100 Short Creepypasta Stories To Read In Bed Tonight

The Best Creepypasta Story From Every State In The Country

1. Alabama

Anansi’s Goatman Story

A Chicago teenager visits his extended family in rural Alabama and quickly discovers that there are some places that no one should go, especially if you’re going camping in the woods at night. The story is full of half eaten pigs, darkness, and regrets that no one thought to bring a gun.

2. Alaska

The Harbinger Experiment

In 1971, a facility allegedly designed to test the limits of isolation on the human mind turns out to be cover for a scientist obsessed with proving the existence of the supernatural world.

3. Arizona

Arizona

Yes, the title of the story is also ‘Arizona’. This one is wonderfully straightforward. A couple decide to head out to meet some friends for a drunken, possibly drug-filled, party time in the Arizona desert. When they stop at an isolated gas station the whole starts to go very, very wrong.

4. Arkansas

The Clown With Bloody Teeth

Sarah receives and email from her longtime friend Shelly who’s in Arkansas haunted house hopping. She invites Sarah to come visit one haunted house in particular which she says has some “awesome scares.” Sarah takes Shelly up on the challenge.

5. California

The Island Of Dolls

A man and his wife decide to visit an island off the coast of California to see if the rumors they’d heard about disappearances long ago were true. Of course, it’s more complicated than people simply disappearing…

6. Colorado

Colorado Fishing Trip

Four friends go on a fishing trip deep into the backwoods of Boxwood Gulch. Once there, they discover the weather is acting strangely and the landscape itself seems to betray them.

7. Connecticut

Poisoned Oak

A man buys a house built in the year 1700 located on the Old King’s Highway in Connecticut and surrounded by an old growth oak forest. Then the mightiest oak tree begins to slowly die and unexplainable footprints begin appearing.

8. Delaware

Emerge

A man and a woman meet in Wilmington and marry. The husband has a classified job with the government and they settle down and begin raising a family…until they’re forced underground, literally.

9. Florida

The River Country Film

Disney World has a horrifying secret they buries many years ago. One man has discovered it.

10. Georgia

12 Minutes

A local news station in Atlanta tries to fill a programming gap with a religious tv show called “Words of Light with the Rev. Marly Sachs”. That’s when the miscarriages began.

11. Hawaii

The Truth Behind Morgan’s Corner

A 14-year-old boy decides to investigate the supernatural stories behind Morgan’s Corner, deep within the twisting trees and vines of the Pali Road, overlooking Nu’uanu, armed only with a backpack and a flashlight.

12. Idaho

Rabbits In The Creek

A young Mormon girl living in the country uses a rabbit to try and lure a mountain lion. She lures something else instead. (This one is truly something special).

13. Illinois

Case Report 7591

The contents of Case Report 7591 are finally revealed and the reasons why a once beloved theme park in small town Illinois was closed with no reasons given are finally made clear.

14. Indiana

A Recollection Of The Events Of January 8, 2015

A wonderful Lovecraftian tale of a History student dropping out of university to begin studying stranger fare.

15. Iowa

The Wretch Of Weed Park

A teenager finds a long unused and chained shut iron door in a disused portion of a public park. His curiosity gets the best of him.

16. Kansas

The Disappearance Of Ashley, Kansas

In August 1952, the town of Ashley, Kansas and all its 679 inhabitants ceased to exist. The above story is an account of that event as it happened.

17. Kentucky

Elsewhere, Kentucky

There is a town in Kentucky called Elsewhere that you won’t find on any map but after hearing stories about it one man sets out to find it despite the rumors about all the people who have disappeared there.

Bonus Kentucky story because this one is a classic.

Candle Cove

Several people discuss the children’s show “Candle Cove” that they recall from their childhood. The show takes on a new meaning to the adults now remembering just exactly what it was about.

18. Louisiana

The Devil’s Toybox

The Devil’s Toybox comes to small town Louisiana in the form of a small parish’s haunted house attraction constructed out of a windowless shack. Shut down after it caused one woman to have a heart attack and a man to become a mute. Fascinated by the stories, several people decide to experience the Toybox for themselves.

