0004

0004 is a number. It's an incredibly scary number, similar to 666. It is often confused with 0.004, which is not a scary number, and rather forgettable. 0004 is unable to be typed on a calculator. You may wonder, exactly what gives the number 0004 its scary qualities? Well, read on and I'll tell you.

Why is 0004 scary? History of 0004
Some people think the number 0004 techically doesn't exist, because it would be 0.004. These people are mad. Don't listen to them. Listen to me. I'm supa smart. 0004 obviously exists because you're reading it right now.

0004 was invented by the person who wrote the creepypasta Max and Ruby 0004, a lost episode creepypasta. Here's a summary of that story. Some person needs to get a Christmas present for their four year old little cousin, but most of the DVDs are sold out. Then they get randomly sent one in a crappy greasy package and a poorly drawn cover. There are four episodes on it and they play fine, and everything's fine until on Boxing Day the little cousin watches the DVD and one of the episodes comes up with a disturbing image which I won't show until the end because it might actually be freaky to some people. It's basically Max and Ruby with no faces and big black empty eyes, and everything's in black and red.

The narrator puts the cousin to bed and watches the DVD themselves. The last episode says 'RIP MOMMY AND DADDY' and the episode is Max and Ruby's parents watching them play in the garden, but they look sad, and then it cuts to black with choking sounds.

The next scene shows Max and Ruby with no faces (but no black eyes) next to their gravestone then they are shown crying in their bedroom. Afterwards, Max Ruby walks in and screams. It goes back to the gravestone, but with Max's gravestone next to his parents', and at the end of the DVD is the same image but it says 'DEATH IS OUR ONLY RELEASE'.

The significance of this creepypasta is, much like Squidward's Suicide, it spawned a bunch of 'inspired' creepypastas, some that say they are not copies but inspired, despite the fact they're almost word perfect. 0004 is associated with red images of characters with deep black eyes and the phrase 'death is our only release'. Loads of these creepypastas exist now.