Whether it's Gilgamesh or urban legends, the art of storytelling has been around for thousands of years. In the case of creepypastas, just replace the campfire with a computer screen. For those ...

Morgan Geyser is led into the courtroom at Waukesha County Court on August 19, 2016 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Geyser, one of two girls accused of trying to kill a 12-year-old classmate to please the ...

Two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend 19 times in the name of Slender Man, an Internet folk figure that originated on Creepypasta. ... So He Booked a Trip with Their Kids Without Her. Crime; ...

Two pre-teen girls have been accused of attempting to murder their friend in tribute to a Creepypasta figure called Slender Man ...

Two 12-year-old girls inspired by Internet horror stories are accused of luring a girl into a wooded area near Milwaukee and stabbing the victim 19 times. CNN values your feedback 1.

Creepypasta, then, is its spookier cousin, a sort of digital update to the urban legends we used to tell each other in the dark at sleepovers when we were kids.

The creepypasta deals with an image posted on an old bulletin board system back in 1992 called smile.jpg. Those who saw the image either disappeared or died, save for one Mary E., who the narrator ...

The internet comes with its own urban legends, and the scary ones are known as “creepypastas,” horror stories transformed and embedded through repetition. Among their most infamous characters ...