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The Thief in the Yellow Robe | 8.69 | Lex Joy
| My training in Comparative Literature — my miserable graduate school experience in particular — taught me that there is much productive work to be done outside of one’s own academic department. You learn new things by diving into other disciplines. In turn, you come away with fresh ideas; and in turn, those can be synt... | 13 minutes | October 30, 2014 | Artifacts and Objects |
Eyeless Jack | 8.69 | Azelf5000, Eyeless Jack, Eyeless Jack creepypasta, Eyeless Jack drawing, Eyeless Jack fanart, Eyeless Jack mask, Eyeless Jack origin story, Eyeless Jack original story, Eyeless Jack story
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Hello, my name is Mitch. I’m here to tell you guys about an experience I had. I don’t know if it was paranormal or whatever stupid words people use to describe supernatural phenomena, but after that thing visited me, I believe in that paranormal trash, now.
A week after I moved in with my brother, Edwin, after my ho... | 3 minutes | January 5, 2013 | Beings and Entities, Famous Creepypasta, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids |
Inspiration | 8.69 | null | You know those long, involved ritual creepypastas, the ones that involve a million different steps, the ones where if you breathe at the wrong second you die? Ever wonder who figured it out? It couldn’t
have been trial and error – you don’t get a second try at something like that.
The answer’s actually pretty simple. N... | 3 minutes | September 30, 2009 | Beings and Entities, Rites and Rituals
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White with Red | 8.69 | anonymously authored, beings, creepypasta classic, doors, entities, haunted, hauntings, hotels, motels
| A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that on the way to his room, there was a door with no number that was locked and no one was allowed in there. Especially no one should look inside the room, under any circumstances. So he followed the ... | 2 minutes | May 5, 2008 | Beings and Entities, Famous Creepypasta |
The Starry Crown | 8.68 | Marc E. Fitch
| I left the university campus behind to do fieldwork in the Deep South. I was studying folk songs from southern states that had neither a time or place of origin nor a known composer. Those old songs that just seem to rise out of cultural folklore and evangelical mysticism like steam rising from a swamp. Songs that had ... | 22 minutes | February 17, 2020 | Strange and Unexplained |
A Cat in the Dark | 8.68 | animals, Benjamin Sites, cats, curses, Halloween, Halloween stories, magic, magic spells, occult, spells, supernatural, witchcraft, witches
| This is a story about an old Welsh witch.
It was All Hallows’ Day, 1 November 1974, when the people of my village awoke to find that my house had burnt down. My parents’ charred bodies were found and identified, but the investigators were unable to find and identify my remains, and therefore I was classified as a missi... | 15 minutes | December 13, 2019 | Animals and Wildlife, Halloween Stories, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft |
I Was Raised to Believe I Was an Android | 8.68 | A.I., AI, androids, artificial intelligence, child abuse, children, Depth Fiction, kids
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| From an early age I was told my father had “built” me and that I was built to help the family. Any feelings or thoughts that differed from his programming were to be reported to him as a malfunction that he would fix. It didn’t take me long to associate malfunctions with pain and I reported them less and less over the ... | 7 minutes | February 4, 2019 | Children and Childhood, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
Writer’s Block | 8.68 | insanity, Shannon Higdon
| “Did you get my story written?” Christie asked as she came through the front door just after two. Normally she wouldn’t be home for another couple of hours but apparently the schools had let out early that day for something to do with testing. She didn’t care enough to fully explain and Shane didn’t care enough to as... | 33 minutes | February 5, 2018 | Beings and Entities, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Strange and Unexplained |
Sasaeng | 8.68 | Video Narratives OK
| Have you ever heard about the music industry in Korea? South Korea, to be more accurate. More likely, I’m sure you’ve heard of the increasingly popular music genre KPOP, or Korean Pop, and the subsequent insane fandom that comes with it. I’ve been in a popular KPOP group for a few years. For the sake of privacy, I’ll c... | 22 minutes | January 29, 2017 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
One Lone Long Haul | 8.68 | Video Narratives OK
| You’re an out-of-state truck driver, taking a load of bacon through Wyoming to Salt Lake City. Once the sun set, your trailer was finally released to you, you loaded up and headed out.
That was hours ago. You’d been on the same highway for what seemed like an eternity. All around you stretches nothing but shallow, roll... | 9 minutes | January 16, 2017 | Beings and Entities |
The Hot Springs | 8.68 | based on a true story, based on true events, Video Narratives OK
| A couple important things to note before I tell you about my experience: you are more than welcome to go check this place out for yourselves. Do a quick google search of “Diamond Fork Hot Springs Utah” and you’ll get hundreds of results telling you exactly how to get there (for those of you that are curious it is about... | 16 minutes | January 4, 2017 | Based on True Events, Locations and Sites |
A Madman’s Guide to the Unrecommended | 8.68 | Daniel Zaturensky, folk tales, folklore, folktales, historical fiction, historical horror, legends, mythology, myths, Video Narratives OK
| AN INTRODUCTION
First and foremost, a few matters of introduction have to be placed down. You are probably wondering who I am. What am I called? What does the barista misspell on my steaming paper cup? Well, this is my first lesson to you, and I promise we will get into much more detail soon.
