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Welcome back to Creepcast.

Today we are reading creepypastas based around rituals that you can perform at home that are real.

You want to talk to God?

Yeah.

You want to talk to the devil?

Yeah, today you can talk to both of them at the same time.

Kill your mom.

Go into your room tonight.

Take a big, fluffy pillow and put it over your mom's face.

It's time for her to go.

Okay?

You want riches beyond your wildest comprehension?

Kill your mom.

Kill her.

I'm not even joking.

Why don't you kill your mom today?

Why don't you get a big old handful of pills and put in her mouth while she's sleeping?

She doesn't choke on him, she'll probably overdose.

I can't wait for someone to actually have a problem with those, like a real one.

And there's going to be so many clips to use.

I feel infinite.

You know, it's just a ritual, dude.

It's not the end of the world.

Kill your parents.

Okay.

All right.

Anyway, so

kill your parents, but then kill yourself.

Okay, all right.

There's we are pushing every guideline we can find at this point.

Our YouTube partner managers are sweating constantly.

So if you're like me and you grew up with creepypasta, you probably came a lot of these ritual creepypastas.

There were several that had the gimmick of getting a game for you to play or a way for you to talk to ghosts or something like that.

Very similar to like old seance stories from like you know the satanic panic in the 80s and stuff like that, just made with like more modern implements or sometimes being more specific.

And if you're like me, you were too scared to do any of them, but you did read about them a lot.

So, I've wanted to cover this topic for a while, and we have an excellent excuse to cover it today, Hunter.

What would that excuse be?

I have a bad heartburn this morning.

Yeah, we got a sponsor from A24.

You heard of him?

We got A24.

I have no idea how, which after the intro to that, it may never happen.

I mean,

I'm buddies with the Rocka Rocka guys.

Philippo Brothers.

Huh?

Philippo Brothers, right?

Yeah, well, I was just referring to them.

Rocka Rocka, sure.

Whatever.

Whatever, dude.

I'm trying to keep them humble with their YouTuber.

Okay.

All right, right, yeah.

These YouTubers, double YouTubers.

They're coming out with their new movie, Bring Her Back, on May 30th.

And you guys should check it out because it's going to be fucking.

Actually, we got to see it, and it's amazing.

Yes.

We got to see it.

They gave us a nice little screener.

Sorry, we're famous.

We're kind of cool.

We're pretty neat.

Steven Spielberg was there.

Yep.

I gave him in the woods.

He was still mad that we just stole Spire in the woods.

He was upset about that.

But he liked the movie so much that he said he won't take us to court over it.

No, it's good.

It's a good deal.

It's pretty good.

We're good.

No, Bring Her Back comes out in theaters on May 30th.

For people that don't know, it is the sophomore film from the brothers since their first freshman film, Talk to Me, which was awesome.

Talk to me.

Big hit.

Such a banger.

I love it.

Me and you both have the hand from Talk to Me and like our studios and our setup.

I love that movie so much.

It was awesome.

There it is.

Oh, God.

It crawled its way out, dude.

Now they have another,

or they will have another movie out.

Bring her back.

We loved it.

We watched it last night.

We loved it.

There was one scene I physically jumped.

It has been a long time since that's happened in a horror movie.

And there were three scenes me and you looked away because it was like the which I don't think it's spoiling anything to say that like the practical effects, the gore and stuff was very, very well done.

I was impressed with it.

Danny and Michael do this great thing where, and I think that's why we wanted to touch on the ritual stuff today is in their movies, they know how to simply articulate a very straightforward ritualistic experience.

Yes, that is just super fun.

And I think that, you know, we were talking about this beforehand.

It's like Bloody Mary and all that stuff.

I feel like the way that they present some of these rituals, it feels just as like candid as that.

The movie does a great job.

It's similar to films like Hereditary, right?

Where it's like, even if they're not setting you down and saying, this is step one, this is step two, you see all of the, you know, effects of it play out, and you can tell there is this piece together lore behind the curtain that's kind of you know everything that we see on screen is the operations of it uh and i think that's always really cool and it does remind me of like old creepyposs and stuff like that which is why i wanted to cover it today i for one was blown away uh when we got the message that 824 wanted uh me and you to be a part of like you know the pre-promo the pre-release for the film uh it's really awesome been a huge fan of the studio and was a huge fan of talk to me i've been watching those guys since like the Ronald McDonald videos way back on YouTube.

So this is wild.

This really is like insane.

Every day, I'm thankful for you guys.

Thank you all for giving us the opportunity to have this very crazy life.

I appreciate it.

It means a lot.

Hunter doesn't, but I do.

So, thank you for that.

I don't think it's a spoiler to say that in the movie there is a ritual involved, as we've talked about.

So, today we're going to be looking at several famous creepypasta rituals.

Which one are we starting with?

The Midnight Game.

Okay.

So, the Midnight Game was one of the earliest ritual creepypastas, at least one of the earliest ones I remember.

The image we're working off of was uploaded January 10th, 2011 to Imgur, the image board.

I think

this is the first iteration of it.

It appears to be a screenshot, but this is the earliest one that I remember.

Hunter is now using his power and controlling the television screen in front of me to show me just obscene things.

It was a buff Darth Maul.

He keeps typing in things while I'm sitting here.

It was on the side.

I'm sorry.

He keeps typing in things to bring me.

Okay, now it's all

okay.

Hold on.

He has to get back.

What if I just start doing the episode?

Just start reading rituals.

I'll tell you honestly, a reason that I'm

just so excited that my friend's here and that we get to, you know, read this.

And then also,

this coffee's

blasting through me.

Like, I'm not joking like i'm gonna have to take like a five and like dump it out

dump it out before we get rolling i mean i'm but i'm like in the hot i'm like wanting to just get rolling we have not got anything we haven't got rolling yet if you need if we haven't even read a thing yet i've been doing this there's a there's a movie called the the midnight game that came out in 2013.

uh it might be related she has a pentagram on her back so that's probably it's probably related yeah can't find the emgur

okay go back to the reddit no no no, no, go back to the reddit.

Oh, and I click the link.

If you need to go to the bathroom, now would be the time.

I'll just hold it.

Okay.

All right.

So, from 2011, I believe this is the early iteration.

I remember reading this and getting freaked out by it, and some of you guys probably do as well.

So, with that, let us begin the midnight game.

The midnight game is an old pagan ritual used mainly as punishment for those who have broken the laws of the pagan religion in question.

While it is mainly used as a scare tactic to not disobey disobey the gods, there is still a very real chance of death to those who play the midnight game, and there is an even higher chance of permanent mental scarring.

It is highly recommended that you do not play the midnight game, but for those few thrill seekers searching for a rush or those delving into obscure occult rituals, these are the simple instructions on how to play.

Do so at your own risk.

Instructions.

Prerequisites.

It must be exactly midnight when you begin performing the ritual, otherwise it will not work.

Materials required include a candle a wooden door at least one drop of your own blood a piece of paper matches or a lighter and salt if you are playing with multiple people they will all need their own of the aforementioned materials and will have to perform the steps below separately step one write your full name first middle and last on a piece of paper and put at least one drop of your blood onto the paper allow it to soak into the paper Step two.

Turn off all the lights in the house, go to your front door, which must be wooden, and place the paper with your name on it in front of it.

Now, take the candle and light it.

Place the candle on top of the paper with your name.

Step 3.

Knock on your own door 22 times.

The hour must be 12 a.m.

upon the final knock.

Then open the door, blow out the candle, and close the door.

You have just allowed the midnight man into your house.

Just

like, sorry, I did not expect the midnight man.

You just let the midnight man into your house.

That does read kind of funny.

Just like, yeah, the midnight game, whatever.

All of a sudden, it's like, knock on the door 22 times, blow out the candle.

You just invited the midnight man into your house.

Congratulations.

What?

It is funny because I remember reading this.

So I would have been like 10 or 11 when I heard this the first time.

And I I just remember like reading that line and just getting scared out of my mind.

What did you, what does a midnight man look like to you?

Well, that's the thing, it could be anything.

No, but I mean, like, whenever you do you remember like a shadow man, like a like a Hatman kind of figure, like a void, right?

Yeah, step four: immediately relight your candle.

This is where the game begins.

You must now lurk around your now completely dark house with the lit candle in hand.

Your goal is to avoid the midnight man at all costs until exactly 3.33 a.m.

Should your candle ever go out, then that means the midnight man is nearby.

You must relight the candle within the next 10 seconds.

If you are unsuccessful in relighting your candle, you must then immediately surround yourself with the circle of salt.

If you are unsuccessful in both of those, the midnight man will then induce a hallucination of your greatest fear, which will last until 3.33 a.m.

