23 Feb Beta Test

Posted at 11:00h in Science Fiction and Aliens, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web, Video Games and Gaming 0 Comments

Roxy’s Lounge. It was the sort of dimly-lit, mid-century styled bar that was too classy for me by half. In the real world, it’s the kind of place I’d have gone to get shit-faced on overpriced cocktails at a Game Developer’s Conference after-party. But that was...

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20 Feb If You’re Armed and at the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me

Posted at 11:00h in Drugs and Addictions, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Psychological Horror, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens 0 Comments

If you’re armed and at the Glenmont metro, please shoot me. Make it a headshot. Shoot me in the temple, aiming slightly downwards. I need the bullet to travel the shortest possible distance through my brain before it hits my hippocampus. If I’m lucky, the sensation...

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21 Jan Picture Perfect

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

The world can be a cruel place.  I had always been optimistic about life and the promises it held, and that even with life’s ups and downs, working hard and striving for the best one could be always led to better things. My perspective changed after...

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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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19 Dec My Old Home Videos Showed Me a Life I Never Lived

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Films and Footage, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

No matter what you see in the coming months, regardless of how convincing it might seem; Know that I didn't want to die. I'm going to take all possible steps to prevent my predetermined demise, but if I don't make it, I need at least...

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16 Dec Tantrum

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Illness and Injuries, Science Fiction and Aliens, Sounds and Voices, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Let me just make something clear: I never get to go out somewhere nice. Like ever. My best friend and I struggle just to pay our bills every month, so anything fancier than McDonald's is usually out of the question. We'll save up for months to go...

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23 Nov Plot Holes

Posted at 14:00h in Beings and Entities, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

The day I found my first hole was the day my best friend came back from the dead. We were in high school and stupid. Jake was his name and we liked to go out to this old abandoned house in the woods after school to...

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16 Nov The Strangers

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

My name is Andrew Erics. I used to live in a city you probably heard of called New York. My mother is Terrie Erics—Teresa, really. She's in the phone book under “E”—if they even have those things any more. Maybe you can just Google her. I don’t...

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20 Sep Awaiting Input

Posted at 11:00h in Science Fiction and Aliens, Space and Cosmic Horror 0 Comments

“Computer, wake up.” The green static flickered on the face of the monitor. The computer system of the ship never completely shuts down, but is occasionally requested to sleep during long periods of inactivity. Red lights flared on and off as the backup generators designated all...

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13 Sep I Don’t Experience Thursdays

Posted at 11:00h in Journals and Diaries, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

I’ve had this problem for as long as I can remember. In preschool, I remember being confused when they told us there were seven days in a week, because I could only ever count six. I’ve never told anyone this, not even my wife, so I’ve...

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08 Sep I Thought I Saw My Future Self as a Time Traveler

Posted at 11:00h in Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens 0 Comments

I thought I saw my future self as a time traveler. Less than a week ago, I was on my way to school when I locked eyes with a very peculiar person. She looked almost exactly like me. Her brown hair, the exact same length...

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26 Aug There’s a Giant Person in the Sky

Posted at 11:00h in Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Beings and Entities, Conspiracies and Government, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science Fiction and Aliens, Space and Cosmic Horror, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I think I’ve lost my goddamn mind. Everything was fine until I walked out of work this afternoon. Dan, my cube-mate, and I were walking out of the building talking about our plans for the weekend. We had been pulling overtime, one of our clients...

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22 Aug Bot

Posted at 11:00h in Science Fiction and Aliens, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

It'd been four days since Julius McKlinsky had left his house. Maybe longer. Had it been a week already? He couldn't tell. Not anymore. The same four walls seemed to close in on him every passing day, yet whoever - or whatever - was out there...

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20 Aug They’re Not Coming, They’re Already Here

Posted at 11:00h in Science Fiction and Aliens, Sounds and Voices, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

“THEY'RE NOT COMING, THEY'RE ALREADY HERE.” That’s all the email said. No subject, no name, and the email account was clearly a junk or throwaway account linked to AOL mail. At first, I laughed at the ridiculously serious message, not paying it much thought. I used...

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05 Aug The Bambi Project

Posted at 11:00h in Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens 0 Comments

Vanna-Isabella Osborne was only two years old when the tests began. Every day, she'd be awoken at dawn by her crazed parents, before being stripped bare and strapped onto a cool metal table. No matter how much she screamed and cried, it wouldn't stop her...

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16 Jul The Truth Behind the Mandela Effect

Posted at 11:00h in Conspiracies and Government, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

Everything that people think they know about the Mandela effect is incorrect. The phenomenon has been occurring for years, only most dismissed it as a fluke. In the most severe cases those experiencing the effect were diagnosed as having some sort of mental illness, and...

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10 Jul Renaud Herbert Hansen

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Ghosts and Spirits, Hell and the Afterlife, Locations and Sites, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

Mr. Hansen’s body was interred in a stately mausoleum of his own design years ago, and yet he still works for us.  I’m forced to interview with the remains of the sad dotard almost daily. The world honors Hansen for his invention of countless beloved...

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28 Jun A Story From the BlackGuard

Posted at 12:00h in Beings and Entities, Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

The story I am about to tell you is rather confidential. Amongst the Mire, we are known as Regiment 9. Throughout Regiment 9, we are known as the ‘BlackGuards’, But in the small circle of men and women who actually make up the organization, we...

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17 May Ooze

Posted at 13:00h in Beings and Entities, Classic Horror, Journals and Diaries, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens 0 Comments

In the heart of a second-growth piney-woods jungle of southern Alabama, a region sparsely settled by backwoods blacks and Cajuns—that queer, half-wild people descended from Acadian exiles of the middle eighteenth century—stands a strange, enormous ruin....

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08 May My Wife and I Die Daily

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I'm lying in bed next to someone who I'll call my wife, but tomorrow, I know there will be someone different waking up next to me. My current wife will be dead by tomorrow afternoon and I will end the evening dying in a fiery...

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15 Apr The Machine

Posted at 11:00h in Demons and Possession, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens 0 Comments

Griffin and I were both 25. We hadn’t seen each other since college but kept in close contact. I was working at a cybersecurity firm, and I really wasn’t sure what he had been doing. He always told me he was “just working on something.” I...

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13 Apr Aberration

Posted at 11:00h in Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens 0 Comments

I like to go urban spelunking, "ruin diving" my friends call it. We find a place out in the middle of the nowhere that people have forgotten and we break in to see what treasures they might have left behind. On one of our trips...

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11 Apr The Harvard Wormhole Experiment

Posted at 11:00h in Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

They gave me a million bucks to keep my trap shut, and I did, for fifteen years. But last night I was making the rounds, and I saw the professor again. I had a heart attack three years back, and I tell you, when I saw...

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01 Apr A Beginner’s Guide to Blood Portals

Posted at 11:00h in Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Rites and Rituals, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

A few days ago I got a text message from an unknown number reading “I got your proof.” I stared at the words for a bit, thinking it was a wrong number. Then I remembered the last time I’d spoken to Jeremy. Jeremy, my younger cousin,...

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