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He came to me in my sleep.

From the foot of my bed I felt a sensation, and he took everything.

We shall not come here again at the request of the rake.

Welcome back to the Camp Fire Task Force.

Pull up a log and settle in because it is 3 a.m. somewhere,

which means it's time for Red Web, scary stories,

the series where I, Trevor Collins, share my favorite terrifying tales from the internet with my friend Alfredo Diaz.

Hello, hello.

I've never done so many scary things, stories, episodes on location.

So this damn show.

Yes, sir. And now I'm just listening to Scary Stories all. Yes, sir.

And now I'm just listening to scary stories all the time, which as a child, it'd be, are you afraid of the dark and I'd be terrified every time? I'd gamble, whether or not I'd be. It was a gamble, yeah. If you're going to stay up or if you're going to be able to get some sleep that night. Mm-hmm. Listen, it is my pleasure to be able to take you back into the past and some of my favorite creepypastas, and today is no exception. I don't know. Let me ask you, have you ever heard of the rake, the creature? I've never heard of it at all whatsoever. Oh, yes. But I do love creature features, so I'm very intrigued.

It's evolved over the years, so let me give you this upfront task force.

It will be an exploration of the initial write-up.

This is the initial story that kicked off the phenomenon of the rake, and since then it has evolved.

Maybe we'll revisit it someday in its modern iteration. There's also some old images that went along with it, so I'm excited to show you those at the end.

But we're going to explore today two stories.

Like I said, one about this mysterious creature that has been scrubbed from the records with few documented counters surviving the centuries.

And then we have another horrifying time-twisting

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