Wendigoon Thread

[Edgeymcedgename]

Oh yeah there's CreepCast today.

First one was really predictable. I literally figured it out before it finished.
The others were ok from what I remember.

 

[The Bogwater Rises]

I liked this episode of Creep Cast and enjoyed the stories. I like the shorter stories that don't waste my time a lot

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

It’s a multiple short story episode, really wish they’d mark them more obviously in the title.

The last one is pretty strong, I'm still thinking about hours after. It tickles my Annihilation enjoyment. It's basically the shimmer.

 

[Cave Fisher]

Oh yeah there's CreepCast today.

The first one was mostly predictable but short and sweet, zero fat to it. It hit me with the twist just as I was beginning to wonder when the Youtuber bit would come back into play.
The other stories were just meh. They were too abstract to benefit from the shorter length, so there wasn't really time to sit with "Oh shit, we ordered some eggs off of Ebay and now some mutant bird mimics or something are taking over the city!", and I just was NOT feeling the intended spooky atmosphere from the second story with a mother running away from an invisible ceiling, though I'll admit, I liked how hopeless the ending felt, especially with the empty town.

A good 60% of these stories would be improved by being written in a third-person perspective alone.

Pretty much every Nosleep story is weighed down by the format of Nosleep.

 

[The Crescent King]

Rate me dumb, but I didn't get the first one.
Guy is annoyed by an obnoxious neighbour who kills himself accidentally while videoing a YouTube prank. The end line of the garage door - was that supposed to be a twist? Did the narrator kill him and then just keep his corpse in the box for weeks? Was that supposed to reveal that "returning to sender" meant the neighbour died in his home and he mailed the corpse to himself? For once I need Isaiah's autistic theorising/explaining.

 

[The Bogwater Rises]

Rate me dumb, but I didn't get the first one.
Guy is annoyed by an obnoxious neighbour who kills himself accidentally while videoing a YouTube prank. The end line of the garage door - was that supposed to be a twist? Did the narrator kill him and then just keep his corpse in the box for weeks? Was that supposed to reveal that "returning to sender" meant the neighbour died in his home and he mailed the corpse to himself? For once I need Isaiah's autistic theorising/explaining.

I feel exhausted today but let me take a crack at explaining it and hopefully not confusing you more by accidentally schizoposting you.

In story one Main Char is asked to check annoying Youtuber neighbor's mail while Youtuber is away. Youtuber is actually shipping himself back to his home for some video. Main char gets the box Youtuber is in and carries it to his garage, but drops the box breaking Youtuber's neck. Youtuber is dead. It takes a while for Main Char to notice the smell, and even longer to open the box. Main char opens box and finds out Youtuber is dead. Cops get involved and confirm to Main Char the drop broke Youtuber's neck with the recordings Youtuber made.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Rate me dumb, but I didn't get the first one.
Guy is annoyed by an obnoxious neighbour who kills himself accidentally while videoing a YouTube prank. The end line of the garage door - was that supposed to be a twist? Did the narrator kill him and then just keep his corpse in the box for weeks? Was that supposed to reveal that "returning to sender" meant the neighbour died in his home and he mailed the corpse to himself? For once I need Isaiah's autistic theorising/explaining.

The wannabe youtuber asked his neighbor to grab his mail while he was gone. The prank was that he (youtuber) mailed himself to his house and he was going to jump out and surprise the neighbor when he checked the package.

For whatever reason he didn't immediately jump out and scare the neighbor, gave him enough time to carry the package across the street.

Neighbor's garage door is shit, he has to kick it to get it to open. While he's kicking it he drops the box, wannabe youtuber is in the box, breaks his neck when it hits the ground. YTer was recording himself when the drop happened, the last sound before the break is neighbor kicking the door.

Basically "I accidentally killed my neighbor. Cops saw the recording but didn't realize it was me who did it. I didn't know before they showed me, but now I do"

 

[souschef]

Oh yeah there's CreepCast today.

Wish they stopped covering these reddit pastas. They should do Burgrr Entries, Hunter would absolutely love it.

 

[The Crescent King]

Thanks for explaining Kiwibros! @The Bogwater Rises @TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

That one kind of reminded me of the real idiotic incident where that dude had his girlfriend fire a firearm at a bible/book on his chest. Also that summary of that story as explained above made me appreciate the writing more...it loses all interest when explained so plainly.

 

[scallion]

Wish they stopped covering these reddit pastas

They're just plugging for content creators now, last episode shilling a patreon this one shilling etsy slop

 

[brazilsucksdick]

Wish they stopped covering these reddit pastas. They should do Burgrr Entries, Hunter would absolutely love it.

