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My Last Meal | 8.63 | null | Hell is worse than you think, trust me. I know this sounds odd, I mean, the idea of an eternal hell being ripped apart over and over by demons sounds horrific, but that image is just stereotypical. Believe me, it can be a lot worse than simply dealing with a whole load of pain. Don’t get me wrong, that version of hell ... | 9 minutes | May 19, 2014 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances
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The Room, Story One: Remember | 8.63 | null | 1
Guy Thompson was the model for your ‘normal’ twenty something person: Five feet eleven inches tall, twelve and a half stone and a simple haircut. Not to mention a lack of any real fashion sense. He held a nine to five job with a twenty five grand salary; had a girlfriend, plain and unspectacular much like Guy himself... | 13 minutes | December 7, 2013 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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The Crawling House On Black Pond Road | 8.63 | William Dalphin
| I can’t sleep. I have to share because maybe I won’t feel if I share. Dr. Kirsch says to write and get it off my chest. Writing about it might release me from it. What should I title this? “Therapy”?
I’m currently seated at a computer terminal in a little, white, sterile room. There’s about a half dozen other computer ... | 10 minutes | October 17, 2013 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
Tales of the City, Part Six: Burnt Offerings | 8.63 | Tales of the City Series
| “It’s last call.”
“Hey, like in that poem you know? ‘Hurry up please, it’s time!’ …sorry, I’ve had a lot to drink.”
“We all have. And I, for one, don’t really feel safe going home after everything we’ve heard tonight.”
“But all those stories can’t be true. Even if you believe in that kind of thing, there can’t be one ... | 22 minutes | April 23, 2013 | Locations and Sites |
The Story of Her Holding an Orange: Part Five | 8.63 | based on a true story, based on true events, The Story of Her Holding an Orange
| Formalities first: If you’re just joining my diary of horror, please read part one, part two, part three, and part four.
I have become almost indifferent to what’s going on to me. Since my first story, so much shit happened/was discovered that I became dulled down to the point of almost not giving a fuck. Put that atti... | 9 minutes | March 5, 2013 | Based on True Events, Beings and Entities, Strange and Unexplained |
Will You Sleep Tonight? | 8.63 | null | My name is often whispered, my memory abhorred,
My touch brings out the blisters, my skin is cracked and torn.
My eyes are small and heartless, just circles black as soot.
They blend into the darkness, for fear I’d wake you up.
I lurk beneath the shadows, forever out of sight – Am I a distant memory, or will you sleep... | < 1 minute | September 22, 2012 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances
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Alone | 8.63 | null | I don’t even know why I’m writing this. I can post this in a million different places, it won’t matter. There’s still nobody there to read it. Nobody left to hear my story. Yet this might be my last chance to do this, so I will. The feeling won’t go away. They’re watching. They’re watching and getting closer every seco... | 6 minutes | November 8, 2008 | Strange and Unexplained
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Jesus 2.0 | 8.62 | afterlife, angels, atheism, demons, Devil, Heavensville, Hell, Jesus, Lucifer, Luciferians, mysteries, religion, Sandra Varela, Satan, Satanists, strange, unexplained
| This story is part of the author’s Heavensville series of interrelated stories. If you enjoy it, the author invites you to click here to read the other tales in the series.
The first thing I noticed about him was his shaggy, champagne-colored hair that reached down to his shoulders and how it contrasted against his dar... | 13 minutes | January 15, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Demons and Possession, Hell and the Afterlife, Religion and Spirituality, Rites and Rituals, Strange and Unexplained |
No Eyes, No Tongue, No Fingertips | 8.62 | David Feuling, deformities, feelspastas, love, mother, mothers, parents, strange
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| A few years back, I worked as a nurse in the geriatric unit of the hospital in my hometown. There was one old woman there with pale blue eyes whose mind was still fantastically sharp, and her desire to socialize and make new friends set her apart from most others living in that wing of the facility. That woman and I so... | 5 minutes | July 26, 2020 | Body Horror, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Strange and Unexplained |
I Remember Smuggler’s Creek | 8.62 | null | Wednesday, July 12th, 2017
The dynamic of memory has confounded me for my entire life. Memory is itself a living being, eternally aging until it decays and fades away. Each memory lives through its life cycle. Full of vitality in birth and hollow and weak in death. Like the people in our lives, the existence of our pas... | 25 minutes | July 31, 2017 | Locations and Sites
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Red Lights | 8.62 | Daniel Martins, Video Narratives OK
| Every family has its stories, those events that have passed on into almost legend, and my extended family is no different. Some families have stories which they laugh about, which are brought up with regularity at gatherings, stories that they share with others.
Ours is not one of these stories. If it’s discussed at al... | 22 minutes | February 13, 2017 | Locations and Sites |
Witch | 8.62 | based on a true story, based on true events, Video Narratives OK
| Witch
Based on True Events
I guess I don’t know where to start. The beginning would be the obvious place, but I don’t know what the beginning was. The whispers? The shadows? Objects moving by themselves? Electronics going haywire? Or was it the first time I actually saw it? Soulless pits for eyes and a featureless, pap... | 19 minutes | October 16, 2016 | Based on True Events, Beings and Entities |
The Mind Game | 8.62 | based on a true story, based on true events, Blake L. Patrick, multi-part stories, Video Narratives OK
| Author’s Note: “The Mind Game” is the sequel to “The Door Game“. The author recommends you read the first part of the story, which can be found here, before reading this continuation of the tale. Thank you, and happy reading!
