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An image titled "[[Smile Dog|Smile.jpg]]" was posted to the image-sharing website UseNet without a story. The image features a Siberian Husky with a human-like grin along with a red handprint next to it. As there is no story (or origin) for the image whatsoever,<ref name="CBR">Wilkinson, C. (2021, November 30). cbr.com/creepypasta-stories-that-need-movie-adaptations "6 Terrifying Creepypasta Stories That Need Movie Adaptations"]. CBR.</ref><ref name="petslady">WarrenKeith, petslady.com/articles/horror_smile_dog_meme_60169 "The Horror Of The Smile Dog Meme"]. Petslady.com.</ref><ref name="bustle">Peters, L. (2016, January 16). bustle.com/articles/135749-is-smile-dog-real-heres-the-truth-about-the-classic-creepypasta-its-terrifying-image-file "Is "Smile Dog" Real? Here's The Truth About The Classic Creepypasta & Its Terrifying Image File"]. [[wikipedia:Bustle|Bustle]].</ref> creepypasta writers created stories to explain the image. The most well-known example is that of an amateur writer. The writer narrates in the story that he met an old woman named Mary E, who was one of the three hundred people who found the image when she saw it at the small Chicago-based Bulletin Board System (BBS) in 1992. Mary claimed that after the day she saw the image, she received a floppy disk with one file on it, but was refused to do so. Later on, Mary's husband informed the writer that Mary had committed suicide. The image was considered to have caused nightmares for viewers who viewed it, and had been described as "beckoning" by those who saw the original, and some claimed that the handprint on the image was the hand of the devil. The original image is unknown, but fake recreations of what many people described the original exist. Its first appearance was made on [[4chan]]'s /x/ imageboard in 2008.<ref name="CBR" /><ref name="petslady" /><ref name="bustle" />