User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-36627132-20190305161421/@comment-38454773-20190306232707

I'm aware that there's numerous Wikis dedicated to Creepypastas surrounding Minecraft and Roblox and all that. I always wondered if they came to be because of the banning of gaming pastas. So the founders of those just figured, "Hey, since we can't write any pastas of them on Creepypasta Wiki, let's just make our own!" I may be wrong, but I can totally see that happening.

And ah, so you're familiar with that bizarre El Chavo story too? Haha, I remember looking the show up almost a decade ago and reading up on that. I myself was kind of shocked that Roberto Gómez Bolaños actually had considered writing up that sort of a fate for one of his most beloved characters. However, I feel it's important to add this: for some reason, I've heard numerous weird stories about the series finale. So many in fact, that I personally don't know what to believe and it's almost reached a "legendary" status.

One version of the story follows exactly what you told me, that his psychiatrist daughter ended up talking him out of it because it would depress too many children. Other stories floating around online say Bolaños himself changed his mind and decided against such a sad ending. Others say that El Chavo wasn't going to die by saving another kid and that he was simply going to get run over due to some bad luck. Yet another one says that the whole "Chavo dying in the finale" thing was just an urban legend and was never even planned in the first place!

Also, did you know that many episode of the original El Chavo Del Ocho broadcasts from the are lost? They were aired in the 70s and never again. But, that's a whole different story entirely.

Yep, every culture does indeed have its horror-like entities, from Chinese jiangshi to La Llorana of Latin America. I mean, all humans just love to scare themselves a little bit.

And I think you're absolutely right. I am now far more interested in lost media than Creepypasta most likely because it is more pursuant to my interests and has more of that kick that modern Creepypasta tends to lack. Or, at least the Lost Episode category.

And yes, I've seen that storyboard! At first, I didn't think it was real. I thought it was fan-made or something only until I found out that Steve Ressel himself uploaded and discussed its authenticity. Another one that comes to mind is The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Downer" and that infamous episode of Ed, Edd, 'N' Eddy known as "Special Ed" (yes, I'm aware that this episode is most likely fake and I've read a hacker actually took over this major fan-made EEnE website years ago and edited the Danny Antonucci interview to make it seem legit). Sometimes, it doesn't matter if it's real or not, it's that thrill you get with the hope that it may have existed.

Two examples I can name that had for years been speculated to have been fake but was still whispered about were "Dexter's Rude Removal" of Dexter's Laboratory and the "Clock Man" short that was aired by Pinwheel in the 70s or 80s I believe. They ended up being real and it was a glorious day for lost media enthusiasts and even some classic Creepypasta fans.

And oh, thank you for your comment about my avatar. I love retro games.