Creepy Pasta 001
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 by Krazykimchi
Hey y’all.
I think I undercut any real creepiness with the funny, oh, well.
The color took me some time, but… not as good in BW, for this one.
Copy + Paste = Copypasta = Mimetic bits of text that float around message boards + Creepy = Creepy Pasta.
I wanted to do some more… but most are really lame, I mean lame. Lot’s of “go here and there and midnight etc, or grade Z urban legends…
August 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
LOLOLOLOLOLO
August 13th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hey Hyung, I think you’re the bees knees, I thought you should know.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Because I’m a pedantic bastard, I have to point out that Albino pupils would still appear black against a keyhole, as it is the backscatter of light from the retina (and through the unpigmented iris) that causes the ‘red eyes’ effect.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Ok, on it, is the FTP still borked for you? I wonder what’s wrong…
Cool concept, let’s see if this one goes viral on us at last.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
>EdZ Says…
Albino GHOST…!
Hahahahaah!!!!
August 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
EdZ, but then we wouldn’t have creepy red eyed ghost staring back at us.
And ’cause I wanted to know, das Schlüsselloch means the Keyhole.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Hey… my apartment number is 5. And my right eye has been red all this week. And 2 + 3 equals 5. 23!
August 14th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I’m just happy you didn’t finish it with a “Fresh Prince of Bel Aire” reference.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Even with this first one, i’d like to plant my seeds of indignity and irritation at (You/Hyung, select appropriate) dropping out half-way with this series. Even if i end up wrong in my assumptions, you’ll of finished something for the second time ever and i’ll still end up pleased.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Hyung’s eating the FSM!!
I saved the image. just for that AMAZING profile of the ghost-woman… Beautiful work H!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I thought that was what it looked like, but then I let it go. And yes, that ghost profile looks like it was ripped straight from a bishoujo anime.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:40 am
More like bishonen.
Have you seen what passes for a “bishojo” nowadays, just bunch of bug-eyed chipmunks….
August 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
So, H.S. Kim is back?
Hells yeah!
August 16th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
The ghost is a trap? I knew it.
I guess I haven’t seen what passes for bishojo nowadays. Lucky Star? Then again, maybe I’m just using fancy schmancy anime terms that I’m not too familiar with?
August 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
In Spanish “bisojo” means cross eyed so bishojo manga always makes me think of comics where everybody has funny looking eyes
August 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Now we know why this site’s fanbase is so thin… Nestor keeps driving people away with his useless Spanish anecdotes.
August 17th, 2008 at 7:07 am
My impression of Nestor:
blahblahblah OMG SO BORING
August 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
B-b-but… *sniff* I…
August 17th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
This comic reminds me of two Japanese legends I heard about that were similar in the fact that the protagonist was unknowingly interacting with spirits of the dead and had someone who worried about their well being interfere.
The first, which referred to the blind biwa strumming hermit named Hoichi was simply that he was invited in the dead of night by a lady to play for the court of a local shogun. Things went normally for a while until a friend of Hoichi decided to investigate and saw that not only was the lady a ghost, but the court was that of a massacred local shogun and Hoichi was in reality playing to a mass grave in the middle of the ruins of the castle. So the friend has some monks paint Buddhist sutra all over Hoichi and tell him to stay silent the next time the lady comes. The big secret though is that Hoichi apparently knows what’s going on since he was partially responsible for the fall of that particular shogun; apparently he was the one who killed the lady in a fit of rage (after rescuing her single-handedly and then henpecked incessantly as he dragged her back to the castle) and then was blinded as punishment. Nevertheless, given a way out for his penance he allowed himself to be painted… So, when the lady comes to fetch him, she can’t see him due to the sutra painted all over his body, but she knows he is still at home so she begins to rattle off all the horrible things he’s done in his life up to the point where he killed her. Hoichi stays silent, but covers his ears in anguish at one point - which unfortunately wipes the part of the sutra off of his ears. The lady ghost then exclaims that she sees him, tears his ears right off his head and then leaves. Afterwords, he is left alone by the spirits but supposedly his lack of ears negatively effects his biwa playing and he gains the nickname “Earless Hoichi.”
