Jack Martel

Figure 1 Killer Jeff (Sessuer)
Creepypastas are an internet horror story originating on blog posts and internet chat forums. The first creepypastas were usually the forum equivalent of chain emails, where people would post what were essentially campfire stories in the middle of the forum in the hopes that someone would see it. Sometimes these would take the form of internet curses, telling users to repost to a different board or site in order to break the curse and pass it on to someone else, in much the same way one breaks the curse in the ring movies. Other times they would simply be scary stories about monsters or serial killers posted randomly as an attempt at trolling. One of the first creepypastas to ever be posted and archived was Jeff the Killer, a creepypasta about a young man who got his face burned off and then proceeded to kill people. (Sessuer) It was originally posted to the Newgrounds forum site and contained an image that has remained popular ever since. The story was not very well written as it was simply a blog post written on the internet in the early 2000s, as were many other creepypastas.