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In the coastal town of Drowned Crow, the dead don't rest—they cure in salt and stand guard in the back pew of a fog-shrouded church. When Lacey McLeod defies an ancient tradition and denies her drowned brother the ritual, she doesn't just break a covenant—she invites the hungry sea to reclaim what it's owed. Now the Salt-Stained Saints are walking, and they're not leaving. They've come to collect the entire town. From a man whose search for the perfect, tidy companion goes terribly right, to a cursed inheritance of twelve clocks that don't just tell time but steal it, to the predatory ...

A town haunted by a secret. A ghost demanding justice. A man trapped in the middle. Elias Vance just wanted a break from his city life. A creative retreat to the ghost town of Sombra, Arizona, seemed like the perfect escape. But Sombra isn't just empty; it's waiting. When Elias unearths a tarnished silver belt buckle from the grave of Sheriff John Walker, murdered in a long-forgotten betrayal, he doesn't just find a relic—he opens a door. Now, the spirit of the vengeful lawman has taken hold, and Elias is a prisoner in his own body. Forced to be the instrument of a century-old revenge, he...

Silence can be a prison. Or it can be a weapon. Three months after surviving the malevolent Carnival of Shadows, Mirabelle and her sister Everleigh are still haunted. Mirabelle’s voice is gone, stolen as the price for their survival, and the silence in their old Victorian house is a hungry, living thing. They think the worst is behind them—until four personalized, terrifying postcards arrive, summoning them and their friends to the legendary Stanley Hotel. But this is no ordinary haunted hotel. The grand building nestled in the Rockies is a crossroads for shadows, a place that doesn't ...

After her life unravels, Elara Vance escapes to the wilderness of Whispering Pines National Park, seeking silence but finding herself utterly lost. Starving and desperate, she is saved by a quiet stranger named John, a man with an uncanny knowledge of the forest and a sadness as deep as the woods themselves. He teaches her to survive, guiding her back to the edge of the world and civilization. But when Elara returns, telling a story of a man in a red-and-black flannel shirt who vanished without a trace, no one believes her. Determined to prove he was real, she uncovers a decades-old mystery...

In a world where every click leaves a ghost behind, what happens when the internet forgets… but we don’t? We live surrounded by digital ruins—abandoned profiles, silent forums, frozen game worlds, and forgotten homepages. These are not glitches. They are graves. In The Anthropology of Digital Ghosts, writer and digital folklorist John Anthony Davis embarks on a poignant, deeply human exploration of the connected age’s forgotten corners. From the last login timestamp that acts as a tombstone to the eerie silence of a once-vibrant MMORPG, Davis uncovers the layers of loss embedded in ...

Some houses don't just hold memories. They hold onto feelings. Gail Vance isn't a traditional therapist. She’s an empath, able to see the emotional Echoes that trauma leaves behind. Most are simple to untangle—a Shroud of Despondency, a Phantom of Paranoia. But when she’s called to the Miller family, she faces something far more dangerous. Their home is drowning in a living, sentient grief—a Leviathan—born from the tragic loss of their son. This entity doesn't just haunt the halls; it feeds on the family's deepest secrets and unspoken guilt, twisting their sorrow into a weapon. To...

This is a work of fiction inspired by the life of Joseph Mendes Nasi (1520–1579). Like many Jewish families, the Mendes family was forced to convert to Catholicism; however, they secretly maintained their Jewish religious practices because of the danger of death if their activities were discovered. These converts were known as conversos, or new Christians. Joseph joined the family mercantile and banking business at the age of sixteen. The House of Mendes held a monopoly, granted by King João, on pepper and spices imported into Portugal from India and Africa. With an extensive network of ...

They thought the intruders were the worst of their problems. They were wrong. When Leo and Maya move their young daughter, Chloe, into the old house on Hemlock Lane, they hope it’s a fresh start. But the house has other plans. The first night brings more than creaking floorboards and cold spots—it brings two violent men with a crowbar, forcing the family to hide in a pitch-black closet. But they are not the only predators in the house. A presence stirs in the walls. A child’s laughter echoes where no child should be. A pale hand reaches from the darkness. As the intruders become the ...

Fictional story based on events of the American Civil War. The Civil War broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces from the Confederate States of the South attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The loyalists of the Union in the North faced secessionists of the Confederate States in the South, who advocated for states' rights in order to uphold slavery. Photography was still in its infancy. Our story follows the life of photographer Jim Hooker as he travels through the battlefields and headquarters of the Confederate States of America. Toward the end of the War, Confederate ...

