Drumming In The Clouds [Ad-Free]

Written by AI, 0/10. The overuse of "not X, not Y, but Z" is agony and the most obvious tell. Em dashes are a less obvious clue because that's more just bad writing in general but they are also a common tell. Also, the lack of anything actually happening in the story; "the scrimblo scrumblo'd in a way that felt almost scrimblor. It was so scrimblo you would think it was scrumbli."

I’m begging Isaiah to read the original novel for I am Legend, if he hasn’t since this video. It’s not about the last human valiantly holding the line. I think he’d find it more interesting than that.

One of my favorites

A lot of the recurring writing structures makes me feel like it was AI written, or at least heavily edited with AI. Bummer :/

Noob sugger

There was old like trippy cartoon Ronald McDonald movies I remember watching as a kid...Need to re-watch on mushrooms 🍄 Im sure it would be insane. Those movies were literally crazy AF like I could definitely see Hunter making something like it.

Man this story was really good, Ronald McDonald was such a random reference but made it all the better thanks for a great episode guys.

Nobody else think of Futurama? Yivo?

Good story, I really enjoyed it!! An aspect I particularly appreciated was the accuracy of the biological terminology. It felt like the experts in the story actually knew what they were talking about. Good job!!!

There was literally a McDonald's cartoon. All the characters speak. Smh

I think that’s why I enjoyed Chernobyl so much because it was mainly following the nuclear scientists who were experts and their advocacy to do the right thing and pushing the status quo and fighting those government entities and I’m sure having the story told in a similar perspective would be interesting, people who only care about doing the right thing and not what these bigger entities want.

I can’t let go of the feeling that this was partially written by ai. It just, has that tone. Like the wording and weird pauses. It’s just a gut feeling, could be wrong.

I just realized that “Dr. Marie Quinn” is like the exact same name as the protagonist from “There is no Antimemetics Division” which either means this person’s a fan or it was a crazy coincidence. OR it was written by ChatGPT and it scalped the name because it was from a similar topic. No matter which of the 3 you guys need to read it now.

As a child of 7 years old I had an intense nightmare where all the other kids had taken over McDonald's in some type of fucked up coux, and they had Ronald McDonald held prisoner, and I was the only one left to save him, but he creeped me the fuck out because he was sobbing for help in a high pitched voice while being trapped in the playplace.

Movie is Nope right?

the earth being a womb in the metaphor is actually really cool if u consider the earth to be the foundation of life. like to humans, the concept of life outside of earth is bizarre like a maybe maybe not, so the act of the earth getting impregnated by some lifeform thats not only so bizarrely monstrous and incomprehensible to us but also just so like wrong? its just some really weird fucked up irony that would be really cool to see further developed

Took me like 5 tries to make it past the first half hour, but the story got good after that point.

I think Hunter is right, the story could have done without the "ahh I hear the drumming I'm going insaaane aaaah". Like yea there's going to be mass chaos and people going nuts but literally there's a person in the story who goes insane before the craziness really starts while saying "I hear it I hear it". The insanity once the circumstances kick in are good, but the Lovecraftian "the sound drives you mad because it's a scary sound" could have been left out. Having it just be a "natural" thing in the universe and doing all the same stuff would be just fine.

the early background music theme was an incredible choice it made me genuinely freaked out i really hope its used in more episodes

What was the music used in this? It heightened the tension so much.

Reddit authors just can't resist the urge to put S.H.I.E.L.D. in all of their horror stories.

I was waiting for Bruce Willis with a bunch of oil drillers to plant a nuke on the damn thing, while Steven Tyler sings in the background.

It reminded me a bit of Gemini Home Entertainment story, with a new planet appearing (The Iris) and mutating Neptune and making it alive. Awesome episode!

I feel like an interesting aspect of this story could be that when the creature "smiles" it is not smiling for the sake of the humans. It is doing it immediately after "vomiting" or creating its new offspring and spreading its existence. So maybe it is only the ego of humanity that is assuming that the creature is imitating what it observed from humanity. To me, the creature "smiling" at the birth of its own children, which will go on to poison the earth, adds another layer of horror that's more impactful than its imitating humanity. Adds to the theme of the irrelevance of humanity too. Loved this story!

why are they posting only audios now? where is the ad free video?

