Jeff the killer
The story of Jeff the Killer is one of the most popular and oldest creepypasta . According to the story, a 13-year-old teenager named Jeffrey Wood is cruelly disfigured by an accident that causes him to lose his mind, murder his enemies, and then travel across the United States to continue murdering the choice of his victims is arbitrary. His disfigured face and his saying “Go to sleep!” Are among his trademarks.
history
There are two versions of the story. In the original version, Jeff slips on a bar of soap while cleaning his bathtub, then acid splatters his face. Neighbors hear his cry for help and take him to the hospital. Jeff is then, outwardly and inwardly, no longer the same person he was before, and now starts a series of murders.
The later, more detailed version is more common and considered today's official story: Jeff is a 13-year-old high school student who moved his family to a new neighborhood. When he and his brother are waiting for the bus to take him to school the morning after the move, an incident occurs when three teenagers show up and extort money from Jeff and his brother. When Jeff refuses to give money to the blackmailers, the situation escalates and a fight develops in which Jeff manages to overpower the blackmailers and flee with his brother. Already here in Jeff, hard to describe feelings germinate, which he finds unpleasant, because he has to realize that he takes pleasure in inflicting pain on other people.
The next morning, police knock on Jeff's front door and arrest his brother Liu, who takes the blame and goes to the juvenile detention center for Jeff . A week later, at a neighbour's birthday party to which Jeff and his family have been invited, the feud with the money extorters climax again, because they manage to locate Jeff and catch him. Armed with pistols, they beat Jeff, but this time Jeff knows how to defend himself, he succeeds in overpowering one of the three young people. Beside himself with anger, Jeff beats him until he dies. The murdered man's accomplices now begin to shoot Jeff, but Jeff escapes into the bathroom, where he armed himself with a towel rail. When his pursuers arrive in the bathroom, another fight ensues, as a result of which the contents of a bottle of bleach spill over Jeff's face. One of the attacking teenagers lights a lighter and throws it at Jeff, who now begins to burn and faints.
Jeff then has to spend a few weeks in the hospital with his face bandaged, where his mother tells him that Liu has been released. When the doctor removes the bandages from Jeff's face one day, Jeff finds that his skin has turned completely white, his lips are dark red and his hair, previously dark blonde, is now black. Now completely insane, Jeff murders his entire family and disappears to continue murdering at random.
Appearance
Before the "accident" at the birthday party, Jeff was a "normal" looking boy with dark blonde hair. After his hospital stay, his appearance and character changed dramatically: He now has a white face and he has scratched a Glasgow smile on his cheek so that he can always see himself smiling. He burned his eyelids away so he could always admire his face. His hair is pitch black and his nose is mutilated, and he also wears a white hoodie and black, ripped jeans. Jeff the Killer is obsessed with killing and always has a manic smile on his face. His murder weapon is a long kitchen knife, and he prefers to murder his victims at night by surprising them while they sleep. Before that, he whispers “Go to sleep!” To his victim .
reception
Emergence
On October 3, 2008, a YouTube user with the pseudonym Sesseur uploaded the story of Jeff the Killer for the first time. On August 12, 2012, an unknown author, again with the username Sesseur , published an "improved" version on the creepypasta.com website . The latter is the "officially" accepted version of the story today.
influence
The story of Jeff the Killer inspired other amateur writers to sequels or new stories with other characters who have similarities with Jeff or his story. There is, for example, his brother Liu, who was able to escape the murder by his brother Jeff in a newly interpreted story and is now up to mischief as Homicidial Liu , but unlike his brother, Liu only kills the criminals, and he is also looking for Jeff to visit him kill. On the other hand, there is the story of Jane the Killer , who is also on the hunt for Jeff because he murdered her parents.
On May 29, 2015, Insanity: Jeff the Killer was the first novel in which Jeff the Killer appears. It is about the teenage girl Naomi Jansen, who meets Jeff in a summer camp . After a series of murders at the camp, Naomi's suspicion falls on Jeff after a while.
Real references
The character Jeff the Killer and his story are considered pure fiction. There is at least no evidence for the existence of a "Jeff the Killer" . A person without eyelids cannot sleep or see for long periods of time anyway. In a roughly comparable incident, a newspaper reported on September 2, 2006 of a family named Woods from Maryland who was killed in a massacre, but whose son, whose first name was Jeffrey, could not be found at the scene and was considered missing. The other son, named Liu, was injured and taken to hospital, but he too disappeared a day later. Jeffrey Woods is said to have been seen on January 2, 2011. However, there are no sufficient or reliable sources for this incident either, so that this story can be counted as an urban legend .
Web links
- Creepypasta, or: How To Scare Yourself Just by Reading Stuff On the Internet at GQ.com
- The Ten Creepiest Creepypastas (That Aren't Slender Man) on BLUMHOUSE.com
literature
- Zachary Ryan Davis & David Rosalio Esparza: Creepypasta: Black Edition ; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4995-5387-1 .
- Neesha Nickleson: Insanity: Jeff the Killer ; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015, ISBN 978-1-5141-4147-2 .
- Petra Cnyrim: The Scorpion in the Banana Box: Modern Myths and Big City Legends ; riva Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86883-678-3 .
- Petra Cnyrim: Slenderman and Smile Dog: Creepypasta and city legends ; riva Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86883-809-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeff the Killer . Know your meme. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
- ↑ Tracking Jeffrey Woods (Jeff the Killer) . Creative Writing Blog. Archived from the original on March 28, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
