13 Best Creepypastas The Internet Has To Offer

If you’ve peeked even slightly into the world of internet horror stories, chances are you’ve found a story about a “lost episode” of a popular cartoon that holds a disturbing secret. Squidward’s Suicide, Dead Bart, Suicecidemouse.avi - you get the idea. 1999 varies from the trend in that it introduces an entire lost channel, and works as a recollection from the author of all the episodes he watched as a child on an old locally-run cable show.

Charting disappearing children, abuse, and an infatuation from the unsettling “Mr. Bear”, 1999 ran with updates for roughly two years before tailing off after an incomplete police investigation. Rather than focussing on the paranormal, the story looks at the very real frights of a predator, who uses a twisted television channel to lure children into his cellar. 100 fuzzy hugs never sounded so sinister.