Your name is a very preci... | 47 minutes | April 3, 2016 | Folklore and Folktales, Historical Fiction, Rites and Rituals |
Ikidomari | 8.68 | anonymously authored, games, gaming, haunted games, Haunted Games Writing Contest, rites, rituals
| Part 1
I hear voices, they’re all around me. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to never play that damn game. They say I’m crazy and maybe I am. Maybe whatever it is that haunts me, took my sanity and hid it away. Somewhere where it’s impossible to find it, somewhere dark and sinister. Maybe they buried it ... | 26 minutes | July 12, 2015 | Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Rites and Rituals, Strange and Unexplained, Video Games and Gaming |
Eidetic | 8.68 | Crappypasta Success Stories
| Before I begin, let me explain what is happening to me. The technical term for what I am is called an eidetic. You’ve probably heard of people with photographic memories, well that’s what it is, except eidetics are not limited by the visual sense in what they remember. While each case varies in their specific capabilit... | 6 minutes | November 11, 2013 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
Martellato | 8.68 | null | It was an expensive chair. The leather squeaked as I shuffled in it, betraying its purpose by failing to get comfortable. Disapproving eyes glanced up from the heavy mahogany desk that lay before me. After a pause the solicitor continued reading.
“And to my grandson, Alastair Kincade, I leave a sum of £30,000 and the f... | 16 minutes | October 15, 2013 | Artifacts and Objects
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Jeff the Killer | 8.68 | bullies, bullying, childhood, children, creepypasta classics, deaths, gore, Jeff the Killer, kids, madness, mental illness, murders, revenge, serial killers, Sesseur, slashers, sociopaths, sociopathy
| Remember to check out the Jeff The Killer Reboot of this creepypasta classic.
Jeff The Killer Creepypasta story
Excerpt from a local newspaper:
OMINOUS UNKNOWN KILLER IS STILL AT LARGE.
After weeks of unexplained murders, the ominous unknown killer is still on the rise. After little evidence has been found, a young bo... | 15 minutes | August 12, 2012 | Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Famous Creepypasta, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Slashers and Gore |
Don’t Let The Cold Man In | 8.68 | null | I had a dream last night. It was the kind that seems real right up to the point where you wake up.
Some things were strange about it…certain things were really strange about it, but it never occurred to me that it might not actually be happening. I’m still not prepared to say that it didn’t happen. I’m not spiritual an... | 4 minutes | November 20, 2009 | Beings and Entities
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Up | 8.68 | null | Do you know what a Cordyceps is? I didn’t either until 20 minutes ago. It’s a family of thousands of different types of fungus, grows all around the word in various rainforests and jungles. The awful thing about them is they’re parasitic, they grow on other animals. An ant happens to run into some spores, and then it s... | 3 minutes | September 13, 2008 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances
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Santa’s Magic | 8.67 | abuse, Amaris J. Gagnon, child abuse, children, Christmas, Christmas stories, creatures, deaths, domestic abuse, gore, holidays, kids, monsters, murders, revenge, sociopaths, sociopathy, thrillers, Xmas
| The night of Christmas Eve 2008 is a blur, depending on how much medication I am given that day. I can avoid the nurses for a couple of hours, but not too long. I suppose you’ve heard about me in the papers or on your favorite serial killer show. No, I was never convicted. What the media claimed was all lies anyway. No... | 12 minutes | December 24, 2019 | Children and Childhood, Christmas and Holidays, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Slashers and Gore, Suspense and Thrillers |
Yellow Ledbetter | 8.67 | afterlife, feelspastas, ghost stories, ghosts, mental illness, NDEs, near-death experiences, relationships, spirits, Stephanie Scissom, strange, suicides, unexplained
| The land beyond the bridge had been in my family for generations, forty-four acres of farmland. My father was as rooted to it as the oak tree in our front yard. Although he was sympathetic to my plight, he was certainly not going to move just because his daughter’s college boyfriend had killed himself two miles down t... | 13 minutes | August 29, 2019 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Ghosts and Spirits, Hell and the Afterlife, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Strange and Unexplained |
Cursed Sands | 8.67 | Ian Smith, military, occupations
| Part 1
I’ve been many different things at different points in my life. I’m an eight year veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served in the Gulf War. I was, for a relatively short time, a husband and father. I’ve worked in construction, trucking, food service, and many other menial jobs. More recently, I’ve ha... | 73 minutes | March 28, 2019 | Jobs and Occupations, Military and Warfare, Strange and Unexplained |
All My Friends Are Dead | 8.67 | deaths, Devin Hoover, dying, ghosts, haunted houses, hauntings, murders, serial killers
| Part 1
All my friends are dead. Don’t take that the wrong way though. I can’t say I knew any of them when they were still alive. Well, at least most of them anyway.
I guess I’m what you could call a psychic. I’ve never liked that word though. I can’t read anyone’s mind, see in to the future, or make things levitate. A... | 21 minutes | January 22, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Ghosts and Spirits, Locations and Sites, Strange and Unexplained |
Crossroads | 8.67 | folklore, folktales, legends, mythology, myths, poems, poetry, Video Narratives OK
| During nightly hours of yore, in a time of horror and war,
I would sit on a dank oak bench with my eyes shut, calm and closure.
Then, my eyes open when I sense a figure approach me with grace.
One of nature’s eccentric frights perched itself above my shoulder.
