JEFF THE KILLER – JEFF WOODS THE KILLER

Viral image of Jeff The Killer.^[2]

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Summarize:

Jeff The Killer is the main protagonist and antagonist of the story with the same title. When you search for “Jeff the Killer” online, you may find a viral photoshopped image that has the same name as this character. The character’s appearance in this image doesn’t exactly match with his appearance in the various stories about him. The most commonly known stories about Jeff The Killer are: Jeff C. Hodek, ^[4] posted by Sesseur. And Jeff The Killer (Go to Sleep) posted by GameFuel200 ^[7] on behalf of his brother, Travis. ^[9] In Travis’ story, Jeff’s surname is not mentioned. There are old posts made by the user known as Vampire13, formally known as the creator of Homicidal Liu, ^[10] giving the surname of Woods to Jeff’s family. More information about Jeff The Killer and the various versions of him is listed below.

I. CLAIMED AUTHORSHIP
II. JEFF THE KILLER (GO TO SLEEP)
III. JEFF C. HODEK
IV. THE ORIGIN OF THE IMAGE
V. DEBUNKED RUMORS
VI. SOURCES

I. CLAIMED AUTHORSHIP

Sesseur claims to be the creator of the first version of the Jeff The Killer character, also known as Jeff C. Hodek. ^[35]

Jeff The Killer is also known as Jeff Woods or Jeffrey Alan Woods.

According to Sesseur, he is not the author of the tale of Jeff Woods. He claims that this more popular version of the Jeff The Killer story is fan-fiction written by a follower of his earlier work. ^[1] The accounts related to GameFuel200, ^[7] who posted the viral tale of Jeff The Killer (Go to Sleep) on behalf of his brother Travis, have been inactive on those websites for a long time. ^[8], ^[9]

II. JEFF THE KILLER (GO TO SLEEP)

Note* Jeff the Killer (Go to Sleep) posted by GameFuel200^[7] it’s the story where Jeffrey’s surname is popularly known as Woods, Jeffrey Woods or Jeffrey Alan Woods, although the surname Woods isn’t mentioned here and it seems that the user named as Vampire13, formally known as the creator of Homicidal Liu,^[10] could have given Jeff’s family the surname instead.^[11],^[12]

OMINOUS UNKNOWN KILLER IS STILL AT LARGE.

After weeks of killings the ominous unknown killer is still on the rise. After little evidence has been found a young boy that states he survived one of the killer’s attacks bravely tells his story.

“I had a bad dream and I woke up in the middle of the night,” says the boy,” I saw that for some reason the window was open, even though I remember it being closed before I went to bed. I got up and shut it once more. Afterwards I simply crawled under my covers and tried to get back to sleep. That’s when I had a strange feeling, like someone was watching me. I looked up, and nearly jumped out of my bed. There in the little ray of light, illuminating from between my curtains, were a pair of two eyes. These weren’t regular eyes, they were dark, ominous eyes. They were bordered in black and… just plain out terrified me. That’s when I saw his mouth. A long, horrendous smile that made every hair on my body stand up. The figure stood there, watching me. Finally, after what seemed like forever he said it. A simple phrase, but said in a way only a mad man could speak.

“He said, ‘Go To Sleep.’ I let out a scream, that’s what sent him at me. He pulled up a knife, aiming at my heart. He jumped on top of my bed. I fought him back, I kicked, I punched, I rolled around trying to knock him off me. That’s when my dad busted in with his 12 Gauge shotgun. He aimed it at the man. He almost got him, but before he could pull the trigger the man had leaped to the side. The man threw the knife in a Bowey knife style into my dad’s shoulder. He let go of the gun, the man probably would’ve finished him off if one of the neighbors hadn’t alerted the police.

“They drove into the parking lot, and ran towards the door. The man turned and ran down the hallway. I heard a smash, like glass breaking. As I came out of my room I saw the window that was pointing towards the back of my house was broken. I looked out it to see him vanish into the distance. I can tell you one thing, I will never forget that face. Those cold, evil eyes and that psychotic smile. They will never leave my head.”

Police still are on the look out for this man. If you see anyone that fits the description in this story, please contact your local police department.

Jeff and his family had just moved into a new neighborhood. His dad had gotten a promotion at work, and they thought it would be best to live in one of those “fancy” neighborhoods. Jeff and his brother Liu couldn’t complain though. A new, better house. What was not to love. As they were getting unpacked one of their neighbors came by.

“Hello,” she said, “I’m Barbera, I live across the street from you. Well I just wanted to introduce my self and to introduce my son.” She turns around and calls her son over.” Billy, these are our new neighbors.” Billy said hi and ran back to play in his yard.

“Well,” said Jeff’s mom, “I’m Margaret, and this is my husband Peter, and my two son’s Jeff and Liu.” We each introduced ourselves, and then Barbera invites us to her son’s birthday. Jeff and his brother were about to object, when their mother say’s that they would love to. When Jeff and his family are done packing Jeff goes up to his mom.

“Mom, why would you invite us to some kid’s party? If you haven’t noticed I’m not some dumb kid.”

“Jeff,” says his mother, “We just moved here, we should show that we want to spend time with our neighbors. Now, we’re going to that party, and that’s final.” Jeff starts to talk, but stops himself, knowing that he can’t do anything. Whenever his mom say’s something its final. He walks up to his room and plops down on his bed. He sits there looking at his ceiling when suddenly, he gets a weird feeling. Not so much a pain, but… a weird feeling. He dismisses it as just some random feeling. He hears his mother call him down to get his stuff, and he walks down to get it.

The next day Jeff walks down stairs to get breakfast and get ready for school. As he sat there eating his breakfast he once again got that feeling. This time it was stronger, it gave him a slight tugging pain, but he once again dismissed it. As he and Liu finished breakfast they walked down to the bus stop. They sat there waiting for the bus, and then, all of a sudden some kid on a skateboard jumps over them, only inches above their laps. They both jump back in surprise. “Hey, what the hell kid?”

The kid landed and turned back to them. He kicked his skate board up and caught it with his hands. The kid seems to be about twelve, one year younger than Jeff. He wears a Aeropostale shirt and ripped blue jeans.

