife does enjoy randomly standing and creeping at me from around corners. Edit: im being genuine too. She thinks its hilarious to "spy" on my because im so enthralled with whatever im doing and dont notice her.
My theory is the "entity" has been peaking at the wife, too, but as the husband. This is why the first confrontation has her say, "You creep me out, too." Eventually, the real wife gets genuinely sacred and leaves. When she "visits friends", she takes her car, goes to her mother's without her phone and never returns. Maybe she leaves her phone because she fears the husband can track her with it. The entity now has her phone, and with the real wife gone, it steps up its actions. I.E., wrecking the house and collecting eyeballs. That's why the mom is so hostile. When she pauses, it's to talk to the real wife; of course, she isn't going to tell him she is there if the mom thinks he is creeping out her daughter and going mad. And when she says "get professional help", she means for the husband to get professional help. I also think the entity can't handle multiple people viewing it simultaneously, as it needs to concentrate on one person to take a form from their memories. That's why the sister-in-law didn't see it acting weird and why it freaked out so much when the brother saw it at the end.
@@generalgarchomp333 True, but I think that was the twist the author was going for but perhaps didn't want to make too obvious. I think it was set up early in the story, with the actual wife asleep after the kitchen island incident and her 'visiting friends' before the shower incident. Plus, the emphasis put on 'seeking professional help.' The author clumsily wanted us to focus on that part. I think the author intended that to be the twist and was doing well with the set-up, but the writing took a turn downhill after the bathroom scene. It is the only reason to have the mom call and to have the MC read into "professional help" so much.
As someone who loves lovecraftian horror, I was sincerely hoping for this. I truly thought the twist was this exact thing. The parallels would continue because the wife returns to get clothes etc a few days previous. The entity would kill her and put her in the closet. The reveal would be that even as he is staring at his dead wife, he gets the feeling on the back of his neck that he is being watched by his "wife."
THis story always fucks me up because i am very unnerved by people staring at me, especially when i haven't noticed them. The idea of just being watched is really unnerving.
It messes with me because I have ptsd and used to have really bad sleep paralysis. It was to the point I wasn’t sleeping for days besides maybe 30-60 minutes naps every now and then. I now know my severe lack of sleep and no treatment for my mental health was making me delirious. But I would see this thing stare at me everywhere I went and I could hear it scratch under my bed. Sometimes during sleep paralysis “it would drag” my body and I’d wake up in the spot I was dragged. Got to the point “it” was hurting me (obviously it had to have been just me) and I got to afraid for my life I finally got medical attention. Turn out to I was in psychosis from bottling up trauma. I truly thought it was a demon even tho I’m not religious and I never believed in paranormal stuff. I think honestly it would’ve been cooler if it was just that. Instead of his wife being strange. It was all in his head and that’s why she was so vague. But the end would be him thinking she needs medical attention and finding out that he was the mentally insane one, and then he goes to a ward. But at the very end before he’s admitted in he just seeing her grinning and looking at him. But it’s not too obvious if he is or she is. so it can leave the audience wondering “was it real or just in his head?” Because living in a state where you can’t tell what is real and not is truly a terrifying experience. You almost wish it was real so you could talk to someone and get help. Thankfully I am now perfectly fine and sane. Still got ptsd and have my moments but nothing close to as bad as I was before. Sleep paralysis I’ll still have it once in a while but i learned to just close my eyes and not look. It helps me personally. And none of it was real as much as i believed it and still feel like it was so real. I know it’s not now lol.
I have literally had nightmares where a demon is peeking at me slowly from behind a corner and I always wake myself up from the anticipation of what it's going to do before it even gets a chance to move.
The biggest bummer of ambiguous endings, at least for me, is if there's still loose threads. In this case it was, why didn't the protagonist do as the mother suggested and "seek professional help"? It just seems like there's now an unexplored fix to the problem but for some reason the protagonist just seems to give up and accept his fate.
The one argument I can see for leaving the "seek professional help" line vague would be if it were implied that the mother can't be explicit about it for some reason, like an inherited mental condition or something that she *_needs_* to stay stern about to avoid it manifesting in her. Even then though, I think it would still be more interesting to say something along the lines of "I was put into protective custody for a while, she still tried to get in but was caught and she's currently in a mental institution. Do we still need to find 'professional help'?"
I love that one (Christian Wallis, right?), but the author is in talks with a publisher for his stories and I think they'd need to talk to the publisher first.
Dudes, shoulda got the wifeys involved. Had her hiding in the background peekin at ya throughout the video. Anyway, love both of yalls content. Thanks gang. Creepcast merch is bad ass
Isaiah poking fun at Hunter’s “how ya doin, how ya doin?” to start every video as if Isaiah’s “and as ALWAYS, thank you for watching” isn’t also iconic 😂
horror story for ex husbands. "she was fine before we got married but then she became an obsessed overbearing stalker that filled the closet with grotesque fashion items and gaslit friends and family into thinking that I am crazy."
This ond really gave me the creeps, told my wife about this story, cut to several hours later when I am in bed reading and after a while I get the heeby jeebies and look at the foot of the bed and there is my wife stairing wide eyed with a creepy grin looking at me, doing the grudge girl clicking noise. I about had a heart attack.
This reminds me of the time my boyfriend told me how much that "I Feel Fantastic" video scared him back in the day, so I nailed the impression and started singing it at midnight.
When I was reading that story I thought when they opened up the closet it was going to be Lynn's corse in there- eyes open, still widely smiling. Like she waited in there for him for so long that she died of starvation or dehydration or something.
I can’t shower anymore without thinking about this story in the back of my mind. It gets worse at the end just like pretty much any nosleep story, but I’ll admit that it got me in the beginning and the middle
As someone who crochets, eats pears, AND watches Gargoyles, I feel...well, honestly nothing because middle age depression has set in. Now excuse me while I peek around the corner at my husband and then crabwalk away while cackling.
I had to prank my husband like this. He came in the room like, "What are you doing. Don't do that again" I asked if I kept doing it would he be mad. He said he would leave me. Lol
I agree with the boys, when I first read this story the ending felt weird and kind of out of nowhere. Like it didn't totally fit with the rest of it. Which is so sad because this story is SO GOOD. I feel like it would have hit harder if there was no crazy escalation. When Ben and Chris go back to Ben's and it smells like death and it's a complete mess and there's eyeballs in the closet and she's actively hurting people, that feels like the resolution - the tension breaker that makes you think, "Oh, yeah, okay. I get it. She's nuts." Her intentions are no longer this frightening unknown, you realize she's had a complete mental break. And I think a lot of the fear eases with that resolution. The peeking is no longer something being done purposefully, but a symptom of someones declining mental health. That being said, the writer did an INCREDIBLE job with this story. It's one of my absolute favorites, and I'm so happy that the boys saw it and that more people will now be aware of it!!
I know how u look bruv, You hold your hands by your chin, your smile so wide the blood on your dry lips is visible, making little jumps in your euphoria like a child, peeking at the vid.
I think a twist ending where it turns out HE was insane the whole time could have worked too cause the story kinda leaves the door open for that at the beginning with the worried texts and the mother's cryptic "seek pro. help" line. There's not enough big twist endings in creepypastas/internet horror stories.
"yeah, I'm a pro-helper, been doing it for the better part of two decades as a hobby, but about 6 years ago I finally decided to go pro and, I gotta tell you, *_way_* too many people don't realize feces isn't floor cleaner"
She started doing it more because she kept getting a response. Thats why her mother was so poised and serious, so as to not encourage rebeccas behavior. And then benjamin brought it back out of her.
