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Please do: Tales From The Gas Station!! It would literally make life less depressing 💯💯💯💯 I have really bad PTSD, and listening to you guys read these is so therapeutic for some reason. I promise TFTGS will be legendary 💯💯💯💯💯 Love your work fellas, keep it up.
0:33 Hit me up, fellas. I have an extremely deep and intimidating voice 💯💯. I'd do it for free. I've thought about getting into voice acting. I wouldn't have the range that hunter does, but I could easily play a demon, devil, evil genius. Voice is hard to explain, but I can definitely make people shit themselves in fear over the phone 🤣🤣💯.
Look if you find an eyeball in the middle of the lake you'd be much more concerned about whether or not you're going crazy than if you saw a hoodie in the middle of the woods
A supernatural creature is not going to make me forgo my one shot at home ownership in 2024. We’re gonna find out if the ghoulies are immune to buckshot together.
Why is it your one shot though? Sure, interest rates suck...but you can always make financially responsible decisions, work your ass off, and sage the everloving shit out of anything that would make the baby Jesus scowl with scorn...
@@DrewishAFLOL spoken like a person of massive privilege. There's a helluva lot more factors than just hard work and gumption that determine if someone can realistically become a homeowner, blud.
@@DrewishAFbecause I live in Massachusetts and for a single person to not be struggling you have to make 125k per year...and that's not a random stat Massachusetts is the second most expensive state and most houses are well over 500k and rent is close to 3k. So go fuck yourself with that whole work harder thing
History is fake... Humans have been biologically the same for thousands of years now,, but sure people in the past were miserable and backwards when they were LESS mind controlled and manipulated by elites
It's me... I was the pagan child. How else do you explain why every little girl from the ages of 8-11 run around grabbing plants and creek water to make potions? We were hard at work to make these forests what they are and now we're all evil witches that lure lost hikers in to be eaten.
@@babyboyofc8126 I am glad the pagan children running through forests are being recognized bc as I’ve gotten older and left the church I realized I’m likely pagan and I was also that child
Wendigoon gaining sentience before going back to his grandparents house is so funny. “WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE??” “Dragon tales and root beer? Sweet. You strangers are cool with me”
My first moment of gaining sentience was waking up in my childhood room and walking down the hallway seeing my dad lying down on the ground and being like “who is that???” And my mom in the kitchen making food and she asked me if I wanted some and like I felt safe but didn’t know who these people are existing really be Wildd
@lovesfairytail122 when I gained sentience, I had my head in the toilet. In extreme confusion I just walked out the bathroom and all these people in the kitchen were wondering why my hair was wet. It was very strange
how do you people even remember that moment 😅 I have no idea when I 'gained sentience', I just remember a few random snippets of my life when I was a few years old that I can't even place in chronological order 😂
the idea of mrs slenderman haunting this dude, keeping him in constant awful fear, breaking into his house _twice_ - and then sitting down in the living room with him to have a nice explanatory chat
I’m a Sommelier and when they got to the pictures of the wine bottles I started FREAKING out. Both of those bottles are obviously insanely rare and valuable, but also dated within a decade of two major world events that devastated the wine industry. Author clearly did their due diligence with research.
thanks for sharing, i love it when experts give free insight into their fields because my goal in life is to learn and know a little something about everything I encounter
Creepcast, brothers, I am once again strongly recommending “My Wife Has Been Peeking At Me From Around Corners and Behind Furniture” as your next narration
If you want something lighter in tone, do: 1. My property isnt normal 2. Tales from the gas station But if you want something heavy af, try: 3. The patient that drove me out of medicine 4. Psychosis
I’ve maintained since being broken by barassca for the second time in my life that April should be dedicated to Happy Appy. More people need to know about Shaq
So I am an English teacher and just started fiction writing in my creative writing class. After listening to this story I actually did a small mini-lesson on Twitter ARGs and how the use of the medium affects the storytelling. Really cool experience with the students and wouldn't have happened if it weren't for this podcast. Awesome show guys and please keep churning out longer eps so I have something to listen to during my prep periods lol.