“What is it that makes human beings so unique? No, really, what makes us so different from the... | 26 minutes | September 4, 2016 | Based on True Events, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
The Darkness of Farside | 8.62 | aliens, conspiracies, Video Narratives OK
| My name is Jim McGraw. I was the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 19. Contrary to popular belief, there were at least two more missions to the moon that were kept secret from the public. I flew to the moon in June of 1973 under the command of Commander Thomas Caird. Our friend, Steve Willis, was the flight’s Lunar Module... | 7 minutes | April 16, 2016 | Conspiracies and Government, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained |
The Darkness | 8.62 | based on a true story, based on true events
| This is a story from my childhood, one which I have not told anyone except for my wife; just thinking about it still sends shivers down my spine. I grew up in a small house with just my mother. It was a nice little house with two bedrooms upstairs, a small living room and kitchen on the main floor, and a basement where... | 8 minutes | February 13, 2016 | Based on True Events, Beings and Entities |
Something Was in My Kitchen Last Night | 8.62 | null | Someone was in my kitchen last night.
I moved to this apartment about a year ago, and I swear that I haven’t gotten a single good night’s sleep since then. Every day, it’s been the same: get up, shove some cheap crap down my throat, go to school or work, come home, veg out in front of the computer, try to sleep. And I ... | 6 minutes | January 10, 2016 | Beings and Entities
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Chef the Griller | 8.62 | Jeff the Killer, parodies
| One month ago, on a rain-slicked street
My mother and I got a bite to eat
But on the way back, I slipped and fell
And I suppose the car coming didn’t see me well
Because the next thing I knew, as I lifted my head
I was staring at the sheets of a hospital bed!
I could not move my legs, nor my right arm
My left was oka... | 4 minutes | April 1, 2014 | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
The God Machine (Prologue) | 8.62 | null | NOTE: This is the prologue of The God Machine, submitted by the original author and hosted with permission from his publisher. I have to admit to not having read the book – I haven’t read much that isn’t pasta submissions lately! – but I really enjoyed this prologue and felt it stood well enough on its own that I could... | 11 minutes | July 24, 2013 | Artifacts and Objects, Strange and Unexplained
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Evaporation | 8.62 | undead, zombies
| Water.
Water is the cornerstone of life. It nourishes us, irrigates our crops and waters our livestock. Water is vital for all known forms of life. We rely on it to wash our cars, clean our food and produce our power. It has an effect on almost every activity in everyday life. Without it, civilisation would cease to fu... | 6 minutes | August 8, 2010 | Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Zombies and the Undead |
There’s a Giant Person in the Sky | 8.61 | agents, apocalypse, apocalyptic, armageddon, beings, conspiracies, cosmic horror, creatures, end of the world, entities, giants, government, government agencies, government agents, interdimensional, Lovecraftian, monsters, Ross Tyson, sci-fi, science fiction, strange, unexplained
| 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 was being more needy than usual, and we had agreed that lots of drinking w... | 22 minutes | August 26, 2019 | Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Beings and Entities, Conspiracies and Government, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science Fiction and Aliens, Space and Cosmic Horror, Strange and Unexplained |
Alive | 8.61 | Nikolaj Janushev
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Fear of the unknown… a fear that almost all humans feel, an outcome that is uncertain. The fear of darkness is something that is mysterious, something we experience every single night. Each and every person has their own nightmares they encounter throughout their life. But what exactly are they and what d... | 32 minutes | December 9, 2018 | Beings and Entities |
My Local Costco Has a Secret Basement | 8.61 | Blair Daniels, costco, cult, deaths, retail
| My husband is dying. Despite his good prognosis after the accident, he gets weaker every day. When he became unable to even say my name, I got desperate.
I posted details of his condition on every forum I could find. Medical, accident survivors… I even posted it on a sketchy “deep web” forum called Help Yourself. That’... | 6 minutes | September 22, 2019 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Rites and Rituals, Strange and Unexplained |
Another Fairy Tale | 8.61 | fairy tale, monsters, Shannon Higdon
| Once upon a time in a land far, far away there was a story that became well known in all the kingdoms of men. It started as a whisper in the back of ale-houses and progressed to the point of street-corner news barkers. No one knew if the story was true, but it slowly captured the imaginations of the common folk and r... | 19 minutes | December 22, 2017 | Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained |
Crunched Up Paper House | 8.61 | ullahshy
| My friend and I always used to walk through a wonderful, spacious park when we were younger. It was full of tall trees, and it was very nicely maintained. In this large park, there was an abandoned mansion – I can’t really say how long it had been there, but on that day, the front door of the mansion was wide open. The... | 4 minutes | December 16, 2017 | Strange and Unexplained |
The Bus | 8.61 | Video Narratives OK
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| In 1975, my best friend disappeared. I’m going to tell you what happened. It won’t take long because the story is a short one, but that’s a necessity of the facts. Quite simply, there aren’t many.