The way both mom and daughter are described as so stoic… its as if both of them have to be or they will be overcome and obsessed by the giddiness of scaring someone. And after watching the movie with her husband, Lin sees all the moments of being stared at and reverts back to that obsession. Which could be explained with a back story of her as a child getting obsessed with hide n seek or peekaboo- different instances where shes totally overwhelmed and takes it way too far. Or her mother witnesses her daughters game and she gets pulled right back in immediately. I watch my own kid get overwhelmed with nervousness/giddiness/anxiety when shes trying to scare. Or she doing something bad but is too anxious to understand what shes doing
I would have loved it if this story ended with Lynn, still crazed and with a creepy smile, accepting help from Ben and not being shown as being as definitely malicious/dangerous. Like how Hunter brought up the idea of "demented love", where Lynn still loves her husband despite having this unexplainable obsession with staring at him. I feel like that would have ended the story on a more unique and tragic note.
Eh, doesn't really fit NoSleep and would have made it more a tragedy than the horror it's supposed to be. Sure it could be both, but that revelation switches it completely. That's something I'd definitely see in a movie, though.
I remember reading this and being pretty creeped out, because I can definitely see myself in the place of the Husband and I made the grave mistake of sharing it with my girlfriend and SHE STARTED DOING IT RANDOMLY DAYS APART FROM EACH OTHER I AM A SCARED LITTLE BOY.
I like the parallel of how Ben describes how terrifying his mother-in-law’s smile is. It’s either implying that it was inherited from her and Lynn always hurried them out before she got dangerous or it’s an ironic parallel of how Lynne’s behavior has affected her own smile and emotions.
At the beginning she didn't really acknowledge his worries of her scaring him. In my mind, the same was happening to her, but with a creature mimicing him, so at first she might have been just as confused as him before things got worse. She then ran away, still being stalked by the him-mimic, explaining why things suddenly got so much worse for the guy, as he now was all alone with the her-mimic. Edit: It would also explain why her mother was so on edge. The real daughter was hiding with her, getting stalked by the male mimic. Then the guy shows up and seems like he wants to gaslight them after all she went through. The overly composed mother obviously tells him to get help - but for his own severe issues she has all reason to believe he has.
I feel like him implying that something similar is happening to him would clue her in, or at least she'd tell him off when he talked about her getting help.
Personally, I think mental issues run in the family and the mother simply doesn't wanna face/deal with it. Her attitude probably comes from not liking Ben and having semi-dissowned her daughter fir marying him. She doesn't wanna deal with it.
I honestly thought it was going the shutter island route, there was plenty of set ups for it. I thought he was the mentally ill one until the they got to the climax.
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I'd suggest reading "I know why we never returned to the moon"
Got a suggestion you guys might really like, but it's a long read it's like a mutant hunting military operations creepy pasta called "blood locusts" if you wanna screen it a little I think doctor creepen did a read of it
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Skipping through the cologne ad in 5 second intervals makes it look like an insane out of time alchemy montage.
Did anyone notice how the first thing Lynn asked Rebecca wasnt if her husband was there, but if he was still asleep?
Good catch
Nope. Don’t like that. That is terrifying.
Ohh, didn't catch that one, so much creepier
his car was out there
@@devin3238But Chris wasn't home, and the MC could have been with him. Youd think shed still ask that first.
I love creepypasta names, it's either "midnight blood" or something like "my cat is acting strange and keeps bringing bloody limbs home while I'm asleep"
Yep. That's how you can tell what's an old creepypasta and what's a new creepypasta
I wish books had titles like that. I like the wheel of time series but "the world's eye" is a title that barely comes up in the story. Imagine it was called "Mutants are trying to kill me and the witch says she needs me", would be way cooler
Just like anime!
Similar to anime names either “overlord” or something like “that time I got reincarnated into another world as the only son of a poor house to practices magic”
They all basically have isekai titles now.
The "professional help" Lynn's mom was referring to was actually Markus from The Thing In The Basement Is Getting Better At Mimicking People
Just as they escape the house he pulls up in a black sedan smoking a cigar and says "So a little bird told me there was a job in town. Seems like she's right behind you, isn't she?" before casting the creep all over the place.
"Im the one they call when shit get spooky"
Markus
Wait. It's legit connected?
*match lights* “Get. Fucked.”
We getting nscu(no sleep connected universe)
Not gonna lie, I am a 33 year old grown ass man who works night shift. Was listening to this on my way home from work. Got home, transferred it to my TV. When it hit the shower sequence I noped the hell out. Finished it later, under the sanitizing light of day. Good job guys.
Do you have a timestamp for that?
@chillax31929:23
@@swop1571 Thanks alot!
the word "man" is not fitting for you
@@Batnanoinsecure much?
Chris is the guy in the back of the horror theater loudly going, "Um, awkward" every time a killer catches someone
Chris is the kinda guy who closes the door on his brother when they're both running from a glass armed demon
I’m sorry if this has happened to you, I’d be annoyed 😂
Chris does seem the type of feller to see his brother's wife suffering from a mental episode and say "Heh, Women ☕"
chris in the car with ben after the confrontation “so… that just happened”
Chris is the kind of guy who would watch Lynn take down a cop and get caught in a shoot out and say "well THAT happened!" 👈🏻🤪
“My wife has never crawled in my presence”
-Wendigoon
Truly a quote of all time
poor guy only does missionary 😂 of course she hasn't 🤣
"In my presence" is a hilarious way to end that statement
@@burntpopcorntv3485 💀
@@blanket4763 Ultrakek
@@burntpopcorntv3485 He IS a widdle chwistian boi afterall.
I personally lean towards the interpretation that it's literally just his wife, because it's so much scarier. If any of you have ever had a loved one have a psychological break, in a metaphorical way it's just like this. They do something that frightens you, won't stop, it gets worse, they don't seem to understand why you're bothered, they stalk you, other people don't necessarily believe you. Just the general vibe of someone you trust literally turning into someone else, a stranger, is so upsetting. And you still want to get them help.
After what I've seen with my cousin last month, I believe this. It's one of the craziest things to witness someone you knew for years turn into a psychotic stranger over night. Almost like they're possessed, but worse.
this.
This is why i want to get into neurology and psychology. The brain is just so damn fascinating all the while being terrifying at the same time.
I have a relative with dementia, and when the symptoms first started showing, that was the exact feeling. Even something small and completely nonviolent can just immediately chill you when it's strange enough or comes out of nowhere.
@@Snowmanse That's why the end of the story kind of takes it too far for me (still really good though), because the real scary part isn't that she might stab him, it's that he knew her for years and now she's just kind of gone
“What do you use to clean the floors? Shit?”
Absolute gem of a line, Chris is the best character imo
Here's where I thought the story was going: When Ben mentioned the rotten smell coming from his wife's bedroom, I thought that maybe she died because she stayed in the closet for days without moving, waiting for him to come home and find her peeking, still wide-eyed with that big grin on her face.
Same! But then I saw the remaining length of the video. That would have been such a sick ending!
this comment made my skin crawl😭 that ending would have been similarly disturbing as the penpal ending
Pretty neat ending ngl scary and mad
I had the same thought, that when she was unable to get to him anymore at his brother's house, they would find her in that same closet. Or one of my earlier theories was that Lynn and weird Lynn were two completely different entities and real Lynn was either oblivious to all of it or was also being 'pranked' by another Ben and while Ben was gone, the real Lynn had been killed. The animal eye thing just felt random
@@shinigamiinochi That would have been a good ending too. Miscommunication and then your wife being killed by the entity driving you two apart from fear when you should have been home to protect her.
Dudes be like "Oo I need a quirky, autistic, manic pixie dreamgirl!!" But then a real one does this and they complain...
...autistic?
HA
As a dude who knows other dudes can confirm idek what a quirky autistic manic pixie dreamgirl is
I'M NOT COMPLAINING
PLEASE GOD PLEASE I NEED A GIRL WHO SCARES ME AT RANDOM TIMES IN THE NIGHT
PLEASE I NEED IT
@@PhantomRing I'm not complaining!!!
for the love of god send help
As Lynn stared at me from behind the shower curtain, I screamed and asked, "So, monster hunter, huh?"
The thing in my wife is not getting better at mimicking people
“Clancy, she’s right behind me isn’t she?”
