Veil of Shadows
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Ghost towns, lost agents, unsolved vanishings, and whispers from the dark. New anomalies every Monday and Friday. The veil is thinner than you think....
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The Things We Still Won’t Do
I noticed it first in myself... A cracked mirror in a motel bathroom somewhere off a two-lane highway. The glass had split cleanly from corner to corner, a thin lightning bolt frozen in silver. I stood there longer than I meant to, toothbrush in hand, doing the quiet math everyone pretends not to do. Seven years. That was the number, wasn’t it?
By Veil of Shadows8 days ago in History
EPISODE V - Biologists’ Worst Nightmares: The Assassins Who Walk on Six Legs
Humanity loves to imagine its predators as massive things. Lions with crushing jaws, sharks with serrated rows of teeth, bears standing ten feet tall. Evolution, however, has no loyalty to size. Nature’s most efficient killers are often the ones you need a magnifying glass to see clearly.
By Veil of Shadows29 days ago in Earth
THE FIVE DOORS THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN OPENED
~By Caelum, Night Archivist of the Veil~ Most cops think the worst thing you can find at a crime scene is blood. They’re wrong... The worst thing is a question. A question with teeth. A question that refuses to let you sleep. Some cases don’t end when you file the report. They stay with you. They lean over your bed at night. They breathe behind you in empty rooms.
By Veil of Shadowsabout a month ago in Horror
Episode IV – Apex Mammals: Kings of Teeth and Territory
On land, the food chain doesn’t end with claws. It ends with decisions. Apex mammals don’t just kill because they’re hungry. They kill to defend territory. To establish dominance. To teach and too send a message.
By Veil of Shadowsabout a month ago in Horror
THE WHISPERS IN THE WALLS OF THE BOY SCOUT CAMP
There are hauntings you can escape. Doors you can shut. Lights you can turn on. But what do you do when the thing watching you has no face? No form? No eyes? What do you do when the darkness itself decides to stand up?
By Veil of Shadowsabout a month ago in Horror
Episode II – The Serpent Syndicate: Masters of Venom and Deception
Before humanity learned to fear the dark, it learned to fear the shape that moved within it... A line... A curve... A slither. The first predators we ever met did not roar or charge. They whispered across the ground.
By Veil of Shadows2 months ago in Horror
THE PATIENT WHO SAW BEYOND
On August 8th, 1991, a 35-year-old singer named Pam Reynolds Lowery entered an operating room at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. She was not there for routine surgery. She was about to undergo one of the most extreme medical procedures ever performed on a human being... a standstill operation.
By Veil of Shadows2 months ago in Humans
Killers of the Animal Kingdom
Forget the alien... Forget the cryptid... The truth is far simpler, and far more terrifying. The most efficient killers on this planet don’t come from space or superstition. They crawl, swim, and slither through the same world we call home.
By Veil of Shadows2 months ago in Earth
