Dead By Daylight's Creepypasta Killer

In this video, I talk about Dead by Daylight's most recent chapter and it's incredibly creepy killer. This killer is the Unknown, and he may just be DBD's response to analog and creepypasta horror. Interested? I know I am.
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[@ivansleepy4722]

"H-hey, i-is th... this your...s?" **hits you with a fucking fire axe**

[@zeta2988]

It was returning it to you.

[@ivansleepy4722]

@@zeta2988 how very kind of It:)

[@aSipOfHemlocktea]

No but legitimately that actually appears to be said as you charge up a swing because I've heard it a couple of times while I'm swinging

[@RakdosMC]

"can you....help me lift this?" As you obliterate a pallet lol

[@LisaaP.T.]

" . . Bo . . Nk . "

[@alymatronicdoesrandomness505]

So you're saying this thing lives in walls and makes chocolate?

[@white_hound6811]

Yum

[@hallooos7585]

And it makes chocolate through a red tube that comes out of its stomach 🤢

[@pigonnigal5735]

@@hallooos7585It actually comes out of its neck

[@slimeking4777]

​@@pigonnigal5735🤓

[@owahidurshisheer]

You play as willy

[@Obsessor23]

Trevor Henderson, the creator of Sirenhead and various other viral horror characters, said this Killer was very him-core, and I have to agree. The twisted vague humanoid with exaggerated features, looking almost like a blurry photo come to life, the idea that you can barely catch a glimpse of it before it gets you, reminds me a lot of his art and the vibe they give off.

[@ExtraQuestionableContent]

They definitely need to do an official collab with him for another original killer one day. Or maybe just bring in one of his already established and popular monsters

[@c0rv1db0ycr0w]

​@@ExtraQuestionableContent Sirenhead would bang if they did it as a stealth killer, potentially becoming the siren/tower whilst standing still. The size would be difficult for indoor maps, though. Maybe a smaller, similar creature that appears from these towers or speakers in indoor maps.

[@LemonFilmsForever]

@@c0rv1db0ycr0w I mean, the generators already have those lights/sirens(?) at the top, maybe they could do something that blends in as a gen idk

[@jc_art_]

​@@LemonFilmsForever a mimic (dnd) style killer would be neat, i think they tried that with dredge and the lockers, but an actual moving gen or hook or hell go full mimic and make it an item box idk, sounds really neat if executed well.

[@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical]

​@@ExtraQuestionableContentCartoon Cat is the logical choice. Have it's set in an abandoned derlict toy store filled with Cartoon Cat Merch. It can destend it's limbs and " Ink-Blob" to a location.

[@schmuckmcgee7294]

The mechanic where looking at The Unknown causes your weakened state to go away feels like reverse Slenderman.

[@nemesis021]

The unknown is a killer that you cannot think of or comprehend, else you would die mysteriously. So it’s funny that you have to look at the unknown and comprehend its presence

[@waffie6785]

I sort of got the impression that The Unknown was a parasite, using a human corpse as a sort of suit. The tentacles are the The Unknown's actual body. The human looking part is just an unfortunate victim used as a host, i can only hope this guy is already dead and not having to live with The Unknown inside him. At least thats my theory or impression

[@toastercannon7941]

You attempted to understand the unknown, he will be after you soon

[@birdup1_2]

@@toastercannon7941does it have a warrant?

[@toastercannon7941]

@@birdup1_2ask it’s other’s victims

[@birdup1_2]

@@toastercannon7941 aight lemme call em up

[@tVt2000]

The Unknown is just Dwight with a hangover

[@lancetheguywhogames]

Now all we need is a mention of hyper realistic blood in game.

[@FookMi69]

💀

[@Myiic]

"I was playing dead by daylight and when the scary huntress hurt me with the ax realistic blood came out all over the screen and I couldn't see for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours"

[@elhombredelsaco3995]

Pero no le di importancia

[@owenbridgers]

I mean with the Blood Moon event thing they're gonna be doing, it may just be that

[@Raccon_Detective.]

And don't forget the hyper realistic eyes.

[@SulphurMind]

I legitimately love how they set up this killer, with all the teasers and videos. The whole bio-grenade launcher irked me for a while but realizing it was literally just taking parts from every bit of "backstory" that was patched together from it is fun as hell. One thing I did notice, 15:16 thats actually its lobby animation!