The second story involves a country samurai that is visited nightly by a beautiful maiden who is accompanied by a silent companion. At first the samurai only plays host to her while the companion stays outside, but eventually things take their course and it turns into a nightly carnal tryst. Eventually this strange visitor arouses the curiosity of one of his compatriots (more than likely jealous that his comrade seems to be overly favored by the gods) who decides to follow the maiden and her companion after one of her visits. He follows them to a grave located in the ruins of a castle where they apparently disappear into the ground. Fearing for the soul of his comrade he confronts the maiden one night before she reaches the country samurai’s home, but is defeated by the companion (but not killed) and the duo manage to reach the house before the wounded comrade does. When the comrade reaches the house, his friend is dead - apparently the lady finally decided to take him with her.
Neither had a particularly happy ending, but it seemed to me that the moral of the stories was simply to “mind your own business.”
August 18th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Ack, that WAS creepy!
August 18th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Yeah, most japanese tales don’t really have a clear moral attached to them, if any to begin with.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Meh. Most Japanese people I know don’t really care for traditional fables anyway and tend to take the sanitized modern versions without question. A particularly interesting one (that has nothing to do with the dead) is the original version of the origin of Momotaro (the “Peach Boy” or “Inch High Samurai”).
In the modern version an old couple finds a huge peach floating down a nearby stream. When they bring it home and cut it open to eat it there’s a tiny baby boy inside that they raise, that has prodigious strength despite his size. He also matures fairly quickly and goes on his merry way to have adventures with a bunch of anthropomorphic forest critters.
The original version also starts with a huge peach, but this time the old lady finds it, takes it home and eats a part of it - which causes her to become young and beautiful again. When grandpa comes home, the young and nubile version of grandma has him eat from the peach as well and he becomes a handsome young man again. They do the nasty and grandma becomes pregnant and gives birth in quick succession to the tiny baby boy. Once the boy is born, they both return to their original ages and the story progresses normally.
What I find particularly funny though is the sanitizing of the kappa and the tanuki.
Originally the kappa was pretty much a troll like creature that sometimes had a turtle shell, but always had a depression on the top of their head where a small amount of water was kept - some even looked like ugly human children. Current lore is pretty much the same regarding their keeping of promises, love of cucumbers, and death from emptying their head reservoirs… But few seem to recall that they primarily drowned unwary travelers by tricking them into playing games where their supernatural strength would allow them to pull them into nearby bodies of water and drown them. Once their victims had drowned, they would basically suck the blood from the corpse specifically from the anus, for some reason.
Tanuki on the other hand are pretty much the same as they are depicted now, being mischievous, easily distracted, capable of shape changing, and sometimes helpful (but vengeful if taken advantage of). The difference now is that they are usually not depicted now with their customary gigantic testicles (kintama). Supposedly the tanuki’s enormous testicles were a physical manifestation of their ability to gather wealth and the primary source of their powers. They also had the ability to use them as drums, due to their size. There was a Miyazaki film that did a pretty good job of depicting a whole plethora of traditional Japanese creatures (centering on the tanuki), but for some reason the name escapes me.
Anyway, despite the unusual nature of these two particular creatures (as stated, since the tanuki is actually a less than fantastic woodland creature that actually exists) there are still some superstitious individuals in Japan that believe that they exist and are genuinely afraid of them. One prefecture supposedly even has a cash reward available for photographic or physical evidence of kappa…
August 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
You mean “Pom Poko”? Not Miyazaki, but Isao Takahata, still Studio Ghibli though.
Also, damn, now that red panel makes me think of Goatse… Now there’s a twist!
August 19th, 2008 at 6:23 am
“This is truly amazing! See the things which you have never seen before!”
