CREEPYPASTAS: JEFF THE KILLER

A creepypasta is a horror story created by regular people -just like you and me- with the only idea of SCARING the reader. It can be fictional as well as based on true stories...the one you are about to read was taken from real life. 

Jeff the Killer is one of the best known worldwide creepypastas and, once, one of the biggest serial murderers. This is the reason why we decided to tell his story.

His real name is Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, the story begins when he and his family move to a new home because the father had been offered a job with a good salary. 

One day, when Jeff and his brother Liu were waiting for the bus, suddenly they are surprised by three boys on skateboards (these would have been 11 years old; they were only a year younger than Jeff and Liu). 

At that time one of the guys takes Liu’s wallet. Jeff threatens them and tells the boy to return the wallet to his brother. The guy pulls a knife and just before using it, Jeff breaks his wrist and takes the knife, the other two guys tried to escape but Jeff reaches them. He attacked, leaving one stabbed in the shoulder and the other one with a big punch in the stomach that breaks him down. 

Jeff sees the bus was coming and takes his brother and run. 

The next day, Jeff gets up from his bed and goes into the kitchen where he meets his angry mother and two police officers accusing him and Liu of assaulting three boys. Jeff, having no evidence that he was defending himself, confesses he had attacked the boys and his brother had nothing to do with it. But then Liu took a knife and put it in front of the cops, showing his bruises and saying he was to blame. 

Jeff tried to help him but the policemen believed Liu’s story and took him prisoner. 

During the following days Jeff and his parents just felt sadness and loneliness. 

One morning, Jeff's mother wakes him up saying he had to go to the birthday party of the son of Jeff’s neighbors. He was depressed for his brother and refuses to go but his mother made him forget about Liu and go anyway. 

Angrily, Jeff takes the most elegant clothing he had (which consisted of black trousers, a shirt and a white hooded sweatshirt) and went with his parents to the party. When he arrived, he only saw adults talking and some kids playing cowboys. Jeff thought one of the kids was staring at him, as asking him to play. He refuses because he believes he’s too old to play childish games. But the boy kept staring and finally asked him to join the game. 

He gave in and took a toy gun and started shooting at the children. 

For the first time in many days he had fun and was happy, but that happiness did not last long because the same guys who had assaulted Jeff and Liu crashed the party to get back at Jeff with knives and guns. Jeff fought with all his might and managed to kill two of the boys but during the fight, he ended bathed in chlorine and alcohol and very hurt, and when Jeff could not fight anymore, the third boy set him on fire. 

Jeff ends in the hospital, wearing a cast and his body covered in bandages. His mother told him that there were a lot of witnesses at the party and that there was a huge possibility of Liu being released. He was happy and hoped to see his brother soon. 

During the following days, Jeff’s recovery was almost complete. When the day came to take off Jeff’s bandages, his family was very nervous and did not know how his body after catching fire. When the doctor removed the bandages, his mother started screaming with fright and his father looked at Liu, shocked and terrified. Jeff gets up and looks in the bathroom mirror. He said: 'Perfect, this face shows WHO I TRULLY AM' and starts laughing nonstop. The worried mother asked the doctor what had happened and the doctor said 'it must be the anesthetic we gave him, but if it continues that way, bring him in to run some psychological tests' 

That night the mother was out of bed after hearing strange noises coming from the bathroom. When she looked in the room, he saw his son Jeff with a smile carved from ear to ear and black eye burns. The frightened mother asks who had done that and Jeff answers 'After a while smiling, my face started to hurt, so I carved a smile to always see my own beautiful face'

Then, his mother asked about the burns in his eyes. He replied 'After watching myself for a while my eyes started to shut down so I burnt my eyelids to always see my beautiful face' 

At this point the mother runs to her room to tell her husband Jeff had gone mad and wanted to kill them and they should do something. 

Liu, after hearing the screams, wakes up but -being so tired- goes back to sleep just before closing his eyes and seeing Jeff completely covered in blood. 

Liu tried to scream but his brother covered his mouth and just before stabbing him, he says 'GO TO SLEEP'

This is a true story. Nobody ever knew what happened to Jeff…he might still be out there. 