“Well, well, well. It looks like we got some new meat.” Suddenly two other kids appear. One is super skinny and the other is huge.” Well, since your new here I’d like to introduce ourselves, over there is Keith.” Jeff and Liu look over to the skinny kid. He has a dopey face that you would expect a sidekick to have. “And he’s Troy.” They look over at the fat kid. Talk about a tub of lard. This kid looks like he hasn’t exercised since he was crawling.

“And I,” says the kid, “Am Randy. Now for all the kids in this neighborhood there is a small price for bus fare, if you catch my drift. Liu stands up, ready to punch the lights out of the kid’s eyes when his two friends pull a knife up at him. “Tsk, tsk, tsk, I had hoped you would be more cooperative, but it seems we must do this the hard way.” The kid walks up to Liu and takes his wallet out of his pocket. Jeff gets that feeling again, now its truly strong, a burning sensation. He stands up, but Liu gestures him to sit down. Jeff ignores it and walks up to the kid.

“Listen here you little punk, give back my bro’s wallet or else.” Randy puts the wallet in his pocket and pulls a knife.

“Oh? And what will you do?” Just as he finishes the sentence Jeff pops the kid in the nose. As the kid reaches for his face Jeff grabs the kid’s wrists and breaks it. Randy screams and Jeff grabs the knife from his hand. Troy and Keith rush Jeff but Jeff is too quick. He throws Randy to the ground. Keith lashes out at him, but Jeff ducks and stabs him in the arm. Keith drops his knife and falls to the ground screaming. Troy rushes him too, but Jeff doesn’t even need the knife. He just punches Troy straight in the stomach and he goes down. As he falls he pukes all over. Liu can do nothing but look in amazement at Jeff.

“Jeff how’d you?” thats all he says. They see the bus coming and know they’d be blamed for the whole thing. So they start running as fast as they can. As they run, they look back and see the bus driver rushing over to Randy and them. As Jeff and Liu make it to school they don’t dare tell what happened. All they do is sit and listen. Liu just thought of that as his brother beating up a few kids, but Jeff knew it was more. It was something, scary. As he got that feeling he felt how powerful it was, the urge to just, hurt someone. He didn’t like how it sounded, but he couldn’t help feeling happy. He felt that strange feeling go away, and stay away for the entire day of school. Even as he walked home due to the whole thing near the bus stop, and how now he probably wouldn’t be taking the bus anymore, he felt happy. When he got home his parents asked him how his day was, and he said, in a somewhat ominous voice, “It was a wonderful day.” Next morning he heard a knock at his front door. He walked down to find two police officers at the door, his mother looking back at him with an angry look.

“Jeff, these officers tell me that you attacked three kids. That it wasn’t regular fighting, and that they were stabbed. Stabbed son!” Jeff’s gaze fell to the floor, showing his mother that it was true.

“Mom, they were the ones who pulled the knives on me and Liu.”

“Son,” said one of the cops,” We found three kids two stabbed, one having a bruise on his stomach, and we have witnesses proving that you fled the scene. Now, what does that tell us?” Jeff knew it was no use. He could say him and Liu had been attacked, but then there was no proof it was not them who attacked first. They couldn’t say that they weren’t fleeing, because truth be told they were. So Jeff couldn’t defend himself or Liu.

“Son, call down your brother.” Jeff couldn’t do it since it was him who beat up all the kids.

“Sir, it…it was me. I was the one who beat up the kids. Liu tried to hold me back, but he couldn’t stop me.” The cop looked at his partner and they both nod.

“Well kid, looks like a year in Juvy…”

“Wait!” says Liu. We all look up to see him holding a knife. The officers pull their guns and lock them on Liu.

“It was me, I beat up those little punks. Have the marks to prove it.” He lifted up his sleeves to reveal cuts and bruises, as if he was in a struggle.

“Son, just put the knife down,” said the officer. Liu held up the knife and dropped it to the ground. He put his hands up and walked over to the cops.

“No Liu, it was me I did it!” Jeff had tears running down his face.

“Huh, poor bro. Trying to take the blame for what I did. Well, take me away.” The police led Liu out to the patrol car.

“Liu, tell them it was me! Tell them! I was the one who beat those kids!” Jeff’s mother put her hands on Jeff’s shoulders.

“Jeff please, you don’t have to lie. We know it’s Liu, you can stop.” Jeff watches helplessly as the cop car speeds off with Liu inside. A few minutes later Jeff’s dad pulls into the drive way, seeing Jeff’s face and knowing somethings wrong.

“Son, son what is it?” Jeff can’t answer. His vocal cords are strained from crying. Instead Jeff’s mother walks his father inside, to break the bad news to him as Jeff weeps in the drive way. After an hour or so Jeff walks back in to the house, seeing that his parents were both shocked, sad, and disappointed. He can’t look at them. He can’t seer how they think of Liu when it was his fault. He just goes to sleep, trying to get the whole thing off his mind. Two days go by, no word from Liu at JDC. No friends to hang out with. Nothing but sadness and guilt. That is until Saturday, when Jeff is woke up by his mother, with a happy, sunshiny face.

“Jeff, it’s the day.” she says as she open’s up the curtains and lets light flood into Jeff’s room.

“What, what’s today?” says Jeff as he stirs awake.

“Why, its Billy’s party.” Jeff is now fully awake.

“Mom, your joking, right? You don’t expect me to go to some kid’s party after…” There’s a long pause.

“Jeff, we both know what happened. I think this party could be the thing that brightens up the past days. Now, get dressed.” Jeff’s mother walks out of the room and walks down to get ready herself. Jeff fights himself to get up. He picks out a random shirt and pair of jeans and walks down stairs. He see’s his mother and father all dressed up, his mother in a dress and my father in a suit. He thinks why they would ever wear such fancy clothes to a kid’s party.

“Son, is that all your gonna wear?” says Jeff’s mom.

“Better than wearing too much.” he says. His mother pushes down the feeling to yell at him and hides it with a smile.

“Now Jeff, we may be over dressed, but this is how you go if you want to make an impression.” says his father. Jeff grunts and goes back up to his room.

“I don’t have any fancy clothes!” he yells down stairs.

