The Other Car in Our Garage
A strange car fills a Texas garage, and a wet hand clears its windscreen before the lights come on.
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Horror fictionUnder the Stage
An empty theatre echoes with applause from beneath a stage where nobody should be able to sit.
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Horror fictionThe Spare Pair of Boots
Wet tracks reach a tenant's bed, and discarded boots return to the basement outside his door.
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Horror fictionThe Truck in the Runaway Lane
A blaring truck forces two brothers off a mountain road just before the shoulder collapses.
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Horror fictionThe Chair Beside Mum
An empty hospital chair takes an unseen weight, leaving a daughter frightened and jealous.
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Horror fictionThe Chain Across the Drive
A delivery driver obeys a silent stranger and narrowly avoids a collapsed country driveway.
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Horror fictionThe Wrong Hands
A late swim turns frightening when two hands beneath the pool tiles begin following a swimmer.
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Horror fictionThe Last Load
A student closing a Bristol laundrette finds a shirt that something inside the washer holds on to.
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Horror fictionSomeone Beyond the Fence
A face keeps pace beyond an Oregon garden fence, appearing lower with every gap in the trees.
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Horror fictionThe Carpet at the End of the Hall
A night carer dismisses a resident's warning until a dark strip moves along an empty hall.
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Researched reportingAnn Hodges Meteorite: The Rock That Came Through the Roof
She was asleep on a couch when a fragment from space entered the room. The bruising was real, and the rock became…
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Researched reportingUSS S-5: The Escape Hole They Had to Cut Through Steel
Part of the submarine reached the air. The people inside still had to find a way through the hull before a dangerous…
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Mysteries
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Paranormal
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