In 1981, two young players became seriously ill around the same Beaverton-area arcade. Twelve-year-old Brian Mauro ended an extraordinary Asteroids endurance attempt after roughly twenty-eight hours…
Jeff the Killer is one of the defining monsters of early internet horror: a pale face, blackened eyes, an unnatural smile, and the phrase “Go to sleep.” But Jeff was never a documented murderer. He…
Smile Dog, also called smile.jpg or Smile.dog, is one of the defining image-based horror legends of the early internet. The story centers on a photograph of a dog, usually resembling a husky, with an…
A preserved photograph from a 2002 renovation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin later became the image at the center of the Backrooms, one of the internet’s most enduring horror legends. In May 2019, an image…
Sonic.exe began as a 2011 creepypasta attributed to JC-the-Hyena: a fictional account of a corrupted Sonic game, a warning from a friend, and a program that seemed to know who was playing it. In…
In September twenty ten, an online user named Jadusable claimed to have found an unlabeled Nintendo sixty-four cartridge of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. The cartridge contained a save file…
NoEnd House is one of internet horror’s most enduring haunted-attraction legends: nine rooms, one final exit, and a five-hundred-dollar prize for anyone who can finish. The story, credited to Brian…
Candle Cove began as a short internet horror story by writer and cartoonist Kris Straub, first published online in two thousand nine. It was written as a thread on a fictional nostalgia forum, where…
A red room is one of the most persistent dark-web legends: a hidden site where anonymous viewers supposedly pay cryptocurrency to watch, vote on, or control live violence. This episode traces the…
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