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The Ghost In My Machine

Stories of the Strange and Unusual

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A screenshot from the second DOORS video depicting an open door frame with a single hand visible through it

The Weird Part Of YouTube: The Home Invasion Horror Of “DOORS [Analog Horror]”

December 18, 2023 by Lucia

Previously: From 'Paranormal Paranoids' To 'Shelby Oaks' The first video in the eerie, creepy web series DOORS [Analog Horror] starts innocuously enough: With white text appearing on a black Continue Reading > about The Weird Part Of YouTube: The Home Invasion Horror Of “DOORS [Analog Horror]”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: analog horror, doors, found footage, home invasion, The Weird Part Of YouTube, web series, youtube

A hole in an interior room wall, looking into another room

Creepypasta Of The Week: “The Hole In The Wall”

September 26, 2022 by Lucia

Previously: “The Shift.” The creepypasta “The Hole In The Wall” initially comes across as based on an irrational fear: That of someone else living in your home with you without your knowledge. Continue Reading > about Creepypasta Of The Week: “The Hole In The Wall”

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: creepypasta, Creepypasta of the Week, home invasion, The Toast, there's someone living in your house

A white house in a clearing in the woods

Creepypasta Of The Week: “In Residence”

September 11, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: "The Thing In The Mirror." Published to the Creepypasta Wiki in 2015, Elliot Cowling’s story “In Residence”… isn’t quite a haunted house story. It’s also not quite a home invasion Continue Reading > about Creepypasta Of The Week: “In Residence”

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: creepypasta, Creepypasta of the Week, Elliot Cowling, haunted house, haunted houses, home invasion, In Residence

The Unsolved Mysteries Of Halloween (Halloween 2017)

October 16, 2017 by Lucia

Previously: Strange and Unusual Haunts. (CW: Missing children, missing people, homicide, home invasion, etc.) When we think of Halloween these days, we tend to think of our seasonal spookiness Continue Reading > about The Unsolved Mysteries Of Halloween (Halloween 2017)

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Halloween, Halloween 2017, home invasion, murder, murders, mysterious disappearances, true crime, Unresolved, unresolved mysteries, unsolved disappearances, unsolved mysteries

The Imaginary Friend, The Haunting of Room 217, and Even More of Reddit’s Creepiest True Stories

September 30, 2014 by Lucia

Previously: The Not-So-Empty House, The Cigarette Case, and More. Another "What's the creepiest thing that's ever happened to you?" thread popped up on AskReddit over the weekend (hoorah!). Because Continue Reading > about The Imaginary Friend, The Haunting of Room 217, and Even More of Reddit’s Creepiest True Stories

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AskReddit, camping, home invasion, imaginary friends, reddit, true stories

The Not-So-Empty House, The Cigarette Case, and More of Reddit’s Creepiest True Stories

July 2, 2014 by Lucia

Every so often, threads themed around tales of the strange and unusual pop up on AskReddit—and I eat them up every time. Sometimes they ask the reddit community what their favorite creepypastas are; Continue Reading > about The Not-So-Empty House, The Cigarette Case, and More of Reddit’s Creepiest True Stories

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: abduction, AskReddit, astral projection, ghost photographs, ghost photography, ghosts, home invasion, reddit, true stories

Scare Yourself Silly: I Hate to Break It to You, But There’s Someone In Your House (And It’s Definitely Not You)

January 22, 2014 by Lucia

Previously on Scare Yourself Silly: DON'T CALL THIS NUMBER. SERIOUSLY, I MEAN IT. This post originally appeared on The Toast. Let’s play a little game. You’ve probably played it before; Continue Reading > about Scare Yourself Silly: I Hate to Break It to You, But There’s Someone In Your House (And It’s Definitely Not You)

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: home invasion, intruder, news, real life, Scare Yourself Silly, The Toast, there's someone living in your house

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