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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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Floyd Collins: The Stone That Held Him Inside Sand Cave
People could reach him and speak to him. For more than two weeks, they struggled to find a way to bring him…
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Peters Glacier: A Thousand-Foot Fall Out of Sight
A guided team saw the fall begin. After the climbers stopped in a crevasse, the ridge hid them from everyone who had…
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Crater Lake: A Snowbank Became a Three-Hundred-Foot Slide
A snowbank beside a popular overlook concealed the beginning of a steep chute. Forty-nine park staff and a medical flight became part…
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Kahiltna Crevasse Rescue: Fourteen Hours Inside the Ice
Rescuers knew he was alive. The difficulty was making enough space in the ice to secure him, move him and finally bring…
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Yosemite Inner Gorge: The Boulder Above the Next Waterfall
His friends could see him on a rock in the middle of violent water. Below him, the creek continued toward a waterfall…
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Half Dome Winter Rescue: Two Slips Above an Icy Drop
The first snow patch stopped a short slide. After he shifted his weight, the next slide carried him roughly two hundred feet…