@@paranoid2867and let me guess… you can’t let that happen…
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING LYNN?!"
"all in due time..."
I like that it is literally only funny if you know what it's from. Otherwise, this comment sounds like rambling from someone with dementia trying to write a story.
From someone who had an ex who had meth induced psychosis who swore I was watching him but he would crawl up into the crawl space and would stare at me through the vents or try to slip a phone or mirror under wherever I was, this is hell. It's horrifying.
wait are you serious 😭
@@cecizilla yes :( he was so paranoid I was watching him and I was like dude you're not that interesting and then I remember he pretended to leave, parked around the block, walked back and climbed up into the crawl space from outside and I was sitting on the couch and heard crawling above me and looked up and saw him staring at me through the vent trying to catch me cheating which never was
My mom did the same thing to me and my sisters, wedding her behind doors and we’d find her phone set up in our rooms
@@ErinJeanetteomg that’s terrifying i’m sorry u had to experience that wtffff like even picturing it in my head is scary😭
Why would you date a meth head
When Lynn said, "You creep me out too" (or something to that effect), I honestly thought the twist was gonna be that this was happening to the both of them, and the mimic was pranking the both of them, disguised as the other. Continuing along this line of thought, I also guessed that this creature was a thing that menaced the mother as well, but she figured out that not giving it a reaction, is what stops it. Which would have also explained her lack of wanting to acknowledge the issue whatsoever and her general cold demeanor.
This theory slays
Bro I was thinking the exact same thing at that point of the story!
@@karishowell1615 same!! i was like why is that not a theory they thought of!
Oh interesting, that would fit well with some of the threads this story laid. Maybe the frantic texts he gets from his wife asking where he went are part of her also panicking that he might be still in the house peeking at her from somewhere.
@@heatgerm My thought's exactly! I kinda want to try doing a version of this story using my theory; but at the same time, I don't wanna be disrespectful to the writer. I wouldn't want to come off as one of those twitter/tumblr "fixed it" types.
I'd imagine Jacobi would be the kind of woman who peaks around corners at Wendigoon
jacobi is an eligant 7 foot tall woman.
The disrespect
She 100% is a yandere who follows him around
@@ManOfTheNoldor ?
@@kevinmunn666reference to whatever episode starts with Wendi saying he's drugged up from I think the dentist or something.
@@kitty_goes_quackThe showers
”YO YOUR WIFE LOOKS MAD FUNNY UNDER THAT BED”
-Chris, while playing black and yellow from his phone
This was exactly how I pictured Chris, as soon as they started making fun of him I was like oh my God it's Kyle
Beats by dr dre pill speaker, with a chips ahoy cookie, and jesse pinkman fit
And you know his phone speakers are trashed 😂
Good call-back 😂
This is my favorite creep cast meme😂
The part where she “scuttled backwards” heavily implies that she was looking at him on her way out.
IM SCARED
100% its a spider walk balkwards with eyecontact
I thought this was a compilation of wendigoons wife scaring him every episode lmao
LMFAOOO now I want that though😂
🤣🤣🤣 but now we need it!
@@downside_ ?
"My wife keeps scaring the shit out of me by doing wife things"
There wouldn't be enough clips to make an hour+ long episode
This guys wife sends him a message that says “I found you”
And his immediate thought is “I gotta make a Reddit post about the past 3 days”
Seriously, I get not wanting to involve his brother in this but why not go to the cops with that message and get into some kind of witness protection program?
@@msthecommentator2863or immediately assume your wife of 6 years is having a mental health crisis & seek professional help.
I don’t like criticism like this I think that the fact no sleep has the limitation is very silly it it just a outlet to post fun horror stories it shouldn’t have to justify it being there
@@forsakenparadise6828it’s just a relic of how creepypastas were in the old internet. It’s just a shame that nosleep is by far the biggest place to get noticed bc it does limit you a little bit
@@forsakenparadise6828 Oh yeah totally, this wasn’t really meant as an honest criticism. I was just trying to poke fun in general at how many of these stories have people fending for their lives while also having them take the time to sit down and write down everything in excruciating detail
“My Dog Was Lost for Three Days, What Came Back Wasn’t My Dog,” is one of the few creepypastas that actually gave a me a shiver down my spine at certain parts. This story reminds me of how that one made me feel. It’s a really, really good one, it has that classic, uncanny valley, “This normal thing is now slightly alien” vibe.
Real
Those sorts of stories are always so interesting.
Second this
I forget which narrator I listened to read it but "Dog Stands Up" actually unsettled me for once for a creepypasta, for some reason pets and animals acting outside their regular behavior messes with me.
Its why I like not-deer as a concept but with skinwalkers it doesn't hit the same way, they're either eldritch or actual monsters rather than the funny shapeshifter men who feed on fear then giggle and run away after pranking you for a meal
Its alright, but ending is hilarious
Something I appreciate about this story is that there really isn’t an obvious explanation at any point. People have good theories, and there are parts that definitely play off of common tropes, but it keeps you guessing with how things actually escalate.
My favorite example is how the writer handles the main character confronting his wife while she’s “back to normal.” It would be so easy and predictable for her to just act confused and insist she doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but instead she fully remembers, laughs it off, and refuses to explain herself. It throws off your expectation that this is a straightforward possession/doppelgänger story, while also making you more uneasy since it lets you know that even when she’s “normal,” the main character isn’t safe.
How is it ever confirming she's not a doppelgänger? If anything her "normal" behavior is a clear indicator that something's very obviously wrong with her and she's not acting like her usual self. A normal person, especially a stoic one that's rather stiff and not known for jokes would have an actual explanation on hand.
Like, it CEMENTS that this is not actually his wife anymore, over and over. The writer just couldn't decide exactly what the origin story for his monster would be, so it was never even sufficiently hinted, causing the ending to kinda flop in the very standard nosleep kinda ending blurb and story outline.
@@dowfreak7Yeah, bro couldnt commit and it show
@@dowfreak7Yeah def I had these exact thoughts when reading this story myself, its creepy how she actually doesn't deny it, but she doesn't fully admit to it except when they're watching netflix, and its so bizarre because its like the original commenter says, you'd expect her to deny it which she sort of does the first time, but she gives ZERO explanation. To me, it tells infers she's fully commited to this now, whatever the past 6 years were means nothing, which is either a mental or shapeshifter deal, both of which are scary but id be disappointed to find its just a shapeshifter tbh
To me it's scarier to think someone would start acting like this because they're developing dementia or a severe mental illness, you don't need to add demons or doppelgangers to the situation
Agree!
Which is the nice thing, it never really says it was paranormal, so it leaves it open to however the audience wants to interpret it.
When I first read the story I thought it was very similar to that time a bf of mine started meth. Which yeah, I guess addiction also counts as a serious mental illness
One of my favourite 'takes' on this story never really included an explanation for the events as such, but I thought it was a really cool read on things. The idea being that while the husband sees the wife going weird and eventually turning dangerous, the wife saw her husband doing the same, with the end result of an escalation in this strange conflict between them. They aren't talking to each other, or communicating, and their relationship is rapidly deteriorating into violence.
And having no explicit explanation for the catalyst would actually make this a really tight, tense thriller.
Kinda but like the whole keeping their eyes open and looking at you all night bit moves it into unbelievable. I don't think there's a mental illness that makes you capable of not blinking an entire night unless you're so far gone you're in hospice care. That part is what makes it a lot more terrifying but also what gives it just enough of a supernatural edge to make it fun. That and her straight up being able to find him at some random motel which is NOT something she should be able to do
You don't NEED to add demons to the situation but that's kinda how stories go. Sometimes they're supernatural sometimes they're not and in this case they went with very lowkey unclear supernatural which I personally like more. Its more terrifying if its something you can't even get away from. He can't just divorce her and leave like normal she is STAYING with him until one of them dies I imagine.
I think it's hereditary.
They made sure to press that both the mom and the daughter were overly serious, I think it's because whenever they "let loose" even the tiniest bit it opens the door to whatever is possessing them.