That sounds like a badass class, honestly! If you don't mind, whenever you're able, I'm curious what you think about how this story makes use of Twitter as a medium. I adore the idea but the execution falls off for me the more it goes on.
@@zoeadkins9095 Thanks dude! I tend to agree with you and was as blunt with my class. I didn't really go this far with them, but I feel like its execution insofar as delving into a new medium that has not been as expressed was brave and fascinating, however the more extreme elements at the end betray the better, nuanced parts of the beginning. The grounds of this medium have not been as explored and the length of each "episode" is, by design, shorter, so with this combination of a different, new medium and unearned potential (authors not having written tropes to play off of) this story tends to play similar to old serials with the invention of TV: feeling they need to outdo or recreate themselves at every turn which will just end in the reader losing their ability to relate to it. I know Dr. Who isn't going to die with the 50th cliffhanger cutaway and honestly the fact that the show is trying to lull me into that is almost distracting, and this story somewhat plays similar to that. They earn your attention with the great, short, and slow moving plot in the beginning so that you are willing to ignore some of it's smaller scruples, however the story feels it has earned that focus a little too strongly and then veers off into territory that will similarly distract the reader. I think we will look back at stories like gr3g similarly to how we look at these older serials as well: stories that were good fun at the time but whose purpose now is to have been fed fodder for the new generation of the medium that will refine the craft based on these past iterations... or they will simply be forgotten for these newer pieces similar to how very few people have seen or engaged with those older serials nowadays. Either way, hope this wasn't too long but it was my general feelings on the medium.
awesome ass teacher alert, I wish I had you for English 12. Also since I think you might be interested in this story, here's my theory that attempts to fill some plot holes. My theory. Grandpa builds deep-water chapel when the aliens land in the water, he makes a deal with them to sacrifice his young in order to live longer and have more kids. I think grandpa had a wife who he had twins with. grandma knows that grandpa sacrificed one of the twins so she takes the other one (gregs mom) and moves cities. this implies that eyeless lady is gregs auntie (the sacrificed daughter). then gregs grandpa (cult leader) convinces the whole town to partake in the sacrifices so they can live longer and have more kids to sacrifice. then once the whole town is in on it, grandpa dies because he has no more children to sacrifice (so no more alien anti aging powers) because grandma dipped out with gregs mom (I'm talking about years ago when I think the grandma took the surviving daughter [gregs mom] away to save her). so once gregs mom has greg, the grandpa finds out and gives greg the chapel in his will, maybe hoping that greg will come and join the cult. (I don't have any idea how the grandpa would know about greg but im just gonna go with it) then this is when the events of the story take place. As to how I think the story could/might continue? maybe greg comes back to try and stop the cult and kill the aliens. maybe the eyeless lady has some knowledge of a long lost ritual that greg could use to banish the aliens or maybe even break/cancel the grandpas original contract with the aliens. I feel like that would make a lot of sense and be a great way of finishing this story with a part two. One more thing I wanted to mention, I believe that the hatchlings usually try to kill and eat the sacrifices, but how did the eyeless lady survive with only her eyes damaged then? What I like to think is that, as a kid she might've be suspicious of her dad, and maybe she was researching ways of fighting back, this could explain what she meant when she said "I put up those artifacts for your protection" I believe she used her knowledge or research or witchcraft or whatever to try and fight back when she was eventually sacrificed by her dad (evil cult grandpa) this is why she wasn't killed and eaten fully, she managed to get away and escape, but in the process they took her eyes. she has been living in the forest trying to stop the aliens and the towns cult ever since. Maybe she uses the house to do her research, witchcraft or whatever she's using to fight back. There are so many ways that greg and the eyeless lady could team up in a part two, this story would make for a really good movie. Anyway, what do you think about my theory? Also please point out any plot holes in my theory that I may have missed. thanks for reading
Just finished a rotisserie chicken and found a roll of twine in the garage. In a few months' time my favorite hiking trail will be a lot less crowded on the weekends!
