By The Devil Guide _best_ | The Nightmaretaker: The Man Possessed

The name "Nightmaretaker" is a portmanteau of Nightmare and Caretaker . Unlike a traditional demon that merely haunts a location, the Nightmaretaker is said to "caretake" the nightmares of his victims. According to the primary source texts (which first appeared on the /x/ board of 4chan in late 2019 before migrating to TikTok and YouTube narrators), the entity was originally a 19th-century asylum groundskeeper named .