# The most famous internet legends and creepypastas

The horror stories born on forums and social networks that became digital folklore: from Slender Man and Jeff the Killer to the Backrooms. Which scares you the most?

- 3 votes · 18 items
- May 22, 2020 · culé_mallorca
- https://even.best/en/l/1626/the-most-famous-internet-legends-and-creepypastas

## Top 18

1. **Candle Cove** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A supposed 1970s children's show nobody else remembers (2009).
2. **The Russian Sleep Experiment** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Russian prisoners kept awake with an experimental gas.
3. **Slender Man** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Born in 2009 in a photo-editing contest on the Something Awful forum: a tall, faceless figure in a suit.
4. **Jeff the Killer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The white-faced killer with a carved smile, famous for "go to sleep".
5. **BEN Drowned** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A haunted Zelda: Majora's Mask cartridge bought at a yard sale (2010).
6. **Herobrine** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The ghostly Minecraft character who never existed in the game.
7. **The Backrooms** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Endless yellow rooms humming with fluorescent lights, born on 4chan in 2019.
8. **SCP Foundation** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A fictional organisation containing anomalous objects, written by thousands of authors.
9. **Smile Dog** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A photo of a dog with a human smile you should not look at.
10. **Ted the Caver** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A caver's diary about a passage he should never have opened (2001).
11. **Polybius** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The 1981 arcade machine said to cause strange effects before vanishing.
12. **Sonic.exe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A cursed Sonic game with bleeding eyes.
13. **Squidward's Suicide** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A lost, disturbing episode of SpongeBob.
14. **The Rake** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A pale, hunched creature that appears by the bed.
15. **NoEnd House** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A nine-room house with a prize for anyone who reaches the end.
16. **Lavender Town Syndrome** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The legend that the music of a town in Pokémon Red and Green made children ill.
17. **Momo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A viral 2018 hoax about a supposed challenge using the image of a Japanese sculpture.
18. **Siren Head** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Artist Trevor Henderson's giant creature with loudspeakers for a head (2018).

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