The writers of r/nosleep are determined to torture your dreams. The subreddit describes itself as "A place for Redditors to share their scary personal experiences." What that really means is that it's a constant source of fresh and original horrors that will become creepypastas of the future. For the uninitiated as to what a "creepypasta" is, Know Your Meme's entry describes them as the following:
"Creepypasta is a popular subgenre of copypasta which consists of short horror fictions and urban legends mainly distributed through word of mouth via online message boards or e-mail."
Some of the stories on r/nosleep are real experiences, some are incredible, and some are incredulous. Which one you are reading can often be indeterminate until well into the story which only heightens the spooky effect.
This story was originally posted by Redditor u/writing-with-l in a post titled "My missing husband came home, but I just know it isn't him." The post did very well for the subreddit earning just shy of ten thousand upvotes.
Over three weeks later, on April 11, the story was posted to Twitter by @_Annikus_ where it, as of the writing of this post, has gone absolutely wild. The Tweet has received 32.8k retweets, 14.6k quotes, and 147k likes.
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