If you are successful in creating the circle of salt you must stay within the circle until 3 33 a.m

you must continue until 3 33 a.m without being attacked by the midnight man or being

or being

just keep thinking about your read

you have now let the midnight man into your house you are now inside of the salt circle you will have violent ibuprofen hallucinations until 3 33 a.m

like it's a like it's no longer instructions it's a threat like i'm gonna do this to you you are having a stress nightmare

you must continue until 3 33 a.m without being attacked by the midnight man or being trapped within the circle of salt to win the midnight game the midnight man will then leave at 3 33 a.m and you will be safe to proceed with your morning addendum indications that you are near the midnight man include a sudden drop in temperature seeing a pure black humanoid figure throughout the darkness and very soft whispering coming from an indiscernible source If you experience any of these, it is advised that you leave the area to avoid the midnight man.

Staying in one spot spot throughout the entire game will only result in the midnight man finding you it's highly advised that you keep moving throughout the game do not turn on any lights during the midnight game do not use a flashlight during the game do not go to sleep during the game do not use another person's blood on your name do not use a lighter to substitute for a candle it will not work and definitely do not try to provoke the midnight man in any way

That is all.

Have fun.

I love it.

First of all, I just want to say, if I would have read this when I I was like at a very young age, this would scare the shit out of you.

Well, you know, like do it with your friends where it's like, I don't know, like I could see myself getting freaked out.

I just love how this reads a bit, though, where it's just like, if you see a shit, if you see a man made of shadows, that's the

midnight man.

Who are you?

Like, in this situation, is that my dad?

It's like, no.

Like, after the midnight man thing, you'd be like, well, that could be anybody.

And I love the idea, too, of do not, definitely don't try to provoke the midnight man in any way.

Yeah.

because you know there's gonna be some kids where they're gonna be doing the ritual and they they put that in there So when kids are doing it, they're like I don't fucking see him fuck you but yeah

stop quit don't and that was the thing kids would do this right?

Yeah,

I remember like telling my parents about it and like my mom got really mad She was like Isaiah never do anything that you have to cut yourself to be a part of so I never did the midnight man

I mean like your kid's like yeah we're gonna like if a kid's like we're gonna do bloody merry or whatever who cares?

But if your kid's like, yeah, I've got to put my blood on a piece of paper.

Like, no, it's like, all right, maybe, maybe don't do that.

I gotta put my blood on a piece of paper.

Hunter said he's gonna be.

Jeremy was gonna let me his blood, but they said I can't use his for my father.

Or else it'll put a curse upon his bloodline or something.

It'll curse his family.

They'll die.

So.

Like the midnight game, like kids would play this, right?

And they'd freak each other out with piffs.

Or it was like, I did it and I heard something.

Or like, my friend started screaming.

I think she was having hallucinations, stuff like that.

It's like a modern, like, you know, old seance stuff and things like that.

It was.

The only thing I think I ever did when I was younger was, what the fuck is it when you're laying flat as a board, whatever?

Light as a feather.

What am I thinking?

Flat as a board, light as a feather.

You sit there, and you have a friend that's like laying down, and then you're like, you have your pinkies under them, and they like lift you off the ground.

You're like, oh, oh.

Oh, I know what you're talking about.

I remember that.

Yeah, yeah.

Dude, I felt my soul leave my body.

I felt my soul leave my body.

I was getting lifted up, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro.

Dude, dude, I want to go home.

I want to go home.

I had a kid seriously do that at

one of my friends' birthday parties.

Even at a young age, you're like, what?

He's like, I want to go home.

And his mom had to come get him at, like, I'm not even joking.

It was like 1:30 at the moment.

I want to go home.

I want to see my mom.

Like,

we didn't really lift you off the ground.

Who cared, won't go home?

Yeah, I cut the reality.

It's me.

I'm the kid to say that.

There's some loser.

Yeah, exactly.

There's some freak.

Some fat child did that.

Hold on.

Can we do Bloody Mary next?

Because that's the other classic, but I also have a story I want to tell in association with that.

Well, Bloody, you understand what it is?

Do we have to read it?

I mean, it's like, oh, is this a whole story or is it just like.

That's a whole story.

Oh, okay.

So, yeah, we could just say it.

So, Bloody Mary is like the classic.

Everyone knows that one, right?

You go into, there's some different variations of it, but you go into like

normally a bathroom, but a room with a mirror.

And then you turn off the lights and you light a candle and you say, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary.

When you turn the lights back on, she'll be somewhere in your reflection.

And the idea is that she'll always be there.

Even if she doesn't show up right away, she could always be there, which is how it works so well.

Because after the kids freaked out, and if they don't see her at first, it's like, well, now for the rest of your life, you could always be in a mirror.

So, Mary, yeah, Mary, is that you?

Whoa.

Um,

so when I was in middle school, I think it was the seventh grade,

like, uh, all the like Bloody Mary became like the thing.

People were like seeing scary pictures of it and stuff like that.

And then one day during PE,

like,

all the guys were like, okay, we're gonna do it, we're gonna be brave.

So, we're gonna go into the bathroom.

We're gonna do it.

You know, real boys.

Come on, guys.

So, we went into the bathroom at our middle school.

And one of the older kids

was like,

he normally would make fun of us for this kind of thing.

He would be like, oh, you like scary stories.

It's really stupid.

You're dumb.

One of the people who would put me in the trash can.

It's mentioned in previous stories I've talked about.

But this time, for some reason, he was on board.

I'm like, well, that's suspicious.

Oh, well, so.

We go to the bathroom, and the way it's set up is like, there's a long sink with like the stalls behind you, and the mirrors are like across in front of them.

So I'm like scared, like a couple of the other kids are scared.

And we go up and we didn't have a lighter, so we just like skipped that step and turned off the lights.

I love it.

So it's just what I love.

That's such a kid lodger, too.

Well, we don't have that, so that step's not necessary.

No, we don't have that, so we're not gonna do that.

That's fine.

We don't need that one, actually.

So we go in the bathroom and we turn off the lights and we're like, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary.

We say it three times.

And then the lights come back on.

And the millisecond those lights come back on.

The older kid from earlier

kicks open one of the stall doors, and he had a bag full of basketballs.

Jeez, he just started wailing.

What the fuck?

To be fair, it was one of the scariest moments of my life

because

the tension's so high.

Yeah, that's already fucking scary.

You're so freaked out.

And then like the older school bully just throws open the door.

Just like starts

beating the hell out.

And the other one's like, got the door shut.

Like, you're not getting out.

You got to take your legs.

Right.

So this is what you get for being stupid and believing in ghosts.

Just getting decimated in the bathroom with that.

So.

I did the Bloody Mary thing.

It did get scared out of my mind.

Do you think?

Because when you think of Bloody Mary, you think of like a

bloody woman in like a Victorian dress, right?

Well, I've always heard that it is Queen Mary,

okay, who like killed all the

bathed in blood or something like that.

Is that what?

Yeah, that's part of the story, right?

She was called Bloody Mary while she was the queen, yeah.

Would it be still be equally as effective if it was like if you just said like Greg three times in the mirror, it was like a regular looking guy?

Would that still be creepy?

It'll be creepy, yeah.

I think it adds, well, what's Greg's intentions with me?

I mean, what?

I mean, nothing.

You just like the thing is

when you say it, a like middle-aged man will just be standing behind you in your reflection.

Is he clothed?

Yeah.

It's not that bad.

I would say business casual.

Yeah.

Is he kind?

He doesn't say a word.

But does he look kind?

He just kind of

does like the Jim Halpert smirk.

This is a little quirky.

A little weird.

That's fine.

You can be alone and you're like, Greg, Greg, Greg.

How fucked up would it be that every time you look in a reflection though, Greg's there?

It'd be rough in the bathroom.

Like you're getting out of the shower and you're naked and Greg's just standing there looking at you.

Hey, Greg.

Hi, Greg.

I'm really glad you're here right now.

Thanks, Greg.

You're not in here when my wife's in here, are you?

Oh, Greg.

Silly guy.

Greg's just window shopping again.

Yeah, old Greg, just look but don't touch.

That's his motto.

He actually doesn't have a motto.

He never speaks.

Yeah, I've actually never.

And then when he talks, he has like a very thick Jamaican accent.

Greg, I don't think that's.

Greg, are you putting that on?

Greg, I don't think that's.

Is that what you really sound like?

Do you really know what bombaclot means, Greg?

Or did you just say it because you went on a cruise to Mexico one time and you heard someone say it and you thought it was all that Royal Caribbean shirt that you were wearing?

Yeah,

you might have just been island hopping.

I think you're being a little insensitive, Greg.

Now, if you could quit hanging over my wife's bed every night when we go to sleep, that'd be great.

And also quit being culturally insensitive.

Hey, the new movie from A24 is coming out.

Bring her back.

Coming out May 30th.

