a normal creepypasta retrospective 

You said jed the caver and i just went well musta misheard that

Omg w the png history too

@@ashtonstatesman6761me too! I was waaaay too ready to just go “sounds kinda off but Im probably wrong” lol

SAME omg!! I'd read so many pokemon creepypastas as a kid i just assumed i'd read wishmaker bad egg bc of course i must have i'd read all the big ones

I actually had to come to the comments section and get spoiled early because I was so annoyed that my favorite pastas like Pokemon Ghost were getting skipped😂

Yeah maybe it could be a fun new way to do a ARG like maybe di a video Essay on a canceled movie like Tim burtons Superman movie or Justice league mortal by George Miller that type of thing

Turns out it did not.

​@@roxygaming5968YET

@@roxygaming5968and I’m disappointed

​@@roxygaming5968 But there's an alternate timeline where it did

This feels like the horror version of not being able to tell two siblings/twins apart because they look super similar

well, you want to fear the scary? its easy, first select a creepy pasta or movie anything scare, before watching either say or think in conviction that its is real, like its some camera footage etc.. if its a history, just try to imagine it in your head, if you can "see" image on your head (not everyone can) its easer

Plus that FUCKING IMAGE. I know it's literally just A Picture Of A Dog but deep fried to hell and back, but it genuinely made me so fucking uneasy the first time I saw it

hard agree, the writing is just better done. The melancholy of "living with the aftermath of something you did" tone for the ending is also a wonderful mature flavor compared to "watch out or you might get a bad dream of a dog!!!1"

Ngl i think someone should turn these into actually creepypastas. If anything this and the whole 1999 thing was the one that got me thinking that something was up. This alternate version of Smile dog was much scarier.

I actually tried searching sharethis.jpg cause it scared me good and wanted to read it in text format, and returned nothing. Then, I reached the end. Ngl, I was a little disappointed it isn't real, but impressed nonetheless.

@@thekingofallfrogs yeah honestly everyone involved really out did themselves

the original version of the story was definitely my favorite in the whole video. its not super scary but its really depressing and im a sucker for horror based on old games

Honestly same, I'm a sucker for the kind of horror that turns out to be more down to earth and kind of sad to think about.

also conservative parents having no problem with abuse being show, because they are ok with it, and being appalled at media for kids saying you should stand up to your parents is right on the nose. Like its literally what happened with Turning Red.

same!

for a bit i sort of brushed it off as their reconstruction of what it could have sounded like. a lot of those old songs posted to myspace are simply missing now, so it wouldn't be weird to do that. definitely when i started realizing this whole video was a bit though

I legit had to do a double take once the pic of the "Stitcher" came up. I was almost tricked but then Skungo popped up and that's when I knew... something was up

Same! I was just like, “oh I guess i’m being an asshole and it’s just the accent” lol.

Literally same I was like “oh I guess all Dutch people sound like Thor” lmao

That's actually kinda weird... I don’t remember a rap or any music like that popping up. I remember them talking about it and showing it, but not hearing the music.

All of it is so close to normal creepy pasta. Its all so normal and mundane (believable atleast) i didnt notice anything until the peeker update.

Its funny because my brain autocorrected it to “Ted” so i just went along with the whole ride

Same lmao

i only noticed cause i got the explanation video recommended to me lol

unfortunately it's what spoiled the gimmick of the whole video for me. I wouldn't have been familiar enough with creepypasta to call out the other ones as not just being stuff I'd never heard of before, but I know Ted the Caver well enough it made me cautious enough to pick up what was going on with the others

watched the entire video thinking these were just obscure ones I haven't heard

Lowkey, the only thing which raised an eyebrow to me was the quality of the creepypastas that were mentioned. Like, lmao the Peaker story sounds basically like The Rake if it wasn't written by a 14 year old.

Same here, it didn't twig for me until they started talking about how freaking Slenderman was an obscure, little known creepy pasta monster.

"Jed the Caver" and "Slenderman is obscure" caused me to raise an eyebrow but I concluded that they must've just been funny bits in order to focus on obscure stories instead

​​@@vaughngreason2175wdym? The rake is actually very unsettling

Same but it took me entirely until the disappearances.

i can't believe i got unfictioned by hazel and mae

@@genmaicha_same. i thought i knew at least a little bit about creepypasta but i didn't question not recognizing a single story until the peeker update section because i'm usually completely unaware about all media hazel focuses on lol

@@furuyawn this video has been absolutely electrifying and im currently rediscovering a lot of older unfiction in its wake, like invisible games

Weirdly the Sonic Shuffle Yuji Naka Ronnie Radke reference has an obscure fandom wiki entry from 2018.

This whole time I was like "why are they changing the names of the creatures..."

Oh, gosh, doing the slightest amount of research would indicate Alyssa is probably responsible for that wording; I apologize for the misattribution!

yeah that line was alyssa's, though the rest of the writing in the gabbit screencaps was my writing, so i totally get the confusion hahaha

Ha.

You didn't watch the whole video.