I did something like this when I was in college! I had a favorite camping spot that was just off one of those paths that split then rejoin about 100 yards later, so I made a couple of witch-looking "signs" with creepy symbols and rusty bells and stains on them that I could pack into my bag without taking up too much space, set up quickly, and pack out. After I started doing that I didn't hear a single soul walk past my site ever again.
@@caseylane9162My cousin on my father's side died in the south tower. He was either killed by the plane or jumped to his death. My whole family watched it live on TV. So ill joke about 9/11 whenever i want thank you. Dark humor is not a bad thing, its something you just happen to find more funny as you grow up. have a great rest if your day sir or mam.
I think you're all missing the biggest mystery of this story. If they can't/won't eat eggs then what the hell was the hollandaise sauce made of since the main ingredient of it is egg yolk.
@@arussianspy3114 Nah bruh, worst case scenario is being sacrificed by a Pagan cult. Reminds me of that "the worst she can say is no" meme. It can always be worse, my guy😂😂
I have to say thank you so very much for describing the pictures and the videos that are attached to these stories. It makes my life as a blind person so much easier
@1WEareBUFO1 I think that’s just how gen alphas talk. I see a lot of them in comments nowadays, starting but not finishing their sentences. Guess the CocoMelon and Tik Tok destroyed their attention spans so they can’t even focus to the end of their own thoughts?
I think Isaiah nailed it: I think this was an assignment. Writers who are lazy, or simply trying to throw something together quickly, tend to have the main character mirror themselves. Why? Because you don't waste time/energy trying to conjure up a fictional person. You just describe yourself and run off that. So... he's a student with a deadline. That explains the exposition dump and abrupt ending. All that setup just to fall off a cliff, but give the reader "enough" of an ending....i feel disappointed, but I get it
In my opinion, a story that did this sort of plot much better was the indie game Hollow Cocoon. It follows a college student in 1980s Japan, spending the night at his estranged grandmother’s house while she’s in the hospital after seemingly being strangled. The lore builds up very cleverly, the rural setting makes it more believable as to why the main character can’t leave, and the major reveals at the end are super disturbing, but it still wraps right around to being heartwarming. Recommend for anyone wanting a similar premise with a more cathartic ending!
I feel like it is also equal parts writing without having it actually planned out and then running out of ideas. So many writers recently, especially on r/nosleep, make such good starts and then run it into the ground in the latter half like they didn't even know what they wanted to do with the story to begin with.
@@faultyinterface I agree for the most part. Idk if that applies here though. The author very clearly was foreshadowing things like the importance of his house (the chair facing it, people watching from the lake) and had been foreshadowing something about eggs VERY early in the story. He even mentioned lack of eggs in town on two occasions. I think he was clearly building to something pre-planned. Maybe he forgot or changed his mind halfway through? Idk. All I do know is that laziness was my downfall when it came to writing, and this seems like something I would've done. Settle for a B and go into the next semester lol
As much as I love the man ,Stephen King is notorious for doing that ,going through his stories u will fund no end to the writers w substance abuse and or depression struggle through the narrative
@LacyLynLabret it's because of the dinner scene. The story stablished that the town doesn't eat eggs at all, chicken eggs are the most commonly eaten egg. Then we get the egg reveal scene. All of that considered, it's really easy to make a connection that the monsters might be chickens
Many beaked predators start with the eyes cause they are soft and easy to pick. Sometimes they attack living prey like sheep and pick them out. Nature is brutal.
