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Forbidden Knowledge Horror Stories

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Part 8 - NAPS
Paranormal Horror2000+ WordsNarratable12m2391w

Part 8 - NAPS

Two paranormal investigators arrive at the Wayfarer Motel, but their equipment detects something that shouldn't be there.

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Part 9 - St. Agnes
Paranormal Horror2000+ WordsNarratable11m2035w

Part 9 - St. Agnes

A door that never existed leads to a hallway frozen in 1912, where the past is far from finished.

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My Aunt Collected People's Last Moments, and Now I Think She's Haunting Me
Paranormal HorrorUnder 2000 Words9m1628w

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.

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My Aunt Recorded People's Last Moments, and I Have No Idea Why
Paranormal Horror2000+ Words15m2818w

My Aunt Recorded People's Last Moments, and I Have No Idea Why

Her tapes captured something that should never have spoken again.

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The flea market sells strange things at night.
Creature Horror2000+ Words19m3646w

The flea market sells strange things at night.

A strange mirror offers a doorway into a dark ocean... and something enormous is waiting below.

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I Read a Page From a Book That Brought On Mental Anguish, and Now I Want Nothing More Than to Finish Reading It
Psychological HorrorUnder 2000 WordsNarratable9m1787w

I Read a Page From a Book That Brought On Mental Anguish, and Now I Want Nothing More Than to Finish Reading It

After reading a single page from an impossible book, a college student becomes haunted by shifting entities and an obsession to recover the manuscript that destroyed his professor.

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Did You Know Bones Can Sing?
Psychological Horror5000+ WordsNarratable33m6510w

Did You Know Bones Can Sing?

A routine medical screening uncovers a rare condition that causes one man's bones to emit strange radio signals. When researchers tune in, they hear something that was never meant to…

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Welcome Home Lazarus
Creepypasta5000+ WordsNarratable32m6270w

Welcome Home Lazarus

A first-time homeowner's exhausting workweek is interrupted when the house's former owner breaks in, pursued by armed men searching for something hidden behind the bedroom wall.

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