Creepypasta Unveiled | The Horror and Mystery of the Lost Episode "Red Mist"

I just want to start off by saying that if you want an answer at the end, prepare to be disappointed.

There isn't one.

I was an intern at Nickelodeon Studios for a year in 2005 for my degree in animation.

It wasn't paid, of course.

Most internships aren't, but it did have a perk beyond education.

To adults, it might not seem like a big one, but most kids at the time would go crazy over it.

Since I worked directly with the editors and animators, I got to view new episodes days before they aired.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and pause here for a moment just to comment on the really brilliant and beautiful setup of this story.

From the very get-go, we have what went on to be considered an intensely generic and cliche detail of Creepypastas.

which is that a lot of them are mysteries wrapped in an enigma.

It's a mystery that never really has a full cap on it.

In fact, that's a complaint of, uh, you'll very often hear readers or even watchers of, like, shows or movies complain about that.

Of like, oh, they didn't explain this.

Why didn't they explain that? This doesn't make, this never had a resolution, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But, you know, it's a very funny thing because in my experience and in my opinion, a lot of the greatest art is entirely mysterious.

There is no handholding.

There is no full resolution.

And, you know, it reminds me of something that David Lynch said, the writer and director.

And, you know, David Lynch, I think, is a very good example of some of his films in, you know, Twin Peaks, the show in particular.

I think are absolute masterpieces.

And they're beautiful.

And especially that show, Twin Peaks, really touched me very deeply.

But David Lynch said in an interview once that he loves mysteries.

He loves thrillers.

He loves mysteries.