Go check it out.

Check it out.

A24, bring her back.

It's a movie.

It's a good one.

We enjoyed it.

Go watch it May 30th.

Thank you.

But no, I mean, these stories are fun.

You get your friends scared about it, stuff like that.

There's one my mom had.

She grew up in like eastern Kentucky.

And she grew up.

I'm going to be telling this story again.

Yeah,

I told you right before we started recording, before the recording, my mom had the story of like, it was called like the knock knock man or the knock knock guy.

And it's like you have to wait till everyone goes to sleep and then uh her and her sisters would get together and the chant was something like knock knock man come by knock knock man say hi and then you would hear knocking at the door but every time you went to the door no one would be there but she also like like old appalachia especially if you were poor it's like all there was to do was find ways to almost die It was like, oh, you kids want to go to the old abandoned rock quarry Saturday?

And we can like jump like off the, off the cliffs into the waters, just stuff like that all the time.

I never had rituals for my family.

I remember my grandma, my great-grandma, though,

she took my hand and brought me up to my like her attic one time.

Or it was like the second story of her house one time.

Took me in this room, and she was like, Grandpa died right here on the floor.

And I was like, Oh, and he's like, and he's still here every day.

I see him, he sits in this bed.

He's like, So, when you come over, I want you to come upstairs and say hi to him.

Wow,

so that's the

traumatizing.

Well, that's 100% like that's how these ritual things start.

Because if you told your kids and stuff, it's like, you know, your great-great-grandfather, the addict, and stuff.

That's where like these stories come from.

Well, I remember just being like, listen here, you old hag.

I'm not going to fucking go upstairs and like wait for a guy to just sit there and be like,

because all my grandpa did, different grandpa, not the

bad.

I assumed, I assumed, yeah.

He would just sit there and he just eat MMs in his chair.

That's all I remember from him.

And he fucking died.

In that chair?

Yeah.

So then she left.

She would seriously leave like a mason jar jar of MMs up there because she's like, I see him every day.

Did the MM jar ever move?

Did you ever see the amount go up or down?

I don't know.

I never went up there.

She's like, Donna, go up.

I would lie right to her face.

Did you go up and say hi to your grandpa?

I'd say, yeah, I did.

Yep.

Did you see him?

You saw him up there, right?

It's funny, like, you pretend to walk up the stairs and then you quit, but at the top of the stairs, I wouldn't have told you.

She had like a giant mousetrap ready for you.

Yeah.

Like a tumble chair.

That's weird.

You're not cut in half.

I know you didn't see him because the hat man didn't get you.

Yeah, she has like some Kevin McAllister like paint buckets waiting for me.

Like your frontal lobe isn't smashed in.

That's odd.

I'm trying to get you to say hi to grandpa.

When you go say hi to grandpa.

Could you go do that for me, please, really?

Really quick?

Just real fast.

Yeah, that's

that's where a lot of these came from.

Like different ways to scare people, different ways to like keep stories alive, so to speak.

Another one of those that I remember that we're going to look at next is called 11 Miles.

11 Miles.

So

this one was originally posted in,

I feel like it's not as old as the old ones.

I'm so confused by creepypasta.com.

Anyway, 11 Miles is a more modern one,

but there's been like,

I haven't read it myself, but people mention it a lot now in reference with things like the Midnight Game, Bloody Mary, and stuff like that.

I also like the rituals that require you to be more specific i guess rather than just like oh you can go to your bathroom and do this like you have to be more dedicated to it right it's kind of the way a lot of old like pagan rituals were and stuff like that like you have to go to one spot in the woods you have to like carve a shape or something like that there's more dedication to it yeah this is for the more dedicated exactly yeah people wanting to get spooked yeah it's it you know actually

a lot of this stuff is similar to like left-right game like to get to this alternate world, it's like you just pick, you have to go to a street, you have to go left and right, left, then right.

Probably also why they're not as popular, though.

Children can't do it over at sleepovers.

That's true.

You know what I mean?

That's also true.

Yeah.

That's where it hits a lot.

But for us grown adults who do rituals.

We do it all the time.

Exactly.

Yeah.

11 miles.

If you attempt this challenge but fail, then who knows what will happen to you?

If you finish the challenge, you will find your reward.

Do you have something that you truly relentlessly desire?

Despite your state of life, is there something else that you would go completely to the end of the world to get?

Well, lucky for you, there's a way to achieve, but the journey can prove to be too bothersome.

Is it saying that it's literally going to grant you a wish?

It's saying that some desire will be at the end of it, once you get to the end.

Rules are, do not use a vehicle too large or noticeable as you will need some of the cover of night to be most safe.

Also, while any sort of car will do, you may not want to choose the most expensive or cherished vehicle.

Do not drive faster than 30 miles per hour.

You can take your slick new black Mercedes for the drive.

If you're close, you will see or feel its signs, but what the signs will be depend on what it is you desire.

For example, if you're in search of wealth, you may spot shimmers on the empty branches of trees, as if they rings you through 11 miles, leading to whatever it is you seek.

Each mile will test your desire and will always get harder.

Do not open the windows when you've entered.

Time has stopped, so you don't need to worry about losing the night.

Though you may not notice, you're not actually in your own world anymore.

Take one last moment to realize that once the first mile is mostly through the woods, with the first few miles being an exception.

The air will turn a bit colder, in which you should turn on your heating system if the vehicle has one.

You won't want to take your eyes off the road later.

Take some time to calm any uneasiness by admiring some of the night sky.

You'll see it completely lined with stars and you'll realize that the vehicle's headlights will no longer be required.

Restrain yourself from gazing at it.

If you look at its light for even more than a few seconds, the road in front of you will end, throwing your vehicle into the water, which you will freeze in mere minutes.

Voices will be gone for this mile, but don't rejoice yet.

They'll be back.

So now we lay out those specific miles.

What happens on each one?

On the first mile, if it gets really cold, you may turn your heater on.

On the second mile, if you still haven't turned the heater on, you should do it now.

If you decide to not turn it on, you may regret it later.

On the third mile, ignore any silhouettes that you may see in the trees.

No matter how human they seem, keep your eyes on the road.

On the fourth mile, you may hear voices whispering in your ear.

Ignore them, no matter how human they seem.

On the fifth mile, if the trees vanish, a random appearance of a lake and the moon starts glowing, ignore them at all costs.

On the sixth mile, take into account that you are more than halfway done.

Despite the progress, you may lose hope here.

The stars will have disappeared at this point, leaving the sky an empty, black abyss.

The clearing will have ended, leading you back into the woods.

The only light you will be provided with is by your vehicle's headlights, but they will flicker from time to time even if you're sure they're in perfect working order.

If you have a radio in the vehicle, it will turn on here automatically.

If you didn't turn it off beforehand, it will produce an overwhelming screech that will send you off the path.

Calm voice will then begin to speak out about your greatest fears, what it is you are horrified of in your life.

It will speak in a way that will cause you to visualize the words in your mind.

So don't listen to it.

If you begin to comprehend what it's saying, the horrors will prove too much for you.

Stay on the road.

That reminds me of like

during the left-right game.

Remember how there's the radio broadcast from, what was it, Winterby, right?

I love that.

I forget what the name of the radio station was, but he's like, and we're with you till the witching hour.

Yes, witching hour.

Such a cool, like, like, world-building note here, but it's kind of a similar vibe here.

Like, you've driven somewhere that is

in a different world and now there's voices speaking through i don't know which one came first but this feels very very similar just in terms of even the progress the beats of like how it progresses yeah i mean not specifically what's happening but just like hey by this mark this new thing is gonna happen the journey is kind of perilous whatever it is similar yeah on the seventh mile you may hear voices again no matter how close they may sound ignore them at all cost If the voices are coming from the back seat, do not turn around.

Just keep ignoring them and focus your eyes on the road.

On the eighth mile, slow down but do not stop if your headlights flicker slow down but don't stop if it gets really cold do not stop if you hear or see anything ignore them and keep driving on the ninth mile your vehicle will stall temporarily close your eyes and try to restart your vehicle no matter what do not open your eyes even if you hear anything telling you to open your eyes just ignore them and remain your eyes closed.

When your vehicle starts, drive as fast as you can to the next mile with your eyes closed.

When the mile is over, you will know when the mile is over.

You may open your eyes.

On the 10th mile, the voices of the beings will stop.

If you were to look in your rearview mirror, do not actually do this, you will see them following and are impressed that you have come a long way on the journey to what you desire because you are most likely going to your death.

On the 11th and final mile, your vehicle may lose power, but continue to move.

If you see a red light ahead, close your eyes tightly.

Cover them if you must.

Cover your ears if you're able to.

You will hear unrelenting and inconceivable noises from all directions.

No amount of bravery and conditioning will spare you from these sounds.

