User blog comment:Dragonlord247/what is the FIRST creepypasta..../@comment-5239282-20140711174315

Well, the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion has become something of a creepypasta (it's even posted on-site, last time I checked). That was in the eighties. There's nothing supernatural or extraordinary about it: it kinda just happened, and people thought it was a good story once copypasta came around, I guess.

But, of course, there are probably some pastas that document an even older real-life event without twisting anything.

As another user once said, "The first Creepypasta ever told was the cavemen returning from their hunt and telling their family of what lies beyond the cave." Or something like that. ;p