24 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Body Horror, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Demons and Possession, Investigations and Crimes, Rites and Rituals, Slashers and Gore, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web, Video Games and Gaming

My first love was Misty from Pokémon. Those legs, that sass, she was absolutely perfect. No one else could ever compare. When I played the games, I’d hang around her gym and pretend that we were on a date. I built my team to be...

23 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Let me start my story by telling you something about me, the most important thing, in fact: I find things, and I fix them. That’s who I am. If you don’t know that, you don’t know me. I’m a second-generation auto mechanic, born-and-bred. I’ve been repairing...

21 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Part One: Once a Butcher's Wife Calla Lily Cottage stood among the rose bushes and assorted potted plants atop of Willow Vale, basking in the mid-afternoon sun. White walls adorned with climbing ivy, a thick thatched roof, and aging lop-sided windows gave the building a distinct...

20 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Some nights are worse than others. Some nights, I wake up alone in the dark with a cold chill settling upon me, seeping into my flesh. Other nights I toss and turn until I wake with a half-remembered image of my brother Aaron’s face. In...

18 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Sickness overcame Emily without warning. While we strode, arms linked, through downtown after a late movie, taking turns trashing it—Emily became silent, and stopped walking. I thought maybe she’d stepped in gum, or forgot something at the theatre, but on her face grew an expression signaling...

08 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Based on True Events, Children and Childhood, Films and Footage, Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult, Rites and Rituals, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web, Video Games and Gaming

Is Doctor Disrespect one of your heroes? I know he was one of mine. Yes, was. I guess I still respect the guy. But he went down one motherfucker of a rabbit hole and dragged me down with him. I’m seventeen and I wash windows. That’s why...

07 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

It was a cloudless, sapphire-blue sky that day. We had the camping trip planned for a month, and it took even longer than that for us to coordinate our vacations, so that we could all be there together. It was a reunion I had dreamed...

06 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Nestled just off the Appalachian Trail, near the border of Virginia and West Virginia, where forests grew thick and pressed in on all sides, sat a small region known as Dry Branch.  Barely more than a collection of campgrounds, Dry Branch rarely received visitors, save...

03 Jul

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Tommy Ihlman was only seven years old when his parents bought the house on Tamara Lane. Though it was no mansion by any stretch of the imagination, the five-bedroom raised-ranch style home seemed like a palace compared to the one-bedroom studio apartment he and his...

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