You will feel things touching you.

The cold will turn to a merciless heat, burning all parts of the vehicle.

You will feel the illusion of the flesh being burned off your bones, but no matter what, do not look.

Once the power returns, stop your vehicle.

Open your eyes, take a deep breath, and continue driving.

Keep driving until your vehicle arrives at a dead end.

Stop here and don't attempt to move again.

Nothing will happen once you've reached this point.

You may realize that you are back where you first began.

This may confuse you, but know that you are finished.

Your task is done.

Close your eyes and imagine your deepest desire, even if it has changed from when the journey began.

Imagine not desiring it, but possessing it.

Open your eyes and you will find what you desire.

So now that the task is done, what's the catch?

Is your vehicle cursed?

Is there something you're about to lose?

Is your death imminent?

The answer to all is no.

Of course.

You've done the challenge.

You've proved worthy of what you desire, as stated before.

Sounds of the 11th mile will continue to exist in your mind, potentially causing you some vivid and unusual nightmares, but these should prove as nothing compared to what you've gained.

That is the 11 miles.

This reminds me of a, you remember that thing?

It's like during the pandemic, the Randonautica.

Is that what it was called?

I have no idea.

There's a saying it was called Rando Nautica.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

It was, I think it was called Randonautica.

It was an app where it would give you random locations around you to go drive.

Yeah.

So it's like you get in your car and you turn on the app and it would say it would be like something that was specifically made for the pandemic era or was that just an app?

That's always a thing.

It was like taking you to weird locations in your town or whatever.

And it just blew up during the pandemic because there wasn't a lot, you know.

to hang out and do.

So people started doing it.

And it became this whole thing online because it was taking people to really weird places.

And like it would take them to like, oh, this is where an old school that burned down or this is like the abandoned, whatever.

So I did it once

because, again, I'm weird.

There's nothing else to do.

So I'm like, I'm going to try it late one night.

I was driving back from Kayla's when her and I were dating.

I'm like, let me just try it out.

So I punch it in.

And

it just gave me like a location like 10 miles away.

And it took me like a, I'd never been down these roads around the county before.

And then I get to the end location, and it was the cemetery where my parents had bought me a grave plot.

So that's kind of weird.

Just of all the places it could have been.

It seems so weird that you want to fucked up because I feel like the system knew.

Yeah, but how?

Well, maybe it's just the cemetery.

It's the same kind of shit of like, man, I really need to clean my house.

I need a new vacuum cleaner.

And then you start getting vacuum cleaner ads.

Yeah.

Just the same kind of way that that technology works.

It's just like they hear shit and they're able to tell us it.

Like maybe your mom was was just like remember i bought you that plot i if i had to guess anything i would guess that the creators of randonautica maybe leaned into it and was like prioritized graveyards abandoned whatever which is during a pandemic you're gonna be here soon asshole

um

it feels so too coincidental doesn't it for me for your journey

yes because there were for a long time i was hearing this and i'm like yeah because this is the ones we hear about how many hundreds of people are doing it, and it takes them to like a McDonald's, and you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But then I did it one time,

it was a blanket.

But I mean, it's like it just had the one time versus if you were like, Yeah, I did it a bunch of times, and then one time, but just the one time, just one time.

I was like, Okay, well, is your plot beautiful?

I'm just gonna set this down, it is pretty, it's facing the east.

I don't know if I want to be buried.

I don't know if I want to be buried either.

What do you want to have done with your body?

I kind of want to just have mine donated to science or something.

Not me, man.

What?

What do you want done with yours?

I want to have, I think I've said this before.

i'm very adamant about it i want to have a mausoleum made

but you go inside and i'm in a glass case and it's nice space it's like nice space i do have said this before yeah i'm gonna be butt-ass naked and the only way that the door opens is from the inside so if i ever get resurrected i can actually open it up and do that but i won't be underground yeah i'm extremely claustrophobic and the idea of being in a box for eternity fucks me up i think we talked about during pen pal but i used to have these recurring nightmares as a child of being buried alive where like I couldn't get out and like I could hear my echo.

It was really hot and stuffy.

It's like, it's

so creepy that they're like, oh, here's, does he look comfy in here?

And it's like, you're in a tiny box with little curtains all around it, little fucking sheets, and you don't have a pillow.

Can you imagine like you've been dead for, I don't know, 100 years and you wake up for some reason.

And you're just there?

You're fucked.

Do you remember that?

And don't give me the whole thing of the body's deteriorated.

I get it, but I'm saying that in a world where you wake up, let's say you're completely regenerated.

Yeah, sure.

That's not where you want to be.

Do you remember when we were in New Orleans and we were doing the tour of the cemetery?

And they were like, well, actually, it gets so hot in here that over time, it like

it,

what's the word?

It doesn't cremate, but it like...

burns the body down to bones and then they pull the bones out wrap them up and just shove them in yeah because this whole thing is uh the standing it's not like the actual bodies are there.

They just get so they just broil to the point where they're just a bag of bones and then they like the people literally go in there and just like shove it into a pit in the ground

that's in there

at the back of the

where the body goes it's all of your like deceased family members who are now bundles of bones.

I don't really know if I want to be cremated either though.

Would you want to be cremated?

I don't know about being cremated.

I don't like the idea of just burning it.

I think almost every single one of my family members is like there have been cremated.

I think I'll get buried, but if I wasn't to be buried, I'd like my body to be donated or something like that, just to get some use out of it.

Because I really don't put that much value in the body after someone's dead, so it's like might as well go to something, right?

You know, yeah, no, that's very selfless.

Not me, though.

Yeah, you know, it's kind of like a ritualistic place in the normal world.

Fucking Build-A-Bear.

Build-a-bear's Bilde Bear is a bit fucking.

a fake heart in it and all this stuff and you sew it up inside of it.

They're like, give it a name.

All right, kiss it.

And put its heart inside.

And yeah,

it's like a little fucking demon factory, isn't it?

You know, you can build your bear online.

Where's the fun in that, though?

That does lose the point of it.

I will say,

every now and then, they will drop an exclusive one.

And it does, like,

how do you know that?

And why are you?

The psyop, can I continue, Does work on my wife where it's like, oh, they have a little Mothman this week, or something like that.

He's like, oh, Mothman, or whatever.

But then you don't get to do the build process with those, right?

It's just like, here's Mothman.

Yeah, where's the fun in that?

Yeah.

Well, do you fucking

do deep penetration on that little motherfucker too?

And they shoot the stuffing inside of it.

It is crazy.

They're like, they're literally like, all right, no, no, go six inches.

And you're like,

all right, now 12.

And you're like, keep

this little motherfucker is spit roasted.

I was sitting there like that.

I remember as a kid.

It was great.

I remember even as a child, I was like, I remember as a kid, like, my little sister was too young to, like, do it.

She was just, she was like four.

And the worker's like, I'll do it.

Just

when the workers do it too, because you know that they're like, I just want to get this shit done with you.

Yeah.

They do it like this.

Like that.

I got kind of traumatized when I was there when I was younger.

My sister got one because you're supposed to name it.

You like name it first.

Well, it's been a while since I've been there, but you name it, yeah.

You name it first, and it's like coming in because it was like at the mall.

We like came in because uh, me and my dad were doing something, and my mom and my sister were over there doing that.

So we came in after the fact, and she like had that thing, and she was like slowly going down, like pushing it down to the pipe, whatever, because you like, they'll let you, you know, be like, here, put the stuffing into it.

And

she had like that, it was going through, and its body was all propped up like this,

getting filled up.

And I was like, what's your bear's name?

And she was looking at me.

She did, Gabriel.

He told me his name was Gabriel, and he's going to help us.

It's just, it's a bit, I'm like, because you got to think of a different way where you don't have to go into the ass and stuff it.

You know, she's like, Gabriel.

It would, of course, be an angel name.

I'm getting him a dog tag.

I'm like, what does that mean?

Is he a war vet?

Is he a fucking Vietnam war vet?

What are you talking about?

But the,

I don't know.

Is that still in business?

Yep.

There's one in the Kansas Small.

Really?

Yeah, they do really good because they'll have like these limited drops and like, like, not only kids, but like the Hello Kitty girls and stuff like that.

Go all the way.

Yeah, I just love that you're like, so actually, they're actually super profitable.

And they should do

a lot of great exclusive drops.

Yeah, yeah.

We like to keep up on a lot of things.

Yeah, I'm sorry, some of us love our wife.

We like to get her things that she likes.

I mean, more power to you.

I just bad memories.

It seems like such an outdated thing, too.

Like, I don't think I've seen, I can't remember the last time I saw a kid have a teddy bear.

Even like my cousin's kids, whatever.

It seems like such an outdated

thing, doesn't it?

