Sometimes there’s a story that just has it all. I’m no story teller, not like Mikey or Hutch, but I’ll try my best.” Instead, I sat down in front of the computer and I started typing. After a while, I gave up trying to sleep. Instead, I found myself thinking about that night in the penitentiary, the night of the lockdown I kept thinking about Mikey and Big Rob and the rest of them, all of us huddled in a cell with the lights off and the frigid northwest winds howling at the walls. “Satisfied that I wasn’t about to become chow for some unspeakable creature, I laid back down on my squeaky, saggy old cot and tried to get back to sleep - but I couldn’t. Told between three friends in a love triangle, the subjects talk about investigating an old secret involving a kid’s entertainment establishment that their small town wishes it could forget.Ĭome for the interpersonal drama, stay for the horror movie-like scenery, and keep staying for the theories Reddit users have exchanged among themselves to make sense of the story’s brilliant and scary twist.

And I remember thinking, I don’t know if this makes me feel better or worse.”Ī brilliant, bizarre mix of Five Night’s at Freddy’s, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Blair Witch Project, and Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, “Uncle Gerry’s Family Fun Zone” is an easy-to-read tale of terror in the form of a banal Q&A interview that ends with sheer horror. So we weren’t the first people that’d been there.

Everything except for “Fun,” but the ‘F’ was turned into an ‘R’ and an exclamation point was added. Someone had spray-painted X’s over the farmer’s eyes, and nearly every letter had been scribbled out. Probably fifteen feet high, and above it was the sign: Uncle Gerry’s Family Fun Zone, with this picture of a cartoon farmer with a piece of straw hanging from his mouth. “I mean, we came all that way, right? The main entrance was this huge, wooden double door. “Uncle Gerry’s Family Fun Zone” by Red_Grin Another one of r/NoSleep’s best, the story was formally recognized as such when it was published in September 2012. While the emails start out with juicy relationship gossip (as nosy people, of course we’re immediately invested), you quickly realize there’s something sinister and otherworldly at play. That’s where “I found a usb stick” comes in, in which Fyve is crowdsourcing tech support to help them investigate bizarre emails exchanged between two friends on different sides of the world. The best stories of r/NoSleep don’t just take advantage of the “Asking Reddit” format, they also feature fully-realized characters with something to lose. I’m going to share with you the more interesting emails, ordered and formatted (where appropriate) for easier reading, and maybe you can help me decide what to make of it.” I think I’m going to hand it in to the police still, sometime in the future. Usually, I wouldn’t go snooping through such private information, but I felt such a strange urge. There were about 100 emails, mostly unconnected, but a few were really interesting. “There were a few folders with incomprehensible names, and 3 others: “Case Notes”, “Training”, and “Emails”. With Halloween upon us once again, here are just five of some of the best stories ever told on r/NoSleep: Unlike the old tales of witches and devils, the monsters in these stories have evolved, becoming malevolent television shows or ghostly text messages from dead girlfriends that haunt living boyfriends. It’s like crowd-sourcing fear, and r/NoSleep is always in demand. Sometimes, users in the comments will break character, praising the “OP” (original poster) for the clever writing, but others add new layers to the terror. Unlike Creepypastas, another Reddit creation, the goal of r/NoSleep is a level of “role-playing,” where the author pretends the story is legit and writes pleading to their fellow Redditors for answers, help, or just a bit of hope.

While the internet has always been a treasure trove for scary stories, r/NoSleep is unique. And they call come from everyday Reddit users. On Reddit, “the front page of the internet,” the massively popular (11,809,894 members) community r/NoSleep houses some of the creepiest, oftentimes longest short stories you could possibly find. Oral traditions, in which village historians weaved tall tales to preserve the stories of their people - many of them ghost stories - have evolved and migrated onto the internet.

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