"...and then they wrote themselves into a corner." Exactly, their foreshadowing was so heavy-handed that they realized they could not tie the threads together and deliver a satisfying ending.
they either realised they couldn't or it was really some sort of school project and they had to quickly wrap the story up so they got lazy with the ending
I hate all Twitter ARGs I've seen. They always feel like they all write themselves into a corner or are winging it. It's a very difficult format for writing something good. This story had a good run though, but it couldn't escape the stigma
“I’m okay with a himbo protagonist from time to time” listen creepcast, it’s always a himbo protagonist with you guys and if it isn’t, you’ll make it. And I love you for it.
Not that weird, you could definetly still type somewhat well with your eyes closed. And isn't she a paranormal entity? I haven't finished the video yet
i believe greg’s mum saved her twin sister and that’s why the grandfather died instead of living forever like he was meant to, he never gave a child because the eyeless woman never died. does that make sense?
I believe the story has no coherent explanation which is why the eyeless woman- a totally sane and helpful physically disabled woman made no attempt to speak to the protagonist until breaking into his house, why she scribbled THEY TOOK MY EYES in a diary over and over and over again decades after she was blinded then tore a page out of the diary and left the diary on the lawn, why the monster that eat the eyes first left a random eye sitting in the water and left totally intact intestines on the protagonists lawn, and why there isn't a single mystery in the story with a concrete answer that actually addresses any of the mystery. Someone said "wouldn't it be weird if..." then wrote that
It's the tonal shift for me. It went from creepy woman stalking him from the woods to him running off to fight the big bad alien. It went from legit horror to shounen anime. Imagine penpal ended with the mc fighting the stalker. And he didn’t fight aliens anyway so it was just pointless.
I felt like the author either lost interest or for some other reason wanted to wrap everything up quickly. There was a decent setup, but for some reason it was left to fall flat. So many plot points just left unfinished. It's almost a mystery itself.
Yeah, I’m glad they also touched on the writing issues. Not to mention the huge exposition dump with his “aunt” telling him everything. Definitely rushed ending.
@@aitoranimations3612 What? You mean hurling yourself into the woods in the dark with no weapons and no idea what the fuck you're doing doesn't instantly mean victory?
It's sad and weird cause the author went through the effort to make the eggs and the fake menu and it seemed like he just kinda fucked off which is lame. Completely not in character for him to go running off into the woods either like bro never was rightous or like moraly interested in saving people or anything of the sort. I feel like he would have just hid in the house with the woman. Also wtf like was she just running around in the woods forever?? And how does grandpa play into this???
My dear Creepcast, I'm gonna copy paste my last comment: Next possible stories to read: - The thing in the basement is getting better at mimicking people -My wife has been peeking at me from around corners -My sister discovered a universal language, but she hasn't spoken a word since 2003 -Tales from the gas station Love, your fans
Those are all really good ones. I haven't read the one about my sister discovered a universal language, but the rest are all pretty cool. It seems like Wendigoon has a few in mind that they are going to be going through, but once they do, I'd love to see them check out any of those
I heard Tales from the gas station from mrcreepypasta and its a wonderfull story, it has humor and horror well mixed, I would really like it if they grabbed as the next or the next next next episode
I second "My Wife Has Been Peeking At Me From Around Corners and Behind Furniture" to be your next story seeing your wife pop up to scare the soul out of you Isaiah. love the podcast guys!
@@Biggiecheeseness It's really not that good, I remember having high hopes because so many people hyped it up, I really wouldn't recommend spending time on it
@@Biggiecheeseness It is possible you’d like it, a lot of people do, just giving my opinion. Wendigoon was talking on stream how the upcoming episode is about a topic lots of people requested and they thought was stupid, and immediately thought of this story.
Isaiah's wife scaring the shit outta him was the best part of the episode. I'm not even halfway through and I'm calling it. Bro was genuinely fearing for his life.
My bf was saying how wendigoon looked the same in every thumbnail im glad he changed it up this time by covering his mouth truly groundbreaking things on this channel!!
