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 ...
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 best Creepypastas, spooky modern folklore people write for the web, will give you bad dreams. But, many, many more of them are just bad, full stop. The story Syfy’s Creepypasta-inspired horror ...
ELKHART COUNTY, Indiana/WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wisconsin -- A case out of Indiana has some similarities with a high-profile case out of Waukesha County. A 12-year-old girl heard voices -- and stabbed ...
One of the things that makes creepypasta such an interesting variety of storytelling is how frequently the tales tread the line between fact and fiction. Take “1999” for example, with its discomfiting ...