Jeff The Killer

Jeff the Killer is a story accompanied by an image of the title character. In the story, a teenager named Jeff is attacked by a group of bullies. The fight ends with Jeff being doused with alcohol and set on fire. After being discharged and having his bandages removed, Jeff becomes insane; carving his own face in order to leave a smile-shaped scar, burning off his eyelids, and killing his family.[5] He becomes a serial killer who sneaks into houses at night and whispers "go to sleep" to his victims before killing them.[5][6] The story quickly became one of the most popular creepypastas and would inspire many other stories, including Jane the Killer.[5]

The character of Jeff was originally created by DeviantArt user Sesseur. The story above wasn't made by Sesseur himself, but rather "a fan of his earlier work." A 2013 article asserted that the original image of Jeff the Killer was an extensively edited picture of a girl who committed suicide in the fall of 2008.[7] However, in 2018, after extensive research on 4chan's /x/ board, this rumor was debunked; the original image came from Japanese website pya.cc from September and November 2005.The image of "Katy Robinson" was also found to be a hoax; it was taken from a girl on the Christian website TrueChristian.com.