1999

**1999**, is a Creepypasta story that was published from 2009 to 2011.

## Story Summary

The story is about the year "1999", in which the author talks about personal memories that are nostalgic to them such as the time where the author lost their first tooth, their first time on a plane and the loss of their childhood innocence, which the memory starts off with a old TV the author had which was new at the time. The author watched the TV which was broadcasted from the town Caledon, Ontario. The author watched the channel "Caledon Local 21", which supposedly looked poorly made and the author never understood what was going on half of the episodes. The channel was broadcasted from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

### April 1999

The author watched the twelfth episode of the show "Mr. Bear's Cellar", in which the main character "Mr. Bear" who wore a bear costume and would get a new visitor who was always a kid each day. The show was filmed with a bad camcorder. The police also asked multiple questions about this show.

The episode started with the main character sitting at a table playing checkers with himself, sitting and playing for a while. The camera looked up the stairs with the door in which there was a knock. The main character climbed the stairs and opened the door to reveal two young children; in which one was a boy about the author's age and a girl who was eight. The main character danced in delight and started to talk to the kids. The main character later led the kids into the cellar; in which the main character and the episode ending with the same two children playing hide-and-seek with the children hiding in a closet along with the main character counting.

### May 1999

The author watched the show "Soup and Spoon", where the author stopped watching Caledon Local 21 for a short time due to the episode being "too stupid" according to the author. The show featured the two characters; one of the characters being a can of soup and a spoon both attached to strings swinging back and forth. The show was also taken in a basement similar to Mr. Bear's Cellar. The show was only half of a hour and included things that the author found "stupid", as for example such as the spoon chasing the soup around trying to "eat him". The ending included a table along with seven kids sitting around the table; each with a bowl of soup in front of them.

The kids were sitting and looking at the camera with confused and nearly frightened faces, along with the cameraman holding the can of soup in front of the kids and said "Spooooons ready?".

### July 1999

The author decided to go to the author's friend's sleepover and the author brought up channel 21 to the author's friend, in which they watched the twenty third episode of Mr. Bear's Cellar which had profanity.

The episode starts off with the camera on the side while facing the main character walking upstairs to the cellar's door. The camera blacked out for a second and before fading in, facing the main character. A eleven/twelve year old child talked to the main character which the author could not hear well until the child raised his voice, talking about how it was late and his sister had to go home. The main character then replied, "Get the fuck out, you’re not invited." along with a deep voice muffled by the main character's mask. The child started climbing the stairs before turning around and saying how the child was going to call the police. Mr. Bear then started to run toward the kid who started running and screaming. The episode then ends, along with the channel turning into static.

### August 1999

The author did not want to watch the channel after the episode. The author watched the 28th episode which had been playing the entire month, in which Mr. Bear sat in a chair talking to the audience saying, "Hello, kids! Do you want to visit my cellar? If you do, please write me a letter at this address!"

The screen then switches to a white screen with multi-colored letters reading the address which remained for the rest of the episode repeating five hours until September. The author sent a letter using their best writing saying on how he wanted to meet Mr. Bear; in which the author's father sent the letter to the address on the 28th episode. In a week, the author got a response. The main character is also attempting to get in contact with the author.

### November 14th, 2009

The author had people emailing them about what happened after August 1999, in which the house was in the outskirts of the author's town. The author's father drove the author to the house, in which the author expected the main character, Mr. Bear to be at the door. A police officer then emerged from the door and the officer's face cringed. The author's father told the author to go to the car and then the author's father and the author went home. The author's father was quiet the entire way home.

The author's father then told the author the entire truth, in which Mr. Bear used the house to kidnap kids and held them in his cellar. On the day the author visited, the man, who is "Mr. Bear" fled his own house the day before the police started their investigation.

### December 2, 2009

The author accessed his email account and asked the emailer's questions. Two women lived at the house operating a daycare business.

* Q1: A email user asked the author about anyone else who watched Caledon Local 21, in which the author replied that the author knew other people who knew the episode. The author found people on the Neoseeker forums discussing shows from Caledon Local 21, talking about the shows featured in the channel.
* Q2: Another email user asked the author about where Mr. Bear or the guy who wore the costume. The author replied that they did not know his current status.
* Q3: A email user, asked on what Mr. Bear did to the kidnapped children. The author replied that Mr. Bear took the kids out of the house and into the forest nearby, in which the police did not know what he did there and how it happened. The 16 bodies of children between the ages of 4 to 13 were found to a 15x15 foot ditch in the forest.

### January 14, 2010

The author lost interest in finding more information. However a few weeks ago the author found answers; via the father of a child which the author babysit before. The father lives across from the street and does not have a job either. The father witnessed the activities Mr. Bear did in the woods.

The father's name is Anthony Pollo. Pollo described that he'd hear voices of children coming from a deep place in the woods aswell as a glowing light in the distance. Pollo said that the incidents started to occur in late 1997 around the time Caledon Local 21 began airing. Pollo was annoyed by this happening every once in a while and started to investigate.

