BY XAVIER PIEDRA From Mashable

Are you one of those people who loves being scared — but, you know, in that not-quite-real way? There’s nothing like the thrill of watching a scary video. And YouTube has plenty of them that are short and free and will totally satisfy your adrenaline craving.

Plus, watching on YouTube beats spending a ton of money to watch the latest horror flick on the big screen through your fingers.

In the spirit of Halloween, we’ve scoured the creepier corners of YouTube to gather some of the spookiest videos and web series out there. Take a look for yourself, or maybe with a friend or two. These just might give you nightmares for days.

1. Marble Hornets

Marble Hornets is a YouTube series based off the Slender Man mythos/creepypasta. The story follows Troy Wagner, a young man who tries to piece together the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his friend Alex Kralie after Kralie abruptly quit a film they were working on.

The series began in 2010, and a lot of the early entries show sightings of “The Operator,” a creature who bears an uncanny resemblance to Slender Man. Things only get more terrifying as Wagner continues to dig deeper into his friend’s past.

The series ended in 2014, but there are 87 main entries to binge if you’re feeling up to getting super spooked.

2. day four.wmv

This video is a part of the BEN Drowned creepypasta by YouTuber Alex Hall. According to the story, a boy named Matt unknowingly picks up a haunted copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, and finds it’s riddled with creepy glitches.

A statue in the game who represents the malevolent spirit in the cartridge follows the player every time Matt boots up the game. The ghost goes by the name of “BEN,” and he eventually causes Matt to lose his sanity, as the haunting and glitches get progressively worse each time he starts the game.

Videos of the spooky gameplay were uploaded onto Matt’s channel (now Alex’s) to add another layer to the written creepypasta. Take a look if you’re brave enough.

3. Fighting Buried Alive

This video is based off a creepypasta that said there was an unused model in the original Pokémon games that can only be uncovered through a series of steps. The model in question was a zombie-like figure called “BURIEDALIVE” that fought the player at the top of the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town.

The video is a recording of the rumored battle. If the player loses the fight, the screen cuts to an image of the zombie creature chomping down on the player. Not to worry, Nintendo would never program something that terrifying in a children’s game — so it’s all fake.

4. Username666

This terrifying video is also based off a creepypasta rumor that said there was a haunted YouTube channel that can be accessed by typing “youtube.com/666” into your address bar. An error screen will show up saying that the user “doesn’t exist.”

However, according to the legend and this video, if you refresh the page enough times, the link will actually work. After agreeing to a popup that asks if you want to view the page, you’ll be taken to a horrifying channel filled with a lot blood-red images and creepy hands crawling all over the screen.

If you want to watch the video, be sure to prep yourself for the jump scare at the end!

5. I Feel Fantastic

This is Tara. She was apparently built by a man named John Bergeron, who was on a mission to build the world’s first pop star android.

Except Tara is actually pretty scary. A YouTube user named Creepyblog uploaded a video of the android eerily singing “I feel fantastic, hey hey hey” and “run.” It’s safe to say she won’t be making it in the industry anytime soon.

A ton of theories about Tara have sprung up — the most popular being that the Tara’s creator was a murderer, and Tara wore his victim’s clothing. Of course it’s far more than likely this android was just a scrapped project who continues to haunt us.

6. Any of blameitonjorge’s videos

Blamitonjorge is a YouTuber who talks about anything and everything creepy on the internet. A lot of his video center on conspiracy theories, scary rituals, and lost episodes of children’s cartoon shows.

The video above covers some really bizarre and unnerving broadcast interruptions that have occurred throughout the country in the past few decades. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart.

7. Hypno’s Lullaby

This video is based on a Pokémon theory/creepypasta that paints Hypno, a dream-eating Pokémon, as a kidnapper. The theory comes from Hypno’s Pokédex entry, which states: “There once was an incident in which it took away a child it hypnotized.”

That birthed this awful song about the Pokémon luring children away from their parents to feast on their dreams. The singing is pretty terrible, but the lyrics will make anyone’s skin crawl.

8. Lights Out

*JUMPSCARE WARNING*

This short horror film captures feeling like you’re not alone in your house at night. Hopefully none of us ever have to encounter the creature this lady comes face to face with at the end…

9. Paris Catacombs Lost Man Footage

This chilling footage was part of several documentaries — including an ABC Family Halloween special about the Catacombs of Paris — that were broadcast in the early 2000s.

The Catacombs, a popular tourist attraction in France, contain dozens of tunnels filled with human bones, in which anyone can easily get lost if they’re not careful. The footage in this video is allegedly from a camera that a man dropped in the Catacombs in the 1990s; it was later supposedly discovered by a group of people exploring the tombs.

It’s really creepy to contemplate why exactly this guy was running in panic.

10. Salad Fingers

This classic series was extremely popular for its unnerving animation, spooky post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and the creepy titular character, “Salad Fingers.” In the opening episode, Salad Fingers looks for the perfect spoon to rub his fingers against in order to feel some sort of pleasure.

11. Miss Shaye St. John

This creepy relic from the early days of YouTube never fails to make me squirm in my seat. Meet Miss Shaye St. John — a former actress made of mannequin parts after a serious accident left her disfigured — who appears in multiple videos uploaded by surrealist artist Eric Fournier.

In the video, Miss Shaye makes weird hand movements while gurgling out strange syllables. Another mannequin humanoid walks into the room and pesters Miss Shaye to teach them “the hand thing,” and both of them continue to slam their wooden hands together.

It’s guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.

12. Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared

What starts off as an children’s educational song turns into your own personal nightmare factory. In the video, three puppets learn what it means to be “creative” from a talking notepad. But all three of them get much more than they bargained for when the video jumps to surreal scene filled with blood and guts.

Just remember “green is not a creative color,” and you should be fine watching this video … hopefully.

13. Unwind With the Sweeties

This bizarre YouTube video comes from a public access television show from the ’90s called “Unwind with the Sweeties.” According to Lost Media Wiki, a married couple named Gus and Emma Schlishki were the masterminds behind the petrifying show.

In the video, a couple wearing green and yellow ski masks and glasses with painted eyes are reading together. The husband (in the green mask) is perusing a book that has suggestive images of women. Then the scene cuts to another woman in a yellow ski mask talking about her day in a strange accent, all while squealing “ooooh,” in between sentences.

What the video lacks in scare factor, it more than makes up for in creepiness. No one seems to know what happened to The Sweeties after the show abruptly stopped airing. I’m sure we’re all OK with that.

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