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Stories that follow you home.
An archive of creepypasta, unsettling encounters, and stories that blur the line between fiction and something worse.
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A collection of the most unsettling stories in the archive. Ranging from psychological breakdowns and cursed recordings to encounters that defy explanation.
Public Safety Notice
A harmless emergency alert becomes something far worse when people discover their bodies aren't entirely under their control.
Hidden Rooms
A recurring dream of hidden rooms becomes a nightmare when forgotten memories begin to surface.
The Time-Out Room
A childhood punishment reveals a darkness that was never meant to be disturbed.
I'm Stuck in a Simulation Please Send Help
A miracle treatment promises to cure her troubled mind, but every awakening pulls her deeper into a terrifying cycle.
I will draw you with a thousand words
A photographer's interactive gallery installation begins printing impossible messages, leading to an encounter with something trapped inside a masterpiece.
My breakfast keeps resetting right in front of me.
After her father's death, Brogen's morning takes an impossible turn when breakfast keeps resetting and reality begins to unravel.
My Aunt Collected People's Last Moments, and Now I Think She's Haunting Me
My aunt left behind tapes of dying strangers. Now something from those recordings may have followed me home.
My child is being ERASED in fifteen minutes.
A mother receives a terrifying warning that her children are being erased, but what disappears may be more than she ever imagined.
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