I think that's also why Lynn hated horror movies.
She had to grow up watching those exact things happen in her own life.
nice idea i like that
i love this theory! i was wondering about a connection bc it was pushed so hard that they were so stern/ serious
Makes sense why they start with going on about not liking horror movies. I was wondering why they talked about it so much if wasn’t an integral part of the story.
This is what I was thinking. Great theory!
That is a good theory!
Imagine if they took the mental hospital route, she gets better, they have a kid, and the daughter is even better at the game.
Agh that’s so good!
Just imagine they have guests come into their house, one of them looks up and there's a little kid staring while clinging to the ceiling fan or something with a demented look .
Ahh yes, remake it
@@rebekahscheu4245 i can just imagine a junji ito style of this scene
That would be a great ending! Even better to me since I have a daughter. Would be really interesting if she were really young. My daughter's 19 months old; a girl just a little bit older doing this would be pretty creepy.
my gf has had a rough history, part of that manifests in her refusing to get my attention when she needs me. I'll be playing a video game or something, headphones in, and she will silently stand just off to the side and wait. It ALWAYS catches me off guard and scares me.
that's so scary!!!!
In a cute way or creepy way?
i was about to say thats kind of cute but then i realized it sounded like "OMG!!! your gf's weird mental trauma is so CYUUTE!!!!!!"
@corporatecapitalism personally, it makes me feel sad. She grew up in a world where she had to wait quietly for her needs to be addressed, instead of being able to just ask.
From her father to ex boyfriends, several men in her life would yell at her if she had to interrupt their video games or TV watching? That's disgusting.
But, beneath the cold exterior she likes to wear, and beneath all the odd quirks she's developed. There's a beautiful, funny, and very smart woman in there. And yes, she is rather cute when she does it.
@@ximkai8794 I’m happy she’s (hopefully) found a good person to be with. As it sounds
Just got back from playing Catan and watching Gargoyles on Disney XD while my lovely wife was eating pears and crocheting, so ready to watch my favorite podcast with Hunter and that guy :)
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That rough buddy
You mean, that guy with that spot-on Jeff Goldblum impression? Whatshisname?
What is she? 80?
Just a theory: Going with the idea that Lynn is possessed by a creature that feeds off of fear, it makes sense as to why it hates Chris so much. Through cracking bad jokes, it takes both Ben's and the reader's attention away from the terror they are feeling. This would naturally disrupt the creature's food supply, making it hungier and more dissatisfied. That could also be the reason why "Lynn" was in such a deshevled state upon coming back to the house, the creature hasn't been fed in a long time and is desperate to get that food back from its primary source. Except, the food supply brought along someone who is trying to ease the tension.
Does this make Chris a good character? No not really, his jokes do disrupt the story. Is this digging wayyyy to deep into this story? 100%, but it's interesting if you think about it.
Absolutely loves this theory
i would also build on that theory that the creature needs way less food from MC, it feed from him watching horror movies before but at some point it gets too far and gets addicted, probably after it peeked at him the first time, and starts escalating thats why its so "happy" when scaring him, its basically high.
Yes! I believe this theory too! To also go off this theory, I think the eyeballs were an escalation to induce more fear. Lynn starts with peeking in obvious spots and then escalates to hiding to create even more fear. Lynn escalates again and follows Ben to Chris’s house and stares through the window. Maybe stabbing Ben was another way to create fear in Ben because he was trying to actually help her and she needed that fear back. Maybe the eyeballs were another shock factor??
Met wendigoon one time after noticing him around a corner in the city. He took a crowbar to my knees. The doctor says i may never walk again but that means i have more time to watch these videos. Thanks creepcast!
He was looking out for your health
Walking is dangerous you know
Wendigoon? You mean that guy from creepcast?
You should go see Mistah Weller about your legs, I've heard he can help
@contuary2081 father wendigoon blessed you with more downtime
What a kind fella
@@theRPGmasterwhos wendigoon, you mean Isaiah
With Chris, it's not even his quirkiness that ruins it, but just the utter obliviousness of him even in the face of obvious danger or something clearly being wrong.
Yeah I don’t mind characters that have some goofy traits but cracking a “girls and their shoes huh??” joke while staring at a pile of eyeballs just makes me remember I am reading a story.
The author just really sucks at dialogue
It's not quirkiness or him being oblivious. Chris is a goofy character in a sitcom. He's not a real human.
Meanwhile he's standing next to a husband whose personality you have been entwined with for an hour and who's never broken character or done anything fantastical or storylike.
Chris may as well be fucking Bugs Bunny, that's how immersion-breaking his remarks and actions are. He's so clearly not real that you don't even get a chance to pretend this situation is tense. Imagine finding a bunch of bloody eyeballs in your house and your brother goes "teehee, got the 3d googly eyes, huh", instead of "holy shit, get outta there, I'm calling the police".
Fun fact: There's a japanese urban legend called the Sukima-onna, a woman who hides in crevices, corners, and gaps around the home. She's said to peek out from these gaps, often startling or frightening people who notice her. She's described as having large, unblinking eyes and sometimes a wide, eerie smile.
Sounds like a potential friend. I'd bring them an assortment of small cheeses.
@@drunkencowboyagni i'd bring her a crochet kit and some raw pears as a marriage proposal
Sukima-onna = the gap woman 😨
I had a nightmare when I was a kid of hands reaching out from crevasses in furniture, like between couch cushions and stuff, trying to drag me inside. It terrified me for a long time but I ended up forgetting about it until a few months ago when I suddenly remembered the dream and how it made me scared of gaps in and around ordinary furniture. When I told me friend about it she told me about Sukima-Onna and was like "maybe you saw her and that's what inspired your dream"
of all the fucked up spooky folktales to come from Japan this one might be the scariest concept... because it's not doing anything but watching
There are two types of names for internet horror: short and vague or “a man named Juan comes to my house every day at 2AM and stares into my eyes while he aggressively pisses his pants - it traumatized me”
dude, Juan just has a kink, leave the guy be
Honestly I prefer the shorter vaguer stories lol. I think it's just because I get so many recommendations of stories like what you said and it just gets obnoxious after a point.
Kind of make me want to see what sort of story such a name would give!
This is Juan slander.
So same time at your house ?
papa meat's scentbird ad feels like he's being held at gun point and holding me at gun point at the same time, truly an ad of all time
Sometimes I distract myself with the comment section when ads are read, but with papa meat and his editor, I can’t look away. It IS like having a gun to my eyes
Yes it truly is an ad lol jkjk i know what you meant just reading it literally 😂
Cause he doesn't actually like it, he prefers his natural smell of 2nd hand smoke and gas station burritos... hence why he only chose food related scents 😅
I was to scared to skip😢
That's how I see all his ad reads tbh
I like the idea of the shining movie making her get suspicious of her husband. So she starts watching him, and then it spirals out of control
I think it would be a cool concept if instead of the confrontation at the end they just never find her and she dissappears completely. Like he goes on with his life and always has a feeling that she's still there watching him but she's "gotten so good at it" that she became a almost like a ghost that haunts him wherever he goes. It would leave it ambiguous and instead of having this huge climax there's just no end to the torment of Ben.
Yeah, but seeing her under the bed was such a good moment. Fell off abit after that, unfortunately.
That could be a movie version...
They get to the house, search everywhere with no trace, days pass he can't stay in the house, moves from place to place, never feeling alone. Starts therapy starts to feel better, new place far away finally happy alone, and then he either hears a moan or sees the tiniest glimpse in a reflection.
It may be too much that way but something a long those movie tropes.
@phuul98l yeah I was thinking leave the bed scene and that be the end of her physically being there.
@@bacidbrain9884When Ben goes to give his “I want to help you” spiel, Lynne instead slowly fades out of a smile and crawls back under the bed. After that, then he just never sees her again because she dedicates herself so deeply to get good at peeking he can’t even notice her in his life anymore besides that sinking feeling
@@murkysaltwater3646 that is so good
I love when something unfathomably unsettling happens and hunter in a low tone is just like
"That's awesome"
😊 43:52
*Meat-Speak...*
You love *Meat-Speak.* You *LOVE* it.
