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The Likho

Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Beings and Entities, Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare / / 9 minutes of reading

I was always close to my uncle, even if I was too young to truly know or understand him. He was a military man for the whole time I knew him and usually told the most batshit crazy stories you could imagine, but they were never exaggerated or made up. He was in Desert Storm and came back telling us about all the things that were over there. We were positive he was making up the part about the camel spiders, but the Brittanica set my grandparents had proved it to be true! He talked about how big they were, how fast, and skin-crawlingly ugly and nightmarish they appeared. He also made sure to mention he’d only really seen them twice.

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Between Ice and Stars

Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Rites and Rituals, Science Fiction and Aliens / / 19 minutes of reading

The hull of the ship moaned and groaned under the strain of its frozen enclave. HMS Stargazer and its crew had initially set out into the deep unknown to map uncharted territories, but winter descended quickly upon them and they found themselves trapped between stars and ice for months. Supplies were running thin and the captain of the ship, a tall and clean shaven gentleman by the name of Gerald Northington, had assembled groups of hunters to venture out in search of seal meat. The most recent hunting expedition had yet to return and Northington was pacing anxiously up and down his quarters.

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Whistling

Ghosts and Spirits, Beings and Entities, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained / / 15 minutes of reading

When people whistle, it kind of irritates me. Not like Axl Rose from “Patience” whistles, but just does so to pass the time. When people whistle or hum to themselves it’s always just kind of grated on me, but only when it’s been tuneless. When there’s a tune to it, a melody, it doesn’t get on my nerves, it just makes me… unsettled.

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Ooze

Classic Horror, Beings and Entities, Journals and Diaries, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens / / 38 minutes of reading

In the heart of a second-growth piney-woods jungle of southern Alabama, a region sparsely settled by backwoods blacks and Cajuns—that queer, half-wild people descended from Acadian exiles of the middle eighteenth century—stands a strange, enormous ruin.

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Mommy Dearest

Abductions and Kidnappings, Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Toys and Dolls / / 3 minutes of reading

As Julie began to regain consciousness, she knew something wasn’t right. She started to panic as she realized she was strapped to a table. A big bright light beamed down onto her face, blinding her, as silhouettes moved silently around her. The silhouettes began to whisper. “She’s perfect, daddy, thank

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The Last Body I Ever Cut Open

Body Horror, Beings and Entities, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Medical and Hospitals, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Slashers and Gore, Strange and Unexplained / / 8 minutes of reading

Craig Brockwell was found by his wife, dead on their living room floor, a plastic garbage bag tied off around his neck, and an empty bottle of Xanax on the kitchen counter, next to a suicide note. My initial external examination of the body revealed no indications of a physical

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The Roots of Wewoka Cemetery

Nature and the Outdoors, Beings and Entities, Body Horror, Folklore and Folktales, Ghosts and Spirits, Historical Fiction, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained / / 7 minutes of reading

After a short time of exploring the Oklahoma territory where they were forced to go, a group of Native Americans stumbled upon a mysterious plant while hunting. This plant looked like a gnarled tree root, with so many twists and turns within its seemingly fragile length that one could barely

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The Living History Project

Journals and Diaries, Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Historical Fiction, Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare, Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web / / 13 minutes of reading

One of my least favorite parts about being a middle school history teacher is the bullshit “Living History” assignments we give at the end of every school year. Kids are supposed to sit with their grandparents and video tape, voice record, or transcribe their oldest memories for posterity (and for

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The Strigil Institute

Science and Experimentation, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained / / 14 minutes of reading

In central Vermont you have to drive to get just about anywhere. In high school, once I had my own car, I built up a mental map of roads good and bad, this giant web linking my house, my school, my friends’ houses, my mom’s work, my dad’s house, my

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The Valentine House

Ghosts and Spirits, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Slashers and Gore / / 17 minutes of reading

“Damn, Valentine shit already?” I asked my friend Gabriel as we were walking inside a Wal-Mart post Christmas. “Yeah, bro, and it’s still December. It’s like they’re completely ignoring the months in between the other months that have major holidays.” “True, true, annoys the shit out of me though, you

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I Hunt Down the Government’s Mistakes

Conspiracies and Government, Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids / / 38 minutes of reading

Part 1 If you are one of those people who think the government is hiding countless secrets from you, and constantly covering things up, then you would be absolutely right. I’m one of the many people they hire to clean up their mistakes. I’m not entirely sure why they chose

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My Students Are Disappearing

Strange and Unexplained, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites / / 9 minutes of reading

My name is Oliver Stricc. I’m a 52-year-old biology teacher from a small town in northeastern Nebraska, and I have been for almost 14 years. I’ll be the first to admit that lecturing to a bunch of uninterested high school students wasn’t what I had planned to do after getting

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At 4 AM a Weird SUV Started Following Us

Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Christmas and Holidays, Investigations and Crimes, Locations and Sites, Strange and Unexplained / / 21 minutes of reading

The night was young. In our world at least. 2:14 AM, and me and my husband Ricky were standing out in the open shed behind The Post Searchlight. Stanwyck, Georgia’s local newspaper. Like nocturnal detectives, Ricky and I were wired for the graveyard shift. You had to be when you did

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