Here they are:
His name was James Wade. He was thirteen years old. One night, he went to bed and the next morning, he wasn... | 5 minutes | February 7, 2017 | Strange and Unexplained |
The Thing I Saw the Day My Friend Died | 8.61 | apparitions, based on a true story, based on true events, beings, entities, ghost stories, ghosts, jobs, night security, occupations, security, security guards, Seth Raziel, spirits, Video Narratives OK
| This happened years ago, but it is still something that sticks with me. This all happened like a sequence. You never know if things are supposed to happen for a reason or if some unknown outside force influences it. But first, a backstory.
My friend, let’s call her Jenny, was a cheery, happy-go-lucky young woman. She r... | 9 minutes | November 15, 2016 | Based on True Events, Beings and Entities, Ghosts and Spirits, Jobs and Occupations |
Hell’s Trickster | 8.61 | null | It was mid-October in New York, but summer hadn’t quite given up on us yet. The day we’d chosen for the hike was likely to be one of the last good ones before the cold weather set in – we being me, Marisol, Allison, and Dexter.
Dexter was something of an expedition enthusiast – a real outdoorsy type, which is something... | 18 minutes | December 18, 2015 | Beings and Entities, Locations and Sites, Strange and Unexplained
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On the Bus | 8.61 | null | The streets, roads and dusty lanes of Colombia have been fertile territory for myths and legends since before the arrival of the Spaniards. Tales of ‘La Patasola’, a one-legged wailing banshee that forever sought her child, and of ‘El Duende’, a backwards-footed goblin that led travelers to their doom, nibbled at the c... | 8 minutes | September 17, 2013 | Locations and Sites, Strange and Unexplained
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The Wanderer of Blazes | 8.61 | By the Fire's Light Series, Slenderman, Star Kindler
| Dr. Ellen Kennedy was just locking up her office for the evening when her phone began to ring. She paused at the door. It had been a long and grueling day and a ringing phone this late did not bode well. She sighed. While it didn’t bode well, it meant that it was probably important. Swinging her door back open, she wal... | 17 minutes | April 15, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
In the Wall | 8.61 | null | I had moved into a new apartment with my girlfriend about two years ago. It was pretty small; it had only a kitchen, one bedroom, one bathroom, and a living room. All of the rooms might have been small, but the rent was good, and we didn’t really care. Neither of us made enough money to move out of the place, so we tri... | 10 minutes | February 18, 2013 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances
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A Dream Come True | 8.61 | null | Imagine the multiverse: Atoms converging into patterns infinite. Most universes listening to physics, placing only that which should exist into reality, but there are others in which the impossible happens simply because there’s no reason it is not. All the darkest horrors of the grimmest imaginations, made real with n... | 6 minutes | September 21, 2012 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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I Am Sam | 8.61 | null | I am Sam.
I have reached the gates of Hell. I entered without fear. I met the Lord of All Evil, and we made a deal. I got back to Earth, with a task.
I have to kill 665 people before I die. If I do so, I will spend eternity as a Demon King in Hell, with my own Legion to command. Of course, I’m very delighted by that p... | < 1 minute | February 28, 2009 | Beings and Entities
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Trick or Treat | 8.6 | deaths, Halloween, home alone, Justine Anastasia, murders, mysteries, paranormal, trick-or-treating
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| “No, I’m going to stay in. It’s been a long day and the most I intend to do tonight is hand out candy.”
“Lame. Look, just for once, ignore your spinster instincts and come to Jackson’s. We’ll get sloppy drunk and play strip Twister.”
“Sounds like a blast.”
“I already have our costumes picked out.”
“Oh, this I have to ... | 10 minutes | December 31, 2018 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Halloween Stories, Strange and Unexplained |
The Ditch | 8.6 | null | The first thing that Geoff noticed when he opened his eyes was that he was completely immobile from the neck down. Next came the realization that it was now early in the daytime. The last thing he remembered was running alongside the Maryland stretch of Route 50 between Salisbury and Abandale at nighttime. Now it was d... | 16 minutes | July 5, 2017 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances
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The One About The Pizza Guy | 8.6 | parodies, real-world creepy
| If you really want to hear about it, here’s what happened. It was a long time ago and I was working at a local pizza joint called Peter Pizza. I remember clockwatching, waiting for midnight to strike so I could get the hell out of there. I didn’t have any plans. I just wanted to go home and watch a movie and maybe smok... | 26 minutes | April 18, 2017 | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
Paying It Forward | 8.6 | Video Narratives OK
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| I was ready to die. It’s funny; we, as human beings, like to imagine ourselves as fighters. We like to think that when death grips us by the throat, prepared to drag us into whatever beyond awaits us, that we’ll instinctively resist, either out of desperation to live or even some deeply ingrained sense of pride that wo... | 11 minutes | November 16, 2016 | Beings and Entities |
Red Popsicles | 8.6 | Video Narratives OK, Wankershim
| “Mama, can I pllleeease have a popsicle?”
Lily’s face puckered into an adorable little pout. At just four years old, she was quite persistent, and knew just how to be persuasive with her mother when she didn’t have her way. Her baby blues widened as she heaved another desperate prompt between her puffed, rosy cheeks.
