Creepypasta is a fiction subgenre that consists of mini-horror stories passed along online and through the years. From chain emails to TikToks, it’s grown to encompass both the chilling and the ...

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Shadows dance across pixelated screens, weaving nightmares from digital threads. Emerging from the depths of internet folklore, a spine-chilling genre transforms collective imagination into terrifying ...

First they were called chain emails, and they were sent by people like your weird aunt who always wore a Big Dog t-shirt. An online version of physical chain letters, chain emails propagated hoaxes ...

Like many early pastas, the Disney-themed story “Suicidemouse.avi” is short — just 788 words — and the original author remains unknown. On Nov. 25, 2009, a video entitled “Suicide Mouse — Unseen ...

In the big, wide world of creepypasta, there's one I keep coming back to again and again: “Abandoned by Disney.” Written by Christopher Howard Wolf, frequently known by the moniker “Slimebeast,” it ...

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It's not the tagline to an especially nerdy sequel for The Ring, but it is the idea behind an infamous internet creepypasta known as Sonic.exe. The story of Sonic.exe starts in 2011, when a web user ...

On June 8, 2009, Eric Knudsen posted two black and white images he had Photoshopped to a forum called "Something Awful." The forum was hosting a photo manipulation contest and was taking submissions ...

The creepypasta story behind the first season, the titular "Candle Cove," was written by Kris Straub and is simple, short, and absolutely terrifying. The plot focuses on an online chat thread where ...

It was the music, they said, that drove the children to madness. The eerie, detuned soundtrack to Pokémon Red’s Lavender Town contained harmful sonic irregularities played at such high frequencies ...

Scary stories aren’t the stuff of campfires and sleepovers anymore. For adults who still enjoy a good spook, the internet is the place to turn for tales of horror and the supernatural. Specifically, ...