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Creepypasta - El Parasito (The Rake retake)

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The video unfolds as a chain of “evidence files” and firsthand stories centered on one enduring horror: a pale, humanoid predator with dark, vacant “eye sockets.” It stalks at night, follows a signature “rake” behavior, and—across centuries and multiple modern incidents—appears to be the same entity.

Witness accounts and medical records suggest the creature can:

  • erase victims from records,
  • resist weapons,
  • and cause extreme biological transformation in its victims.

Standout Highlights (by segment)

1) Ancient documents & the entity’s origin pattern

  • The narrator begins with “classified” historical testimony, starting from a sailor’s log dated around 1691.
  • The sailor records an encounter after sensing something at the foot of his bed, then later “disappears.”
  • Authorities are unable to find traces.
  • A later jump (nearly two centuries) introduces a German citizen’s diary describing terror:
    • enormous black “holes” where eyes should be,
    • wet hands,
    • and an inability to sleep afterward.
  • Those later records are also erased—no death certificate, no civil trace—implying the creature doesn’t merely kill, but removes people from history.

2) The “forensic” case: Gabriel Grayson / the medical escalation

  • The narrative shifts to a forensic file tied to 1964 and a suicide note (explicit contents withheld).
  • Autopsy details emphasize:
    • deep cervical/neck wounds consistent with “biological bites,”
    • grayish-pale skin discoloration,
    • thick black saliva.
  • The victim previously experienced psychotic crises after seeing a pale creature; police dismissed it as delusion until the body revealed a different story.
  • Another case (from 2006) introduces the public name for the entity: “the rake.”
    • A woman survives proximity to the creature near a child.
    • She shows no visible injuries and no follow-up illness, suggesting the creature’s “harm” may be selective or staged.

3) 2010 Italian clinic: the “retake” horror machine

  • In 2010, a medical anomaly case is admitted to an Italian clinic.
  • The government shuts the clinic down completely:
    • wipes official records,
    • censors news,
    • and disguises the incident as a meningitis outbreak.
  • In 2012, urban explorers locate a hidden medical file.
  • Soon after leaving, death seems to “follow” them:
    • a friend dies shortly after,
    • the narrator hides in a dark motel because sunlight triggers unbearable migraines,
    • the narrator believes their own disappearance is imminent and posts the full file before dying.

4) The clinic’s medical progression (Day 5 → Day 21)

The video’s most intense section is a day-by-day transformation log:

  • Day 5
    • extreme hyperthermia spikes,
    • patient remains aware,
    • babbles about a humanoid stalking from corners.
  • Day 11
    • drastic morphing: bone thinning into something tall and inhuman,
    • vocal cords destroyed,
    • less mention of the original stalker.
  • Day 15
    • full necrosis and accelerated self-digestion,
    • eyes become black with irises gone,
    • face becomes predator-like,
    • clothing destroyed as bone elongates,
    • only high-frequency squeals.
  • Day 19
    • teeth and fingers remodel into claw-like structures,
    • “empty sockets of absolute darkness.”
  • Day 21
    • normal logic collapses:
      • outbreaks stop and it behaves like a wild predator,
      • it can’t be fed by serums or food,
      • bullets don’t harm it; ammunition appears absorbed or contained by its skin.
    • A doctor tries direct sedation; it breaks containment and brutally tears apart a colleague’s face.
    • A “millisecond” of blindness from a halogen light briefly fixes attention on the narrator, then it escapes.

Final haunting question: How many more exist?


5) Norway ranger story: the “drawing” leads to surveillance

A separate narrator—an off-duty ranger in northern Norway—presents a more grounded, creepier arc:

  • He finds deep claw marks on trees.
  • Inside the cabin, he discovers a hand-drawn sketch left on a notebook page.
  • For days, it’s lingering dread—nothing overt happens.
  • On a Tuesday night:
    • he hears footsteps in the dark,
    • checks cabin cameras later and sees the creature on infrared (thin silhouette and glowing eye sockets),
    • he captures evidence, grabs a USB drive, and flees immediately.
  • After five days missing:
    • he shows his wife the evidence.
    • she initially doesn’t believe him.
    • then she sees the drawing and the USB image and asks him to throw the USB away—suggesting the evidence itself “activates” or validates the threat.
  • The segment ends with a deleted-blog framing: the post is connected to other “uploaded proof,” but paranoia remains.

6) Mountain hiker story: cave painting evidence & unanswered medical decline

Another user (“Fantasía John 55”) claims to find:

  • a cave crack leading to an underground cavern,
  • metallic, heavy air,
  • and a deteriorating cave painting depicting figures fleeing something with:
    • fangs,
    • long claws,
    • and dark spots—matching the rake imagery.

Later, the hiker reports worsening symptoms:

  • headaches and weakness,
  • medication stops working,
  • a doctor suspects flu.

His final log entry appears in December 2004, and shortly after, he disappears.

Family reports include:

  • the residence is dark,
  • laptop left running with a cracked screen,
  • no blood or signs of ordinary violence,
  • deep claw marks carved into the wooden edges of the bed,
  • dense black-tinted residue on the floor.

Jokes / Tone notes

  • There’s almost no genuine “joke” content.
  • Humor is mostly involuntary and dark—e.g., early dismissive ideas like “teenager prank” used as coping—but it never lands as true comedy.
  • The most memorable reactions are fear-driven:
    • freezing when the creature appears on camera,
    • forced flight,
    • the wife immediately wanting the USB discarded.

Key Reactions the Video Leans On

  • Disbelief → proof
    • characters shift from “prank/animal” to “evidence on camera/USB.”
  • Institutional denial
    • police and governments attempt to dismiss or erase incidents.
  • Sunlight and migraine
    • one narrator’s daylight-triggered migraines add a survival constraint tied to the creature’s rules.
  • Erasure after death
    • victims vanish from records, not just life.

Main Personalities Mentioned (as narrators / commenters)

  • Unnamed “script uploader” / urban explorer narrator
    • documents the clinic file and later flees/records the last upload.
  • Gabriel Grayson
    • forensic-identification victim in the historical chain (speaker via records rather than firsthand).
  • Forest ranger in Norway (unnamed)
    • shift worker with the drawing, camera capture, and USB evidence.
  • “Fantasía John 55” / John Silva
    • mountain hiker blogger who finds the cave painting and later disappears.
  • Lucas C12
    • commenter who checks in on Fantasía John 55.
  • Anonymous users (commenters)
    • ask questions about being watched and warn about medical risks.

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