A creepypasta is a horror-related legend that has been shared around the internet, a term that has become a catch-all for any horror content posted online. These entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to frighten readers, with subjects ranging widely across ghosts, cryptids, murder, suicide, zombies, aliens, rituals to summon supernatural entities, and haunted television shows and video games, and they range in length from a single paragraph to extended multi-part series spanning multiple media types.
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Place of OriginUnited States; the term first appeared on the imageboard 4chan around 2007. 1 Notable Example Defining TraitA catch-all term for horror-themed stories, images or videos created and circulated by users across the internet, often presented as though the events described were real. 1 Sources
1. Creepypasta (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
The term creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet.
Lead paragraph, notable stories list
Other notable creepypasta stories include Jeff the Killer, Ted the Caver, Ben Drowned, Sonic.exe, and Smile Dog.
Definition section
The word creepypasta first appeared on 4chan, an online imageboard, around 2007.
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