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The Forgotten Vending Machine
There is a village somewhere in England that has not been inhabited for over 20 years. It has long since been forgotten off of most maps, and only has one…
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A Childhood Dream Destroyed
There is no God. There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. There is only this fucking Dorito disguised as a GODDAMN Greasy lookin chicken nugget from McDonald's Hell, where…
Read NowWatch Out For The… Wait, What?
Driving home at night, you notice that all the lights in your house/apartment are on. As you park the car, they all turn off at the same time. The house…
Read NowThe Black & White Slide
My grandma fell down last year and had to spend time in a nursing home. While she was gone, I was cleaning up old shit she had accumulated around the…
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The Haunted Marotte
This curious item once belonged to the English theatre actor James Fontaine. He was best known for playing the role of Hop-Frog, a jester character from the stage adaptation of…
Read NowThe Copy Machine
You're at work alone, when you suddenly hear the copy machine start up. You walk out to take a look at what's going on and see several copies filling the…
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A Game About Kansas
Many of these stories are about games that have gone out, been enjoyed by millions, and then some random person in the middle of nowhere has experienced something creepy. Haunted,…
Read NowThe Ever-Burning Light Bulb
In a fire station in California, there is a light bulb that is always on and has never, ever burned out. If you read Numbers 16:41-45 from a King James…
Read NowKnock Knock
I bolted upright in the bed not sure what I expected to see, but knowing that something had startled me awake. Moonlight filtered in through the window and I shivered…
Read NowThe Scarlett Envelope
George never got sick, well, almost never. He was well into his thirties and had been working an office job for almost seven years now. It was a standard 8-5…
Read NowEchiridion Aetheri
This may seem a little strange for a story, however I assure you what I am about to describe to you happened to us. There were five people present when…
Read NowThe Horror Section
I think it was my somewhat strict upbringing that fostered my intrigue for horror. Following the path of god and basking in the sun's rays is all well and good...…
Read NowA Recipe For Success
Prominently displayed in the children's section of the Houston Downtown Public Library, among several others of the same title, My First Cookbook appears as a run-of-the-mill children's cookbook, complete with…
Read NowJournal Found Within the Woods
Extracted from the personal notebook of Detective Charles E. Willows, 1891-1940 Of what has become of Frank Elwood or where he has vanished to; none can rightfully say. When the…
Read NowThe X-Ray Glasses
For a brief period in 1971, a New Jersey based company sold novelty "X-ray" glasses through the mail via advertisements in the Marvel line of comic books. People who viewed…
Read NowThe Tattoo
You wake after a wild night of partying to find that while you were wasted, for some reason you had a crude smiley face tattooed on your foot. You write…
Read NowDear Diary
2AM: I can't seem to sleep tonight, and writing has always calmed me down. Today has been quite an odd day, It's been very quiet. Nobody seemed to want to…
Read NowThe Black Stone
In 1653, Spanish explorers found the ruins of what appeared to be a Mesoamerican step pyramid in what is modern South Carolina. Though the site was far beyond the borders…
Read NowA Silent Reminder
During the second world war many families in Berlin where confined to shelters for days, sometimes weeks while outside air raids flew overhead. Many of the children, who were supposed…
Read NowImperfect Transition
I was sitting in the upstairs office of the Museum with a cup of coffee when it happened. It had been a long day, and I'd set the work experience…
Read NowClickety Clack
There was a family of 5. A mother, a father and 3 daughters. The daughters names were Jennifer, Jade and Janine. Their father was a carpenter, their mother unemployed. The…
Read NowGideon’s Bible
There are seven words in every Gideon's Bible - y'know, the one they stuff in every hotel room - that can't be found in any other bible. If you repeat…
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