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 ...

It was the music, they said, that drove the children to madness. The eerie, detuned soundtrack to Pokémon Red’s Lavender Town contained harmful sonic irregularities played at such high frequencies ...

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, ...

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 ...

A creepypasta story posted to Twitter in early August has spawned a series of tweets that conclude with “There’s a man out front,” and users who haven’t read the story don’t seem to understand why.

It’s not the tagline to an especially nerdy sequel for The Ring, but it is the idea behind an infamous internet creepypasta known as Sonic.exe. The story of Sonic.exe starts in 2011, when a web user ...

Creepypasta, short viral horror stories that usually take the form of urban legends, have been around for roughly a decade, being passed around reddit and other forums. (The name comes from the 4chan ...

“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 ...

Because it's Saturday, and because it's finally starting to feel like summer, let's indulge in a few freaky stories, shall we? After all, warm weather means campfires and s'mores, and campfires and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...