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I Found The Abandoned Town Of Poage Kentucky
4 november 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
Set in 1986, the story follows a high school football player in the once-thriving industrial and technological hub of Poage, Kentucky, whose team loses a tense homecoming game after he gets distracted in the stadium tunnel by a horrific sight: a local serial killer known as the "Boyd County Cut Throat" murdering a teenage classmate. Lees meer
The subsequent panic, gruesome wave of copycat murders, economic collapse, and complete flight of the population forced the state government and National Guard to declare a total state of emergency, forcibly evacuating the remaining citizens and effectively scrubbing the ghost town and its dark history from the internet and public memory.
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The Entity In The Glass
3 november 2026 · 22 min
After taking a job that requires him to relocate to a remote Nebraska town, a young man moves into an isolated, dilapidated house where the only furniture in his bedroom is an old, cloth-draped mirror. Lees meer
As the weeks pass, he begins noticing subtle, deeply unsettling anomalies his reflection moves out of sync, mutates into grotesque expressions, and eventually speaks to him with a booming voice, offering him a seemingly perfect, vibrant life if he will only let it trade places with him.
Though initially terrified and driven to heavy drinking by the escalating psychological torment and his deteriorating life, the protagonist is eventually consumed by a powerful temptation; after discovering the mirror's horrifying truth, he struggles against an encroaching, inescapable trap that threatens to consume his very existence.
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Into the Darkness: 5 Spine-Chilling Stories (A Halloween Spooktacular)
31 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
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My Last Halloween
Quiet as a spider
Fear Fest
Haloween Sucks
Kinfolk
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I Worked at a Halloween Store and This Is My Scariest Encounter
30 oktober 2026 · 27 min
a retail worker at a seasonal Halloween pop-up store who notices an eerie, unsettling woman lurking in line to buy a cheap blonde wig. During their interaction, the woman asks subtle, odd questions about the narrator's appearance and footwear before leaving wearing an orange collared shirt that matches the store's uniform. Lees meer
The narrator grows paranoid that she is being stalked, only to learn the next day that the woman—Carrie Morgan—was hit and killed by a car that night along the narrator's exact commute home.
The chilling realization settles in when the narrator learns Carrie was wearing the blonde wig, orange shirt, and matching shoes at the time of her death, revealing that Carrie's Halloween costume was designed to look identically like the narrator.
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I Looked Into The Unsolved Case Of Sioux Falls' "Hot" Incident
29 oktober 2026 · 50 min
Hot is a Halloween Scary Story told through a recovered journal written by a 15-year-old boy living on a remote farm outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The diary details a chilling supernatural phenomenon where the narrator, his younger sister, and eventually every child in the rural community begin experiencing identical, recurring nightmares featuring an ominous old man who warns them to flee the area immediately. As the countdown ticks down and the children press him for answers about what is coming, the old man only whispers a single terrifying word: “Hot.” The narrative builds tension toward a mysterious, cataclysmic overnight disaster dubbed the "Fires of Death," which completely obliterates the farmland in a scorching, unnatural wave of devastation, leaving behind a bone-dry wasteland and no survivors. Lees meer
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I Took My Friends to the Everglades But They Didn't Come Back
28 oktober 2026 · 40 min
In this terrifying horror story, a biology student and YouTube creator named Topher, alongside his friends Sarah and Ethan, travels to the Florida Everglades for a documentary shoot, only to discover a gruesome and unnatural absence of local wildlife and invasive pythons. As they navigate the swamp, they realize a shape-shifting mimic creature is hunting them—one that preys on victims, strips their spines, and wears their skins. Lees meer
After the entity slaughters and assumes the forms of both Sarah and Ethan, Topher barely escapes back toward civilization, left with the chilling realization that if this predatory mimic reaches the city, it could spark an unstoppable global catastrophe.
Written By Brett Schumacher
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I Found a Dark Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Book
27 oktober 2026 · 40 min
An embittered high school student named Joel is forced by a disliked teacher to spend detention reading a "Choose Your Own Fate" adventure book titled A Tale of Sherwood Forest. As Joel progresses through the book, he consistently bypasses traditional, honorable choices in favor of ruthless, violent tactics—such as tricking and brutally disabling Little John and taking a bowman hostage. Upon successfully navigating the murderous path to reach Robin Hood's camp at the end of the story, it is revealed that Joel was actually being manipulated into acting as an assassin for Prince John, whose mission is to infiltrate the forest and execute Robin Hood. Lees meer
Written By Charminglyshallow
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The Last Message Broadcast From a Dead Mars
26 oktober 2026 · 34 min
Stranded on Mars as the last surviving member of Team One following a breakdown in communications and internal tragedy, geologist Janet Dawson records a final transmission explaining the quiet end of humanity. As an incomprehensible cosmic threat consumes the outer planets one by one—driving human civilization into chaos, terror, and collective visions—madness and panic claim the rest of Janet’s crew, destroying the base's main power supply and life support systems. Lees meer
With her remaining life support rapidly draining, Earth silent, and strange, organic entities known as "Dust Bunnies" landing on the Martian surface, Janet overrides the antenna to beam her farewell warning into deep space before choosing to end her life on her own terms.
