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Blood Suckers
Hands up if you love vampires! That’s what I thought. The blood-sucking undead doesn’t even love themselves. I’d know, I’ve seen the movies. In Dracula’s own words right there in Stephen Sommers’s Van Helsing movie; ‘NO! I have no heart, I feel no love. Nor fear, nor joy, nor sorrow. I am hollow… and I will live forever.’ Who would love such a loveless hollow creature?
By Philip Obinna6 years ago in Horror
The Fall and Rise of a Creeper
I’m never good at starting a discussion about the Jeepers Creepers franchise. There are so many ways to frame that particular conversation and, as someone who has all three movies in his collection, I’m probably having that conversation more than the global average.
By David Spain6 years ago in Horror
The Creature in Pawtuckaway Lake
The Thaw The barely there sunlight tickled her eyelids open that first morning on the lake and they fluttered prettily in the still air of the bedroom. The right side of her face mashed against the pillow, she stared lazily out the window at the serene lake.
By Annette Kim6 years ago in Horror
Story About Rose
When Black Rose was just three years old her mother left her. She was raised by her drunken father who didn’t care for her. All he cared about is staying drunk. She was made fun of all through school ‘cause she didn’t have her mother around. All through she was unstable and violent. All she wanted to be someone excepted her, that’s when she ran into a group of people that excepted her with all her troubles and trouble past. It wasn’t long until one of the guys named Luca sparked her interest. Over months of being together all the time, their relationship progressed quickly, until one night when she and Luca were alone. It was the night Luca was going to make her one of them (Vampire). Rose didn’t know what he was, all she cared about was she was alone with him for the first time since meeting him. When Rose woke up the following morning she was alone and she had bite marks on her neck and arms with blood stained on her lips. She couldn’t remember what happened the night before. All she could remember is that she was with Luca and everything else was just gone from her mind. All she knew is that her throat was burning and dry. She walked in the kitchen to get herself a glass of water, as she started drinking it she ended up spitting in out everywhere. Then something hit her hard all over her body, she didn’t know what was going on. All of a sudden her hearing got stronger that she could hear people talking a block or two away from her house. Then she started smelling something like rust and it keeps getting stronger and stronger than when she realized she picked up the smell of blood, the smell made her throat start burning again, but this time it started feeling so uncomfortable like someone was pouring acid down her throat. She was holding onto the edge of the counter as her head started spinning with all these questions. She was trying to figure out what was happening to her. When she finally came to she realized she held a piece of her counter in her hand. As she was trying to gather her thoughts, she heads to the bathroom, as she turns on the light and looked into the mirror she didn’t she but a stranger look back at her she saw that there was something different about her that she couldn’t figure out. She saw that her skin was paler than usual, her eyes had dark circles around them. As she was looking at herself in the mirror to see if there were any other changes, she felt something sharp stick her finger and her bottom lip. So she started checking around her mouth to see if something was there that’s when she saw that her two top k9’s were swallowing and sore. That’s when she saw that they were longer than usual and sharp. That’s is when she knew whatever happened that night with Luca had changed her life forever. She needed to find Luca and the others, she wanted answers. But before she could think where to start looking that’s when her thirst for blood started taking over.
By Meghan Chiever6 years ago in Horror
Hunt for the Kansan sewer man
This is another hunt on my time as a solo investigator and in this one, I hunt for the locally famous but little known cryptid called, sewer man of lawrence Kansas. As doing so I am hunting the sewer man (a creature who can project onto EVP devices but itself isn’t a ghost but a physical demonic entity) and as said above once again I am doing a single investigation I did since I lost my first team and lost my first attempt at a start of a new team and I’ve been doing single hunts ever since then while I still am looking for a new team.
By John beckson6 years ago in Horror
Hunt for the Kentucky troll
We got a new member to the team yesterday her name is maddy, she is Steve’s new girlfriend (a 16 year old lean built blond haired girl who loves and bealieves in everything paranormal she jumped at the chance to join me and my team and it was like love at first site when she laid eyes on Steve) now you maybe asking what happen to athena, well after the Bigfoot thing she decided to leave as she didn’t wanna get hurt anymore but I did tell maddy about the dangers but she simply said “Hey danger makes the job more fun and sometimes it’s needed” and somehow Steve found this statement to make her more hot, plus maddy i have a gut feeling is a big team player,, we will see during the investigation.