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The Birds Are Singing | 8.6 | anonymously authored
| I don’t like telling this story and most people don’t believe it when I do. It brings back too many painful memories, memories that I’ve been running away from since I was a ten year old boy. I’d been called a devil, a murderer, a child just desperate for attention. I’m forty now and I’m sure people still question my s... | 9 minutes | August 10, 2015 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Strange and Unexplained |
The Old Mill of Playland | 8.6 | based on a true story, based on true events
| Sometimes I miss the dreamy sensations that came with childhood, like the excitement of visiting an amusement park. Back then they seemed like dreamlands nestled in reality, and it was as though no kid could wait to visit them. My younger brother and I were no exceptions. Whenever summertime rolled around, we would eag... | 12 minutes | September 17, 2014 | Based on True Events, Locations and Sites |
Silence in the Rain | 8.6 | Slenderman
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| The cat walked slowly across the concrete, pausing to lick its paw in the middle. It sat there in the moonlight, just watching the skies and heavy rain. The clouds swirled, and the night was young. Perhaps it could find a confused mouse, or a drowned frog in this time. Its tail moved with anticipation of it’s hunt.
A c... | 6 minutes | December 15, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
Vitreous | 8.6 | null | In mid-July of 1991, when Sam was six years old, he was holding his mother’s hand as they walked barefoot across the baking hot asphalt of the neighborhood pool’s parking lot. He had his other arm through the hole of his inflatable black inner tube, and was gazing off at an angle tangential to the sun.
Something was bo... | 7 minutes | May 8, 2013 | Beings and Entities
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Kerberos | 8.6 | null | A few months ago I was watching television in my living room when I heard the first howl. It reverberated through my bones like something from my darkest nightmares, leaving me temporarily immobile with the shock of it. After a few moments I tried my best to regain my composure, reassuring myself with a forced laugh of... | 15 minutes | December 26, 2012 | Beings and Entities
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Silence | 8.6 | Slenderman
| I tense up at the sudden noise from my headphones that breaks the silence in my dorm room. It takes a while, but I adjust to the noise, letting the video play out with mild interest. My stomach growls harshly, I should get something to eat from the basement. I glance at the clock; 3:06 a.m. About bedtime, Kyle. I think... | 7 minutes | December 16, 2012 | Beings and Entities |
I Don’t Sleep Anymore | 8.6 | null | Earlier this week, on Sunday night, I had a dream in which I knew I was asleep. I was stood outside of my house in torrential rain at night and thought I needed to get inside in order to wake up. I approached the front door and placed my knuckles onto the door-window ready to knock. I knew that my next action would bri... | 3 minutes | July 18, 2010 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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The Gun Game | 8.6 | null | The loud bang on her front door jolted Clara from her daydream. This was it. After all the careful planning and struggling to survive, the end would come now; 9 blocks up in room 934 of the now abandoned Marriott. She started to cry, not for herself, but for her little 3 year old son, Jeremy. He was the world to her, a... | 6 minutes | October 26, 2009 | Beings and Entities
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Button Day | 8.6 | null | Laura was woken by her father; something that he had not done since she was a child. As her thoughts slowly swam back into focus, she was suddenly sure that she had slept naked and he had seen her, but to her relief she was wearing her baby-blue pyjamas. God, what was he doing in here anyway?
“Come on, you,” he said br... | 9 minutes | August 25, 2008 | Strange and Unexplained
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The Debt Collector | 8.59 | scary people, scary person, Shannon Higdon, Uber
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| Grant could not have asked for a prettier day to drive on. He had only been driving for Uber for a couple of months now in his free time, but he enjoyed it so much it was, little by little, starting to surpass his time bartending. There was something about the freedom and mobility that drew him. “It’s like having a ... | 24 minutes | January 2, 2018 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Strange and Unexplained |
A Cure for Trauma | 8.59 | null | My older brother stood over me, eyes blown wide and a smile spread across his face. He held out a hand to me like he was approaching a wounded animal, knowing that any sudden move could spook me into leaving. My feet scuffled on the floor and I looked up into his big brown eyes, the same eyes that mother said made him ... | 21 minutes | October 20, 2017 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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Appalachia – Part Two | 8.59 | Appalachia
| The other campers and I begged the girl to go into more detail about Timmy’s alleged sightings within the Appalachian region. She seemed all too happy to oblige us, seeing as we were hooked now, and launched into her second tale. This one cropped up a couple years after the initial sighting, a couple hours North of our... | 8 minutes | June 20, 2017 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
In the Dark | 8.59 | parodies, Video Narratives OK
| I see you over there, tucked into your bed. I hope you feel uncomfortable. I hope you sense me over here, watching you. I wonder if you can see my emerald eyes staring at you, I hope you feel them piercing your soul, I hope you feel my presence here, waiting. The bed trembles as you turn uneasily, I know that I will so... | < 1 minute | April 1, 2017 | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies, Strange and Unexplained |
Death Gave Me a Choice | 8.59 | anonymously authored, death, deaths, Video Narratives OK
| Death came to me that night as I sat numbly in a puddle of my own desperate blood and tears. And when I saw him, a tall entity clothed in a robe so black it reached past the depths of darkness I felt inside my heart.
