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The Mothman: The Winged Omen of Point Pleasant
It began with red eyes in the dark. Not glowing like flashlights, not reflecting like animal eyes... they burned, steady and unnatural, staring out from the abandoned TNT plant on a cold West Virginia night in 1966.
By Veil of Shadows11 months ago in Horror
My mother in Law's serpent P1
I'm Asiphile from eastern cape , I'm from a poor background but I managed to find me a girlfriend who's from a rich and authentic family, I remember how long it took her to introduce me to her family because she thought they were expecting a rich man. My girlfriend's name is nobuhle and she has two younger siblings,( Noluthando and sbu). The mother welcomed me with open arms, she said to me Welcome son, make yourself at home, so after a month she ordered that I marry her daughter and she will pay for everything and I took the offer and married her because I loved her so much Two weeks into the marriage I started noticing strange things. I would wake up with my body all tired, with marks all over my body , one day I woke up and told my wife nobuhle "Babe look at what is happening to my body and I'm all tired ? What is this? And she said "Don't worry my love it's not that bad ,just relax ok, bye babe I'm already late for work" by that time I'm feeling pain and all sort of weird stuff on my body I would just stay at the house most of the time as I was not working and surprisedly my mother in law has said to me. You don't actually have to work, you need all the energy you could have. So I would stay in the house with two the two siblings,and me and Noluthando got closer to each other when time went on. This day we was chilling in the couch just talking and she said to me - you know you different compared to other men my sister brings here. What do you mean ? How many men has your sister actually brought here? Then mother-in-law walked in, -hey you two what are you talking about there ? Nothing mom, I was just telling Asiphile here how lucky we are to have him as our brother in law.- Noluthando Asiphile can you go help me with some plastics from the car, I bought some groceries -said by my mother in law And I went to the car. She called Noluthando to her bedroom - you look like you getting close to that boy and I don like it , remember he is your sister's husband and you know like the rest of your sister's ex husbands he won't last long. So stay far from him
By Yanda Mbali11 months ago in Horror
The Whispering Shadows. Content Warning.
The old house at the end of Hollow Street had stood abandoned for nearly fifty years. Its windows were cracked like spider webs, its roof sagged under the weight of forgotten years, and the wind that passed through its broken walls always carried whispers faint, chilling, and disturbingly human.
By Asghar ali awan11 months ago in Horror
The Lost Terraformer Expedition
By 2275, humanity had established a series of terraforming expeditions to transform barren exoplanets for colonization. One such mission, led by the vessel Pioneer Zenith, arrived at the remote planet Oblivion-6. Its crew of fourteen included Captain Selara Korr, geologist Dr. Elias Vann, engineer Kael Arin, xenobiologist Dr. Liora Chen, and AI specialist Mira Chen, alongside other specialists trained for extreme conditions.
By Razu Islam – Lifestyle & Futuristic Writer11 months ago in Horror
Life at a Crossroads
Ian kissed his wife's necklace and then looked both ways before entering the intersection with his briefcase. He saw no traffic coming down the dirt roads; it was unlikely considering the stars above and the treeline in the distance. He took out his chalk and drew the circle.
By Jamais Jochim11 months ago in Horror
The Whispers Beneath the Lake
It was supposed to be a peaceful summer getaway. The kind of trip people take to forget the noise of the city, the tension of work, the exhaustion of existing. For Ava, the lake house her aunt left behind in her will was meant to be a place of healing. But the first night she arrived, she realized that peace wasn’t what lived there anymore.
By Iazaz hussain11 months ago in Horror
Kuchisake-Onna: The Terrifying History of Japan's Slit-Mouthed Woman
Of all the terrifying Japanese characters of folklore, the Kuchisake-Onna, or the "Slit-Mouthed Woman," is maybe the most terrifying and enduring. Her story is a complex blend of ancient myth and modern urban legend, a ghost whose history is as vague and malleable as the black it is said to haunt.
By Kyrol Mojikal11 months ago in Horror
The Wheel is a Liar. AI-Generated.
The idea of driving is a beautiful ghost. It haunts me with visions of freedom—windows down, hair whipping, a ribbon of asphalt unraveling toward a chosen horizon. It’s the promise of control, of being the master of your own momentum. I desperately wanted to host that ghost in my body. I wanted to be a good driver.
By The 9x Fawdi11 months ago in Horror
Colorado Mountain Ghost Town The Shadows Enter Every Empty House
The Mountain That Breathes There’s a stretch of road out in the Colorado mountains where everything feels slightly... wrong. The trees twist in strange ways, the air feels too heavy to breathe, and even the silence seems to press against you. Locals call it Dead Bend the last curve before an old mining town that shouldn’t still exist. That’s where I went last October. I was chasing ghost towns for a photography project, part of a series I called Haunted America. I’d already shot a dozen abandoned towns before that, but something about Colorado’s mountains drew me in. People told me not to go to Silvervale. Said it was erased from the maps for a reason. Something about the mines caving in, the dead buried under rock that shifted for weeks afterwards, as if the mountain didn’t want to settle. Nobody rebuilt after that. But how could I resist? I’d spent years chasing stories like this. I figured I’d take some eerie shots and leave before dark. That was the plan, anyway.
By Loud Scary11 months ago in Horror