@@Cxncubineidk, the pattern on the shirt seems to match up perfectly. There is a small light line on his nose and cheek that might be where they put the mask though if it is AI
Honestly, the same four facial expressions/poses ĝet really old. Every spooky story RU-vidr does that, except these guys to an extent. Ballin is the worst, he just recycles old thumbnails. I don't blame him, just noting
you two articulated how i’ve felt about gr3gory88 in a way i haven’t been able to find in the years i’ve known about it. i LIKE the story, but i felt disappointed too, and i didn’t know why. the way the both of you explained it is exactly the explanation i needed too. there’s great bones, the premise is amazing, there’s some elements that are incredible. but it does sort of feel like the ball was dropped and the last few threads were trying to stitch something coherent together to get it done. the theory it was a college project is also incredibly interesting and as a college student, very believable. colleges are leaning into new-age ideas, i myself had a semester writing class that was dedicated to comic books. i imagine the prompt was something like “use a digital medium to create a horror work using x, y, and z.” and whoever greg is irl, he said “huh, twitter seems easy. let’s get it.” and dove straight in. i also think it’s hilarious they follow the big mouth writers. that makes me believe it’s a college student even more, and it’s just a bit they were doing.
It started strong, and fell off almost immediately. A dumb protagonist that has no survival instincts is annoying and unbelievable, especially when they continue to ignore thr signs over and over and over again. Not a good ARG.
@@sexylazercatwizard idk there were some really interesting things later on. the diner not serving eggs and there being no eggs in the town at all, and the house being a former church were both introduced later on in the ARG and i think if they’d been done right they would’ve been such great additions. of course, the protagonist needs to stay there for the story to keep unfolding, but I agree- greg seems to have no survival instincts and it makes it feel unrealistic. I think it’s not a great ARG, but it’s not terrible, either. With more fine-tuning and reworking some of the ideas, it could’ve been something exceptional. Instead, it’s just mediocre- albeit with some very impressive visuals.
That’s why some of the best writing advice is to know the beginning and the end. You can get to the end in a million different ways, and u can change it as u see fit… but knowing it’s there and working towards it is so so important.
I hate how towards the end, Greg goes back to making profoundly dumb decisions as well, like running out into the forest during the ceremony for no reason. I understand the author wanted to show the pictures of the alien creatures, however it would have made more sense if the woman w/ no eyes told him the villagers know he's an outsider (or that he's a descendant of the villagers), and the fishermen saw where he lives-- so they're going to come after Greg and sacrifice him to the aliens so they don't have to give up their own children that year. This could be the prompt for Greg to run away at least Man, the ending was so disappointing.
Creepypasta recommendations: 1: Tales from the Gas station 2: My property isn’t normal 3: My friend has been living in an Alternate reality 4: Infected town case files Love the podcast! Look forward to It every two weeks
i LOVED this arg. I kept up with it every single update and looked forward to every new post. it was exactly how you described for me, like it randomly came up in my feed or I came across it somehow but nobody I knew was talking about it and it wasn't shared to me so it was like I was experiencing it alone, making it feel so much more authentic. so glad to relive it now
when Wendigoon hovers over it, you can type out the imgur link seen, on the way back machine and hunt down the now gone image of "gore/animal remains" in the woods that Greg took just thought that was interesting since I also loved this ARG when it came out and I remember seeing the image and was annoyed that it was a 404 and they nor the editor had the idea to look for it like that
@@fothrmuckr just for extra context, DM/Dungeon Master is generally the title of someone running a Table-Top Role Playing Game like Dungeons and Dragons. The Matt Mercers of the world
i felt as if it was more like the townsfolk won't eat any eggs because the eggs of the creature/deity are sacred to them, so eating eggs is kinda sacrilegious
Borrasca was hard to listen through, but Penpals was a gut punch that left me in the fetal position, personally. I've lived with and become numb to the fears Borrasca plays on, but the left turn that Penpals took nearly broke me.
