Our Fascination with the Unknown

What is humanity’s fascination with the unknown really about? Is it all about our curiosity, the need to explain the unexplainable, or is there a deeper meaning? Urban legends, stories of the paranormal, and the study of cryptids (creatures that may or may not exist) all point to there being some underlying reason as to why we have such an obsession with these topics.

And these stories aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. With the rise of creepypastas (internet urban legends), certain stories are starting up, and they are expanding the mythos that has inundated our society.  While some of these creepypastas are quite bad, and some of them seem to come off as FanFiction, rather than original stories, they are evidence to the fact that we are not going to lose our collective imagination any time soon.

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