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It Came Back Instead
Did you ever look a loved one in the eyes and not recognize what you see? The face is the same, but there’s something…else. Something that wasn’t there before. Something…
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My doorbell keeps ringing and I’m the only one that can hear it.
So, I've lived with my parents in the same house for over twenty years. Nothing exciting really, just the same little neighborhood they raised me and my sisters in. Sometimes…
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Composer of the Unknown
A mild night in the New England countryside. An empty field with an omnipresence of untrimmed grass and wild weeds left to grow unabated. The field is surrounded by a…
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Dear Diary, Goodnight
2017-10-07 Dear Diary, I am new to writing these entries, but nevertheless, I’ll try to write in this regularly. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I have had it for…
Read NowWhat the Wind Blew In
“HURRICANE WARNING - A hurricane is expected within 48 hours. If advised to evacuate, do so immediately”. I never really took those warnings seriously. In the tropics, a little category…
Read NowFortunately Unfortunate
One time in my childhood, my family and I visited my father's hometown. It was a very tiring trip to the north, lasting for almost half a day. We arrived…
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Dead and Gone
It had been six months since the accident. I remember because Elizabeth was helping me sign my name in our daughter Jenny’s birthday card. Slowly she guided by hand, helping…
Read NowThe Whisperer
I grew up listening to all sorts of scary stories from my parents, and my grandparents, but I never really believed in anything supernatural firmly. This was, though, till one…
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Left Behind
"Inspired by a true event a friend once told me..." When you hear stories of things that go bump into the night. You get that cold shiver that goes down…
Read NowThe Scariest “Story” Ever
Transcript taken from a video found under the link: SCARIEST “STORY” EVER The video feed turns on in night vision mode. A teen girl, pale in the greenish light, stands…
Read NowThe Custodian
A man named Marty Foster was walking. He wasn’t quite sure where to; hadn’t been for some time. He had found that it was shockingly easy to lose his way…
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Waking Nightmares
I was having a miserable day. Well…okay, I was allowing myself to have a miserable day. I sat at my desk watching the seconds tick off on the digital atomic…
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Does anyone remember the rhyme about the Patchwork Man? And the picture game
Patchwork Man, Patchwork Man, play a game!Patchwork Man, Patchwork Man, in the frame! And the next line is something about stealing your skin. But for the life of me I…
Read NowUnder the Ice
As I lay in my sick bed with my mind muddled, I find it quite impossible to find motivation to continue on and lack the focus to return to my…
Read NowJust Your Average Night
Just Your Average Night By Julie Oliver “Ok, time for bed” … is what I said to the empty living-room. It was getting late, and the internet no longer amused…
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Chinese Graveyard
Fred turned the wheel of his Volkswagen around slowly; making a small circular run around the entrance to the Chinese Graveyard, a small plot of land that the locals had…
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The Moon Stares Back
Chapter 1: The Moon’s Faces I hate the moon. The way it shines upon me with its many faces… it's just trying to lure me into its malicious void of…
Read NowThe Whole Time
I'm not sure when I started thinking of him again. It had been at least sixteen years. I had pretty much forgotten about him up till that point. I went…
Read NowThe Last Fire Watcher
I do not tell this story to people anymore because nobody believes the story about the fire lookout tower. Even the friends who were with me that night at the…
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