Ghost Story/Cryptid/Unexplainable Thread 2015: It's Always Sleep Paralysis

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AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

The whole bit with Alina was really weird and it didn't have to be there.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2015 16:44

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 13:38

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Drunk Nerds posted:

That's exactly why I liked it. I sat there with your same reaction for a few minutes until I spotted the twist, and then I re-read it and loved it:

The old people harvested his parts. The auction was to harvest parts, that's why it mostly consisted of dudes who looked like "they were picked up on the side of the road"

I wish the spire in the woods had saved the fact that the clock had actual corpses until a final reveal. That would've been a great punch.

Nobody missed the twist, the twist was just dumb and didn't make sense.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2015 20:51

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Drunk Nerds posted:

I didn't see it coming, but looking back I can see how if I did the story wouldn't have been that good.

I alerted Lowtax to the fact that people on this forum sometimes like things that you don't. He's calling an emergency meeting.

Good.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2015 15:40

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

kazr posted:

Does anyone have the story about the guy and his friend going to a country in south east Asia I think and do a rite of passage/manhood and they start being followed by something that repeats the end of their sentences? They camp out in some trees and set up a trap to ambush it and it's this weird pig mimic thing. I'm pretty sure they were Marines or something similar doing relief work.

I have a text file saved somewhere with most of the old goon classics if anyone's interested, but haven't been able to track that one down.

Search for "Echoes." The rest of the stories on the same page are also drat good.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2015 08:33

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

If this was a horror movie it'd turn out that your grandfather was telling the nightmare version of the "so this happened to a friend of a friend and certainly not to me" story.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 18:39

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Blizzy_Cow posted:

You guys remember atound the time ole Slendy was made a goon also made up "the "rake". Well I was bored as hell on one of my days off and flipped over to Destination America and some show about a group of fellows who hunt cryptids "professionally". They were in like Nevada, New Mexico, or Arizona; some state full of desert. Well they heard reports of a strange creature harming animals, harassing people, etc and that it lived in some cave system that served as a tourist attraction. According to these guys the rake actually lives there and in fact some demon thing from India. Best part is one of them wanted to take a gun in the caves in case it attacked but since it wasn't allowed to it possibly causing a cave in he opted for fisticuffs and a pointy stick. I'll look up the episode and post it shortly if you guys are interested.

The rake-shasa

# ¿ Sep 23, 2015 18:14

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

It's from India and is a very recent immigrant, tell me you wouldn't get pissed if people laughed at you for sounding like Apu

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 16:28

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

loving everything is tulpas man

# ¿ Sep 25, 2015 19:27

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Human belief making things real has been done a ton of times, and not just in horror. I think it's pretty nifty as far as ideas go, personally.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2015 00:52

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:

That's 50 Foot Ant, now posting as Nostalgia4coldwar, and no he hasn't. In fact he's been outed as a fraud. None of his stories here or anywhere else ever happened, he was never in the military, Humper-monkey was an alternate persona he made up and killed off, and every single thing he posted in these threads was a lie.

I liked the one where he posted about the maggots in the dying woman's vagina or something

# ¿ Dec 20, 2015 22:16

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

A 50S RAYGUN posted:

yeah it was pretty cool for a story about a haunted snoopy to suddenly be about a child sucking on a grown woman's tits or something, that was a doozy

Instant horror just add underage sex

# ¿ Dec 21, 2015 23:38

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Tardcore posted:

Worked for Stephen King.

I'd managed to forget that happened

# ¿ Dec 22, 2015 06:07

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 13:38

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Duodecimal posted:

I guess, at least? Major plot point was people forgetting what happened.

It was half :thejoke:

and half being serious.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2015 22:12

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