About r/creepy
In its own words:
All things creepy!
The community was created on Oct 20, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 1,352 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/relationship_advice (#57) and ahead of r/lifehacks (#59) in our ranking.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/creepy grew from 14,842,266 to 14,847,947 subscribers (+5.7K, +0.04%). That is about 142 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Top posts on r/creepy this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Oct 30, 2026).
- Simply snapping pictures of trees but one came out rather odd….u/Brighton_Forever · Oct 24 · image
- I made a King Paimon staff from the movie Hereditary, but things got weird.u/Engineer30394 · Oct 25 · video
- Ive been told my photos naturally have a "horror movie vibe"u/BIGFACTS27 · Oct 23 · gallery
- Scary decorationu/Fun-Concentrate-880 · Oct 23 · video
- This amazing alien costume from V/H/S Beyond (2024)u/Ieriz · Oct 25 · video
- Wait, those are the babies?u/w_a_w · Oct 23 · video
- The purported skull of Mary Magdalene displayed in a golden reliquary at the basilica of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-BaumeImageu/MeepMan324 · Oct 28 · image
- I designed and hand-painted these Wendigo lamps myself!u/CrazyPaintStudio · Oct 25 · gallery
- Unsettling Signu/CrazyPattern5745 · Oct 27 · image
- ?u/Financial-Sea-6699 · Oct 27 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/creepy, from 2017 to 2024, ranked by Reddit.
- A friend went for a walk the other night and saw this woman just standing on a roofu/ewilliam · May 29, 2018 · 82,882 points · 3,047 comments · image
- The missing persons map has a frightening similarity to the cave systems mapu/8791781927 · Nov 16, 2019 · 82,783 points · 1,488 comments · image
- My husband just sent me this... it was taken on his way to work this morning.u/fmlmel · Jan 2, 2018 · 67,950 points · 1,695 comments · image
- Artist with Dementiau/colymoly_guacamole · Jun 12, 2019 · 61,959 points · 1,131 comments · image
- An eerie underwater cave death warning sign.u/King_Toad · Apr 29, 2019 · 60,594 points · 2,442 comments · image
- A new Garfield piece by Will Burkeu/BothersomeBritish · Oct 11, 2018 · 54,989 points · 1,004 comments · image
- Inside Chernobyl Reactor no.4u/PaperTronics · Jun 18, 2019 · 55,144 points · 2,367 comments · image
- Tooth Fairy, by meu/SpadesFairy · Mar 22, 2021 · image
- Saint Bartholomewu/ProfessionalUnlucky · Oct 14, 2019 · 54,935 points · 1,063 comments · image
- Found in the woodsu/Vanil-je · Oct 4, 2024 · image
What r/creepy talks about
Looking at the titles of 376 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “code”, “help30”, “fuel”, “fitness” and “prices”. Other frequent themes are save, quality, game, power, workout and spending. Recurring phrases include “code help30”, “spending quality”, “quality protein” and “fitness upgrade”. By format, 37% are links, 34% are images and 16% are videos.
Activity and best time to post
r/creepy gets roughly 50 new posts a day. The public archive holds 394,178 posts and 3,766,166 comments in total, about 9.6 comments per post.
Rules of r/creepy
The moderators of r/creepy list 10 rules. In short:
- Posts must be creepy
- Do NOT complain "That's not creepy!"
- No makeup, costumes, or children's art
- No image macro memes
- No celebrity gossip, animal abuse, religious drama
- No excessively political discussions
- No posts which are just gore and not creepy
- No imgur gallery links
- No Videos
- No Ai generated photos
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/creepy and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/creepy?
r/creepy has 14,847,947 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #58 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 5,681 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026.
How old is r/creepy?
r/creepy was created on Oct 20, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jan 19, 2010.
How active is r/creepy?
Very active: r/creepy gets roughly 50 new posts a day (estimate from a sample of recent posts). Over its lifetime the archive counts 394,178 posts and 3,766,166 comments. In a sample of 376 recent posts we counted 225 different authors.
What is r/creepy about?
The community describes itself as: “All things creepy!” Recent post titles often mention code, help30, fuel, fitness and prices. Most posts are links (37%).
Is r/creepy safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/creepy as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/creepy?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/creepy accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Posts must be creepy”; “Do NOT complain "That's not creepy!"”; “No makeup, costumes, or children's art”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/creepy?
Communities with similar topics include r/askscience (26.4M), r/relationship_advice (15.9M), r/lifehacks (14.6M), r/pcmasterrace (16.4M) and r/travel (14.5M).
Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 29, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/creepy.