“Just pick out something.” says his mother. He looks around in his closet for what he would call fancy. He finds a pair of black dress pants he had for special occasions and an undershirt. He can’t find a shirt to go with it though. He looks around, and finds only striped and patterned shirts. None of which go with dress pants. Finally he finds a white hoodie, just lying on a chair and puts it on. He walks down stairs to find his parents are all ready.

“You’re wearing that?” they both say. His mother looks at her watch. “Oooh, no time to change. Lets just go.” She says as she herds Jeff and his father out the door. They cross the street over to Barbera and Billy’s house. They knock on the door and at it appears Barbera, just like my parents, way over dressed. As they walk inside all we can see is adults, no kids.

“The kids are out in the yard. Jeff, how about you go and meet some of the kids?” says Barbera.

Jeff walks outside to a yard full of kids. They’re running around in weird cowboy costumes, and shooting each other with plastic guns. He might as well be standing in a Toys R Us. Suddenly a kid comes up to him and hands him a toy gun and hat.

“Hey, mitsew. Wanna pway?” he says.

“Aah, no kid. I’m way too old for this stuff.” The kid looks at him with that weird puppydog face.

“Pwease?” says the kid. “Fine,” says Jeff. He puts on the hat and starts to pretend shoot at the kids. At first he thinks its totally ridiculous, but then he starts to actually have fun. It may not be super cool, but it’s the first time he’s done something that takes his mind off of Liu. So he plays with the kids for a while until he hears a noise. It’s a weird rolling noise. Then it hits him. Just as it does Randy, Troy, and Keith all jump over the fence on their skateboards. Jeff drops the fake gun and rips off the hat. Randy looks at Jeff with a burning hatred.

“Hello, Jeff is it?” he says. “We have some unfinished business.” Jeff sees the bruised nose on his face.” I think we’re even. I beat the shit out of you, and you get my brother sent to JDC.”

Randy gets an angry look in his eye. “Oh no, I don’t go for even, I go for winning. You may have kicked our asses that one day, but not today.” As he said that Randy rushes Jeff. They both fall to the ground. Randy punches Jeff in the nose, and Jeff grabs him by the ears and head butts him. Jeff pushes Randy off of him and both rise to their feet. Kids were screaming and parents were running out of the house. Troy and Keith both pull guns out of their pockets.

“No-one interrupts or guts will fly!” they say. Randy pulls a knife on Jeff and stabs it into his shoulder.

Jeff screams and falls to his knees. Randy starts kicking him in the face. After three kicks though Jeff grabs his foot and twists it, causing Randy to fall to the ground. Jeff stands up and walks towards the back door. Troy grabs him though.

“Need some help?” He picks Jeff up by the back of the collar and throws him through the patio door. As Jeff tries to stand he is kicked down to the ground. Randy repeatedly starts kicking Jeff until he starts to cough up blood.

“Come on Jeff, fight me!” He picks Jeff up and throws him into the kitchen. Randy sees a bottle of vodka on the counter and smashes the glass over Jeff’s head.

“Fight!” He throws Jefff back into the living room.

“Come on Jeff, look at me!” Jeff glances up, his face riddled with blood. “I was the one who got your brother sent to JDC! And now you’re just gonna sit here and let him rot in there for a whole year! You should be ashamed!” Jeff starts to get up.

“Oh finally, you stand and fight!” Jeff is now to his feet, blood and vodka on his face. Once again he gets that strange feeling, the one in which he hasn’t felt for a while. “Finally. He’s up!” says Randy as he runs at Jeff. That’s when it happens. Something inside Jeff snaps. His psyche is destroyed, all rational thinking is gone, all he can do, is kill. He grabs Randy and pile drives him to the ground. He gets on top of him and punches him straight in the heart. The punch causes Randy’s heart to stop. As Randy gasps for breath. Jeff hammers down on him. Punch after punch, blood gushes from Randy’s body until he takes one final breath, and dies.

Everyone is looking at Jeff now. The parents, the crying kids, even Troy and Keith. Although they easily break from their gaze and point their guns at Jeff. Jeff see’s the guns trained on him and runs for the stairs. As he runs Troy and Keith let out fire on him, each shot missing. Jeff runs up the stairs. He hears Troy and Keith follow up behind. As they let out their final rounds of bullets Jeff ducks into the bathroom. He grabs the towel rack and rips it off the wall. Troy and Keith race in, knives ready.

Troy swings his knife at Jeff, who backs away and bangs the towel rack into Troy’s face. Troy goes down hard and now all that’s left is Keith. He is more agile than Troy though and ducks when Jeff swings the towel rack. He dropped the knife and grabbed Jeff by the neck. He pushed me into the wall. On the top shelf a thing of bleach fell down on top of us. It burnt both of them and they both started to scream. Jeff wiped his eyes as best as he could. He pulled back the towel rack and swung it straight into Keith’s head. As he lay there bleeding to death he let out an ominous smile.

“Whats so funny?” asked Jeff. Keith pulled out a lighter and switched it on. “What’s funny,” he said, “Is that you’re covered in bleach and alcohol.” Jeff’s eyes widened as Keith threw the lighter at him. As soon as the flame made contact with him the flames ignited the alcohol in the vodka. While the alcohol burned him the bleach, bleached his skin. Jeff let out a terrible screech as he caught on fire. He tried to roll out the fire but it was no use, the alcohol had made him a walking inferno. He ran down the hall, and fell down the stairs. Everybody started screaming as they saw Jeff, now a man on fire, drop to the ground, nearly dead. The last thing Jeff saw was his mother and the other parents trying to extinguish the flame. That’s when he passed out.

When Jeff woke he had a cast wrapped around his face. He couldn’t see anything but he felt a cast on his shoulder, and stitches all over his body. He tried to stand up, but he realized that there was some tube in his arm, and when he tried to get up it fell out, and a nurse rushed in.

“I don’t think you can get out of bed just yet.” she said as she put him back in his bed and re-inserted the tube. Jeff sat there, with no vision, no idea of what his surroundings were. Finally after hours he heard his mother.

“Honey, are you okay?” she asked. Jeff couldn’t answer though, his face was covered, and he was unable to speak. “Oh honey, I have great news. After all the witnesses told the police that Randy confessed of trying to attack you, they decided to let Liu go.” This made Jeff almost bolt up, stopping halfway, remembering the tube coming out of his arm. “He’ll be out by tomorrow, and then you two will be able to be together again.”

