The Mandela Effect. That phrase never meant anything to me. Spooky, I guess, but it wasn’t something I thought about for more than five minutes. I mean, honestly, until college, I didn’t even know what it was. I’m not one for conspiracy theories or ghost stories or anything like that, so what would you expect? I wish I was still so ignorant. It all began in my Life Science class. I was twenty at the ...
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I saw something back in 1990 that has haunted me ever since. We were a Boy Scout troop of sixteen boys between the ages of ...
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My family lived in Vermont for a number of years, in a small town called Northfield, south of Montpelier. There’s a local legend in Northfield, ...
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When you’re a teenager, everything is unfair.  You can’t do this, you can’t go out, TV has to be off, and people just don’t understand ...
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I remember each dream quite vividly. They were the kind you have where everything seems so real that when you wake up, you struggle to ...
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An illusion it will be, so large, so vast, it will escape their perception. Those who will see it will be thought of as insane ...
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You think good and evil don’t exist? That ain’t true. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it firsthand. I’ve even seen the Devil. Our family was ...
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Jessie wondered if she and her brother would have more in common if they had been identical twins. The differences didn’t surface unless you spent ...
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It is the night of Bacchanalia, and we are heading to the celebration. The woods are dense, but the path has been clearly marked with ...
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Our beautiful Kathryn, My life was just about perfect, as close to it as it could be without actually being so. I was young, with ...
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Grace Merritt almost choked to death on a Saturday morning, roughly 2 a.m. She awoke to a burning anger in her stomach, a sharp twisting ...
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My upbringing was about as traditional as an upbringing gets. My parents were married, I had a younger sister, we lived in a nice suburban ...
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The terrible thing happened at night—as most terrible things do. While I click-clicked away at my home job as a transcriptionist, I’d often watch the ...
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