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The Mirror That Knows Your Thoughts
It started with whispers. Not loud ones, not even clear—just faint murmurs that seemed to crawl through the room whenever Emily stood in front of her new antique mirror. She had bought it at a flea market in a small coastal town, drawn to its dark wooden frame carved with swirling ivy and strange symbols. The seller, an old woman with pale eyes, had smiled when Emily admired it.
By Modhilraj3 months ago in Horror
The House That Waited for Winter
Elliot Crane didn’t plan to stop that day. He had been driving aimlessly through the Vermont countryside, the late November air thin and gray, searching for something he couldn’t name. The trees stood bare, skeletal, and the sky had that flat white color that promised snow.
By Modhilraj3 months ago in Horror
Chaonei No. 81: The Most Haunted House in Beijing
Chaonei No. 81, situated at Chaoyangmen Inner Street in Beijing, is among China's most famous haunted houses. The three-storeyed brick mansion, built in French Baroque revival style during the early twentieth century, is a protected historical building owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing. While architecturally notable, it was missing archive records and the building's long, degraded silence that stirred the public imagination—prime for speculation.
By Kyrol Mojikal3 months ago in Horror
The Story No One Dared to Read. AI-Generated.
Noor had been writing stories online for almost a year, but no one seemed to care. No comments. No hearts. No followers.
By Ghanni malik3 months ago in Horror
The Message at 9:47
By Murad Ali Shah It started like any ordinary morning — the kind where you almost forget you’re alive because everything feels too routine. The alarm went off at 7:00 a.m., my phone buzzed endlessly with unread notifications, and the neighbor’s dog barked like he always did. I made coffee, burned my toast, and scrolled mindlessly through messages until one stopped me.
By Murad Ali Shah3 months ago in Horror
The Red Door. Content Warning.
You are on the floor. The bacon fat is now bacon fat. Plate shards scatter as they run under the bed. You reach to grab one, peering into the shadow. Eyes stare back at you. Yours. Fearful. A finger to the lips — your lips — urging you not to make a sound.
By Mirwais Hashami3 months ago in Horror
Kuchisake-Onna: The Terrifying History of Japan's Slit-Mouthed Woman
Of all the terrifying Japanese characters of folklore, the Kuchisake-Onna, or the "Slit-Mouthed Woman," is maybe the most terrifying and enduring. Her story is a complex blend of ancient myth and modern urban legend, a ghost whose history is as vague and malleable as the black it is said to haunt.
By Kyrol Mojikal3 months ago in Horror
The Wheel is a Liar. AI-Generated.
The idea of driving is a beautiful ghost. It haunts me with visions of freedom—windows down, hair whipping, a ribbon of asphalt unraveling toward a chosen horizon. It’s the promise of control, of being the master of your own momentum. I desperately wanted to host that ghost in my body. I wanted to be a good driver.
By The 9x Fawdi3 months ago in Horror
The Mirror Room. AI-Generated.
The first time Evelyn saw the room, she thought it was a trick of the light. A thin slit of silver in the far end of the hallway, where no door had ever been before.
By shakir hamid4 months ago in Horror
Whispers in the Static. AI-Generated.
The tape began with silence. Then, a faint hum — like electricity breathing. Dr. Adrian Vale leaned closer to the speaker, pen trembling in his hand.
By shakir hamid4 months ago in Horror
Zashiki Warashi: The Playful Japanese Ghost That Brings Fortune and Fear
The Zashiki-warashi is a fascinating Japanese mythical being, a ghost child with a reputation both for tricks and for having phenomenal good fortune for the family in which it resides. Its roots lie deep within Japanese myth of the northernmost Tohoku region, building a complex figure that is as much about tricks as it is about tragedy.
By Kyrol Mojikal4 months ago in Horror
Japan's Haunted Round Schoolhouse: The Ghosts of Numahigashi Elementary
Of the dozens of haunted sites in Japan, a land that by no means has a shortage of ghostly legend, there is no more tragic history than that of the Round Schoolhouse—Numahigashi Elementary School. It's not a tale of a sudden massacre or an ancient evil curse, but a slow-motion, strangling tragedy born of war, a tale that has soaked into the very concrete of its symbolic round walls.
By Kyrol Mojikal4 months ago in Horror