Once upon a time, all the way back in 2016, Syfy Channel greenlit a series with a goofy sounding premise: Taking "creepypastas," or stories that were (frequently anonymously) written for message boards like Reddit's NoSleep forum subsequently passed around the internet in the grand tradition of spooky campfire tales, and turning them into, well, TV shows. It wasn't exactly a unique idea--amateur filmmakers had been taking stabs at adapting various creepypasta stories and characters, like the now infamous Slender Man, on platforms like YouTube for years. But this Syfy show would come at it with the strength and the budget of a major network, and the audience of a recognizable TV brand.
The show was called Channel Zero and it was helmed by Hannibal alumni Nick Antosca. Designed to be an anthology series, each season of the show was set to tackle a different popular creepypasta story with the first being Candle Cove, a true classic about adults recovering childhood memories of an extremely disturbing TV show that apparently never existed. Following Candle Cove was No End House, an admittedly less popular and much looser adaptation of the story of the same name about a mind-bending haunted house. Season 3 was subtitled Butcher's Block, a confusing name that made it difficult to connect to its inspiration, a famous Reddit thread titled "I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service," that told stories, often in list format, of a fictional park ranger's supernatural experiences on the job. Finally, Season 4, Dream Door, adapted a story called "I Found a Hidden Door in my Cellar, and I Think I've Made a Big Mistake."
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