12 Nov The Village
To whom it may concern, my name is Michael Dean Fox. I'm writing this as a step by step reenactment of the cold winter night I had spent in the back country of East Tennessee. Some of the things I am about to tell you...
29 Oct My Local Costco Has a Secret Basement
Posted at 16:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Rites and Rituals, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments
My husband is dying. Despite his good prognosis after the accident, he gets weaker every day. When he became unable to even say my name, I got desperate. I posted details of his condition on every forum I could find. Medical, accident survivors… I even posted...
06 Oct My Roommate Joined a Cult
I’m a student at Bridgewater State in Massachusetts. I share a dorm with my roommate, Wallace. We both major in computer science, and that’s all we’ve ever talked about on the rare occasions that we actually speak to one another. We don’t have much else...
20 Sep The Laughing Prophet
The following article was sent by journalist Roberto Costa Campos, expert in criminal investigation, for the writing of "Na Hora", a tabloid newspaper in São Paulo. Roberto was known for his daring and his lack of fear in investigating anything, often going into extremely dangerous...
14 Aug My Neighbor’s Dog Has a Zipper
At first, I didn’t think anything of it. My neighbor would stop to chat with me, leash in hand, and I would catch glimpses of the metal slider dangling from its belly. I assumed it was wearing a piece of pet clothing, or that perhaps...
11 Aug If Glass Could Scream
Posted at 16:00h in Hell and the Afterlife, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Religion and Spirituality, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments
"Purgatory on Earth" read the flyer as it flapped unevenly in the wind, poorly stapled against the wooden post of a power line. It was an interesting title, not exactly the alluring intro phrase most religious recruitment ads used. For what I knew of Purgatory,...
22 Jun The Bethesda Cult
There I was, sweating in my uncomfortable seat, surrounded by the sounds of obnoxious unsynchronized clapping. Todd Howard had just made his usual appearance on the annual E3 gaming expo stage. The crowd was anxious, awaiting their anticipated announcements, ready to possibly be disappointed. Myself?...
28 May The Summer I Was Eighteen and Saved
Posted at 10:39h in Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Zombies and the Undead 0 Comments
The summer that I was eighteen, I was trying to find something bigger than myself. I was a dumb kid, but dumb in the sense that I didn’t understand when I was in too deep. Ask me anything about literary devices in storytelling, and I...
01 Dec Elagabalus
Chapter VI I had managed to find the dark place described in the journals. It was apparent that I was not looking hard enough during my first few perusals of Kathryn’s entries, because all of the clues were there. My greatest mistake was in assuming that...