It croaked into my ear, with its feathers amusing my bare s... | 5 minutes | March 29, 2017 | Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Poems and Poetry |
The Magician | 8.67 | Video Narratives OK
| The only thing this magician couldn’t pull out of his hat was the money he needed to make his child support payment, and so, with a degree of reluctance, his venue of choice changed from making coins appear behind the ears of delighted children to making wallets and jewelry boxes disappear from homes in the middle of t... | 6 minutes | October 17, 2016 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
The Door Game | 8.67 | based on a true story, based on true events, Blake L. Patrick, multi-part stories
| “Yo, James hurry your ass up!” Damon roared from across the parking lot, standing next to our limo and waving me and Becca down. I quickly stole a kiss with Her before taking her hand and jogging toward the limo with her. We weren’t in there for more than a moment before our other friend Felix shoved a flask of Jack Da... | 19 minutes | September 1, 2015 | Based on True Events, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
I’ve Plumbed This Whole City | 8.67 | null | It’s so easy to forget about what lies beneath the streets of the modern world. Towers that scrape the sky and estates that stretch on for miles, the urban sprawl we know so well. But a man who has seen what lies beneath the concrete can’t ever forget.
Sewers. The catacombs that snake through the underground. For every... | 10 minutes | August 12, 2015 | Beings and Entities
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The Shredder Monkey | 8.67 | Nicky Exposito
| E-mail from: Ian Koros, Contributor, Scientific Fringe Magazine
To: Michael Wyzeki, Editor-in-Chief
Mike,
Several weeks ago, I was presented with a bizarre account I believe you’ll find worthwhile.
A friend of mine first found it. You know those spam e-mails, the ones that sometimes make their way into your inbox? For... | 31 minutes | June 17, 2015 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
The Periphery People | 8.67 | null | “Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there,” the man at the bar said to me, nursing a fresh two-fingers’ worth of Ketel vodka in a tumbler he cradled between his thick, calloused fingers.
“‘He wasn’t there again today. Oh how I wish he’d go away,’” I answered, drawing his sleepy but surprised gaze from the... | 9 minutes | October 19, 2014 | Beings and Entities
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Under the Ice | 8.67 | null | 6:52 AM
Another nightmare. I wake up in a pool of my own sweat. My heart is pounding and my brain feels like its going to break through my skull. Through the window the sun has just begun to rise, banishing the demons and the darkness of night back to Hell where they belong. The light shines through the blinds and cove... | 14 minutes | August 14, 2014 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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Hoarding | 8.67 | null | My aunt was a kind and benevolent woman. She was widowed, but never allowed her situation to get the better of her. She had a stern outlook on rules and etiquette, but a heart of platinum. She gave to charity even when she barely had enough for herself and she was loved by everyone… except for me.
My aunt wore a disgui... | 8 minutes | July 25, 2014 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances
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Mary Very | 8.67 | null | “Hey slow the hell down, would ya!?” I shouted at my friend as he sprinted past the encroaching tress that surrounded us.
We’d been walking for about half an hour and I think he was starting to get impatient. He practically had to drag me and my other friend out here to show us some abandoned house in the middle of now... | 11 minutes | March 19, 2014 | Beings and Entities
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Dance of Flames | 8.67 | Thomas Anthony Lay
| You’re probably like me, skeptical of all things unexplained. Never in my life have I believed anything that doesn’t have a logical explanation, even if it means I have to string together the most tenuous logic just to make something reasonable. This is me. Why then, do I sit here by this shimmering lake, desperately s... | 17 minutes | November 14, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
The Dibbuk Box | 8.67 | anonymously authored, dibbuk box, dibbuks, real-world creepy
| All of the events that I am about to set forth in this listing are accurate and may be verified by the winning bidder with the copies of hospital records and sworn affidavits that I am including as part of the sale of the cabinet.
During September of 2001, I attended an estate sale in Portland Oregon. The items liquida... | 11 minutes | January 12, 2013 | Artifacts and Objects, True Scary Stories |
I’m a Vigilante Online Predator Hunter | 8.66 | Ashley Rose Wellman, children, crimes, illegal activities, investigations, kids, pedophiles, pedophilia, vigilantes
| I’m a vigilante online predator hunter, and I can’t explain the bizarre things that happened last night.
I jolted awake in bed as my phone blared with a message.
hey baby. we’ve been talking long enough. i want to meet you now.
My blood turned to ice as I read the message. Just like it does every single time.
I messag... | 14 minutes | November 18, 2019 | Children and Childhood, Investigations and Crimes |
The Witch of Arlena Falls | 8.66 | beings, children, entities, kids, legends, lockdowns, myths, S.C. Young, school, school lockdowns, school stories, schools, urban legends, witchcraft, witches
| 5:58 AM
“There is an unexpected turn in the weather this morning, say our local meteorologists. Instead of seeing a warm day, we are getting a snowstorm that sources are saying could turn into the storm of the century.”
