The Five Most Frightening Creepypasta Stories

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. Fanworks and spinoffs came about, with different authors borrowing characters from other creepypastas in order to use them in their own stories. Given the popularity of the Slender Man, it shouldn't come as a surprise that monsters, ghosts, and demons figure prominently in the most popular creepypastas.

Internet memes are finicky things and by making something at the right place and time it can swell into an ‘Internet Urban Legend'. I told my mom on a regular basis that it should be locked when not being used, we had skeleton keys for all the doors in the house.

Eventually we managed to get a decent fire going that we were proud of and for most of the night things were as per usual just quiet and chill until it started getting pitch black out. He took one more look at his face which had become marred with a gash, but to Jeff he was as handsome as he had ever been.

I'm guessing it had been doing that all along, waiting for us to fall asleep or slip up and then getting in among us. It walked with us all the Goddamn way back to his house, and then he said it lagged to the back of the group and looked him dead in the eyes before walking into the woods.

We look to horror stories, thrill rides, and late night television gore-fests We Watch You Sleep to satisfy our psychological need for fear here in the western world. Like Jadusable's videos, Pokémon Black twists a well-known and well-loved game, exploiting our familiarity with Pokémon's Kanto region to amp up the creepiness.