Creepypasta Reading - Blood Whistle

Because I have been out of practice for so long, I decided to do something completely silly and low-stakes to help me warm back up: a reading of a personal favorite, absolutely absurd creepypasta. Blood Whistle.

For those who aren’t familiar: “creepypasta” is a horror genre consisting of internet-shared stories of purported legends or tall tales. Essentially, they are the internet version of campfire stories. Not meant to be serious and, often, bad in ways that are delightfully entertaining.

A well-known subgenre of creepypastas is the “haunted game cartridge” story, where the narrator tells of an encounter with a cursed, haunted, or otherwise nefarious video game cartridge, always with the game in question corrupted to be a malefic version of itself.

Blood Whistle is a completely standard example of the subgenre. By that I mean: its writing is overwrought and melodramatic, it assumes emotional investment from the reader that it does not earn, and it is poorly constructed in ways that are extremely funny. It is enormously entertaining to me, so I decided to do a reading of it as a return to narrations. Also to get back my vocal practice by reading something that begs for overly dramatized performance.

Content warning: as a haunted-game creepypasta, Blood Whistle has a lot of purple prose gore and viscera. Like many of its kind, it childishly delights in excessive blood, suicidal ideation, and overly traumatic imagery and sentiment. If you are squeamish, sit this one out. Check out the Rome posts instead, and don’t worry. I will be back with more ACOUP before 2026... if I can just get this bootleg copy of Majora’s Mask that I found at a yard sale to work....

Source of the text for the reading: https://lostepisodecreepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Blood_Whistle_(Super_Mario_Bros_3_Creepypasta)

 

Video for the background is from World of Longplays, played by Spazbo4, available here: https://longplays.org/infusions/longplays/longplays.php?cat_id=15&longplay_id=767