“The M Show Fan Club” by lenalona “The letters were sent off and every day we all rushed to the mailbox to get our The M Show Club badges.

While a good story on its own, it’s a heart-stopping comment from a user staying in character that adds the best plot twist to the story. Making great use of r/NoSleep’s format, Nathan goes the extra step in providing screenshots of his messages with “Emily” and photos where she’s “tagged” herself.

Soon “Emily” begins feeding Nathan fragments of their old text messages, conversations never written down, and Emily alluding to being “FREEZING” and alone. But a year later, on September 2013, Nathan begins receiving strange Facebook messages from Emily’s account. In the story, Nathan’s girlfriend Emily died in August 2012. But look closely and you may believe that Nathan is slowly losing his mind. Probably the best example of what can be done in r/NoSleep, Nathan initially asks Reddit users for technical help. Some of them have removed me from their Facebook friends list.” The friends who noticed and said something thought it was a fucked up bug I found out recently that there have been friends who have noticed and didn’t say anything. I was too angry to sleep.” “She would tag herself in random photos every couple of weeks. I don’t know what to do.” by natesw “Around this period of time, I stopped being able to sleep. “My dead girlfriend keeps messaging me on Facebook. With Halloween upon us once again, here are just five of some of the best stories ever told on r/NoSleep:ĥ. 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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