Forbidden Lore Originals

Original Stories

Dark fiction from the edges of the known world. Haunted roads, impossible places, wilderness encounters and stories created exclusively for Forbidden Lore.

Everything in this section is original fiction. These stories are not presented as documented cases or historical events.

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Ghost Stories

The House at the End of Blackwood Road

For twenty years, everyone in town agreed the house was empty. Then someone started answering the door.

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Beneath Blackwater Lake

An old mountain warning tells locals never to enter Blackwater Lake after sunset. When a group of students ignores it, they discover something beneath the water.

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The Children in the Cornfield

A farmer reports seeing three children standing at the edge of his cornfield every evening. They disappear whenever he approaches, but their footprints never do.

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The Circle in the Basement

A group of college students find a chalk circle painted under the floorboards of their rental house. One of them, as a joke, stands inside it and says the words written around the edge.

Paranormal Experiences

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The Empty Passenger

A truck driver keeps seeing the same stranger along a deserted highway. Then one night, something invisible takes the passenger seat.

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The Girl Who Answers

A middle school dare has circulated for decades: call the disconnected number scratched into the bathroom stall. Most kids just hear static. Some hear a voice answer back.

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The Hollow Children

An abandoned rural school still echoes with children's laughter every evening. An urban explorer discovers that the school knows who will disappear next.

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The House That Changed Owners

A couple renovating an old Victorian house discovers photographs hidden inside the walls. The people in them are unmistakably themselves.

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The House That Counts

A woman inherits her grandmother's farmhouse. The realtor mentions, almost as an afterthought, that the house has thirteen rooms. She only ever finds twelve.

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The House That Wasn't There

A couple searching for an address in rural Vermont found an old farmhouse waiting at the end of a dirt road. The problem was that the property had been empty for more than thirty years.

Wilderness Encounters

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The Last Voice on Channel 9

A fire lookout begins receiving distress calls from people who disappeared decades ago. Then one night, the voice on the radio belongs to him.

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The Lights Over Route 9

A trucker driving a night route through rural Ohio watches three lights descend over a cornfield. His dashcam catches something he still can't explain — or won't.

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The Miller's Debt

In a small river town, an old story says the mill only turns because something was promised to the water in exchange. Locals say you can still hear the wheel some nights, long after the mill burned down.

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The Missing Floor

An overnight janitor discovers that the office building has a hidden fourteenth floor that isn't listed on any blueprint.

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The Motel Room at the End

A traveler checking into an almost-empty roadside motel is given Room 214. The clerk warns him never to open the door at the end of the hallway.

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The Numbers Station

A shortwave radio hobbyist discovers a mysterious broadcast that repeats numbers every night. Then one evening, the transmission appears to be speaking directly to him.

Wilderness Encounters

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The Trail That Loops

Three hikers take a shortcut off a marked trail in the Cascades. The shortcut brings them back to where they started. It does this four times.

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The Woman at Mile Marker 17

For decades, drivers on a lonely stretch of Pennsylvania highway have reported seeing the same woman standing beside Mile Marker 17. Those who stop to help discover that she may not be waiting for a ride.

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The Woman at Mill Creek

Every winter, someone walking along Mill Creek sees a woman standing on the opposite bank. She never moves. She never speaks. And she is always wearing the same coat.

Wilderness Encounters

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The Trail That Wasn't on the Map

They found a trail deep in the forest that didn't appear on any map. Three hours later, they emerged somewhere they had never been before.

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The Object Over Blackwater Desert

Four people watched a silent object hover over the desert for nearly twenty minutes. Then it vanished without moving.

Wilderness Encounters

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Something Was Following Them Through the Forest

They heard footsteps behind them for nearly three miles. The problem was that there was nothing there.

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The Highway Woman

Drivers have told the same story for decades: a woman appears beside the road after midnight, asks for a ride, and disappears before they reach the next town.

Psychological Horror

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The Room That Kept Changing

A man moving into an old apartment began noticing small changes in one room. The furniture moved first. Then the walls did.

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The Lights Over the Desert

Three witnesses described the same silent object hovering above the Nevada desert. None of them could explain what they saw.

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The Woman Who Appears in the Rearview Mirror

There is an old highway story about a woman who only appears after midnight. Drivers who see her are warned never to look twice.

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The Village That Buried Its Dead Standing Up

An old account describes a village with a burial tradition that locals refuse to explain.

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The Room Nobody Was Allowed to Enter

The family had one rule about the upstairs room. Nobody ever explained why.

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Footprints Beside the Frozen River

The tracks began at the water's edge and disappeared halfway across the ice.

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Forbidden Lore separates original fiction from documented cases and historical folklore. Stories collected here are creative works and are never presented as real events.

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