Written by MadotsukiInTheNexus
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I Explored The Haunted House On Maple Street
24 oktober 2026 · 18 min
A Haunted House story about a kid and his friend Dave that sneak out at midnight to explore an abandoned, supposedly haunted house in their neighborhood. While investigating the upper floor, Dave falls through rotted floorboards into a locked room, where the narrator watches in horror as a grotesque, smiling humanoid monster brutally slays his friend. Lees meer
Although the police later attribute Dave's death to an overdosed vagrant found at the scene, the narrator escapes with his life but remains permanently scarred by the entity—ending with a chilling final knock at his own front door years later.
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I Saw a Creature in the Forest that Drives You Insane
22 oktober 2026 · 21 min
While sneaking around the woods behind their high school to film a video, three friends—Mason, Josh, and Roy—stumble upon an old abandoned foundation concealing a hidden subterranean cellar. When Roy falls through the rotting floorboards into the pitch-black tunnels below, Mason follows him to investigate, only to discover their friend trapped in a horrific state of violent, asphyxiating laughter. Venturing deeper into the dark, Mason confronts a bizarre, non-human entity whose shifting, absurd nature triggers an uncontrollable, maddening loop of laughter in anyone who gazes upon it. Roy ultimately dies of asphyxiation and heart strain in the dark, Josh is later found dead on the school grounds from fatal heart arrhythmia, and Mason is left permanently traumatized in a psychiatric ward, trapped with the lingering, maddening image of the entity burned into his mind.Written By RedTyrantNova Lees meer
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I Looked at the Moon at Midnight And Stumbled Into My Late Brother
21 oktober 2026 · 22 min
Driven by a strict, comforting routine since the tragic loss of his chaotic older brother, Rodney, a young man named Cole takes nightly late-night walks in his new neighborhood, where he consistently passes a silent, faceless elderly woman sitting on her porch. When the woman finally speaks to him, she reveals that gazing at the moon at midnight opens a portal to the "other side of existence," allowing her to briefly reunite with her late husband. Lees meer
Though initially skeptical, Cole follows her instructions the next night at midnight and looks up at the glowing, rippling moon, only to be stunned moments later when he physically bumps into Rodney on the sidewalk. After a tearful, long-overdue reunion where Rodney reassures him of his love, Cole decides to permanently shatter his rigid daily routines, embracing life's unpredictability and establishing a new midnight ritual to regularly visit with his brother.
Written By A.K. McCarthy (Team CGS)
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I Tried to Save My Sister in the Appalachian Woods, but It Was Already Too Late
20 oktober 2026 · 41 min
Set over Thanksgiving weekend in the Tennessee mountains, the story follows a recovering addict named Ky who takes his teenage half-sister, Harper, and friends on a camping trip that goes terrifyingly wrong when a parasitic, reality-warping entity begins infecting their group one by one. Lees meer
After Harper and Noah are hideously consumed from the inside out by writhing worm-like anomalies that trigger agony-inducing, hive-mind screeches, Ky's friends and family turn on him, with Mellie falsely claiming he hallucinated the horrors due to a relapse.
Disbelieved by the local police and rejected by his mother for being "crazy" rather than just a drug addict, Ky escapes back toward Chattanooga with only Harper's dog, Feral, left by his side—now paralyzed by the lingering, agonizing terror of whether the dog is also infected and what will happen to him next.
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The Horror Of Kane Nine
19 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 2 min
Cook County's unofficial "K-9 unit" Kane Nicolson investigates a grim string of brutal homicides that uniquely align with the full moon. Lees meer
As the pulpy, mystery-driven investigation unfolds with classic whodunit tropes and red herrings, Kane gradually uncovers a chilling realization: the savage beast tracking the trail of blood and solving the murders may actually be chasing its own tail.
