Veterans love a captive audience. If there’s an opportunity to impart a few “back in my day” tales of salt doggery, well, pull up a chair. Now, with spooky season well on its way, the time is ...

“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 ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

On June 8, 2009, Eric Knudsen posted two black and white images he had Photoshopped to a forum called "Something Awful." The forum was hosting a photo manipulation contest and was taking submissions ...

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, ...

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 ...

Warner Bros. has secured the rights for a film based on a Reddit post starring Sydney Sweeney. The story was first posted to the r/nosleep subreddit, known for its "creepypasta" scary tales. Hollywood ...

Tyler is a twenty-one-year-old senior studying professional writing at Champlain College. She's been a fan of games like Minecraft and Pokemon since her childhood, but has recently found a love for ...