List of creepypastas

The Backrooms |alt=An image of a large, open room with carpet, fluorescent lights and yellow wallpaper. A gap in the wall shows similar rooms continuing beyond view. 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[ping] 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 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 72 million views as of March 2026. 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? (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 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. 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, The character of Jeff was created by DeviantArt user "sesseur", the pseudonym of Jeff Case of Auburndale, Florida. 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. 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 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. 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 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. ref name="Watts-2020"> 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 and Jacksepticeye. 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 viral internet cryptids like Long Horse, Cartoon Cat and Bridge Worm. Slender Man Slender Man is a lanky humanoid with 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 dog with human teeth looking at the camera. 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, spreading the curse. Username: 666 username:666, also written as Username:666 and Username: 666, is a grotesque video by nana825763. The video is about nana825763 trying to access a YouTube channel called "666" by refreshing it and exploring the user. Every interaction with the channel slowly causes YouTube to get distorted and bloodied, and it seems user "666" tortures nana825763 by even taking control of his computer before a hand appears and the video ends. The video later got a story adaptation by PiaNO! on Creepypasta Wiki on November 10, 2012, and got rewritten on January 14, 2014. Both versions are about a YouTube employee trying to look up the channel "666". The video, or at least user "666", is also believed to be connected to nana825763's other fictional works, such as the 2010 video Another YouTube, which shares a similarity to the Username: 666. In mid-2022, it was noted that altering the word "watch" in any YouTube URL would take the user to an edited version of the original Username: 666 video. 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. Zalgo Zalgo is a recurring creepypasta character who is alternately interpreted as a deity, an abstract supernatural force, or a secret collective. The concept originated in 2004 on the Something Awful forums, with edits of cartoons to depict characters mutating and bleeding from their eyes while praising Zalgo. The depictions were coupled with a unique form of distorted text that became known as Zalgo text. ==Lost episode creepypastas==

"Lost episodes" are a common sub-genre of creepypastas and revolves around lost episodes of various media properties, usually television shows. These lost episodes are usually explained as having been prevented from airing, or pulled during broadcast due to controversial, mature, or unsettling aspects being shown, such as graphic violence, gore, and adult themes. The episode's disturbing content usually leads to the narrator (or a friend of theirs, a family member, or even their children) getting traumatized and having various nightmares. Candle Cove Candle Cove is a 2009 story by Kris Straub written in the format of an online forum thread in which people reminisce about a half-remembered children's television series from the 1970s involving a young girl named Janice – the series' protagonist – going on adventures with a cast of marionette pirates. The posters share memories of the puppets used in the series and discuss nightmares that they experienced after watching certain episodes (such as those involving a villain called the Skin-Taker, and one that had no dialogue and involved the puppets screaming relentlessly while the protagonist was reduced to hysterical crying). One person then asks their mother about the series and is told that the mother just used to tune the television to static, which the child would watch for thirty minutes. Syfy announced a television drama based on the story in 2015, adapted by Nick Antosca and Max Landis. The story makes up the first season of Channel Zero, which premiered on October 11, 2016. Dead Bart (7G06) Dead Bart is a story by writer K. I. Simpson. The episode of The Simpsons features the eponymous family flying on a trip together, when Bart breaks an airplane window, which causes him to get sucked out and fall to his death. After showing a realistic version of Bart's corpse, the Simpson family is in a state of grief. One year later, Homer, Marge, and Lisa have lost enormous amounts of weight, while Maggie and their pets have disappeared. When they try to visit Bart's grave, Springfield is shown to be abandoned. The family arrives at Bart's grave where Bart's body is simply lying in front of his tombstone. The family briefly cries, before Homer cracks an unintelligible joke. In a later update, it is revealed that Homer is saying "If only we were all that lucky." The episode ends with a zoom-out of the cemetery, featuring the names of every single Simpsons guest star on the tombstones, with the ones that have not died yet all having the same death date. ''Squidward's Suicide (Red Mist)'' The full story is told from the perspective of a person who interned at Nickelodeon Studios in 2005 as an animation student. The student and some other coworkers received a tape to edit titled "Squidward's Suicide" for the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. The staff initially assumed it was just an office prank. In the firsthand account, the video consists of Squidward preparing for a concert. After Squidward finishes playing at the concert, the crowd (including SpongeBob) jeers at Squidward, during which all have red "hyper-realistic" eyes as described. The next part shows Squidward forlornly sitting on a bed, while the sound of