28 Jan At 4 AM a Weird SUV Started Following Us

Posted at 11:00h in Christmas and Holidays, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Locations and Sites, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

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...

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14 Jan Father Cooke: Part 3 – A Holly Jolly Christmas

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays, Religion and Spirituality, Rites and Rituals 0 Comments

Publisher's Note: This story is part of the author's Father Cooke series of interrelated stories. If you enjoy it, the author invites you to click here to read the other tales in the series. “If you are going to keep me tied to this chair, at least...

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04 Jan I Was a Christmas Elf

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays, Rites and Rituals 0 Comments

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbG9jGEMTDU[/embedyt] Mrs. Claus sat in her rocker, a half completed sweater resting on her lap. The alarm clock on the small table beside her rang its shrill alarm through the warm air of the house, announcing that it was now 1 AM. She reached for...

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24 Dec The Sunnyside Murders

Posted at 19:00h in Christmas and Holidays, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites 0 Comments

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJWs3X9AXM[/embedyt] Serial killers have always fascinated me. Ever since I was a kid, I've found myself both scared and intrigued by psychos like Ted Bundy or Clementine Barnabet. And as I grew older, my interest only increased. I was from Atlanta. Growing up in lower-class Latino...

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23 Dec The First Night of Christmas is for Special People

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[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTdGYcMSJfI[/embedyt] My weakness was always power. I don’t mean that in an inspirational way you might find in fairy tales or The Children’s Book of Virtues. I mean it literally: I will do anything for power. Anything. And I did. I suppose my attraction to power stems from my miserable start...

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18 Dec A Very Special Christmas Supper

Posted at 19:00h in Christmas and Holidays, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Rites and Rituals, Torture and Cannibalism 0 Comments

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDQBh9Hoa8[/embedyt] The first time you meet your girlfriend’s family is extremely important. Maybe they will become your family too. You have to be funny and charming, but not too funny or to charming that it seems unnatural. You don’t want to be a faker or...

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14 Dec Better Watch Out, Better Not Cry

Posted at 19:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVtbc2PJXTc[/embedyt] My parents own a Santa animatronic. I think it tried to kill us. Now, I know what you might be thinking. This story already sounds like a kid’s overactive imagination during a season that relies on the magic of imagination. I don’t mean to oversell...

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13 May Chatroom A

Posted at 10:43h in Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Slashers and Gore, Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

It was the summer of 2019, the 16 year old Thomas Mitchell and his family went on a trip to their cabin in the Stillwater State Forest of Montana. He had two younger brothers, Felix, who was 10 and Michael who had just turned 14. They usually...

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22 Dec Magda – A Dark Christmas Tale

Posted at 07:12h in Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays 0 Comments

Author’s Note: For those of you who might be curious, this is intended as a companion piece to The Perfectly Behaved Boy – A Dark Christmas Tale, a story that was published on this site two years ago. However, this tale was written so that...

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19 Dec Elf on a Shelf (with a Knife)

Posted at 10:38h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

“It’s creepy,” Dan balked. “It’s cute,” Julia countered. “Besides, it’s fun. I mean, geez Scrooge, where’s your Christmas spirit?” Dan picked up the doll and turned it over in his hands. It was the prototypical Christmas elf as imagined by Hollywood in a red onesie, Santa...

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24 May The Chimney Man

Posted at 13:21h in Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays 8 Comments

My dad built his dream cabin in the southern Ozarks back in 1991, a reward to himself for achieving early retirement. The damn thing took nearly a year to build, what with the county having to actually build the road to my family’s property at...

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25 Dec The Perfectly Behaved Boy – A Dark Christmas Tale

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays 33 Comments

There was once a very well behaved eight year old boy named Miles. He did all the things that good children are supposed to do, nearly all the time. He ate all his vegetables, unless they were carrots. He completed all of his school assignments,...

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27 Dec White Christmas

Posted at 00:00h in Christmas and Holidays, Strange and Unexplained 14 Comments

"Fuck, it's cold." You would think I'd be used to it by now. Pulling my scarf a little tighter, I take one last drag off my cigarette and flick it to the ground, crushing it underfoot. I watch as it flares for a moment — a...

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25 Dec The Advent Calendar

Posted at 00:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Christmas and Holidays 44 Comments

It was the Christmas of 1965, before man had landed on the moon, before the wall had fallen, before many things good and bad. For me it was the last time that I knew innocence, before the creeping shadow which engulfed my family, before the...

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14 Feb Forgotten Valentine

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities 118 Comments

I had managed to keep a healthy scepticism of ghosts, ghouls and all things supernatural until I was 28. I found most claims of such things to be dubious at best, and harmful at worst. I was very much in the camp of the classical...

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25 Dec The Christmas Tree

Posted at 12:00h in Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays 21 Comments

Staring at the tree, whiskey in hand, Pete was pleased that this year would be different from the last. It had been the strangest time of his life, but he truly felt like things were finally coming together, and when better to come together than...

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03 Sep A Painted Christmas

Posted at 05:46h in Christmas and Holidays, Strange and Unexplained 101 Comments

Patrick Finn arrived home from his Christmas conquests, beating out the snowstorm by mere miles, mere minutes. He felt not only the foreboding presence of a hazardous blizzard, but also that of something else. Something darker. It felt as if it resonated not only within...

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