ISNT ITTTT

sorry to be like "u spelt it wrong" may is atcually spelt mae

​@@haddockgirlah fixed

Bro what

​@@ImmaLittlePip "fucking trips"

true

Agreed. "They dropped webbed hands and feet because the guy that originally proposed to it was getting off to the idea" is so on brand 😂

​@@justcommoncurt honestly idk what the appeal with that would even be what is bro thinking

I feel that me and my friends were convinced slenderman and the rake were real so we would always be looking out the window. Although Russian sleep experiment was probably more real still easily to scare kids minds.

Idk if I ever fully believed it but I only found out the Russian sleep experiment was a pasta like 3 years ago lmao

What really frustrates me about the Sleep Experiment is that such things really did occur during the Cold War, on both sides. Exaggerated and ridiculous versions of the truth have since proliferated as theories and fiction but under all of that are hundreds of ruined lives and unrelenting horrors. I live in Montreal (Canada) and my greatgrandmother was a victim of Dr. Ewen Cameron when he was working for Subproject 68 on behalf of the U.S' CIA. What they did to her reduced her to a childlike state for the rest of her life. It was torture, barbaric... Wikipedia will give you the basic information on what happened. Just look up Dr. Ewen Cameron and you'll have a good starting point. Please stay to academic and true sources if you decide to look into this stuff. There is so much disinformation out there and as a relative of a victim I leave comments like this because I think it's important people remember the truth without turning it into something unbelievable. I've typed this out way too many times and it's too personal and messed up to keep rewriting. I get really conflicted seeing creepypasta/ARGs/unfiction use the extensive horrors of not only Subproject 68 but the rest of what we know from real declassified documents and court cases actually occurred. Stay away from nonsense like Monarch, it's fake nonsense... there's more than enough to dig through with what journalists, investigators, lawyers (like Alan Stein for a large example) have uncovered. My dad is retired now but worked at the McGill Neurological Institute and while he arrived in Montreal just after Cameron was exposed he met and knew many people who were directly involved. One of his best friends was asked to be administer some of the experiments at the Alan Memorial but said no. My dad is weirdly casual about it all and says things like "people just didn't understand what they were doing" and "medical ethics are a relatively new thing so we can't judge those in the past for what they did as we would now" but I've pointed out to him that his friend said no because it was clearly wrong. I think my dad is so weird about it because he's super close to Dr. Brenda Milner, a world renowned neuropsychologist who pioneered a lot of neuroscience around memory, who is somehow still alive and still quite sharp minded at 104. Her involvement in Cameron's Subproject 68 isn't fully known but she was involved without a doubt. She used to spend Christmas at my place every year and damn would she say some weird stuff now and then like "I don't like children, their brains are not fully developed yet so speaking to them usually isn't worth the time" (which she said to me, a child). Honestly though she's always been pretty nice and genuinely interesting to be around but I can't quite get over the fact she was involved in the horrors that effected not only my greatgrandmother but many others. Agh... I'm not in the right headspace to be writing about this. If you comment back maybe I'll be less foggy another day if you have any questions... I've spent a stupid amount of my 30 years of life looking into all this.

I thought the one about the song Kagome, Kagome was based on real WW2 history 😭

@@miiiwu1999 it kind of is, but not in the same exact way yk the creepypasta made after isnt real

real nice until you realize the formulaic set up and it just gets to too much build up and little pay off. like this video has such a specific crowd of “people who knew of creepypasta as a kid but also knew they were shit but also never looked too much into creepypasta retrospective stuff and dont read the description please”. i get what they were going for and its a fun idea but theres more to go in a creepypasta iceberg (or better yet immersing yourself in the pasta and culture itself). also its way more interesting going through actual history than making this overly niche flawed short film. its a nice concept though but the fact that everyone already seen creepypastas it doesn’t work, maybe if they were earlier on the trend itd be fine ?? lol

@@jamstarrtheres an insane over saturation of creepypasta history videos in general already. I doubt we needed another one. If you wanted one that badly you could just go see the fuck ton of other videos by Sagan Hawkes and stuff. I understand its not for you but still, its a creative concept and took a lot more effort than a flawed boring creepypasta history video would be. Hazels content in general is about obscure niche shit so i doubt shed want to make a video about a bunch of creepypastas that have been covered to death already.

I will say Angel Hare is really good if you're interested in the idea ❤

@@BG_NC I actually got really into that one awhile ago. I'm glad to see the series is getting a lot of attention.

Same thing as me but with the creepypasta yuri(what does that say about me? Not much detective work needs to be done there I don’t think)

Yep, he actually discovered a hole to a virgin passage; that's what the photos are from. The rumbling sound was real, too, but it was actually just cars on a nearby freeway.

It seems he's called "Jed" in Hazel's universe lol. The Hazelverse.

Ted the caver.

Watching this expecting a "normal" hazel video and then slowly realizing something's up has got to be one of my best experiences on youtube.

I read the description first and thought it was only a silly comment...I still got got...

