Candle Cove
by admin on Mar.15, 2009, under Uncategorized
NetNostalgia Forum - Television (local)
Skyshale033
Subject: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
YES! Okay I’m not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
ha ha i remember now too. 
do you remember this part skyshale: “you have…to go…INSIDE.”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s skin??
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it back on.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”
March 15th, 2009 on 7:30 am
Good to see you writing again Kris!
And I love how the last forum post really turned it all around, amazing twist. When I was a kid I was always afraid that there were things only kids could see and that adults couldn’t, so that we were left completely defenseless. This is exactly like that.
March 16th, 2009 on 5:58 am
Neat. I was a kid about the same time as those guys, and there must be any number of half-remembered shows lurking in my head. Some of them were more than a little odd.
March 16th, 2009 on 10:26 am
My God, that last bit actually gave me shivers. I was trying to work out what the twist was going to be all the way through, never saw it coming. Haven’t felt like that from a story in a while, amazing work. And such an original medium too! Great to see ichor falls back online, it was all messed up last month for me
March 16th, 2009 on 2:03 pm
Excellent!
March 17th, 2009 on 2:41 pm
I started reading this without realizing it was a story. An excellent freak-out that had me reviewing the horrible creepy shows of my youth.
March 18th, 2009 on 11:48 pm
I had something like this happen when I tried to convince people “Pirates of Darkwater” was a real show. Nightmare fuel, indeed.
I caught half a minute of it on Cartoon Network years later and called all my friends to prove it wasn’t made-up.
…right?
Good to see Ichor Falls back on the map.
March 19th, 2009 on 4:04 am
Good stuff. This one kinda got me–while normally I just go by the light of my monitor at night I confess I had to leave my lamp on for a couple of hours after reading this.
March 22nd, 2009 on 4:21 pm
I completely agree with Scarper. I think half of what what made this an excellent scary story is all the places it made my mind race to when I was trying to figure out the twist. I was so busy switching from nightmare-scenario to nightmare-scenario, that I didn’t see the end coming a mile away. Very good!
I’m glad Ichor Falls has returned!
March 30th, 2009 on 10:53 am
OH GOD THAT SCARED ME
oh man, this brings back memories of old episodes of ren and stimpy, that show was really freaky sometimes….
April 29th, 2009 on 12:17 am
Very nice, I imagine it was hard to provide the level of description necessary to make it creepy while still making these seem like they could be legitimate forum posts. That touch about the calliope music was nice - it makes everything creepier. Just imagining a bunch of low budget puppets screaming for hours with calliope music in the background makes for a creepy-ass image.
May 26th, 2009 on 6:54 am
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May 29th, 2009 on 10:06 pm
See, I’m only 23. But what creeped me out was that I recognized those towns mentioned in the first few posts. Ironton is across the river… and I’m about 20 minutes from Ashland.
Chills, man. fuckin’ chills.
May 30th, 2009 on 1:16 am
Christ…now images of what they saw are flickering through my head. Disfigured dolls screaming and flailing around…blood coming out of their eyes (I know there wasn’t any blood, but my mind enhances things). Oh god, it’s horrible, I don’t think I’m sleeping tonight.
June 2nd, 2009 on 12:30 pm
@ Xavier
Pirates of Darkwater is real, I have a comic of it right beside me.
June 5th, 2009 on 1:42 pm
Excellent creepypasta.
@ Xavier Brentwood- I know what you mean, this story brought it back for me too. I’m 23 and I had the same issue in high school. Nobody would believe me but it was such a wonderful and original show!
No DVD or VHS to speak of either, but I swear there was even a SNES game for it. Gotta find those episodes…
June 10th, 2009 on 7:19 pm
AMAZINGLY written! I really enjoyed this one, I’ve read a lot of creepy shorts but this one really did do the job with the plot twist. Also, an amazing built up towards the end. It got creepier and creepier
June 12th, 2009 on 2:08 am
I came.
June 15th, 2009 on 12:38 am
Egads, that scared me quite a bit. Mostly just because skeletons and puppets with parts that don’t belong to them scare me…it brought back memories of “Gulla Gulla Island” for some reason. o-o
June 16th, 2009 on 8:04 am
This story just gave me goosebumps. Literally.
June 17th, 2009 on 9:50 am
This is reminiscent of Howard Waldrop’s Mr. Goober’s Show.
