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Has anyone heard of a pill called Ichor?
Before anything else, I want to make it clear I’m not a journal-keeping kinda guy, so apologies if the formatting’s out of whack. Usually I get by just fine with…
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Sea of the Fractured Circuit
There’s never one point where something ‘clicks’. Some like to believe there is, that hobbies or skills reach a well-defined turning point, an ON-OFF switch. It’s never that simple. Even…
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The Truth Behind the Mandela Effect
Everything that people think they know about the Mandela effect is incorrect. The phenomenon has been occurring for years, only most dismissed it as a fluke. In the most severe…
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The Strange Glow
My grandfather has been acting very strange lately, and has begun sleepwalking again. For this reason it was suggested to me by my parents that I write a journal to…
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I Found the Corpse of a Time Traveler
I’m a postgraduate student studying archaeology at a prestigious university in the UK (not going to disclose my identity or the name of my school, so don’t ask). Over a…
Read NowThe Grinning Man
February 20th, 1979 “August 15th, 1975. That was the first time. You ever heard of cryptozoology? “The study of hidden animals” as it is officially defined, but often mixed up…
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My Old Home Videos Showed Me a Life I Never Lived
No matter what you see in the coming months, regardless of how convincing it might seem; Know that I didn't want to die. I'm going to take all possible steps…
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Renaud Herbert Hansen
Mr. Hansen’s body was interred in a stately mausoleum of his own design years ago, and yet he still works for us. I’m forced to interview with the remains of…
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I’ve Been Missing Since August of 2014, This is What’s Happened Since My Last Journaled ‘Experience’
To begin with, my name is Samuel Terrence. I was a college dropout living a pretty sad life with my parents until a blackout that occurred in 2014.I recently posted…
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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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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…
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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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I Found a Tree in my Backyard: The Animate Forests
Journal entry: August 30th, 2031. My name is Dr. Gabrielle Antario, and there’s something going on that you all should know about. It all started in January of 2020, with…
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The Littlefork Bodysnatchers
Over the past few decades, a disturbing rumor has spread throughout the backwoods settlement of Littlefork. People there tell tales of so-called “alternates,” who kidnap and impersonate the small town’s…
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They Came With Red Lightning
Something fell with a thud on the roof in front Daniels window. It made a sliding noise as it dragged itself across the slope of the roof and with another…
Read NowThe story behind the lost 1976 Pellington Mothman film
If you've spent any time looking into Mothman, or cryptids in general, you're probably familiar with the so-called “Pellington Mothman film”. One of the most famous pieces of cryptid lost…
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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…
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The Late-Night Creature Feature in Pompeii, Indiana
There is an almost universal feeling of discomfort and unease that a person experiences when they see a deserted place that their mind tells them should be full of people.…
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The Allerton Device
Part 1 “We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity,and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” —H.P. Lovecraft Why…
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The Secrets of Mr. Thomas
In every neighbourhood, on every street in North America there is that one person who just doesn't fit in with the rest. Sometimes they are an elusive recluse that rarely…
Read NowHunting Grounds
Ding dong! Erin Tucker (“Erry” to anyone besides her mother) looked up from her tablet to see which of the locals had come to bug her before she finally got…
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Plot Holes
The day I found my first hole was the day my best friend came back from the dead. We were in high school and stupid. Jake was his name and…
Read NowSpooky: Horrors of the Battlefield
It’s a wondrous thing, getting to work in the U.S. military. Sure, to each their own, Army does its thing, the Marines, the Special Forces, the Navy. I always wanted…
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