While the live-stream event is going on for 24-hours, the CreepyPasta fundraiser is going on for another week. A spokeswoman for the victim's family says they are aware of the fundraiser.

But to countless numbers of horror-lovers on the Internet, these stories and more like them have spawned sleepless nights and viral storytelling—a whole new genre of horror known as creepypasta.

Among the copypasta lurked some seriously scary stories and urban legends, and by the mid-2000s, people were calling these stories “creepypasta.” Like spaghetti thrown at a wall, the name stuck.

The Elkhart girl set her family’s apartment on fire and stabbed Maria Torres “at the direction of a fictional character found on the CreepyPasta website known as ‘Laughing Jack ...

Copypasta’s most popular genre is Creepypasta, bits of copy-and-pasted text that convey scary stories and unsettling urban legends. Creepypasta writers take popular urban legends—remember the ...

It recently occurred to me that, for all the discussion of freaky creepypasta you and I have done here over the past few months, we’ve never gone in depth about what creepypasta is. I mean ...

Probably not. Is it fun? Decidedly. The video is part of a growing phenomenon making its way around message boards and e-mail chains called “creepypasta” bite-sized bits of scariness that ...

Even when posting a creepypasta of your own to places like Reddit’s r/nosleep, the guidelines specify you have to keep it real. “Everything is true. Outside of NoSleep, a story may be fact or ...

The Bye Bye Man was a 2017 theatrical release that played on the creepypasta related horror legends. While based on the short story “The Bridge to Body Island” by Robert Damon Schneck, ...