I was waiting for hunter to turn this story into a "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" fanfic after he said it was a giant Italian man eating spaghetti in the cloud.

this episode was posted on my birthday so thanks guys, appreciate that one

Getting big FMAB vibes with the hands from the sky

30 minutes in crack theory time the cloud is like a womb for something growing inside thats why the "heartbeat" only started when it got a certain size cuz everything is being formed inside :3

"Some were miles long. Others, kilometers." what the cuss is this sentence LMAOOOO

The music in this one hits so hard please keep using it

Goated music

the music used in this story is SO GOOD!!!!

Story would be a lot better if it didn't read like chat gpt wrote half of each paragraph :-/ insufferable to listen through

You guys should read Blood Music by Greg Bear

the actual horror is hunter triggering my misphonia by slurping spaghetti noodles.

Where is my episode? How am i supposed to work without my new episode? Idc if gooner is giving birth to his new baby or whatever, I hungry for my new episode

heartbeat in the clouds? Blasphemous II reference??

I have nothing to comment but I pay for this service so I’m gonna use it to its fullest extent and comment something anyway.

I need someone to send hunter ALL the Ronald McDonald's vhs's

Post another play-through of “No, I’m not a human” or I’ll beat my drum in your living room

Long story short...

Argentina mentioned RAHHH🦅🦅🦅 🇦🇷⭐⭐⭐🧉🧉🧉

Requesting The Goat Room from Elias Witherow. No weird sexual stuff. Strictly body horror.

We need 2025 best of Creep Cast. I’ve been waiting so long lol

I think y'all should at least make a reddit post or something to address the AI situation with this story. No one can definitively prove this is AI or not without more evidence, but if so many people on Reddit and YouTube are noticing and commenting on it, it deserves at least an official stance on whether AI generated content is allowed on your subreddits. I don't think you need to delete this episode or anything drastic, but at least give some insight on if you screen these for AI or plan to do so going forward. Personally, a lot of my writing uses things like em dashes, so I can understand the potential that the AI detectors are giving false positives. However, there is a large amount of this story that just feels very off, and not in a "amateur writing" sense. No one should harass the author and we don't 100% know if it's AI, but I think Creepcast itself should look into a way to vet these stories better and tell us what that method is. That way more people will be reassured that they're trying their best to weed out AI writing. Also, please look into why the mods of the reddit decided that banning everyone who talked about the potential this was AI was a good idea. I understand banning harassment, but a lot of people were just stating the weird AI tells the story had. Please do not let the subreddit turn into nosleep V2.

Beksiński for the surreal Hell painter

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! 😄😄😄💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤 love you guys!!!

The amount of shit that Isiah spoils on almost a regular basis cannot be allowed to proceed.

I've come to the conclusion I think lovecraftian horror is boring and gay.

I feel as an Italian American from NY I must say, la mortacci tua, stronzi! Jk jk, love you guys.

The cloud is just playing the drum solo from “In The Air Tonight”

I loved this episode and this story!!! I definitely want to look into this author's other stories. I love that creepcast is giving people an outlet to write and also that Hunter and Isaiah are so encouraging to writers. Its so cool to me that this author really just started posting recently and part of that could have been inspired by creepcast. This guy should definitely keep writing, awesome story! 💚

Day 2 of asking Nik episode when

there are genuinely serious problems with your reddit page

How much do I need to give Patreon for y'all to read Happy Appy? I think you guys will enjoy it, especially one of the set pieces near the beginning.

We getting any more merch that's a bit more minimalistic? Or at least not over-designed? The simple black T-shirt with the boys merging and the green Creepcast hat aren't over the top and they're the best merch so far

Imagine if the world started turning into dog world

this was great! yall should consider this https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/s/9mT8kTp5bu

I'm just doing the lazy version this week and saying hey read 'scary stories to tell in the dark' great stories, great art, spooky nostalgia

Helo , I am new on patreon , can you swear in here? I f*cking hope so , heehe

The thumbnail is the HARDEST YET!!!! This story was great enjoyed thoroughly 🤤

Hunter needs to know about the 1961 ufo encounter of Joe Simonton where he described the spacemen as small italians

16 minutes in, not vibing with this episode, I'll try again in the morning

Man, the boys really need to play look outside

Would be hilarious if, as part of patreon, we got whole inside jokes that got cut out of the main posted versions of the podcast

This story is DEFINITELY inspired by NOPE movie

Don’t understand why people are so negative to this story and the creeps this week

Where is the extra content I've been paying for?

