I Hunt Down the Government’s Monsters

“I had heard rumors of a unit that was like no other. One that operated in the shadows and fought strange creatures.” This is the opening line of a former soldier’s account of his recruitment into a covert government unit tasked with hunting monsters—zombies, giant parasitic insects, vampires, and shapeshifters. His story, told in the first person on Mr. Creeps: Scary Stories & Creepypastas, is a first-hand confession of how he joined, what he saw, and why he eventually deserted. The episode is a single, sustained narrative—no interview, no back-and-forth—delivered as a chilling monologue that reveals the hidden war being waged alongside ordinary life.

The recruitment and the test

The narrator had five years of service, including combat tours and humanitarian missions, when his commanding officer asked if he’d considered special forces. He had heard whispers of an elite unit that fought “strange creatures,” and when he named it, the officer took him seriously. He was sent to a bleak base, interviewed by a wiry officer and a civilian named Mr. Wilson—who asked directly, “Do you believe in monsters?”—and then thrown into a simulated urban environment without a weapon. Inside a fake coffee shop, he encountered a decomposing human figure that moved, growled, and attacked. The thing was strong enough to slam him through a door frame. He survived only by grabbing a shard of b