Jeff’s mother hugs Jeff and says her goodbyes. The next couple of weeks were those where Jeff was visited by his family. Then came the day where his bandages were to be removed. His family were all there to see it, what he would look like. As the doctors unwrapped the bandages from Jeff’s face everyone was on the edge of their seats. They waited until the last bandage holding the cover over his face was almost removed.

“Lets hope for the best,” said the doctor. He quickly pulls the cloth letting the rest fall from Jeff’s face.

Jeff’s mother screams at the sight of his face. Liu and Jeff’s dad stare awe-struck at his face.

“What? What happened to my face?” Jeff said. He rushed out of bed and ran to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror and saw the cause of the distress. His face. It…its horrible. His lips were burnt to a deep shade of red. His face was turned into a pure white color, and his hair singed from brown to black. He slowly put his hand to his face. It had a sort of leathery feel to it now. He looked back at his family then back at the mirror.

“Jeff,” said Liu, “It’s not that bad….”

“Not that bad?” said Jeff,” It’s perfect!” His family were equally surprised. Jeff started laughing uncontrollably His parents noticed that his left eye and hand were twitching.

“Uh… Jeff, are you okay?”

“Okay? I’ve never felt more happy! Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaa, look at me. This face goes perfectly with me!” He couldn’t stop laughing. He stroked his face feeling it. Looking at it in the mirror. What caused this? Well, you may recall that when Jeff was fighing Randy something in his mind, his sanity, snapped. Now he was left as a crazy killing machine, that is, his parents didn’t know.

“Doctor,” said Jeff’s mom, “Is my son… alright, you know. In the head?”

“Oh yes, this behavior is typical for patients that have taken very large amounts of pain killers. If his behavior doesn’t change in a few weeks bring him back here, and we’ll give him a psychological test.”

“Oh thank you doctor.” Jeff’s mother went over to Jeff.” Jeff, sweety. It’s time to go.”

Jeff looks away from the mirror, his face still formed into a crazy smile. ” kay mommy, ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa!” Jeff’s mother took him by the shoulder and took him to get his clothes.

“This is what he came in,” said the lady at the desk. Jeff’s mom looked down to see the black dress pants and white hoodie her son wore. Now they were clean of blood and now stitched together. Jeff’s mother led him to his room and made him put his clothes on. Then they left, not knowing that his was their final day of life.

Later that night Jeff’s mother woke to a sound coming from the bathroom. It sounded as if someone was crying. She slowly walked over to see what it was. When she looked into the bathroom she saw a horrendous sight. Jeff had taken a knife and carved a smile into his cheeks.

“Jeff, what are you doing?” asked his mother.

Jeff looked over to his mother. “I couldn’t keep smiling mommy. It hurt after awhile. Now, I can smile forever. Jeff’s mother noticed his eyes, ringed in black.

“Jeff, your eyes!” His eyes were bordered by black, seemingly never closing.

“I couldn’t see my face. I got tired and my eyes started to close. I burned out the eyelids so I could forever see myself, my new face.” Jeff’s mother slowly started to back away, seeing that her son was going insane. “What’s wrong mommy? Aren’t I beautiful?

“Yes son,” she said, “Yes you are. L-let me go get daddy so he can see your face.” She ran into the room and shook Jeff’s dad from his sleep. “Honey, get the gun we…..” She stopped as she saw Jeff in the doorway, holding a knife.

“Mommy, you lied.” that’s the last thing they hear as Jeff rushes them with the knife, gutting both of them.

His brother Liu woke up, startled by some noise. He didn’t hear anything else so he just shut his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. As he was on the border of slumber he got the strangest feeling that someone was watching him. He looked up, before Jeff’s hand covered his mouth. He slowly raised the knife ready to plunge it into Liu. Liu thrashed here and there trying to escape Jeff’s grip.

“Shhhhhhh,” Jeff said,”Just go to sleep.”

Source:^[7]

II. I. WOODS.FACTS & MYTHS: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Things you may not know about Jeffrey Woods or Jeff (Jeffrey) Alan Woods.

The oldest record of the viral tale of Jeff The Killer was posted by Gamefuel200.^[7]Gamefuel200 created the account on June 18th, 2011. The account currently has a different nickname: GameFuelTV aka Joshua.^[8]There you can read: “Hello my name is josh this account is use mostly to upload my brothers work heres one of his story’s http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Jeff_The_Killer“. The wikia account does not link to any other account but it seems that the Deviantart account with the same name could also belong to GameFuel200, Joshua. On the front page of his DeviantArt you can find a certain post from November 5th, 2013: “*To the fans of jeff the killer* No i am not the maker. the pasta was posted with my account. My Brother Travis is the maker. No he doesn’t have anything that you can contact him with. i am sorry. Joshua“.^[9]If GameFuel200 (wikia) is GameFuelTV (Deviantart) and what they claim is true, that would mean that the viral Jeff The Killer tale, “Jeff the Killer (Go to Sleep)” was written by Travis, GameFuel200’s brother, and posted on his account.
The surname of Woods is claimed to be created by an user known as VampireNote13 on Deviantart, formal creator of Homicidal Liu.^[10] 2012, Deviantart,”(…) I came up with the Woods name for Jeff and Liu. :3″.^[11] Their Homicidal Liu’s ask tumblr: “(…) Liu Woods (Woods being the surname that I came up with for Jeff and Liu) (…)”.^[12]
Many people say that Jeff the Killer lost both the nose and eyelids during the incident but in “Jeff the Killer (Go to Sleep)” as posted by GameFuel200^[7] Jeff’s nose does not get cut off. His eyelids are also not described as having been cut off either. In that story, Jeff’s eyelids were burned. “His lips were burnt to a deep shade of red. (…) His eyes were bordered by black, seemingly never closing”. The idea that Jeff is missing his nose and eyelids probably comes from the viral Jeff the Killer image.
At some point, “Jeff The Killer (Go To Sleep)” posted by GameFuel200^[7]on behalf of his brother, Travis.^[9]was taken off of the Creepypasta section of fandom.com. It seems that they took it off because they thought that it did not pass their quality standards. Later on, they held a contest to rewrite the story. “In case you haven’t read the thread linked above, the basic idea for this contest is to rewrite the infamous Jeff the Killer so that it passes our quality standards.“^[40] The idea for this rewrite contest was originally proposed by K. Banning Kellum.^[13] He wrote: “So, the contest would essentially revolve around re-writing Jeff the Killer as a quality story that meets our standards. (…) Using the original story as the basis, our best and brightest would re-make the story without the terrible grammar, cliches and “things of bleach”. (…)” The main goal of the contest was to find a remake that would serve as the new and improved version of the story. K. Banning Kellum wrote, “Remember, the challenge isn’t to make a Jeff spin-off, but rather to re-tell the first story, done right. The winning story would be posted here as the new and improved Jeff the Killer story.” In that post, K. Banning Kellum asked the community to vote on whether they wanted the contest to be held or not. In total, 100 people voted: 67% in favor, 9% neutral, and 24% opposed. The contest was suggested and won by K. Banning Kellum, Banningk1979. “You’ve likely seen Banningk1979’s proposal for a “Jeff the Killer rewrite contest”. Well, it’s time to get this thing started! For clarity, Banning’s asked me to make the blog for this and take the reigns in the organization of the contest, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask me 🙂“.^[13] The information about how to enter this contest was posted on September 26th, 2015. The submissions period for entries was from the 1st to the 31st of October, 2015. There were 15 accepted entries with 5 judges.

