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My Experiences with the Psychic Knock Game
If you’re reading this, then I assume you know all about Snapchat’s “Psychic Knock Game.” If not, you can click HERE to get caught up. If you’re like me, then…
Read NowWhat Was Underneath
Salem, Massachusetts; Police Department – Public Records CASE: Jason Duluth, Resident of Salem, Suspected victim of occult murder STATUS: Case Closed RULING: Accidental death due to rotted floorboards and delusions.…
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The Girl in the Nightgown
“Am I asleep or am I awake?” I ask myself for the fifth time this week. I blink rapidly, trying to force my eyes to adjust to the dim lighting…
Read NowListen To The Music
Damasu was sitting atop his bike, peddling home on this unusually pleasant day. It was late autumn, and one would expect it to be far colder. But this morning, when…
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The Masked Mimic
Time, everything was taking too much time. Cassius crushed the elevator button into the wall, continuing to press it repeatedly. His eyes stayed glued to the numbers above the doors.…
Read NowThe Dripping
As I lay awake tossing and turning in my bed I kept thinking about how stupid my co-workers were. Thanks to a few choice idiots screwing up a report I…
Read NowEverything is Perfect Forever
The monster came right before the end of summer. Nobody knew it was a monster, of course. No one ever does. The Nettletons used to live in the house it…
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Grandpa’s secret lived in the basement
It was during the spring break of my second year at college that I got a phone call from my uncle Andrew, asking me if I’d be willing to spend…
Read NowBitter Beings
When my mother was alive, she was quite the storyteller. My brothers and I were constantly told stories of her youth, how she met our father, what we were like…
Read NowThe Choice in the Fields
He had stopped running, but only because he couldn’t run anymore. His foot had hit a stalk at just the perfect angle to leave him face first in the dry…
Read NowYou’re My Baby
Lakeshia was not sure of the time; she did know that it was very late, and dark according to the window. Rain came in a steady drizzle outside. Droplets which…
Read NowThe Tale of Moll Dyer
After ten years of nightmarish terror, saved only by the conviction of the reality that I witnessed that night, I will vouch for the truth of what really happened to…
Read NowI’m Afraid Of The Dark
I’ve always gotten scared of the dark easily. Maybe it was the stories my older brother used to tell me when we were little. Always explaining in-depth how there were…
Read NowSchattenfrau
The night smells wrong. Not merely damp, not merely cold—spoiled, as though the air itself has been left too long inside something dead and forgotten. Each breath coats your tongue…
Read NowThe Coal Yard
It was the summer of 1987. I was 25 years old and a city boy by nature. A product of the sounds of persistent traffic and bustling people on the…
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The Signal-Man
“Halloa! Below there!” When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its…
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The Shadow in the Lake
It was nothing new. Just a normal trip to the lake. My friends and I had gone to lake Thunderbird many times on weekends, it was our favorite retreat from…
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Poppy’s Peril
It's Halloween eve. The night is delightfully crisp, with a bright, low-lying moon. The thrill of anticipation can be felt in the air. The autumn leaves blow with a scritch-scratch…
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The Sleepover
I was always known as the weird girl; the one with no friends, strict parents, and strange habits. I was an outcast in part because I ate hot sauce sandwiches…
Read NowThe Nightcrawler
I remember it being a very typical day. So typical and dull that the details of what happened previous to the "incident" completely slip my mind. It was at around…
Read NowWarning Sign
My wife and I were driving down a dark road, on our way to Colorado for our honeymoon. It had to be around midnight and I'd been driving for hours.…
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