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This Ukrainian ghost town wasn’t as abandoned as I thought…
It was around noon when the rust-coated sign that marked the town’s entrance came into my view. Sighing in relief that Google Maps hadn’t failed me, I guided my car…
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A Firefighter Found
The first part of this story 'A Firefighter Lost' can be found here: https://www.creepypasta.com/a-firefighter-lost/ The sound of the fire was quickly approaching and the dull roar encompassed Drakor. His fine…
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Wendigo Psychosis
Winter pounded on the door and walls around the wooden shack the men had found and hunkered down in. The small military force was at their wit’s and body’s ends;…
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G.O.D’s Journal
The Michigan Inquirer MAY 09, 2023 The following entries were transcribed by Michigan State University senior,Marlee Yarborough. Last weekend, she and three fellow students were camping inManistee National Forest while…
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Stupid Games
Prophetic Ender Think your ripple has no meaning?Think a rifle won't leave men bleeding?I'm tired of preachers that are blind to their wordsI'm sick of acts that are silent to…
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The camera didn’t look like something that should still work. Didn’t feel right from the start. When my sister handed me that box on my birthday, I could tell it’d…
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The Last Body I Ever Cut Open
Craig Brockwell was found by his wife, dead on their living room floor, a plastic garbage bag tied off around his neck, and an empty bottle of Xanax on the…
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What We Found Beneath The Great Sphinx of Giza…
Between 1991 and 1993, American author John Anthony West and his team of archaeologists conducted a series of geological and seismic surveys around the Great Sphinx of Giza. The resulting…
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My favorite place to be was my mother's arms. She caressed my little head, braided my little curls, kissed my little forehead good morning, and sang me goodnight with a…
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I Discovered a New Species While Backpacking in Utah
I need to get this information off my chest. I'm writing this on the shoulder of the highway in Utah. It's 4 am, and I've been driving nonstop for almost…
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Please help me. I’m scared, and I don’t know what to do
I don't know else how to say this other than I just saw a titanic skeleton in the woods of Lassen National Park. I understand this place is usually reserved…
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My One Night Stand Left Something Inside Me
Hi guys. My name is Violet, I’m twenty-three, and I’m scared. I don’t understand what’s happening to me, and I really hope somebody can help. It was Friday afternoon. I…
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Digger of the Dead
Many people ask me why I would ever choose the field of grave digging as my chosen career. Why choose such a depressing and creepy job when I could be…
Read NowThe Silence of the North Woods
The first thing I remember of my arrival in Ahtunowhiho, the small Native American village in the northern reaches of Minnesota, was the smell. The familiar aroma of soaked dirt…
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Black Wolf’s Sedan
Taking out the old man had been simple for Black Wolf: locate, break-in, kill him, and secure the body for transport. The job had been clean and bloodless, leaving no…
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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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Now I’m gonna start this saying I’m not the smartest man in the world. I never did well in school, always getting in trouble of one sort or another. I…
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Heart of the Rotwood
Darlene Kelly’s eyes scanned the set of hoof prints in the mud where she knelt. Her eyes moved to the thick underbrush in front of them, where something large had…
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I Remember Alice
I remember Alice. It was the summer of 2004 when the two of us first met. I’d just started at university. I was a dorky, somewhat awkward-looking girl, too skinny,…
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A Crooked Man
The Crooked Man was tired,His aching bones grew weary.A longing for death he had acquired,His mind filled with thoughts so eerie. He wondered why he was the only one to…
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