wind blowing through trees is heard in the background. The scene is spliced with quick cuts to photographs of murdered children, evidently taken by the murderer themselves; each time, the noise of the wind gets louder when cutting back to Squidward—now bearing the same red hyper-realistic eyes as the audience. Eventually, the camera zooms out to reveal Squidward holding a shotgun. A detached, deep voice commands Squidward to "do it", and he shoots himself in the head. The last few moments of the video linger on his corpse before the episode ends, leaving the staff horrified. The circulated image of the red-eyed Squidward associated with this creepypasta was referenced in the series; an altered version was included in the original uncut airing of the season 12 episode "SpongeBob in RandomLand". According to Vincent Waller (the showrunner and co-executive producer of season 12), the purpose of the reference was to make fun of "try-hard edgy fanfiction", and he has referred to ''Squidward's Suicide'' as a "ridiculous fanfiction". He further clarified that it was only intended as a reference and that the "Red Mist Squidward" character is "FAR from canon". Suicidemouse.avi Suicidemouse.avi is a Mickey Mouse urban legend first published to 4chan on October 22, 2009, with a video adaptation releasing days later. The story is about forgotten Mickey Mouse footage made by Walt Disney himself during the early 1930s. The story goes about real-life film critic Leonard Maltin reviewing classic cartoons for the Walt Disney Treasures DVD collection when he came across the lost short. While initially appearing to be a mundane three-minute loop of Mickey dismally walking down a street with off-key piano music, Maltin noticed-upon digitizing the film-that it was actually 9 minutes and 4 seconds long. After the initial three minutes of Mickey walking, the screen cuts to black for several minutes. Rather than ending, the footage resumes at the six-minute mark; the audio is now a "gurgled cry", the sidewalk begins going in impossible directions, and Mickey's dismal look curls into a smirk. The gurgling soon escalates into a blood-curdling scream, with colors appearing, buildings becoming rubble and Mickey's face melting into a demented look. Disturbed by the shifting tone, Maltin left the room, tasking an employee with finishing the film and taking notes. The cartoon eventually cuts to the smiling Mickey Mouse headshot seen at the beginning of the regular cartoons, with a broken music box playing in the background. This happens for 30 seconds, but whatever happened afterward was so mentally traumatic that it caused the employee to stumble out of the room, repeating the phrase "Real suffering is not known" ("I cannot see what has been unseen" in the original 4chan post) seven times before grabbing the gun from a nearby guard and shooting himself. The only thing known about the last 30 seconds is a single frame of Russian text displayed, which roughly translates to: "The sights of Hell bring its viewers back in." The Rugrats Theory The Rugrats Theory is a creepypasta and a theory revolving around the Nickelodeon series Rugrats and its character Angelica Pickles. In the creepypasta, it's said that many characters were just figments of Angelica's imagination after they died. Similar theories exist with other children's cartoons, such as Ed, Edd n Eddy and Phineas and Ferb. These theories' concepts are either different from or the same as that. The Wyoming Incident The Wyoming Incident is the case of an alleged broadcast signal intrusion that occurred in Niobrara County, Wyoming. During the interruption, viewers saw disembodied human heads performing multiple poses and emotions. The story goes that those who watched for a prolonged period presented everything from vomiting and headaches to hallucinations. These physical ailments are believed to have been caused by the high-pitched noise that played throughout most of the video. The hackers who allegedly did this were never caught. On July 29, 2025, the YouTube live broadcast of the news program News 19 Horas, aired by Brazilian television network Record News, was hijacked by unknown hackers, with the Wyoming Incident video being streamed. It caused confusion and discomfort to many people watching it, many of them being unaware of the creepypasta. The network has later made the original livestream private, reuploaded the video without the interruption, and stated: ==Video game creepypastas==

These creepypastas commonly focus on video games containing grotesque or violent content; this content may spill onto the real world and causes the player to harm themselves or others. Many video game creepypastas involve malevolent entities such as ghosts or artificial intelligence. Ben Drowned Created by Internet user Alex Hall (also known online as Jadusable), Ben Drowned tells a story of a college student only identified as Jadusable who buys a used copy of the video game ''The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask'' from an elderly man at a yard sale. Jadusable finds that the cartridge is haunted by the ghost of a boy named Ben, who drowned, as well as an entity that seems to have taken his name only identified as BEN, and an enigmatic force known as the father. After an eight-year-long hiatus, the story returned in 2020, once again in the Alternate Reality Game format, for its final arc, dubbed "Awakening", which featured adjacent plotlines about a man calling himself Jadus recounting his experiences during a societal collapse. Catastrophe Crow! Catastrophe Crow!, also known as Crow 64, is a creepypasta revolving around a fictional 3D platform game for the Nintendo 64 developed in Germany that was never released, whose developer, Manfred Lorenz, supposedly disappeared at sea. The story of the video game was first released when a video produced by YouTuber Adam Butcher was released, titled "What Happened to Crow 64?". Herobrine Originally posted by an anonymous user on 4chan, Herobrine is a supernatural being or ghost that haunts single-player worlds in the sandbox video game Minecraft. The character is supposed to look