Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A creepypasta story posted to Twitter in early August has spawned a series of tweets that conclude with “There’s a man out front,” ...

A creepypasta series about a mime and Tall Man has won over TikTok viewers and Reddit communities for its surreal visuals and storylines. While staged and directed to look like a nostalgic kids’ show ...

The creepypasta story behind the first season, the titular "Candle Cove," was written by Kris Straub and is simple, short, and absolutely terrifying. The plot focuses on an online chat thread where ...

Syfy's Channel Zero is one of the best shows on television that you're not watching. It's a horror anthology series based on "creepypastas"-- short, scary stories shared on forums and sites like ...

“Horror aside, the elements of good storytelling present in the best creepypastas can be applied to any kind of writing.” After an analysis of the content 72 beloved viral “Creepypasta” stories across ...

The Internet doesn't need any help being scary. Every day, something is hacked, or someone is spying on someone else (probably you), or somebody's social media post went viral among the wrong crowd, ...

Every generation has its own urban legends, from the hook dangling from the car door at make-out point to the gangly figure of Slender Man. Like a lot of community-based activities, the development ...

On YouTube, videos covering the fake Pokémon Black have hundreds of thousands of views, and the original storyhas been posted on a ton of online forums and wiki pages. It goes like this: The author, ...

The first six-episode cycle of Syfy’s new horror anthology series, Channel Zero, takes inspiration from the creepypasta story Candle Cove, about a kiddie TV show that lingers in the memory and maybe ...

Terrorizing the Internet since the early 2000s, creepypasta stories have the potential to become the next publishing craze, with books like Dathan Auerbach's Penpal and the anonymously published ...