Two Wisconsin preteens allegedly attempted to murder their friend in a tribute to Creepypasta character Slenderman. But what is the meme and where did it come from? Two 12-year-old girls are behind ...
You’re standing on the edge of the woods and the sun is bleeding into the horizon. The trees around you are still dead and leafless from winter, and the forest is a black mass of thin trunks and ...
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 ...
Morgan Geyser, the now 22-year-old woman whose obsession with the Slender Man creepypasta character led her to stab a ...
A day after prosecutors claimed two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend to please a mythological creature, a website that publishes stories about the creepy urban legend says it’s not to blame for ...
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 ...
It recently occurred to me that, for all the discussion of freaky creepypasta you and I have done here over the past few months, we’ve never gone in depth about what creepypasta is. I mean, yes, we’ve ...
Kai is a unique and talented voice in the expansive world of writing. From pursuing a degree in Mass Communications to working on personal projects, Kai has dedicated countless hours to refining his ...
On a chilly Saturday night, Morgan Geyser left the group home where she was living in Madison, Wisconsin, and met up with an ...
“The Backrooms” is that rare 4Chan post that not only became familiar to mainstream audiences, but broke out of the social media bubble to become a fairly mainstream pop culture phenomenon. Originally ...
I learned something in researching background for today's column. I learned what the heck creepypasta is. I know all the cool kids are getting a good chortle out of my ignorance, but this job is ...