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 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 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'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, 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
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