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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The internet presented a bold new medium for which people could try to scare the pants off of one another. The art of the scary story likely dates back to early humans telling primitive ghost stories ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A24’s Backrooms has completely redefined the boundaries of modern horror. In just six days, the film grossed over $100 million domestically, becoming A24’s highest-grossing domestic release and ...

It was the music, they said, that drove the children to madness. The eerie, detuned soundtrack to Pokémon Red’s Lavender Town contained harmful sonic irregularities played at such high frequencies ...

2026's breakout horror film could be around the corner. Directed by 20-year-old YouTuber and VFX artist Kane Parsons – aka Kane Pixels – Backrooms is the adaptation of an internet 'creepypasta' which ...