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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s Halloween, and what better time to dig out those classic spine-tingling urban legends to tell around the campfire? You know the ones—Smile.jpg, Slendy, the Black-Eyed Kids. OK, so maybe in the ...

It recently occurred to me that, for all the discussion of freaky creepypasta you and I have done here over the past few months, we’ve never gone in depth about what creepypasta is. I mean, yes, we’ve ...

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 Backrooms began as an image. Posted on April 21, 2018, a small thumbnail picture appeared on 4chan’s /x/ board showing a yellow room, its walls all in the wrong places, with gold-yellow carpets ...

Cartoonist and writer Kris Straub remembers a prominent experience of child confusion and fear all thanks to televison. “There’s a station in L.A., KLCS, that is public television, but back then it ...

WAUKESHA (WITI) -- Two 12-year-old girls are accused of plotting their friend’s murder for months — and attempting to kill her this weekend. 12-year-old Morgan Geyser, and 12-year-old Anissa Weier ...

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, ...