I feel like they just have

anytime a couple of people who are just

like soft or whatever.

At this point, yeah, which is sad.

Well, that's why legitimately people are like, oh, it's his fifth birthday.

he's getting an iphone that is messed up well it's but that's what kids want nowadays you know it's not like oh i don't want like a cute thing anymore i think that's if if they are open that's definitely wise because it's how old does your kid have to be before you let him have like access to the internet 18.

I probably, I realistically probably wouldn't want my kid having a phone until it was if he's like, hey, I'm going to go, like if I was in my neighborhood when I was younger, I wish I had a cell phone whenever I was like, hey, I'm going to go ride bikes with my buddy.

That's a safety thing.

Like 12.

12.

12 or 13, I agree.

But also, there's no way to not have him access, he or she to access.

They are going to go to their friend's house and get on a and do whatever.

So if anything, I'd rather just be like, listen, buddy, you don't need to be watching people getting their fucking head smashed in with a hammer.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's stay off of live leak, please.

Yeah, like have fun watching whatever.

I mean, I can't.

I feel like the more you restrict it, the more deeper they're going to get into it.

I'm also going to be a lot better than my parents were about knowing what search history is and stuff like that.

So the day it's like, all right, let me see your phone.

Who are you looking at, dude?

Boob, boob, boob.

I love the young Isaiah.

Just the words.

Just type in boob.

But it's spelled like the way you put it into a calculator.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I immediately get scared.

I'm like, ah, like, drop the phone.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Look at that.

Terrified.

Yeah.

That was me.

All right.

So after that, speaking of Build-A-Bear and whatnot.

Well, the the reason I brought up Build-A-Bear is because this one is pretty much like Build-A-Bear.

This is Build-A-Bear, only it's like with the devil involved in there.

It's called How to Go.

The way I would always hear it titled is How to Play Hide and Seek by Yourself.

But as the title is on the original Creepypasta, Hide and Go Seek Alone.

So, at the very top, in all caps, it says, if you don't follow the steps properly, you will die.

Do not play this game at all, you will die.

Great, great opening.

So, what are the rules?

You're like, Like, what?

Why do I want to play this game again?

If I was a guessing man, I'm going to say you build yourself a little hide-and-go-seeker.

Yeah.

This is like...

This is like, imagine me, like, as a child, me being like, I don't really want to play this game, guys.

Everyone's like, shut up.

Stop being a baby.

I fucking hated hide-and-go-seek.

I hated that game when I was younger.

I actually think now that this, when I was talking about me being young, I think I did play the midnight game once.

You probably did play a midnight game.

I think I did play the midnight game.

I'm actually having memories of holding a candle and walking through the house scared.

Doing that

scared.

Doing that scared, quiet breathing.

Yeah, until I just did the impression of my friend saying, stop being a baby, and it was like a Vietnam flashback.

I was suddenly like...

I was like,

I remember I had a red candle.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

I completely blocked it out.

I don't think I cut myself, though.

I don't think I did the blood thing.

You saw the midnight man, didn't you?

I remember being really freaked out because my friend had these long hallways and you couldn't, like, the candle glow would be like five feet.

So it's like as you're stepping through the hallway, you could always just see a little bit out.

And everyone else was playing at the same time.

So it's like you would see.

You guys had multiple sessions of midnight games.

There were five of us playing it at once.

Damn.

So everyone went to a different door and did it.

Because it doesn't have to, like, it said front door.

I think we did like closet doors as long as it was a wooden door.

Wooden door.

Yeah.

And then, you know, you set down your name, knock 22 times, let it in.

And then then we're all like passing.

So, like, you look down the hall and you would just see a candle slowly pass and stuff like that.

Yeah, I'd completely memory-hold this.

Why did I do that?

Why did I forget about all of it?

I don't even want to speculate, dude.

It can't be good.

And in a game that involves the midnight man, I'm not wanting to specify.

There's really nothing that I can speculate on that I think ends in a positive light.

I so vividly remember now, like, looking out the windows at the back of my friend's house, and it just, like, the candle glow reflecting back.

Is that

what your memory, though, being don't be a baby, is

that triggering, isn't it?

That is haunting.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

I'm just

visibly shaken.

I can't think of another time I've had a memory that repressed.

Other than when we were reading Pen Pal and I remembered the dreams about being buried alive.

That is the only other time.

Both.

Traumatic flashbacks I've had have been talking to you on this podcast.

There's like a glisten in your eye.

I'm like, I feel like there's still something that just hasn't peeked its head out yet.

I don't want to sit here and think about it.

I'm not going, I don't think we should either.

Until it does.

I remember walking down the stairs and being really scared because I couldn't see, I could just see the next stair I was about to go down.

What was the friend's name, the house you were at?

Remington.

He's my friend.

Was the last name of the Remington family?

No, that's his first name.

Oh, what was his last name?

Mountain.

Remington Mountain?

I swear that was his name, yeah.

The kid's name was Remington Mountain.

I'm not kidding.

I'm not kidding.

Appalachia trashed.

I'm telling you.

God.

This is Tyler Springwater.

And of course, this is Bugs Raccoon Trap.

This is...

Yeah, this is strange.

I've never had a...

A repressed.

We're going to have to talk about this afternoon.

We are going to have to talk.

Let's go back to the

Hide and Go Seek Alone.

Okay, anyway, so.

Hide and go seek alone.

Hitori Kakuru.

Sorry.

Here, Nick, he's the Japanese expert.

How do you say this name?

Right the top.

Highlight it.

Kakurinbo.

Hitori Kakurimbo.

Hitori Kakurimbo.

Hey.

Konichiwa.

Sumimasen.

Hio, one kokaibo, please.

Hitori kakurimbo is a famous game in Japan and Korea originating from Japan where you let a spirit or demon possess a doll and then play a game of hide and seek with them.

The game is necromancy.

It is potentially very dangerous and is not good for your sanity.

Do not try this game just because you're curious or want to experience it for yourself.

This is a very dangerous life-risking game.

This is, uh, of course, the Japanese would be like, I want to revive grandpa into a wooden doll.

I want to play hide and seek with him again.

That one over there.

You know the one that the coyotes and foxes tore that teddy bear apart.

I'm going to sew grandpa back together and we'll be able to play games again.

And you're like, huh?

I miss my dad.

I wish he was alive to play hide and seek with me again.

Why don't you just play hide and seek with your friend?

No, no, no.

It has to be the spirit of the dead.

No, I don't like that.

I need it to be someone I know that died.

I want it to be my friend that died.

It has to be someone who's seen heaven so so I can ask them about it

that's crazy that's uh if a kid told me that I'd be like okay I'd be like cool and I take that fucking teddy bear and I throw it away yeah and then you watch it climb out of the trash can what you want to say

exactly that kill the kid

that the fucking the curse fucking gets severed here I can make a new kid dude the uh

I seriously think that if my kid did any spooky shit like that,

I would

cut.

I mean, I wouldn't kill the kid, but like.

That's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to immediately kill these these kids and be like, okay, kids, this is a game you can play.

Take this teddy bear.

Take it up to me.

If I found out that my kid was

making weird dolls or whatever, yeah,

I've been taking the cat's toenails and putting them on this doll.

And I'd be like, enough, I'm throwing it away.

Is that wrong?

Is that bad parenting?

If your kid is mutilating a doll, it's my only friend.

Yeah, I think you can do that at that point.

Huh?

Huh?

What'd he just say to you?

Inside joke.

It's a secret.

Even if I explained it, you wouldn't get it.

You wouldn't get it.

It's a thing between us.

Yeah, you can throw that away.

If he's holding the.

Yeah, if a kid of mine ever talks to something, I'm getting rid of it.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Anything.

Anything.

Any object.

He said, what?

Yeah, what?

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

If my kid's talking to the TV remote, I'm getting a new TV.

He just, you know, has an imagination.

God.

Okay, you know what?

See, that.

Now we know exactly what this is.

Nick's the kind of person who dies in any situation.

Nick definitely had like a ball of yarn.

He was like, are you kidding me, Mr.

Squiggles?

You like that?

Why are you-you're so wiry today?

I used to pretend my toys were real.

Your parents should be able to do that.

That explains a lot about you.

You used to pretend.

You pretend they were real.

What does that mean?

Like they were alive.

No, no.

Not like you would play pretend with them.

Yeah, I was going to say, there's a difference between playing.

like I'd be like, they're alive, like Toy Story.

They wake up when

I go.

See,

and that's exactly why you should have their parents should have fucking thrown the toys away.

That was a kind of a what kind of toys were they?

Hold on, hold on.

You that that made you feel better that they come alive when you're not looking, not freaked out?

Okay.

What kind of toys were they?

Like small soldiers,

the action figures.

I see, like, Chip Hazard,

Archer.

Archer, yeah.