like Steve, one of the default character skins available for new players of Minecraft, albeit with a pair of glowing white, blank eyes. Theories which explain the Herobrine's supposed origins range from his purported identity as the supposedly deceased brother of Minecraft creator Markus Persson, to an "unlucky miner" who haunts living players out of a desire for vengeance. Lavender Town Syndrome This legend purports that, shortly after the original Japanese release of the video games Pokémon Red and Green in 1996, there was an increase in the death rate amongst children aged 10–15. Children who had played the games reportedly screamed in terror at the sight of either of the games inserted into the Game Boy handheld console, and exhibited other erratic behavior, before committing suicide. Supposedly, the suicides were connected to the eerie background music played in the fictional location of Lavender Town in the games. In the game's canon, Lavender Town is the site of the haunted Pokémon Tower, where numerous graves of Pokémon can be found. It has been speculated that the legend was inspired by an actual event in Japan in 1997, in which hundreds of television viewers experienced photosensitive epilepsy in an episode of the Pokémon anime titled "Dennō Senshi Porygon". NES Godzilla Creepypasta NES Godzilla Creepypasta is a story written by Cosbydaf, who also produced the sprite artwork for the story. It relates the tale of a character named Zach who plays an unusual copy of the Nintendo Entertainment System game Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!. As Zach progresses through the game, simple glitches begin to turn into entirely new content and new monsters - including members of Toho's monsters that never appeared in the game and monsters from entries in the Godzilla franchise that were released after Monster of Monsters!, and wholly-original creatures unrelated to either of the prior two categories - and eventually, a malevolent, supernatural being by the name of Red reveals himself. As the mystery behind the nature of Red unravels, it is revealed that the demon has closer ties to Zach than he ever could have expected. The story concludes with Zach - having defeated Red during the final battle - selling the game on eBay, unable to bring himself to keep or destroy the mysterious cartridge. Petscop Petscop is a web series released on YouTube which purports to be a Let's Play of a "lost and unfinished" 1997 PlayStation video game of the same name. In the game, the player character must capture strange creatures known as "pets" by solving puzzles. However, after the narrator of the series enters a code on a note attached to the copy of the game he received, he can enter a strange, dark, and hidden section of the game known as the Newmaker Plane and the depths below it. Although the puzzles continue, the game's tone shifts dramatically, and numerous references to child abuse appear; Newmaker appears to refer to the real-life case of Candace Newmaker, who was murdered during rebirthing therapy. Polybius An urban legend claims that in 1981, an arcade cabinet called Polybius caused nightmares and hallucinations in players, leading at least one person to suicide. Several people supposedly became anti-gaming activists, after playing Polybius. One of the oldest urban legends regarding video games, Polybius has entered popular culture, and numerous fangames exist as attempts to recreate the game from numerous accounts of its nature. Sonic.exe Sonic.exe is a 2011 creepypasta created by JC-the-Hyena. The original story follows a teenager named Tom Miller, who receives a CD from his friend Kyle Scott and a note telling him to destroy it. Finding Kyle's warning to be a joke, Tom decides to play it, finding it to be a haunted version of the 1991 game Sonic the Hedgehog. The haunted version of the game contains disturbing sound effects from other video games, as well as an eldritch entity known as the titular Sonic.exe or just X, who takes on a form almost identical to Sonic, with bloodstained, blackened sclera and glowing red pupils. In each of the four levels, Tom plays as Tails for the first two, and the other two as Knuckles and Doctor Eggman respectively, only for them to be killed and enslaved by X at the end of them. After all the characters are killed, a "hyper-realistic" image of the character appears with the caption "I AM GOD". Hearing a voice say, "Try to keep this interesting for me, Tom.", Tom turns around, only to see a stuffed Sonic plushie crying blood on his bed, his fate unknown. The story was posted on the Creepypasta Wiki in 2011, and was removed in January 2014 due to complaints of its poor quality when compared to other gaming creepypastas, despite it being somewhat influential. The growing backlash towards the story led JC-the-Hyena to publish a protracted diatribe about his grievances with the Creepypasta Wiki's decision, which only fueled further criticism. Toonstruck 2 Toonstruck 2 is a story revolving around the 1996 video game Toonstruck. In the creepypasta, a sequel for the game was developed but not released due to the commercial flop of the first game. The protagonist of the story, an adventure game geek named Dave, buys a copy of the unreleased sequel from a creepy man in a black raincoat; as he plays Toonstruck 2, its atmosphere becomes increasingly sinister, and the game begins to change the real world around him (the original Toonstruck was about a cartoon animator transported to the cartoon world through TV). The story alleges that Toonstruck 2 was based on art from the sketchbook of a mentally ill cartoon animator who murdered his boss, bought by one of Virgin Interactive Entertainment's executives at a murderabilia auction, and the real reason for its cancellation was that its contents were too shocking. SVG's Christopher Gates wrote: "The incomplete storyline has proved to be fertile ground for fans, who seem more than happy to fill in the blanks... If Toonstruck had been finished, maybe it would've faded away. But it wasn't, and the mystery has kept Toonstruck fans engaged for over 20 years—and counting." == See also ==