Story suggestions, these are some of my favorites and I think you guys would really dig them. -The hidden webpage -Fleshgait -The thing in the basement is getting better at mimicking people -Why I don't do drugs anymore -Well that was weird -My wife has been peeking at me from around corners
I've seen a couple people suggest My wife peeking around corners, and I suggested it too. Creepiest story I've read in quite a while from NoSleep. "Maybe I've just gotten better at hiding it." Heebie jeebies, yikes.
I gotta hand it to gregory88, the creator did a good job with foreshadowing that the eyeless woman was actually trying to protect Greg just with the design of the stick things. They looked much more like protection charms than curses from the start.
That was my assumption too, but I'm not sure if its foreshadowed in the story. I feel like it was portrayed more as a warning than anything. I think they were going with the "cryptic and spooky thing than ends up being helpful. It reminds me of a youtube series I watched a while ago (I forgot the name, maybe it was "neighbors" or something also SPOILERS potentially) but the idea is that a couple dudes move into an apartment and find out that its haunted. While they're trying to figure out what to do (iirc) they pull out the oven or refrigerator and find a symbol drawn in salt below it. They assume its the cause of the issues, so they remove it, only to find out that the symbol was restraining the ghost or whatever, and the haunting gets worse. So I wouldn't say foreshadowing but I don't know what kind of plot device "misplaced assumption" is.
This podcast is probably my favorite longform type of content I've consumed in a while. I try to save these to listen to at work but I keep binging it as soon as it comes out. Isaiah's probably right about the story being a creative writing assignment. As soon as he said it, the rushed ending made total sense.
As someone who was the creepy pagan child running through the woods as a kid, those stick charms are usually to ward off spirits, of course he sets them on fire immediately! What could possibly go wrong!
I still make protective charms for my friends and family. OP burning them immediately has me annoyed and horrified. Whatevers out there has free access to him now.
Heyo, fellow pagan child running through the woods here. Dunno what he was thinking lmao. Down here in Georgalabamansassippi, these dumbass hikers keep taking down my charms to ward off The Green One. Not my fault if they get brutally mauled
@@hannahshark8080 Don't worry, since you're attempting to "protect" them from things that aren't real they have nothing to be afraid of. They're better served with a modern home defense alarm to deter people from breaking in.
Sounds like those east Asian stories about ppl moving into a place, finding some room full of talismans and immediately pulling them all off angrily. I'm not superstitious nor religious, but if that was on my new house I'd definitely want to at least know what happened to make the previous tenants think that was necessary lol
I recommend two viewings of this episode. On the first you simply listen, experiencing the episode as normal, and the second you envision Greg as Greg Heffley (from the movies).
My favorite part of the story was when he asked the waitress for the eggs on his eggs benedict and her reply wasnt “oh we are out of eggs”, but “we dont have those.” As if regular eggs have never been a part of the town at all!
@@ProfessorArt1Who worships a cross? That's an inanimate object. I think that you have seriously misunderstood the whole point of Christianity. Then again, I would expect no less from a sophisticated and intellectually superior atheist gentlesir such as yourself.
I thought he said the opposite that that's who the author FOLLOWS. Cuz he didn't say "his followers" he said "Greg's follows" meaning the ones HE followed. Also him saying "he follows John Mulaney" backs that up. They don't follow him, he follows them
Greg: *is so scared that he can “barely type”* Also Greg: *proceeds to make sure to type out words perfectly with punctuation and tell us how startled he is, all through text format* Bruh 😂
Even when you have read or heard them these guys are incredible at storytelling and all the added commentary make even the deep stories enjoyable. I have heard the " The Left Right Game" at least a half dozen times and still thoroughly enjoyed their telling of it. "Barascas" was only bearable to listen to again due to the side splitting commentary these guys had with their hilarious banter even during that heart breaking horror was well worth a listen.