Dr Pope just made me think of the butt funnel (two of the three last images). I wonder if I linked that before, or followed the link from around here?
August 19th, 2008 at 9:02 am
RGE - actually that stuff is par for the course but not quite as acceptable as it seems. Most Japanese people that buy sex toys or porn tend to do so as far away as home as possible at the oddest hours to avoid running into someone who might know them.
However - if you think about it - Japan is a place where you can purchase sexual services fairly easily and cheaply (anywhere between $100 to 300 USD/10,000 to 30,000 yen) so why would Japanese guys bother to buy sex toys? Believe it or not, it’s because a significant amount (significant enough to float an industry) don’t actually like to interact with real women in any way shape or form. Some go off the deep end and just worship some cartoon character (ex. just look at all the Ayanami Rei stuff floating out there), but enough of them will actually prefer a “Candy Girl” (Japanese version of RealDoll depicting high school age to even elementary school girls) instead. There’s even “doll brothels” and “doll delivery service” available, but those aren’t particularly safe since sometimes they don’t clean them very well and some guys have caught venereal diseases from earlier users…
Anyway, props to Dr. Pope for remembering PomPoko for me (angry cartoon tanuki wielding their nutsacks for great justice!). For some odd reason though, I had the vision of a shmoo popping out of the center of that red eye with that Goatse reference. Guess I need to get more sleep…
August 19th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
This comment box has become educational.
UNCLEAN, UNCLEAN!!!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
But 4n0n, it feels so good… ahem. Also, sadly my Pom Poko memories are all stolen from wikipedia, so I can’t take that much credit… So… How about that comic huh? Really something eh? ghosts and whatnot!
August 20th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I read up on the kappa at some point in the past, and i recall that the anus bit had something to do with how the assholes of drowned people look.
Incidently, cucumber strips wrapped in rice and seaweed, kappamaki, is named after them, although i really have no idea where the whole ‘love of cucumbers’ comes from.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:04 am
Oh, I didn’t link to that blog as a comment on Japan. It was all about Dr Pope’s thought of seeing eye to anus. And I wouldn’t spend $100 for sex with a prostitute either. It takes me an entire day of boring work to earn that much money, and I’d rather spend it on slacking off for 3-4 days. Just think about how much quality masturbation I’d have time for! And when I’m too tired from that, I could always go check some webcomic and post messages about masturbation.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Neo Kojiro - Well, Japanese cucumbers are long and thin so that may have something to do with it…
Odd though that in Japan cucumbers are long and thin and carrots are stubby and fat, while the opposite is true in the US. Something in the soil perhaps?
RGE - Well, technically as a foreigner in Japan you could probably just wear a halfway decent suit, a fake Rolex and polished shoes then hang around the Heartland bar in Roppongi Hills. Most of the gaijin groupie girls hang out there looking to bag an investment banker or hedge fund manager, so if you have confidence in your appearance and some small change for drinks you could probably end up back at her place later in the evening and she’ll probably even cook you breakfast if you decide to stick around.
…And on that track, I wonder how the story in the comic would pan out if someone were to simply go in the room or spend the night in it? I suppose it could either end up a bloodbath or a spectral porno-film… Perhaps something in between?
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 am
We’ve all seen Kubrick’s version of Stephen King’s The Shining, so we know what happens with ghostly women in hotel rooms. Then again, we’ve also seen Ghostbusters, and I remember someone getting their belt unbuckled by a ghost in that one. Hmmm.
As for the gaijin groupie girls, I have a looong way to go before I could ever impress them. And not just in a geographical sense. Maybe if they’ve seen The Dark Knight I could convince them that I’m actually an insane supervillain who’s stolen a pile of money? But I wouldn’t want to spend a lot of money, so I may have to make up some excuse. Maybe they would have to pay for everything until I can get hold of my ill gotten gains?
