20 Jan Dead and Gone

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Body Horror, Illness and Injuries, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

It had been six months since the accident. I remember because Elizabeth was helping me sign my name in our daughter Jenny’s birthday card. Slowly she guided by hand, helping me create some legible signature rather than the scribbles of a child in kindergarten, the...

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08 Jan Never Stop At Roadside Memorials

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Dreams and Nightmares, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Psychological Horror, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

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 own funerals, as the saying goes? Well, that's me. Prepare as I might. I can...

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28 Dec Spring Flu

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Conspiracies and Government, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Survival Horror 0 Comments

The spring flu had been going around the school like usual, but some people were sicker than normal. They didn’t just have fever and headache – their faces were blotchy, their eyes bulged, and they all wheezed like they’d just run up ten flights of...

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16 Dec Tantrum

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Illness and Injuries, Science Fiction and Aliens, Sounds and Voices, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Let me just make something clear: I never get to go out somewhere nice. Like ever. My best friend and I struggle just to pay our bills every month, so anything fancier than McDonald's is usually out of the question. We'll save up for months to go...

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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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21 Sep Does it Hurt When You Die?

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Ghosts and Spirits, Hell and the Afterlife, Illness and Injuries, Medical and Hospitals, Religion and Spirituality 0 Comments

Katy took a long hit on the pipe. Her eyes rolled up and back into her head. She choked on the smoke that invaded her lungs, and an attempt at a giggle was unsuccessful. Her blue eyes watered and her almost-laugh was strangled by another...

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15 Aug The Lucky One

Posted at 11:00h in Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

Any mother who has more than one child will admit-if she’s honest-that she has one child who worries her more than the others. This has nothing to do with love, but rather some children’s propensity to find trouble-the child most likely to get in a...

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11 Aug Headaches

Posted at 14:00h in Demons and Possession, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness 0 Comments

It’s a stabbing pain, really. It comes suddenly. Without warning. I don’t know how many doctors I’ve seen. Migraine? Migraine medications didn’t help. Tension headaches? Please. I’m fine most of the time. But then it hits. It hits right behind my eye. It attacks me....

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07 Aug The Awful Thing We Did to Eliza

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

Dad said a man was coming from the city to photograph us tomorrow. I never had a photograph taken of me before. My parents had one taken with James when he was a baby. Eliza and I weren’t born yet. The picture sits over our mantle,...

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01 Aug An App Called Forbidden Fruits Gave Me More Than Good Food

Posted at 15:00h in Illness and Injuries, Insects, Spiders, and Parasites, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

It’s been three days since I last used an app called Forbidden Fruits and I’ve become weak to the point to where I can hardly stand for over five minutes. I’m coughing up blood, and I know that I have no choice but to open this goddamn...

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18 Jun Quarantine

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Conspiracies and Government, Illness and Injuries, Science and Experimentation 0 Comments

Working in a nuclear reactor is difficult work, no matter what the task. Even the most menial job, including mine - janitorial services - required rigorous education on emergency procedures, and that we be subjected to frequent training drills, and most tediously, handed flurries of...

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09 Jun Northern Lights

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Nature and the Outdoors 0 Comments

I never wanted to go on that stupid hike in the first place. Yet there I was, allegedly enjoying nature and getting healthy exercise while hiking from “cabin to cabin” in the Norwegian mountains with the devil spawn otherwise known as my class. Woohoo, right?...

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10 May Metal Health

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I recently discovered the most amazing resource to help those dealing with mental illnesses and personality disorders, and I want to share what I’ve learned with as many others as possible. Since I know so many struggle with these problems, I hope you find this...

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14 Apr I Raised the Devil’s Daughter

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Demons and Possession, Illness and Injuries, Religion and Spirituality 0 Comments

You know those stories where a woman walks into the bar, meets a stunning man and gets pregnant, then finds out she’s bearing the offspring of Lucifer? Well, this is not one of those. My mother had me at a young age so, by the time I...

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04 Jul The Boy in the Window

Posted at 16:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Ghosts and Spirits, Illness and Injuries, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

She tried pulling herself back, but however hard she tried, however hard she pushed, she could not stop her feet dragging her towards the open window. She dug her heels into the wooden floor, feeling splinters coming off it as her feet dragged her onward. Her...

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02 Jul The Sound of Silence

Posted at 16:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

The road had been covered in a dense fog. Denise decided to rent a room for the night, seeing as she had parked near an unfamiliar hotel. She got out of her car, looking around for any signs of an entrance within the grey haze....

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14 Sep My Roommate Got Sick After Returning from Africa

Posted at 12:27h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Investigations and Crimes, Locations and Sites 14 Comments

“Are you absolutely positive you locked the door when you left?” Denise’s voice was too desperate for her words to be an accusation. More like a plea. I adjusted the phone in my hand and the collar of my shirt. “Yes. Absolutely. I went back up and...

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22 May Out of Hell

Posted at 23:59h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Strange and Unexplained 18 Comments

Home again after a difficult but very rewarding day of convincing people not to give up on the gift of life. Richard Burner often had to deal with pretty stubborn suicidal people, but so far he had always been able to open their eyes to...

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28 Apr Lavender Town Syndrome

Posted at 00:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Famous Creepypastas, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Sounds and Voices, Strange and Unexplained, Urban Legends, Video Games and Gaming 0 Comments

Lavender Town as seen in Red and Green The Lavender Town Syndrome (also known as "Lavender Town Tone" or "Lavender Town Suicides") was a peak in suicides and illness of children between the ages of 7-12 shortly after the release of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan,...

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