You gotta have it; *Meat-Speak...*
"unfathomably unsettling" ...what?
"woah Kimber baby you joining me in the shower? kickass"
-Kyle Borrosca
Kyle is the guardian angel of the show.
LMAOOO 😭
I love that you phrased this like Borrasca is actually Kyle's surname
Not me reading this in Hunter’s exact Kyle voice half yelling 😂
BUT NO THEY’RE SIBLINGS 🤣🤣
I was SO hoping it would go somewhere, but the line "You creep me out sometimes too, so I guess we're even" I was hoping like she was seeing shit too and it was gonna be this weird like two dopplegangers situation
I swear there was more to this story, I remember hearing it a while ago and the ending was where the op actually had psychosis triggered by some medicine he mistakenly took, and actually the whole time this was happening he was the one who was acting weird and awful to her, and she was scared of him. Now I feel like I'm the one who's hallucinating because where tf did this entire ending I remembered go....
@@trash.jits all in ur head :333333
@@AverageZardySimp yeah, I asked reddit about it cus it bothered me so much, and I ended up merging this story with an r/relationships one that was actually real
@@trash.j LMAO
@@trash.j that was a completely different story, that as far as i know was actually a real thing that happened, and its notable for the repeated seemingly random phrase he'd keep hearing from her in these psychotic episodes "better hoagie down"
As a person who was in a relationship with a girl who became addicted to drugs, this felt very allegorical to those experiences. She became a completely different person. Violent, stalking, made me unsafe in my own home, very threatening to me while acting emotional about me to her friends and family and strangers on social media. She tried to make herself seem normal and maybe even a victim, but as soon as people saw who she truly was, they started to understand what was really going on. It's not something you can easily explain to people who haven't seen that side of her. But that's just my interpretation of what's going on.
Same happened to a friend of mine, her boyfriend got bad off on drugs but kept it hidden, and he started behaving in very weird and scary ways.
I just commented on a different thread about this, because you're right, I think. Up until the later parts, this story felt very genuine under the slightly generic "creepy staring" part. Everything else falls a little too close to home in regards to certain types of negative behavior, and I was really, really uncomfortable during the first few bits of this story. This really is, at the end of the day, a story about abuse I feel, until the creepy stuff is played up for the ending. If it leaned into that a bit more, this story would've been really good, but extremely disturbing.
Facts, same here as a dude, expect for her it was alcohol not drugs, she was like 17-18 at the time we were seniors and she started to binge drink (her parents let her or didn’t know either way) she started to act distance from me, do things I told her I was uncomfortable with like going to parties with alcohol without me or without telling me before hand, she started acting flirty with other guys, come to find out after she dumped me she cheated on me with some frat guy at a party I told her I didn’t feel comfortable with her going to without me, she tried to blame me call me abusive and manipulative, but once the story got out that she cheated on me at some frat party the tables turned pretty quick
Honestly sorry you went through that, and that she had to to through that downward spiral.
I dealt with something similar to your experience in nearly everyway except that I don't think she was addicted to anything just severely mentally ill (her doctor accused her of being addicted to pain killers so maybe she was afterall idk) but she would accuse me of cheating on her with litterally any girl she saw me talking to in any context and would spam me and my female freinds with really creepy inappropriate messages at all hours of the night for hours and scream at us in school litterally follow me around from s distance and text me angrily asking where I was and why I was hanging out with girls she'd argue with me over everything and scream at me for anything she could to the point of making me cry multiple times snd just act like it was an annoyance to her even when i was having a breakdown crying in her bed because of what she had litterally just said to me litterally telling me she hated me and hated when i stayed over at her house and that i was an embarrassment to her and she only ever went out with me cuz no other man would give her attention she also tried to make out to my freinds and teachers that I was the one who wasn't trying to do anything with our relationship and that it was only her who was trying to fix things when she wasn't at all and I'm thr same to this day I still don't know how to fully explain the way she acted and now you mention it I can really see that kind of vibe in this story
“Shes not speaking it, but there’s Latin coming from her” was the best part of this lmao
I imagined her just opening her mouth like Stitch when Lilo put his claw to the record player
I just keep imaging her crawling around line Michael Davies from faith
@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174WHY WOULD U PUT THAT IMAGE IN MY HEAD
@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174
This just gave me the thought process of Lynn doing the “I have a body of a pig!”
Scuttling away out of a window and then just returning with glass on her pixelated hands or eyeballs.
15:00
Who up creepin they cast
💯
I would be, but I’m castin my creep right now
I’m out here wending my goon
You sayin a cast ran with these creeps??
she creep on my cast till I tv
I would love a prequel story that talks about lynn’s dad and how he was her first victim when she was a child. He kept getting scared by her (at first humoring) but it kept getting worse and her mom told him to just ignore her and it would stop. Well she continued to feed off of his fear until he couldn’t take it anymore while her mom kept on ignoring her and not showing even if Lynn did startle her and that’s why her mom is so subdued emotionally now. She was forced to hide her fright since she unintentionally found out that’s what makes lynn continue and get worse and worse with her scaring since she’s chasing the dopamine high (whether this be super natural or not). The first time both her parents knew but maybe she realized she did it another time before Ben ans found out its more enjoyable to break someone down if no one else around them believes them about her scaring/ being creepy. That’s why she reacted so extremely to Ben’s brother being there. Since he say her acting strange that means she can’t get the additional pleasure of no one believing Ben as he descends into madness. The brother ruined her game and that’s why she got out from the bed after seeing him. Maybe these are some kind of strange episodes and theres a trigger to them. Like accidentally startling someone. Maybe the first time she peaked around the corner is was an accident that she scared him but startling him was enough to kick start it back. Which i think explains why the kitchen scene was such a jump from the first incident. Lynn’s mother Mary Ann couldn’t tell ben because she fears that if her daughter some how found out how rattled she was by it all those years ago then she might come back and try to scare her next after she’s done with ben. Maybe even she doesn’t know whatever caused this and that scares her because she doesn’t know if this can ever end.
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super underrated comment
"He'd play settlers of Catan and watch gargoyles on Disney XD and his wife would crochet and eat RAW PEARS" fucking lost my shit ☠️😂😂
The raw pears line sent me the same time it did Wendi 😂
@@msthecommentator2863 big fucking same 😂😂😂
wait are you supposed to cook pears before eating them?
@@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202i fr dont get that either because pears are perfectly fine uncooked 😭😭 maybe he meant unripe??
@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202 I mean you CAN cook them but I don't see why you would lmao that why it threw me off cause I'm like "wait a minute I eat pears raw wtf am I a weirdo?"
The image of his wife shaking in joy from seeing him was maybe one of the scariest things I’ve heard.
Like her moaning in anticipation and glee over seeing him. Like she’s crazed to see his fear or just him. That she was just waiting and was just overwhelmed by him finally seeing her.
Ughhh!
We need horror writers like this more!
Yeah this is the first story that genuinely made me feel creeped out
I'm not even gonna lie, when I was listening to the bathroom segment, I was also coincidentally in the bathroom. When I ran to bed in the dark I heard my brother cough and nearly screamed LMAOO
Fun Fact I learned from Roanoke Gaming, the feeling of being watched is actually your brain letting you know that you have already seen what is watching you. But consciously, you have not recognized it.
Your Lizard brain has caught on to it though.
Lizard brain be warning us of the weirdest shit
This makes it even more terrifying
@@spookytoni844came here to say this 😭
It doesn't even have to be actually visual, your subconscious is great at picking up on all kinds of minor context clues. Small noises, an absence of small noises, things being out of place, spots and locations that *could* have something there (like, in nature, a predator lying in wait). It's a billion years of your ancestors not getting eaten before reaching adulthood and procreating, telling you that something isn't quite right. Little Lizzie up there is just doing it's best to give a heads up to your slowpoke conscious mind to figure out exactly what isn't right.