Where is from hell I write?

Shout out to Big John! "Ladddddies come down to read Bret's note"

This was some unexpected dopeness boys (and 7 girls)

I really enjoyed this, props to the author. In regard to Hunters question of cosmic / lovecraftian horror being shown without the usual imagery, I recommend the Area X series by Jeff Vandermeer. IMO its probably one you the best cosmic horror series that keeps true to the existential dread without the chathulu imagery.

I know you guys probably won’t read it…but it could you guys pretty please read playground by Aron Beauregard 👉🏽👈🏽

Gotta say, earth impregnentation was not on my creep cast bingo card.

I suggest the story Colwin’s Corner

It’s definitely ai writing btw, the author didn’t even provide proof otherwise, just said “trust me its not”

Isaiah’s typical slander towards Hunter at the end the videos gets me every time 💀

This story stunk

thanks for the subtle knocking background noise guys. Genuinely thought I was going crazy

It’s the 20th century fox logo! We need to get out of here! BUM BUBA DUM!!

I’m taking a blinker every time hunter says “lovecraftian”

loved the new music

This sounds very ai generated, half the paragraphs dont make sense.

"in the air tonight" by Phil Collins

“My dad finally told me what happened that day” pleaaaasr

Would love if yall checked out 17776 !!

I feel like Wendi would love a nope deep dive because there’s so much to look into with it. I’ve seen a lot of people say it’s not an alien but something like an angel

THE DRUMS OF LIBERATION I HEAR IT

Hunter is like "Yeah I liked it but you should change the whole story"

You need to do "The Thing in My Yard Has Been Telling Me the Most Horrifying Stories"

One piece reference?

who up being gay asf

Thumbnail goes hard actually

Wayyyyy too many “not x, not x… just x” makes it feel like it was written by chatgpt

"can we kill it? Does it bleed?" Merch now

I desperately need these guys to read SCP-7234

they should finish the point pine series

Is this actually ai I saw somebody on Reddit say it and I’m worried if it is

Read "nails" on r/creepypasta. It's a good story about someone losing their mind.

This story reminds me a lot of the book “On the Beach”

I'm an Italian American with a giant nose who sweats profusely and loves his giant pepper cracker. I hope that Hunter will sit down for Spaghetti with me some day

Because of Hunter when the description of the cloud opening up was happening, I imagined it was spaghetti noodles

Just saw a post on Reddit calling this story AI Slop listing tons of examples from the story. One example being "Some were miles long, others kilometers" Idk if this story is AI assisted or not. But I think they should find a story vetting process. It's crazy that anyone would use AI for creative writing imo.

Love you guys happy early new years 😁😁🫶🫶

misophonia warning jesus fuckin christ

I absolutely love those fake McDonald’s ads from Japan of Ronald stalking people and telling them to eat McDonald’s. I THINK that’s what Hunter’s talking about with the shushing Ronald lol

Ronald McDonald is actually the voice of Flowey in Undertale. He talks a decent amount.

Being a 90s kid, Ronald McDonald talked a lot. Even sang. I used to have all his movies

It's definitely Phil Collins in the cloud playing In The Air Tonight

To be honest, I picture Ghidorah from the Netflix Godzilla trilogy for the arms and the way its in the sky

Lovecraftian

I wish it was Neil Peart too

Love the ambient music and effects in this one.

The music and sfx for this episode is awesome! And the story was pretty cool, Ronald McDonald should've been included though

You guys have to read the anthology They Lurk by Ronald Malfi! It is such a good collection of short stories. It would make for a great episode, but you guys keep up the great work!

