A four-part creepypasta horror story by Rebecca Klingel (pen name C.K. Walker) about a boy investigating disappearances in the fictional Ozark town of Drisking, Missouri[1].

Where did Borrasca come from?

It was posted to Reddit's /r/nosleep in four parts between July 21st and 24th, 2015 by user The_Dalek_Emperor, later revealed as author Rebecca Klingel[2].

What does Borrasca mean?

In meme and horror circles, "Borrasca" refers to the C.K. Walker creepypasta and its recurring rhyme, "Underneath the Triple Tree there is a man who waits for me"[6].

How do you use Borrasca?

Readers typically share the original Reddit thread, MrCreepyPasta's narrated YouTube reading, or Cole Sprouse's QCODE podcast adaptation when recommending it to newcomers[3][5].

Is Borrasca still popular?

It stayed a reference point in creepypasta circles and saw a fresh spike of interest after @wendigoon's February 2023 video pushed it past 1.4 million views in one week[4].

Borrasca

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Published August 12, 2026

Borrasca is a four-part horror short story by Rebecca Klingel (pen name C.K. Walker) first serialized on Reddit's /r/nosleep in July 2015. The creepypasta follows a boy investigating disappearances in the fictional Ozark town of Drisking, Missouri, and won the subreddit's Scariest Story of 2015 award.

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Overview

Borrasca is a four-part horror story written by Rebecca Klingel under the pen name C.K. Walker, first serialized as a creepypasta on Reddit's /r/nosleep community2. The narrative follows nine-year-old Sam, whose family moves to the fictional Ozark town of Drisking, Missouri, where locals whisper about "skinned men" haunting the surrounding forest1. When his older sister Whitney disappears alongside several other women from town, Sam spends the next five years with two friends piecing together what happened to them1.

The story stood out from typical short scares on /r/nosleep because of its novella length and slow-burn structure, and it won the subreddit's "Scariest Story of 2015" award4. Klingel later collected the complete text on her personal author site in April 20161.

Origin & Background

Platform

Reddit (/r/nosleep)

Creator

Rebecca Klingel

Date

2015

Reddit user The_Dalek_Emperor, the account belonging to Rebecca Klingel, posted the four installments of Borrasca to /r/nosleep between July 21st and 24th, 20152. The combined threads picked up more than 15,000 upvotes across the following years4. Klingel republished the full story on her author blog under the pen name C.K. Walker in April 20161.

How It Spread

On November 13th, 2015, the YouTube channel MrCreepyPasta uploaded a complete narrated reading of Borrasca, which passed 1.1 million views over the following years5. Fan artists on DeviantArt started sketching Sam, Whitney, and the skinned men from the woods soon after the story caught on with horror readers7.

Interest surged again on May 25th, 2020, when actor Cole Sprouse launched a scripted podcast adaptation produced by QCODE. The first episode reached over 78,000 views on QCODE's YouTube channel3. On November 20th, 2021, animator ODDity released a short film based on the story that hit more than 22,000 views4.

A second wave of attention arrived on February 26th, 2023, after YouTuber and TikToker @wendigoon uploaded a video calling Borrasca the scariest creepypasta he had ever read; the clip passed 1.4 million views inside a week4.

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