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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 ...

You’re standing on the edge of the woods and the sun is bleeding into the horizon. The trees around you are still dead and leafless from winter, and the forest is a black mass of thin trunks and ...

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 ...

This story is completely true. It happened right here on the internet, on a night just like this. Not too long ago, people shared jokes, stories, and lame inspirational messages by copy/pasting text ...

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 ...

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, ...

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- A 24-hour international event aimed at raising money for the 12-year-old Waukesha stabbing victim. The event is being held by the CreepyPasta community. Members are taking ...

The Season 1 finale of Syfy’s creepypasta anthology series Channel Zero just wrapped, so now it’s time to look forward to the next internet urban legend that will scare our pants off. Creepypastas ...