On June 8, 2009, Eric Knudsen posted two black and white images he had Photoshopped to a forum called "Something Awful." The forum was hosting a photo manipulation contest and was taking submissions ...

You’re standing on the edge of the woods and the sun is bleeding into the horizon. The trees around you are still dead and leafless from winter, and the forest is a black mass of thin trunks and ...

A day after prosecutors claimed two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend to please a mythological creature, a website that publishes stories about the creepy urban legend says it’s not to blame for ...

Anyone reading the news this weekend are likely asking themselves, "Who is Slender Man?" and "What on Earth is Creepypasta?!"... and they have good reason to be both curious and concerned. Headlines ...

Slender Man was born on an internet forum in 2009. By 2014, the myth was so powerful that it could apparently motivate two girls to attempt to kill a friend in his name. And it was internet ...