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This is an accepted version of this page This is the accepted version, checked on 28 February 2025. There are template/file changes awaiting review. Online horror fiction Creepypastas are horror -related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort ...
Major dedicated creepypasta websites started to appear from the late 2000s: Creepypasta.com was created in 2008, while the Creepypasta Wiki and Reddit's r/nosleep were both created in 2010. [12] [13] According to Time magazine, the genre had its peak audience in 2010 when it was covered by The New York Times. [1]
Herobrine is an urban legend and creepypasta from the video game Minecraft, originating from an anonymous post on the imageboard website 4chan in 2010. He is depicted as a version of the Minecraft character Steve, but with solid white eyes that lack pupils. In numerous iterations, Herobrine has possessed several different unnatural abilities ...
The artwork consists of a brown dog with a human figure, wearing a grey crew neck sweater, blue jeans, and dirty red Converse shoes. [1] [2] [4] [5] He is smirking with his hands in his pocket, with the caption written by Banks that he is a "chill guy".
_9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9, sometimes abbreviated to 9M9H9E9 or MHE (fl. 21 April 2016 – 28 February 2024), is the screen name of an anonymous writer of creepypasta [1] speculative fiction on Reddit. Work
An image from a blog on the Russian Sleep Experiment that shows a lab. The Russian Sleep Experiment is a creepypasta which tells the tale of 5 Soviet-era test subjects being exposed to an experimental sleep-inhibiting stimulant, and has become the basis of an urban legend. [1]
Local 58 is a horror web series created by cartoonist Kris Straub.The series is a spin-off of Straub's Candle Cove creepypasta. [1] [2] Currently hosted on the YouTube channel LOCAL58TV, each video in the series is presented as footage of a fictional public access television channel located in Mason County, West Virginia named Local 58, with the call sign WCLV-TV, created in the late 1930s ...
The Daily Dot's Aja Romano wrote that it "may be the earliest viral example of what we think of as creepypasta". [6] However, academic writer Tosha R. Taylor cited "Ted the Caver" as an online horror story which did not go viral but largely remained within online "spaces dedicated to discussions of gothic experiences", where it continues to be ...