Sound on · Level 3 · Sudden scares
A short escape from everything
Stay a littlelonger.
Somewhere quiet. Nothing to do.
Just watch for a moment.
- Nothing autoplays
- Every scare is opt-out
- Esc gets you out
The night shift
Start with the kind of bad idea you want.
Six departments are open. The front desk can explain the difference without pretending any of them are sensible.
Select a request
The front desk recommends
Wrong Picture
A nice photo. Something in it is wrong.
A meadow, a kitchen, a family holiday. Find the wrong thing before it finishes noticing you.
- Time required
- Five short rounds
- Format
- Daily visual puzzle
- What to know
- A miss can bite
All departments
It's not only jump scares.
The jump is the cheap one, and we do it very well. The other five take their time, hide in plain sight, or make the problem someone else's.
Jump Scare
Calm. Calmer. Then not.
The classic. A quiet scene, a long nothing, and one frame you were not ready for.
Slow Burn
Nothing jumps out. That's the problem.
Three or ten minutes of a hallway. No payoff, no release. You will keep watching the left side of the frame.
The Wait
Sooner or later. Or never.
You start it and go about your evening. It picks its own moment. Sometimes it doesn't pick one at all.
Wrong Picture
A nice photo. Something in it is wrong.
A meadow, a kitchen, a family holiday. Find the wrong thing before it finishes noticing you.
Send It
Do it to someone you love.
Make a calm-scene link, send it, and keep a private report showing when it opens and when the scare lands.
Nightmare Feed
Endless scroll. Mostly calm.
Sunsets, kittens, slow rivers, forever. Every so often the feed stops being a feed.
Tonight's docket
Fresh paperwork. Old problems.
The daily file changes at midnight UTC. The archive does not change at all, which has failed to make it less concerning.
Your call
Pick how bad it gets.
Nobody gets ambushed here. You choose the ceiling before anything starts, and you can drop it — or switch scares off entirely — at any point without losing your place.
Standard
The lake. The wait. The face.
This also sets the lake above. Level 5 is not a joke and you can leave at any time with Esc.
Before you ask
Questions people send us at 2 a.m.
Mostly about whether it is safe, whether it is real, and whether you can do it to someone else.
What is Nightmare Project?
A collection of things that look calm and then stop being calm. Videos, pictures and feeds that spend most of their time being genuinely pleasant, with something wrong hidden somewhere inside them.
Is it actually scary?
That's the intent. The jump scares are loud and close, and the quieter modes are built to leave you watching the edge of the frame long after nothing has happened. You choose how far it goes on a scale of one to five.
Can I turn the jump scares off?
Yes. Sound and scares each have their own switch at the top of every page, your choice is remembered between visits, and Esc stops anything already running. Nothing ever plays on its own — a scare only starts when you press something.
Can I send a jump scare to a friend?
That's the Send It mode. You make a calm-scene link, send it to someone, and keep a private report page showing when it opened and when the scare landed. No account or email address is required.
Does it use my camera or microphone?
No. Nightmare Project never requests camera or microphone access, and there is no reaction recording of any kind.
Is it safe if I have epilepsy or a heart condition?
The scares include sudden flashing images and loud audio, so we don't recommend it if you are photosensitive or have a heart condition. Switching scares off leaves the calm footage intact, and reduced-motion settings are respected automatically.
Flagship department · recipient controls included
Some fears should be shared responsibly.
Make a calm-scene link, choose the place and intensity, then keep a private report of what happened. No accounts, no personal tracking, and the recipient can retire the link themselves.
- Accounts needed
- None
- Link lifetime
- 30 days
- Recipient exit
- Always