Has anyone been to this website besides I?
It’s full of odd little “myths” and inane instructions to obtain the most ill of fates, or your wildest dreams, as well as stories to jolt the nerves and shake your core.
Some, albeit, are rather awfully executed and horribly lacking in intelligence, but within the crap, are quite a few gems, it’s worth a look, if you’re into that sort of thing.
It reminds me a little of The Holders, which are a bunch of stories about some weird mythology that don’t make much sense and are kind of silly, but the sheer number of them and the effort put into coming up with these strange stories are impressive.
Creepy indeed; I had spent a good chunk of my day reading them and was just thinking about them when your thread popped up. For someone who counts horror short fiction among their guilty pleasures, these are really entertaining. Sure, they’re 70% crap, but the good ones are as good as any super-short published stories, and the anonymity adds a nice folkloric element. Plus, the occasional “true” stories (such as the one about the Dyatlov Pass incident) makes you wonder about some of the other ones. I’m holding out hope for the one concerning the pocket contents of McKinley’s assassin.
My brother and I did this sort of thing once. It started as an email I sent to pique his interest, and he responded in kind - and we ended up inadvertantly creating a narrative and mythology (a sort of grimy, septic 17th century dictatorship featuring brine rain, sputum gussets and neckumbrella) that freaked both of us out so much that we had to stop.
If anyone’s interested, I present The curious story of Puddleduck and the Poupou Pantaloons. It’s only 13 (vaguely disturbing) pages long.
One of the latest installments, ‘Special’, is one of the best I’ve read so far of them, worth a look.