Isn't that the problem?

So yeah, but I was saying, so you're basically just like, you were just like, oh, I wanted the movie to be real.

Yeah.

Well, you should have led with that.

You just feel like you had like a raggedy and all, and you're like, yeah, she plays dress up when I'm not looking.

Where'd you find these guys?

He emailed me.

Okay, so.

Because, yeah, there's definitely a difference between like just, I mean, like being like, oh, I'm playing with the toy.

You're like playing make pretend.

Yeah.

Versus I had a I had a friend who had like an imaginary friend and you it would it'd be to the extent where you'd like sit down.

He'd be like, that's not your seat.

That kind of stuff.

And that's where I'm like.

That's creepy.

It's very creepy.

Yeah.

I had a buddy one day.

He bought like Dragon Ball Z toys.

And then I came over one day and they were ripped apart.

And he said while they're sleeping, they fought.

See, to me, that's just creepy.

That's where it borders on being too fucking weird.

Like, creepy.

Now, if you did that and told your friends that, that's funny.

But if you actually believe that, that is a, that's awesome.

I vividly, I'm finding out that I actually did this a lot because he said that and I did, I did, oh, okay.

And I went downstairs and I was, I pulled on his mom's shirt and I was like, I want to go home.

And my mom couldn't pick me up.

I'm scared.

I was like, I'm not doing this.

Because also back then, getting like hangout days, it was like, it's like a vacation.

Yeah.

You got to really, you know, like it's a big thing, especially if you, because with that one, too, it was a whole thing where you're all excited because you're like, I get to ride bus number five today and go to his house.

You know, I've never ridden on that bus to go to his house.

And then you get there and it's that shitty.

You're like, I'm not about to spend my time like this.

Yeah, I'm not, I'm not in it for the long time.

I'm not putting up with this guy.

Fuck that.

I want to go watch Ed Ed and Eddie.

I want to go home.

Yeah.

And then you also find out that, yeah, too, the fucking, the mom's like, yeah, he doesn't have any M-rated games.

All we have is E.

And you're like, get me the fuck out.

I need to escape.

Right.

Get me out.

Yeah.

I agree.

Note, it's best to put your pets outside of your house.

There have been reports of dogs barking and cats hissing at nothing.

Some even reported their pets behaving strangely after the game.

So, tools.

Tool one, a stuffed doll with limbs.

Not a human doll, as there's a huge chance the spirit will not leave it.

If you have an animal doll with limbs, it can be used as well.

Example, a teddy bear.

Rice.

That is enough to be used as stuffing instead of cotton for your doll.

The rice is said to attract the doll.

Something from your body.

Usually fingernails for the doll to represent you.

This means that if you do something to the doll, the same thing will happen to yourself.

Never use someone else's body parts.

This results in the doll replacing that person instead, and the game will not work correctly.

Just want to say the we should cut this, but I was going to say, I wonder if that's why also she cut the hair because there was something that was like representative of

like like a font like a the mother is doing this for her daughter so i wonder if the she did it a dad needed something there for her daughter

like a like a font like a parental figure needed to have a representation in the i will say to answer this and to answer it in a way we can include this in this has similarity to something from the film

Well, yeah, I was going to say, well, everything we've said so far, there's been little hints of that kind of research.

Yeah, there's been similarities, not to spoil, but the tie-in, and that specifically has some similarities to themes in there.

I think it's a thing about

it's almost like you are contacting a spirit or something from the other world, and you need to give it a target.

You need to tie it to something else.

And I think maybe like in this specific instance, it's like the spirit will get mad or it won't work right if you use someone else's thing.

But when it comes to the film, I would bet it's something similar where it's like you have to, you have to direct the, you know, the power you want to what you want it to be.

Yeah, I'd say so.

Next tool, a sharp-edged object to anger the spirit in the doll by stabbing it be sure not to use knife or scissors as the doll will possibly stab you with it after it finds you

so use a pencil or needle instead it's recommended to use a wooden toothpick red thread to sew up the hole you made in the doll this later symbolizes blood vessels and acts as a restraint later in the game that's cool salt water or salt This will be used later in the game to get rid of the spirit in the doll.

A bathtub with water.

If your home does not have a bathtub a basin large enough to put the doll in with water in the bathroom works too and finally a very safe sanctuary or hiding spot when it's the doll's turn to find you if you have a room with statues and things related to your religion it's recommended to make it as your hiding spot it's eerily similar how many of those tie into the movie yesterday yeah yeah there's a lot of connections between like um

place to be a place for it to go stuff like that yeah again without getting spoilers purging process afterwards on stuff.

There's a menacing note, and it's something I thought about with the movie, too, about

having, like, for one, inviting an entity like that, right?

But then, like, knowing it's in your house, right?

It's like, this is your safe space, but you've now opened up your safe space to this other.

Yeah, violated your safe space, basically.

Yeah.

You've contaminated it almost.

Starting the ritual.

Give your stuffed doll a name.

For example, Fluffy or Rover.

Cut the bear or doll, open and take all of its stuffing out.

Put the rice in the bear or doll as well as the part of your body.

Sew the doll back again with red thread and wrap the remaining red string around the whole doll.

This is important as it binds the spirit.

Prepare the bath or large basin by filling it with water and then wait until 3 a.m.

sharp.

Some versions say that you do not have to wait until 3 a.m., but this is up to you.

Remember to turn off all lights in the house, but leave only the television on.

It will change depending on the location of the doll.

That's a really cool detail.

Like, depending on where the doll is in the house, like it manipulates the television.

Like it, like, the spirit you're contacting messes with, like, transmission rays and stuff like that.

Yeah, yeah.

Once it's 3 a.m., take the doll along with you to the bathroom and repeat.

First tagger is your name.

Three times sternly while closing your eyes.

Then place the doll in the bath or basin.

Walk away to another room, but do not look back.

may see the spirit possessing the doll.

If said spirit makes eye contact or notices you looking at it, it may come after you.

Count slowly from 1 to 10.

After that, turn around and proceed back to the doll.

Go close to the doll in the bath basin and say, I found you, and then say the doll's name.

And then stab the doll with your weapon or object.

After that, Close your eyes and repeat, now doll's name is it, three times.

Leave the object inside the doll, then pour some salt water into your mouth.

Do not drink the salt water as it protects you from the spirit in the doll.

You will need the remaining salt water to end the ritual.

Bring along the cup of salt water and go to your hiding place.

It is recommended to keep your doors and windows unlocked in case you unexpectedly run into some trouble, and your friends will be able to help you there outside your home.

It is recommended to have a cell phone on silent mode and brightness on the lowest level in case of emergencies.

Keep the salt water in your mouth at all times.

Never attempt to swallow it.

Remain silent when you are hiding as any sounds from you will alert the doll where you are.

The doll finds you, it will stab you with the object you stabbed it with, and possibly possess you as well.

Keep saltwater near at all times.

I like the theming of that a bit where it's like...

You've possessed a spirit and you're now trying to play a game with it, right?

You're literally mixing Bloody Mary and hide and go seek.

Yeah.

Together.

pretty much i like the idea too of do not turn around to watch the spirit possess it like you can almost imagine this like huge entity like stepping into the small doll or something yeah ending the ritual ending the ritual is very important as this will end the game as well to end the ritual go out of your hiding spot find the doll it may not be in the bathroom and then drink the salt water pour the remaining salt water around the doll in a circle as well Close your eyes and shout out, I win three times.

Spirit and the doll will give up and the game ends.

You must dispose of the doll by burying it with salt, otherwise the spirit will attempt to re-enter the doll.

Some versions say to put salt in every corner of your house after you bury the doll, especially where the doll has been found, as salt drives away most malevolent spirits.

Warning.

Do not play this game for more than two hours.

The spirit inside the doll will be extremely difficult to remove.

Messing around with spirits is very dangerous, so play the game at your own risk.

Nobody will be responsible for your own death as you risk your life to play the game.

Do not turn around when heading to your hiding place.

You might see something very disturbing.

Do not play when someone else is in the house.

You must be alone to play the game because the other person might be unintentionally found.

Instead, it might be hurt.

Do not play with more than one person.

It needs to be one person and one person only, because there's a great chance that one of the people that are playing could get possessed.

The game can be played at 3 a.m.

sharp.

3 a.m.

is the time when spirits are the most free to move around.

However, some some versions say you do not need to wait for 3 and midnight is just fine.

Do not turn on the lights while playing this game.

Only leave your television on.

Do not fall asleep no matter how tired, exhausted, or sleepy you are while hiding.

The doll will eventually find you and possess your body, as the meaning of this play is, if you find me, you can have my body.

Do not attempt to leave the house while the game is still going on.

Unless you want to end the ritual and the doll is not in the house, the doll will find you.

