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 ...

Shadows dance across pixelated screens, weaving nightmares from digital threads. Emerging from the depths of internet folklore, a spine-chilling genre transforms collective imagination into terrifying ...

The tragic events in Waukesha, in which two young girls are accused of stabbing a friend, have brought internet myth Slender Man into the mainstream spotlight. So much so that the Creepypasta wiki, ...

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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