Creepy Hooded Guy An Intruder

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Creepy Hooded Guy, also called An Intruder or The Albanian, is a computer-generated police sketch of a large-eyed man in a black hood that spread as a creepypasta and shock image from 2010 onward. The picture first bubbled up on 4chan's /tg/ board in 2010, went viral on /pol/ and Russia's 2ch in December 2015, and hit a second peak in 2021 after appearing in the analog horror series Mandela Catalogue.

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Overview

Creepy Hooded Guy is a grainy, computer-generated police sketch showing a thin man with unusually large dark eyes, a long nose and a black hood pulled over his head1. The image is usually posted with no caption at all, letting the uncanny face do the work, though Russian-speaking users later attached names like The Albanian (Албанец) and pasted fake wanted-poster text under it2.

In English-speaking circles the picture is best known by two labels: Creepy Hooded Guy, the descriptive tag it picked up on 4chan, and An Intruder, the on-screen caption used when the sketch shows up in the analog horror YouTube series Mandela Catalogue3. The visual is treated as an all-purpose creepypasta mascot, a shock image, and a Photoshop base for face-swap edits2.

How It Spread

The image broke out on December 10th, 2015, when an anonymous user posting from Albania dropped it into a /pol/ thread on 4chan, after which other users started reposting it to creep people out and it was quickly tagged as a meme on the board1. Six days later, on December 16th, 2015, a user on the Russian imageboard 2ch opened a thread about the picture on the /sn/ board, and from December 18th a series of four /b/ threads pushed the idea of building a full creepypasta and video package around it and forcing it through VK communities1. Because the /pol/ poster who spread it was Albanian, Russian anons nicknamed the character Албанец, "The Albanian"6.

In Russia the forced creepypasta claimed the image could cause dizziness, nausea and headaches, and fake wanted posters listing the Albanian's supposed physical description were pasted up in cities as part of the joke6. In April 2018 the meme flared up again in Russia, with Memepedia writing about it, and in 2019 a version captioned with the nonsense phrase "Выгу выгу" (translated from Russian) took off as a post-ironic shitpost6.

The second big wave came from horror YouTube. On August 9th, 2021, episode three of Mandela Catalogue Vol. 1 used the sketch as a static image labeled "an intruder," and the episode passed 1.6 million views within three months7. From late October 2021 the character trended on Twitter and TikTok, often affectionately rather than as a scare, including a fan-cam TikTok by @lesbianpetergriffin that racked up over 167,100 views and 40,400 likes in two weeks8.

How to Use This Meme

The picture is typically posted raw, with no caption, as a jumpscare in an otherwise normal thread or reply. A common convention in Mandela Catalogue-flavored edits is to slap the words "an intruder" under it in a plain sans-serif font, mimicking the show7. Russian-language edits often include fake police-notice text or the "Выгу выгу" caption, and Photoshops frequently swap the face onto celebrities or other hooded characters6.

Frequently Asked Questions

Creepy Hooded Guy An Intruder

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Creepy Hooded Guy, also called An Intruder or The Albanian, is a computer-generated police sketch of a large-eyed man in a black hood that spread as a creepypasta and shock image from 2010 onward. The picture first bubbled up on 4chan's /tg/ board in 2010, went viral on /pol/ and Russia's 2ch in December 2015, and hit a second peak in 2021 after appearing in the analog horror series Mandela Catalogue.

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Overview

Creepy Hooded Guy is a grainy, computer-generated police sketch showing a thin man with unusually large dark eyes, a long nose and a black hood pulled over his head1. The image is usually posted with no caption at all, letting the uncanny face do the work, though Russian-speaking users later attached names like The Albanian (Албанец) and pasted fake wanted-poster text under it2.

In English-speaking circles the picture is best known by two labels: Creepy Hooded Guy, the descriptive tag it picked up on 4chan, and An Intruder, the on-screen caption used when the sketch shows up in the analog horror YouTube series Mandela Catalogue3. The visual is treated as an all-purpose creepypasta mascot, a shock image, and a Photoshop base for face-swap edits2.

How It Spread

The image broke out on December 10th, 2015, when an anonymous user posting from Albania dropped it into a /pol/ thread on 4chan, after which other users started reposting it to creep people out and it was quickly tagged as a meme on the board1. Six days later, on December 16th, 2015, a user on the Russian imageboard 2ch opened a thread about the picture on the /sn/ board, and from December 18th a series of four /b/ threads pushed the idea of building a full creepypasta and video package around it and forcing it through VK communities1. Because the /pol/ poster who spread it was Albanian, Russian anons nicknamed the character Албанец, "The Albanian"6.

In Russia the forced creepypasta claimed the image could cause dizziness, nausea and headaches, and fake wanted posters listing the Albanian's supposed physical description were pasted up in cities as part of the joke6. In April 2018 the meme flared up again in Russia, with Memepedia writing about it, and in 2019 a version captioned with the nonsense phrase "Выгу выгу" (translated from Russian) took off as a post-ironic shitpost6.

The second big wave came from horror YouTube. On August 9th, 2021, episode three of Mandela Catalogue Vol. 1 used the sketch as a static image labeled "an intruder," and the episode passed 1.6 million views within three months7. From late October 2021 the character trended on Twitter and TikTok, often affectionately rather than as a scare, including a fan-cam TikTok by @lesbianpetergriffin that racked up over 167,100 views and 40,400 likes in two weeks8.

How to Use This Meme

The picture is typically posted raw, with no caption, as a jumpscare in an otherwise normal thread or reply. A common convention in Mandela Catalogue-flavored edits is to slap the words "an intruder" under it in a plain sans-serif font, mimicking the show7. Russian-language edits often include fake police-notice text or the "Выгу выгу" caption, and Photoshops frequently swap the face onto celebrities or other hooded characters6.

Frequently Asked Questions