I’d been upset. Not about one thing in particular, but multiple things.
I’d made so many mistakes, tha... | 10 minutes | December 27, 2016 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
The Joys of Cat Ownership | 8.59 | null | I love cats. They’re so fuzzy and mischievous…totally adorable.
Well, not always adorable. Sometimes they’re destructive, annoying, and loud. Especially at night.
Any cat owner can tell you what it feels like to wake in the middle of the night to the sound of your beloved pet racing from one end of the house to the ot... | 8 minutes | July 23, 2014 | Beings and Entities
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Don’t Ever Let Them In | 8.59 | null | I am terrified of the dark. My grandmother, on the other hand, had an affinity for the dark. She loved and enjoyed the dark so much that most windows in her house were walled shut and the few that remained were, except for rare occasions like family visits, blacked out with several layers of black curtains.
It was only... | 5 minutes | October 7, 2013 | Strange and Unexplained
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I Can’t Say That I’m Proud | 8.59 | Slenderman
| Sometimes decisions in life aren’t easy to make, and rather than being driven by morals or logic, they’re driven by emotion and sheer necessity to survive. From time to time, everyone is forced to make a decision like this, and I am no different. That being said, it doesn’t mean I’m proud of what I do. In fact, I feel ... | 11 minutes | September 20, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
The Most Beautiful Creature | 8.59 | null | The most beautiful creature I’d ever seen never seemed to close the curtains of her room next door. We’d only moved in a week before, but it was hard not to notice a girl like her. I don’t think she’d ever seen me, but that just made her that much more alluring.
She was young and thin, skin as fair as winter’s first fa... | 3 minutes | August 7, 2013 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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Broadcast Interruption | 8.59 | null | You might already have heard of the TV broadcast hijacking in Seneca, South Carolina; the story’s gained pretty wide currency on the Internet, and part of the broadcast is available on youtube, assuming it hasn’t been taken down for whatever reason. For the uninitiated, the Seneca hijacking is one of the lesser-known b... | 4 minutes | June 15, 2012 | Strange and Unexplained
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Tired Eyes | 8.59 | null | I was fifteen when it happened. My sister was five. It started on her fifth birthday, when she received one of those dolls that’s supposed to look like the owner. It was a standard doll, the same height as my sister, red hair, freckles; it even came with an outfit matching its own for my sister. The only out of the ord... | 4 minutes | June 6, 2012 | Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities
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The Prince’s Fresh Start | 8.59 | parodies
| Somewhere in West Philadelphia, you will find an old basketball court with a single ball lying in the middle. Pick it up and start shooting hoops. After a while, a small group of hooligans will approach you and challenge you to a fight, which you must accept.
After the fight, you must go home and relay the events to yo... | < 1 minute | October 10, 2008 | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies, Rites and Rituals |
Notes | 8.59 | null | All this shit started when I found that little note.
On a square piece of paper I found at the bottom of a box I was moving out of my basement, it read, “HELLO? PLEASE RESPOND”. I had no idea how long the paper had been there, those boxes had sat in my basement since I moved in. I ignored it until the next morning, whe... | 4 minutes | August 27, 2008 | Beings and Entities
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The GPS Game | 8.58 | battered grove, Christopher Maxim, gps game, guide, how to, ritual, rituals, Town
| Have you ever heard of the GPS Game?
Before you type it into Google, let me save you the trouble – you’re not going to find much. If it’s not on the internet, I must be full of crap, right? You can believe what you want. The fact of the matter is, very few people know about this urban legend, and even fewer have attemp... | 6 minutes | July 27, 2020 | Locations and Sites, Rites and Rituals, Strange and Unexplained |
The Siege of Innsmouth | 8.58 | Artyom Dereschuk, battles, creatures, Lovecraftian, military, monsters, soldiers, strange, unexplained, wars
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| Recently my great-grandfather died and me and my family inherited his house. We didn’t actually need it, since it was in another state, so we decided to sell it and use that money for something else. But before that we decided that we should clean the house out and get rid of all the stuff that the new owners wouldn’t ... | 42 minutes | March 29, 2020 | Military and Warfare, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained |
Old Man Winter | 8.58 | beings, Christmas, Christmas stories, deaths, doctors, elves, entities, famous characters, gore, insanity, Jeffrey Ebright, legends, mental illness, myths, patients, psychiatrists, psychiatry, punishments, Santa, Santa Claus, sociopaths, sociopathy, supernatural, violence, Xmas
| Thank you for coming, doctor. I honestly didn’t think the renowned psychoanalyst, Jeffrey Gilland, would see me. Then again, it isn’t every day you are handed the opportunity to interview an insane colleague. And I am your golden ticket to a more profound reputation, aren’t I?
