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I Hunt Cryptids
The US Department of Interior decided decades ago that the belief in unnatural beings was well spread enough to warrant a database for any and all cryptids in the US…
Read NowI Drive a Taxi Between the Realms. Entry Three: Otherworld
Entry One Entry Two It's been a solid month since my unsettling trip to Tartarus. I still haven't heard anything about the woman I picked up. I suppose that finding…
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If you’re Reading This, Please Don’t Apply for a Dishwasher Position at Riverside Memories Retirement Community.
I was opening the shift that day. I walked past the golf cart with its flat tire. It was coming up on its 2-year anniversary of being broken. I scanned…
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The Hand That Bites
Mark dutifully pulled his car up to the curb and checked his Super ride-share app. Seeing that the address was correct, he yawned as he drew his hand back through…
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I Watch Security Cameras In An Old Government Building: Part Four
Read part one here Read part two here Read part three here “We have to go, now!” Larry exclaims, clamping down on the knob and signaling for me to follow.…
Read NowI Heard Her Sing
This was in the early 2000s. A group of marine biologists, myself included, were in the Philippine Sea to study the effects of global warming on local marine wildlife. This…
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Dead Boats
I worked a shrimp boat called the Melissa on the gulf. Hot, sweaty work but all the shrimp you can eat, so there’s that. Captain Mike was my boss, a…
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Don’t Ever Stop for the People on the Shoulder
My name is Harrison and I’m a long haul trucker. While I sometimes get routes all over the place, my most common run is Vancouver to San Francisco. It’s an…
Read NowI Drive a Taxi Between the Realms. Entry Two: Tartarus
Entry one:https://www.creepypasta.com/i-drive-a-taxi-between-the-realms-entry-one-dering-wood/ Slow day. I love a slow day. Yeah, time can certainly drag when I'm just driving around waiting for something to happen–someone to summon a ride. But I…
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Dr. Greenwich’s Flesh Clinic
Superintendent Harlowe and I stepped into the interrogation room. It was strange performing an interview in here with one of our own, and not even for a crime. Officer Molloy…
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I Watch Security Cameras In An Old Government Building: Part Three
Read part one here Read part two here So there I was, simply at the grocery store, stocking up on various things for the house when I had received a…
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Born on 13
The following was recorded in New York City during a group session on Friday, August 13, 2021; EIT 0-3-7 ———————————— JAMIE: Hello everyone, I’m Jamie— GROUP: Hi Jamie! [light applause]…
Read NowThe Forest Keeper
A book swiftly closed with a loud thump, and I turned around to toss it towards the pile. I stopped for a moment, admiring the never-ending tower of journals that…
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I Saved the World
You have to listen to me, this isn’t right. You can’t do this. You can’t let this happen! Okay... hold on, let me try again. Something different this time, calmer.…
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I Watch Security Cameras In An Old Government Building: Part Two
Read Part one here Okay, so it seems there were enough of you genuinely interested in my last post to justify typing up this one here. Yes I am still…
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Encounter on the Olympic Peninsula
I’m in the engineers union, but I don’t have a degree in anything. I go to job sites all over the state and mark elevations for excavation. I hike around…
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What Lies Beneath
My name is Herman Fontaine. I am 29 years old and live in Ocala Florida with my girlfriend of three years, Sylvia Ramsey, several dogs, cats, turtles, and a couple…
Read NowMay the ‘Muffin Man’ Take Me Tomorrow
I'm writing this in the hour before dawn. If the clock strikes nine, I might not get the chance to write it at all. I need you to understand who…
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The Parker Express
Part 1 This is your captain speaking. I've just turned on the seat belt sign. We're expecting a fair amount of turbulence coming up, so we ask that you please…
Read NowI Keep Finding Polaroids of Myself on Dead Patients
People at work call me the ‘Ninja Nurse’.I didn't hate the nickname at first. There's something almost dignified about it. Ninjas are disciplined and precise. They’re quick, and they move…
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From Bones To Bones
It all started with the missing hikers, then it was the missing hunters, the second group of hikers, and now it’s a jogger. They couldn’t find any of the others,…
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I ran security for a cultist outpost
Contrary to popular belief, not all cult members are crazy. I mean, they can be a bit nutty but the majority of members are just regular people, practicing their beliefs…even…
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Stick To The Road
Driving, to me it is more then just getting from point A to point B, it is a way of life. Some find peace at a spa or on a…
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