III. JEFF C. HODEK

Sesseur published the Sesser-verse or Sesseur-verse Jeff The Killer timeline on January 6th, 2019 on his DeviantArt journal. Later, on July 2nd, 2019, he posted about some events in Jeff’s life. This entry mixes some parts of both entries in a certain order for a better understanding of the Sesseur-verse focused on Jeff. In order to read it directly from the author and for more information, we encourage you to visit the original source listed at the end.

1982, September 22nd – Jeffrey C. Hodek is born.

1984, October 21st – Liu R. Hodek is born.

2007, November 3rd – Jeffrey C. Hodek gets critically injured and disfigured in an accident involving sulfuric acid resulting in him to stay in medical care for roughly 10 months.

Sesseur on Deviantart:

That was the acid that disfigured Jeff when he was trying to unblock and clean out the persistent clog that was inside the bathroom drain.

2008, Mid-October – Jeffrey C. Hodek is released from the hospital and returns home into Liu’s care.

2008, Late-October – Jeffrey C. Hodek unravels his facial bandages and goes into hysterics and carves a gruesome smile in his own face and starts to experiment with hard drugs to cope with his physical and emotional pain. Jeff’s first day/night of Jeff’s mental Breakdown.

2008, October 31st – Jeffrey C. Hodek is visited by an evil entity dubbed Angus Grimville and compels. Jeff to murder.

2008, November 2nd – Jeffrey C. Hodek starts his decade long killing spree.

2008, November 10th – Jeff start’s developing murderous schizophrenia.

2008, November 11th or 2009 January 3rd, depending on the source: Jeff’s First murder. He was 26 years old.

Jeff murders a husband and wife for supposed corruption and temporarily cripples their teenaged son with a baseball bat, taunting him and tells him to send a message that a slayer will rid the world of the wicked, he then leaves the home.

Injuries can cause whitening of the skin with prolonged exposure, plus the crude synthetic skin that was grafted over his injuries was pale white too, and in Jeff’s insanity he bleached the rest of the skin to match his horrifying visage, shortly after suffering a psychotic episode by carving a huge grin in his face to emulate any shred of happiness he desperately tried to bring out due to the result of the complete down spiral of his life.

For a while he’d be treated as a figure of horror, people would stare at him in fear, laugh to themselves and with each other in astonishment of Jeff’s ghostly features, and the people that would “jump to his defense” as a idol for virtue signaling for the hypocrites that would defend Jeff and put him on a pity pedestal just to use him as a tool to display how accepting and kind they are to the “freak that needs all the sympathy” making Jeff feel much less as a person and as a tool for showing tolerance.

Jeff could see through their actions like a newly clean skyscraper window, he hated the people who tried to defend him more than the people who were not sensitive about his handicap, because he saw them as fake and major hypocrites that try to appear that they see Jeff as someone who is completely normal, but those types of people wouldn’t be patronizing and quickly jumping to the defense of a normal person if they were mistreated as he was.

By them doing that to Jeff all it proves is that they are treating him differently, at least the ones that do laugh or gawk at and fear him are honest about their views of the poor bastard and they’d mock any other regular person like they did Jeff the same way, ironically they treated him with more dignity and equal worth than the patronizing types that try to appear like saints and defend Jeff like a pathetic freak that needs special treatment and not to be treated like any regular person who’d be mocked while nobody bats an eye.

Despite disliking the virtue signalers more, he still had deep hatred for the people that mocked him and treated him like a dangerous monster, it caused his depression to worsen, his hatred grow stronger, and his disdain for humanity grew and grew and grew, it resulted in him becoming a recluse most of the time, the rare times he’d leave his house he made sure not to draw anymore attention than he did before, so he made some changes to his appearance to enjoy going out in public like he used to.

He grew out his hair from neglect of his personal care and to blend into the night to get the drop on his victims, during the day he wears sunglasses to cover his freakish eyes, a surgeon’s mask to hide his lower face when in public, as time went on he slowly stopped going out a day and practically became a nocturnal force of carnage and destruction, finding potential victims he deemed “Evil, corrupt and superficial” Before his incident he was a fairly attractive guy, he had a decent social life he was able to draw a crowd in a good way, some people didn’t like him and some he didn’t like, but it was not due to something that was out of control, he had a easy going life and his life just got started shortly before the event of 2007 changed his life for good.

2014, March 31st – Jeff and Liu get word that their father is dead, the death of their father devastates both of the Hodek brothers, sending Jeff on a frenzy, Liu chases after Jeff to find him collapsed in the backyard in a catatonic state, the Hodek brothers comfort each other and meet their mother after so many years, Jeff’s trauma causes him to gain a moment of clarity, and from that day fourth Jeff would slowly gain his sanity knowing the cost of losing family and not being there for them.

