Never Work The Graveyard Shift at the County Morgue I breathed in and out as slowly as I could, trying to stay calm, not knowing that it was about to become a lot more difficult to do that. I could see my breath, thin and ghostly in the air, as if winter itself had slipped […]
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I Work Nightshift at the Mall: The Mannequins Move at Night When I finally stumbled forward, their heads turned in unison, three mannequins, their featureless faces locked on me. My legs wanted to run, but my body wouldn’t move. I was frozen with fear. When I finally broke free of my paralysis, I tried to
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What Stalks the Appalachian Woods Is Not Human We’ve all heard the stories of the Appalachian woods. Warnings whispered around fires, told half as jokes at midnight, or passed along like superstition you’re not supposed to test. As a child in western North Carolina, I grew up with them. My father would tell me stories
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What I Saw While Home Alone Still Keeps Me Awake I never thought of myself as someone afraid of being home alone. The usual unease, sure, the vague paranoia of footsteps in the hallway, or the thought of a break-in late at night. But real fear? The kind that lingers, that rots your sense of
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Paranormal Police Encounters: That Don’t Officially Exist The idea that people in positions of authority are hiding things isn’t new. We’ve heard it all before. But what I’m about to tell you… It goes farther than you think. Farther than most of us can even imagine. The truth is, they don’t just keep secrets, they
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I’m a Park Ranger in Appalachia: Smoke Wolves Are Stalking the Woods I’m not supposed to be telling you this. The park service has its own way of explaining things, lost hikers, animal attacks, and unconfirmed sightings. But those words don’t fit what’s out there. They don’t account for the smell of smoke in the
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Why You Should Never Work Nights at a Desert Gas Station I still lock my apartment doors before sunset. Double-check them. Sometimes I wedge a chair under the handle, even though I live on the third floor now. My neighbors think I’m paranoid, but they didn’t work the night shift at that gas station. They
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Why You Should Never Work the Graveyard Shift at a Diner We are surrounded by things that look like us and act like us, but they’re not us. They’re something else entirely, and since my realization of this, my reality has begun to unravel. I used to have a life, I used to see the
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Old Trucker Warned Me: Never Drive Route U.S. 93 After Midnight An old trucker warned me never to drive on Route US 93 after midnight, and I wish desperately that I had listened. Now I’m the one warning others to avoid that stretch of road late at night, and I’m the one receiving the same
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Navajo Elder Warned Me: Never Camp Near the Uinta Basin I’m not much of a camper. Not anymore, anyway. Not after what happened the last time. I’ve had my share of strange nights outdoors, things I brushed off with laughter or blamed on beer. But what happened in the Untan Basin didn’t leave room for
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