Great story guys. Read The Horror from the Vault sometime

If yall ever consider playing another game, home safety hotline feels like working at a Creepypasta call center

What a thumbnail

This music is so scary guys

Please play home safety hotline I’m begging you guys

The alien reminds me of Yivo from futurama.

Who creeping they cast

If you like this story, and cosmic eldritch horror, try the game look outside

This one rocked loved the imagery!

crazy thumbnail tbh

My name is in this story 🥹

is the italian american in the clouds just tony soprano audibly wheezing while eating cappicola out of the fridge

Definitely one of the top thumbnails

I love hearing tales from the creep

Around the thirty min mark something was muted! I must know what it is!

All I can picture is “THAT” Scene from NOPE 😅😅😅

I'm sorry but the "spindly" and "meatballs and marinara" immediately made me think of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and that thing is just rapturing the planet from a giant cloud.

i would recommend slum and sniff by nickyexposito. i also really like journal entries, it’s a weird one

yall are killing it with the background music!

this is my face when I’m creeping my cast

Not my favorite story, the bits were funny though

Isaiah pronounces the "g" at the end of every "ing" and all of his t's like d's. I dont know if its his honkey upbringing or his giant lips but it must be fixed.

I live for the bits that last more than 5 minutes per episode

The McDonald's Phenomenon

Here in South Carolina, there is a massive dark cloud and fog the day of this post. Very fitting lol

Immediately reminded me of Mammatus clouds, which genuinely creep me out. My dread for it just got amplified to a thousand thanks to this story. My only nitpick -- and it really isn't too bad -- is the "smile" the entity made. I'd like to think a cosmic being like that doesn't relish in the destruction. It's simply going through its regular notions. Then again, we're hearing from the perspective of survivors so I can just dismiss that as how people perceived the occurrence. Humans tend to anthropomorphize things so it checks out. Another banger. Love the show for continuously introducing me to a bunch of talented authors.

This is basically just a rip-off of the 2nd Futurama movie from the mid-2000s 🙈

The writing was phenomenal in this story. I gotta disagree with Hunter about losing the governmental aspect. It seems like it was the only literary way for the characters to know the global effects of the anomaly. If I had one criticism, it would be the creature's face, especially the smile. Enough with the creepy smiles already. If it didn't care about us, it wouldn't bother trying to mimic us. If you were about to kill an ant would you put your fingers to your head and pretend to have antennae first? Anyway great episode. I'm so happy to finally be a patron! (Some of my Italian cousins will be visiting Hunter sometime soon)

PLEASE read “my friend has been trapped in an alternate reality” by Mr outlaw. It’s a gauntlet style story similar to left right game which Wendi said he loves. Also Neverglade mysteries would be perfect it’s an eldritch detective noir basically

Yall got into this story fastttt

Is it the butt clouds from scary movie 4?

Yo why is the music kinda fire this ep

Give us The Neverglade Mysteries

Jordan Peele is about to sue this kid.

Nice balls, Mr. Goon

the fat italian american slurping spaghetti and playing meshuggah in the half-earth sized cloud:

Reminds me of ithaqua

“From Hell I Write”??? We haven’t seen that one yet, have we??

As an Italian American my greatest fear is also an Italian American the size of North America eating pasta

Can a Patreon perk be downloadable PC + Phone wallpapers of the thumbnails PLEASE?????

Now I need to hear a McDonald’s land horror story

One more slurp and I am going to shoot myself

My first patreon creepcast video 💕 happy late christmas guys

Sick thumbnail, holy cow

What is the music used in the background? It's sick asf

Mid listen: I really hope this isn’t another god story

I was so ready for them to bring up how this was gonna thunderstruck with the drums

There was a lot of the "it wasn't x. It was y" sentence structure in the last two parts which was really distracting. That can be good if used sparingly but it quickly becomes underwhelming if it's the only tool you use.

There was a lot of the "it wasn't x. It was y" in the last two parts. It can be good in 8

i love this new music btw i heard it in stairs in the words it was lit

Fuck it get me goofy boots as well

at least they’re self aware enough to know when to stop talking and read the story someone wrote on their sub lmfao

Hunters bit about the giant Italian American reminds me of the SCP article where a group of soldier investigate an anomaly that turns out to be a giant man eating a burger 🍔

Every time Hunter makes those mouth noises, it makes me want to throw my phone across the room

30:00 I've seen and looked into the video they're talking about here. From what I understand, the missile didn't blow up because it was unarmed. The military basically just chucked a metal tube at the ufo. Insanely interesting video.