2014, April 3rd – Jeff takes a walk in disguise with a doctor’s mask to conceal his identity to get fresh air and reflect on his life, he comes across a 14 year old Hispanic girl who’s sitting next to her friends on a bench outside of a high school, they talk about her little brother’s death, Jeff listens in, the girl remarks how she’s happy her brother died as he was annoying to her, this greatly enrages Jeff and he brutally attacks her nearly killing her before stopping himself and running back home.

2014, April 21st – Jeff contemplates suicide but decides against it for the sake of his family, especially his brother Liu. Jeff is confronted by Liu calmly when he notices a loaded revolver next to his bed and they speak it over giving Jeff a beacon of hope he’s never had in years, the brother embrace and decide to wing whatever comes their way.

So he knew exactly what he could no longer enjoy due to shallowness of the world, his social life was in shambles, and he eventually faked his death and cut ties with the people he knew, either because they turned on him or because he was too ashamed and didn’t want the remaining friends that were loyal to get wrapped up, Jeff nearly attempted suicide, but Liu managed to change his mind but end up injured and needing a hospital yet again, it was then Jeff used the opportunity to fake his death, Liu wasn’t on board at first but down the line he agreed and pulled some strings to get a fake death certificate for Jeff.

2014, July 4th – Jeffrey C. Hodek’s face starts to slowly heal back and slowly regains his sanity.

2016, August 28th – Both Hodek brothers become wanted fugitives and flee Jersey, Jeff heads to Michigan and Liu flees to Maine

As far as everyone that knew Jeff was aware of, Jeff Hodek was dead, this is how he was able to pull of the string of murders for the first couple of years before the name of Jeff the Killer came to be, however as far as the investigating police was concerned they were looking for someone that was currently living that went by Jeff The Killer, it wouldn’t be years down the line that Jeff Hodek was discovered to be alive and was to be investigated to rule out his involvement in murder, The Hodek brothers did what the could to allude police, but the power of the government goes way over the head of two crafty men, the odds stacked against Jeff and would become a fugitive, forcing him to be even more careful, relocating all around Jersey, until he was caught, he was to be sentenced but was committed to an insane asylum for his mental health being in the shitter by this point, it wasn’t shortly after Jeff would find his mark and escape, rampaging all the way back home.

Liu and Jeff had to stay off the grid for a while to bide their times, and for awhile they alluded capture, tragedy struck the Hodeks which nearly crippled them both emotionally, Jeff went crazy and got sloppy, attacked a person out of anger for being an awful human being, however it drew attention and the brothers had to find a hotel to sneak and break into to lay low, a cop managed to find a lead but had no idea with was the fugitive and asylum escapee, the cop was going in for the arrest, but was swiftly killed by Liu.

It got worse from there, Jeff and Liu were spotted fleeing the hotel and a county wide manhunt was deployed, they couldn’t return home the police were already searching frantically with Swat team, K-9 units and all the works.

Liu and Jeff fled the area and made plans to separate so the heat can die down, Liu goes to maine to keep their mother company, Jeff fled to Michigan it was a good place to go and it’s the state that made his favorite ice cream flavors, so they left Jersey for over a year, when they came back, they had to make an ultimatum, by the end of it Jeff and Liu were able to get a second chance, they changed their identities and was transported to a Farm on open acres with treelines seen from a distance in the state of Ohio.

Mid 2017 – Jeff and Liu Hodek get into a protection program by a rogue faction of the CIA and attempt to start a new life on a farm away from society in Ohio.

Jeff’s currently laying low trying to change his ways, but he’s got that killer instinct and it’s unknown he’ll live out his life kill free, Liu’s child is displaying psychotic traits, and Jeff and Liu fear for the child’s future, he/she may mature into a psychopath with no mercy and remorse, only for a taste of destruction.

2018, September 5th – Liu’s son displays psychopathic behavior and butchers a small fox that wandered onto the property, Liu and Jeff worry for his sanity.

2018, December 28th – Jeff and the father Liu catch the young boy holding a knife while standing next to his sleeping sister with a chunk of hair in the other palm of his hand, this leaves Jeff and Liu very concerned.

Source:^[4],^[5]^,^[6]

III. I. HODEK. FACTS & MYTHS: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Things you may not know about Jeff C. Hodek.

III. I. i. WEAPONS, ABILITIES

Summoning Ritual – By performing the proper ritual, Jeff can be summoned.
Ritual Chanting – After a summoning, Jeff will ritualistically chant with the intention of harming the summoner. Failing to stop him from doing so results in a “nightmarish field trip.”^[4]
Unnatural Durability – Jeff’s physical durability is described as: “Reasonably above average compared to a regular man, due to his extreme lifestyle, training, and the cocktail of drugs and other chemical experiments Jeff subjected himself to during the earlier years of his career as a serial killer. For example: Jeff could take 4 or 5 head blows from Mike Tyson in his prime before being knocked out.” Jeff has gone on to nearly die from, but still survive multiple, lethal gunshot wounds that would have instantly killed anyone else. Adding to this, Jeff has stronger nails than that of a normal person, and his bones have improved tensile strength, leaving most bone-related injuries as hairline fractures.^[4]
Unnatural Strength – Despite not knowing how hard he punches, we only clearly know about Jeff’s lifting strength, as he can dead-lift up to a limit of 272kg in his youthful prime. It has also been said that Jeff can exert the full power of his body when trying to attempt something physically taxing. How Jeff is capable of using the strength of his full body to emit such brutal strength is presumably the same reason for his aberrantly high durability. Theoretically, if Jeff could use the power of his full body in every aspect, this could mean he could run, and move his body way faster than a normal person could.