Oh thank you i feel much worse now
Honestly, Hunter writing down questions as you go through the story and asking them at the end to discuss would be a fantastic thing to carry onwards.
You ever notice how Creepypasta names are either short and vague like “no end house” or “left right game” while others are like “my neighbor keeps slpooging during the night and I think he’s an alien trying to probe me” or “god came from the moon and is real and is driving everyone mad”
Either no context or complete text. No middle ground. No remorse
"God came from the moon and is real and is driving everyone mad" sounds like a fire title tho, i'd eat that up.
My guess is the older ones have shorter titles because they were more like recounting some kind of myth/object/location and readers would seek out explanations by visiting their dedicated website, but nowadays most creepypasta stories are posted on r/nosleep where viewers judge whether to read your story based on the title/short description on Reddit, so the writers try to include the premise in the title to hook them in.
We all saw the top comment.
@@quintusgrobler9088 I didn’t see it
This episode was so creepy, I casted all over the place
Hol’ up, what?
I love creeping my cast to wendi and papa meat
Did you even goon?
I'm casting as I write this here comment
Man, sometimes I cast like 5 or 6 times just from the creepiness of it all.
Isaiah and Hunter: "Oh, I don't like that. That's creepy!"
Isaiah's and Hunter's wives: "Write that down! Write that down!"
on the "being able to tell when you are being watched" thing
ive read somewhere that in reality you cant maigcally tell that you are being watched, BUT rather you subconciously SAW whatever was looking at you at least once while doing something, and you just kinda get put into high alert mode to conciously find whatever is looking at you which honestly makes this story like 100x scarier for me
I will continue to remind our boys that “The Strangest Security Tape I’ve Ever Seen” is a fantastic pasta until i DIE, so much love, looking forward to the merch order coming in!!!!
Oh man totally. That's a great classic story.
Like this comment so the creeps will see this
yo, that was what got me into nosleep
Holy shit, what a blast from the past! Been so long since I read that one. It's delightfully creepy, would be _perfect_ for creepcast
I think that was one of the first 3 pastas I ever read.
My theory on her collecting eyeballs - I think the entity enjoys being seen. So when the husband leaves she doesn't have someone to 'find/stare' at her, and she collects eyes to get her high
I really like wendigoon’s proposed ending of Lynn being less of a horror movie villain and more just psychologically demented. It grounds the story and makes it more unsettling.
Part of me genuinely thought it would’ve been an entity that shape-shifts so when she said “ oh you always creep me out too “ it was her also experiencing Benjamin smiling and peeking at her as well at other times
Did anyone else think when the wife said that he scares her too that she’s was experiencing the same thing as him but in reverse? Like something that looks like him keeps scaring her but it isn’t our main character.
Oh, that could explain the idea that her hiding was fear and she had been further along with what Ben was experiencing and the last straw was to kill him
that was exactly my thought, that they were each experiencing an entity that looked like each other, so when he mentions it, she just thinks he's teasing her.
@@shednails that would work if she weren't still creepily smiling at him still
@shinigamiinochi True unless with the correlation of her laughing being a sign of nervous behaviour instead of manic
Sounds incredibly far fetched, though. Creepy idea, if it was hinted towards more or... at all.
I like the idea that Lynn says ‘okay’ after the Ben asks to help her, and her behavior changes back to normal within the next few days. He has to live with the events that happened, still living with her, not sure if she truly got better, or if she’s still watching him when he’s unaware.
That would be great because it’s pretty similar to just more normal relationship struggles, like the whole thing could be a metaphor for drug use damaging a marriage or something like that
@@frog2444 I'm kind of tired of metaphor stories. I just want a story, sometimes. Something cool, thought provoking, but not easily discarded into the metaphor category.
@@aliceiscallingthe vast majority of stories in general are metaphors if you don’t want it to be, just turn your brain off and take it at face value n don’t over think it
@@lewiitoons4227 Nah, the vast majority of stories _can be interpreted_ as metaphors, that doesn't mean they were intended as such. Any story can be taken as a metaphor for anything, it's why there are so many variants of Christianity spawning off from different interpretations of the same book. That doesn't mean that a story isn't what it literally depicts, sometimes monster is just a monster.
@@notsae66 writing is a symbolic medium it is very hard to write something creatively without even accidentally including metaphor and allegory just by virtue of living a life and trying to put something understandable to other readers. But as it’s symbolic it is free to interpretation, you can enjoy the monster just being a monster as well but that doesn’t necessarily remove any other meaning that may be gleaned from it
“Put a collar on her” -wendigoon, 2024
I didn't need to be tempted further...
freakigoon
“I’m a whore,” - Wendigoon, 2024
“The clapping is for the collar” -Mr. Goon
Wendigooner
this one is so scary to me because it’s something i’ve experienced while in psychosis; people peeking around corners or hiding in places staring at me. fucking spooky, but it’s so cool to me that the author turned that fear into a story. i wonder if that was their inspiration for this.
The one part that always stuck out to me at possibly hinting to the motive of the possession is how the glass from the wedding photo is used. Because it feels too specific for the wife to use glass from the photo instead of like a knife or some other object but the wedding photo was used. Like whatever possessed the wife wanted to ruin their marriage specifically.
I like that 👌
Eh, that one's explained pretty easily, though. In her rage that the husband is leaving the house, she smashes the photo as she walks past it and THEN picks up the glass shards after.
Not to mention that we have no clue why it's enraged, why it needs a weapon, why it collects eyeballs, why it attacks, why it watches...too many questions to properly form any theory, tbh.
I’m so proud to be part of the podcast! As a 45 year old Catholic mother of 6 it’s nice to fit in with the cool kids, my sons talk about you two constantly!
You guys did wonderful!
this is so cool, you’re an amazing mom
Badass mom behavior!!!!
if this is real this is really sweet and wholesome
@@osoretro2721 my brothers in Christ I was making a joke related to Red Thread where there’s older moms that watch the show, my name happens to be Lynn but I’m not 45 I’m in my 20’😂
Lynn, you are the coolest!
I feel like Chris and Kyle would get along fantastically
😂
Chris would be Kyle's adoptive father
I was going to say the same thing! They are spiritual twins 💀
i’m a big fan of the fact that you guys read these like you’re a middle school english class reading the script of a play
Ooooo this is a great one! One of my favorite stories from Nosleep, it's one of the few that creeped me out while recording it haha.
Yo! It's nice to find you here. Love your content man keep it up 💪
I loved listening to you cover it my man! Best in the business. ❤
Loved your narration of it, its actually where I heard it first.
Thanks for covering it I heard it on your channel after reading the title in one of the previous creepcast comments
Dude your narration is why I suggested this story!
I like how Hunter says “raw pears” as if eating them that way is strange 😂 does he eat his cooked or what??
Mmmm oven baked pears with brown sugar cinnamon and vanilla ice cream
Mmmmmm @@James-xj3bl
@@James-xj3bl make it apples, and I'm in, you maniac.
I think in his use of the word, he's saying raw as in not sliced or peeled.
Still, weird descriptor for it cuz like, I think it'd be weirder to eat pear any other way besides just chomping on it with the skin on.
@@justcommoncurtI've never eaten a pear. They just look like an apple with the top going out instead of going in. Are they basically just different shaped apples?
As someone who crawls around on all floors towards my girlfriend in the night to scare her, I can confirm this is normal behavior.
Any and all floors?
Stay off my floors please
@@hughw89 what about the walls
What about ceilings?
Finally someone who understands. If my fiance was possessed by a demon, he's either been this way since before we met and I'm keeping it, or I won't notice anything is wrong until there are eyeballs on the floor.
I like the idea of the ending being the main character stuck in this constant feeling of paranoia not just because of his girlfriend's pranks, but also unsure if there is actually something wrong with her.
