Creepypastas 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
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 only" room and, upon entering, meets with a Donald Duck head with a human skull inside and an inverted-colored Mickey Mouse costume that pulls its head off in front of him.
In 2018, the story, along with its other installments, was adapted into an ebook without any copyrights under the name Dandyland.
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 commercial interior with yellow lighting, carpet, and wallpaper. The story purports that by "noclip[ping] out of reality", one may enter a place known as the Backrooms, an empty maze 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 the suggestion there might be something dangerous inside there with you too. Over time, the Backrooms have been expanded into a mythos from the original Levels 0, 1, and 2, adding more levels, specific entities or creatures, objects, phenomena, and lore.
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 (known online as Kane Pixels) uploaded a short horror film titled The Backrooms (Found Footage), 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 77 million views as of May 2026. Since the original upload, Parsons has expanded upon his take on the Backrooms lore with more videos, following a company named Async that researches the Backrooms. A film adaptation based on his shorts was announced by A24 in February 2023, and began filming in the summer of 2025 in Vancouver, Canada under the working title Effigy. The film Backrooms released on May 29, 2026. It has so far received a critic score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ever Dream This Man?
Ever Dream This Man? (also known as "This Man" and "Dream Man") is a conceptual art project and 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 hoax is accompanied by a drawing of the person's face.
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 white gown drenched in blood and, for no reason, with a kitten clamped in her jaw so unnaturally tight. Once she arrived, she pulled out the animal from her mouth, threw it aside, and then collapsed on the bed. 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 female 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.
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 young man and his two best friends visiting an abandoned amusement park that they frequented as children before it closed down. The narrator most wants to see the miniature golf course, specifically the 18th hole that included a large animatronic dog dressed in overalls. To the narrator's surprise, upon completing the 18th hole, the now run-down animatronic comes to life and starts chasing him and his friends out of the park.
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 is 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.
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.
The 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.
The Rake The Rake is a strange, pale, bald, and skinny humanoid creature with long limbs 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. It's also known for crawling on all fours. 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.
Robert the Doll
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 Russian Sleep Experiment
The Russian Sleep Experiment tells of Soviet agents and scientists experimenting on both political prisoners and prisoners of war during World War II, in which the prisoners are kept in a sealed-off room which was filled with an experimental gas to prevent sleep. This mysterious gas turns the prisoners into violent, zombie-like monsters who are addicted to the gas. In the end, the commander demands a researcher to enter the room and start killing the prisoners, with one of them uttering "So nearly free" or "Finally put to rest" before they die.
The SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that captures, contains, and studies supernatural phenomena, keeping them secret from the rest of the world. The SCP Foundation is part of a collaborative writing project on the SCP Wiki.
Siren Head
Created in 2018 by Canadian horror artist and illustrator Trevor Henderson, Siren Head is a 40-foot-tall, thin, skeletal figure with rotting, mummified, emaciated skin and two rusted siren-like megaphones for a head. The sirens sometimes blare random words in a "staticky" voice; in other stories, they scream garbled music and radio reports, the sounds of people speaking or screaming for help, or Emergency Alert System broadcasts, mimicking voices and sounds to lure them into the forest. Siren Head became popular online in 2020, to Henderson's surprised delight. It was featured in viral YouTube and TikTok videos, as well as numerous indie games with retro aesthetics, leading Henderson to gain many teenage fans.
Some YouTubers made a model of the monster, and one-man developer Modus Interactive created a Siren Head video game which was played by YouTubers Markiplier, PewDiePie and Jacksepticeye. Writers for PC Gamer and The Daily Dot have compared the creepypasta to Slender Man. It was the topic of an episode of the PBS show Monstrum. In a Viz Media YouTube video where Japanese horror mangaka Junji Ito was shown pictures of internet monsters, he deemed Siren Head the best. Trevor Henderson is known for creating other viral internet fictional cryptids like Long Horse, Cartoon Cat and Bridge Worm. In 2026, a film was announced with Warner Bros. Pictures acquiring film rights. It will be written by Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield, with the latter also directing.
Slender Man
Slender Man is a tall, lanky humanoid with pale white skin and no distinguishable facial features who wears a trademark black suit. The character originated in a 2009 Something Awful Photoshop competition, before later being featured as a main antagonist in the Marble Hornets alternate reality YouTube web series, the videogame Slender: The Eight Pages, and its sequel Slender: The Arrival. According to most stories, he targets younger people who supposedly go into his forest looking for him. The legend also caused controversy with the Slender Man stabbing in 2014. The character is featured in various films, television series and video games and is fondly remembered as one of the most iconic Internet urban legends of the 2010s.
Smile Dog (Smile.jpg) Smile.jpg, also known as Smile Dog, is an image-based creepypasta that shows a sinister-looking Siberian Husky with human teeth looking at the camera, smiling. It is commonly believed to have originated on 4chan in 2008.
According to the creepypasta, the Smile.jpg image was first shared on a bulletin board system in 1992 and curses any who view it to suffer nightmares and convulsions until they "spread the word" and show others the image, which alleviates the curse.
Ted the Caver
Ted the Caver began as an Angelfire website in early 2001 that documented the adventures of a man and his friends as they explored a local cave. The story is in the format of a series of blog posts. As the explorers move further into the cave, strange hieroglyphs and winds are encountered. In a final blog post, Ted writes that he and his companions will be bringing a gun into the cave after experiencing a series of nightmares and hallucinations. The blog has not been updated since the final post. In 2013, an independent film adaptation of the story was released, called Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver.
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