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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 Fawdi3 months ago in Horror
The Mirror Room. AI-Generated.
The first time Evelyn saw the room, she thought it was a trick of the light. A thin slit of silver in the far end of the hallway, where no door had ever been before.
By shakir hamid3 months ago in Horror
Whispers in the Static. AI-Generated.
The tape began with silence. Then, a faint hum — like electricity breathing. Dr. Adrian Vale leaned closer to the speaker, pen trembling in his hand.
By shakir hamid3 months ago in Horror
Zashiki Warashi: The Playful Japanese Ghost That Brings Fortune and Fear
The Zashiki-warashi is a fascinating Japanese mythical being, a ghost child with a reputation both for tricks and for having phenomenal good fortune for the family in which it resides. Its roots lie deep within Japanese myth of the northernmost Tohoku region, building a complex figure that is as much about tricks as it is about tragedy.
By Kyrol Mojikal3 months ago in Horror
Japan's Haunted Round Schoolhouse: The Ghosts of Numahigashi Elementary
Of the dozens of haunted sites in Japan, a land that by no means has a shortage of ghostly legend, there is no more tragic history than that of the Round Schoolhouse—Numahigashi Elementary School. It's not a tale of a sudden massacre or an ancient evil curse, but a slow-motion, strangling tragedy born of war, a tale that has soaked into the very concrete of its symbolic round walls.
By Kyrol Mojikal3 months ago in Horror
The House My Father Forbade Me to Enter
When I was a child, my father made one rule that stood above all others: “Never go near the red house at the edge of the field.”
By Azlan shah3 months ago in Horror
The Missing Girl in Apartment 304
No one in the building had seen her leave. Apartment 304 had been quiet for weeks, but now something felt off. The neighbors whispered about the girl who lived there, a young woman named Ayesha, who had moved in six months ago. She kept to herself, mostly staying inside, and people had grown curious but never intrusive.
By Alpha Man3 months ago in Horror
5 Reality-Based Ways to Start a Zombie Apocalypse
Have you ever watched a zombie movie where the outbreak's cause just seemed... unrealistic? Personally, I like apocalyptic movies to be (loosely) inspired by science... so here are 5 reality-based ways to start a zombie apocalypse, such as:
By Bob3 months ago in Horror
The Call That Never Ended. AI-Generated.
It was a quiet Thursday evening. The kind of evening where everything feels still… almost too still. I was lying on my couch, phone in hand, scrolling aimlessly. Then — a sound that made me sit up straight. My old landline rang.
By jukar3 months ago in Horror
The Terrible Tale of Thornhill Thrash
This is the tale of Thornhill🖤 Thrash, born a ward of the S_t_a_t_e. His mother killed his father,
By Lightning Bolt ⚡3 months ago in Horror
I Looked Through My Doorbell Camera—And He Looked Back.
I Looked Through My Doorbell Camera—And He Looked Back Some things aren’t meant to be seen in the middle of the night. Leah woke to the soft buzz of her phone, a pulse of blue light against the dark.
By Muhammad Ilyas3 months ago in Horror
The Door That Knocked Back
The Door That Knocked Back Blurb When a lonely man begins hearing knocks from a sealed door in his apartment, he thinks it's a prank — until he realizes the knocking matches his own heartbeat.
By Wings of Time 3 months ago in Horror