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I Heard The Chanting In The Woods
16 oktober 2026 · 52 min
a young boy living with his father and dog near a dense Massachusetts forest, where he stumbles upon a hidden clearing filled with cryptic goat-man symbols, animal-skull stick dolls, and a strange stone altar. After accidentally knocking over one of the unsettling dolls, he flees back home with his dog, only to be terrorized for nights by a rhythmic, sinister, and ceaseless nocturnal chanting echoing from deep within the woods. Lees meer
Despite his father dismissing the eerie sounds as teenage parties, the escalating dread culminates in a terrifying supernatural encounter that leaves the narrator permanently scarred, terrified of the silence, and determined to keep his windows sealed tight for the rest of his life.
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I Found an Abandoned Cabin Hidden Deep in the Mist
15 oktober 2026 · 45 min
While camping in an isolated Appalachian valley, a narrator and his reluctant girlfriend, Bridget, find themselves trapped by an unnatural, dense fog that causes their hiking trail to vanish entirely and their compass to spin wildly out of control. Seeking refuge in an abandoned, moss-covered log cabin as bitter arguments expose deep fractures in their relationship, the narrator begins experiencing intense head pressure and terrifying hallucinations, including an eyeless, grinning doppelgänger of himself seen in an old well. Driven by an uncharacteristic wave of violent rage and intrusive thoughts that feel completely detached from his true self, the narrator snaps the following morning, chases a terrified Bridget into the fog with an open knife, and ultimately loses track of her in the twisted woods, left stranded in the gray haze with his mounting panic and remorse. Lees meer
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I Put a Note Above My Closet. Something Wrote Back.
13 oktober 2026 · 31 min
a cynical university student living in a tiny dorm room feels an inexplicable unease toward the narrow, empty gap between the top of her closet and the ceiling. Pressed for time during a sudden room inspection, she hurriedly hides a stack of dirty dishes in the forbidden space, only to find them completely gone the next day. Shortly after, the dishes are violently hurled onto the floor and smashed into shards though they are now impossibly, spotless clean. Lees meer
Unnerved yet curious, she begins running "experiments" by placing pieces of paper in the gap, discovering that an unseen, intelligent entity is living up there and writing unsettling, cryptic replies back to her notes.
Written By Emerald Lee
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I Have To Keep My Eyes Closed From 11PM to 3AM
12 oktober 2026 · 27 min
An impoverished call girl in Manila finds a mysterious note inside a second-hand white sweater offering easy money for a chilling job: lying on a bed in a dilapidated house from 11 PM to 3 AM with her eyes strictly closed. Driven by desperation, she accepts the task across three separate nights, enduring four agonizing hours each time as a grotesque, blood-scented entity hovers inches from her face. Lees meer
After finally fleeing for good, she uncovers the house's dark history—it was the site where a deranged client decapitated a young girl who wore that exact sweater leaving her haunted by the terrifying realization of what happens to victims who dare to open their eyes.
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12 oktober 2026 · 10 min
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I Found What's Hiding in Bellhaven Woods
9 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 22 min
Written by calyspen (@no-surprise-7210 on reddit)a chilling mystery through the lens of an online internet investigation into a series of unsolved murders occurring within a two-mile radius around a local reservoir. As online crime forums and Reddit sleuths obsess over blurry photos and theories connecting the bizarre deaths of multiple residents—including a retired teacher and a teenage boy—suspicion initially falls on a woman named Iris Mercer for the murder of a victim named Malcolm. However, the police investigation and internet rumors take a dark turn when Iris’s own body is discovered deep in the woods five days later, disproving her guilt and leaving behind the haunting implication that a sinister, unknown force still lurks within Bellhaven Woods. Lees meer
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The Monster Was Wearing My Skin
8 oktober 2026 · 31 min
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A Stranger In The House
7 oktober 2026 · 36 min
Driven by the paranoia that followed an unexplained home invasion, a father gradually descends into a severe psychological breakdown, mistaking mundane household occurrences for evidence that the intruder never left. His obsession escalates to sleepless nights, erratic behavior, and ultimately a violent episode where he tears apart his home's walls with a hammer, terrifying his family and leading to his institutionalization. In a psychiatric facility, medication brings him moments of clarity to realize his delusion destroyed his family, yet he remains haunted by a lingering, unsettling doubt as to whether something was truly watching him after all. Lees meer
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I Found My Coworker's Secret... Now We're Stuck in Another Dimension
6 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
A researcher named Chloe discovers that her brilliant colleague, Steven, is secretly engaging in deep self-harm—an act tied to an esoteric cult that uses blood sacrifices and self-inflicted pain to access an alternate realm. Lees meer
Driven by obsession and a desire to understand his sudden disappearance, Chloe investigates the mythology of "bandy-legged beasts" and learns that this fluid, lawless dimension traps visitors in a state of unnatural euphoria within their own worst, suppressed memories. After severing her real-world ties, Chloe tracks down a transformed Steven, yields to his invitation to follow him through a blood ritual, and steps into the bizarre realm—only to find her own limbs warped and her mind overwhelmed by a horrific, laughing breakdown as she is forced into a state of joyous torment inside her deepest nightmare.
