Q 01/05

Which creepypasta character was jokingly 'removed' in years of his game's official update notes?

A) Herobrine

B) Sonic.exe

C) Ben Drowned

D) Entity 303

Answer · why

A) Herobrine

Herobrine. Minecraft's legend makes him the dead brother of the game's creator, who says he never had one, haunting players' worlds as a white-eyed co...

Q 02/05

The creepypasta 'Lavender Town Syndrome' blames eerie music in which video game series?

A) Pokémon

B) Animal Crossing

C) Final Fantasy

D) EarthBound

Answer · why

A) Pokémon

Pokémon. The tale claims a graveyard town's theme in the first games hid high-pitched tones only children could hear, with tragic results in 1990s Jap...

Q 03/05

Which 2001 story is sometimes called the first creepypasta?

A) Smile Dog

B) Abandoned by Disney

C) Candle Cove

D) Ted the Caver

Answer · why

D) Ted the Caver

Ted the Caver. The Angelfire diary carried so many photos and caving details that readers argued for years over whether it was real; its author later ...

Q 04/05

MIT's 2017 horror-writing AI, trained on thousands of Reddit scare stories, was named after which author?

A) Mary Shelley

B) Edgar Allan Poe

C) H. P. Lovecraft

D) Shirley Jackson

Answer · why

A) Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley. 'Shelley' went live in October 2017 and wrote its tales in tandem with the public on Twitter, the AI and its human partners taking turns...

Q 05/05

Which subreddit, founded in 2010, became a major home of creepypasta-style horror?

A) r/letsnotmeet

B) r/nosleep

C) r/creepy

D) r/horror

Answer · why

B) r/nosleep

r/nosleep. Its house rule reads 'Everything is true here, even if it's not', so commenters must stay in character and treat each story as something th...