If you ever read a story online about a haunted TV episode, you’ve already eaten the creepypasta. Scary viral stories, images, and vids, often very short, are creepypasta — some will scare you so much ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 word “creepypasta” is goofy by design. It started with the word “copypasta”, which is a bit of a twist on calling something a copy-and-paste, the term likely originating on 4chan. Copypastas were ...

THERE is a video gaining steam on YouTube called “The Scariest Picture on the Internet (REAL).” Aside from a short introduction, the bulk consists of a single, still image of a painting set to ominous ...