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The Hot Springs
A couple important things to note before I tell you about my experience: you are more than welcome to go check this place out for yourselves. Do a quick google…
Read NowThe Subway Ride
I live in the UK. A colleague at work heard this from her boyfriend. He works with someone who said that his sister's friend got the last tube (subway train)…
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Someone Has Made It An Annual Tradition to Amputate a Part of My Body
Back in 2012, I went to Las Vegas for a couple of weeks to blow off some steam, along with my severance package after I was laid off. It wasn’t an…
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Talent, Right on Time
“You think you can win on talent alone? You don’t have enough talent to win on talent alone.” – Kurt Russell, “Miracle” * * * “WHERE’S MY STORY?” “I don’t…
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I was Earth’s ambassador to a murderous alien race. Negotiations have failed
My story begins several years ago when I was a rising star in the mechanisms of federal government and planning on a career within the political establishment in DC. This…
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It Came From the Haunted House Across the Street
After my dad shared his Halloween tale about the disappearance of his best friend Jake and the town’s O-Lantern Man urban legend, I asked him if he would tell me…
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Alien abductions are real and they’re worse than you think
Most of you reading this account won’t believe my story. Hell, I wouldn’t believe if I hadn’t lived through the horror. To the best of my knowledge, only two people…
Read NowThe Antiguan Giant
I used to go diving a lot. Not so much anymore, but a couple years ago I was really into it, had my license and everything. It's really beautiful down…
Read NowThe Smiling Man In Black
When I was younger, I lived with my father and his mother. I was the only child, a girl at that, and my father was very protective of me. My…
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You Humans Are Terrifying
I know that people are going to call this out as bullshit so I'll just say it right now. I'm a demon. At least that's what most people would call…
Read NowThe Prince’s Fresh Start
Somewhere in West Philadelphia, you will find an old basketball court with a single ball lying in the middle. Pick it up and start shooting hoops. After a while, a…
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Forever and Always
Everybody loves the woods, until they follow you home. When my father came back from the military, we bought our first house—a boxy, two-story affair on the woodsy outskirts part…
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Easter Memoria
Easter is always the first Sunday following the full moon after the spring equinox. Sounds a little weird, doesn’t it? This holiday’s origin varies depending on your chosen religion, but…
Read NowWalk The Path
Ilza walked at the center of the line, where the others could keep her between them. She was young for an elf, not yet into the fullness of her years,…
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All My Friends Are Dead
Part 1 All my friends are dead. Don’t take that the wrong way though. I can’t say I knew any of them when they were still alive. Well, at least…
Read NowDon’t Let The Cold Man In
I had a dream last night. It was the kind that seems real right up to the point where you wake up. Some things were strange about it…certain things were…
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The Heart and the Cabinet
When a heart fell out of the medicine cabinet, Carrie Pickett screamed. Not two seconds ago, she’d wandered in, relieved herself, and opened the swing-door for her sleeping pills. Out…
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I attended a lecture delivered by a Servant of Hell
This is a story I promised to never tell. For years I told myself it wasn’t real, that I’d suffered from a paranoid delusion or mental breakdown on the day…
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The Man Who Brought Happiness
I found this note on the job. It was titled The Man Who Brought Happiness. *** I was at my lowest point. My bruises were fresh. As an only child…
Read NowThe Fairdale Kids Stay Inside
We called them fallen angels. They were strung up by their ankles and suspended from trees. There was always barbed wire. Wrapped all around the body. Sliced the skin and…
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Never Enter the Old Corn Maze on Halloween
There are always plenty of strange rumors circulating in small towns across the world. The one I grew up in has everything from tales of lizard creatures beneath the woods,…
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