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For fun, my sister and my cousins used to always have sleepovers and such, and never would we have one night where we wouldn't turn off all the lights in the house, grab a torch, and start telling scary stories.

Now, I was a really fucking scaredy cat when I was a kid. The thought of watching a horror movie for me was absolutely horrid. Seeing something like, let's say the creature from The Ring or The Grudge (both of which I find laughable nowadays), would have kept me up all night and left me too terrified to sleep.

For some reason though, hearing these kinda camp stories (told indoors lol) was never too bad, and eventually I actually really started to grow an interest/fondness of these creepy stories. By the time I was 13/14, I was always encouraging my friends and family members to watch horror movies with me. Always Supernatural horror though, because I've never found the Slashers scary.

I discovered Creepypasta through the creepy TV show theories that were sometimes posted on Facebook, and I wanted to research more. Found about the Haunted Lost Episodes and Video Games, and I actually found them great. It was like people had taken the core of what made those stories from my youth scary, and had applied it as a twist to the things I had watched, played, or experienced when I was a child that wasn't actually scary.

They all became very stale quite quickly, which led me down the road of more traditional horror, such as EAP and Lovecraft, and after a while I decided to try write my own horror stories, and I just had loads of fun doing that too.

So yeah, that's my story I guess.