List of creepypastas
s are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort readers.
List of creepypastas
''The Backrooms''
The Backrooms is a short passage originally posted to 4chan's /x/ board in 2019 as a caption to a picture of a hallway with yellow carpets and wallpaper. The story purports that by "Noclip mode|noclip out of reality", one may enter a realm known as the Backrooms, an empty wasteland of corridors and rooms with nothing but "the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in", as well as malevolent entities that hunt the traveler across three separate areas of the Backrooms, "Levels 0 through 2". Over time, The Backrooms has been expanded into a mythos, with online writers adding information on new levels, entities, items, and phenomena within the Backrooms.The location in the original photograph that spawned the Backrooms story was unidentified until May 29, 2024, when a team of Discord users found that the photograph was initially posted in 2003 to a blog documenting the renovation of a HobbyTown franchise in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Backrooms images are an example of liminal spaces.
Kane Pixels' Backrooms
On January 7, 2022, YouTuber and VFX artist Kane Parsons uploaded a short horror film titled The Backrooms , which follows a cameraman who records his experience in the Backrooms after accidentally noclipping in. Since then, it has garnered acclaim from the viewers, with over 57 million views as of February 2024. Since the original upload, Parsons has expanded upon his take on the Backrooms lore with more videos, including a film adaptation based on his shorts, which was announced by A24 in February 2023, and began filming in the summer of 2025 in Vancouver, Canada under the working title Effigy.''Abandoned by Disney''
Abandoned by Disney is a 2012 creepypasta written by Slimebeast. The story revolves around the protagonist who decides to investigate an abandoned Disneyland resort called Mowgli's Palace and finds scrawled text about Disney abandoning the place. In the story, the protagonist finds a "mascots" room and meets with a Donald Duck head with a human skull inside and an inverted-colored Mickey Mouse.In 2018, the story, along with its other installments, was adapted into an ebook without any copyrights under the name Dandyland.
''Ever Dream This Man?''
Ever Dream This Man? or just "This Man", is a conceptual art project and internet hoax created by Italian sociologist and marketer Andrea Natella in 2008. It revolves around an enigmatic person who reportedly appeared in the dreams of numerous people.''The Expressionless''
The Expressionless is a story that was added to the Creepypasta Tumblr in June 2012. The story is set in June 1972, where a woman with a face reminiscent of a mannequin appeared in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, wearing only a gown drenched in blood and with a kitten clamped in her jaw. She pulled out the animal, threw it aside, and then collapsed. The doctors decided that sedating her would be the best option, but after attempting to do so, she rose from the bed. The staff's attempts to restrain her did not stop her from brutally massacring and cannibalizing the majority of the present personnel using her sharp teeth. A doctor who survived the attack nicknamed her "The Expressionless", as throughout the entire incident, even during the peak of her furious assault against the staff, the woman's face remained completely absent of expression.''I Feel Fantastic''
"I Feel Fantastic" is a surrealist music video and viral video created by John Bergeron in 2004. The video features an animatronic named Tara the Android, an attempt at "the world's first pop star android" according to Bergeron. I Feel Fantastic or "Please," is one of five videos by Bergeron with the other videos being on his website and available on DVD. One of the videos got re-uploaded to YouTube titled "I Feel Fantastic" with no context by Creepyblog in 2009 and quickly got popular for the Android's uncanniness and the video's creepiness. The video's character, Tara the Android, has since made cameos in other media, such as Broadcast Signal Intrusion and Smiling Friends.''The Interface Series''
The Interface Series is a science fiction horror story that was posted in short installments on Reddit, known for its unusual format of being spread across various discussion threads, often considered a form of "alternate reality game"; the story explores themes of mind control, MKUltra experiments, and entities called "flesh interfaces", written by an anonymous author under the pseudonym "_9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9".''Jeff the Killer''
Jeff the Killer is a story accompanied by an image of the title character, a teenager named Jeffrey Woods who's attacked by a group of bullies, disfigures himself and kills his family. He then becomes a serial killer.The story quickly became one of the most popular creepypastas and inspired many other stories, including Jane the Killer. The character of Jeff was created by DeviantArt user "sesseur", the pseudonym of Jeff Case of Auburndale, Florida.
''Momo Challenge''
The MOMO Challenge or just Momo Challenge and Momo is an internet urban legend, hoax, and creepypasta about a human or humanoid user named "Momo" which tells people to harm themselves in a similar vein to the Blue Whale Challenge.''Funland''
Funland is a story that was made as a creepypasta by Daron Silvers in 2016. The story is set originally in the late 1990s in Tewksbury, Massachusetts and is centered around a Boy and his friends. Shortly after the park they went to as children closes down, they came back years later to discover an old animatronic dog that was nostalgic to them. In the turn of events, the dog becomes alive and chases them out of the park, leading to bad luck for each person who went to the park that day.''The Midnight Game''
The Midnight Game is a list of instructions that detail how to invite a demonic entity known as "The Midnight Man" into someone's home using a candle, matches, salt, paper, a wooden front door and a drop of your own blood. Upon knocking on the door 22 times, the final knock occurring upon midnight, you must survive until 3:33AM against The Midnight Man.The Midnight Game first emerged onto 4Chan's /x/ board sometime in early to mid 2010, and gained quick infamy across 4chan and other sites like Reddit, YouTube, Tumblr, and Facebook. It was adapted into several forms of media including videogames, books and movies.
''Robert the Doll''
is said to be a supernatural doll that has abilities. According to rumors, the doll sometimes giggles, mutilates his former owner Robert Eugene Otto's toys, attacks people, and even curses them.''The Rake''
The Rake is a strange humanoid creature described as resembling something between a naked man and a large, hairless dog whose sightings have been reported on four different continents, occasionally being referred to as a "skin-walker", with the earliest known account being a mariner's log in 1691. Named for its massive, incredibly sharp claws, the Rake lacerates its victims in their sleep and in some cases, speaks to them in a shrill voice. Those fortunate enough to survive an encounter with the Rake usually end up traumatized by its appearance and behavior.In 2018, a film based on the Rake was released on Tubi and Amazon Prime. The film was poorly received by critics.