Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
Scary
Who’s the Dummy?
I came home one day to an empty house. I walked into my room, set something on my desk, then I saw it out of the corner of my eye. I spun around and walked right back out of my room. I was sure my sister had done it. Positive she did. But that didn’t […]
MoreSwam Without Looking Back
I didn’t really think of this as horror, because I figured it was pretty much the experience of every kid growing up in Florida. Now that I don’t live in Florida anymore, I realize this is not a shared experience in the rest of the world. Sometimes when you’re swimming or snorkeling in the ocean, […]
MoreNo Pizza From Strangers Either
I didn’t realize how scary this was until I was older, but one time, while walking home from school with my younger sister, we were approached by a man in a vehicle. He offered us a ride home. It’s hard to imagine that it was my sibling as the voice of reason in this situation […]
MoreSome Things Should Be Left Where They Are
Eureka Springs was a wellness retreat due to the supposed healing waters of the springs. The trouble is, the people who came here to not die, still did. Some just from whatever ailment they were trying to cure themselves of, others from gross mistakes and/or negligence that killed many at a time. They say this […]
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When You Move a House, What Comes With It?
I’m still not sure to make of what happened that Summer. All I know is that we all experienced it. It was me, my brother and my mom. We were living in this rented house. It was weird because this house was plucked up off the ground in Miami and plopped down on some cinder […]
MoreThree’s Company
The dorm room I stayed in in college was haunted. First there were a few silly things that could maybe be explained, like a snapchat filter reacting to the same part of the wall. It was the dog filter and it would open and close its mouth when we asked it questions. Also, there were […]
MoreSometimes, it’s not the quiet ones
I was socially awkward in college, but I was in an art program so we all were. There was this girl in a few of my classes who seemed to want to be friends. I talked to her a few times, but she never seemed to listen to what I was saying and kept telling […]
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Spiders In My Bathtub 