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Creepypastas are horror -related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. [ 1][ 2][ 3] These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort readers. [ 1][ 2] The term "creepypasta" originates from "copypasta", a portmanteau of the words "copy" and ...
Candle Cove is an online creepypasta horror story written by web cartoonist and author Kris Straub. The story centers on a discussion of the titular fictional children's television series on an Internet forum. Straub has stated that he was inspired to write the creepypasta after reading an article in The Onion entitled "Area 36-Year-Old Still Has Occasional Lidsville Nightmare". Straub's story ...
Siren Head is an urban legend and creepypasta created by Canada-based artist Trevor Henderson [89]. It depicts a creature 40ft tall, with withered, mummified skin, and instead of a head, a pole with two sirens. It was reported to lurk in forests, luring hikers to their deaths with garbled voices or sounds.
Penpal. (novel) Penpal (2012) is the debut novel of American author Dathan Auerbach. The horror-suspense novel is based on a series of creepypasta stories Auerbach posted to the r/nosleep forum on Reddit. [ 1] The book follows the first-person narrator as he realizes he was the focus of an obsessed stalker who tracks him throughout his childhood.
[17] [21] [32] An indie game was released by Pie on a Plate Productions two months after the original creepypasta, [33] and was positively reviewed for its atmosphere but received criticism for its short length. [34] [35] [36] Many others, such as Enter the Backrooms, Noclipped and The Backrooms Project, were released in the following years. [32]
Zalgo text. Zalgo text, also known as cursed text or glitch text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy . Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence ...
Creepypasta. A creepypasta is a horror -related legend which has been shared around the Internet. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The term creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet. [ 4] These entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories that are intended to frighten readers.
The legend of missing legs. Common elements of the legend include that Teke Teke is the vengeful ghost or spirit (also known as an onryō) of a young woman or schoolgirl who fell on a railway line in Northern Japan, which resulted in her being sliced in half by a train. Missing her lower extremities, she is said to walk on her hands or her ...