@@lanagomisc.6005 same lmao bc ppl sometimes just Say Shit in the descriptions (and of course its fake! its about creepypasta, its fiction!!) btu god its been in my brains all week and im glad i experienced it this way thinkin it was real most of the way an watchin it unravel around me. edit: also like im in the sweet spot of specifically having been *into* creepypasta while also not knowing the lore of some of the biggest ones, so it wa s entirely reasonable in my mind that i missed some things! my first pasta was ben drowned, but my second was russian sleep experiment and from there the most well known ones that ppl really fandom-ized werent really ones i knew. i read ritual pastas, a bunch of pokepasta and some other misc ones, but i never really read smiledog or jeff the killer or any of the slendy stories (i never finished marble hornets or anythign like that), i didnt read laughing jack or eyeless jack until years later, i dont think i ever read ticci toby (tho i heard theres some stuff where his creator doesnt really want to associate him with the creepypasta fandom anymore so??) and i def havent touched anything with the rake.. p much ever.

oh my god I recognize you, neat! cool videos

MARCIE!(double Marcie mayhem what will happen next no one knows)

OMG NEZUMI

I felt my long forgotten fixation reactiave like a sleeper agent.

you should get more into games and anime, its worth it

@@alchemistofsteel8099that’s like saying “You should get into books, they’re good” haha/lh

Same

I’m curious how you got into Hazel tbh

me too...

that was the one i put the least amount of thought into sadly...

ZANE

I remember reading that in highschool and after a certain point start laughing at how convoluted getting an item was as it went along.

Oh my goddddddddd I can't believe I'm not the only one who remembers this! I remember looking up various parts and wondering if there's more lore to this

I REMEMBER THIS

Murderfucked is such a fun word, also holy shit I also remember reading all of these and thinking to myself if I could get a certain item or not

i’m shocked i didn’t catch on at that part, i think i kinda just assumed that it was a mistake that they didn’t catch in editing?

@@augustindie Haha, I thought I might've misheard it the first time but I listened extra close the next time and it felt like they put extra emphasis on the pronunciation to drive the point home

Abandoned By Disney mentioned. That story's author was and is one of the *characters* of the whole scene and I'm slightly surprised he has no allegory here

Not creepypasta, but Insane Clown Posse have their own deep lore surrounding "The Dark Carnival" that runs through basically all their albums.

Look up the Unwanted Houseguest! The guy who made the original drawing now uses him as a horror pop persona. I'm not even kidding.

Not entirely sure how much lore they have, but you should check out clowncore

Dj rozwell kinda did that

@@rabbiteclipsedI’ve been a fan of his for years now. But I didn’t know he was the original artist.

FACTS

Getting top comment is way too easy

Real

​@@lrgogo1517for fuckin real, why is mine the top one ;^; it doesn't even contribute to an actual conversation

thank you so much haha.

Hopefully this isn’t a fluke, and stays the norm 🙏

​@@jacksonmccormick3839 I mean she did indicate in the tokusatsu video that she had a handful of videos lined up so it might be the norm for a little while longer

I miss consistent Hazel😔

come on there was not a guy named abrandontothepast, was there? that rocks.

Took the words right out of my mouth, I generally thought I remember wishmaker Being read by some old RU-vid channel that read pokémon creepypastas back in the early 2010s

and Super Nerd Daniel? damn takes me back

Yeah a lot of these were very obviously referential to stuff I could recognize as someone with a shameful amount of Slenderman history, but there are *so many* Pokemon ones out there on the internet with various degrees of fame that I was perfectly willing to just kind of assume 'Wishmaker Bad Egg' was the one real one meant to throw the viewer off from realizing the joke too early. Didn't even blink, just 'yeah that most certainly exists'.

abrandontothepast is an absolute legend

oh yeah i love erratas. kfc murder chicks are twisted too, really fun stuff. somehow it totally slipped my mind the whole time we were making the video, probably because my brain didnt categorize it as a creepypasta for whatever reason. shouts out either way though hahaha.

ITS JEFF THE *MURDERER*

I'm inside your walls.

@@survivalisttt1566 whats it like

@@alienjay comfort.

@@survivalisttt1566 ok have fun

Why do people constantly bring up the word "fake" everytime they talk about creepypasta? Of course it's fake, it's fiction. Is there something wrong about fictional stories? All horror media is fiction. Why doesn't Stephen King get accused of telling fake stories if it's a bad thing? I need answers.

@@timrosswood4259 theres nothing wrong with fiction of course! Unfortunatley theres been a lot of people over the years who believed these stories were real and caused harm over it. (see the Slenderman stabbing) So creator credits are a good reminder to those people that hey, no matter how convincing this all is its not real!!! Its just fun spooks!

@@timrosswood4259 Because saying "fake" is easier when a large portion of the audience for these kinds of stories are familiar with the concept of metafiction. It's a fiction *within* a fiction.

omg u saw the video before it was uploaded....

@@iwakuraWired44 you won't believe how

Seconded. I can take or leave the characters but I think there's a *lot* to learn about horror writing from the statements

Its on my list now, keep seeing fanart for it on my tumblr

I NEED TO SLEEP BUT I HAVE TO WATCH THIS

I'M UP IM UP!

frigging same, but still did a number on my little autism brain