Mr. Red

(This Creepypasta was created by Spoopyscarystories and edited by Thewayitwentwrong. So if you ever read this on YT please credit them.)

Hello there, I am Denver Burns and I am 22. When I was young I saw something no other kid should see.

When I was 7 or 9 I watched a show called "Mr. Red", it also had a spinoff called "Ms. Red" but I'll most likely talk about it another time.

The show was said to have aired on channel 3, began in 1999 and was cancelled in 2005, the same year the tape that scarred me forever was said to have been created. The only reason I really know this is because I learned this online, which makes believing it a very hard job since some things on the internet may be fake, well, a lot of it could be fake.

The channel had some other weird shows. I knew this since I owned tapes for the other shows, and in the bottom right corner it had the number 3 and had text saying CHANNEL. They always made me think "Why did they create these shows?" because multiple shows felt off and like a fever dream. Mr. Red was a live action educational show, Mr. Red would teach kids reading, math, history, science and a bit of cooking with Ms. Red.

The show was perfect for me, Mr. Red had some friends, they were named Ms. Red, Frank the Frog, Henry the Hippo and Mr. Grin, children would make cameos for lessons but that doesn't really matter.

Mr. Red had a costume that looked like it was made of paper, and he had a large, ominous purple smile on his face, the smile always freaked me out. Ms. Red is the same as Mr. Red, but she had a little bow tie on her head, Mr. Grin wore a suit, black gloves and a mask with a large smile on it, Frank wore a frog mask and a green paper costume, Henry the hippo had a hippo mask and a Grey paper outfit.

There was also a villain that was named Mr. Blue, he was the opposite of Mr. Red, and he could only be defeated by kids answering questions about what they learned about on the episode, he looked like Mr. Red, but had a Blue outfit and a large, violet frown on his face.

In between the shows and sometimes on set, Mr. Red would take pills, red pills do be exact. He always called them "reddish candy" so the children wouldn't really notice that they are prescription drugs. He had to take them because he wasn't mentally stable from an incident that he never told anyone about, the only thing they got out of him was the words "car" and "parents gone". I know this because I did a bunch of research on him, the show really interested me with its wacky characters and weird settings, the disappearance of some of the shows cameramen and directors also caught my attention, too. Yeah, I was an odd kid.

There was even a myth that Mr. Red was a Satan worshipper, and he killed other actors before they could go on set to then sacrifice them. I didn't believe it, of course, since a lot of people make fan theory's and other things like that.

Mr. Red had some other friends that were side characters. They we're Reggie the rat, a rat who always helped Ms. Red cook, it had a long, sharp tail that looked like you could use it as a weapon, Otis the owl, a reading owl who helped Mr. Red and the others with literature, it had small eyes that you could barely see, and a beak that was made of metal, and Harold Hare, a rabbit with two long buck teeth and two bulging eyes that stared through your soul.

They all were puppets and only popped up on certain episodes, but they had merchandise of the puppets. I watched the show daily as a kid, I'd get Mr. Red tapes and merchandise for my birthday. I was basically his biggest fan, I even made Mr. Red comic's. I would binge watch the tapes all day, or use them for background sound while making the comics.

Also, a few years after this incident we got cable TV. So I got into other things like Ben 10, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Johnny Test. The only reason I remember this show and my memories of it is because of a picture I found. I'm going to get rid of the drawing soon and just let the memory fade away, I didn't want to remember what I saw. But it felt like the drawing wanted me to remember, and that it wanted me to share it to the world.

A few months before I finally watched the tape, it was my birthday. This was the day I got the box containing all the tapes. I woke up, so excited for my Mr. Red themed birthday. I was already at my window, looking at the driveway. I was waiting for everything to begin. My mother told me "Your going to have to wait before they all come, the birthday is scheduled at 3 PM." I sighed, and went back into my room.

I read a book, and I left an alarm on my clock for 3 PM. The second the alarm went off, I sprung out of bed. I went to the door as a few of my friends came in, We partied, and had cake. Then my mom told me that someone special was coming. I was confused, a few minutes later, I heard it. It was the Mr. Red theme, I walked to the window then I gasped. It was a big van with the words "MR. RED" on it. The characters came out, Mr. Red, Ms. Red, and everyone else. It was the official voice actors.