CreepCast character hall of fame: Kyle from Borrasca, Markus from That Thing In The Basement, Ben Drowned Goldblum, and Chris from this one
Don’t forget Old “Doctah” Wellers!
What episode is that from?@@Wildman357
LMAO
Don’t forget me wellers, doctor redacted and the snowcone ghost
Apolo deserves a spot.
The bathroom/shower segment is SO GOOD. It stuck with me for a while after I first read the story. The big reveal that she never really left the room is like a punch to the gut in the best way possible.
I honestly completely forgot about the section with her mom. That plot thread just goes nowhere lmao.
The mom scene really does feel pointless in hindsight. This had such a strong start, but once the mother-in-law picks up the phone the story gets a little bit worse with every scene. I much prefer the ending these boys suggested where the wife is committed to an asylum, and then the writer swears he saw Rebecca peeking at Chris from around a corner in the final scene.
i was listening to this after having heard the story like a year ago, and halfway through the bathroom scene i got that "ooooh shit" feeling as i remembered the punchline to the scene. great twist.
Being a married man who’s been with his wife for 9 years and married for 5 of those years this story fills me with dread and honestly sadness. I can’t imagine my wife’s personality changing this way so suddenly is truly scary and upsetting.
That was one of the things that struck me rather deeply as well.
Whilst listening to this story and you boys discussing it's themes; I think this could be seen as a metaphor for an abusive/toxic relationship. Lynn torments Ben, makes him feel small and before the final confrontation; she portrays herself as a loving and worrying partner towards outsiders of the relationship. As someone who was in a toxic relationship; it really heightened the experience and made it feel like an awful domestic nightmare. Watching the person you thought you knew and loved; slowly showing their true colours as something much more malicious and hurtful. Definitely food for thought.
Fucking love you boys and keep up the good work! ❤
This story genuinely creeped me out when i first read it, and it doesn’t help that my wife does enjoy randomly standing and creeping at me from around corners.
Edit: im being genuine too. She thinks its hilarious to "spy" on my because im so enthralled with whatever im doing and dont notice her.
🤔 maybe you should get some help
@@Sentinel_White professional help?
@@Bomples98yes lol
@@Bomples98 what's your username's lore I'm very interested
Uh oh, rest in peace
the mum is like " I have this friend, his name is marcus... you're going to want to call him" XD
"Cause he's gonna wanna see this."
“He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”
"...cause he's the man when shit gets spooky, and let me tell you, this shit is spooky."
It's true
"what is he, some kind of monster hunter? wilds..."
"Gonna get you a hat with some bells on it, you freak" got me laughing pretty hard
Honestly this is like watching someone who you're married to and losing them to a different personality disorder. Happened to me
My theory is the "entity" has been peaking at the wife, too, but as the husband. This is why the first confrontation has her say, "You creep me out, too."
Eventually, the real wife gets genuinely sacred and leaves. When she "visits friends", she takes her car, goes to her mother's without her phone and never returns. Maybe she leaves her phone because she fears the husband can track her with it.
The entity now has her phone, and with the real wife gone, it steps up its actions. I.E., wrecking the house and collecting eyeballs.
That's why the mom is so hostile. When she pauses, it's to talk to the real wife; of course, she isn't going to tell him she is there if the mom thinks he is creeping out her daughter and going mad. And when she says "get professional help", she means for the husband to get professional help.
I also think the entity can't handle multiple people viewing it simultaneously, as it needs to concentrate on one person to take a form from their memories. That's why the sister-in-law didn't see it acting weird and why it freaked out so much when the brother saw it at the end.
I feel like there would be more confrontation than that if that were the case.
@@generalgarchomp333 True, but I think that was the twist the author was going for but perhaps didn't want to make too obvious. I think it was set up early in the story, with the actual wife asleep after the kitchen island incident and her 'visiting friends' before the shower incident. Plus, the emphasis put on 'seeking professional help.' The author clumsily wanted us to focus on that part.
I think the author intended that to be the twist and was doing well with the set-up, but the writing took a turn downhill after the bathroom scene. It is the only reason to have the mom call and to have the MC read into "professional help" so much.
@@Twiska fair.
That's so boring though... I want her to just be a metaphore for abusers.
As someone who loves lovecraftian horror, I was sincerely hoping for this. I truly thought the twist was this exact thing. The parallels would continue because the wife returns to get clothes etc a few days previous. The entity would kill her and put her in the closet. The reveal would be that even as he is staring at his dead wife, he gets the feeling on the back of his neck that he is being watched by his "wife."
THis story always fucks me up because i am very unnerved by people staring at me, especially when i haven't noticed them. The idea of just being watched is really unnerving.
I know right! And it takes him so long to realize she’s staring sometimes
Yeah its the whole idea of i have only just motiver this. What Else havnet i noticed yet
It messes with me because I have ptsd and used to have really bad sleep paralysis. It was to the point I wasn’t sleeping for days besides maybe 30-60 minutes naps every now and then. I now know my severe lack of sleep and no treatment for my mental health was making me delirious. But I would see this thing stare at me everywhere I went and I could hear it scratch under my bed. Sometimes during sleep paralysis “it would drag” my body and I’d wake up in the spot I was dragged. Got to the point “it” was hurting me (obviously it had to have been just me) and I got to afraid for my life I finally got medical attention. Turn out to I was in psychosis from bottling up trauma. I truly thought it was a demon even tho I’m not religious and I never believed in paranormal stuff. I think honestly it would’ve been cooler if it was just that. Instead of his wife being strange. It was all in his head and that’s why she was so vague. But the end would be him thinking she needs medical attention and finding out that he was the mentally insane one, and then he goes to a ward. But at the very end before he’s admitted in he just seeing her grinning and looking at him. But it’s not too obvious if he is or she is. so it can leave the audience wondering “was it real or just in his head?” Because living in a state where you can’t tell what is real and not is truly a terrifying experience. You almost wish it was real so you could talk to someone and get help.
Thankfully I am now perfectly fine and sane. Still got ptsd and have my moments but nothing close to as bad as I was before. Sleep paralysis I’ll still have it once in a while but i learned to just close my eyes and not look. It helps me personally. And none of it was real as much as i believed it and still feel like it was so real. I know it’s not now lol.
I’d stare at you.
I have literally had nightmares where a demon is peeking at me slowly from behind a corner and I always wake myself up from the anticipation of what it's going to do before it even gets a chance to move.
"Maybe I've just gotten better at it" is one of the best lines we've come across in a Creepypasta.
The biggest bummer of ambiguous endings, at least for me, is if there's still loose threads. In this case it was, why didn't the protagonist do as the mother suggested and "seek professional help"? It just seems like there's now an unexplored fix to the problem but for some reason the protagonist just seems to give up and accept his fate.
Might be a second story
The one argument I can see for leaving the "seek professional help" line vague would be if it were implied that the mother can't be explicit about it for some reason, like an inherited mental condition or something that she *_needs_* to stay stern about to avoid it manifesting in her. Even then though, I think it would still be more interesting to say something along the lines of "I was put into protective custody for a while, she still tried to get in but was caught and she's currently in a mental institution. Do we still need to find 'professional help'?"
I think they went to the house to get her to go get help
They should read :"I’ve been squatting in a condemned high rise, These are the rules to follow to stay safe"
It’s one of my favorites
Why are you blinking so much?
great title
I can't tell if this is an actual title or a parody lol
The rules ones are all so overdone, I can't remember which was the first one, but none of them are done as well as it could be.
I love that one (Christian Wallis, right?), but the author is in talks with a publisher for his stories and I think they'd need to talk to the publisher first.
Dudes, shoulda got the wifeys involved. Had her hiding in the background peekin at ya throughout the video. Anyway, love both of yalls content. Thanks gang. Creepcast merch is bad ass
Wait you didn't see them?
I secretly hope Kayla is just briefly watching Wendigoon in the next episode. XD
Isaiah poking fun at Hunter’s “how ya doin, how ya doin?” to start every video as if Isaiah’s “and as ALWAYS, thank you for watching” isn’t also iconic 😂
"BYE!"