Please, you don’t need that arched brow to... | 18 minutes | December 15, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Myths and Legends, Slashers and Gore |
Never Use a Voice Recorder While You Sleep | 8.58 | attic, basement, Christopher Maxim, ghosts, mysteries, paranormal, sounds, spirits, supernatural, technology, voice recorders, voices
| I am a chronic sleep talker. Always have been. Everyone who’s ever slept in the same house as me will tell you that. My parents, siblings, friends, and especially my exes. They’re the ones who got an ear-full. It was something we’d laugh about in the morning, because most of what I’d say would be incoherent or nonsensi... | 16 minutes | June 29, 2020 | Ghosts and Spirits, Sounds and Voices, Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web |
The Quest | 8.58 | knights, medieval, period pieces, Shannon Higdon
| Grynnwald grabbed his son by his beaten breastplate and shook the hysterical young man, slamming him against a massive oak tree, nearly unleashing the chest-piece in the process.
“Haurik!” he screamed desperately trying to break through the panic. “Compose yourself!” It took a moment for Haurik to fall silent, save t... | 13 minutes | December 25, 2017 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Strange and Unexplained |
The White Doors | 8.58 | null | Horror in real life doesn’t come suddenly, it’s not a shock, or a reactionary scream. Horror in real life is a slow realization that occurs over the course of years. It needs time to mold, decay, and spread. True horror is painful, often sad, and tragic. It’s a slow deterioration, separating you from all forms of comfo... | 8 minutes | March 24, 2017 | Artifacts and Objects
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Drag | 8.58 | aliens, conspiracies, creatures, monsters, Timothy Attewell, Video Narratives OK
| Cynthia smacked, howled and screamed against Todd Barrett’s motel room window that night. Times like these, he was glad he hadn’t fully committed to “tramping,” and bought himself a fifth-wheel. Sleeping in a camper on a night like this would have been impossible. Instead, he had a soft bed below him, a strong roof abo... | 11 minutes | September 30, 2016 | Beings and Entities, Conspiracies and Government, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science Fiction and Aliens |
The Coral Ridge Bypass | 8.58 | Moonlit_Cove, Video Narratives OK
| I had always made it a point to avoid that isolated stretch of road like the plague. I’d heard so many stories about it, and even though I was certain that most of them were untrue, my disbelief did not squelch my fear of driving it. Urban myths and rumors emerged over the course of many years regarding the Coral Ridge... | 18 minutes | September 8, 2016 | Locations and Sites |
I Felt It | 8.58 | null | When I was fourteen, I had a best friend named Boone Hicks. He was real sweet looking, with long blonde hair, Irish green eyes, and an elvish face. He was a little on the short side, only about five feet tall, and we hung out mostly indoors because he was so fair skinned. His parents didn’t like him too much, though, a... | 6 minutes | October 12, 2014 | Strange and Unexplained
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The Man on Easter Island | 8.58 | Christopher Gideon
| It’s just a legend.
But…I suppose…that’s what most of those unbelievable things turn out to be…legends.
I heard this legend from my grandmother. I asked her about it when I saw her drawing the Easter Island heads on a piece of construction paper. Actually, when she found out that my dad never told it to me, she was a ... | 7 minutes | December 27, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
Drewer’s Inn | 8.58 | null | Drewer’s Inn
By Allison Miller
The rain poured down in thick, roaring sheets from a sky as black as tar. Jack Adams leaned forward in the seat of the old sedan, pressing his chest against the steering wheel and squinting through the windshield as the wipers frantically swished back and forth. The road was barely visibl... | 13 minutes | August 12, 2013 | Locations and Sites
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The Curling Flames | 8.58 | By the Fire's Light Series, Slenderman, Star Kindler
| This is the fourth entry in the By the Fire’s Light series.
“So,” Jared said, a sneer on his face. “I suppose you’ve come to find out why I did it.”
Connor looked into Jared’s face, at the sneer, the hate. He looked into Jared’s eyes, and saw, just for a moment, a flame flicker in them. “No,” Connor said, surprising h... | 28 minutes | July 7, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
Jvk1166z.esp | 8.58 | games, haunted games, Haunted Games Writing Contest
| Some people might recall some momentary buzz caused a couple of years ago by a particularly odd Morrowind mod. The file name was jvk1166z.esp. It was never posted on any of the larger Elder Scrolls communities, usually just smaller boards and role-playing groups. I know in a few cases rather than being posted, it was s... | 11 minutes | January 8, 2013 | Artifacts and Objects, Strange and Unexplained, Video Games and Gaming |
The First Admissions Of The Eye | 8.58 | null | October 9th, 2006
One day they will catch me. FBI, police, “Men In Black;” whoever the hell it is that comes after somebody like me. I guess when the time comes they will read this; which is precisely the point of this. This is my journal. These are the inscribed thoughts of a man slowly gaining fame one news-station/n... | 14 minutes | November 6, 2012 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances
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Stalked | 8.58 | null | Dear Reader,
I’d like to start off by saying that I don’t have a clue why I’m writing this letter. Maybe I want this thing to be known to the world, or something. The events described in this letter happened about a month and a half ago, in Springdale, Kentucky, although I started writing this about two weeks ago. I ju... | 6 minutes | July 13, 2012 | Beings and Entities
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He Waits for You | 8.58 | null | As the dead of winter approaches, you may find yourself alone at night, feeling isolated and abandoned in an all-too-empty bed as the night grows ever bleaker. Ghastly shadows, dancing across the wall. The crying wind battering against your window. An ambulance siren in the distance. And there’s no one there to convinc... | 4 minutes | November 1, 2008 | Beings and Entities, Rites and Rituals
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Sleep Paralysis | 8.58 | null | It’s a simple enough thing. It’s all a part of the body’s sleep processes. Sleep Paralysis, right? No big deal, really. Your body produces a chemical that paralyzes your body during R.E.M sleep to prevent you from hurting yourself by thrashing about during your dreams. No big deal.