Something that I think is worth mentioning is that the author didn't really used the strength of the medium they chose to tell the story (meaning twitter). Action sequences don't really work when you have to stop and document what happens. If it was a real situation, Greg wouldn't really be able to stop and write at length about the ripples in the water and whatnot. Also, the part about him questioning the woman didn't work. Tweets are usually disjointed, vague. Not something you write and rewrite in such a literary maner, even if you are an author.
Yeah, that could've worked if it was just a long stream of sentences she was saying. "It came from the sky" "landed in the water." "It has a price" "They eat the eyes first"
Greg is the kinda guy that would go: *finds a ancient tome* Greg: "What's this?" *reads it verbatim and summons a demonic entity into this world set to bring death and destruction and ending all life as we know it* Greg: "What the fu**? What's happening? Is this the apocalypse? Why did this happen? Oh well"
The amount of detail and work that went into this is truly great. The menu, the aged letters, the visual effects -- every visual is so well done. The ending doesn't deliver but the set-up is so good.
The eggs took away from it. It should have just been a deep water deity they worship. The eyeless woman able to survive in the woods while blind and not get killed or go crazy hurts the story as well. I enjoyed the ride, though.
Some story suggestions! -My wife keeps peeking at me from around corners, which is one of the creepiest stories I've heard in forever -I dared my best friend to ruin my life, which is older but a great ride -My property isn't normal, which is a lot of fun horror comedy Also -Anasai's Goatman Story -Humper Monkey's Ghost Story
“If in the first act you have laid a giant egg on the ground, then in the following one it should be hatched. Otherwise don't put it there.” - Anton Chekhov
I always assumed the Eyeless Woman was Greg's twin sister. That's why the mum didn't stop him, she knew HE was safe because the grandfather already made her sacrifice one child.
She said her father sacrificed her, i assume greggory's dad isn't frok that town sonce his mother left after she went to college, and the woman seems to know her away around the grandfather's home so i assume it's his aunt rather than sister
@@chadouellette449that’s what I don’t understand if that is his aunt and that means she hates her dad for sacrificing her sister but then why would she bring her own child back there
I’m actually starting to wonder if the grandpa died BECAUSE the eyeless woman escaped the creatures. Maybe the whole reason he’s out there is becsuse the grandpa lost his “everlasting life” given to him because he failed to sacrifice a child
Greg is too casual about the first encounter. If you live in the woods, you kind of assumed there aren’t many people coming around your house, let alone hanging thing up around the property?? I can’t imagine being that casual about that; I cannot defend Greg💀
Having lived in some incredibly rural areas with neighbors being miles away, the "finding random things in the woods" would be incredibly unsettling. My first thoughts weren't ghosts or whatever, but we immediately started hoping some tweakers didn't drag a trailer into the woods and start a meth lab. Second concern is livestock theft, either by aminals or the aforementioned tweakers. Dangerous either way, but still less spooky than ghosts.
I'm still just laughing at "yeah, there were some Dead By Daylight Hag traps hanging up by my house. Whatever, I lit a fire and burned them" "OH MY GOD SOMEONE'S SWEATSHIRT BLEW INTO MY YARD! literally shaking"
This was my first episode of CreepCast. I’ve been a long time fan of Papa Meat and his artwork, and after binge watching a few of his videos the pod appeared on my recommendations. At the end of this episode I was left satisfied by the creepy but digestible story and I loved the conversations between Hunter and Isaiah. “Let me go back and watch this Borrasca one they keep talking about.” I thought to myself, unaware. ….pt. 1 & 2 plus Penpal later 😧 1. This is my new favorite Podcast. 2. Doors locked & night lights on for the rest of my life.
creepcast once again coming in clutch. 1. the “for audio listeners” part, thank you🙏 because i like to listen to creepcast when im doing chores/going to bed 2. for YEARS i was searching for this ARG! ive been a huge fan of ARGs for 6 years starting at age 13. around when i was 13 is when this ARG started and i loved it, eventually i got super into other ones/got busy with school, and completely forgot what this one was called. i would always search up “grandpa house ARG” “faceless woman ARG” with no results😭 thank you creepcast for allowing me to rediscover gr3gory88!!!!!
