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

We Found Something Beneath the Ocean That Shouldn’t Exist

August 22, 2026

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A letter arrives from the Yellow Sea, written by a man who has just killed himself. “Dearest Basil, do not come here,” it says. “Rescind your contract and return your ticket. There is nothing to be found here except emptiness.” The author is Carter Gilman, a hardened war veteran who survived cancer and a divorce, a man who feared nothing. But the letter is fractured, desperate, a record of a psyche that had been broken by something it found in the deep. Basil, the nephew, does not follow the warning. He takes the job his uncle arranged for him at Camp Humphreys in South Korea, working on the Thalerian Pipeline—a classified military project to build an undersea oil pipeline using unmanned robotic drones. What he discovers is that the pipeline was never the real mission. Something was found beneath the seafloor, and the military wants to go back for it.

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  • 1 (01:07) **The Warning Letter** - The narrator reads a desperate, paranoid note from his uncle, Carter Gilman, who warns him not to come to the Yellow Sea, claiming "nothing will be found here except emptiness."
  • 2 (02:22) **The Thalerian Project** - The narrator arrives at Camp Humphreys and recalls how his uncle got him a job on the Thalerian Pipeline, a secretive military project using robotic drones to build an undersea oil pipeline.
  • 3 (04:52) **Discovery Beneath the Seafloor** - The narrator recounts his uncle's earlier excitement about the prototypes breaking through a sulfur barrier and finding a "subterranean ecosystem," leading to a submarine exploration.
  • 4 (06:19) **The Skeptical Crew** - The narrator meets the rest of the mission team: two silent Chinese men, a woman from Madagascar named Lissie, and a brash, whiskey-smelling scientist named Robert Canfield.
  • 5 (07:48) **The First Glimpse of the Horror** - The team shows the narrator a recording from his uncle's final dive, revealing a sunken city and a dark, slithering shape in the depths.
  • 6 (10:47) **Arguing Against the Mission** - The narrator protests the plan, arguing that the creature is territorial and that any attempt to study or kill it will result in their deaths.
  • 7 (12:39) **A Pact in the Night** - Unable to sleep, the narrator finds Lissie on the deck, where she reveals she also fears the mission, specifically the "living embodiment of natural chaos" they are about to confront.

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What's down there? Written by: Kyle Harrison

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