Okay, so, you opened your eyes and yo... | 2 minutes | July 9, 2008 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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Black Sap | 8.57 | beings, childhood, children, creatures, disappearances, entities, EssJay, famous characters, forests, kids, middle school, missing children, monsters, nature, outdoors, school, school stories, Slender Man, Slenderman, strange, students, unexplained, woods
| We were having another lockdown drill when I found out about Holly Reyes. I was in Social Studies, third period, when Principal Weston’s 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 ... | 14 minutes | January 19, 2020 | Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained |
It Wasn’t a Reindeer | 8.57 | animals, automobiles, cars, Christmas, Christmas stories, creatures, cryptids, Michael Paige, monsters, nature, outdoors, reindeer, road trips, skinwalkers, strange, unexplained, Xmas
| “Christ,” I muttered to myself, as the first flakes of snow started to fall. They gathered in fuzzy clumps over the windshield before my wipers cleared them away. I’d been waiting for fifteen — no, twenty minutes now — in my sister’s driveway. Had I chosen to wait inside with her, I’d have been dead by now thanks to... | 7 minutes | December 16, 2019 | Animals and Wildlife, Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained |
It Escaped, I’m So Sorry | 8.57 | basements, creatures, Harrison Prince, monsters, mysteries, strange, unexplained
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| Breakfast today consisted of three apples, a bowl of oatmeal without milk, two slices of toast smothered in butter, and a glass of orange juice. I set them all on the food tray and lifted. When I got to the door, I set the tray on a small table beside the handle.
I twisted the deadbolt above the handle, and opened the ... | 21 minutes | August 23, 2019 | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained |
The Pocket Watch | 8.57 | C.K. Walker, deaths, hunger, madness, Rebecca Klingel, starvation, strange, war
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| When I was a child there was nothing to eat. I was the eldest of five, so it was my job to make sure that I always let my brothers and sisters eat before me. War was inching inward from the coast, and as it marched closer, our food grew scarcer. Animals fled the area, or were slaughtered and consumed in panic by the ot... | 5 minutes | September 4, 2020 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Military and Warfare |
The Pixies | 8.57 | Dawn Marks, folklore, folktales, legends, mythology, myths, Video Narratives OK
| Chapter 1
What I’m about to tell you will seem unbelievable, inconceivable, and I’m sure downright made up. I can’t help the way that it sounds. I can only tell you what happened, what I remember, and hope that someone finds it within their compassionate soul to believe me. I know that I have to tell someone now becaus... | 34 minutes | January 18, 2017 | Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends |
Train | 8.57 | Video Narratives OK
| Life is a cage. I realize this now. The worst part of this realization is that most people know it. But they never do anything about it. They’re content to look through the bars, as long as the cage has a roof and there’s food inside of it. They don’t dare attempt to escape, to risk something better. That, or they’re e... | 18 minutes | June 4, 2016 | Beings and Entities, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
Five Day. Five Nights | 8.57 | null | The first four days Lachlan had been excited. The fifth day, that Friday that he came back from primary school with dirt on his knees, he was not excited. He was euphoric.
I was in my office, writing the final formulaic words of another research proposal.
“Daaad!”
“Hey!”
“Dad! Dad! Dad!”
“Oh wow, someone is happy. Enj... | 6 minutes | October 2, 2013 | Beings and Entities
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Mistakes | 8.57 | null | You’ve made a lot of them. But you’ve always managed to escape the consequences so far. You know that flash out of the corner of your eye, like picking up some peripheral movement just out of sight, and then you turn your head and there’s nothing there? That was one of the times you’ve made a mistake.
That creeping, un... | 2 minutes | September 2, 2012 | Beings and Entities
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The Antiguan Giant | 8.57 | null | I used to go diving a lot. Not so much anymore, but a couple years ago I was really into it, had my license and everything. It’s really beautiful down there: the pale patterned sand, the water washing away the distance like a blue mist, and flashes of the brightest colors you’ve ever seen as some fish darts into view. ... | 7 minutes | December 14, 2008 | Beings and Entities
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The Waving Girl | 8.56 | Matt Deeping
| I’m writing this tonight in desperation. I need help. I need answers.
