In 1991, a Marine tank crew got separated from their unit during a sandstorm in the Kuwaiti desert. Four Marines followed a strange signal to an ancient city that wasn’t on any map and never known to exist. Only one of them made it back.
Tag: creepypasta
The Girl At The Bar Told Me That She Was Satan, I Believed Her When She Said Hell Is Already Here
A disheveled stranger sat down next to me at a London bar and claimed to be the Devil. By the time she finished telling me the truth about Hell, I believed every word.
The Rules We Follow at a Paranormal Army Base in the Desert
I thought my new coworkers were hazing me when they told me the rules of this desert Army base, but then I met the faceless men in the sand.
Did This 1923 Murder Inspire Halloween’s Michael Myers?
The legend of Stanley Stiers — an 11-year-old Iowa boy who allegedly murdered his family and classmates on Halloween in 1923 — bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain masked killer who wouldn’t appear on screen for another 55 years.
Real Paranormal Incidents That Took Place at Christmastime
Charles Dickens didn’t invent the Christmas ghost story — he was continuing a tradition that stretched back centuries. These true tales of holiday hauntings show why the longest nights of winter were once considered the most dangerous.
Something Was Wrong With Mom’s Christmas Nutcracker
There’s a reason that 100-year-old nutcracker was marked 80% off. And on Christmas Eve, my mom and I found out exactly what it was.
I Was Forced to Shovel Snow Alone Next to an Abandoned House at Christmastime
On Christmas Eve, a teenager shoveling snow beside an abandoned house with a deadly history becomes convinced that Death himself is watching from its darkened windows—and waiting to collect.
The Terrifying Shadow In My Christmas Calendar Already Killed Three Children – Will I Be Next?
In the Christmas of 1965, a nine-year-old boy receives an Advent calendar that opens itself each night, revealing a shadowy figure drawing closer to his home — in a town where a child has been snatched and murdered every Christmas Eve for three years.
A Girl Made a Wish… Her Descendants Paid Every Christmas In Human Flesh #SpookySanta
Two centuries ago, a desperate young servant girl buried a piece of amber in the frozen Nova Scotia earth and summoned something with rows of gleaming teeth and an ungodly stench. Every Christmas Eve since, it returns to collect its payment — in flesh.
WEIRD AFTER DARK: “The Monkey’s Paw” and “Pickman’s Model”
Our Ghost Stories discuss tales from two master storytellers, two very different nightmares, one devastating truth — whether you’re wishing on a cursed talisman or descending into an artist’s cellar, some doors should never be opened. Join your ghost hosts as they dissect the hidden horrors lurking beneath W.W. Jacobs’ domestic tragedy and H.P. Lovecraft’s subterranean terror.
“The Monkey’s Paw” & “Pickman’s Model”: W.W. Jacobs & H.P. Lovecraft, Masters of Dread
A grieving couple’s desperate wish brings something to their door in W.W. Jacobs’ 1902 classic, ‘The Monkey’s Paw.’ Then, H.P. Lovecraft reveals the disturbing truth behind one artist’s unnervingly lifelike paintings in ‘Pickman’s Model.
I Died and Woke Up as a Contestant on a Twisted Afterlife Game Show
A lonely widower’s heart stops after a woman with his dead wife’s face and name walks into a bar — and he wakes up strapped to a chair as the unwilling contestant on a horrifying game show in Purgatory.
WEIRD AFTER DARK: The Slender Man Stabber Walked Away — And Nobody Noticed for 12 Hours
In this episode of Weird After Dark, we’re breaking down the catastrophic weekend when Morgan Geyser, the Slender Man stabber, cut off her ankle monitor with scissors and disappeared for 12 hours before anyone noticed — giving her a 170-mile head start across state lines. From the secret 43-year-old boyfriend climbing through her window at the “supervised” facility to her capture at an Illinois truck stop where she told police to “just Google” her name, we’re exposing every shocking failure in a system that was supposed to keep a high-risk attempted murderer under control.
The Hole: A Secret 90s Website That Traps Your Mind
When an old internet friend from the 1990s contacts him after 20 years of silence, a man discovers she’s been missing since 1999—and whoever has been emailing him knows far too much about his past.
ELSEWHERE, KENTUCKY: The Government Buried It In Concrete And Erased It From Every Map
When an urban explorer discovers a town that’s been completely erased from maps, he learns too late why the county went to such extreme lengths to make sure nobody could ever find it again.
DUTCHMAN’S HOLLOW: Something Has Been Hunting in These Woods Since 1656
A young true crime author’s investigation into a remote Pennsylvania hollow where 136 people have vanished leads him and his friend into an encounter with something that has been watching from the forest… possibly for centuries.
LABYRINTH: The Mansion Where Every Door Leads to a Different Death
When a jaded haunted house veteran receives a mysterious black envelope inviting him to ‘Labyrinth,’ he enters a palatial mansion where the rooms impossibly rearrange themselves and each door presents a progressively deadlier challenge making the man wonder if he’ll ever get out alive.
HE TOOK US TO AN ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK: My Terrifying Horror Honeymoon
When newlyweds accept a brother-in-law’s offer of a free honeymoon road trip to California, an unplanned stop at an abandoned amusement park becomes the most terrifying detour of their lives. It’s an original story of horror from Brandon Faircloth entitled, “The Honeymoon.”