June 20th, 2009 on 9:16 am
Hooooly motherfucking shit mans. This story would not be so creepy if I couldn’t relate to it… anybody heard of the TV show Mulligrubs?
June 22nd, 2009 on 8:35 pm
Mulligrubs? That was on Australian tv. I remember every time that show came on I would hide under the table. That creepy face still gives me nightmares.
July 8th, 2009 on 10:17 pm
Easily one of the best and most unique horror stories I’ve ever read. I was directed to Ichor Falls from another short, horror stories website, but let me tell you, your stories are extremely high quality.
I’ve literally spent the time just going through your website and reading all the stories that caught my attention, but this one, in my opinion, is the most memorable.
July 25th, 2009 on 1:38 pm
I remember Mulligrubs, that shit was worse then SUM PINK ELAPHANTS!!!
July 25th, 2009 on 4:47 pm
FUCK.
I mean, seriously. I saw the video based off of this, and my friend sent me the link here, and now it all makes sense, and goddamn, I’m going to have nightmares now. Awesome job.
July 26th, 2009 on 5:57 pm
The scariest part for e is that I remember watching shows on the UHF channels that no one remembered…
July 28th, 2009 on 12:46 am
I wasn’t sure if anyone here is aware, or maybe one of you was responsible for this, but here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h5ym6ZlVY
August 6th, 2009 on 1:06 pm
This really hits home for me. Often I have wondered about the TV shows that I barely remember from when I was a kid, so this story is pretty creepy.
August 22nd, 2009 on 8:48 pm
Going under the assumption that the “65″ in “mike_painter65’s” user name is a reference to his year-of-birth, wouldn’t he have been 6, not 9 as he claims, when “Candle Cove” aired?
August 22nd, 2009 on 8:56 pm
I found the video funny, for some reason. Perhaps it’s because I had read the story before watching the video and knew what to expect. It wasn’t really the imagery of the video so much as the audio that I found amusing.
August 23rd, 2009 on 5:39 am
I’m so scared.
August 26th, 2009 on 3:37 pm
OH MY GOD THAT’S TERRIFYING
I came to read this after seeing the ‘candle cove revisited’ post. Now I’m too scared to watch the youtube video.
September 2nd, 2009 on 4:30 pm
Oh god, that is terrifying, and reminds me of SO MUCH of my early childhood - shows and films and people that I swear to god existed, but my parents insist never did.
*shivers*
September 15th, 2009 on 5:17 am
The video is blank, and I think this whole prank has gone a bit to far. I’m emailing the site creator to get this thread immediately. Peoples lives can be ruined by this sort of trouble making.
September 15th, 2009 on 6:09 am
[...] Original Forum Posting [...]
September 22nd, 2009 on 6:13 am
I’m fourteen and I still have very horrible nightmares, the nightmare in this reminded me of one I’ve had since my Dad and brother died. It’s like everyone screaming but just standing there with their mouths open, suddenly this black smoke stuff rolls down a hill toward me. It scares the crap outta me!
October 15th, 2009 on 10:10 am
super cool story bro!
October 21st, 2009 on 10:31 am
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October 22nd, 2009 on 8:08 pm
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November 18th, 2009 on 10:26 am
Hot damn, you’re good, Straub. I thought I’d googled into a real thread and was reading through looking for where it referenced the website… I bought it hook, line and sinker right up to the final reveal where I saw the REAL comments thread and realised I’d been reading a fictional one. This is GREAT stuff.
December 7th, 2009 on 10:46 pm
Hey, I hope you don’t mind if I did a reading of this for a little creepypasta archiving project I’m rekindling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVS4Agu5LTg
I enjoyed this story a lot.
December 24th, 2009 on 2:57 pm
what is with that jojacob666 guy?
all his videos have weird references and they’re so….. freaking… creepy.
god.
this was amazing though.
December 28th, 2009 on 9:39 am
This is really, really good.
And Henry– that would have worked better if you’d left it after the first sentence. But B+ for effort
January 14th, 2010 on 3:12 pm
Wow, this story gave me goosebumps. It made me remember (not making this up) when I was 7-8, I would watch static on the TV and pretend there were hidden messages from ‘aliens’ in the pattern (I was really into aliens at the time.)
January 18th, 2010 on 1:37 pm
okay, ive been checking this Candle Cove thing out and i heard that it was also a short story.