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, ...

Cartoonist and writer Kris Straub remembers a prominent experience of child confusion and fear all thanks to televison. “There’s a station in L.A., KLCS, that is public television, but back then it ...

Sometime in the 1940s, the Russians brought five political prisoners to a military-run facility, where they were put in a chamber being pumped with an experimental gas, to keep them awake for 30 days.

Two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls, each facing up to 65 years in prison for allegedly stabbing a friend nearly to death on Saturday, said the gruesome act was motivated by an Internet urban legend.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. For an entire decade, Creepypasta.Com has collected and ...

“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 ...

There is a video gaining steam on YouTube called “The Scariest Picture on the Internet (REAL).” Aside from a short introduction, the bulk consists of a single, still image of a painting set to ominous ...

In the Daily Dot’s guide to creepypasta, we brought you quintessential examples of the Internet-spawned horror genre that combines urban legends with Internet culture. But maybe you’ve read the ...

“Creepypasta,” as Will Wiles explains in Aeon Magazine, is “a widely distributed and leaderless effort to make and share scary stories.” It is a phenomenon powered by the internet — the word itself ...