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Showing posts with label Creepypasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creepypasta. Show all posts
Friday, May 16, 2025

Passageways

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I was asked a couple of days ago by a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  if I'd ever heard of  The Backrooms  -- and if so, if I thought ther...
Friday, September 6, 2024

The forest primeval

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New from the "I Thought I'd Heard Everything" department, we have: a warning that you should look out for a specific kind of t...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Creating the Rake

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It's seldom that we can pinpoint the exact moment of origin of an urban legend.  Much more commonly, they start out from a campfire tale...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

The attraction of the terrifying

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The advent of the internet gave a whole new life to the phenomenon of urban legends.  When I was a kid (back in the good ol' Ancient Bab...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Floating naked ghoul alert

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It's been a long while since we've had a good report of cryptid activity, so I'm pleased to bring you a doozy today.  This one c...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Slender Man, violence, and blame

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When bad things happen, it seems to be a reflex that people look around for someone or something to blame.  And this week, Slender Man (more...
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