III. I. ii. PERSONALITY

Jeff was driven insane by the accident, and became convinced that he had to “do the world a favor” by killing all the humans that “infested” the world.^[3.4]

Jeff enjoyed horror, including ghost stories, and slasher films.^[4]

III. I. iii. NOTES

Unlike the most popular iteration of Jeff the Killer, this Jeff boasts no real superhuman traits. However, despite being less powerful, this one is arguably more fleshed out and complex, as Sesseur dives into different, thorough details about this version of Jeff multiple times on each of his posts about Jeff that’s easy to find on his DeviantArt profile. Or, another good example of this version’s intricacy of the character is that his family stays alive, having to hide his murderous behavior, intentions, and keep his murder career a secret from them, and gets into occasional, sometimes heated– arguments with his brother; Details and depth like this is commonly lacking when it comes to the most popular iterations of Jeff. It could also be said that this Jeff is the most realistically plausible of the bunch; Even if that bar isn’t too high.
It was stated by Sesseur that during the early years of his murder career, Jeff had injected himself with various, unknown chemicals to cope with his mental trauma.
In the Sesseur video, the text says “He’ll fucking gut you.” Presumably, this means this version also wields a knife.
If Jeff had ever felt the need the overwhelming need to cry, but was facing someone in combat, he would bottle up his emotions, as to not show weakness. However, by his lonesome with no around (Besides with anyone he’s comfortable or close with), he would cry.
Jeff could never fathom the idea of murdering or even harming his brother, as he kills a woman in a blind rage on the street for her boasts of genuine relief about the recent passing of her brother.
Jeff suffers from schizophrenia, which already worsens his murderous urges.
Jeff C. Hodek catch phrase is “It’s joy” not “Go to sleep”.^[33]

Source:^[3]

IV. THE ORIGIN OF THE IMAGE

IV. I. FIRST PUBLIC RECORDS

Short summarize. Oldest Internet public records FOUND*.

First Early Edit Record found: 2005, July 24th – fileman.n1e.jp, No user found.^[17],^[18],^[19]
First Final Edit Record found: 2005, November 11th by オメガボルト様 (Omega Bolt).^[23]

These are the oldest Internet records about the Jeff the Killer image that has been found so far.

A lot of people have been investigating the origin of this image and the information regarding this research has been compiled in a document. If you want to help or if you want a more detailed compilation of the data that has been found so far, please read their document.^[16]

For a very short summary, you can keep reading.

2005, July 24th – fileman.n1e.n1e.jp – First Early Edit Record Found*, No user found.

Website board – http://fileman.n1e.jp/TOP.PHP^[17]

Thumbnail^[18] – Post: Fear of a summer night…^[19]

Found at: fileman.n1e.jp.by an user without a profile.

Title: Fear of a summer night… (夏の夜の恐怖・・・).

Caption: A celebrity before plastic surgery… (整形前の某有名人・・).

Filename: 7-24h2659b.

After that, the image was reposted in several different pages, such as gazo05.chbox.jp, gamushara.net, blog.livedoor.jp/warata2ki, pya.cc, and more, along with hundreds of reposts on 2channel (now under the URL of 5ch.net).^[16]You can see a complete timeline of all the reposted images here.^[20]

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Note* It’s important to point out that, while this is the oldest image that has been found so far, people investigating the origin of the Jeff the Killer image believe that this image may have come from another website. The image from fileman.n1e.jp matches with some of the images uploaded to a jar, a slang term for 2ch in Futaba. This also aligns with some testimonies saying that they witnessed the original image of Jeff The Killer back in 2004 or 2005 on 2ch in Futaba. They concluded that if some memes from Futaba and the image from fileman.n1e.n1e.jp matched, it means that they both came from a certain origin or a certain website. Now people need to find that ‘website’.^[16]

There is an important pinpoint on the reposting journey of the image, and that’s when it was renamed as prettyFace.jpg at gazo05.chbox.jp. The reason about why this moment it’s important it’s because the wildly formally known viral image of Jeff The Killer, made by an user called オメガボルト様 (Omega Volt) at pya.cc. has a residual data of PrettyFace.jpg. So it seems that Omega Volt could have used the picture from gamushara.net for their edit, as the data contains “prettyFACE”.

2005, August 4th – gamushara.net – First Record of PrettyFACE.jpg Found

PrettyFace.jpg is made. More links from this website with information of the image can be found on the timeline spreadsheet.^[20] But these are the only remaining links that are still visible.

Thumbnail: http:/011.gamushara.net/occult/data/prettyFACE.jpg^[21]

Remaining website board: http:/203.gamushara.net:80/photo/occult/html/prettyFACE.html^[22]

2005, November 11th (Viral known picture) by オメガボルト様 (Omega Bolt).

https://web.archive.org/web/20200118005038/https://pya.cc/pyaimg/pimg.php?imgid=20716?imgid=20716^[23]

Source:^,^[16],^[17],^[18],^[19],^[20],^[21],^[22],^[23]

IV. II. NOTORIOUS WITNESSES AND RUMORS

IV. II. i. MIYAMA

There is a certain user known as Miyama on Twitter, who is said to beマルホランド様 (Mr. Mulholland)^[31] on pya.cc who posted the early version of the image at pyac.cc and on their own personal website, sorai.jp. But as we previously saw, this image was already circulating online since 2005, July 24th at fileman.n1e.jp. Many people reposted it before he did.^[20] He didn’t post a new version of the image or anything like that. The reason why Mr. Mulholland is a notorious user on the investigation is because he is one of the witnesses found that were around by this time.

2005 September 8th by Miyama, who is said to beマルホランド様 (Mr. Mulholland).

https://sorai.jp/wp-content/uploads/20050908_000219-01.jpg^[22]

2005, September 10th by マルホランド様 (Mr. Mulholland).

https://web.archive.org/web/20200118195646/https://pya.cc/pyaimg/pimg.php?imgid=17882

Summarize of what Miyama said on Twitter:

They claimed originally, they intended to post the image of “http://sorai.jp” to “http://pya.cc”. However, they accidentally posted the original one.^[23] They said that in mid-2005, a cropped image of a video of a middle-aged Asian woman appeared in Japan. At that point their face was white. They said that edited a little in Photoshop to post to “http://pya.cc”.^[24] They claim that the footage they saw was clipped, so it could be a documentary video, a scene from a movie, a drama, or something else that they just watched once.^[25],^[26]. They claim that they remember the woman in the video and the atmosphere both being Asian.^[27]They said that while they cannot find the video, also remember the woman in the video coming up to the camera.^[28]In “http://pya.cc”, they said to remember that someone edited and posted their image after they posted it.^[29]

After showing them an earlier version of the image to uploaded to “gazo05.chbox.jp”, a website that is none of the websites that they mentioned, http://sorai.jp” or “http://pya.cc”. They suddenly said that originally the image has been around since mid-2005. And that if you do your best, you may find the image posted in June or July 2005.^[30]

Source: ^[20],^[22],^[23],^[24],^[25],^[26],^[27],^[28],^[29]^,^[30]

CLARIFICATION: We noticed some confusion about what Miyama did. Some people think that he is the author of the original image of Jeff The Killer and he is not. There are older records of the image as you previously saw, Miyama just reposted it as other many other people did. Miyama said to remember the image coming from a clip of a video but for now, no video that could possibly be a video where the image came from has ever been found until this date.