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Never Open the Vents
5 oktober 2026 · 19 min
After receiving a missing-eyed, begrimed stuffed clown named Blinky from his grandmother as a young child, the narrator experiences brief paranormal occurrences before the toy mysteriously disappears, only for it to resurface 14 years later when he moves into a new apartment. The entity behind the doll stalked the protagonist for years from secret hideouts behind the walls, eventually confronting him to harvest his eye—a fate his grandmother evaded by giving the toy away before her death—and forcefully gouging it out with a spoon to replace its own missing button eye. Though the narrator manages to escape, destroy the toy, and end up committed to a psychiatric facility after police apprehend him, the inescapable psychological trauma and lingering vision of the clown drive him to write a final warning and end his life in his cell."Blinky". Lees meer
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I Crawled Into a Hidden Sinkhole. I Wish I Left the Boy Inside.
4 oktober 2026 · 33 min
When Jack rescues a neighborhood boy from a hidden sinkhole in Jacksonville, Florida, his curiosity leads him back into the cavern where locals unknowingly trap him inside by sealing the entrance, forcing him to trek deep into a subterranean tunnel network to find a way out. Deep underground, Jack stumbles upon a hooded cult sacrificing live victims to Ree-Ogga, a towering, tentacled cosmic monstrosity. Lees meer
After sneaking out through the cult's secret exit, Jack breaks into a member's house, steals their encoded texts, and uncovers a secret society that has fed the ancient alien entity for decades. Armed with dynamite, gasoline, and a shotgun, Jack crashes their next ritual, blowing up the creature and burning the cult's enclave before escaping into the night—only to discover from the deciphered texts that Ree-Ogga’s arrival heralds the imminent end of the world.
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Do Not Read Past Page 999: The Story of Nox Obscura
2 oktober 2026 · 39 min
After inheriting a massive Victorian estate and an extensive library from his estranged great-uncle Simon, twenty-three-year-old Danny discovers an untitled, occult book titled Nox Obscura that slowly infects his mind with vivid nightmare visions of flayed bodies, blue rooms filled with preserved human hearts, and a shape-shifting entity of raw flesh. Lees meer
As the terrifying dreams bleed into his waking reality and erode his self-control, Danny uncovers his uncle’s diary, revealing that generations of his family have been harvested by the book's ancient, parasitic hunger to serve as vessels for its lingering entity.
Desperate and losing control of his own body, Danny summons his sister Mara to burn the artifact; she drenches the kitchen in gasoline and incinerates the book, causing a catastrophic explosion that destroys the dark tome and ultimately saves Danny, who wakes up recovering in a hospital alongside his bandaged sister.
Written By Brett Schumacher
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A Man Called the Cops to Report a Beeswarm Attack. The Truth Was Far Worse.
30 september 2026 · 29 min
Deputy Ray Delacroix responds to an early-morning call from Warren Heath, a quiet farm supply worker who calmly reports that his wife, Nell, and her brother, Curtis, have vanished. Warren weaves an eerie, fantastical story about a strange jar of roadside honey that drove his wife and brother to a hypnotic trance, ultimately leading them to be swarmed and consumed by bees at an ancient hollow oak. Lees meer
However, as Deputy Ray investigates the home and coordinates with his fellow deputy at the scene, Warren’s supernatural tale unravels to reveal a grim reality: Warren murdered both Nell and Curtis to stop them from selling family land that wouldn't cover his crippling debts.
Uncovering Warren's raw, blistered hands from burying the bodies with a shovel, Ray arrests him, leaving behind the tragic truth of a financial motive masked by a bizarre fiction.
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I Was Hired to Babysit During a Blizzard... The Cold Wasn't the Only Thing Inside
29 september 2026 · 53 min
A high school senior Hayden Dillon agrees to babysit Drew and Raymond Carver on a freezing winter night in a suburban neighborhood. What begins as a calm, pleasant evening quickly turns unsettling when the house loses power and Hayden receives disturbing anonymous phone calls repeating cryptically, "Don't say a word, Connie." Lees meer
As the caller reveals intimate, terrifying details about the family—and cold, dark paranormal forces begin invading the home—Hayden must fight to protect the children and survive a horrifying night trapped inside a freezing nightmare.