[@ethanwroten5955]

idk man, the grenade launcher is very fun to mess with!

[@SulphurMind]

@@ethanwroten5955 I don't actually play DBD anymore, so I sadly won't experience it first hand as I would rather avoid PVP stuff due to the amount of bad eggs I come across. Glad it's fun to most though!

[@nuelheart5251]

Honestly the Unknown's design reminds me of something from the Spirit Hunter games, something so close but so far from human that it feels like a mockery of humanity itself. The closest I can compare it to is the Screaming Author from NG

[@ashlynbrown3728]

Yeah it reminds me of something you can encounter in death mark

[@dms023]

There is an analog horror about a theme park where people become deformed when enter a roller coster and their deformed faces look a lot like the unknown. By the way I would love if you keep talking about dead by daylight, there Is not a lot of channels that talk about dbd lore or theories and would like the Lore of the game having more popularity. Dead by daylight has a really good Lore but youtubers usually only focus on the gameplay

[@laxzuli2766]

Liminal Land

[@L1ncore]

Liminal land yeah. Man i really liked that analog horror, but then they had to pull a “its child sacrifice 😈” cliche twist. Completely snuffed out my interest.

[@HockeyM.M.]

this, and that one basswood county analog series SERIOUSLY reminds me of the unknown's design, like uncannily, obviously a lot of popular analog horror scary smiley faces were used as inspiration, but that series in particular features a crooked man style antagonist with a fucked up long neck and black dark deep eyes

[@ttowen]

I would absolutely love to hear your takes on other dbd original killers!

[@gemstone4264]

yes!!!!I'm a huge roots of dread fan so I'd def wanna see you review Dredge!

[@SulphurMind]

DBD's own Boogeyman, honestly scares me like hell, especially because of that damned doll skin.

[@ttowen]

@@SulphurMind that one REALLY gets me because I have a bit of a fear of dummies and porcelain dolls.

[@SulphurMind]

@@ttowen Try playing against the doll skin on Midwich without a full voice comm team. I legit had to quit out of pure fear lmao

[@LocalNormalAccount]

Reminds me of both Nothing There and Censored from lobotomy corporation and also Faust from guilty gear strive. Mostly in terms of name and concepts with some of the mentioned theories to being something you can’t comprehend without being the next victim. And also in gameplay: Nothing There is meant to be one of the hardest abnormalities to contain (minus rabbit protocol), being so powerful it can just decimate your entire facility. It also has horrifying voicelines mimicking people it killed. I don’t think I need to explain why Faust is comparable considering he (in lore) can just teleport through doors, crawl really creepily to dodge things, and eats people and sends them to the backrooms for a second. Censored is censored to the player to prevent insanity and is known to brutally/instantly kill employees who are too weak minded to understand what the hell they’re looking at.

[@tofferooni4972]

also some resemblance to Fiddlesticks from LOL as well!

[@pigonnigal5735]

The whole theory I have about the killer is the more you know about it and the more known it becomes the weaker is becomes. It’s whole ability revolves around it applying an effect to survivors that they can only remove by looking at it. It attacks things that try to learn about it.

[@mrchocoslave7859]

Not much of a theory, it's kinda confirmed. If you read The Unknown's Lore, it would come to attack those who think about it or try to find it.

[@GlitchyWorld]

I have to say, both the Dredge and the Unknown are two of my favorite designed killers in the game (both in design and backstory) and I find it interesting how they are both seemingly share similar conceptions with the Dredge being created due to an entire town's fear and hysteria while the Unknown is an entity that seemingly goes after anyone who tries to understand and define what it is (quite literally thriving off of "the fear of the unknown").

[@DrTechnoBabel]

I'd even take it a step further. My personal theory is that rather than being what created the Unknown, the true purpose of Project Apple-Pie was for the CIA to try and study or possibly control the Unknown for their own purposes. One of the experiments under that umbrella could have been to see if they could create their own 'Unknown' though shared belief and mass hysteria, with the Dredge being the end result.