19. Maine

The Eighty-Seventh Face

Gore alert! A girl is enjoying some alone time with her family out of town when a family friend arrives. However, he’s somehow different than usual and things take an unexpected and terrifying turn.

20. Maryland

The Whitherer

All across Maryland, psychiatric patients begin having the same dream. Even worse, the dream begins following them into their waking life.

21. Massachusetts

A Warning

A college freshman at a Boston university becomes roommates with Mike, an obsessive who forms a deep interest in horror stories and videos. Slowly, Mike’s obsession begins to change him, starting with his voice.

22. Michigan

The Legend Of Michigan’s Dogman

“Somewhere in the north-woods darkness, a creature walks upright. And the best advice you may ever get is never to go out… at night.”

This creepypasta entry contains every ounce of information available on the infamous “Dogman” repeatedly sighted in Michigan.

23. Minnesota

The Silence Of The North Woods

A researcher lands on a dirt airport amidst the thick pines surrounding the remote Native American village of Ahtunowhiho. By nightfall he regrets it.

24. Mississippi

Mississippi Salvage

The journal of a young man gets a job dredging the Mississippi River for salvage but one day he and his work mates see a lone figure standing in the dry riverbed.

25. Missouri

Ozark Cable

For years, Ozark Cable has provided minimal service to its rural customers. One day, however, they receive a notice. Ozark Cable is upgrading. That’s when the faces started to appear.

26. Montana

Don’t You Just Hate Car Trouble

An oil worker and Montana native’s car trouble gets him in a tight spot during the Rocky Mountain winter when he’s forced to drive 220 miles in search of a better life.

27. Nebraska

The Showers

This story is fantastically in-depth and well written. A high school teacher tells his students a terrifying story on Halloween, a story so vivid that it might just be true.

28. Nevada

Gates

The story of Mel Waters and the bottomless hole he claimed to have found. The author claims there are many more just like it all across the globe and that they aren’t merely holes, they are gateways.

29. New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Diary

A camper finds a well preserved but 21-year-old diary while digging in the New Hampshire wilderness. What it contains is as terrifying as it is mysterious.

30. New Jersey

New City Village

A new neighborhood goes up in a New Jersey town. At first it’s the usual, older and younger families moving in, starting their lives or winding them down. But that was before the noises started and the children disappeared…

31. New Mexico

The Shortcut

A man heads home to visit his parents for Thanksgiving and in order to cut two hours of his drive he takes a shortcut down a dirt road that becomes increasingly overgrown. Sometimes the GPS is just plain wrong.

32. New York

The Strangers

A New York immigrant and people watcher loves to observe people as they travel around the city on the subway. One day he takes an interest in someone very different and he can’t quite place why. ‘Why’ soon becomes clear.

33. North Carolina

Abandoned By Disney

Near the beachside city of Emerald Isle in North Carolina, Disney began construction of “Mowgli’s Palace” in the late 1990s. The concept was a Jungle-themed resort with a large palace in the center. Then, inexplicably, they shut the whole thing down. Here’s the story of why.

34. North Dakota

Umbra

Beginning around the first snowfall in early November, people began to find snowmen in their yards, with no idea of who exactly had made them.  At the same time, everyone began to find keys in their mailboxes, in sealed, unmarked envelopes.  Some of these keys came smeared with blood, which were later proved to be that from a lamb while others came attached with travel tags in various foreign languages.

35. Ohio

Skinwalker

An excerpt: “My father told me a story once. I’ll never forget it, for a few reasons. I think it’s the first story he ever told me, as a child. It’s also the story of how my grandfather died. But honestly, that isn’t the reason.

You hear stories, on TV, or sometimes you over hear something in a public place. People talk about ghosts and aliens, and you think to yourself, ‘That isn’t real. They’re making it up, or they’re mistaken, or they’re crazy,’ or something like that. You just can’t believe it.”

Good stuff.

36. Oklahoma

Anomaly

A photo book publisher receives an unsolicited submission from a photo collector but is nonetheless intrigued. After attempting to publish the book the deal falls apart but the publisher still has photos, bizarre and terrifying.

