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The Door in the Attic Floor
"Are you ok!?" Rachel yelled out as she ran toward me through the storm, trying not to laugh. It figures that moving day would find lightning, thunder, and rain attacking…
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I Made Him Up For Company on Long Car Rides, Now He Follows Me Everywhere
As a kid, it took everything I had not to paint the inside of my family’s car with a wave of vomit. My carsickness was the bane of our long…
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I was transported to a hellish alternate universe. This is my story.
The Traveller Series I’ve travelled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying I’ve travelled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying - Part 2 I’ve travelled…
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I Went Undercover to a Body Farm
Every flashlight in Moreau Bay scoured the forest for my missing wife, Jemma. All except his. His light pointed to the open water and lit a path to his strange…
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Never Stop At Roadside Memorials
You know those people who you tell the time of events to 15 minutes early because you know they would be late? The ones who would be late to their…
Read NowI Watched a Cursed Film from the Dark Web
I have this friend, Randall. Good guy, and all. Just a bit weird, y'know? I don't know. Like, I can't put my finger on it, but it's like he's from…
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Age Is Just A Number
I was born on January 13th 1989 at six past seven pm. Why? Why that day? Why that hour of the night? Had I been born earlier or later, what…
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Lost Kevin
I know it’s wrong to download movies and we shouldn’t do it, but I’m poor and those guys are rich. Either way, it’s not important. I’m only writing this to…
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Children of Wood and Man
To all my children, to all those who followed me, and to those who trusted me, I am sorry, but this is my suicide note. It is necessary to kill…
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Into the Void: An Interview with Pure Evil
Lincoln Oliver Locray, judging by the crimes he had committed alone, was the living definition of a monster. Having spent his formative years somewhere out in the backwoods of Kentucky,…
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I Posted a True Stalker Story Online. My Stalker Read it…
This is an update to a story I posted on an internet forum about 4 years ago. In fact, what happened was a direct result of me posting it. I’ve…
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The Forgotten Screams
I'm a reporter in Southern Oregon. This is the story that you will never read in my newspaper. It starts with Georgina Hicks. Ms. Hicks lived in a trailer at…
Read NowWe Share Intestines
On the 23rd of September 2025, I died. It was sudden and painful, but brief. For some reason my just heart gave out. It ticked away for years without issue,…
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Plot Thirteen
I open my eyes, yet they do not see. I reach out with my hands, yet I am constrained. I inhale deeply, but dank air fills my lungs. Where am…
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The Town That Could Not Point
Everyone on the train was normal. Of course, Stuart didn’t care to notice that they were normal. When something is normal, the brain doesn’t pay it any mind. Why would…
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The Rainbow Place
Most people think of the dark when they imagine where monsters hide. They fear the shadows, the closets, the space beneath the bed where the sun doesn't reach. They are…
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I’m a low level US Government employee. I just saw something I wasn’t supposed to see.
You know that meme about how presidents and governors, after getting elected, look super shell-shocked and stressed the next time they make a public appearance? Like the first thing that…
Read NowFILE 2.8 [Ted Stokes] – The ‘TDC’ Experiment – 01/26/1992
FILE 2.8 [Ted Stokes] - The 'TDC' Experiment - 01/26/1992Note: The following text was found on a notepad in the now-destroyed 'AFM' base in central Idaho, and is presumed to…
Read NowThe Last Light
The bulb hung from a wire that didn't seem to lead anywhere. Above it, darkness. Below, a circle of yellow light, and inside it, a man on his knees, hands…
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