Mr. Creeps: Scary Stories & Creepypastas
Mr. Creeps: Scary Stories & Creepypastas

Disturbing Legends From an Isolated Small Town

July 31, 2026

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5 min read

A father overhears his daughter and her friends playing a game at a sleepover. Under a white bedsheet, they are reciting their full names. When he sneezes and interrupts them, one girl, Sarah, looks genuinely angry, as if he had disrupted something critical. He counts five shapes beneath the sheet, but when the girls throw it off, there are only four of them. He dismisses it as a trick of the light, but the unease does not leave him.

The story is told from the father's perspective, and it follows his slow, mounting realization that the game was not innocent. The girls had found a printed ritual in the room of Sarah's older brother, Derek Lee, who had disappeared two years earlier. The community had written Derek off as a runaway after finding marijuana and chats with older men on his phone. But Sarah never believed that. She wanted to try the ritual herself, hoping it might give her a clue about what happened to him. The ritual required the participants to gather in the dark, speak their true names, and light a candle for each person plus one. The final line read: "And now you shall be with me forever."

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  • 1 (00:50) **Setup: A Father's Promise and the First Sleepover** - The narrator, a father who swore not to be a helicopter parent, describes the night of his daughter Katie's ninth birthday sleepover.
  • 2 (03:14) **The Fifth Shape and the "Game"** - The narrator sneaks a peak and counts five figures under the sheet, but only four girls are present, creating an ominous mystery.
  • 3 (06:40) **Discovering the Ritual: "How to Meet Me"** - Days later, the narrator finds a printed ritual hidden in Katie's room, titled "How to Meet Me."
  • 4 (09:39) **The Ritual's Origin and the First Victim** - Katie reveals the ritual was Sarah's idea, found in the room of her older brother, Derek Lee, who disappeared two years prior.
  • 5 (11:56) **The Thing in the House and the Sleepwalking** - The narrator and his wife discuss the ritual, but that night, they hear Katie moving furniture and sleepwalking.
  • 6 (16:29) **The Police Investigation and a Suspect** - The next morning, the narrator calls Sarah's mother, who reports that all the other girls have disappeared.
  • 7 (18:27) **The Second Night: A Family Vigil** - The narrator, fearing the entity will take Katie, sets up a family sleepover in the living room with a rotating watch.

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Show Notes

Strange things have happened here. Written by: Beardify

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