“it truly means the most”
horror story for ex husbands. "she was fine before we got married but then she became an obsessed overbearing stalker that filled the closet with grotesque fashion items and gaslit friends and family into thinking that I am crazy."
This ond really gave me the creeps, told my wife about this story, cut to several hours later when I am in bed reading and after a while I get the heeby jeebies and look at the foot of the bed and there is my wife stairing wide eyed with a creepy grin looking at me, doing the grudge girl clicking noise. I about had a heart attack.
Horrifying 😭
Very funny wife
The missus up to some devious shenanigans
"My wife was peeking at me from across the bed overly creepily, so I shot her! :)"
This reminds me of the time my boyfriend told me how much that "I Feel Fantastic" video scared him back in the day, so I nailed the impression and started singing it at midnight.
When I was reading that story I thought when they opened up the closet it was going to be Lynn's corse in there- eyes open, still widely smiling. Like she waited in there for him for so long that she died of starvation or dehydration or something.
That would be a cool ending!
That would've been a great ending, actually, given how she waited for him to notice her in the bathroom
I can’t shower anymore without thinking about this story in the back of my mind. It gets worse at the end just like pretty much any nosleep story, but I’ll admit that it got me in the beginning and the middle
I never thought I'd be happy about the fact my wife left me and that I'll die alone. Actually scratch that, I WANT to be terrifyingly peeked at.
As someone who crochets, eats pears, AND watches Gargoyles, I feel...well, honestly nothing because middle age depression has set in. Now excuse me while I peek around the corner at my husband and then crabwalk away while cackling.
I had to prank my husband like this. He came in the room like, "What are you doing. Don't do that again"
I asked if I kept doing it would he be mad. He said he would leave me. Lol
He definitely read this story haha
Try and sneak in the line “maybe I’ve just gotten better at it” somehow and he will probably die right then and there
I liked the idea that the protagonist narrator was actually going insane and his wife doing nothing wrong.
My husband was listening to this with me and we both promised each other we’d never prank each other like that cause it creeped us out so bad 😂
@@jeremysteele3098 that’s just stupid
I agree with the boys, when I first read this story the ending felt weird and kind of out of nowhere. Like it didn't totally fit with the rest of it.
Which is so sad because this story is SO GOOD.
I feel like it would have hit harder if there was no crazy escalation.
When Ben and Chris go back to Ben's and it smells like death and it's a complete mess and there's eyeballs in the closet and she's actively hurting people, that feels like the resolution - the tension breaker that makes you think, "Oh, yeah, okay. I get it. She's nuts."
Her intentions are no longer this frightening unknown, you realize she's had a complete mental break. And I think a lot of the fear eases with that resolution. The peeking is no longer something being done purposefully, but a symptom of someones declining mental health.
That being said, the writer did an INCREDIBLE job with this story. It's one of my absolute favorites, and I'm so happy that the boys saw it and that more people will now be aware of it!!
Yes I'm literally so mad about how it ended wtf I was LOCKED IN
I can't fully describe the euphoric elation I feel when I see the beautiful faces of these two men
just imagine them wrestling ruggedly 👏💅💪👐🫶👉👌🤞💥💦
Take your meds lil bro
I know how u look bruv, You hold your hands by your chin, your smile so wide the blood on your dry lips is visible, making little jumps in your euphoria like a child, peeking at the vid.
@@maxamilI think, it’s time for you take your medicine grandpa max.
@@pseudosushi8946 no meds exist that could dissociate this homoerotic reality.
I think a twist ending where it turns out HE was insane the whole time could have worked too cause the story kinda leaves the door open for that at the beginning with the worried texts and the mother's cryptic "seek pro. help" line. There's not enough big twist endings in creepypastas/internet horror stories.
"yeah, I'm a pro-helper, been doing it for the better part of two decades as a hobby, but about 6 years ago I finally decided to go pro and, I gotta tell you, *_way_* too many people don't realize feces isn't floor cleaner"
I like how the story towes the line of "there is a demon impersonating my wife" and "my wife is just really fucking weird"
As a crocheter who loves pears, I take this episode very seriously
But do you eat them raw?
At least you arent a crocheter who is trying to be trad neonazi wife
I didn't take it so seriously. I do crochet, but I am not fond of pears. Peaches though...
It’s a creepcast with no children in the story. It’s gonna be a good day boys!!!
And it’s a genuinely enjoyable story, too. Simple and spooky.
Feels like a brave new day
Flashbacks to tommy taffy 😭😭
@@kp2ng exactly 😭😭😭
we are so back
She started doing it more because she kept getting a response.
Thats why her mother was so poised and serious, so as to not encourage rebeccas behavior. And then benjamin brought it back out of her.
The way both mom and daughter are described as so stoic… its as if both of them have to be or they will be overcome and obsessed by the giddiness of scaring someone.
And after watching the movie with her husband, Lin sees all the moments of being stared at and reverts back to that obsession.
Which could be explained with a back story of her as a child getting obsessed with hide n seek or peekaboo- different instances where shes totally overwhelmed and takes it way too far.
Or her mother witnesses her daughters game and she gets pulled right back in immediately.
I watch my own kid get overwhelmed with nervousness/giddiness/anxiety when shes trying to scare. Or she doing something bad but is too anxious to understand what shes doing
That's a really interesting take. 👌
@@caleb5780 thank you 🥲
I would have loved it if this story ended with Lynn, still crazed and with a creepy smile, accepting help from Ben and not being shown as being as definitely malicious/dangerous. Like how Hunter brought up the idea of "demented love", where Lynn still loves her husband despite having this unexplainable obsession with staring at him. I feel like that would have ended the story on a more unique and tragic note.
Eh, doesn't really fit NoSleep and would have made it more a tragedy than the horror it's supposed to be. Sure it could be both, but that revelation switches it completely. That's something I'd definitely see in a movie, though.
"Yo Kimber! You playing Hide and Seek?They got eyeballs!" -Chris
I love this podcast so much I named the villager breeding pit in my Minecraft realm “Borrasca”. Nobody gets it, and that makes it even funnier.
i’m stealing this idea
Is your profile name Jimmy Prescott while your at it?
I remember reading this and being pretty creeped out, because I can definitely see myself in the place of the Husband and I made the grave mistake of sharing it with my girlfriend and SHE STARTED DOING IT RANDOMLY DAYS APART FROM EACH OTHER I AM A SCARED LITTLE BOY.
I can attest, T diggity scared him into a coma, very sad.
Hi Wyatt funny seeing you here
Hey, funny blue man
Sounds like you fucked up 😂
I like the parallel of how Ben describes how terrifying his mother-in-law’s smile is. It’s either implying that it was inherited from her and Lynn always hurried them out before she got dangerous or it’s an ironic parallel of how Lynne’s behavior has affected her own smile and emotions.
At the beginning she didn't really acknowledge his worries of her scaring him. In my mind, the same was happening to her, but with a creature mimicing him, so at first she might have been just as confused as him before things got worse. She then ran away, still being stalked by the him-mimic, explaining why things suddenly got so much worse for the guy, as he now was all alone with the her-mimic.
Edit: It would also explain why her mother was so on edge. The real daughter was hiding with her, getting stalked by the male mimic. Then the guy shows up and seems like he wants to gaslight them after all she went through. The overly composed mother obviously tells him to get help - but for his own severe issues she has all reason to believe he has.
I feel like him implying that something similar is happening to him would clue her in, or at least she'd tell him off when he talked about her getting help.
Personally, I think mental issues run in the family and the mother simply doesn't wanna face/deal with it. Her attitude probably comes from not liking Ben and having semi-dissowned her daughter fir marying him. She doesn't wanna deal with it.
I honestly thought it was going the shutter island route, there was plenty of set ups for it. I thought he was the mentally ill one until the they got to the climax.
@@maximillian1109I don't think the mother has anything against Ben. I think she is scared of Lynn and doesn't want her around.