Dad turned off the radio, grumpy as hell this early in the morning. “It’s always the storm of the c... | 14 minutes | November 1, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Myths and Legends, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Strange and Unexplained, Urban Legends |
I Visited the Seven Gates of Hell | 8.66 | afterlife, BPWrites, deaths, dying, Hell, letters, religion
| Part 1
Have you ever heard of the seven gates of hell? Its a hugely popular paranormal site in rural Pennsylvania, surrounded by urban legend and horror stories. I always took it for granted how popular that site was, growing up only 15 miles down the road, but apparently its a nation wide phenomenon that some people t... | 26 minutes | January 20, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Hell and the Afterlife, Religion and Spirituality, Strange and Unexplained |
Incomprehensible | 8.66 | mysteries, strange
| “Do you ever have thoughts about hurting yourself?”
“No.”
“Have you ever thought about harming anyone else?”
“Never.”
Doctor Osbourne leaned back in his green leather chair. His slacks slid up and revealed long dress socks with red and blue squares in a checkered pattern. They were pulled all the way up and rising out... | 13 minutes | October 29, 2019 | Strange and Unexplained |
The Only Vietnam Story I’ve Never Told | 8.66 | armies, army, locations, militaries, military, Sam Riding, sites, Vietnam, war
| “Better Run Through the Jungle”
My name is Michael Hasford. I am seventy-two years old and I have terminal bowel cancer. I haven’t told anyone this story in nearly fifty years, the last time being before I was made to sign the State Secrets Act and bound to silence by threat of imprisonment. My doctor says I have aroun... | 14 minutes | February 19, 2018 | Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare |
Lights Out: A Beginner’s Guide to Playing | 8.66 | null | Preface
To preface this beginner’s guide and rule-book on the game of “Lights Out”, the author discourages any individuals from initiating or participating in this game. With that being said, this guide serves to assist those brave and moronic individuals who will, nevertheless, attempt this dangerous game whether or n... | 12 minutes | July 19, 2017 | Rites and Rituals
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Second Hand | 8.66 | Michael Whitehouse
| I’ve always been curious about the histories connected to belongings. I buy many of my things second hand from charity shops, retro speciality stores – those sorts of places. You can call me cheap all you want, but for me things have feelings. The vinyl record you listened to the night you were dumped, scratches and al... | 18 minutes | September 8, 2015 | Artifacts and Objects |
The Painting | 8.66 | null | When I was seven years old my ten year old brother Jamie was kidnapped, or so they say. The police claimed whoever had taken him were ‘professional’ in doing so. That I had been incredibly lucky to have not been taken as well. They described the kidnapper in this way because no finger prints were ever found on any of t... | 7 minutes | October 12, 2014 | Beings and Entities
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Mermaid | 8.66 | null | I knew it, my friends all knew it, and everyone at school knew it. But, no one would believe us. School was quiet with the truth hanging everywhere. The other students silently drifted from class to class, no one really spoke all that much anymore. Between each period, there was a brief and hushed march of bodies befor... | 10 minutes | July 20, 2014 | Strange and Unexplained
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Panic Button | 8.66 | null | Before I start, I have to admit something. I’m only telling you this because I think that it is important. But I swear, what happened was real. I just hope that you don’t judge me based on what I’m about to share.
The thing is, I live in a mental institution. I am clinically insane. 10 years ago I was diagnosed with se... | 7 minutes | November 5, 2013 | Strange and Unexplained
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Higher Powers | 8.66 | null | The chairs were the old school folding kind, brown metal with tan cushions that were almost comfortable. They were usually folded and stacked neatly against the wall in the basement of the church on Dionin street. Three times a week they were unfolded and made into a circle: once for bible book club on Monday afternoon... | 5 minutes | October 23, 2013 | Rites and Rituals
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Candle Cove: Day of the Dead | 8.66 | Candle Cove
| “Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, the people you hear laughing are dead.”
-Chuck Palahniuk, “Lullaby”
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“We don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to, of course.”
“I thought that’s what your job was about: talking?”
“Actually Mrs. Chelsea, I would say that m... | 10 minutes | June 18, 2013 | Strange and Unexplained |
Last Of The Sparks | 8.66 | Jacob Newell
| Back in February of 2008, I decided that I needed a change in my monotonous life. Whether that change would come in the form of a new job or a new toothbrush, I didn’t know. I was never the most adventurous person, I’ve always found it difficult to veer away from my comfort zone and the limit of my existence usually de... | 6 minutes | June 9, 2013 | Strange and Unexplained |
Tales of the City, Part Three : Schism | 8.66 | Tales of the City Series
| “You want to hear the scariest story I know?”
“Sure.”
“Is it scarier than the last two? If it is then I don’t want to hear it. In fact, I think I’ll head home. I’m sure I’ve had enough to drink already.”
“Don’t mind him. The rest of want to hear.”
“Wait, is this going to be about more ghosts or vampires or whatever? B... | 9 minutes | April 20, 2013 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
Yellow Rain Fever | 8.66 | null | Dear Survivor-
If you’re reading this, I’m probably dead. It’s for the best.