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The Trail Head
28 september 2026 · 52 min
While hiking a remote section of the Appalachian Trail along the North Carolina–Tennessee border, a hiker named Heiden and his best friend, Jared, are stalked by a sinister, supply-less stranger who claims to never leave the woods. Lees meer
After discovering a butchered deer and fleeing from the man at a second shelter, the pair escape into the forest, where Jared confesses that his previous claims of completing the trail were a lie.
Terrified and lost without their backpacks or phones, they are hunted down by the mysterious predator, who captures Heiden and drags him to a torch-lit cave containing a pit filled with human bones. Jared sneaks in and manages to pull Heiden out of the pit, but during their desperate escape, the cannibalistic killer catches Jared and slits his throat, ordering Heiden to run as he prepares his next meal.
Heiden flees to the main trail, where a pair of hikers rescues him and alerts authorities, but a six-day search by law enforcement yields no trace of the killer, the cave, or Jared's body. The story ends on an unsettling note as Deputy Keller begins to suspect Heiden's mental stability and questions whether he played a role in his friend's disappearance.
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I Work Crime Scene Cleanup. The Police Missed Something Alive in the Basement
26 september 2026 · 40 min
A young college dropout working for a residentialbiohazard and crime-scene cleanup company called "CleanBro" is sentalongside his cynical older coworker, Kurt, to sanitize a notorious house.Months prior, the home's owner was exposed as a serialkiller who used his basement as an abattoir before apparently hanging himselfwhen the police closed in. Lees meer
Pressured by an impatient real estate agent to clear the property, the pairforce open the stubborn basement door, releasing an overwhelming wave of decay.
As they head down into the dark, subterranean space with their heavy-dutyequipment, the narrative builds dread around the horrifying realization thatthe authorities may have botched the investigation, and that the killer'sgruesome cleanup job or his victims might not be entirely gone.
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I Set Up A Hidden Camera In My Apartment... I Wish I Didn't
24 september 2026 · 28 min
After moving to New Hampshire to rejoin his girlfriend, Lizzie, photographer Adam notices strange changes in her behavior and hears a ghostly male voice whispering through the apartment's air vents. These eerie occurrences escalate when Adam spots a mysterious man in their home, whom Lizzie reveals as Gabriel—a specter from the past who claims she is his long-lost love, "Arabeth." Uncovering through his camera that the apartment transforms into an antique setting possessed by Gabriel's spirit, a helpless Adam is attacked by the ghost, forced to leave his trance-like girlfriend behind, and flees down the coast with Lizzie's cat while plotting how to eventually return and save her from the haunting grip. Lees meer
Written by A.K. McCarthy
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I Escaped Fey Hollow, But What I Saw in the Woods Still Haunts Me
23 september 2026 · 34 min
Written By Shadowswimmer77 Lees meer
A ten-year-old boy named Trevor strays off a forest path andis lured by enchanting music to a mystical night fair where children enjoyendless treats and rides run by whimsical elf-like beings.
Along the way, he finds a glowing silver pendant hiddeninside a tree, which reveals the carnival's true nature when he touches it: thetickets are the slimy tongue of a toothy rock beast, the fountain flows withhuman blood from corpse statues, and the fairy-tale park is an illusion maskinga deadly trap designed to devour children.
Shaken by the horrifying reality, Trevor pretends to go gettickets, manages to flee back down the trail into the real world, andsurvives—forever haunted by the knowledge of the predatory realm lurking justbeyond the trees.
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I Finally Discovered Why My Mother Kept a Strange TV On in an Empty Room
22 september 2026 · 33 min
Written By Noctevoire (House Of White Noise) Lees meer
Raised in an unnaturally, suffocatingly quiet Pennsylvaniaestate, Veronica leaves her family behind to build a life in New York City withher fiancé, Matt, only to receive frantic, nonsensical phone calls years laterfrom her deteriorating mother warning her about "too much noise."
After her mother dies from self-inflicted wounds, Veronicainherits the decaying mansion and moves back in, where she and Matt discover ahidden room containing an old 1930s television playing static—the source of ahigh electric bill. When Veronica turns off the TV to restore the house's absolutesilence, the walls and ceiling are immediately battered by violent thumps andunholy, demonic shrieks, revealing that the white noise was actually acting asa barrier to keep horrific, unseen entities at bay.
Terrified, she flips the television back on to silence themonsters, trapping her and Matt in a cold, fractured existence, haunted by therealization that her mother sacrificed herself to keep the static running andthat the deafening silence of the estate will eventually consume them both.