They came in, and we all had fun. All of the characters seemed normal, except Mr. Red. He didn't talk to any adults, and only spoke with me and my friends. My father tried to speak with him, but Mr. Red said he was fine, and went right back to speaking with us. But something told me he wasn't, he took lots of fascination into how much of a big fan I was, and asked me if I wanted to go into his magical van. I replied no, and a few minutes later, before the party even ended, he left. Later on it was time to open the presents.

I got some figures, Mr. Red merchandise, and the My grandmother placed a big, heavy box in front of me. I opened it, it was my own dream. A box filled with Mr. Red tapes, it had every episode, even a few directors cut tapes. They all were red tapes, like the usual. We all watched a few episodes, then the party ended and Everyone went home.

A few months later when it was 10PM or 11, usually I would be asleep at this time, but I was awake all night watching the tapes I got from my Grandmother a few months ago. Alone in my room, I got to the bottom of the box my grandmother gave me of Mr. Red tapes, I found the last Mr. Red tape, I inspected the VHS tape, trying to see if it was a bootleg or a rip-off since I kept running into boring bootleg episodes, but what I thought was a bootleg really got my attention.

It had scribbles all over it, like an insane person wrote on it. One of the corners had a small red splatter on it, I thought it was paint, since the label's background was a slightly darker red, like all the other Mr. Red VHS tapes. The label said “DO NOT WATCH.”

I thought “Why keep it here if it's not supposed to be watched?” So being the curious child I was, I put the VHS tape into the VHS player.

The beginning started off normally, The intro played and you could barely tell the difference that the intro had. There was extremely faint screaming, it sounded like the scream of a child, and the audio was a bit deep, like someone tampered with the audio. I thought it was a fan made tape that somehow got in the box, but it still had my attention. The lyrics sounded weird, too. It was something like: "It's Mr. Red! Mr. Red! Follow him and you'll wind up dead! Mr. Red, Mr. Red! Don't trust him, he'll tear off your head!" It was weird, but nothing really scary happened yet, so I kept watching.

The show started at the "breakfast table" setting, and everyone was eating pancakes, enjoying the morning. Mr. Red said "Oh, hey kids! It's me, Mr. Red! I hope your ready for todays adventure!"

Ms. Red said "What will the adventure be, Mr. Red?" Mr. Red replied "it'll be a fun old surprise! One to die for!" Frank replied "That sounds pretty exciting, you think our friends will help us on the adventure?" Frank the frog looked at the camera, blinking multiple times, and if put in Morse code, you'd get this:

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It may not be complete because frank was cut off or I just can't really remember, but I do remember that Frank stopped blinking and looked back at his friends, Mr. Red said "Of course they will, they are our little helpers!". Henry hippo stayed silent, not saying a single word, he looked nervous.

Mr. Grin said "why so down, Henry?", Henry wouldn't reply, staying silent. Frank said "I'll go play ball outside!"

Ms. Red replied "Alrighty then frank! Have fun!". Frank the frog dashed outside in a worried manner, like he was trying to run from something, Henry looked around, realizing something. Henry finally said "Mr. Red, I've noticed you don't have your magical reddish candies, do you know where you put them?"

Mr. Red replied "No, not at all! I probably lost them somewhere around here..." Mr. Red got up and started walking around, most likely acting like he was looking for the "reddish candy". Mr. Red shrugged "I don't see them here! Maybe the kids can help?"

Mr. Red looked at the screen. Ms. Red said "I think I have some extra in my purse!" Ms. Red opened her purse to find nothing in it. "Nothing. That's odd because I always keep them with me!"

Mr. Red replied "Well, I guess I'll have to go without them today!" Henry replied "You can't go without them Mr. Red, remember, you need them for your magical powers!" Henry said magical powers in a nervous voice, it confused me, but I kept watching since it felt like a normal Mr. Red episode.

Then all of a sudden Frank screamed, he sounded like he was in pain. Mr. Grin said "IS THAT FRANK?!" he jolted out his seat. Mr. Red replied "Maybe we should look for him, he may be in trouble, or even worse, Attacked by Mr. Blue!" they all dashed outside, leaving their food to rot.

They made it to the path, everyone was here except Frank the Frog was there, and Mr. Red didn't mention he still didn't find his reddish candy. Mr. Red and the others asked the viewer to look for Frank the Frog, they decided to go to the forest set. A tree had a red hand print on it, I saw the hand print, it caught me off guard.

They stepped in the forest to find Frank, knife plunged in his chest, he had a terrified expression on his face, the knife was the kitchen knife used for Ms. Red's cooking lessons in the show.

