16 Jan Why I Don’t Go Trick-or-Treating Anymore

Posted at 11:00h in Abductions and Kidnappings, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Halloween Stories 0 Comments

My name isn’t really important, but for now, I’ll go by Monty. A little backstory, I grew up in a small town just outside of Hartford, Connecticut. Real nice place where everyone knew everyone, you never locked your doors, had a real charm to it....

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13 Dec A Cat in the Dark

Posted at 11:00h in Animals and Wildlife, Halloween Stories, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft 0 Comments

This is a story about an old Welsh witch. It was All Hallows’ Day, 1 November 1974, when the people of my village awoke to find that my house had burnt down. My parents’ charred bodies were found and identified, but the investigators were unable to...

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05 Dec The Trunk

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Demons and Possession, Folklore and Folktales, Halloween Stories, Myths and Legends, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Moving day. A chance to start fresh in a new place. New opportunities, new community, new home. Home. Not just a house. To Eric Sherman, this was a place he could finally call home. No ex-wives to hound him for alimony. No disapproving parents to...

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31 Oct Terminal C

Posted at 17:00h in Halloween Stories, Locations and Sites, Rites and Rituals 0 Comments

My family and I moved to Denver about two years ago. I work for an art school that transferred me from my remote Orlando office, and the city that I had called home for the past fifteen years, to the main college campus that is situated...

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31 Oct Stories For My Daughter

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Ghosts and Spirits, Halloween Stories 0 Comments

I know they say Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but for me it's Halloween. I deck the hall with cobwebs and fake spiders. It's just such a special time. Autumn is here and the leaves are beginning to fall. It's a time...

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30 Oct Unfinished Business

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Ghosts and Spirits, Halloween Stories, Hell and the Afterlife 0 Comments

I live in a country where, unfortunately, Halloween is not a big thing. It’s almost not a thing at all, and this fact disappoints me to no end. I’m a bored 19-year-old living in a small town where everyone I know still acts like they...

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29 Oct Hallowed Ground

Posted at 18:30h in Beings and Entities, Ghosts and Spirits, Halloween Stories, Locations and Sites, Rites and Rituals 0 Comments

I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful than a cemetery in the fall, though I love cemeteries no matter the season. There’s normally an abundance of majestically tall trees, more than you typically find in a public park, but not so many that they obstruct your...

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29 Oct My Son Did Something Terrible on Halloween

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Halloween Stories, Torture and Cannibalism, Zombies and the Undead 0 Comments

I have a confession to make. I have been trying so hard to forget what I saw, but now that Halloween is right around the corner again, all these memories resurfaced all of a sudden. I now know it was wrong to keep my mouth...

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28 Oct The Library is Hungry

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Most towns have a library. They’re public buildings, institutions of knowledge and fantasy. The books held within are almost sacred; librarians and their assistants: the priests and acolytes of knowledge and lore. Some libraries, however, are not public. They hold forbidden secrets and untold stories. Congratulations, reader....

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27 Oct Little Lucy

Posted at 14:00h in Demons and Possession, Halloween Stories, Toys and Dolls 0 Comments

Grandma Elouise had strictly forbidden everyone in the family from going into the attic of her old farmhouse. She insisted that the ceiling door was far too heavy, and that someone would throw out their back, get a splinter, or smash their fingers if they...

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27 Oct Have You Ever Been to Bunnyman Bridge?

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“Dude, you’ve never heard of Bunnyman Bridge?” I had been living in Virginia for less than six months when my buddy Scott asked me this question. I was a recent transplant from New Jersey and had no idea what he was talking about. We were sitting...

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26 Oct My Boyfriend Investigated A Strange Noise on Halloween

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Halloween Stories, Locations and Sites, Sounds and Voices 0 Comments

I've always enjoyed Halloween. It's a great holiday, it's fun, and above all, I like getting scared. All these reasons make it like Christmas for me and my family. My parents actually like it as much as me. Besides trick-or-treating, they'd watch horror movies with...

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25 Oct I Found a Lost Little Girl at a Halloween Attraction

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God, I wish we hadn’t changed our Halloween routine last year. For three years, ever since they have been old enough, we have done the same thing, go trick or treating in the village with some of my daughter’s school friends. Last year we decided to...

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24 Oct The Candy Man

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Halloween Stories, Illness and Injuries, Investigations and Crimes 0 Comments

“The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love, and makes the world taste good.” ~Willy Wonka Every town has its ghost stories. Maybe it’s the haunted house on the other side of the railroad tracks, or the spirit that haunts the tunnel in the...

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23 Oct The Town That Banned Halloween

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For seven consecutive years, no one has gone trick-or-treating in Bigelow County. In fact, no one in that rural, God-fearing little town celebrates Halloween. At all. Under pressure from concerned parents, elderly residents – who make up the majority of the electorate, and the four...

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22 Oct Where the Nightmares Go

Posted at 11:00h in Halloween Stories, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

The sun shone dimly through gray skies, barely illuminating a vague dirt road upon which a young teen walked. The young man was tired, fighting off fatigue as he forced one foot in front of the other, desperate to find an inn. His perseverance was...

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21 Oct One Last Trick-or-Treat

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Halloween Stories, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

It's that time of the year again. I know how I’m going to be spending Halloween. Same way I have for the past two years, slowly nursing a beer in the bar. Watching the glass sweat on that smooth wooden counter, staring at it till...

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20 Oct Gramma’s Teeth

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When I was just a little kid, my grandmother on my mother's side once scared the living shit out of me. I've never forgotten that terrifying moment of my youth. Until now, it was just a fond memory of a silly little boy in his...

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19 Oct Room to Spare

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Halloween Stories 0 Comments

The Stanwyck Ghost Tours used to be a tradition in my hometown around Halloween. It was always cheap and heavy on the schlock. Hammy tour guides, cheesy music, cheap decorations. Picture Monster Mash as a two-hour ghost tour, and you get the idea. But given...

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18 Oct Jamie Lee Curtis and the Night They Filmed Halloween On Our Street

Posted at 11:00h in Films and Footage, Halloween Stories 0 Comments

Sometimes when you’re a kid, you dream shit that you don’t tell your parents. And it’s not because what you dreamt was so bad, but because you have no words to explain what the fuck it was you dreamt. Add that I’d had the dream the...

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17 Oct It Came From the Haunted House Across the Street

Posted at 11:01h in Halloween Stories 0 Comments

After my dad shared his Halloween tale about the disappearance of his best friend Jake and the town’s O-Lantern Man urban legend, I asked him if he would tell me another story…and he did, several. We were actually up pretty late that night talking about...

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17 Oct Be Home by Midnight on Halloween Night

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Growing up, my dad would tell me scary stories, ones he claimed he experienced during his childhood. His stories would both fascinate and terrify me. As I grew older, the stories he would share became less frequent until they eventually came to an end. Maybe...

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16 Oct Tempting Fate

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Halloween Stories, Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations 0 Comments

Detective Martinez dragged on his filter-tipped cigarette, watching the fiery cherry rapidly descend to the orange paper. He heaved a deep sigh on the exhale, regretting having to work into the wee hours.  The spent cigarette tumbled from his hand, landing on the wet Tarmac...

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15 Oct My Son Won’t Take Off His Halloween Costume

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Being poor is tough, but it hits especially hard during the holidays. Halloween is the first reminder that you don't have the disposable income for your kid's happiness. I took Austin down to a local thrift store we visited frequently. They had a rack of reject...

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