You see, about four or five days ago, a storm rolled in. Now, this in and of itself isn’t anything strange. The clouds and the rain though, they had a yellow tint to them. It smelled weird and tasted funny too, none of us could really nail dow... | 6 minutes | February 23, 2013 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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Annie | 8.66 | null | Annie ran away again the other night. It took me hours to find her in the park, going back and forth on the swings without a care in the world, like she had every right to be there. And she dyed her hair again, blonde this time. I didn’t want to make a fuss with all those people around, so I caught her on the backswing... | 7 minutes | February 21, 2013 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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The Washday Demon | 8.66 | null | My mother, dead now these past eighteen months – may God rest her soul – was a fanatically superstitious woman. Her ancestry, a combination of strict Catholicism and Irish folklore, had resulted in a potent blend which caused her to view life as a series of potential transgression (some valid, some merely fanciful) whi... | 8 minutes | January 11, 2013 | Beings and Entities
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Origin | 8.66 | Slenderman
| The sound of footsteps was audible in the merchant’s square. People walked around buying food, supplies, and the occasional odd item. I was setting up my wares for the day-medicines for the sick and potions to cure pain. I loved helping the people of Florence. Everyone needs healing. No one should be sick. I sold littl... | 4 minutes | January 7, 2013 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
The Kindness of Strangers | 8.66 | Harlequin Series, Stephan D. Harris
| “You can only hold a smile for so long,
after that it’s just teeth.”
¬- Chuck Palahniuk
By the time I had made my way into town I was just about ready to collapse. Sprinting for your life through cornfields and over long stretches of gravel roads at 1:00 a.m. will do that to a person. I’m not even sure that I really ne... | 13 minutes | January 2, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
Tapping | 8.66 | null | Tapping. I could hear tapping.
My eyes drifted to the faint glow of my alarm clock. 4:42AM. I knew I’d be up in only an hour, so I closed my eyes again. What had woken me in the first place tapped loudly once more, louder than the first few. My heart pounded in my chest. I was wide awake now, but too fearful to move.
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The Townhouse in Waterloo | 8.66 | null | It was your average evening. The normally blue skies were turning a pale orange as the sun set, the evening breeze was rolling in, making everything a bit more relaxed and a little less hot. It was my last day of summer vacation in Florida, and I have to say I was very enthusiastic to be going home. Although my time th... | 11 minutes | November 23, 2012 | Beings and Entities, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Strange and Unexplained
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The Man | 8.66 | null | I always had a typical child’s fears while growing up. From the whole “I think I see something moving in the shadows!” to “I need you to check my closet for monsters, daddy!” It was childish, but everyone goes through it. After I hit my male pubescent years however, these fears started to disappear. I needed to act lik... | 4 minutes | October 3, 2012 | Beings and Entities
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The Smiling Owl | 8.66 | null | With a terrible taste in my mouth, I awoke from a slumber that seemed so deep I would never emerge. Having gone to bed at 1:17 am, it was now only 2:47 am. My hour and a half of sleep had seemed infinity longer than that, filled with twists and turns of the subconscious dream state. But now, reality was all too real. W... | 5 minutes | August 28, 2012 | Beings and Entities
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The Ringing | 8.66 | null | You know that ringing sound that you will perceive when you are in a very quiet area? Some people say this is an auditory-illusion brought about the ear’s inability to detect frequencies below the threshold of the human senses. This is completely wrong. That ringing covers up something else altogether. If you are quick... | < 1 minute | August 1, 2008 | Beings and Entities
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My Dog Dreams About My Death | 8.65 | animals, apocalyptic, armageddon, deaths, dogs, dystopian, end of the world, experimentation, experiments, mind reading, pets, premonitions, Richard Saxon, sci-fi, science, science experiments, science fiction
| Do you ever just sit and watch your sleeping dog? Observe as their little feet run along the ground, just waving halfway in the air as they let out innocent half-gruntled barks. Have you ever just wondered what’s going on inside their sleeping minds, what they’re dreaming about? Maybe it’s a squirrel they’re chasing, o... | 10 minutes | March 12, 2020 | Animals and Wildlife, Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens |
In Our Town | 8.65 | Maddie Kate
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| In our town, you prayed for a boy when you first felt that kick in your belly. Mama said she cried the day I came out of her, she was so happy I’d been blessed as a son. Every birthday was a celebration for us, whole family coming around with sweet cakes and rye whiskey, friends and neighbors filling our back porch. My... | 18 minutes | December 6, 2019 | Strange and Unexplained |
Toby | 8.65 | Bigfoot, Craig Waltman, cryptids, Ireland, Irish, sasquatch, Scotland, Scottish
| It was in the year of our Lord 1778, when I, Frank Aaron McDougall, made voyage from Ireland, carried upon the wind of freedom was I bound towards that shining light across the sea, to meet up with me brother Newly and his kinfolk, in the Carolinas. It was a fair and prosperous land he proclaimed, free from the tyranny... | 21 minutes | September 30, 2019 | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids |
NoEnd House | 8.65 | beings, Brian Russell, challenges, competitions, creepypasta classics, entities, haunted houses, houses, locations, madness, mental illness, mysteries, no end house, no end house movie, noend house, noend house channel zero, noend house creepypasta, NoEnd House Series, paranormal, psychological horror, puzzles, sites,... | Part 1
Let me start by saying that Peter Terry was addicted to heroin.
We were friends in college and continued to be after I graduated. Notice that I said “I”. He dropped out after two years of barely cutting it. After I moved out of the dorms and into a small apartment, I didn’t see Peter as much. We would talk onli... | 48 minutes | June 30, 2011 | Beings and Entities, Famous Creepypasta, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers |
Mr. Ghost | 8.65 | emotional, feelspastas, ghost stories, ghosts, Ryan Peacock, spirits
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| In the spring of 1953, when I was nine years old I saw my brother die.
