Cursed All Tabs: Portals, Creepy Caves, Jumpscares and Haunted Objects
Host Morgan Sung brings Close All Tabs team members to tell the most spine-chilling internet urban legends they could find. (Redjina Ph via Getty Images)
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In this special Halloween edition of Close All Tabs, we’re diving into creepypastas: horror stories that spread online until they become urban legends on their own. What happened to the girl who fell into a mirror in 2001? Did Ted the Caver ever come back to the surface? Was the Momo challenge real? And finally, we venture into eBay’s haunted doll marketplace … where we may have ended up with a spirit wreaking havoc on the production of this episode. It’s a ghoulish good time.
Guests:
- Hallie Tut, visual effects artist, and digital content creator
- Craig Groshek, horror author and founder of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights
- Ted Hegemann, author of “Ted the Caver”
- Rena Lee, social media manager
- Sophia Bruno, educational nonprofit coordinator
- Paranormal Teej, haunted doll collector & paranormal investigator
Further Reading/Listening:
- How She Creates VFX Shots That Break Your Brain — Hallie Tut, Youtube
- Momo (Creepypasta) — Villains Wiki
- Momo Challenge Is Everything That’s Wrong with the Internet — Lance Ulanoff, Medium
- Ubume — Yokai.com
- How ‘Momo’, a global social media hoax about a paranormal threat to kids, morphed into a U.S. viral phenomenon — Ben Collins and Shoshana Wodinsky, NBC News
- Finally, the truth behind the ‘haunted’ Dybbuk Box can be revealed — Inverse
- The witches of eBay: Inside the industry selling haunted items online — Daniella Scott, Cosmopolitan
- The Backrooms: How Kane Parsons turned creepypasta into cinema — Jack Mills, Dazed
- The Eerie Backstory Behind Backrooms — Nadira Goffe, Slate
- Revisiting Creepypasta, the Social Horror Craze That Launched Slenderman — Zac Thompson, VICE
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