Do not play this game if you get frightened easily or have a very weak heart.

This game is life-threatening, very terrifying to most who have played it.

Better still, don't play this game at all.

Do not give the doll your name or the name of one of your acquaintances.

You or your acquaintance can be the victim of a curse.

Messing around with rituals like this is dangerous.

They are serious rituals, not games.

If you make a single mistake, then expect to meet a nasty end.

You have been warned.

That is how to play hide and go seek by yourself.

What would be the reason you'd want to to do that?

Just like the reason you would do any other ritual to summon stuff to see the supernatural.

The reason that this story works so well is because the reason you would want to do it is because you're told you're not supposed to, right?

It's like...

Well, yeah, there's the...

Yeah, of course.

But usually with

sometimes with a lot of rituals, there's something at least where the danger is a reward of being able to speak with a love.

In the midnight game, it said this was normally done by ancient pagan cults who have angered their gods or something like that.

Well, it's also a punishment, though.

It's like an atonement or something.

Yeah, Yeah, that was the big thing.

It's like, this is mostly actually like a punishment ritual.

They'd make people do it.

This one would just be like an interaction with the spirits.

And the rules tell you over and over, like, don't do this.

This is a bad idea.

You don't want to be a part of it.

Of course, that's going to egg people on to do it.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But you could do it if you wanted to.

See something creepy?

What I like with a lot of it, especially that one, is there is the...

repeated things

of like cadence like everything you say three times never say it once or like don't give it your name because names are powerful in the spiritual realm and stuff like that.

There's a lot of interesting

accents given to it that make it feel more thought-out, more legitimate.

Like the red thread being a binding that looks like blood vessels.

Yeah, the blood vessel thing's fun.

Yeah, yeah, it's pretty fun.

Yeah, the uh burying it with salt and stuff.

Just like a lot of cool.

There's a bunch of little cool visual motifs throughout it, yeah.

So for the final one, we're going to look at for our ritual episode today and for our first sponsored episode.

I'm so cool to say that.

Look at me and you.

Who would have thought?

The two of us.

It's beautiful.

For the last one we're going to look at today is Grey Water.

Unlike the previous ones where it's just kind of a set of instructions, this one's an actual story that involves a ritual.

So

Grey Water.

Oh, is there any details about when this was posted?

This is a more recent one, too, I believe.

Pretty sure.

Yeah, I was looking at the comments and it looks at some of the earliest comments like 2021.

But that's also.

Oh, wait, hold on, hold on.

Nope, never mind.

It goes down to 2014.

okay okay so this one's been around a while yeah this one gets mentioned a lot in a positive note when it comes like ritual creepypastas and stuff like that so gray water gardens lives up to its name i thought as i made my way up the damp concrete slabs bridging across the stagnant pond everywhere leading up to the ashen decrepit house was lined by rotten flowers and the congealed feces of cats dogs and other animals The water itself looked like it had remained the same for centuries.

This place is dead.

It's dead as I am.

I arrived at the door.

More a collection of damp splinters and, hesitantly, pushed it open, causing the hinges to shriek.

No, no more shrieking, please.

The inside was as drab and oppressive as the outside.

My nostrils filled with scents of mold and neglect and regret.

Maybe it's just me.

I hadn't showered in days.

I couldn't face the water.

There is what appeared to be some kind of waiting area, three or four old wicker chairs, and one of those please-be-seated signs you find in posh restaurants.

So, looking around for the slightest bit of human company, I sat down and waited.

Despite myself, my wallet found its way into my hands, and then the picture of M I kept in there found its way in front of my eyes.

I could never throw this away, no matter how many times I told myself to, for the sake of my own sanity.

But I couldn't.

This was all I had left of her fair white skin and pale blue eyes and ginger hair I'd tease her about.

Freckles on her face and chest.

She was beautiful.

I tried to correct myself to present tense, but I couldn't.

I never forget the day the last of that ginger hair fell out.

Cough brought me back to reality and I looked, blinking back tears, to see an old man, bald and bearded, stooped over, grinning through a mouth of yellow teeth.

His clothes were as gray and wiry as the hairs on his face, like he was grey water gardens in human form.

Even his right eye was gray.

The left was just a black, empty socket, the eyelids hanging over it forlornly.

You have an appointment?

He spoke like he hadn't used his voice in years.

Yes, I have a secret I want to deposit it.

I know you do.

He let me grasp for words, wondering how the hell he knew when he said,

You wouldn't be here for any other reason, would you?

He turned and beckoned me to follow him into the back room.

I gazed at the picture of him.

One last time.

I love you.

Then I slid it back into my wallet and did as I was bid.

The room was more of the same, gray and wet and rotting and horrid.

The only remarkable feature was the huge, hefty ledger on an antique wooden table next to a plain steel chalice.

In the middle of the room was a concrete pool only a few feet across, filled with the same stagnant grey water from the ponds outside.

The old man opened the ledger.

You wish to deposit a secret?

He asked, perhaps as a formality.

Maybe he's playing with me.

Yes, Yes?

Your name?

I told him.

Excellent.

Then let's begin.

He picked up the chalice and moved to the pool.

He bent down, agonizingly slow, but eventually he filled the cup and shuffled over to me.

Drink the water.

A grin playing upon his old and papery lips as he pushed the cup into my hand.

The water will enter you, and your secret will replace it in the water.

No man can discern its murky depths.

His smile was now so wide, I thought his face might crack open.

But be warned.

Once I've taken

The old man shrugged, took a step back.

I raised the cold steel to my face, but before I could drink, curiosity gripped me.

Why do you take other people's secrets in the world of the blind?

He laughed, raspy and throaty, and tapped at his missing eye.

The man with one eye is king.

And I knew exactly what he meant.

For you, Em, I thought as I downed my morbid toast.

I dropped the chalice and left without a word, knowing now that she was safe.

As I walked out of Greywater Gardens, I looked down at the putrid pond and remembered it wasn't the water that was gray at all, but her face as I held her frail body down in the bath.

Nice little like, uh

Was basically able to basically bring her back right there.

As I held her frail body down in the bath,

what?

I said, He's able to bring her back.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I see what I know what you did.

That's the name of the govie.

It's a sponsored episode.

It's the name of the govie that I was sponsored for.

That one actually had a ton of similarities to bring her back.

Yeah.

Like, especially with the water motif and stuff like that.

That was interesting.

So, he goes to this place called Greywater Gardens, right?

And he's lost his wife

previously.

He says, like, the last of her hair fell out, I'm implying she had like a sickness.

I'm something cancer.

You should have like cancer or something like that.

But what's that where he says, I remembered it wasn't the water that was gray at all, but her face as I held her frail body down in the bath.

Did he have to kill someone

as I held her down the bath?

I mean, well, is he assuming that we're assuming that she drowned her?

Sounds like that's

amazing.

So he drowned him?

So what I think is happening is, I bet you she was sick.

Mm-hmm.

And then he killed her.

Yes.

So then that's the secret that he probably gave him is that he's like, I want you to get rid of this memory.

That's what I'm assuming, right?

He's like, I have a secret I wanted to deposit.

And he's like...

Yeah.

So he forgets that that's why.

He forgets that he killed his wife.

Yeah, he loved her, and then he wanted to do that.

i mean i'm assuming that he killed her because she was sick yeah yeah it was like a mercy killing or whatever but he couldn't hold on to that memory anymore of course not no yeah so he's like i can't live with this take the secret at first whenever i first read it i was like oh i thought that she he like deposited whatever thing the transaction was that she got to come back but i think that the thing is is that take my memory from me yeah yeah which also is making me wonder too it's like did he give him the right memory right

or else why would he say that last line if he wanted to not if he wanted to not remember it?

Would he not have well?

He's still he's still like he is still being a part of the ritual.

He's there at gray water, like he's looking down at the water thinking about that.

And that's got to be the secret he takes from him, right?

That he killed his wife.

Because at the end, it's like uh, he has that line with him.

I knew exactly what he meant.

I thought as I downed my toast, I dropped the chalice and left without a word, knowing that she was safe.

As I walked out of the gardens, I looked down at the putrid pond.

So

I think he

is

like, it's as as he leaves that secret's being taken.

I would guess, at least.

Very

kind of, you know, it has like a almost like a fairy man of the dead kind of vibe too with the old dude.

Yeah, I really like that line he said.

That was cool.

And the world of the blind,

the man with one eye is king.

That's cool.

I like that line.

Yeah, that's an interesting thing.

It also ties, like I said, a lot to bring her back with water being a crazy thing.

There's a lot of that in Bring Her Back.

There was like these visual motifs motifs that kept playing over and over.

Because afterwards, me and you were talking about it, and you picked up on things I didn't notice, and I picked up on things you didn't notice.