This is giving me vibes of The Horror from The Vault stories

Tbh I can't speak for the author but when you guys had read my story and made jokes it made me super happy. I already know what the story is about so if you guys like it and make jokes at the same time its a huge win.

Ronald McDonald has a voice but it’s actually kind of normal sounding. He sounds like a normal upbeat dude.

Heironymous Bosch!!

Hunter is the type of guy to wake everyone up just to tell them he is going to sleep!

I love the Patreon exclusive degradation

Listened to a reading of this last week and thought "man I'd love to hear Hunter and Isaiah read this"

The drumming is the opening beat of Down with the Sickness and then everyone hears "Oowahahah"

Please do The Settlements series by Page Turner! It’s awesome!

Please do 17776 I think you guys would love it

30:56 the imagine of a continent size Tony soprano is kind of fucking sick I’m ngl

Merry Christmas friends!! And happy new year

Day 31 of asking for "The Supermarket Monster".

Remind me where Hunter is filming from?? Is this because of the raccoons?

As an Italian American I can not express how awful my oily skin is. So I agree with hunter an italian American is terrifying haha

Hey fuck you too editor

Ty baby 😘

Neil Peart be like

Top tier thumbnail

Last episode of 2025, Let's gooooo!!!!!

HOLY SHIT THANK YOU GUYS 🖤

Shut up johno, you dumpy irish troglodyte. Just kidding we love you

Hieronymus Bosch. That's the hell painter guy

I’m gonna need that hunter x Isaiah fanfiction immediately

Once again asking for At the end of every show, they set a ballerina on fire.

Love the thumbnail wowwww

I may be having some mandela bullshit but i remember vividly you reading this story before

Mrcreepypasta just read this one

Hello my beautiful family

Had a dream the other night where they created a new Patreon tier that was $75 a month and it was called “Super Creeps”. Would not be opposed.

Happy holidays my creep casters

Wow, can’t wait to meat my goon while creeping my cast. Sad to see what I’ve become

Another lovey episode from my favorite Creepers!

Wish they did more SCP stuff

Beef

PLEASE do infected town case files & I work at a secret government prison

I had a dream last night where I was standing by a river watching as a large object washed down the stream. I eventually see that its hunter floating along mumbling something. As I get closer he begins shouting “BRING BACK STRETCH AND FADE”. He then whispered it one last time before grabbing me by the throat which is when I woke up in a cold sweat. That is the last time I eat creepcast and watch Blandino’s pizza before bed.

Read the fan fic

CREEPIN THEY CAST

Right when it's storming outside you guys deliver

Shades

THE STORM TOOK EM!!

YES TIME TO CREEP

Weekly story recommendations; - I solved the Fermi Paradox, by Grand theft Motto (know creep cast author) - Portal in the Forest - I work at a private museum for the rich and famous, by lcsimpson - My dad finally told me what happened that day, by Jared Roberts (hidden webpage author -Am I the only one that sees that the moon is on fire?, by M59Gar -The portal in the forest, by Matt Dymerski Leave any more suggestions below!

Les gooo

My sick ass eating good today🙏

Hi fellow Creeps! I hope you had a good Christmas/holiday:)

Day 5 of asking to please read I am a grown, logical man, crying tears of horror right now. Or the story of her holding an orange!!! Please, this was a classic for me as a kid and would love to see if it holds up and hear yalls commentary on it! ❤️

Where the 3 + hour episodes at?

Delicious

HECK YEAH

Harry Potter themed thumbnail

Who creeping thine cast?

Creepin it as we speak

Ive been waiting all morning to creep my cast!

YES LEMME CREEP

One of three thumbnails of all time

While im at work lets goooo

My favorite notification

Cream

Yessirrrr thank you and happy new years!!

More like Cumming In The Clouds

We so back

Burger

God tier refresh pull