By John beckson6 years ago in Horror
Hunt for the Roseville cavemen
When I was five, I had my first run in with the paranormal. “Night son” shaliesh radford (my adopted father) said as he shut the door to my room. I lay in my bed just as I drifted to sleep BAM!!! the door slams open with such force that the Handel puts a whole in the wall, it was as if someone in a anger forced it open, in fear I hid under my covers for a full minute before un-covering myself and gathering my courage I got out of bed, my black nike socks touching the wood floor as I go to the air vent to see if it was on and to my surprise it wasn’t, I then checked to see if my parents were asleep, sneaking down out 2 story, 3bedroom 4bath house to there room to find them fully asleep “what the hell” I said to myself... Of course I got grounded as my parents didn’t believe my explanation of that nights events, although I still was allowed to go to the gym (yes as a kid I was a big gym guy had a real lean muscles body vs the frame I have now, a lean yet slight pot bellied build albeit despite the slight roundness you can still see outline of the 6-pack I use to have and with just some toning up I will easily have them again)
By John beckson6 years ago in Horror
Symbolic Monsters of Legend - Werewolves
Werewolves are trickled throughout various folklores from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece to the Nords to 14th century Western Europe. Their historical interpretations and even their modern representations have consistently been portrayed in bloodshed, shape-shifting, and animalistic instinct. I'm going to explore the symbolism of werewolves to further understand the beastial intrigue of this monster of legend and then propose my own interpretation.
By Aliciel Alone6 years ago in Horror
Insect Scream Queens: A Look at Insects in Horror
Whether its their ability to reproduce/evolve quickly, their alien like appearance and movements, or their association with disease and death; we've been conditioned by society to fear bugs. All the reasons why people are scared of insects are the same reasons why I love and am fascinated by them. Along with my love for horror, it's surprising up until recently I have just finished reading "Insect Princess"; a horror manga about insects. Although I was very disappointed with the plot, the art was enough for me to complete the full three volumes. "A dark romance about a high school boy who falls helplessly in love with a beautiful girl who has to eat people to survive." Just like the main character you can't help but fall in love with her too. But falling in love means not only her human side but her insect "monster" half as well.
By Samantha Sing6 years ago in Horror
The Wolf Trials
Many lives where taken during the witch trials forever leaving it’s mark in history, but it seems the world has almost buried another brutality in history the wolf trials. The Wolf trials begun in the late 1400's and continued into the 17th century. To some, The Wolf trials actually helped build the devastating pathway of the church’s power over the witch trials. The wolf trials are a large collection of accounts of people being accused of being werewolves touched by the devil’s power. Some could say this is where folklore of werewolves started, however one of the earliest recorded accounts of werewolves was recorded in Greece dating back to 1 A.D. in the tales by Ovid. In 1521, Pierre Burgot and Michel Verdun where a pair of serial killers with a stacking body count. Witnesses stated at their trial that they had seen them transform into killing beasts. They where ruled out as werewolves and executed. In 1573, confessed serial killer France Gilles nicknamed “Werewolf of Dole”, was executed and trialed as a werewolf. The most famous account of the wolf trials however, was Peter Stump. As a child Peter begun studies at age 12 of alchemy ( A belief and study based around bringing the dead back to life, glyphes, and chemicals. One of the most famous beliefs of alchemy is the power to turn items into gold.) and black magic. He believed that if he performed the greatest acts of sins he would open a door to the other side and be granted powers. He spent twenty fiveyears committing murders and cannibalism, but that wasn't enough for his dark hunger so he turned to his family. He took his son into the woods and smashed the child’s skull in, he then devoured the child’s brains. He then returned home where he tortured and raped his daughter. When caught by authorities he confessed to accounts of murder, rape, and cannibalism. His wife and daughter where also apprehended, tortured, and executed because of their relations to Peter Stump. At his trial he confessed to having a magical belt that was forged and given to him by the devil. He said when he would wear the belt it gave him the power to transform into a wolf and when the belt was removed, he would revert back to his human form. Authorities searched his farmland for this belt, however it was never found. Did such a thing ever exist? If so where is it now? He was then convicted as a werewolf, tortured, and executed on October 31, 1589. In 1595 Johan Martensen was convicted and confessed to have been given the ability to transform by the devil. He said he served the devil for three years with ten other wolves by spreading chaos, harming, and killing animals and livestock. He was sentenced to be executed in two forms first by hanging, then by burning at the stake. Those tortured would face whippingburning, limb dismemberment, the torture wheel, and being tied by the limbs with ropes which would then be stretched until the victims limb where either detached or broken. Anyone could easily be convicted during the wolf trials all it would take is one person to point a finger. There are many accounts of people being trialed and executed as werewolves, and probably even more off record. During the late 1500s and start of the 1600s the wolf trials begun to extending of witch trials. Family members associated with anyone accused of being werewolves where convicted for witch craft and being in lead with the devil. Many citizens where accused of working with demons and giving innocents the skin of wolves causing them to become beasts. With even more time less and less wolf trials emerged, while more and more witch trials came about leading into the terrible era of the witch trials More history relating to the wolf trials can be found in the book “Rose’s Brief History of Werewolves”.
By Erica Rose6 years ago in Horror
