CREEPYPASTA ARCHIVE

Between February and April of 1996, shortly after the Japanese release of Pokémon Red and Green, reports emerged of a spike in illness among Japanese children aged 7-12. The common thread was Lavender Town.

When I was five years old I was very sick. We stayed with relatives in a rural area while I recovered. That's when I first met Mr. Widemouth.

I've heard of bootleg Pokémon cartridges, but the one my uncle gave me was different. It had one extra Pokémon that wasn't in any guide. Its only move was "Curse."

I woke up at 2 AM to a sound from the kitchen. When I went to check, there was a glass on the counter that hadn't been there when I went to bed. It was warm.

I found a copy of Pokémon Silver at a garage sale. The previous save file was named GOLD, the trainer had no legs, and the only Pokémon in the party had a question mark for a name.

A black-and-white animation of Mickey Mouse walking was found in Disney's archives. It ran nine minutes longer than any official short. The final minutes were not animation.

The YouTube account with username 666 is said to be inaccessible to normal users. Those who claim to have reached it describe videos that were not uploaded by any human account.

There is an unaired episode of The Simpsons from Season 1 called "Dead Bart." It was removed from the production schedule. A copy exists. It ends with something that should not be in a children's cartoon.

Somewhere on the internet there is a video simply called "The Grifter." It has no verified source, no known creator, no confirmed full viewing. People who claim to have watched it all the way through do not describe what they saw.

I worked as an intern at Nickelodeon Animation Studios the summer after my sophomore year of college. The screening that day was supposed to be a rough cut of an unaired episode. What we watched was not a rough cut.

Item #: SCP-610. Object Class: Keter. A contagious flesh-transforming condition spreading through remote Siberia. Infected organisms lose their original form and merge. The resulting mass appears to have collective intent.

One day everything became dogs. Not transformed — replaced. The ground, the buildings, the sky. All of it: dogs. Living, breathing, wall-to-wall dogs, as far as anyone could see.