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True Scary Stories
Read true scary stories and first-person accounts of frightening encounters, unexplained events and real moments that still resist an ordinary explanation.
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Charles Gregory: Found Sitting in a Boat That Was Almost Underwater
His family reported that he had not returned to the boat ramp. An aircraft found him the next morning, still sitting in…
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Freeport Boat Rescue: Found Beside a Capsized Boat
He was expected in Freeport. When he did not arrive, a friend’s call turned the crossing into a coordinated search by air…
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Atrevida II: Dismasted and Adrift, Two Hundred Miles Offshore
Their last contact had been from North Carolina. When another ship found them, the sailboat had lost its mast, fuel and electrical…
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Fort Mercer: The Other Tanker That Broke in the Storm
Rescuers were dealing with separate pieces of the same ship. One approach damaged a rescue boat before the remaining men could be…
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Marine Electric: Three Survivors from a Crew of Thirty-Four
A winter gale, a lost ship and only three survivors: the Marine Electric disaster became part of the argument for a permanent…
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The Pendleton Rescue: Thirty-Two Men in a Thirty-Six-Foot Boat
The tanker had broken in two and could not send an SOS. A small Coast Guard crew went out after dark to…