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72. Mr. Bones Wild Ride (16 points)
Nominated by: Anagram (5/6 remaining)
https://imgur.com/gallery/Wxzbl


Importance: 3
Fear: 5.5
Snake: 7.5

I've always found this meme/creepypasta quite a good story, and probably because there's something inherently creepy about amusement parks. Anytime you go on a roller coaster or a tilt-a-whirl, you're entrusting your safety to twisted amalgamations of metal, rusty seats, high speeds, and more than the average lazy worker. It's something not too far removed from a Saw trap. Yet, we still go on to experience a thrill, a break from the average norms, to feel more excitement than usual. Most of the time we don't even think about the risk. Little do we know however, the next ride we get on may be MR. BONES' WILD RIDE.

This hellish ride seems simple and inviting on the outside. A friendly looking skeleton in a top hat greets you at the entrance, promising chills and thrills that will surely leave your teeth chattering by the end of it. You get on, thinking of nothing but the fun that awaits you, but soon you realize how flat and boring it is. The one hill it had so far was lame and uninspiring, like something on a kid's coaster. The top-hat skeleton pops into your memory, now seeming like a cruel reminder of the swindling you're currently receiving. You can't wait to get off and maybe even complain online about what a shit ride this was, but it goes on and on, longer than any other ride you've ever experienced, 10-20-30 minutes pass, and you start to get a little worried. At 40 minutes, you start panicking, and even get to thinking you've been here at this amusement park before, and this ride was never around, seemingly popping out of nowhere. An hour, you're in tears begging to be let off. You scream endlessly, "I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES' WILD RIDE!" but the end never comes. It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and... until 4 years have passed. You are nothing but skin and bones, somehow kept alive by surely mysterious forces, and you navigate the long exit path, only to be greeted yet again by the grinning skeleton with the sign, "THE RIDE NEVER ENDS".

Yes, the story is a little cheesy and implausible, but Mr. Bones' Wild Ride originates from the game Rollercoaster Tycoon, which allows room for some nightmare inducing storytelling on the player's part. Several variations add a real life spin to the story, such as the ride's creator in-game encountering the ride in real life before realizing a minute too late, and some variations change up the type of ride it is with differing endings most often including the death of the riders which is a little less cruel and soul-crushing than the original's spirit. The ride has even penetrated pop culture slightly, with a reference even appearing in The Simpsons episode, "How I Wet Your Mother".

It's a story I've always found fun, and like Creepypasta tends to do, it takes seemingly normal and fun things found in everyday life and manages to find the horror in it to great effect.
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If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will!
http://tinyurl.com/zqwzc9a - https://imgur.com/a/OcdhKKR