The World Wide Web is a little over 30 years old. During those years, so much has happened in various parts of the Internet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scary stories aren’t the stuff of campfires and sleepovers anymore. For adults who still enjoy a good spook, the internet is the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. For an entire decade, Creepypasta.Com has collected and ...

Cartoonist and writer Kris Straub remembers a prominent experience of child confusion and fear all thanks to televison. “There’s a station in L.A., KLCS, that is public television, but back then it ...

Two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls, each facing up to 65 years in prison for allegedly stabbing a friend nearly to death on Saturday, said the gruesome act was motivated by an Internet urban legend.

Sometime in the 1940s, the Russians brought five political prisoners to a military-run facility, where they were put in a chamber being pumped with an experimental gas, to keep them awake for 30 days.

“Horror aside, the elements of good storytelling present in the best creepypastas can be applied to any kind of writing.” After an analysis of the content 72 beloved viral “Creepypasta” stories across ...

There is a video gaining steam on YouTube called “The Scariest Picture on the Internet (REAL).” Aside from a short introduction, the bulk consists of a single, still image of a painting set to ominous ...