I’ll remember that day for the rest of my life. The memory has never left me and it never will. Part of it is the trauma, the slow, insidious realization that he was gone, that crept into my life afterward. But there is more to it that I don’t talk ... | 7 minutes | May 31, 2019 | Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Ghosts and Spirits, Strange and Unexplained |
A Sunset in Texas | 8.65 | cannibalism, cannibals, StarlessandBibleBlack
| Cooper’s eyes slowly opened, but his surroundings remained blurred as his vision began to focus. The afternoon sunlight was partially blocked by thick canvas curtains, causing a sickly yellow light to fill the room. Almost immediately, a jolt of pain throbbed on the back of his head. After a few moments of agony, it du... | 16 minutes | February 15, 2018 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Torture and Cannibalism |
Fire and Ice | 8.65 | Ada Mae Lovelace, strange, unexplained
| Fire burns.
It’s a simple fact of life. Fire burns everything it touches in one way or another. This particular fire was being gulped down the throat of an overweight man in his late thirties. The man chugged the liquid like it was the antidote to every ailment that could ever affect him. In one way, it was working.
H... | 6 minutes | June 4, 2017 | Strange and Unexplained |
Myriad Boardwalk | 8.65 | Video Narratives OK
| As I walk down the familiar venue of Myriad Boardwalk, I realize that this shoreline amusement park is different from it once was. I remember the bright, rich colors of the tents as vibrant displays of red and white. Colorful flags always flapped in the cool ocean air. At its prime, this popular retreat hosted locals a... | 5 minutes | February 28, 2017 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
The Reappearance of Carrie Mae | 8.65 | Daniel DuBois, Video Narratives OK
| Looking back, I remember how all of my family’s summer barbecues went the same way. There’d be the initial bustle of uncles and aunts arriving with kids, clinking paper bags full of liquor, and lopsided foil trays of macaroni and lasagna. First drinks were poured, meat was thrown on the grill, and cackles followed ligh... | 10 minutes | September 25, 2016 | Strange and Unexplained |
Don’t Peek | 8.65 | null | I lay awake under the covers of my bed. I’d grown accustomed to sleeping with my head completely underneath due to the extreme coldness in my bedroom. We had recently moved house and although we were settling in quite well the cold was something we all had to adjust to, especially with winter slowly creeping in.
As I g... | 9 minutes | May 17, 2015 | Beings and Entities
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I Found His Last Post | 8.65 | null | Thanks for the info, niceguyphil13.
I started digging around for myself using my top internet sleuthing tools (aka cached Google results and WayBackMachine) and found some forum posts. He went by “BenjiMCFC93” and was quite prolific, it appears. Mostly just memes and arguing about WWE with people, but there’s one that ... | 11 minutes | February 22, 2015 | Strange and Unexplained
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Ashen | 8.65 | Michael Whitehouse
| The river runs foul with the stench of death. It won’t be long now. For ten years I have fled, found each and every rock to hide beneath, a plethora of gutters soaked in the outcast remains of civilisation. No city, nor village, nor town has provided me with shelter. No home or friend to offer me sanctuary. I am untouc... | 25 minutes | December 18, 2014 | Beings and Entities |
Metroid 2: Secret Worlds | 8.65 | beings, deaths, entities, games, gaming, haunted games, Haunted Games Writing Contest, lost episodes, Metroid, strange, unexplained, video games
| A few months ago I was busy preparing to move to a new house when I came across something from my past.
I was going through my belongings, trying to figure out what to keep and what to discard, when I found an old shoebox stuffed down the back of my closet. Curious, I opened it up and found that it was full of CD’s. I ... | 11 minutes | November 6, 2014 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Strange and Unexplained, Video Games and Gaming |
Tales of the City, Part Four: The Last Stop | 8.65 | Tales of the City Series
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| “That reminds me of a story.”
“What does?”
“What she just said about being late to catch the train.”
“Me? I didn’t say anything?”
“Well, I’m sure I heard someone mention it, and that reminds me of a story that scared the hell out of me. Do you remember that subway drver last month who went nuts?”
“Remember it? I was o... | 7 minutes | April 21, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
If You Lost a Loved One | 8.65 | null | There is a way that you can bring back a loved one after death. I wouldn’t recommend it, though. Death is final and cheating it always leads to bad results. But you’ll want to know anyway. Well, here you go:
Go to the cemetery that your loved one is buried in. This only works for those who’ve been buried, though (there... | 4 minutes | March 22, 2013 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Rites and Rituals
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Train | 8.65 | null | There exists a curious legend among the people of South Africa. Although somewhat obscure now, it was prevalent during the late 19th Century colonisation of Africa which saw the construction of railways across the countryside for the transport of workers. This is the legend of the witch trains – ordinary-looking trains... | 11 minutes | October 31, 2012 | Artifacts and Objects, Locations and Sites, Rites and Rituals
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In the Bayou | 8.65 | beings, entities, Isolation, nature, Nihilist, outdoors, strange, suspense, thrillers, unexplained
| If you want to understand why I left the place I was at, you’re really just going to have to hear the entire story. You won’t believe it, of course. But your skepticism means nothing. Because what I saw that night on the bayou has been with me ever since. In my mind, in my thoughts, and sometimes even in my dreams. It ... | 7 minutes | October 16, 2012 | Beings and Entities, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers |
Kisaragi Station | 8.65 | anonymously authored
| A 2ch story from 2004, posted in the middle of a thread called “Post About Strange Occurrences Around You: Thread 26.” The poster was anonymous at first, but started attaching their name later.
