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 ...

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The internet presented a bold new medium for which people could try to scare the pants off of one another. The art of the scary story likely dates back to early humans telling primitive ghost stories ...

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 ...

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Every moment we are online, we teeter on the edge of experiencing chaos. That may sound hyperbolic but consider it for a moment. If you spend some of your day on Reddit, you’re already just a few ...

Two Wisconsin preteens allegedly attempted to murder their friend in a tribute to Creepypasta character Slenderman. But what is the meme and where did it come from? Two 12-year-old girls are behind ...

2026's breakout horror film could be around the corner. Directed by 20-year-old YouTuber and VFX artist Kane Parsons – aka Kane Pixels – Backrooms is the adaptation of an internet 'creepypasta' which ...

It’s miraculous this Angelfire site is still up, but it’s so appropriate that among the web’s ghost ships, there it floats. Dated between 2000 and 2001, Ted, a cave diver, detailed a firsthand report ...

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, ...