The thoughts that you two shared at the end regarding how to improve the end of the story and how to tie in all the loose elements has inspired me to write again. I haven't written for probably 10 years. I was writing a lot of short horror stories back then. I think I'll pick those back up. Thanks, guys!
There were so many ideas that you guys had that would have made this story so much better. Maybe play on the sea turtle thing and have the character notice a flash of white in the dirt and uncover the eggs rather than have them sitting out in the open. I really like the dream sequence so maybe combine that with the comatose grandpa and when the character is told to wake up it's grandpa standing over their bed and the town doctor just brushes it off as if it's totally normal. I don't think he played into the "town cult" aspect nearly enough and there were just too many cool ideas that didn't come to fruition.
Something that would be really cool would be the grandpa getting up and getting uncharacteristically angry when he hears the woman putting up an effigy on the house, like he actively has a conflict with her
Another possible explanation for the weird things in the story that show up for no reason is maybe he wrote it around props he had available. Eggs are important because he had access to some giant eggs, eyes are important because he had access to a believable fake eyeball and eyeless makeup. A Tammy and the T-Rex situation.
Nah that doesn't justify its use, props should be used in favor of the story, not the other way around, its not like there is a rule that says you HAVE to use them, besides they don't fit the mood of the story at all, talking specifically about the eggs they come out as absurd and silly, its like just cause I have a pretty cool Scooby doo costume doesn't mean I have to wear it at grandma's funeral
@@AbaddonAlmighty Nah that's fair. If I wanted to write a story with visuals and I happened to have a bunch of cool props, I'd probably use them if I could fit them in and have it make sense. I probably would think twice about using them as a main point just because I have them, but I'd make some kind of a self defense scene to show off the cool sword my uncle gave me, for sure. I feel like the main problem with this one isn't the prop as much as there was no reason to use the prop and it was placed in kind of an awkward spot narrative and response-wise, followed up with just kind of nothing. It's the whole thing about doing stuff intentionally and stuff in a story should be there for a reason. The only importance the eggs had in this story is that he found the eggs and after the eggs hatch he somehow finds the same spot and the eggs are hatched. It could have worked out really well but I think the author just couldn't quite work it in an effective way. There were a bunch of times throughout the story that showcase that the author has great ideas but just needs to work on his execution.
@@sigismundafvolsung5526 I totally agree. I can understand him wanting to use what he has available but he could've used more forethought into how the narrative would play out. Of course it's not like he was being paid to do this, so we can criticise the storytelling constructively but he's not really obligated to reach a certain standard. He can half-arse it if he likes.
This definitely a story with a strong opener and then falls flat at the end sadly. I'm glad the guys talked about it at length at the end. I would say what made it really fall apart was the exposition dump. It was a loosely written story that used the mystery to its benefit and then when the creepiest point, the eyeless lady, just shows up and dumps exposition it ruins everything. If she really cared why didn't she say something earlier? And so on and so on.
Aaaaaaand just like that, John Mulaney fighting giant space chickens has been added to the list of my top Creep Cast moments, along side Dude Bro Kyle at the funeral in Borrasca and Apollo Creed being in The Left Right Game.
Can I just say how much I appreciate the background music? So many podcasts by RU-vidrs (cough red thread) just happen in defending silence and I love the ambiance
@@sexylazercatwizardrecent episode is alot better though, he always adds more when he actually has knowledge of the topic like with bowing planes or the goat man episode before
Sometimes I dislike the music because ill be playing a game in the background, if you want with the no music ones you can play your own in another tab, but cant do vice versa
Hunter’s theory about the eyeless woman being a twin makes so much more sense when you consider the facts she KNOWS the house layout. She’s so familiar with it because she grew up in it. To the point where she doesn’t need to see to not bump any surfaces.
