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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Whether it's Gilgamesh or urban legends, the art of storytelling has been around for thousands of years. In the case of creepypastas, just replace the campfire with a computer screen. For those that ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are two versions of Pokémon Black: the one you know and the one that will make you a cold-blooded killer. The former is the first game of the fifth generation of the series, first released ...

Creepypastas are ghost stories that have spawned from the twisted collective imagination of the internet. They've been around since the beginning of the web, and offer some of the scariest and ...

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 ...