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...

23 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Abductions and Kidnappings, Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Conspiracies and Government, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Rites and Rituals, Torture and Cannibalism

I didn’t plan on staying at a motel that night.  My apartment is normally a perfectly nice, pleasant, and comfortable place to stay.  Unfortunately, the notice on the door of the building said we had to make other arrangements for the next two days.  Why,...

15 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

It had started with a word. Ensorcell. Pollyanna had first overheard it when she was a child, playing with her Barbies in the spacious parlor as her mother prattled away on the phone to one pageant organizer or another. “She’ll absolutely ensorcell everybody, she’s a natural!”...

11 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

My sister Heather meant the world to me. She always seemed to have everything growing up. She was the homecoming queen in our small town. She graduated valedictorian of her class. She was voted Most Likely to Succeed her senior year. She was captain of...

08 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Sometimes, you may see people on the news, or reality shows, or even social media, and think, “How the hell does someone live like that? How can they believe that?” As someone who grew up deep in the hornet’s nest, I can tell you. We are...

05 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Late one night, I found myself driving down what seemed like an endless stretch of road. I was on my way back from a week-long business trip, facing at least a twelve-hour drive home. Having always been afraid of flying, the monotonous trek was unavoidable....

04 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Everyone probably knows a Hank Easley. You know those people you say you can look up a word in the dictionary and their name would be alongside the definition? For Hank, that word would be ‘slime-ball’. Greasy, sleazy and greedy, it was little surprise to anyone growing up...

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