It's like so much of the screen time was used for like piecing together these whole pictures of like themes and using symbols.

Like mirrors was another one.

Well, I think a common theme with all these, like the bath and water and all that stuff, has to be something that's that's a parallel with baptism and that kind of stuff.

Rebirth, all that stuff.

You know, actually,

without symbolizing,

without spoiling,

the scene at the very end

involving

leap sound.

Yeah.

Involving water was very reminiscent of a baptism.

I would like to watch Bring Her Back Again, which you all should go see when it comes out.

Pay full price.

Pay full price.

Chicken Jockey.

Don't do that.

How sick would it be, though, if Danny and Michael were able to start instead of like a chicken jockey train?

People were like throwing popcorn.

People were taking, like, I don't know, like, their kids there and like sacrificing them in the theaters or something.

Like, there's a massive.

824 is going to watch this.

And they've got to sign off on it.

They're going to be like, just that honor hand caught guy.

All right, cinephiles.

What should the popcorn bucket be for Bringer Back?

The silence has been so loud today.

Very, very, very loud.

Anyway,

I think

bring her back to the lot of that with like the visual motifs and stuff like that.

I like this story, the idea of like going to a place to give secrets, because that's what I get out of this, right?

He killed his wife because she was sick, right?

The only reason I think that she's sick is because of the sincere, sincere, the hair falling out there.

Yeah.

Which is just

a very quick way of like, I mean, chemotherapy, man.

Yeah, you know, that's what I would think.

Yeah.

That's where my connection is with it.

Unless I'm way off.

Very good to go there.

But this is one thing.

I know we've said it before, but with these older creepypastas, like before the 2016, 2015 era, they all felt like very bite-sized, just, you know, like little

dreadful, almost like poems or something, you know,

with this kind of weird character.

I don't know where the fuck that is grey water what who who cares what it is right it's just a place that we know he's going yeah and you have like a creepy old man it doesn't linger too much on it you don't really give a fuck what he looks like punchy yeah all the way through you get your nice little bit and you're like oh that's it it's like a nice little bite-sized thing which is cool yeah the movie itself sounds like it reads like an older creepypasta where it doesn't it doesn't like go right it is very to the point almost the same way that this is where i will say in the movie it's like i mean you're hitting the ground running yeah that well that's what i And it doesn't try to like throw any weird curve.

I mean, it's just like, it's a fucking punch to the face.

As soon as it's like 10 minutes in, I said to Hunter, I was like, this movie is not wasting any time.

Yeah.

Like, immediately, it's like, it's not playing around with its setting.

It's not like, oh, what if we're a horror movie?

It's like, boom.

Like, which is very, you know,

it's a similar vibe to what they did with Talk to Me as well.

Yes, you know, because Talk to Me like also gets like right into it.

One thing I liked about all the other ritual stuff we read today, too, which it's like all cringe shit that like, you know, pre-teen people would do with whatever, but there's something so fun about just like you give a because nowadays the internet has ruined so much fun this stuff to where back in the day you could just be like hey seriously you'll fucking die if you do this anyway so there's how you do it versus now there would have to be like all these like

I think people would be like, well, they're not going to bleed.

You have to like go through all these loopholes now to try to get people in a state where they are like kind of vibing with it.

But I just love that old that old internet like game aspect of like this is what you're supposed to do and it's so simple and also it's the same kind of thing with like why i like found footage stuff or even some of the r slash no sleep stuff where it's coming from the perspective of a person so you're like go is this real but being able to actually feasibly do it yourself with your friend it's just kind of it's like nice cringe fun there was such a you are completely right there was such a magic nature to like because like when you're with your friends and you read like the midnight game or how to play hide and go seek by yourself

It's you're not thinking about like oh who wrote this?

Oh, where was he supposed to cares?

It's like oh really that's a thing and then that that's all it takes, right?

And that's not to also discredit the author the people who did actually write it.

It's just more so that like

it was a magical time.

The source material is so much like I don't care who fucking wrote it.

Yeah, this is just something that I'm going to do with my friends.

It's a fun idea.

Thank you kind of thing.

And also

with

like what you said about Bring Her Back, how you're like, it's a creepypasta.

You are are right that it has a lot of those elements where the early creepypasta is like they don't waste any time, they have a concept and they deliver on it.

In the good way, it is reminiscent of like old early internet horror stories and stuff like that.

Now, Bring Her Back incorporates a lot of, like we talked about, there's a lot of interesting kind of pagan ideas like around the outskirts of it, and that's tied in with like this deception plot in the middle of it.

It adds a ton of different layers to that idea, but you are right that it's core.

It's like,

here's an idea, here's how we execute on it.

And it doesn't really obfuscate it that much.

But I will say, just as a final note for me at least, is

you can tell that it's like the film is from people who enjoy these like old internet horror stories versus like a 56-year-old guy at a studio being like, it's a Facebook horror movie.

Right?

I mean, like, so you're going to get, it's just that nice.

It feels very earnest.

And it's like, I mean, these two guys were YouTubers, you know, who started making horror movies, right?

They They understand the culture, understand a lot of the modern stuff like that.

It feels like

someone gets the genre.

Would you recommend any of our viewers of any age perform any of these rituals

tonight?

I think that

aside from Hunter saying kill your parents at the beginning of this recording, no, man.

I think other than that,

feel free to do any of them that does not require you to injure yourself.

Your dad has a gunbox in his closet.

So it's not very imaginative.

All right.

So like the key code is probably pretty easy.

So the midnight game, the midnight game, don't do that one because you have to hurt yourself, right?

Or don't incorporate it.

See, the midnight game you do?

Yeah, you have to put blood on the paper.

Oh, yeah.

You have to prick your thumb, aren't I?

You a pussy.

No, don't do that.

Don't do that.

Don't do what Hunter just said.

Have you ever pricked your thumb before?

Have you pricked your thumb?

When I've gone and got like blood tested and stuff like that.

You never with your buddies?

Well, blood testing.

No, I've never stabbed myself in the hand with my friends.

That's not that big of a deal.

Okay.

Have you guys pricked your thumb at all?

I don't think they have intent.

You're not getting crowd support on this one.

Although, I'll say you don't have to cut your hand.

That's insane.

You just poke it.

You don't even cut it.

If you gash your fucking hand open, then I think you deserve to bleed out.

So don't do anything where you have to hurt yourself.

But if you want to scare your friends, do what I did.

Tell them this story, like hype them up about how scared it'll be, then do it.

It did really freak me out as a kid, like the idea of the repetition, like the 22 times.

It felt like you're being very deliberate and inviting some presence.

It was just the noise, you know, yeah, yeah.

When you're in a dark house, even if you're the one knocking on a door, you don't want to be there's a candle on the floor, and that's all you're doing.

Think about how long 22 knocks is too much, yeah, yeah.

See, if we're screwed, if we're skirting on the rules, like you guys are like, fuck, I don't have the fucking lighter, I'd be like, I'm gonna do like three, I'm gonna knock on three times

because also I'd get in my head and I'd be like, nine, I'm like, what the fuck was that?

What was my cat?

Was that 19?

But there is something very like purposeful to it.

There's like a deliberation that always freaks me out.

Even if I didn't believe in it any.

It's kind of like the

premise with Ouija boards.

It's like, yeah, even if I'm not afraid of summoning grandpa or some ghost, I feel like I'm letting something in.

Like I'm opening the doorway to something.

So it's the midnight game.

There's always this thing in the back of my head.

Sure, I don't think the midnight man's real, but I'm doing a lot to tell something that I'm letting him in.

I'll tell you right now, you let in some fucking, we're going to have to talk about some of these traumatic things that you've been keep digging up.

As we've been sitting here talking, I've been having like flashes of like remembering a hallway lit by candlelight.

Yeah, I know.

I feel like there's

some stuff that we won't put public.

I really hope it was a ghost.

That is the best case scenario that I ran into the Hat Man at the end of the hallway.

That is the best thing that could happen to me right now.

Guys, that is our

creepcast.

I'm going to say creep hust episode.

Creepcast episode today.

Be sure to check out Bring Her Back May 30th.

Seriously, thank you for fucking YouTuber.

Means a lot.

YouTuber pals, great guys.

And the movie fucking rules.

So, if you guys want to watch a horror film, take your buddies out.

Take your wife, your girl, your boy, anybody out to go see it.

It's a good time.

Thank you so much, and we'll see you in the next one.

Bye-bye.

Kill your parents.

See you in the next one.

Do not do that.

You do it in your manifesto.

Say that Hunter Hancock was responsible.

Not

Creepcast, I'm telling you not to do it, but I will testify against him in trial.

You can tell your attorney.

Don't do that.

Don't do anything.

It goes in my barn.

You know what?

Incriminate yourself.

That's fine.

Thank you all for watching.

Bye.

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