No one knows where it came from. No one knows why it showed up in our little town, of all places. The only thing we knew for sure was that it was bizarre. The statue appeared in the town square about 2 weeks ago. It sits in the middle of a section of …
There are few left alive who remember the Song and Dance Man. Time has claimed the ones that survived the long night and Iâm sure they went willingly to meet their maker. Life takes on a strange tint after a night like that. The ones still left â Bill Parker, Sarah Carter, and Sam Tannen …
You have to listen to me, this isnât right. You canât do this. You canât let this happen! Okay… hold on, let me try again. Something different this time, calmer. Explain whatâs happening. Okay, my name is Nic. And as of right now, I am the last person on earth. They called them Quiet Rooms. …
He turns the steering wheel in different directions, taking different roads when he needs to. He needs to go through the woods to get to his destination. Heâs confused, but not about that. What confuses him is why his sister is being so silent as she sits in the backseat. The time is currently 6:36, …
When I was twelve, I came to the conclusion that everyone in the world, including my own family, was against me. I was never a problem child, but my parents sure treated me like one. For example, I used to need to be home by 5:00 pm every day. This clearly restricted my amount of …
My grandfather on my dadâs side passed away from cancer back in 2018 at the age of 75. Unlike my momâs parents and my dadâs mom, my two brothers, my sister and I knew very little about âGrandpa Henryâ. All that we knew about him was that he was born April 7th, 1943 in Scottstown, …
We were having another lockdown drill when I found out about Holly Reyes. I was in Social Studies, third period, when Principal Westonâs muffled voice spat at us from the ceiling. We all sighed and ducked under the long tables, limbs shoving aside plastic chairs as we army-crawled into tucked positions. Mrs. Loew shut the …
Every summer for a week, my grandparents would visit my family in New Orleans from Haiti. Making the nine-hour flight and thirty-minute drive from the airport to Norco. I loved seeing my grandfather. He told the scariest stories and my grandmother cooked the best food for everyone. My parents always seemed to be happier when …
My name isnât really important, but for now, Iâll go by Monty. A little backstory, I grew up in a small town just outside of Hartford, Connecticut. Real nice place where everyone knew everyone, you never locked your doors, had a real charm to it. Nicest bunch of folks you could ever meet, really. We …
âCan we go on the roller coaster?â âSure we can,â Kent assured his son, whose eyes brimmed with hope and enthusiasm. Little Brian ran ahead towards the ride as his father walked quickly behind. It was one of those old, rickety coasters that wonât keep you from falling out unless you hold on for dear …
It was in early November of 1997 that a series of very strange sessions led a child psychologist in Maine to contact the authorities. It began when a patient of his began to tell him about one of their âfriendsâ. This friend being imaginary as far as both the psychiatrist and the boyâs parents were …
The rain had barely relented. Jon looked out the sixth story window again, away from his TV flickering a save screen. Between the raindrops streaking the window, Jon could still see the guy that lived in front of his apartment building. The manâs name was Ted, and he seemed like a genuinely good person. Jon …
It was cold. Cold and dark. Thatâs all I could feel when I stared into the black abyss, that made up its eyes. There was a tingling sensation in my feet, that slowly rose up in my body like panic trapped inside of me. I felt changed. I donât know what he was doing to …
My brother has always had a dream of being a great filmmaker. For as long as I can remember itâs been his obsession. He got a video camera for his eighth birthday and would literally film everything with it, even the most mundane things. He would have us do âinterviewsâ for the camera, make little …
âDad, just a few more houses, pleeeasseee?â Why did I say yes? I blame myself every day, but how could I not? If you saw his face, if you saw those big beautiful brown eyes staring up at you I donât see how you could refuse. My son, Daniel, dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow for …
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The top half of Councilman Jonesâ body hung by a steel cable looped around his neck and tied off to an old oak tree on one end. It was still dripping blood, bones and veins and torn bits of intestines dangling down where the legs should start. The cable was stretched through the air, over to an ash tree ten yards away from where the other half of the body was hanging by the legs.
Iâm old. Right now, Iâm 81 years old, and had to ask my granddaughter for help to write this down. You see, I have a confession before I go. My name is Emma, and I had a sister named Elisabeth, or Lisa for short. Having been born only one year apart, we were really close, …
Cryptozoology has always been a minor interest of mine. I say minor because it was something Iâd only enjoyed casually: a few internet articles here and there, scrolling through a couple of pages on a Tumblr blog dedicated to it, maybe watching one of those Bigfoot documentaries. You know, that kind of interest. Nothing serious. …
Before I start I should mention that the names of the crew who worked on the movie have been either changed or omitted. That being said, in 2016 an up-and-coming film director started work on a film that he thought would get his name out there. He was already gaining steam with a number of …
I hate scarecrows. I have ever since I was little. I found something about the dolls stuffed with straw unsettling. I remember my parents tried to help me get over this fear by telling me things like, “They’re not scary, they only want to be friends” or some other lame line to get me to …
Our twelve-year-old daughter loved the new vintage-styled TV that my husband and I bought the other day at the local pawn shop in town. She would sit there and stare at the round, blank dusty screen with her hazel eyes fixated on the glass as if there was something playing on it. The TV was …
âSo why are you here?â she asked. Pretty standard opening for a psychologist sitting down with a patient for the first time. She was young, pretty and Shahrokh (an unnecessarily ethnic name) immediately felt comfortable in her presence. âWell, before I launch into whatâs been happening recently I think Iâd better start at the beginning.â …
I work in security at Disney World, the happiest place on Earth. Typically, I wouldnât say where I work as obviously there are some pretty strict rules about things employees can put online, but I just donât think I can tell this properly without that context. And, honestly, I think this may be it for …
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I canât stand to be back here. This tiny, rural town I grew up in, it makes my skin crawl to see everything around me. Iâm well into middle-age now, but itâs like this town has been frozen in time since I was a teenager. And the older I get, the more things that in …