For your convenience, #??? and Hasumi indicate posts made by the thread creator. #2ch indicates a post made by any other 2chan... | 7 minutes | October 28, 2012 | Locations and Sites, Strange and Unexplained |
The Closest Enemy | 8.65 | null | Some murderers see their work as an art form. If their piece is a success, they will continue on with their life, outside of jail. However, with the limited capability of understanding humans possess, combined with their narrow mindedness, the true secret of a killer can go entirely missed.
The following is a video log... | 6 minutes | February 8, 2009 | Beings and Entities
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One More For The Orphan | 8.65 | anonymously authored
| In a small orphanage in a small village in Russia, there is a young boy. His hair is jet black, and messy, and he tattered jeans and an old dingy grey shirt.
Nothing is known of him. For 10 years, he sat in the bed in his room, never moving, never blinking, never eating or sleeping. In the 10 years, he has not seemed t... | 2 minutes | May 6, 2008 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
The Thing That Will Kill Me | 8.64 | Ashley Rose Wellman, beings, deaths, entities, fear, fortune telllers, insanity, madness, mediums, occult, paranoia, psychics, psychological, psychological horror, stalkers, survival, survival horror, suspense, threats, thrillers
| I grew up in a tiny town in Vermont. Tiny in terms of population, not size—there were huge sprawling farms and wooded areas, but almost no people. More cows than people, which is standard for a lot of small towns in Vermont. So, clearly, not the most fun in the world for a kid who was sick of freezing winters and awful... | 8 minutes | June 16, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers |
The Man Who Cheated the Devil | 8.64 | Ryan Peacock
| Have you ever been down to Brantford? It’s not a bad place to live, although there honestly isn’t that much to see. So much is just abandoned, or so old you can’t even imagine what it was like when it was new. It doesn’t really feel like a city, more like a small town that got too big for the ‘town’ label.
Most of the... | 18 minutes | May 24, 2019 | Strange and Unexplained |
The Bottom of the Ninth | 8.64 | baseball, Shannon Higdon, tongue in cheek
| “Welcome back to the bottom of the ninth inning ladies and gentlemen and it appears that we have yet to receive an update on the injury to the twenty four-year veteran, Bryce Harper, who was hit by that devastating fastball to start the inning and had to be carried off the field. Obviously we’ll let you know the momen... | 10 minutes | May 14, 2018 | Beings and Entities, Locations and Sites, Strange and Unexplained |
The Psychopath | 8.64 | make-up, Shannon Higdon
| Mena had been in the shower for nearly an hour when the water-heater spit out the last drops having any semblance of warmth to them, prompting her to quickly shut off the flow before that damn chill re-attached itself to her. It was honestly the first time she had felt warm in a week. There were only two towels and t... | 8 minutes | December 30, 2017 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites |
The Curse | 8.64 | null | Darkness fell in the forest, through the trees; along the paths. I had been running for around an hour and was ready to head toward home. The nights were coming so much earlier as fall was fast approaching.
I loved running, and this time of year was my favorite since all the leaves were bright and splashed with color. ... | 7 minutes | September 13, 2017 | Beings and Entities
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The Chimney Man | 8.64 | Christmas, holidays, Pen_Phantom13
| 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 the top of a small mountain. I was 14 at the time, and yes, we were wealthy,... | 9 minutes | May 24, 2017 | Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays |
Lucid Paradise | 8.64 | null | There is an ancient story which tells of how a spider creature named Iktomi created a web which filtered good dreams from the bad dreams. He shared the secrets of this web with a brave leader, who in turn told the world of the web to ensure his people were not haunted by nightmares. This lead to the creation of the spe... | 21 minutes | October 23, 2015 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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The Warning | 8.64 | null | Endless.
Dark.
That was the road in front of me, stretching out farther than the eye could see in this inky blackness. Not a star in the sky tonight, and the moon seemed to be hiding from view as well. That was okay because I actually preferred the dark stretch- I found it calming to drive the narrow strip alone in th... | 3 minutes | December 12, 2014 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances
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Hell Lives Inside | 8.64 | Danielle Elizabeth
| A shiver of terror runs through me, and I’m awake, gasping. I lay still, fists clenched in my sweat soaked sheets, shaking from the nightmare. Forcing my eyes open, I confront the darkness. My breath hitches in my chest as my eyes desperately search for something to focus on, but there’s nothing. This is what they call... | 5 minutes | November 4, 2013 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Strange and Unexplained |
The Story of Her Holding an Orange: Part Four | 8.64 | based on a true story, based on true events, The Story of Her Holding an Orange
| If you haven’t read my previous posts, please read stories one, two and three.