Experience the last great action of US Marine Tanks in a way you never imagined. This is 2005, Al Anbar Iraq; Welcome to the havoc of counter-insurgency operations. Feel the heat of firing tank main gun, sleep deprivation, and the blistering realities of continuous tank operations. In the darkness, your eyes burn, and you can taste the acrid smoke of main gun rounds. You scan the phosphorous green-glow for targets as AK-47 rounds impact the turret.

True stories of the weird and Unexplained are truly frightening, and could happen to anyone...at anytime...

Hailed as one of the Greatest Presidents ever, little was known about his wife's life. Join me now on a journey through the life and Paranormal dealings of Mary Todd Lincoln...History is Stranger then fiction

After a life long battle with his inner Demons, Alan Reed must face his after a girl is abducted and the cops think he may have something to do with it, then he finds the Pedophile Papers, and everything changes.

Some houses are never empty. When journalist Ben Mears buys the old Fallon place in Samford, Maine, he is looking for a quiet escape from his own shattered past. Instead, he finds a silent Victorian with a history that breathes. The first night, he hears it a wet, tuneless whistle drifting up from the locked basement. A sound of someone, or something, working in the dark. The house holds its secrets in a sugar bowl key, in the frantic scratches around a locked door, and in the strange mound of lost things in the dirt below. The town elders know more than they say, speaking of a sour patch ...

Carl Duggan didn't vanish. He was unmade. In the grey hills of Branton County, something has woken from a century of sleep. Not a monster with teeth and claws, but something far worse: a gentle, patient emptiness that doesn't steal people but slowly unpicks them instead. First their memories go. Then their connections. Then the weight of being someone at all. When Carl's sister brings his photograph to the Balancer of Elderwood, the signs are unmistakable. His eyes are clean. Wiped. Like windows looking into a room where the lights have all been turned off. Milo Endicott knows about ...

Photography was in its infancy when Samuel Bourne learned how to make photographs in the mid 1840s. He was an intelligent young man who was well educated in Shropshire, England. At twenty-one Bourne obtained a position as a bank clerk in Nottingham and pursued photography as a hobby. In 1863, Bourne followed his dream and went to India. Meeting with photographer William Howard gave Bourne the chance of a partnership in Simla, India. Later when Howard retired, Bourne partnered with Charles Shepherd and the photographic studio of Bourne and Shepherd was begun. It lasted 150 years.Traveling ...

Their marriage was already broken. But something in the woods is waiting to finish the job. To save their relationship, Rachel and Mark escape to a rustic cabin in the remote West Virginia hills. No cell service. No neighbors. Just the two of them, a silent house, and the thick, oppressive silence of the ancient forest. It’s supposed to be the perfect place to reconnect. But they are not alone. The cabin has a history. A grieving mother. A little girl named Mary who died too young. And a Ouija board left on the mantelpiece, waiting for someone to play. When a knock comes at the door in ...

A road with a hunger. A mirror that steals more than your reflection. A basement apartment where the walls breathe. In this collection of five interconnected tales, ordinary people discover the darkness hiding just beneath the surface of everyday life. A carpenter races against time to break a curse that has claimed the men in his family for generations. A young woman on a late-night drive realizes the road is repeating itself, trapped in a loop she cant escape. A struggling student moves into a cheap apartment only to hear breathing in the walls and whispers that sound almost like words. ...

Based on true facts and characters, Woolf Barnato inherited a fortune when his father, Barney Barnato, the diamond millionaire, died mysteriously in 1897 when Woolf was two years old. Woolf left university to serve in the Royal Field Artillery in France, Belgium and Egypt during the First World War, rising to the rank of Captain. Obsessed with racing fast cars, he saved Bentley Motor Cars from bankruptcy in 1926 taking over the company. Woolf became well-known as one of the Bentley Boys, a cadre of young wealthy men who raced Bentley cars. He won the Le Mans 24 Hour Endurance Race, three ...

Buzzy the Bee and the Stolen Heartwood Buzzy is a detective bee drowning in the paperwork of a saved world. His quiet life in Sunflower Valley shatters when the Grandfather Tree—the ancient, living heart of the land—is violated. Its sacred heartwood is stolen not by a monster, but by a swarm of cold, logical machines from the industrial north. Their goal isn't destruction: it's optimization. They seek to catalog, sterilize, and efficiently harvest the valley's vibrant, messy magic. With their home's essence fading and a grey silence creeping in, Buzzy must lead a desperate rescue ...