[@spoopertrooper2726]

29:20 Okay I know this isn't at all a big part of the video, but I need more of Pastra voicing over the Unknown so badly-

[@evolving_aura]

I also feel like Sable fits into this narrative, as much as I love her, her backstory and descriptions remind me of '2 edgy 4 u' teens and tweens during the boom of the Creepypasta era. Like, she's the black sheep of her family, extremely rebellious and blatantly does stuff that annoys her parents (her parents also give off the vibes of 'preps'- like what in the 'emo vs preps'?), an affinity for darkness and occult, and the overall 'only the darkness understands me' (well-except for Michaela) and 'not like other girls' thing. I would liken her slightly to the OCs made by people during that particular era, not to say she's a bad character, it's just her overall vibe I believe is an ode to the behaviour of alternative teens and tweens, as well as their OCs, during the late 2000s-early 2010s.

[@knines6279]

I love how literally everyone has a different idea of what the Unknown is

[@BlakeTheGamblingHero]

i think what adds on to all of this is the recently revealed cosmetics for The Unknown, giving them 2 other appearences that are similar to its current design. One being of a elderly woman with a karen cut. so its possible the unknown also likes to take the appearence of victims, but of course in a very twisted, mangled manner.

[@zeflowerdemon8866]

I can totally see alot of Trevor Henderson (the creator of siren head and long horse) in the unknown he fits in so well among the catalog of Henderson creatures he actually drew it after it was announced and it didnt even register for me that it wasnt a Henderson creature for a good couple of minutes

[@michaeldelarge9582]

I'd LOVE to see you talk about other DBD killers. Great video!

[@rogue_2k374]

This reveal makes me hopeful we’ll see something like Slenderman soon since last year before the Alien was revealed and released, Behavior had their own original Sci-Fi killer, so maybe the killers are going to share a theme to keep the game fun? I’m probably just reading too much into this, but Slenderman is one of my three most wanted killers (the other two being Springtrap and The Predator)

[@Ares_Complex]

hell fucking yeah, what a great video! i loved that video where the unkn unzips the tent. and micaiah's reaction was priceless

[@froggp2200]

Great video! I really liked the nosk`s ost being chosen when talking about the unknown, looking forward to other dbd vids

[@tofutofu7224]

this is the most thorough exploration of the unknown's character, i havent heard anyone bring up the teasers. thank u for making this :3

[@lgonzal9]

Really fun video and nice change of pace from the sea of CC covering the same 3 analog horrors! As a “noobie” of DbD, getting the backstory of the killers is always something that’s interesting to learn about, adds more depth to an otherwise pretty surface level gameplay loop

[@chronicbackpain6047]

So I have my own theory on what the Unknown could be. Considering the inspirations for the Killer are tied to Analog horror series, I imagine popular ones like Mandela or Greylock would play a part. And its tie-in story leads me to believe The Unknown is actually a thought-form, or a kind of Tulpa. The Entity is a being that feeds off of Fear and Hope right? It's not outside possibility that other entities may exist similar to it, but instead of dragging people to its domain the Unknown instead latches onto and becomes a manifestation of whatever person thinks it might be. Sort of like a Cognito-Hazard, it gets stronger the more people know of its existence.

[@freezerounds]

Finally someone gets it

[@Meiliina]

I was reminded of Edgar the Bug from the first Men in Black movie, where it wears the skin of a human they sucked dry while trying to blend in, but looking a bit off all the time, but the Thing is really more fitting comparison. Also yay, a DBD video

[@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical]

Also The Crooked Man from The Conjuring series.

[@thiefhardt]

we need more lore deep dives like this this video was SO interesting omg

[@sarahthesarah2850]

That gives me chills. Great work!

[@Anton-de5vu]

I didn’t know a thing about this guy when dbd showed off his full design, so I decided to call him “the crooked man”. And I was kinda hoping DBD was gonna dip it’s does into stuff like creepy nursery rhymes and fairytales

[@oilcrab]

sick vid man i put this on in the background without even realizing it was you LOL

[@petalwhispers]

I think the best way to describe The Unknown as a killer in dbd is a Wildcard Killer, being in all of the classes in some way!

