Previously: “Slashertown.”
I love a good theme park. I also love a good horror story. So, it is with great joy that I give you “Incident Reports,” a theme park creepypasta that gave me a good chuckle the first time I read it — and which has continued to do so with each successive reading.
Why so many reads? Because it’s a quick one. Reminiscent of “A Few Suggestions,” “Incident Reports,” which was uploaded to the Creepypasta Wiki by user Fierce DeityX1 in October of 2013 (eons ago, in internet time), is classified as a micropasta — that is, a creepypasta that’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 words. (This one is 316, for the curious.) The micropasta format requires great economy of storytelling; you only have so much space, so you’ve got to be really precise about what you say.
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Much of the time, that also means we feel the weight of what you don’t say. Implication is king; the micropasta format is often a terrific example of how what we don’t see in a story can be so much more effective than what we do see.
What exactly went wrong at the theme park in “Incident Reports?” It’s tough to say — but whatever it is, it… is truly one for the ages.
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Incident: A ride broke down, everyone was understanding.
Incident: Some crazy man was running through the park. He was yelling, “IT’S CURSED!”
Incident: IT’S CURSED.
Incident: IT’S CURSED.
Incident: IT’S CURSED.
Incident: I had to call security on the crazy man, he kept on writing IT’S CURSED.
Incident: I found some blood on a ride today, someone probably got a bloody nose. We cleaned it up.
Incident: More blood on a seat.
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