Hey guys, after many PMs asking for an update, I decided to bring you up to speed on whats going on. But first, here is the screenshot of the desktop picture that Rose/her cult put on my laptop. I haven’t been able to find the original photo... | 7 minutes | March 4, 2013 | Based on True Events, Beings and Entities, Strange and Unexplained |
Charlotte | 8.64 | null | When I was a young child, I had a playroom filled with toys which had accumulated over the many holidays and birthdays. I remembered sitting in the middle of that room playing with my toys each day. My mother and I were reminiscing one morning as I was packing my things to move into my new apartment when she brought up... | 6 minutes | January 1, 2013 | Beings and Entities
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Raincoat | 8.64 | null | It’s a small memory. A fragment almost entirely hidden in your hazy recollection of past years, of oddly dream-like days where the imagination ran wild and free, blurring the lines of the so-called “reality” that you now have as an adult, and your innocence and carefree youth kept you for the most part very happy. You ... | 2 minutes | November 10, 2012 | Strange and Unexplained
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Everything Will Be Okay | 8.64 | null | It started with the usual. Waking up in different places on smaller scales. Fall asleep on the couch, wake up in my bed.
“Oh Randy, I was the same way at your age,” My mother used to say, with smiles and turn-aways that marked the end of discussion.
Sometimes I thought it was my parents, but to what motivation would th... | 4 minutes | July 21, 2012 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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Tower of Silence | 8.64 | null | January 19, 2003 —
Indian officials ventured into a deep jungle, investigating several missing persons reports from a nearby city. What they found was a “Tower of Silence,” or dakhma. Zoroastrians use these sites to dispose of bodies in the open air.
While sites like these are not uncommon in certain parts of india, se... | 2 minutes | June 18, 2012 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites
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A Child’s Eyes | 8.64 | null | Every child fears under their bed. If they don’t, they fear the closet, or maybe that little crack in the almost closed door.
Scientists know that children are more perceptive, they see things adults don’t. They aren’t yet tethered into only accepting what society wants them to accept. They see what is truly there.
Th... | < 1 minute | August 3, 2008 | Strange and Unexplained
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The Red Wristband | 8.64 | anonymously authored
| When you are admitted to a hospital, they place on your wrist a white wristband with your name on it. But there are other different colored wristbands which symbolizes other things. The red wristbands are placed on dead people.
There was one surgeon who worked on night shift in a school hospital. He had just finished a... | < 1 minute | May 17, 2008 | Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
Jesus Camp | 8.63 | beings, Bible camp, children, Dustin Chisam, entities, kids, occult, Rachel Routon, religious, spirituality, summer camps, witchcraft
| I was raised Evangelical. Miraculous healing, speaking in tongues, God’s voice speaking through people, Jesus Camps, and Christian School. Yep. Christian School. My. Whole. Life. These were all realities to me- and my faith never wavered. You know what? That is a lie, and I cannot write that in good faith… no pun inten... | 23 minutes | February 13, 2020 | Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Religion and Spirituality |
Where the Birches Lean | 8.63 | C.L. McLendon, disappearances, dreams, L0CKED334, nature, NSFW, outdoors, sleep, Video Narratives OK
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| It was the last week of school before Christmas break. That meant that the students and teachers of Ridgecrest Christian Preparatory Academy had little intention of actually working. Most classes had become a social hour but Mr. Winthrop had decided to take this opportunity to give his senior English class a writing as... | 17 minutes | April 10, 2019 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Dreams and Nightmares, Nature and the Outdoors |
Someone Has Made It An Annual Tradition to Amputate a Part of My Body | 8.63 | amputations, bodily harm, Eigengraulogy, mutilations, strange, traditions
| Back in 2012, I went to Las Vegas for a couple of weeks to blow off some steam, along with my severance package after I was laid off.
It wasn’t an absurd amount of money, but it was enough to have fun for a few days which was all I wanted.
I was staying at a casino hotel, and one morning I woke up with what I initiall... | 12 minutes | January 12, 2019 | Body Horror, Rites and Rituals |
Roommates | 8.63 | Crazy, serial killers, Shannon Higdon
| The second Darryl’s keys were rattling in the lock Katie was off the couch and racing to the front door.
“Did you do it? Did you do it?” She was practically bouncing up and down with giddy anticipation and unwilling to give him a second to even breathe. “Did you kill her? Is it done?” Darryl couldn’t help but to s... | 7 minutes | June 17, 2020 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Strange and Unexplained |
I Didn’t Have a Voice Until You Read This | 8.63 | S.P. Hickey, Video Narratives OK
| I didn’t have a voice until you read this.
Let me explain — I was voiceless but I still existed. We all did.
We have been here ever since the first men peered fearfully out of their caves into the deep, still darkness beneath a moonless sky and thought: ‘What could be hiding out there?’
Us.
We were.
I’ve been with you ... | 3 minutes | October 21, 2016 | Beings and Entities |
The Remover | 8.63 | Kenneth Kohl
| Part 1
When I left my office, I already had a premonition that something awful was going to happen that evening. I’m not psychic. I am quite perceptive, though, and the signs were easy to read. I had worked late – nine o’clock and already dark – and my ordinarily enjoyable walk to the parking lot struck me as a little ... | 105 minutes | March 28, 2015 | Beings and Entities |
Not Afraid of the Dark | 8.63 | Daniel Martins
| I always have a torch in my pocket these days. I found a small LED one at an electronics store for a couple of bucks, and I keep it on me at all times. It’s actually really bright, despite the size. I bought five, the other four are placed in strategic locations around my house, so I can get to any of them quickly if n... | 14 minutes | December 26, 2014 | Locations and Sites |
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