Ms. Red gasped and teared up, she was sad her friend was murdered in cold blood. Mr. Red walked up to his corpse, and he started skipping around the corpse, laughing like a maniac, most likely from not taking his medication. I was horrified, I truly don't know why but I kept watching. Mr. Grin yelled "MR. RED, STOP THAT THIS INSTANT!" The camera was now shaking. Like the person recording was horrified. They all began running.

I knew he was slowly going insane in a heartbeat. The other characters probably knew he'd act like this and that he probably didn't take his medications this morning, so they pulled him away from the corpse and started running out the forest set, trying to escape whatever killed Frank, dragging Mr. Red along.

Mr. Grin said "Mr. Red, take your medications, please." Mr. Red said "I CAN'T FIND THEM, YOU HEARD ME EARLIER!" He chuckled a bit, slowly losing his sanity. While running off, I saw Mr. Blue, he had multiple stab wounds in his back, he reaches his hand out at them and said "Don't... Go... Please... I beg of you." but they kept running.

I was horrified, I paused the tape for a second to calm myself down. I went upstairs, got a snack and a bottle of water and then went back downstairs, went on my bed, then took a nap. I woke up a hour later, it was 1 AM. I realized I woke up to the VHS tape, it was looping a scene. I slowly grabbed the remote, but I hesitated to resume it, so I put down the remote.

I questioned myself. How did the VHS start looping? Why does it want me to keep watching? Where did this VHS tape come from? Why wont it let me sleep peacefully?

I then noticed a red figure outside that disappeared the second I laid my eyes on it, I thought my mind was playing tricks on me, and I wanted to make sure I was right. I grabbed my flashlight and walked outside, and to my surprise, nothing was there.

I was walking back inside as a red pill fell on my arm, it was the reddish candies Mr. Red always held on to. I charged inside as I slammed the door and locked it. The red candy rolled off, I tripped on it as I fell down the stairs. My head landed on something soft, it was my walking, talking Mr. Red plush. I got up as it turned on, then turned it's head at me as it started walking toward me.

It then said "LISTEN TO WHAT THE VHS TELLS YOU, DENVER." In panic I got up and looked at the TV, there was text on it, the text said "CONTINUE THE VHS TAPE, OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES." I ran to the remote and continued the video in a heartbeat with no hesitation, the VHS tape continued. I looked back at the Mr. Red plush, it was tipped over and said "bye bye, kids!" indicating that it turned off. I then payed my attention back to the TV. I shook in fear as I watched.

I prayed that my parents would wake up, and save me from this nightmare, but they didn't.

Mr. Grin said "This can't be real, he's just playing a prank on us, he has to be, no one would hurt him!" Ms. Red replied "Just stay on the bright side, like how Frank would!" they all kept running, Henry started slowing down, running out of breath. Mr. Grin grabbed Henry and started dragging him along, trying to keep him safe.

Mr. Red said "Don't worry, we're almost out of this place!" Ms. Red kept running and said "Well I hope it's soon, me and the others are running out of breath!" I saw Mr. Blue slowly crawl out from behind the tree he was near earlier and screamed "PLEASE, BRING ME WITH YOU!"

They kept running, ignoring Mr. Blues screams. I started to realize that this wasn't fan made, because Mr. Red wouldn't do it just because he isn't mentally stable and he was in the house before Frank screamed, and frank probably didn't commit suicide or kill Mr. Blue because he had a good, happy life.

Also, they would probably edit it with a paint app or something since I have before. Also they would try to voice act the characters, but the acting was spot on, they sounded serious and Frank's corpse was realistic, like someone actually died.

A scene started where the remaining survivors hid in a shed. Ms. Red was crying, Mr. Grin took a notepad out his pocket, and wrote it in a rushed manner, Henry was barricading the door with props and other tools and Mr. Red was sitting there, twitching. Ms. Red said "Our friends, they're dead!" Ms. Red kept crying, Mr. Grin said "Don't worry, we'll be fine. I promise."

Ms. Red slowly nodded her head while crying, then looked back down. Mr. Grin put his hand on Ms. Reds shoulder and said "we'll make it out, I promise." Henry said "Do any of you have your phones?" Ms. Red replied "No, not at all." Mr. Grin shook his head, Mr. Red said "I can't find my phone!"

Henry said "Then the cops wont be coming anytime soon." Mr. Grin continued to write in the notepad and Ms. Red kept crying. She then said "All our friends, just gone like that! Lord, why, just why?" Mr. Grin said "It could be anyone of us, too.". Footsteps got closer to the shed, getting louder each step.

