Latest
The Hollow Season Chapters 4-6
By C.M. Clark THE HOLLOW SEASON Chapter Four — Things People Say By Monday, Alex had decided there were two Idaho Springs. There was the one tourists saw. That Idaho Springs smelled like pizza, coffee, beer and sugar. It sold polished stones, Colorado T-shirts, antiques and things made from
This Christmas a Gift
This is not Scrooge. Its actually a little more frightening.
The Hollow Season
By C.M. Clark THE HOLLOW SEASON Chapter One — Welcome to Idaho Springs Idaho Springs, Colorado — 1984 The first mistake was deciding they weren’t drunk enough. The second was leaving the hotel. There were four of them, all barely old enough to understand that twenty-one wasn’t nearly
The Black Water
By: Cristal M Clark The Black Water By C.M. Clark Part One Chapter One — Beneath the Lighthouse Rosie MacLeod knew her mother was dead before anyone said her name. Years later, when people asked how she had known, Rosie would struggle to explain it. There had been no premonition.
THE RETRIEVED
Chapter One - Twenty-Seven Steps By C.M. Clark Four-year-old Emma Voss disappeared twenty-seven steps from her mother. Her father would count them later. Again and again. Twenty-seven steps from the firepit to the place where Emma had been sitting in the dirt, pushing a pinecone
Appalachia: The Mountains That Were Ancient Before Humanity Existed
Once upon a time not so very long ago I found myself lost in the Appalachian Mountains. I was driving from Florida back to Colorado and I took a series of wrong turns heading out of Georgia to Virginia Beach, a place I always wanted to visit because my dad
Chasing Ghosts - Berthoud Pass-Colorado
The Mountain That Keeps Its Dead Some places earn a reputation. Berthoud Pass earned a warning. Long before ski lifts climbed its slopes and long before tourists pulled over to photograph its breathtaking views, the pass was known for something far darker. Sudden storms. Deadly avalanches. Travelers who vanished into
Chasing Ghosts - Haunted Colorado Roads Part 2
Phantom Canyon Road, and the Dead Who Never Finished Their Journey Some roads take you home. Others take you somewhere you were never meant to go. Colorado is filled with mountain highways, forgotten mining routes, and winding passes that disappear into the wilderness. Most are beautiful. Some are dangerous. A
Chasing Ghosts - Not Every Road Wants Visitors
Three Colorado Roads Where Legends Refuse to Die. There is a moment that every ghost hunter knows. It happens long after the city lights disappear. The radio begins to fade into static. The road narrows. The darkness deepens. And suddenly you realize there is nothing around you for miles. No
When the Dead Refuse to Leave - What the World’s Most Haunted Places Reveal About the Living
“Every haunting begins with something left unfinished.” It always starts with silence not the peaceful kind, but the kind that seems to watch you back. As October fades and the air bites with frost, we tell ourselves ghosts are metaphors. Memory tricks. Bad wiring. But there’s something older at
The Surgeon Who Crossed the Sea
Why the Cleveland Torso Killer, Glasgow’s Butcher, and the Black Dahlia Murder May Share One Hand for Pragmatic Issues Just in time for Halloween, we thought it would be fitting to revisit three old, and by old i am talking the 1930's old unsolved crimes. Some would
Breaking News
The Amityville Horror Phenomenon
The Amityville Horror Phenomenon A Story that Freaked Out a Nation - Might Be More False Than it is True Cristal M Clark Back on July 27, 1979 when the Amityville Horror movie was first released people were mesmerized and quite frankly pretty freaked out, it was based on the true
Breaking News
Freddy Krueger - Fact or Fiction
Freddy Krueger - Fact or Fiction The Real Story Behind the Inspiration Cristal M Clark Every October stories start to emerge and spread across the internet with regards to our most beloved horror flicks. Take for example A Nightmare on Elm Street, the original one of my childhood favs. Every year