23 Jan The Dark Man

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft 0 Comments

My grandfather on my dad’s side passed away from cancer back in 2018 at the age of 75. Unlike my mom’s parents and my dad’s mom, my two brothers, my sister and I knew very little about “Grandpa Henry”. All that we knew about him...

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14 Jan I Found a Disturbing Photo in My Family Photo Album

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Investigations and Crimes, Strange and Unexplained, Torture and Cannibalism 0 Comments

My mother never let me look at the family photo albums. I never knew why. Whenever I asked, she would tell me that they were old and fragile, and would break if we got them down from the shelf. They were so high that I...

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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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30 Dec The Shimmering Statue

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Mark is not my real name. I’m changing the names for others’ privacy too. I’ll tell you why I can’t sleep. You’ll find this a bit strange but I swear it’s all true. I’m friends with a guy, call him Bill, I worked with at the...

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14 Dec Acts of Vengeance

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Demons and Possession, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Slashers and Gore 0 Comments

The bell above the door rang noisily as I entered the bookshop.  My hopes of just browsing through the books without attracting the attention of a well-intentioned but usually annoying clerk were immediately dashed.  I hate to be bothered while perusing the shelves.  But upon...

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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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01 Jun Between Ice and Stars

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Rites and Rituals, Science Fiction and Aliens 0 Comments

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...

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16 May The Sinister Painting

Posted at 13:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Classic Horror, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

The taxi drove off, leaving Funk on the Hoddeston lawn, surrounded by valises. Funk was thinking it more than merely odd that Barclay, for whose coaching he had come prepared to spend a month, had not met him as planned. He tried the screen door;...

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12 May The Monkey’s Paw

Posted at 15:47h in Artifacts and Objects, Classic Horror, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into...

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16 Nov The Blue Eyed Painting

Posted at 04:58h in Artifacts and Objects, Ghosts and Spirits 0 Comments

"So...

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25 Jul The Unopenable Wooden Box

Posted at 16:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

It seemed like just an ordinary box. The wood was old and weathered, the fastenings were heavy brass, and the lid was inlaid with an ornate silver symbol. My father willed it to me after the state executed him for murder. He left no explanation or instructions,...

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24 Jul The Book of the Ravenous

Posted at 16:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Strange and Unexplained, Torture and Cannibalism 0 Comments

I think calling it an obsession would have been an exaggeration. I’d have preferred the more acceptable term “hobby” to describe my collecting of old cookbooks. Yes, it was a hobby. We all need hobbies, you know. Something to pass the time between lunch and...

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08 Feb The French Traveler

Posted at 05:47h in Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances 0 Comments

The scene was the Savant Club in the last years of the 19th century. Despite the extreme lateness of the hour, a few of the regulars were gathered there for cards and conversation. The latter turned, as it often did, to the uncanny. “H’m,” said Nelson...

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06 Jan The Real Nosferatu

Posted at 00:00h in Artifacts and Objects 26 Comments

I'm sure if you're a real horror fan, you've heard of the 1922 movie Nosferatu. It was one of the first real horror movies, made in Germany just after World War I. It had a large influence on vampire lore, because it made them vulnerable...

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19 Aug Where A Kid Can Be A Kid

Posted at 00:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Locations and Sites, Video Games and Gaming 41 Comments

When I was a child my father owned a janitorial company that worked almost every night at our local Showbiz Pizza Place/Chuck E. Cheese’s. He would often bring me to work with him so I could play all of the arcade games without having to...

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19 Mar Who Was Phone?

Posted at 00:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Famous Creepypastas, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

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 like.. her dad calls on the phone and says "no i she likes it more...

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