03/10/14

Reader Submission: The Little Girls

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“This happened at my old house in Staten island in 2002 when I was only 15. Me and my friend were walking outside to the park. It was late in the day so by the time we got to the park it was kind of dark. We decided to stay anyways and just tell our parents to pick us up.

So we were just there sitting on the swings and listening to music when we heard an ice cream truck. We turned around to see if it was behind us, but when we looked there was nothing. We decided we were just hearing things so we quickly forgot it. Then we heard the sounds of kids playing, and the swings started moving next to us. We got freaked out and decided to walk home since our parents weren’t coming any time soon.

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03/5/14

Reader Submission: The Clown

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“Ever since I was little, I’ve been afraid of clowns. Supposedly, it all started in 1995, when I was about two. We’d just moved to Ohio from Rhode Island, and were at the local carnival our new town has every September. As my mom tells it, I was sitting in a stroller, and my mom told me not to turn around. Of course, I did. Apparently, there was a clown behind me and I screamed loud enough to scare him off.

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03/1/14

Reader Submission: Paranoid or Paranormal?

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“When I was little, I lived in an old house that was haunted. My older sister used to sleep over and wake up with scratches on her arm. My sister and my brother got so scared they refused to stay over. My mum called a priest, but we eventually moved out.

My first weird experience was when I was about 10 or 11 years old. I was in the house on my own, sitting by the fire and watching TV, when a reflection in the golden plate around the fireplace caught my eye. I saw what looked like a pair of little girl legs run across the room. The girl had on white tights, like a ballet dancer. I looked around and started to panic when I saw nothing there. When my mum returned, I told her about the girl, but she said it was nothing.

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03/1/14

Reader Submission: The Shooter

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“I had just started my second year as an Oregon state trooper. I was riding with another officer when dispatch came on and said there was a call of a man holding a gun to a woman’s head, so of course we got there as fast as we could.

When we arrived, we found a woman crying and repeating over and over, ‘He shot me. He shot me.’ I bent down to talk to her and said ‘He didn’t shoot you,’ but she wouldn’t listen. I asked if she had any family she could stay with, and she said no. She wouldn’t let us take her anywhere so we asked if she would be okay by herself. She said yes and we left.

At the end of our night shift, we went back to the station and told the dispatchers and other officers about the weird call. An officer looked up her name and went pale. He then hesitantly told us that a young woman by that name had been shot in the head by her husband about six years ago. Police never caught the shooter. We all went grim and tried to forget about what happened. We eventually did…until two years later.

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