You're expecting tubers to have taste.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Didn’t particularly love any of the stories but my tolerance for short stories that manage to invoke any feeling whatsoever is infinitely higher than four hour long overexplained deepest lore shit. I’ll overlook obvious holes in the story if it’s one line in a one reddit post long story, the stories where whole plot points take a half hour to explain and then either go nowhere or worse utterly fall flat in the payoff make me wish for mass illiteracy to be the norm again.

Vaguely curious if they’ll ever do Humper-Monkey's Ghost Story, the first one was kind of neat when I read it a decade ago, the follow up stories from 50 Foot Ant got dumb and borderline pornographic at points from what I remember. Tandy still crosses my mind when we I’m wading through the snow to get firewood in the dead of winter though.

 

[Godchu]

Think I'm in the minority when I say I actually did like these tales. Fun little short stories that, while they do have many holes once you look deep enough, have some really fun premises to carry them

First story almost reads as a joke, like ha ha I accidentally killed my annoying wannabe youtuber neighbor while he was doing a stupid YouTube prank. It's dated, but the punchline lands.

Second story had a real interesting take on demonic possession (at least that's what I interpreted it as). To think that the demons are so alien to us that when they hijack our bodies they turn it into something abominable. I think where it falls flat is how it both runs too long and too short to deliver a truly satisfying ending. Either keep the story lean and reveal that all pigeons across the world were replaced by these invaders, or make the reveal that they can take over humans, maybe with the protagonist's fate being left ambiguous as to if he managed to escape or not. For that, it doesn't make any sense that it would happen in a big city like Toronto. Better to set it in an isolated, kurozu-cho-type town in the middle of nowhere.

If there was any one story they've covered that deserves to be adapted into a short film, it'd be the third story. I know Hunter's said that a lot, but I mean it this time. The writing and characters are there, the build-up is really clever, and the premise is so uniquely bizarre it leaves you wanting more. That's really all there is to say.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

If there was any one story they've covered that deserves to be adapted into a short film, it'd be the third story. I know Hunter's said that a lot, but I mean it this time. The writing and characters are there, the build-up is really clever, and the premise is so uniquely bizarre it leaves you wanting more. That's really all there is to say.

Boy do I have good news for you...

 

[scallion]

After sleeping on it and having a dream about it that 3rd story fucked. Was a fucked up mix of WotW and Nope. Very Enjoyable.
The pigeon one was okay but, as was addressed before, doppelganger stuff is so overplayed with these kinds of things. I liked that the guy laid eggs tho that was pretty sick.

 

[Rick The Stick]

The youtuber story is the only one that stuck with me, and that's because I'm almost certain I'd read it before. Plus it's just really obvious and for some reason I picture Fred as the youtuber. Not sure why it was there though. It's not creepy or even slightly spooky, just a joke poking fun at YouTube trends at the time.

The other two stories went in one ear and out the other. Quite a few of the recent stories have been this way for me.

 

[Curious Lurker]

Unlike some people here, i didn't like the first story at all. Dude tried to be sneaky by not describing the box in detail, just saying "it's heavy" but come on. It had the guy inside, food, eletronics. The thing would be too heavy and volumous to just "pick it up" but the twist wouldn't work if he didn't drop it..so dumb. Would be better if the guy just died in route.

Second story was a bit reddity in it's dialoge, but i liked more. But agree i'm getting tired of "it getting better at disguise guys!" twist like many here, so overdone

Third story was nice, no deep lore, no explanations, just weird shit happening and it's implied consequences

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I think you could make the first story work a lot better. The guy picking up a box with a full grown man in it definitely requires more suspension of disbelief than is reasonable. I'm a big guy with a construction job and the second I tried to pick something that heavy up I'd nope out immediately and go for a dolly or a second person to carry it if I couldn't just shove it across the ground

Only really need two changes I think, instead of the guy being the youtuber, make it be his young son/daughter. The guy is divorced, wife lives far away, only has his kid on weekends or holidays. Guy leaves in a panic to help ex-wife look for the kid, asks neighbor to check his mail and watch the house in a text. He's in a hurry, doesn't say why he's leaving, doesn't answer texts/calls while he's gone. Turns out the kid mailed themself to the dad as the prank they were hoping would go viral, have things play out basically the same otherwise. I think it especially works since it amps up the amount of guilt the narrator would feel, and carrying a fifty pound kid across the street vs a 180+ pound man is way more reasonable/doable

 

[FILTH Tourist]

On a whim I decided to check on Wendi's other podcast Red Thread to see if it is still going (it is) and apparently Oompaville is leaving the show. Hopefully they find someone who can bounce off Wendi. While the bits with Meat can drag on and derail, sometimes they strike gold. Jackson, Charlie, and Caleb are just way too dry and don't add anything entertaining or informative to the video.