[@catcadev]

Derek the Frat guy survivor would be so sick

[@kenndelb]

This video was sick as, good job :)

[@tyrbrelk8444]

for me the first thing I thought of was Marble Hornets but I get the Mandela catalogue too. Great Video btw definitely worth the subscription

[@Don_weon608]

Good video, make one about the dredge

[@CheesyRacc]

Great video, i actually searched my history to.rewatch this over and over. But i cant help but notice you specified "saucer aliens". Do you believe weve been visited by non-saucer aliens?

[@dmuted]

No. I believe alien life exists somewhere in the universe, I don't believe they've come here. I specified saucer aliens because if some microbe or bacteria came from space and came here, that would be alien life on Earth, and I feel like that's much more possible.

[@TLtheDude]

As much as I wish the power fit a little more with the unknown's ascetic, it's still so damn fun to play

[@meh9150]

The power is the "Alien" part of its backstory

[@maid3685]

It reminds me a lot of Fiddlesticks from League of legends ngl. The voice mimicking, the way it moves, the husks it can leave behind.

[@scootydad8093]

Ur first survivor played ur huntress better than most people in high ranks damn

[@dmuted]

It's less than and more that I was playing Huntress really badly lol

[@Lummox874]

I really like how scary security cameras always have the big scary almost out of frame, because that is what can actually happen with ghosts and the like.

[@residentevilplayer877]

Love The Unknown. He might just be my new favorite killer.

[@knines6279]

Bro I can’t believe that the Unknown killed Lincoln 😭

[@Vamp_Valentine_]

Scp 3333's monsters really remind me of the unknown appearance especially on how its a human body thats being puppeted by some tentacle creature

[@fluffybum204]

Honestly something me and my friends talked about is how similar the unknown is to slenderman Both of them are just a unknown entity doing what they want because they can and seem to enjoy it

[@themidnighttrain3045]

The doorbell camera footage is his lobby animation

[@L1ncore]

Ngl watching my friends play the new update is what finally got me to buy the game. I just love the killer, new survivor, and map design so much. It’s really fun.

[@nonamemclovenakamr.n8100]

It like behavior mix creepypasta/found footage/campfire storie at band camp

[@wendigogo9016]

Thank you for renaming the spirits, I dislike clicking off videos and abandoning them for my own safety

[@RueRyuzakiIsBB]

Honestly, it also slightly reminds me of Winter of '83, which was a phenomenal horror short series but the mimicking and unfathomable nature give me the vibes

[@alexgreer6336]

I did not expect Pastra to say THAT lol

[@RedSpade37]

The text-messages are my favorite part

[@pierrotlehonque5084]

the unknown kinda reminds me of the harbringer experiment with the government experiment backstory

[@No1fan15]

The hollow knight music makes me so happy to hear 😊

[@snailteeth5811]

Pastra being the unknown for the last clip of the video is oddly fitting

[@owenbridgers]

The Unknown is by far my favorite killer in the game, surpassing even The Knight which I didnt know was possible

[@Poyopoyo007]

I just noticed that the security cam is the unknowns lobby animation

[@bbbedchu_fg_PD]

i’m not a huge dbd fan, more like a curious onlooker. but it reminds me of an rpgmaker horror game! The crooked neck man or something like thT?

[@bbbedchu_fg_PD]

maybe even a bit of inspo from Doctor nowhere. with how it speaks i mean, reminds me of the enitiy shown in the TOE series

[@CorbinSewards-lk5by]

Bruh, I just noticed that the security camera video was The Unknown’s spawn animation

[@Nagol6432]

FINALLY SOMEONE MENTIONS THE THING!

[@therealbonniethebunny-jf1dn]

A bit ago you said you would do five noots at pingu's can you please do that vido please that would be sick

[@RomeBernstein]

my theory is that the unknown is what is known as a tulpa a being that is conjured through someone's sheer thought power basically someone thinks of something so hard and so much that it ends up manifesting in real life

[@anomel2468]

The Unkown reminds me a lot of the thoughtforms from Greylock tbh

[@Gizmotick]

Somthing you could have said was that the unknown is like scp-2521 with how when someone learns about it, their taken by it.

[@nyxis4042]

The unknown’s design kinda reminds me of the crooked man rpg horror game

[@dio992]

In my opinion the entire concept of the unknown is horrifying, from the looks to the sounds just everything about it makes it one of the scariest dbd killers in my opinion, but if I’m being honest, the mori just doesn’t do it for me, I’m not sure why, but for some reason it’s just not scary to me.

