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Creepypasta is a form of Copypasta and are short scary/horror stories that are regularly posted on message boards or sent via email intended to scare or unnerve the reader. Some are completely made up where as others are derived from old Urban Legends.

Encyclopedia Dramatica has a comprehensive list of the most well known Creepypastas floating around.

Origin

As of yet unknown. While stories intending to frighten the reader/listener have been around for years the art of creepypasta itself looks to have originated from the 4chan image boards.

Spread

Judging by the Google Insights search results Creepypasta looks to have started becoming popular in late 2007.

There are also several sites dedicated to collecting Creepypastas, sites include:

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Jostin Asuncion
Aug 24, 2009 at 06:30AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

OH GOD NO!! WHY CREEPYPASTA, WHY?!?!?! THESE SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF ME!! Good submission though. ;)

Jostin Asuncion
Aug 24, 2009 at 06:41AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

Now that I think about it, you should really label this as NSFW because some photos will be a bit too much for a person’s stomach to handle.

Jostin Asuncion
Aug 24, 2009 at 06:43AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

For those who don’t get the gif of the three Japanese girls talking with each other on a table, take a look at the background.

Frketson
Aug 24, 2009 at 10:17AM UTC , Frketson wrote:

yeah good idea, i’ve labelled it NSFW now.

HackerOnHacker
Aug 24, 2009 at 04:34PM UTC , HackerOnHacker wrote:

Might want to include something on The Holders series: http://www.theholders.org

There also seems to be three main styles/formats of creepypasta – urban legend, ritual, short story. Though there are plenty of deviations from those, such as The Agent from MIPA being written as a transcript.

See Creepypasta.com, also.

LordNick
Oct 06, 2009 at 10:39PM UTC , LordNick wrote:

I don’t get the one by Redspear =o

PTL
Oct 06, 2009 at 11:31PM UTC , PTL wrote:

http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/main

These guys have a great collection of Creepypasta, and are awesome in themselves.

Frketson
Nov 10, 2009 at 05:27AM UTC , Frketson wrote:

Just uploaded a gif and i literally shat bricks.

Frketson
Nov 10, 2009 at 05:48AM UTC , Frketson wrote:

ok so i finally got around to putting a bit more info in. Apparently it started on the 4chan boards but i do not know enough (nor do i want to) about 4chan to be able to confirm. Anyone else have any info on the origin?

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 19, 2009 at 11:04PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

I think finding the origin for a meme like this is unimportant. My guess is that it developed at a steady pace some time while Copypasta was developing even greater and people just eventually noticed the commonalities of these new form of Copypastas and named it. I don’t know what else there is to it, really.

+1 Confirm

Frketson
Nov 19, 2009 at 11:06PM UTC , Frketson wrote:

yeah i’ve been trying to find it but i honestly dont think we’ll be able to find exactly where it originated.

Chris Menning
Nov 20, 2009 at 05:03PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Copypasta is a term that comes from 4chan.
4chan’s /x/ board is the paranormal board.

Google search “Creepypasta site:4chanarchive.org”

The results are almost entirely from /x/
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=creepypasta.com+site%3A4chanarchive.org

A better question is, is creepypasta a term relevent to anyone outside of /x/?

AnTonio Carpio V.
Dec 06, 2009 at 06:13PM UTC , AnTonio Carpio V. wrote:

i love this one =)

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