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
RGE - Well, as long as you aren’t smelly and overweight there should be no problem attracting gaijin groupies if you speak native English. It helps to be tall and caucasian though, if you want to be a “Charisma Man.” =P
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 am
I thought all of us gaijin were smelly to the delicate flowers that are the Japenese people. And I don’t even bother with deoderant - if soap and water isn’t enough, then hey, maybe people shouldn’t work me so hard! Then again, aren’t we all tall as well, by comparison? I’m sure that at an astounding 5′7″ I’ll readily tower over… several people. Surely…
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm
As a six and half foot tall not white fellow, I’m sure the average japanese person would run in fear of me.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
RGE - Usually gaijin groupies like their gaijin to smell “foreign” at least. Oddly enough, I recall how one simply liked how most caucasian guys she met had hair and pimples on their backs… I’m about the same height as you though, so I can say that yes, you stand about an inch or so taller than the typical Japanese guy.
Cathoholic - At the least you’d have a tough time shopping for trousers in Japan… unless you liike to wear Urkel length pants.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
>As a six and half foot tall not white fellow, I’m sure the average japanese person would run in fear of me.
Hahahahahahahahahhaha
September 1st, 2008 at 10:55 am
If you’re looking to do some creepypasta, you could always do an arc with the ‘Holder Series’, if it struck your fancy. http://shii.org/knows/Holders_Series Some of them are shit, but alltogether a man like you should be able to create some rather tangible win from this. Anyways, just a thought reflecting on your wanting to do some more creepypasta. Too bad wikichan kicked the bucket, they used to have a rapeload of it, good stuff, too.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
The updating thingy was nice while it lasted.
Later,
DanG
September 4th, 2008 at 9:40 am
It always is. At least i’ve learned to not get my hopes up about a steady schedule until he does several in a row.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
It could still be a monthly thing… ;_;
September 4th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I suppose if we all keep posting here regardless, the comments section will turn into a kind of ghetto 2ch… Either that or a default SNS blog page for whoever is the most prolific poster.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Been there, done that.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Nothing new under the sun, eh? Well I’m sure Hyung is doing something worthwhile in the meantime…
September 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Ten-dollar prostitutes, while certianly being something under the sun, are hardly worthwhile.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Nonsense! Providing a self-encapsulated biological reserve for needy venereal diseases and parasites can hardly be considered less than worthwhile. Besides, that ten dollars can go a long way towards providing just one more day of life for the ladies of the night. Why according to some missionary programs, they can feed six children on just one dollar a day!
/Think positive!
September 8th, 2008 at 1:54 am
The muse, she is a fickle woman, who doesn’t want to step on your balls.
September 16th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Dagnabit! If we are going to have a post up here for months, let’s at least have some tits!
Later,
DanG
September 16th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I don’t think you can post images.
I suppose if you like, you can find some old ASCII art from the days of yore when IBM XT computers roamed the land boasting of their 64k RAM and 10MB HDDs for $8000…
September 17th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I can
September 17th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Hm…
Is that the result of some kind of bizarre surgery, or is it a representation of that “mask play” I’ve heard about in the dark gables of the internet?
September 17th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
For the sake of arguement, let’s just assume it’s both.
Also, on somewhat more recent topic, i hear there’s some guy who’s making a hundred guest comics, one for each of a hundred different comic serieses, whatever reason. He seems to of hit up a few of the more popular serieses on my favorites list, already. You think he’ll do this one up? (off coarse knot lulz)
September 18th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Yeah Ryan Estrada. He’s a cool guy.
I already explained the concept behind guest comics and why this site isn’t going to get any.
September 21st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Hyung, I’m hungry! Please make some more creepypasta for us.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Creepypasta
What about The Holders? Do The Holders of The End.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/The_Holders
You’re big on /x/. I’d say it’s a great honour.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I still don’t understand why there is no DIGG button under the comic… Nestor?!?
September 24th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Text link below the google ads and above the white bar. Too small? There should be a button added automatically by a goddamn plugin but I imagine it no longer works with the current wordpress