# So what're your favorite amateur creepy stories?

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**Created:** [July 29, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whatre-your-favorite-amateur-creepy-stories/664788 "2013-07-29T05:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whatre-your-favorite-amateur-creepy-stories/664788/1 "2013-07-29T05:34:21Z")

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By amateur I mean so Steven King, no Lovecraft, just some story by some random person, probably on the interwebs but maybe around a campfire. I’d say “creepypasta”, but I avoided it due to possible problems with connotation.

I think right now my favorite is [Afterpeople](http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Afterpeople). It’s the only one to get a rise out of me in a while. A real sinking feeling, not just an academic “hmm, yes, quite, this is **indeed** well written!” I mean a genuine feeling of dread. Not really throughout, just due to the absolutely superb punchline (for lack of a better term).

Honestly, it’s was still only “almost amazing”, if it had ended a single sentence sooner it would have been one of the best creepypastas I’ve ever read, but I wish the writer had ended it on

I would forever hear Nia chewing.

Hell, they could’ve ended it on

“A meat!”

And it probably would have been amazingly effective. Oh well, the final line isn’t **that** bad. I just think that it detracts from the otherwise amazing punchline by bringing us back to the rather superfluous narrator.

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**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whatre-your-favorite-amateur-creepy-stories/664788/2 "2013-07-29T14:48:31Z")

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[This one:](http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/k8ktr/footsteps/) Be sure and read the whole series. Also, Ted the Caver was pretty good. I probably learned of these stories in previous threads like this.

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whatre-your-favorite-amateur-creepy-stories/664788/3 "2013-07-30T04:31:05Z")

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> [@lost4life](#):
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> [This one:](http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/k8ktr/footsteps/) Be sure and read the whole series. Also, Ted the Caver was pretty good. I probably learned of these stories in previous threads like this.

I second “Penpal” ( the first one in this link). BTW, it’s actually a real book now, and I believe they’re making a movie out of it.

I like the “[Holders](http://theholders.org/)” series. There are so many of them now that it’s getting a little ridiculous, but the well written ones are seriously creepy.

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whatre-your-favorite-amateur-creepy-stories/664788/4 "2013-07-30T23:14:16Z")

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[The SCP Foundation](http://www.scp-wiki.net/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench) has a nice selection of creepy/weird stuff.