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My brothers took me on a Snipe hunt as a joke. We found one.
Whenever you go camping with some friends, sit around a campfire at night there always comes the time for everyone to share a spooky story with the rest. And while…
Read NowHow the Russian Sleep Experiment Became an Internet Legend
Some creepypastas scare us for a few weeks and then disappear into forgotten corners of the internet. Others somehow survive for years. They are discovered by new audiences over and…
Read NowPlant The Seed
The sky over the golden kingdom had turned the color of an open wound. Lseynda pressed her back against the shattered remains of a marble colonnade and tried to breathe…
Read NowHow Summerville Got its Name
The white metal sign peppered with rusting bullet holes read Welcome to Summerville. Lara frowned, her foot lifting slightly from the accelerator. She leaned forward, squinting through the dust on…
Read NowDeath’s Usher: Know Your Enemy
Read Part One here Read Part Two here “BEFORE WE MOVE OUT,” Ibnar says, “we need to visit our homes and retrieve our gear.” “Right you are. Uh…” My stomach…
Read NowThe Gods of the Long Grass
The kitchen smelt of booze. Like it always did. Jack was slumped over the table, snoring. His hair matted with his own sick. A halo of empty bottles around his…
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The internet is full of weird horror stories, and Ticci Toby is definitely one of those characters people never forget, even though it’s been more than a decade since its…
Read NowThe Shadow That Stayed
Night One — 11:17 PM The refrigerator hums in the kitchen, falls silent, then starts again. I've been staring at the same paragraph in my nursing notes for nearly twenty…
Read NowHenrietta: A Whirlwind of Imagination
The house on 4th Street didn’t break all at once. It fractured slowly, in the quiet spaces between arguments, until the tension became a living, breathing thing that crowded seven-year-old…
Read NowI’m Hell’s Best Loan Shark
My job’s an interesting one. Putting “loan shark” on any résumé likely won’t end in success. Adding “hell’s best” at the beginning will probably succeed in a one way trip…
Read NowThe Hallway
It was an unassuming place, or thing depending on your point of view. Jennifer or Jen for short and Will, siblings, stood puzzling at the oddity before them. Unsure of…
Read NowTHE DOGHEAD
Humid winds howled through the canyon, throwing up plumes of black dust. The particles clinked against the reinforced glass of my goggles as we trotted across the terrain. A set…
Read NowThe Photograph Behind Me
The photograph was taken on October 17, 2009. I know the date because the original file still exists. I wish it didn’t. I was thirteen years old when it happened.…
Read NowCross Manor
December 11th, 8:14 pm The odor drew me back to a faint memory from childhood, one I had not felt in years. A winter night so cold it stole the…
Read NowThe Most Haunted Places in Colorado
Colorado is a place famous for its mountains, old mining towns, and beautiful natural landscapes. But whenever horror enthusiasts search for the most haunted places in the United States, Colorado…
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Hunger of St. Bruvia
St. Bruvia was always a hungry town. It was an old place, older than most of its residents, with crooked wooden houses leaning toward one another beneath heavy snow and…
Read NowDeath’s Usher: An Unholy Crusader
Read Part One here “WHAT IS THE OATH of the Grave?” “Death’s first usher, the Dragon, first pledged it,” Great-Grandmother says. “Many did so in the past, but they’re few…
Read NowThe Scariest Horses Ever Imagined
When you think of scary animals, chances are that the image of horses doesn't even enter your mind because these animals are usually associated with beauty, freedom, and strength. However,…
Read NowCan You Hear That?
“Can you hear that?” The voice was muffled. The music blaring from my headphones drowned out everything around me. If he didn't tap my shoulder, I wouldn't have even noticed…
Read NowWhale Fall
“Is it true we know more about the surface of the moon than our own oceans?” “No. People love saying that, but we know far more about our oceans than…
Read NowThe Strange Woman
If you are reading this, there is a very likely chance I am either dead or at the very least in a hospitalized state. It’s currently 12:43 PM as I…
Read NowContemplate
Every device in my house woke me up at 5:38 A.M. I woke up before the alarm went off. That was the first wrong thing. In eleven years of marriage…
Read NowThe Bard of Blackwater
I grew up in a quaint town. The kind where everyone knows everything about one another, truly hellacious. As a child, I was reclusive, so you can imagine I hated…
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