User:Beckaranger

The Rake originated on 4chan’s bored in late 2005. An anonymous poster started a thread with the post “hey lets make a new monster”. Naturally, there were many ideas, but one stood out, and another poster created a new thread based on this idea. The thread started with this post: Alright, this is for the people who like the three-eyes, no apparent mouth, pale skin one. Here’s what we’ve got so far: Humanoid, about six feet tall when standing, but usually crouches and walks on all fours. It has very pale skin. The face is blank. As in, no nose, no mouth. However, it has three solid green eyes, one in the middle of its forehead, and the other two on either side of its head, towards the back. Usually seen in front yards in suburban areas. Usually just watches the observer, but will stand up and attack if approached. When it attacks, a mouth opens up, as if a hinged skull that opens at the chin. Reveals many tiny, but dull teeth. This eventually formed into what we now know as “The Rake”. The Rake went through many design and name changes during its beginning. One of the more prevalent names was “Operation Crawler”. Below are a couple of the “checkpoints” from the thread where it originated. 6 feet tall is good humanoid pale greyish skin 2 large eyes on the front of the head because of trips and nature no nose mouth that is slightly visible, then opens on a hinge hundreds of dull but not blunt teeth eats meat genitals dont matter because no interviews really talk about that seen in suburban areas minding its own business attacks when approached but mostly just stares at people looks human enough to be able to disguise with fedora and trench coat or similar revised again, Approximately 6’ tall, but seen crouching Humanoid Pale, greyish skin 2 slightly larger than human eyes No nose Mouth that is smaller than human, but when provoked or attacked, opens freely on a hinge down to the neckline, showing hundreds of dull, but not blunt teeth Unknown origin Unknown Diet Seen in suburban areas Opens it’s mouth and widens its eyes when provoked, attacks when approached If not provoked or approached, just stares One of the earliest appearances of the story was posted to the personal blog[1] of Something Awful user Brian Somerville[15] on July 20th, 2006. It was the first story in a series entitled “Horror Theater,” but Somerville does not indicate if the text was taken from another website or if it was written specifically for that blog post. According to the mythology, firsthand accounts of The Rake has been described as early as in the 12th century and documented for the first time in 1691. The story also alleges that strange events in the northeastern U.S. involving the creature led to brief local media interest in the summer of 2003, but most written accounts of the creature have been mysteriously destroyed since.