With A24's Backrooms getting rave reviews, a whole new audience is about to get their first taste of creepypastas. Over the last two decades, tales about horrifying twists on reality that couldn't be ...

I’ll be honest: There’s a lot of bad creepypasta out there, but there seems to be a particularly massive amount of pastas about video games specifically. But when video game creepypasta stories are ...

Creepypastas are the new campfire tales. They’re short, scary, and read most often as urban legends. What truly distinguishes creepypasta stories, however, is that they’re typically centered around ...

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 ...

On YouTube, videos covering the fake Pokémon Black have hundreds of thousands of views, and the original storyhas been posted on a ton of online forums and wiki pages. It goes like this: The author, ...

If you're reading this right now that means you either made it out of Pokemon Red alive, or you've never been to Lavender Town. "Lavender Town Syndrome" is rumored to have caused a string of suicides ...

There are two versions of Pokémon Black: the one you know and the one that will make you a cold-blooded killer. The former is the first game of the fifth generation of the series, first released ...

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Creepypasta is a fiction subgenre that consists of mini-horror stories passed along online and through the years. From chain emails to TikToks, it's grown to encompass both the chilling and the ...

In 2011, a guy using the handle Cosbydaf wrote a story on the web about a Godzilla game he decided to revisit when he was a kid. It was a creepypasta—in other words, an internet tall tale intended to ...

Quirky video games are a very under-appreciated kind of game, with very few players taking to them at the time of their release. Games like Noby Noby Boy, LSD: Dream Simulator, Incredible Crisis, and ...