I have seen her for as long as I can remember. My earliest memory is even of her. I was gazing out of my classroom window and that’s when I saw her, standing towards the back of the school playing field. She was too far away to make out any features,... | 22 minutes | February 7, 2020 | Strange and Unexplained |
I Believe in the One | 8.56 | creatures, cryptids, domestic abuse, feelspastas, happy endings, ICantBreatheAnymore0, LGBT, LGBTQIA, relationships
| Everyone is familiar with the idea of a soulmate, someone meant for you, your perfect match. The missing piece of you that exists out there, off in the world, just waiting to cross your path. The idea is touching, and viewed as a little naive by most people. After all, true relationships are built on hard work and dedi... | 11 minutes | February 16, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids |
Game of the Shadow Man | 8.56 | figure, game, name, rituals, shadow, steps
| The “Game of the Shadow Man” is one of the earliest forms of demonic summoning rituals known in urban legend, dating as far back as 1200 A.D. The ritual has gone under many other titles, the most popular being “The Boogie Man Ritual,” “Satan’s Shadow,” or simply “The Dark Summoning.” Many forms of the summoning ritual ... | 6 minutes | January 26, 2018 | Beings and Entities, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Rites and Rituals |
Scarecrows | 8.56 | beings, cornfields, dark comedy, dark humor, entities, farms, funny, humor, RamsesThePigeon, rites, rituals, rural, scarecrows
| Sunset had fallen on the countryside, and the warmth of the day was fading with each passing moment. Vespers of an autumn breeze whispered through the fields, setting the amber stalks of corn into a somber dance… yet with each swaying step, two interlopers were revealed, standing stark and defiant against the motion of... | 5 minutes | May 17, 2017 | Beings and Entities, Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies, Rites and Rituals |
Case File: Smiler Man | 8.56 | Video Narratives OK
| I was sitting on some particularly comfortable hallway chairs in this very bare waiting room. The only thing that occupied the room beside me was this clearly fake plant. I had been asked to wait while this particularly clean yet short and stocky man prepared a room for us. After a relatively long wait time the officia... | 27 minutes | May 18, 2016 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
The River | 8.56 | Daniel Martins
| The river is deep and dark, and it holds many secrets. At least that’s what they say, and recent events have left me with a completely unshakeable belief that what they say is entirely true.
There’s a river that runs through the part of the city that I live and work in. It’s got a proper name, but everyone just calls i... | 12 minutes | May 26, 2015 | Locations and Sites |
The Dancer | 8.56 | EricAMBM
| It began about a week ago, as I slept. I was having the most bizarre nightmare I’ve ever had.
I was alone, and surrounded by darkness. I couldn’t see or sense anything. I couldn’t even see my own body. Then something started.
At first it was just tapping, like the steps of a tap dancer. It was a low and quiet noise, s... | 22 minutes | January 22, 2015 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
It’s the Little Things | 8.56 | null | If there was one thing I knew for sure it was that the moment our new neighbors moved in next to us, things in our quiet little suburb seemed to fall out of place. Now don’t get me wrong, the walls of my house didn’t start to bleed or anything, but, something just changed.
The first day the Smiths moved in, my mom made... | 16 minutes | December 24, 2014 | Strange and Unexplained
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Clouds | 8.56 | null | I suppose I should start with the basics. My name is Taylor Sant, I’m English of Cameroonian descent, aged 32, and I’ve been mining helium for the Hummingbird Corporation since I left college 16 years ago. My work is pretty exciting on one level – lots of space travel, and the helium platforms are often in some truly e... | 12 minutes | November 14, 2014 | Strange and Unexplained
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The Stalker | 8.56 | Casey Pierce, InfernalNightmare333
| Part 1
Transferring to a new school in the middle of the semester really sucks. First off, it’s a logistical nightmare jumping into the thick of seven new classes and getting caught up with all the material that may or may not have been covered in your old school. More importantly for a slacker like me, it makes develo... | 67 minutes | October 29, 2014 | Beings and Entities |
Recipe | 8.56 | Cthulhu Mythos, Stephan D. Harris
| “Swallow something, canned, frozen,
Ungodly festering source.
Dragging and kicking and screaming for more,
That burns, burns, burns, burns.”
– Made Out Of Babies, “Cooker.”
“I’m not going to sleep well,” thought Olas to himself. He was sweating through his shirt to the point where peeling it off would take more effort... | 12 minutes | October 30, 2014 | Rites and Rituals |
The Gift of Sight | 8.56 | null | Did you know that you can always see your nose, but your brain chooses to ignore it? The point is your brain can make you blind to certain aspects of reality. There is a way to see the things your brain ignores. Though, be warned, what has been seen cannot be unseen.
First, you will need a computer; tablets work just a... | 4 minutes | October 8, 2014 | Rites and Rituals
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Sauin | 8.56 | null | I find myself speeding down a road that is, for some reason, both familiar and unfamiliar. The sky arches above me like an ancient and angry sea, grey and melancholy, reaching down to the horizon to kiss the earth. I’m going to fall into the sky, I think to myself. My car will sink down into the clouds like a stone and... | 10 minutes | February 4, 2014 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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The Boogey Man | 8.56 | Vincent Vena Cava
| It started with my 3 year old son screaming in his room in the middle of the night. When I came in to check on him he was in hysterics. Tears ran down his little cheeks as he cried about how the Boogeyman had frightened him. I let him sleep with my wife and I for the night, thinking it was just a bad dream.
The next ev... | 2 minutes | October 29, 2013 | Strange and Unexplained |
Chosen | 8.56 | null | “There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
Do you remember your sixth bi... | 7 minutes | September 30, 2013 | Beings and Entities
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