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The Whistlers: Bill’s Account

Beings and Entities, Journals and Diaries, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained / / 45 minutes of reading

I’ve got calluses on my hands from burying my brother. If we’re rescued today, I’ll have to explain that to someone. Some search-and-rescue trooper, some forest ranger, will hold my palm to the light of a chopper window and want to know how I managed to rub the heel of my hand raw. I practice, sometimes. I practice what I’ll say to people when we get back home. Dr. Harmon, the department head, will need to know how I got Geoff and Lillian killed doing what was supposed to be straightforward field research. They were both his students, hand-picked for great things, led astray by the man who wrote his dissertation on the Russian Yeti, who taught a cryptozoology class disguised as a folklore survey. I got bumped off the tenure track for that. Harmon talked over me in meetings. Like I wasn’t there.

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The Whistlers: Ruth’s Account

Beings and Entities, Journals and Diaries, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained / / 74 minutes of reading

The man on the trail is dead and will need to be moved. It is a more difficult task than I would have guessed, and nearly impossible for a 5’ 4” woman with no help and no gurney. I tried to drag him toward camp right after I found him this morning, but only succeeded in pivoting him and twisting his legs around each other horribly. Bodies look so wrong once they stop feeling pain. I never thought I would have so much experience with death, but I haven’t cried over the loss of someone since the lighthouse. This man shit his pants before he died, and moving him made the smell worse. It will bring the animals in. Still no sign of Ira or Bill.

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Why I’ll Never Work Security At Disney World Again

Children and Childhood, Conspiracies and Government, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites / / 7 minutes of reading

I work in security at Disney World, the happiest place on Earth. Typically, I wouldn’t say where I work as obviously there are some pretty strict rules about things employees can put online, but I just don’t think I can tell this properly without that context. And, honestly, I think

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Something Happened During a Hostage Negotiation I Can’t Explain

Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained / / 8 minutes of reading

The west side bank has three exits, thirty windows and nineteen air vents. And when I arrived at the scene, there were thirteen people being held captive by a man with a vendetta. “How bad are things?” I asked the officer in charge. So far no one had been hurt.

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A Story From the BlackGuard

Beings and Entities, Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained / / 189 minutes of reading

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 call ourselves ‘the exterminators’. Led by the infamous Commander, Cyrus Fiendel, we were essentially tasked with getting rid of all the pests that Emperor Dravis didn’t want to deal with.

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The Blue Meteor

Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Dreams and Nightmares, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Religion and Spirituality, Science Fiction and Aliens, Space and Cosmic Horror, Strange and Unexplained / / 15 minutes of reading

It was a clear night in a small community near San Francisco, California when a mysterious blue light was seen by several residents as it fell from the sky. The next morning, a none-too-bright man in his early twenties went to check out the field where the strange blue object

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The Backrooms

The Backrooms

Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Locations and Sites, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained / / 13 minutes of reading

The Backrooms is a relatively recent example of internet folklore that is still expanding its scope and mythology. Essentially, the backrooms posit the existence of a ‘place’ that people can slip (or ‘noclip’) into and become lost or trapped. An unreality behind or parallel to this reality, The Backrooms are

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Whistling

Ghosts and Spirits, Beings and Entities, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained / / 15 minutes of reading

When people whistle, it kind of irritates me. Not like Axl Rose from “Patience” whistles, but just does so to pass the time. When people whistle or hum to themselves it’s always just kind of grated on me, but only when it’s been tuneless. When there’s a tune to it, a melody, it doesn’t get on my nerves, it just makes me… unsettled.

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The Haunter of the Ring

Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Beings and Entities, Classic Horror, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Space and Cosmic Horror, Strange and Unexplained / / 27 minutes of reading

As I entered John Kirowan’s study I was too much engrossed in my own thoughts to notice, at first, the haggard appearance of his visitor, a big, handsome young fellow well known to me. “Hello, Kirowan,” I greeted. “Hello, Gordon. Haven’t seen you for quite a while. How’s Evelyn?” And

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The Beast with Five Fingers

Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Body Horror, Classic Horror, Strange and Unexplained / / 46 minutes of reading

When I was a little boy I once went with my father to call on Adrian Borlsover. I played on the floor with a black spaniel while my father appealed for a subscription. Just before we left my father said, “Mr. Borlsover, may my son here shake hands with you?

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The Animals On My Farm Always Kill Their Newborns

Animals and Wildlife, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained / / 13 minutes of reading

Before I take my life tonight, I need to write down what brought me to this point. Just for my own sanity, just as a catharsis. If I’m feeling brave I’ll post it on the Internet when I’m done. And if I do – if I’m actually talking to some

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The Last Body I Ever Cut Open

Body Horror, Beings and Entities, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Medical and Hospitals, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Slashers and Gore, Strange and Unexplained / / 8 minutes of reading

Craig Brockwell was found by his wife, dead on their living room floor, a plastic garbage bag tied off around his neck, and an empty bottle of Xanax on the kitchen counter, next to a suicide note. My initial external examination of the body revealed no indications of a physical

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The Hallway Wasn’t Empty

Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Beings and Entities, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers / / 3 minutes of reading

Did you know that, once introduced to routine, our brains are capable of accepting it to the extent that when something changes, it doesn’t notice? The change could be small and harmless, an object there that wasn’t, or something moved to another room that you would normally duck around on

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The Canada Geese of Lake Pleasant

Animals and Wildlife, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Nature and the Outdoors, Science and Experimentation, Strange and Unexplained / / 8 minutes of reading

I’m a researcher studying Canada Geese for the last ten years. I’ve never published my research. Specifically, my small team and I study a small population of Canada Geese that migrates to Arizona during the winter months from Alaska. This work mostly involves checking the new adults tagged during the

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The Unfortunate Life of Jamie Robert Mitchum

Strange and Unexplained, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Nature and the Outdoors / / 10 minutes of reading

My mother always told me to stay away from Jamie Robert Mitchum. Maybe I should have listened to her. I guess I didn’t really understand why at the time. I guess children are more trusting. Sure, he was strange. Anybody could see that. Jamie was the type of kid to

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The Portal in the Woods

Science Fiction and Aliens, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained / / 11 minutes of reading

“Dad, you said you’d play catch with me!” I yelled as my father walked past me to his office, where he spent most of his days when he wasn’t at work. “I’m sorry, bud, I’ve gotta get these documents done for tomorrow’s big meeting. We’ll do it another day, okay?”

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