"There's this website called The Creepypasta Wiki. It's full of like horror stories that are purposely meant to scare you. And there is one of them called Slender Man." When asked to describe ...

Slender Man is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a “creepypasta” – or horror – internet meme created in 2009 by Something Awful forum user Eric Knudsen under his ...

Creepypasta began in the early 2000s. This is when those on the internet began sharing short stories that were unsettling. These were written anonymously, but quickly became shared due to their ...

The story was first posted to the r/nosleep subreddit, known for its "creepypasta" scary tales. Hollywood has previously adapted internet stories, like "Slender Man" and "Zola." Hollywood is ...