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Are you one of those people who loves being scared — but, you know, in that not-quite-real way? There's nothing like the thrill of watching a scary video. And YouTube has plenty of them that are short ...

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 ...

Minecraft Error 422 is one of the game's many different Creepypastas. For those unaware, Creepypasta's definition has shifted a lot over the years but is often used ...

“The Backrooms” is that rare 4Chan post that not only became familiar to mainstream audiences, but broke out of the social media bubble to become a fairly mainstream pop culture phenomenon. Originally ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a Feature Writer from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade and finds dissecting Marvel trailers for hours standard practice and still finds time to review, ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Minecraft has been around for over a decade now, and its community has cultivated plenty of spooky stories surrounding the game. Herobrine was created and became so popular that Mojang cracked jokes ...

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 ...

The Backrooms began as an image. Posted on April 21, 2018, a small thumbnail picture appeared on 4chan’s /x/ board showing a yellow room, its walls all in the wrong places, with gold-yellow carpets ...