IV. II. ii. RUMORS

Miyama said that they believed that the video was from a show named ほんとにあった!呪いのビデオ (Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video). People investigating the origin of the image managed to find all episodes that aired between 1999 and 2005, but unfortunately, they concluded that the JTK image was not from this series.
Some people said to remember where the image came from, many of them converge on the idea that it was an Asian girl, who may took different pictures in a laundry room, some of them points that she may be wearing a facial mask. People is not sure if it was a webcam video, a video clip from a certain recording or an image set.

Source: ^[16]

IV. III. ATTRIBUTION OF THE IMAGE

2006 June 7th – An user known as killerjeff, also known as Sesseur, joined New Grounds. (Newgrounds.com).

Sesseur is formally known as the creator of Jeff The Killer (Jeff C. Hodek). He made some posts with the image of Jeff The Killer, the less edited version and the popular version among others.

2008, August 10th (Viral known picture).^[32]

https://killerjeff.newgrounds.com/news/post/169853

2008 September 12th (Less edited picture).^[33]

https://killerjeff.newgrounds.com/news/post/190967

The posts seem to have a roleplay tone at times, while he talks as if he where Jeff C. Hodek, his character.
Since the picture has been found on Japanese websites back in 2005, people have been questioning Sesseur about the origin of the images since then.

These are some statements about the images he said, Sesseur has commented that there are 3 pictures. The one known of Jeff, the less edited one and one from a bath tube.

2017, October 17th. The picture was made in late 2005, It was a latex mask, one picture was an unedited one, and the second one was touched up with photoshop for that big smile, The katy robinson image was a hoax, 4chan loves to make controversy for the lulz, katy has nothing to do with Jeff, I’m afraid you were tricked by 4chan trolls.^[33]
2022, February 22th. Till this day I still can’t. It’s the final one of the 3 pictures originally posted in 2005. I was lucky people uncovered the other 2 but I guess the bathtub one just didn’t stand out enough and it got lost in obscurity. It’s somewhere in the internet’s algorithms and I do hope a very inquisitive follower of the Jeff the killer fandom finds it. If I had known how popular this would have been I’d been more careful and kept every bit of it more organized and even still have the parts that made up Jeff’s face.^[34]
2022, February 23th. Pleasure to meet you. It’s half and half when it comes to his popularity. I’ve got many followers messaging me daily still talking about the future of the Jeff the killer series. I also get people asking me the original image and I tell them and show them it. Some still believe I didn’t create it and I’ve learn to accept that, sometimes even a proof of contract can’t convince them. I think people want mystery in their lives and they can’t accept the truth since it ruins the mystery behind Jeff, which I get.^[35]

IV. IV. CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE IMAGE

Al the moment there is an on going controversy about who really made the image, Sesseur claims that he made it and some of his comments may suggest that maybe he even said that he has a proof of contract of the image or images.^[35]But the people investigating the origin of the image do not believe that Sesseur created it. At their document you can read: The modern version of the Creepypasta was created in 2011, but the original version was written on October 3rd, 2008 by the YouTube user Sesseur and gained over 700,000 views. It has since been removed due to copyright claims. Sesseur, also known as “killerjeff”, posted the image on the Newgrounds forums and claimed that the image was, in fact, a picture of himself. Later it was discovered that Sesseur had lied, and the image in fact was of Japanese origin.^[16]

V. DEBUNKED RUMORS

V. I. IS JEFF THE KILLER BASED ON JEFFREY DAHMER? NO.

After the Netflix show about the real life serial murder, Jeffrey Dahmer many, people starting claiming as if it were a matter of fact that Jeff The Killer was based on him, which is false.

On an Youtube Interview to Sesseur, he was asked: What inspired you to create the original Jeff The Killer story? And Why did you call him Jeff The Killer? Sesseur replied that he was just bored while reading creepy stories so he thought he could make a story for Jeff, his Jeff’s Hodek. He also said that he had no particular reason for the name, that he only based him off his own name. Sesseur’s confirmed real name is Jeff indeed.^[36]

V. II. IS JEFF THE KILLER IMAGE BASED ON THE SELF DELETION OF A GIRL CALLED KATE ROBINSON ON 4CHAN? NO.

This rumor is false. The person in the original image is not even called Katy Robinson, her real name is Heather White. She was found on a Christian forum.^[37]
In 2019, Heather was interviewed by user Gage. In this interview she confirms that the story is false, here is a link to the interview:http://web.archive.org/web/20191002223047/https://pastebin.com/A4kwc5Kp.^[38]

V. III. DOES THE IMAGE COMES FROM THIS VIDEO? NO.

This video is from 2007, August 2nd,^[39]while the first edits found at the moment of the image came from 2005.^[17],^[18],^[19],^[23]

So no, the image doesn’t come from this video. However, the video contains the famous phrase associated with Jeff, ‘Go To Sleep’. This phrase was later used in the tale made by Travis, on GameFuel200’s account.^[7]Formally known as Joshua, GameFuelTV. This doesn’t mean that this video originated Jeff’s catch phrase, ‘Go To Sleep’. It could or it couldn’t, that’s something that hasn’t been investigated yet.

V. IV. DOES JEFF THE KILLER IMAGE COMES FROM PYA.CC?

Yes and no. The unedited image per se, doesn’t. The oldest record found at the moment is from a website called filemn.n1e.jp. But the later known edit that most people is familiar with, seems to be made by オメガボルト様 (Omega Bolt) at pya.cc.

Short summarize. Oldest Internet public records FOUND*.

First Early Edit Record found: 2005, July 24th – fileman.n1e.jp, No user found.^[17],^[18],^[19]
First Final Edit Record found: 2005, November 11th by オメガボルト様 (Omega Bolt).^[23]