Forbidden Lore / Tag
Dark Folklore
Stories and accounts connected to dark folklore.
Dark Folklore
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.
Dark Folklore
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.
Occult
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.
Urban Legends
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.
Ghost Stories
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.
Haunted Places
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.
Dark Folklore
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.
Creepypasta
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.
Unexplained
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
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.
Ghost Stories
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.
Dark Folklore
The Village That Buried Its Dead Standing Up
An old account describes a village with a burial tradition that locals refuse to explain.