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The Scariest Place You Can Visit In The Rain...
21 september 2026 · 38 min
Written by: CertainShadows Lees meer
A down-on-his-luck, unemployed narrator who visits a localpark to escape his misery, only to encounter two mysterious, bloated childrenin vintage raincoats—a girl and a boy. After the girl leaves a permanent black,finger-shaped stain on his sleeve and briefly appears in his car, the boyreveals a terrifying vision under his hat, subjecting the narrator to ahorrifying trance of hellish noises, rotting scents, and visions of death.
Although the girl pulls the narrator free from the trance,allowing him to escape, he returns home to find the dark mark permanentlytransferred onto his skin and grows consumed by visions of the children; unableto break free from the haunting experience, he ultimately decides to return tothe park to confront his doom.
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I Crawled Through the Coal Chute to Escape What Was in Our Basement
19 september 2026 · 26 min
In August 1985, twenty-two-year-old narrator moves into an old Larkspur Road split-level with his parents and discovers an unnaturally cold, sealed cast-iron coal chute door in the basement. Driven by boredom, he unlatches the door against his father's advice, unleashing a terrifying supernatural sequence: he becomes trapped in the basement as the room's temperature drops precipitously, jars explode, soot spews, and an unseen entity aggressively drags itself through the heating ducts.Barely escaping the escalating wreckage, the narrator crawls up through the narrow, freezing coal chute to safety in the backyard, only to find the basement completely untouched and undamaged the next day. Fearing what resides beneath, he lies about the incident to his parents, prompting his father to permanently seal the chute before the family sells the house two years later.Written By Brett Schumacher Lees meer
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I Saw the Grotesque Shadow That Rules the Velvet Hallways
17 september 2026 · 29 min
A young man named Wesley falls into a sudden coma and finds his mind wandering through surreal, red-velvet corridors that lead to artificial, uncanny recreations of his past memories, such as a childhood friend's birthday party and his high school gymnasium after prom. Lees meer
Though initially filled with warm nostalgia, these deserted, strangely off-kilter environments gradually curdle into terror as the comforting music fades, time stands still, and a looming, tall entity with a robotic voice stalks him, informing him that he does not belong there yet before causing him to collapse back into the void.
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Deep In A West Virginia Holler, Something Is Watching
16 september 2026 · 42 min
Growing up in rural West Virginia, Tommy hears dark Appalachian lore from his grandmother—most notably the legend of the "Devil’s Mud Man," a malevolent entity born from cursed earth that preys on the isolated. Lees meer
Decades after his grandmother recalls finding a murdered woman tied down in Apple Creek as a child, new female bodies are discovered submerged in nearby waters, prompting Tommy to suspect his eccentric veteran friend, Old Wesley. Upon breaking into Wesley's trailer, Tommy finds no evidence of murder, but instead a lonely, traumatized man haunted by his own terrifying encounter with a shadowy figure near the creek. The true killer is eventually revealed to be their neighbor, Farmer Ronny, whose barn hides a fresh victim and whose property contains several shallow graves; however, Ronny claims he was driven to commit the acts by an ancient, corrupting voice emanating from the land itself.
Even after Ronny's arrest and life sentence, Tommy and his grandmother remain convinced that the serial murders were merely the work of a supernatural entity using weak men as its host, leaving an enduring fear of the dark woods passed down through generations.
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I Traded My Family for Wealth and Didn't Even Realize It
14 september 2026 · 32 min
a down-on-his-luck man named Timothy Shinholster gets laid off from his job, worsening his severe financial struggles with his wife and family. While drowning his sorrows at a local bar, he meets a mysterious stranger named John Black, who offers him a strange wooden box equipped with a backward-running clock and a handle. Lees meer
Black claims the device can alter reality if Tim utters a wish before turning the handle; sarcastically, Tim wishes for "all his bad decisions to be undone." Upon turning the handle, reality dramatically shifts: Tim finds himself elevated to Senior Vice President at his company, driving a luxury car, and residing in a high-end penthouse apartment with a beautiful new partner.
However, he soon suffers the devastating realization that by undoing all his past decisions, he erased his marriage and his two children from existence entirely leaving him trapped in a superficial life without the family he truly loved.
