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Thrasher is not one of Santa’s

My girlfriend asked me if I was going to put out the deer this Christmas. They are a part of my display, but she hasn’t been able to look at them since the incident. She had a deer leap through a window one night and land in the basement of her split-level home. It thrashed […]

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Mousy Brown Hair

I don’t remember when it happened, but it was cold, I know that. I was sleeping. My hair was long at the time and I had it in a sloppy pile on top of my head. As I slept, I kept feeling something. I didn’t want to wake up, so I tried to convince myself […]

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Eureka Springs Strikes Again

Oh, yeah, I’ve seen ghosts. I’ve lived in Eureka Springs my whole life. Everywhere I’ve lived has been haunted. See, there’s a limestone bedrock, and that’s a conductor for spiritual energy, so we get ghosts from all time periods here. Where I’m living now is haunted by, we believe, an old man. Under the house […]

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Some Haunt because they were Haunted

TS: Have you ever seen a ghost? P. L. Watts: I’ve seen ghosts do shit without actually seeing them. TS: Like, you’ve seen stuff moved by ghosts? P. L. Watts: Yep. My cousin kept turning on the tv and opening the sliding glass door in his room when I stayed out there after he died. […]

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Nuke Rain

I remember when Chernobyl happened. I was working at a nuclear facility here in the states. We had a couple of the sweetest scientists from Sweden visiting after the incident. During their visit our radioactivity sensors got tripped. We were panicking until we were able to isolate the cause. It was the footprints of the […]

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Molotov Cocktail

A word of advice for if you’re ever travelling out of the country: make sure your travelling companions have a decent picture of you looking presentable. A picture of you shit-faced, waving a drink around right before you set yourself on fire is not going to make finding you in the hospital very easy, especially […]

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House Guessed

I got a pretty good deal on my house, and that’s how it starts, right? The previous owner had died, so I became responsible for all the stuff in it (that’s how it REALLY starts). This is not that kind of story, though, but it is a little weird. While sorting through the stuff, I […]

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