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>>4551796
I played Ghouls Forest/Torn City back during the Skulltag days, and my first encounter with the Creeper was him sneaking up on me when I didn't know he existed.

Scared the jesus out of me back then, and I learned how he moves; he glides/crawls along, stuck to the floor, and he noclips, he passes through walls and moves effortlessly over obstacles, nothing stops him from moving once he homes in on you, and he's hard to hit.
It hit me with a particular paranoia, which stuck with me for a while, mostly in my dreams, sometimes, every once in a while, I dream I'm being chased by him. I look at the automap, and as if I have IDDT on, I see him chasing me, I glimpse him down on the floor/ground, moving towards me, and I just run, desperately avoiding him until I reach the bounds of the map and can't move further, where I have to make a daring move to dash past him and hope he doesn't catch me.

It bothers me that it even sticks with me, because it's such plain and banal horror, jump scares are kind of cheap and doesn't stick with you. I think it's because it's an enemy that violates bounds and can't be escaped, who sneaks and is hard to detect.