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I Saw the Creature in the Tunnel... Now It Followed Me Home
12 september 2026 · 49 min
Through a series of journal entries spanning August to October 1931, the narrator details the unsettling aftermath of their grandmother’s death and her unusual final request to burn her home down. Lees meer
After inheriting a crate of her artwork and a childhood diary, the narrator becomes haunted by recurring nightmares involving an incomplete painting of a mysterious tunnel and a grotesque creature titled "The Resident." Driven to investigate the origins of these disturbing images, the narrator links the paintings to a dark local legend in their grandmother's hometown involving a cultist named Arthur, an ancient entity, and the murder of a young girl decades earlier.
The line between dream and reality shatters as the narrator discovers physical evidence of the creature including strange claw tracks, bloody rituals, and new child vanishings culminating in their return home to find their own family targeted by the entity.
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The House on Hollowmere End
10 september 2026 · 27 min
Chris, a homeless former IT technician who secretly moves into an abandoned house, only to become trapped inside a hidden network of crawlspaces in its walls by the house’s terrifying, seemingly supernatural former owner. The old woman torments and controls him, feeding him scraps while treating him like a “little girl,” and Chris gradually discovers disturbing evidence that others may have been trapped there before him. As the house seems to change around him and strange voices and creatures begin moving through the walls, Chris becomes increasingly weak and desperate, ultimately leaving a journal behind as a warning. The chilling twist comes when a real-estate agent finds the journal years later—and begins hearing the same scratching and movement inside the supposedly solid walls. Lees meer
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I Was A Storm Chaser Until I Saw It In The Clouds
9 september 2026 · 31 min
A former finance worker named Nick joins his meteorology professor, Dr. Alan Warner, and seasoned storm chasers Mallory Guidry and Geoffrey Benoit to pursue a massive supercell in rural Arkansas. As the storm intensifies, the chase escalates into an eerie, supernatural encounter where the clouds, lightning, and wind display disturbing, sentient behavior, mesmerizing Geoffrey and overwhelming Nick. Lees meer
Amid mysterious equipment failures and blackout periods, Geoffrey and Dr. Warner succumb to the storm's strange, siren-like pull, with Dr. Warner ultimately drugging Nick into unconsciousness after cryptically explaining that the sky holds ancient secrets beyond human comprehension.
Nick awakens the next morning to discover that Dr. Warner has vanished into the storm, leaving Geoffrey and Mallory to reveal that the entity claims certain chasers just as it had previously taken Geoffrey's father and Dr. Warner's wife leaving Nick forever altered by what he witnessed.
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The Sun Went Out And Then They Changed
7 september 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
a psychological creepypasta written as journal entries by a narrator trapped in a surreal, monochrome hellscape where the sun has gone out, the ground is made of bleeding flesh, and humanity has transformed into pale, featureless "drones." Forced to strictly maintain their mundane daily routine to avoid being swarmed by these mindless husks, the protagonist navigates a surreal nightmare that is disrupted by the arrival of "The Hanger"—a grotesque, hostile entity bearing a noose Lees meer
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We Found My Missing Uncle's Secret Bunker
4 september 2026 · 25 min
fter the family's long-maligned conspiracy theorist, Uncle Peter, suddenly vanishes, the narrator follows a trail of local rumors to a hidden, Cold War-era bomb shelter in an Indiana cornfield. Upon finding Peter terrified and holed up inside, the narrator learns he is being hunted by towering, screeching, slimy creatures that have stalked him through the fields. When the narrator's mother and sister arrive nearby, Peter willingly steps outside to surrender himself to the creatures to protect his family. Lees meer
In a bizarre climax, the entities wrap Peter in their limbs and levitate into the sky before disappearing with a deafening boom, leaving the family to silently accept that Peter's lifelong, seemingly wild beliefs were finally vindicated.
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I Worked as the Head Butler at Hollyharson Manor. Never Answer the Door.
4 september 2026 · 48 min
Redd Copperson, the loyal head butler to the wealthy Delacroy family. Nestled along a picturesque granite cliff, the grand manor becomes a site of unsettling terror when an uninvited guest named Mr. Hollyharson or a strange entity attached to the estate exerts a dark, corrupting influence over the household. Lees meer
As unnatural events unfold, family members and servants begin disappearing or succumbing to madness, forcing Redd to witness the tragic collapse of the house he serves while desperately attempting to maintain order amid the escalating paranormal horror.