Pollo described what the scene looked like, in which there was a group of kids around the ages of 5-17 gathered around a large fire pit with fire with a single adult who looked like a "crack addict", according to Pollo. Pollo then asked the adult what he was doing, and the man replied it as it was a camping trip. The children also speaked loud chanting in a unknown language.

The author then knows on what happened as a chart of what happened;

* The man would take the kids to the woods for "camping" supposedly.
* The fire pit that Pollo described might possibly have been the hole the bodies of the children were in.
* The children Pollo witnessed are most likely the ones found dead.
* The man moved to a city called "Pickering".

### February 10, 2010

The author talked to his dad's friend, which the friend disclosed a lot of information. The author asked his dad's friend about the man who ran Caledon Local 21; in which the officer replied that the man had the same leads for years and never found a suspect.

The officer, later identified as Mitchell Wilson said that the police have some of the tapes found in Caledon Local 21's station, and invited the author over to the station for viewing. The author was not allowed to take any of the tapes home for reasons.

* Paint with the Soul - Episode 10: "Garbage Thrown Away": Paint with the Soul is a show that was broadcasted on the channel. The episode starts off with the cameraman walking around a forest in the evening as the sun was setting. The camera looked at the bags, bottles, wrappers and boxes.
* Mr. Bear's Cellar - Episode 25: The episode began with Mr. Bear going to the cellar door with a bottle of orange juice in his paws. There were sixteen shot glasses with a small bottle that contained a unknown liquid on the ground. Mr. Bear poured a equal amount of orange juice into each glass. Mr. Bear then went off-camera with sounds of shuffling and Mr. Bear then emerged behind the camera's location. Following him, there were 16 children who were toddlers, pre-teens and teenagers. This is the only episode in which the victims were found. The child from Episode 23 made a appearance with bruises on his face with a fearful expression. Mr. Bear then broke into a song about citrus fruits and how vitamin C was good. The police also revealed that Mr. Bear may have been a fetishist and a cultist.

### May 8, 2010

The author continues the blog saying that he got his G2 license that allows himself to drive in a car by himself as well as having passengers. The author decided to visit Mr. Bear's house again. He then decided to go to Pollo's house, and then met two dark-clothed children saying, "HEY! GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR FORT!".

However, the author then says to the children that they wouldn't want to in a serious tone. The author pulls out his cellphone, and then the author asked the children that if they heard of Mr. Bear's murders. The two kids then replied with a yes answer. The two kids reply that he lives around here in a storm drain and his big brother's friend saying that he saw Mr. Bear wandering around the forests.

The author think it may have been a lie. The author then asks where is the storm drain. The kid then confirms and gives the locations on how to access the storm drain. The author now knows how to get to the storm drain.

1. The storm drain lies ahead of Mr. Bear's old location in the same direction the author was heading.
2. The drain ends at a small river in which access water is drained out with a small playground nearby, in which the kids told the author people rarely use it.
3. The man supposedly lives in the large pipe that rainwater drains out of.

The author also planned to visit the storm drain.

### October 7, 2010

The author then updates the blog, and visits the storm drain. The author finds nothing except for a simple pipe to access water from the marsh. The author gets a email from **returntheb@hotmail.com**; in which the email address sends a email about how the story may or may not be true, but could happen. The email may have supposedly be from "Mr. Bear", in which the author thinks the letter is fake. The author then sends a reply to the letter.

### November 7, 2010

The author updates the blog again, and had traumatizing things of the month for the author. The email address is no longer in use along with no reply. The author had to make a new email account because of prankmail pretending to be Mr. Bear. The former officer gave a phone call on October 23rd about a tape found in the Brampton public library. The author then goes to see another tape.

### January 21, 2011

The author then got hundreds of emails and the author saw the tape that Mitchell promised to show the author. On the first of January, the author called Mitchell and asked if there was a time when the author could come by. Mitchell then responds that the author, Elliot could come anytime that day.

* Mr. Bear's Cellar - Episode 30: The episode took place outside in a forest at dusk. The episode started with the camera being held in Mr. Bear's paws aiming at himself. The camera then shows a ATV with a attached trailer, along with the trailer containing seven motionless children side by side. Mr. Bear then shows a tarp up revealing a large hole that may have been 12x15. The episode consisted of Mr. Bear taking each kid and dropping them into the hole. Mr. Bear then panned the camera towards multiple bottles of gasoline by a bush. The camera then zooms into the bottles as Mr. Bear hummed before the end of the episode. The officer then reveals that 7/16 of the victims were burnt to a crisp and the gasoline used to light them on fire. The author also invited "Elliot" and made a poem about it.

### April 15, 2011

The author updated the blog, starting off with the second tape.

* Mr. Bear's Cellar - Episode 31: The episode opened inside of a forest during night time with no audio. The camera then started to pan towards a glow, revealing flames. The human beings were in flames. Mr. Bear's suit was laid out on the ground in the shape of a cross, in which the cameraman did a lap around the suit. The episode then ends after the camera zooms into the bear's face. The story then ends, with no updates.

## Trivia

* The story was copyrighted, and was removed from the Creepypasta Wiki.
* There are fan-made YouTube videos about the creepypasta.