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Where Trespassers Fade
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin The road narrowed until it was no road at all,…
Read NowI Used To Be Fearless
I used to be fearless. Horror movies never really scared me. Scary books had no effect. Haunted houses are meaningless. I was never a child who slept with the covers…
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The Door That Leads to Nowhere
When people come across something unexplainable, they try to find rational reasoning behind it. I mean, it’s only natural, right? Well, sometimes things are better left unexplained. I learned this…
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Lydia’s Bridge
With the windshield wipers swishing back and forth against a heavy late-autumn rain, I chased my car’s headlights down a long stretch of two-lane country road deeper into the odd…
Read NowDon’t Worry About It
You're slowly stirred awake by the distant ringing as the phone beside your bed pulls you out of your dreams. Your thoughts gather themselves and you groan, reaching over to…
Read NowMr. Padewski’s Story
Mr. Padewski’s Story Three years ago one of my colleagues, whom I consider a friend, uncharacteristically stopped coming to work. Mr. Padewski was in his forties and was well-respected. Health-wise,…
Read NowDriver Beware: 5 of the Most Haunted Roads in the U.S.
Have you ever been driving down a road when you suddenly get hit with an unexplainable eerie feeling? If so, you are not alone. In the darkest corners of the…
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Times of Departure
Times of Departure By John Clewarth When Ida Renton had first read Public Information Leaflet Number 3, in the month of July 1939, she had had no conception of the…
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A Town Where Strange Things Happen
Every year since my son Lucas turned 10, he, my wife Jennet, and I have taken a week-long vacation in Vermont. Years ago, my wife's father left her a small…
Read NowScreeching
It was a lovely fall afternoon with leaves crisp and fiery and nary a cloud in the sky. The sun shone gloriously in the deep cyan ether giving off the…
Read NowA Hole In The Concrete
March 2nd, 2026 I don't really know why I'm writing this down. Maybe because it felt too real to just forget about, and I've been sitting at my desk for…
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Red Eyes: A Mystery that terrorized a town
One - The town of Redding There are some things you should fear. Things that really go bump in the night. Just like there are some stories you should never…
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The Man With Green Eyes
Bridgewater state prison and penitentiary was built five miles from the nearest city, on an otherwise empty expanse of prairie. The tall towers surrounding the inner perimeter stood like silent…
Read NowLittle Monsters of Hallows’ Eve
I’ve always been a big fan of Halloween. When I was a kid, that was of course because of the candy and the chocolate bars. As I got older and…
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A Night at the Inwell House
A smile covers my face as I look up to see Emily looking down at me as I awake from my nap. I never really took work seriously, something she…
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I Steal Bodies
Part 1 I am dead. Well, at least the real me is. You see, this body I’m using to write this isn’t mine. I stole it. Don’t worry, I won’t…
Read NowThe Heaven Project
I awoke in a dark room on a cold, hard floor. It's difficult to tell how long I've been laying here, but the creaks in my bones and aches in…
Read NowMind Tricks
We’re lying on the floor of a stockroom in a gas station. Malia and I, the chubby, middle-aged clerk and an older couple I’ve never met are lying facedown on…
Read NowMy Son is Addicted to Time Control
He may not know it, but my son is in extreme mortal danger. With every passing minute, the odds dwindle that I will ever see him alive again. I should…
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