Everyone’s got one of those stories. A ghost that visited a childhood bedroom, a near-miss on the highway that should’ve killed them, a moment that never quite made sense no matter how many times they turned it over. I’ve got mine too, and for twenty-six years I’ve kept it mostly
We stand in the overgrown lot, staring at the cluttered remains of the large wooden building in the deep reaches of the West Virginia Mountains. Nature had taken most of the area back, with just a few remaining structures of the old town left. If you didn’t know it, you
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My little girl is my entire world. I remember the first time I held her. I fell in love instantly—a love I didn’t know I was capable of. At that moment, I knew she was going to be everything to me. Before I met you, I made a horribly grave
The asphalt road leading through Duskwood, Virginia always seemed to swallow the headlights of Owen’s battered old sedan, but tonight, on Halloween, the shadows felt especially heavy. A thick, oppressive fog rolled off the Blue Ridge Mountains, settling into the valleys and wrapping around the trunks of bare oaks like
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Twice, two separate times, in the span of only six months, it’s happened. I go to bed, like any other night and wake up outside, lying on the ground in the middle of the woods, staring up at the eerie pine trees that rise above me. I can’t move, I
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I have this friend, Randall. Good guy, and all. Just a bit weird, y’know? I don’t know. Like, I can’t put my finger on it, but it’s like he’s from another planet, sometimes. Just the way he talks or acts around people, I guess. Yeah, it’s not important–not to what
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I watched as the flames ate through the bright stitching of the collar. The sun had at last withdrawn, and the fire now furnished nearly all that remained of the visible world around me, its light advancing and receding across the ground with every movement of the flames. I sensed
Okay, so I have some friends from Castleton coming up for a week-ish long vacation. I’d already got the week off from the MILF (paid, thank god) so we’re set to drive around the area and check out some of the touristy places I haven’t gotten a chance to visit
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So, long story short, I came across this thing one late night about how you can “get everything you’ve ever wanted through manifestation.” Well, it was something like that, at least. There I was, lying in bed, bored, around 9:30 P.M. on a Tuesday night, scrolling on my phone through
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I’m writing this in the hour before dawn. If the clock strikes nine, I might not get the chance to write it at all. I need you to understand who I was before any of this, so that what happens next doesn’t read like an excuse. I hold a Master’s
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It took him six blocks to realize he was being followed. He was an office worker in the city. He spent his days sitting down, hunched over stacks of paperwork in a cramped cubicle, and rarely did he have the energy to exercise once he returned home for the day.
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I remember this one quote.It has been stuck in my mind ever since I opened that book in my mother’s study. It was a compilation of humanity’s worst moments, all detailing similar terrible tales.The quote was from a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide.A group of militia men caught her trying
Three weeks ago, my roommate handed me his phone and asked, “Is this you?” It was some kind of prank video from one of those YouTube channels that film people without their permission and publish it to get views. I barely got past the first five seconds of the video,
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Hello everyone. I came here to write this because I genuinely don’t know who else I can tell. My name is David. I’m a man in my mid-thirties who’s recently divorced. Well, I guess not recently, it’s been nine months. I was married to Lauren for five years. The divorce
“Do you want to be happy?” The man next to me asked without turning around. I said nothing at first, my mind was occupied with dark thoughts. The last nights had been shaped by memories and sleeplessness. It took me a while to realise through the fog that someone spoke
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It is a fairly well understood phenomena that the human mind is unable to visualise the concept of infinity, or the ever-lasting. Try it, although I am sure you will already have. Picture any scenario you wish. The topic is irrelevant. Try and imagine that it goes on forever. You
The sun bled out along the western edge of the great plains, and the band moved toward the low rise Floyd had chosen an hour before. Two dozen humans, give or take; the count changed month to month, and no one spoke of the changes. They were a ragged procession
I could tell that Kate had something on her mind. She seemed distracted while the rest of us talked. Eyes fixed on the doorway to the corridor. She gave the occasional nod whenever someone offered to top up her wine glass. Amongst all the laughter and conversation around the dining
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I don’t have long to write this, so I’m going to write it fast. I keep smelling jasmine and camphor as I’m typing this on my phone. It started twenty minutes ago. It’s getting stronger. I know what that means now. I wish I knew it earlier, when I smelled
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The frontier, that section of the world where the roots are soaked by blood and tears rather than rain. Grampa told many stories: the be the immortal, mist-swimming striga, the covens of witch and warlock, or my own least favorite yet most constant nightmare appearance: The trees of skin and
It’s been raining all week, and I can’t mow my lawn. This is bad. I can hear the grass. I hear it when it gets too tall. It whispers, out there in the lawn, out there in the night. I can’t tune it out. It’s humming no matter where I
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The following documents had all been taken from the casefiles of paranormal investigator Everett Moore, generously provided to us by his wife Elizabeth after his unfortunate passing. We believe that digitalizing Moore’s cases will help us in keeping his legacy and impact he has had on the paranormal investigation community
I sighed and entered my key into the slot of my apartment doorknob. The grooves and divots slid into place and clicked. As I turned the lock, something caught my eye. A manila envelope. Wedged halfway underneath my door, strings bound tightly around the metal clasps. It made it rather
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Lincoln Oliver Locray, judging by the crimes he had committed alone, was the living definition of a monster. Having spent his formative years somewhere out in the backwoods of Kentucky, raised by a mother and father who took little interest in ensuring he would be particularly educated, he developed a
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