Hans Fritzler, Micaela Cruz and Camila Monteros – 3rd Year

BLOODY MARY

There are thousands of urban legends around the world but, are they real?

Despite being true or not, people believe in them…why? 

The following story is based on a real case and it has become one of the most popular urban legends. 

Mary was a fifteen year old girl when she got an illness which had no cure. Her father didn’t want any member of the family to catch the disease, so he hired a doctor and told him to give Mary a special medicine to make her seem dead.
The doctor, following the father’s orders, gave the girl the potion. But after a couple of minutes she didn’t wake up. The next day, her family would bury her.
Mary’s mother couldn’t accept the fact that her daughter had died, so she tied the girl’s finger to a bell in case she woke up.
She remained near her tomb for two days, hoping the bell would ring, until her husband ordered her to go back home.
The next day, when she visited the child’s tomb, she saw the bell had fallen. Amazed and desperate, she told her husband and they exhumed the body. There, they saw scratches all over the coffin.
Mary’s mother wouldn’t forgive herself for the way her daughter had died, so she committed suicide. 

Nowadays, it’s very common to find young people curious about this case. They play a game in which they have to spin around three times in front of a mirror while saying ‘Bloody Mary’ also three times. It is believed that Mary’s spirit appears, sometimes covered in blood. 

It’s hard to consider is this legend is real or not. Scientists establish that if you stare at something for a long time, it might cause visual distortion and hallucinations. This fact plus the fear people feel related to the story should be reason enough to see the spirit. But, what if science lies and what you see is the actual spirit? 

Why don’t you give it a try?

Florencia Tubio and Analía Yonamine – 4th Year

A HISTORY OF HORROR FILMS: PART II

1950 - 1970

Throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s British producer Hammer struck exposing high quality movies as  The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) , Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959). The star directors of that time were the English Terence Fisher and the American Roger Corman, who specialized in low-budget films, based on stories by the writer Edgar Allan Poe. 

The beginning of the Cold War gave place to new ways of seeing horror in cinema and films like Gojira / Godzilla ( 1954) by Ishiro Honda came to light.

In the 60s , George Andrew Romero had premiered the Night of the Living Dead, film that gave birth to another theme : that of zombies. These, like the werewolf or vampires, are part of folk tradition and the oldest folk tales. The contemporary horror, however, both in literature and film, deals with the zombies without any romanticist shade, trying to achieve in the reader or viewer -through the raw expression of his cannibal monstrosity- an effect of ancestral pure terror.

From the 70's we found two remarkable films. The Exorcist by William Friedkin (1973) is considered by many critics the scariest movie in the history of cinema; the same goes for that infamous Jaws (1975) by Steven Spielberg. 

A new topic was used in this decade: paranormal powers. This was perfectly demonstrated in Carrie (1976), based on the novel of the same title by Stephen King, who later entered the psychological terror with Dressed to Kill (1980). 

Then, the mixture of horror and science fiction literature by Lovecraft reappears with an excellent film called Alien (1979).

1980 - 1990

In the 80s, movies of "teen horror" became fashionable, addressed to that one group in particular. Friday the 13th by Sean S. Cunningham began a series of films in which the manager is a wild terrifying murderer operating in the dark. They were followed by A Nightmare on Elm Street another one signed by Wes Craven. Prom Night (1980), Terror Train (1980), Bloody Valentine (1981), Happy Birthday to Me (1981), The Slumber Party Slaughter (1982), Sleepaway Camp (1983), Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), The Day Aprils Fool (1986), Devil Doll (1988), and Clownhouse (1989) all explored the same theme.

Other notable films of the decade were The Shining (1980) by Stanley Kubrick; The body (1981) by Sidney Furie; The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter; Poltergeist by Tobe Hooper; Re-Animator (1985) by Stuart Gordon; Hellraiser (1987) by Clive Barker. The Canadian David Cronenberg hit it again with The Fly (1986, a remake of the 50s version) and Dead Ringers (1988). The film that would close a decade of the best adaptations on the work of novelist Stephen King is Pet Sematary by Mary Lambert (1989).