Frank said "Alright, everyone stay silent." Ms. Red and Mr. Grin covered their mouths. Mr. Red started laughing again, alerting something. Henry said "MR. RED, DON'T-"

Then a claw stabbed Henry in the back as he ran to the other side of the shed, he screamed as blood smeared all over the shed walls. Luckily, he survived the blow. The demon destroyed the barricade as they all ran away. Mr. Grin said "RUN, RUN, RUN!" Mr. Grin pulled Henry out since he wouldn't be able to avoid the creatures attacks.

They all avoided the creature and dashed out the door, Henry left a trail of blood as the creature followed the already long trail of blood. I was able to get a glimpse of the creature, it had two holes in it's face with a light red glow in them, indicating eyes. Those eyes were like flashlights and lit the place the creature was looking at up with a light red color, the lights were the same size as its eyes.

It's mouth, god, it had black, sharp teeth. The teeth had small bits of what looked like skin stuck to them, and the teeth had hardly been black anymore, they were red and covered in blood. It was the same height as Mr. Red, and had pitch black spikes all over its body.

It started showing a scene of Mr. Grin running with Henry the Hippo running right behind him. They both looked scared out their minds. The black mass creature charged out the trees and Grabbed Henry the Hippo. Mr. Grin looked down and kept running, just trying to get away from it.

They found a dismembered arm with a grey sleeve on it, most likely Henrys arm, with a small trail of blood leading out to the trees. The creature most likely left it to scare the others. Mr. Red didn't mind, while the other two were horrified.

Mr. Red told them “Get into my house! We will be safe in there!”. Mr. Grin and Ms. Red scrambled to get into the Mr. Red's house set. Mr. Red then told them to go into the basement, and that it's better to hide in there since there are no windows, and no ways to get in except the only door.

That's when I thought that Mr. Red was completely innocent, and it was the large black mass creature instead. I was confused on what the creature was, was it a demon? Was it another actor who snapped? Was it CGI? To this day, I don't know.

Ms. Red and Mr. Grin agreed, but before Mr. Grin went down there he asked "Mr. Red, why aren't you coming with us? This is a serious situation." Mr. Red replied "I'll try to reason with whatever it is, or fight it off. I want to keep you all safe."

Mr. Grin gave him a thumbs up and said "I wish you luck, pal, I really do. If you die, you'll die for a great cause.", Mr. Red then said "Oh, wait! I'm sorry about laughing all the time, my medications are somewhere in the set, I just couldn't get them before all this."

Mr. Grin said "It's okay pal, I hope you can make up for it." Mr. Grin ran into the basement, looking back at Mr. Red and nodding. Mr. Red chuckled as he watches Mr. Grin walk down, then sitting down on his couch, waiting for something. I really wanted to know what will happen in the basement, and if he was lying or not, but at the same time I didn't.

My eyes widened as Mr. Red pulled up 3 severed hands, they all had the puppets on them, Reggie, Otis and Harold. Mr. Red took the severed hands off Reggie and Otis and put the puppets on his hands. He said "Hahahahaaaa! They trusted us, Otis! They will learn the true lesson of life, they will see destiny!" As Mr. Red continued to speak to himself, Mr. Red made Otis say, "Huhuhuh, yeah. I wonder if Satan will leave us any leftovers!"

As the camera panned to the Harold puppet, the hand was twitching. I then just couldn't keep watching, but when I reached for the remote... It was gone. I looked out the window and saw that it was outside of the house, I became extremely confused, but I knew I was not going back out there, so I braced myself and turned back to the TV.

Ms. Red and Mr. Grin walked in as Mr. Red slammed the door and locked it, locking them in the somewhat cellar. Mr. Grin said "Hey, ya know, I'm sorry for being so rude to you at times while we were on set, I was a runt at times."

"Since these may be our last moments, I just want to die in peace." Ms. Red replied "I forgive you, you have been a bit supportive at this time." Suddenly, they all heard a loud growling. Ms. Red was the first to realize the black mass, feasting on Henry's corpse, as quiet as a mouse.

She covered her mouth in utter fear and horror, almost screaming. Mr. Grin turned around and gasped. He was looking at a pentagram with candles surrounding it and some bones and chunks of flesh left in the pentagram with another knife next to it, there was a suit and a denim jacket on the ground. The body's were most likely from the missing Cameramen and one of the Directors.