37. Oregon

It Has No Face

A trip from California to Oregon turns dire when snow makes the roads treacherous and all there is to be done is find a place on a mountainside to stay for the night. Luckily, a cabin comes into view.

38. Pennsylvania

Return To Pennsylvania

A young man returns home after studying abroad and losing touch with his girlfriend only to find that much has changed since he left. Several of his friends have disappeared and strange creatures are allegedly to blame.

39. Rhode Island

Stevie

A Connecticut psychotherapist is called to a Rhode Island asylum to speak with a patient who’s been convicted of murder. He soon discovers that, in this case, it’s not a matter of simple murder.

40. South Carolina

Hanging Man Hill

A young boy moves to a new neighborhood where he makes a friend obsessed with the macabre. One day this new friend tells him the story of Hanging Man Hill. The two boys then set out to investigate.

41. South Dakota

Hot

A journal style pasta based on a found journal: “The following journal entries were taken from an odd book that was strangely found almost perfectly in shape despite the intense destruction of the area surrounding it on June 7th, 2006. It has been predicted that the absolute destruction, having taken place in the outskirt farmlands of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was caused by a great massive fire, having destroyed and burnt down just about everything standing in its range.”

Bonus South Dakota story because this one is great too.

Never Answer The Door At Night

An excerpt: “My father grew up on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. It is a place with few trees and even fewer people, and there has been little development since the place was settled many, many years ago. The people live in clusters of nearly uniform houses that were built by the government, and the only place to go shopping or see a movie is nearly two hours away. It’s hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and sometimes the wind blows for days without letting up. Even now, the people there have to be tough to survive. You look out for your friends, you help your neighbors, and you don’t forget your family.”

And with that, there’s a knock at the door.

42. Tennessee

The Rotunda

A winter hike and trip to town by a group of friends takes them to a haunted house. Most don’t want to go in but our storyteller is brave, too brave for their own good.

43. Texas

Summer In Texas

This one begins with a bang and doesn’t slow down.

An Excerpt: “The chanting had stopped, and with that, Joey and Jason looked at each other, afraid of what they might face in the seconds ahead. Was she still alive? Yet their resolve had won the battle of the what-ifs earlier that day. It was a rare occasion when Jason considered the well-being of anyone else. His humanity was showing like a big red pimple on a nose, disgusting him. He also felt the need to be there for his best friend Joey. He wasn’t going to allow him to go in and rescue this weird chick all alone. He had to help.  Joey would do the same for him.”

44. Utah

Ted The Caver

Not so much a creepypasta as a real journal begun in 2001 by a caver known only as “Ted.” The cave in question is commonly believed to be the Interstate Cave in Utah. As Ted and his fellow cavers go deeper things get weirder and weirder. This is a truly incredible story and you shouldn’t miss it.

45. Vermont

The Thing That Will Kill Me

Our storyteller and their friend Tina go to speak with Luvia, an old woman long believed in possession of clairvoyant powers. The two then ask Luvia for a reading and what she senses in their future is truly terrifying.

46. Virginia

Our Little Roanoke

A one hundred-year-old mill in the middle of the Virginian forest long entices a group of three friends to see if any of the legends about disappearances from long ago are true.

47. Washington

Washington’s Inconceivable

A nature lover becomes an ecologist and begins work at Olympic National Forest where he notices an unexplainable drop in the Black Tailed Deer population. In an attempt to find out why he’s forced deeper into the forest than he’s ever gone before. This one is told in a style that any HP Lovecraft fan will immediately recognize.

48. West Virginia

Lyeford, West Virginia

The history of the tiny unincorporated town of Lyeford, a community too small to appear on any maps and possessed of a singularly disturbing past specifically regarding a man named Mad Jack.

49. Wisconsin

Rising Tides

A professor tells the ghost story of two “naive characters and their dogs” to his fellow academics. It quickly becomes clear that the professor himself is one of the characters and that this is no mere ghost story.

50. Wyoming

The Wyoming Incident

An account of a lesser known instance of signal hijacking little reported by the national media which caused viewers of the hijacked signal to become nauseous, some even hallucinated even as a result of viewing the signal.


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