The 90's brought lots of horror movies, like Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994); the production of the Canadian science fiction Cube (1997), powerful and innovative in its theme; the aforementioned Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola (1992), and the great success among teenagers Wes Craven's Scream (1996) and its sequels; besides I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) parodied in Scary Movie (2000, Keenen Ivory Wayans). 

The New Zealander Peter Jackson (trilogy The Lord of the Rings) had opened with the spectacular -although parody- entitled Braindead (1992) and Bad Taste (1987) . Indian-born director M. Night Shyamalan, gave us the original The Sixth Sense (1999), which has also been compared with the chilling Others by Alejandro Amenabar.

2000's

The 2000s were a quiet time for the genre. Horror films began to be based on sales rather than on creating original stories . The extended version of The Exorcist and blockbusters like Final Destination (2000) -which includes 4 years following- sequels-, Jason X  (2001) and Freddy vs. Jason (2003) were launched. The Jeepers Creepers series also succeeded . Films like Hollow Man, The Orphan, Wrong Turn, Cabin Fever and House of 1000 Corpses helped bring the genre back to qualifications restricted in theaters. Comic book adaptations such as Blade, Constantine (2005) and the Hellboy (2004) series also became box office hits. Adaptations of video games like Doom (2005) and Silent Hill (2006) also had a moderate box office success , while the Van Helsing (2004) and Underworld series had a huge box office success .

Style web videos featuring Slender Man became popular on YouTube in the beginning of the decade. Horror has become prominent on television with The Walking Dead, American Horror Story and The Strain. Many popular horror films have had successful television series made, like Psycho spawned Bates Motel, The Silence of the Lambs spawned Hannibal; while Scream and Friday the 13th both have television series in development. 

Horror cinema has grown since its very first movie came out. Nowadays, we can find frightening films for everyone, even on television. Some people think that old scary movies were better than today´s movies. We believe that times have changed and that we can find excellent cinematographic productions even today. Here are our top movies. Enjoy!

• The Amityville Horror (1979)
• Mama (2013)
• Carrie (1976)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Scream (1996)
• The Exorcist (1976)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• The Ring (2002)
• Paranormal Activity (2007)
• Insidous (2010)
• Grave Encounters (2011)

Nadia Palaziol, Iara Stendler, Ignacio Penzotti and Melina Estaras - 4th Year

URBAN LEGENDS: PART II

Following our previous article, we bring you two more scary urban legends from our country: Argentina. 

Get ready…

The Bus Driver

In Rosario, Argentina, there is a legend that keeps drivers awake when driving at night. It was a cold, winter night and a 114th Line bus was heading home after a long shift. The driver was extremely tired and trying not to fall asleep. His eyes closed for just a few seconds. 

Suddenly, while passing by ‘El Salvador’ cemetery, his eyes went wide open when he saw something that looked like a girl, on the road.

He couldn’t stop the bus and ran her over. The man was frightened. What had just happened? Why there, in front of the cemetery? Feeling too scared to check on the girl, he left her there and drove away. 

After a few minutes driving madly to escape, he looked through the rear view mirror. 

He was petrified, stone cold. The girl from the road was sitting in the back row, sobbing and staring at him. 

What ever happened to the bus driver, no one ever knew. It remains a mystery. 

The Lady in Black

The second legend, very famous in our country, is the one about the woman in black.

In Saint Gregory, a town near Venado Tuerto –Santa Fe- the neighbors were shocked by the story of a cryogenic worker. 

One drizzling morning, he was heading for work. He took the usual road: ROUTE 14. 

He was driving along when he saw a woman dressed in black, hitchhiking. He stopped, asked her where she was going.

After answering she was going downtown, he agreed to give her a lift. When they got there, the woman said her name was Nancy Núñez, thanked the driver and left.

When the man got to his work place, he told the story to his work mates. He couldn’t believe his ears: Nancy Núñez had died a year and a half before, when a light airplane lost control and crashed on the car she was driving. She died instantly. 

He was even more frightened when he learnt that the terrible accident took place where he saw the woman in black. 

Hans Fritzler, Camila Monteros, Pablo Contreras and Micaela Cruz - 3rd Year