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No one likes the dark
“All a skeptic is is someone who hasn’t had an experience yet.” — Jason Hawes“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”…
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The Well in the Forest
We first set foot into this forest yesterday evening after spending just over an hour and a half making our journey. It was one of those evenings where the many…
Read NowWe Found a Cave During Our Annual Hiking Trip
Summer for me and my friend, Jake, usually only meant one thing: Endless hiking trips in the mountainous terrain around our city. While traveling far away was a luxury we…
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The Awoken Dead
The following are pages taken from the journal of Andrei Bucur found buried under the church of a lost village in Romania. April 17, 1479 It has been a long…
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Please stay away from Wayne National Forest
Not many people take me seriously. I get it. Someone with a traumatic past, like mine, must be nuts, right? But, I know what I’ve seen. I know all too…
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The Convention
We got to the hotel late. The kiddo was a mess, and so was I. I’d let Sally sleep through the flight while I tried to keep our two-year-old girl…
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The Thing in the Window (Illustrated Creepypasta)
I'm pretty freaked out. That thing has been there for almost a week. The figure in the window. It looks featureless, only skin on a human frame, and it's pressing…
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Paradisal Sequence
"Did you see that?" "Hmm?" "There's an animal in the lake," I took off my sunglasses and sat up, looking at where she pointed at to see small ripples breaking…
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Why I Hate Scarecrows
I hate scarecrows. I have ever since I was little. I found something about the dolls stuffed with straw unsettling. I remember my parents tried to help me get over…
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The Corn Is Breathing, Now I Hear Them Whisper
Fear, a concept that our brains have created for what? Protection? The sheer thrill? Wrong, we feel fear for our survival, plain and simple. Everyone looks at fear differently, the…
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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…
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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…
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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 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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The Hiker’s Lapse
Maintaining a steady pace—placing one foot in front of the other, trudging along as he'd done for the past four months—Sam felt the distance growing between himself and the Creek.…
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Spiderland
“Can we go on the roller coaster?” “Sure we can,” Kent assured his son, whose eyes brimmed with hope and enthusiasm. Little Brian ran ahead towards the ride as his…
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A Strange Village
Mayuko’s Gameboy suddenly turned off. She rolled her eyes and let out a loud sigh: the stupid thing ran out of batteries, again. Mayuko shoved it inside her backpack and…
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Midnight Visit
The darkness of the nighttime sky hangs like a shroud cloaking the Earth in mystery. The shroud is empty, devoid of the decorations that usually dot its fabric every hour…
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