This has come up before, so, in the interest of getting people to watch without reservations:
ATTENTION! THERE ARE NO SCREAMERS ASSOCIATED WITH “MARBLE HORNETS”. IT IS A MULTI-PART, LARGELY PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR PIECE.
It’s also well worth your time. After you watch it, go Google Imaging for “Slender Man”. :eek:
No, not necessarily. I was just going with that because of the photographer’s statement about trying to tap into primal childhood fears, but your interpretation might well be correct. Or maybe both are.
After all, your parents being monsters - literally or figuratively - is a pretty awful childhood fear as well, and the staging makes perfect sense for your interpretation.
Thanks, Ogre. I need to psych myself up for that one. I’ve gotten to be such a cowardly custard in my dotage. Back in my teens, stuff like this was nothing, and somehow it scares the crap out of me now.
Ferret Herder, it is. And I like that there are so many interpretations possible. It’s not just a scary picture. It’s fairly deep. This guy is really cool.
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More Chernobyl here: http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today-a-creepy-story-told-in-pictures/
You owe me an hour of my life.
I want my mommy. I’m going to get my kids up and hug them to assure myself the world’s still a safe place without scary murder-plays.
OMG! I got to that one before I had enough. I screamed and had to have my husband come make it go away. I couldn’t even get to my computer to close the window until I knew it was gone.
As an antidote, this is a fun, yet incredibly creative, SCP entry:I am a toaster.
And here are unusually distracting fluffball kittens.
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In my search for the scary ones, I’ve come across another one that is in the same category as The Hanged King’s Tragedy: SCP-087: The Stairwell.
ETA: Be sure to read the documents describing the explorations, in order. Due to the results of Exploration IV, no further access to the stairwell is allowed. But Exploration IV has been expunged. Given what happened in Explorations 2 and 3, I wonder how bad 4 must have been!
SCP-173: The Statue is pretty creepy, but mainly because of the photograph.
SCP-093: Red Sea Object is also creepy, because of the color tests at the bottom…
Anybody else found any creepy/scary SCP entries?
I went through the whole Marble Hornets thing last night, around 3am. It showed such promise at first. Unfortunately, the creator tried too damned hard and by the end, I was bored. Really bored. The highly-predictable ending came waaaaaaay too late.
“With this, the tribute, in full it is paid.” 
SCP-342 was pretty good, even if only for the testing log—all the rational, clever, “but what if we…” stops being pulled against utter horror. And the horror gets worse.
:eek::eek::eek::eek:
Oh, that one was really good. I’m tempted to apply to the SCP wiki, but I still haven’t found the answer to one of the questions on the application form.
Wow, darn right that was pretty good. Especially the last couple of entries. Freeeeeeaky.
For SCP-426 mentioned above, I think this is the creepiest, for some reason. Really glad I’m just web fiction and not real.
Thanks for helping me to sucessfully avoid productivity for another afternoon, everybody…
Anyway, as for my contribution, I occasionally like to check out ‘true tales’-type of stuff; mostly, it’s just about the kind of blown-up anecdotes, overactive imaginations, wanting-to-believers and a small measure of the disturbed and deluded you’d expect, but from time to time, you stumble across a real gem. Here’s an archive of some ten years worth of stories. There’s a lot of people with black eyes in there, too…
Not sure I’m “getting” the SCP ones. What’s up with the robotic style? Is it meant to spoof something? And why are certain things blanked out?
Think “X-Files” meets “HalfLife” meets “Paranoia”. Like you’re reading memoranda from a top secret government agency. Hence all of the retractions, deletions and “data expunged” sections. They’re modern, high-tech ghost stories. The one that creeped me out the most was SCP-231. (Shoot, didn’t realize Unauthorized Cinnamon beat me to it.) Evidently learning that you take part in it causes you to try suicide. (See SCP-50, Document 50, otherwise known as the Great Researcher Prank War of [Deleted]) Doc 50 is very long and repetitious, but there are some great practical jokes in it.
Yeah, 231 is extremely freaky because A) you don’t know the details, but apparently the Foundation is using a group of rotating sex offenders to systematically torture some poor woman several times a week, and B) if they don’t do this, there’s some kind of speed-pregnancy event that will occur and she’ll give birth to something that will kill an unspecified-but-huge number of people.
And thanks to the use of amnesia drugs, “some of you have participated without remembering it.”