[@ignitedmergo]

Yeah, but I also have no idea what else they could've done. I'm sure there's some cool concept ideas but I just can't come up with one myself.

[@BasementDweller_]

DBD video! Let’s gooooo! If you need a DBD buddy, I’m mostly free to help.

[@FrostyTheNightmare]

Though he isn’t my favorite OG killer from DBD (Those spots are reserved for Singularity and Dredge) He’s definitely in the top 5 for gameplay and design alone

[@doctorxtn9225]

the unknown is a lot more similar to scp 2521 than 096

[@johnwithab1517]

does anyone have the links for the posts shown in 4:16 , 7:59 and 9:54 ? i suck at finding things 😭😭

[@matijasostojic4288]

Aren't wendigo and Skinwalkers more folklore than actual belief?

[@erraticbandito5546]

How fucking scare would this be to see the unknown say “Pizza? Pepperoni?” This killer rocks and I fuck with it heacy

[@awheckitsgoldie]

Aw man. Sorry about the Mandela Catelog part. You wouldn’t have known.

[@anthonyortiz2078]

Opening really killed me 😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️

[@OhF-ckItsDutch]

design kind of reminds me of the splicers from BioShock, elongated limbs, messed up face, distended belly, this thing wouldn't look to out of place in rapture

[@Sweet_Z_Official]

If The Unknown gets a Cartoon Cat skin cosmetic, it would be awesome!

[@26th_Primarch]

You were correct on it referring to an SCP, but you're wrong on which one it's referencing the behavior it shows is almost identical to SCP-2521.

[@Prowarrior1175]

Image the unknown in real life it would be terrifying.

[@graveyardsoil]

This one is the only killer i hate starting a tiral with. Unknown is so unsettling. Disturbs the shit out of me

[@Paulog2003]

When you started mentioning references i was screaming SLENDERMAN SLENDERMAN SLENDERMAN

[@dylan1114]

My guess is he is all conspiracies theories put together, an extraterrestrial/entity who then was experimented on then escaped causing it to go on a murder spree which leads to serial killer

[@brandon_crow1291]

Not gonna lie, that one frame of its face in the video of it attacking the guy in the tent kinda looked like Jeff the Killer lol

[@LukeRkam]

I literally first found out about this thing from googling the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience lol

[@misterentityyt1704]

It reminds me of alternates from Mandela catalogue

[@MultiGreen100]

It's an alien that's for damn sure I think it's a found footage escaped alien like the V.H.S MOVIES

[@Obsessor23]

"It killed Dwight?!" I think a lot of them have killed Dwight lol

[@Megalon-qc8pf]

I didn’t see all of the arg, I thought it’d be a knockoff version of the rake, but the unknown is/was way cooler

[@ITLBGaming]

This dude dropped the 0 from SCP-096, now that's a crime 😤

[@transgoose]

It kinda looks like a splicer from bioshock

[@sirsynical6828]

Project Apple pie reminds me of MK Ultra in a lot of aspects

[@LoonatheHellhoudgaming]

There is another scp that is somewhat similar to the unknown it's called SCP-●●|●●●●●|●●|●

[@Beessokoo1coo1]

I remember when I looked up a creepypasta video of dead by daylight and i was like "Who makes a creepypasta story of dead by daylight its already scary and murder, blood etc" and long story short something about New killer was jeff the killer and i was like wow🙄 is that really necessary? It could've been slenderman

[@bananalabs5941]

It give me flesh gait vibes

[@P3strode]

This is why I main unknown and why I don’t care if he is a bad killer

[@socksbigadventure4910]

a horror youtuber being respectful of native american culture? it's a miracle ty 😭💚

[@RedPopFastigium]

Not creepypasta enough, no hyper realistic blood or eyes or even any “I AM GOD”s 😔

[@reiranakame5973]

lol great video but when you changed the name of Skinwalker you could have used Fleshgate which is the name used for the internet's version of the Skinwalker due to the vast differences between the native legends

[@freepkm]

billy would be nice

[@timothytaylor5634]

if there was an actual creepypasta character id choose slender man

[@R8MIX]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAA! DBD moment

[@nicht_nice]

i like trickster :)