Thread:GrumpyNinja/@comment-213.156.35.226-20161115211008/@comment-25791545-20161117003750

I think it's impossible to actually track down the very original Lavender Town Syndrome page. It was posted on the main creepypasta wiki in 2013, though it may have been circulating since the dawn of the internet for all I know. As for the reason it was written, I suppose humans just like telling scary stories, and Lavender Town certainly has the atmosphere for one.

Some other classic and well-known pastas are Lost Silver, Strangled Red, Ghost Black Version, Buried Alive, Escape from Lavender Town, Snow on Mt. Silver, and the Abandon Lonliness series. Most, if not all of those, have rom hacks or fangames dedicated to them.

I haven't seen many particularly noteworthy pastas pertaining to generations 5 and 6 (aside from my own, but I'll leave those out since I'm probably biased). I do rather like Guardian Of The Forest, though, and I Won't Leave You is quite the tear-jerker even if it is a spinoff of sorts. Strangely enough, I don't know of a single pokepasta about Hoopa or the Lumiose ghost girl.