Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
When I was about 4, my parents made me sleep in the bed of a man who had died. I didn’t know him. All I knew was that he used to live upstairs, he was now dead, and I was in trouble for not taking my nap that day. Lora S., as told to ts
MoreOh, 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 […]
MoreTS: 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. […]
MoreI 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 […]
MoreA 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 […]
MoreI 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 […]
MoreIt’s amazing how you don’t see these incredibly bright, incredibly huge red flags until after the fact, but I used to date a guy, he worked at this wing place that did karaoke nights. One Halloween, he was working in costume as Fred Flintstone. I came in to visit dressed as Wilma. He was encouraged […]
MoreVolkswagens put a lot of emphasis on safety. It’s good that they do. Be happy your car won’t start. Mine did and the steering column caught on fire… while I was driving. I was just 16 and didn’t know what to do. I pulled into a cheap motel parking lot and hopped out, leaving the […]
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Spiders In My Bathtub 