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I Found What Was Living Beneath My Mother’s Tennessee Cabin
2 september 2026 · 40 min
Terry returns with his girlfriend Vera to his mother’s secluded mountain cabin in Crosby, Tennessee, to clean up her property. Upon arrival, Terry finds the cabin in severe decay, discovers strange bones hidden near their campsite, and experiences unsettling encounters with a shape-shifting entity that mimics the people around him. After being rendered unconscious, Terry is captured by the creature—which is revealed to be the Cherokee myth Spearfinger (U'tlun'ta')—and discovers his brother Nathan has been brainwashed into serving it, while his true mother and Vera have both been murdered. Lees meer
Escaping from a basement filled with the monster’s past victims, Terry flees the isolated property and reaches a neighboring house for help, only to discover the creature has already arrived before him, disguised as his mother once again.
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The Car Crash Took Everything... Then I Saw A Faceless Man
1 september 2026 · 46 min
After surviving a horrific car accident that claims his wife's life and leaves his young son traumatized, a grieving man struggles to rebuild his broken life while plagued by debilitating medical bills, intense guilt, and recurring nightmares of the crash that feature a mysterious, faceless figure. Lees meer
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I Was Saved by Something Not Human...
31 augustus 2026 · 46 min
A low level criminal is sent by his boss, Geoffrey, to execute a rival drug dealer at an abandoned warehouse to prove his loyalty. The mission goes disastrously wrong when the protagonist is ambushed, shot, and left for dead by the rival's armed crew. As he lies bleeding out, a chilling, ice-cold stranger appears and inexplicably saves his life by slaughtering the attackers. Revealing himself to be a literal embodiment of mortality ("death is my business"), the supernatural figure leaves behind a weapon and a distinct calling card, cementing a terrifying encounter with the afterlife. Lees meer
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I Bought a Used eBay Camcorder... The Tape Inside Was Pure Horror
28 augustus 2026 · 56 min
Henry Goodman purchases a used eBay camcorder for a family vacation and discovers an unlabeled cassette left inside marked "2006." Upon playing it, he views unsettling footage of a father following a young girl named Alice at a school playground, which abruptly cuts through loud buzzing to reveal the girl horrifyingly mutated missing her eyes and nose, and drooling green slime before showing her suspended from a swing set covered in wounds. Terrified, Henry smashes the tape, but that night he suffers a nightmare reenacting her horrific on the playground under the camera's gaze. Lees meer
The story ends on a chilling cliffhanger as Henry wakes up and realizes the disfigured girl's face is staring at him, not from the television screen, but directly through his bedroom window.
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I Brought It Home... It Has No Mouth, But It Speaks To Me
27 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
Blog posts written by Ariana Gomez—a young paramedic who recounts her encounters with a bizarre, mouthless, purple-and-green cartoon monkey that does not exist in mainstream pop culture. Lees meer
As a child, Ariana first encounters the character on a box of "Shredder Shocks" cereal purchased at an eerie, out-of-place gas station selling unfamiliar products. Years later, she finds an untagged plush toy of the same monkey falling off a shelf at a toy store.
Her obsession deepens as an adult when a dying, delirious patient recognizes the plush toy, frantically warning her that "The Shredder Monkey" is a malevolent entity that stalks individuals through strange, anomalous mediums—like impossibility-laden cereal mazes and cryptic word puzzles—to break down their minds and drag them into an alternate realm.
As Ariana attempts to solve the eerie clues left behind, she realizes the plush toy in her room is gradually changing positions and coming to life, leading to her sudden, mysterious disappearance as her final blog entries grow increasingly unhinged.
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It Never Stopped Following Us
26 augustus 2026 · 47 min
A single mother (Felicia) struggles with financial hardship and grief following the murder of her husband, all while trying to protect her young son, Benjamin, from "The Thing" a malevolent entity taking the form of a child that has haunted her family for generations. After the entity leaves a ominous message in toy blocks inside her locked home, Felicia decides to actively fight back rather than live in fear. Enrolling in an anthropology course on folklore and mythology, she researches supernatural boundaries and rules to understand the entity's vulnerabilities. Through her study of cross-cultural legends and urban folklore, she attempts to uncover the entity's origin and true nature in order to break the nightmare cycle before it claims her son. Lees meer
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I Was Paid $450 To Do This But Something Was Watching Me
24 augustus 2026 · 40 min
A down-on-his-luck artist named Jack takes a high-paying overnight security job guarding an isolated, modern art gallery, only to be left alone by his mysterious employer with a set of bizarre, mandatory rules to follow throughout the night. As the shift progresses and Jack attempts to obey the absurd instructions—such as covering specific paintings, keeping his eyes glued to the floor in certain hallways, and hiding beneath his desk—he realizes the gallery is haunted by terrifying paranormal forces and twisted manifestations that make escape impossible. Stuck inside the building with escalating surreal horrors, Jack must strictly follow the remaining rules to survive until his morning shift ends. Lees meer