Previously: Unconventional Indie Horror Games. I say often that while I can usually take or leave old things, I have a deep and abiding love of new things that are made out of old things. Continue Reading > about Old Things Made New: Horror Riffs & Re-imaginings To Read, Watch, And Play
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Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: La Llorona, The Weeping Woman
Previously: The Red Room Curse. Type: CC (Corporeally Challenged). Period/location of origin: Unknown, Latin America. Subject’s roots run so deeply that it is difficult to pinpoint precisely Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: La Llorona, The Weeping Woman
Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: The Red Room Curse
Previously: The Chained Oak Of Alton Towers. (CW: Homicide, suicide.) Type: EV (Electronic Virus). Period/location of origin: Late 1990s; Japan; the internet. Appearance: Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: The Red Room Curse
If You Get A Phone Call From A Red Number, Don’t Pick Up
Previously: The Zioptis Foundation’s Dial-A-Trip. There are, it’s said, a set of telephone numbers from which you should never answer any calls. They’re called red numbers — and although no one Continue Reading > about If You Get A Phone Call From A Red Number, Don’t Pick Up
On The Momo Challenge, Hoaxes, And Misplaced Moral Panic
Previously: Adam Butcher's "Internet Story." (CW: Self-harm, suicide. ) I’ll be honest: I wasn’t originally planning on talking about the Momo Challenge — whether it’s real, what the “challenge” Continue Reading > about On The Momo Challenge, Hoaxes, And Misplaced Moral Panic
Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: NaaLe Baa Bhoota
Previously: The Wandering Bus. Type: PE (Preternatural Entity). Period/location of origin: Unknown, India. Some reports make note of subject’s existence throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: NaaLe Baa Bhoota
Legend Tripping: Urban Legend Locations In the United States You Can Find Right On Google Maps
Previously: So, About That Time I Stayed Overnight In An Extremely Haunted House... These days, legend tripping — literally taking trips to investigate sites connected to urban legends, ghost Continue Reading > about Legend Tripping: Urban Legend Locations In the United States You Can Find Right On Google Maps
Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: The Wandering Bus
Previously: The Elf On The Shelf. Type: Debated. On surface, subject appears to be of PV classification; however, upon closer examination, subject may actually be of EV or VV classification. It is Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: The Wandering Bus