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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 House That Calls
The town of Ashford was like any other—quiet, unassuming, the kind of place where nothing extraordinary ever happened. It was nestled between rolling hills and thick forests, the kind of…
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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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My Strange Ability
I had been friends on Facebook with a girl for many years. We hardly talked but it was always fun to see her content. Her posts would center around her…
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I Think I’m Being Followed
My name's Abigail Stitcher. I'm 15 years old, and I think I'm being followed. You see, I live in a relatively small town, with a population of 1,476 or so.…
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The Girl in the Dark
I’ll never forget the first time I saw the girl. It was mid-October and it was unusually cold for the area. The air was biting at my feet as I…
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Smoke & Mirrors
Liam looked down, shaking as he glared at the blood encrusted on his hands. It was not his own. The infernos of the destruction before him were nailed into his…
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Humanities 210: Culture in Ireland
Hank walked through the grounds of Cluain Mhic Nóis, trying to enjoy the beauty of the monastery's ruins despite having been up for over 24 hours. Hank had flown into…
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Paranoid Claire
The rusty black Sedan crept along the road opposite Claire, moving at under 10 mph. Claire stopped walking and pretended to check her phone while ignoring her shaking hand and…
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A few years ago, a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. They called their most trusted…
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Don’t Scream
Tap tap tap. This is just a coincidence. It's not like my story came to life...right? _________________________ A knock on the door radiates through my ears, my brain and thoughts…
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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 Nightmare of Cockroaches
I hate bugs. I hate all kinds of insects, such as flies, bees, even mosquitoes; but the one insect that I hate most of all is the common cockroach. To…
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The Monkey Jones Mystery
There we stood, all five of us, our feet held still to the ground, not too well, because we knew with any given moment our acceleration was a necessity of…
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oK so basicaly its like this. youare at a friends house for like the night or watever and then you guys are making out on the couch (yeah!) and then…
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The Observer
It was on the wall, right in front of me, over my bed, hung like a painting. It had one limp hand draped, with bony, serpentine fingers, just above the…
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White Room
The subjects awoke in what looked to be a huge room With large mirrors on the walls above. The concrete walls and floor were painted white, very recently too As…
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