Mr. Grin said "Did Mr. Red lie to us... and is this a cellar? God, no..." as he turned around to realize the creature, his eyes widened in fear, even through a mask you could see the terror in his eyes. The black mass slowly turned its head to the two, It dashed at Ms. Red, revealing a large claw and sliced Ms. Red right in half.

Mr. Grin shouted "NO, NO, NO!" as he ducked behind a box, trying to not get more attention from the Black mass creature as he watched the creature chew on Ms. Red's corpse, making repulsive noises. I was disgusted, but still curious as I continued to watch the VHS tape.

Mr. Grin mistakenly nudged a metal bar leaning against the box with his arm. It fell over making a clanging noise. The black mass creature turned around in only seconds. It got up, blood slowly dripping from its mouth as Mr. Grin started praying to himself, hoping for the best.

The creature picked the box up and threw it right to the ground, It swung its large claw at Mr. Grin, luckily, he was able to evade the attack. Mr. Grin picked up the metal bar, trying to fight it. He swung the metal bar at the creatures face. He was only able to hit it a few times. A bit of black goo hit the floor, indicating possible damage, but it was too late.

He realized he can't kill it with just a flimsy metal bar, and ran to the basement door and started banging on it, screaming "HELP! HELP ME! GET ME OUT OF HERE! PLEASE! MR. RED, GET ME OUT OF HERE YOU TRAITOR! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT, NOW," growing more aggressive each sentence. It cut to a scene with Mr. Red looking back at the basement, continuing to laugh.

The black mass creature slowly walked up the stairs as he continued to bang on the door, trying to get out. It grabbed Mr. Grins head and slowly crushed it with incredible strength, making a loud cracking noise. A bit of blood dripped from the creatures hand. It then continued to eat the two's corpses. I felt ill, I took deep breaths to try and calm myself down, it worked, but I still felt a bit sick.

The screen went black. It then shown Mr. Red taking off the mask. Revealing a red man with a large smile carved into his face, and two long slits on his eyes. He then yelled "ARE YOU WELL FED NOW, SATAN? ARE YOU PROUD OF ME? AM I BLESSED? CAN I HAVE MY PARENTS BACK NOW?" as he laughed like a maniac while the credits rolled.

Once the episode was over, I sat down and thought things over for a bit. I began to realize that Mr. Red was not at all what I remember him being. Mr. Red wasn't innocent, he wasn't caring, he wasn't a good person at all. He was a cold hearted, selfish maniac, feeding off of the pain he put his friends through, all in the name of his somewhat god, the black mass creature. To be "Blessed" by this being, letting go of it all. As the thought appeared in my mind: "The myth was true."

My childhood was immediately crushed at the thought. My whole life had been a lie up until this moment. I was devastated, heartbroken, and disgusted at the same time.

I thought of crushing the VHS tape, but I didn't. I didn't want to get in trouble for destroying the tape. I gave the VHS tape to my parents when they finally woke up. They watched the VHS tape, then gave the tapes to proper authorities.

I had nightmares for weeks about that episode. It was truly the most horrific thing I have ever seen. The cops decided to go to the show's set to try and find any evidence to see if this is real or not. What they found went on the news. It was reported that everyone on set was killed by the black mass creature seen in the episode, and the autopsy said that the creature feasted on their corpses, leaving only bones, eyes and small chucks of flesh.

The exit door was wide open, so somebody may have escaped, but we don't know. The creature left a bit of black droplets of goo. Mr. Red was found still dwelling in the set and was put into jail, but escaped only a few days later.

This is the picture I was talking about in the beginning, it is a drawing of Mr. Red.

The black mass on the tape was never seen again, Some people say it still roams the streets, killing and eating its victims. Sadly, I lost the other tapes to time. If I had the tapes, I'd show you them without any hesitation because I don't want to look insane, and look like I created the show in my head. I'm not crazy at all, and I know I'm not.

The old drawing on the image to the right of this paragraph is my only evidence of this whole show's existence. If anyone can get a hold of any evidence that this is real, please give it to me, I want to look into the other episodes, too. Just to see if there is anything wrong in the background, since as kids we aren't very aware about the background, and more about the main characters and what they teach and do.

If you see something like a clip on a website, VHS, DVD, or something of the sort, just don't watch it. Give it to me, and if you can't, put it in some sort of storage system and leave it there, and make sure no one gets their hands on it, for it will scar you and anyone who watches it forever. If this episode was horrific enough to bring about a mass murdering, flesh devouring demon that caused large amounts of death upon the world, then it's just best to have me keep it.