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The Theatre Royal on Drury Lane carries a lodger who never bought a seat. A tall gentleman in a grey cloak and powdered wig walks the Upper Circle and, at one unbroken stretch of wall, steps forward and is gone. A good omen to the company. A man was walled up there in 1848, a knife in his ribs. I cannot say the one is the other. I can say the tale has held together for a century and a half. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-man-in-grey-of-drury-lane #VictorianLondon #GhostStory
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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In mourning black she asked the Bank's clerks, day after day, if they had seen her brother - hanged for forgery. They told the kinder lie. From my written studies, the Black Nun of Threadneedle Street. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-black-nun-of-threadneedle-street #GhostStory #CityOfLondon #History
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Seeing the invisible world might be tempting, but this is not without its risks.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Chenspec / Overlay: Minkmagic
#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststoryROOMS VII - Pomegranate Room
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Some say that the leader of the Wild Hunt is a king of Denmark who killed his own brother.
#Germany #Denmark #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #WildHunt
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Our Capitalist oppressors want us to fight each other rather than unionizing and fighting for fair wages.
#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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Personally, I think taking away a stretch of land from a noble's estate and adding it to the land of the community should not be considered "theft" but an act of class justice.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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If you would steal from the dead, you should be willing to accept the... consequences.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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You may have heard of ghosts taking on the shapes of headless horsemen.
But have you heard of the one about the ghost of a headless horse?
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #horse
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Banishing evil spirits into rivers was considered "best practice" at some point.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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The Hour of 3:17
Meher had only recently finished his studies and joined his first job. He never liked the chaos and noise of the city, so he rented a small apartment in a quiet colony just outside town, close to his office. Few people lived there. At night, the streets emptied quickly, leaving behind only the distant howls of stray dogs and the occasional whisper of the wind. It was the kind of silence he found comforting. For the first few days, everything went smoothly. Office in the morning, home in the […]https://kayeschroniclescom.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/the-hour-of-317/
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“Do you like a good ghost story?”-Jonah.”
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Picking a fight with a ghost is almost always a very bad idea.
#Poland #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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The processions of the dead wind through the high mountains of the Valais.
#Switzerland #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #WildHunt
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Beneath the ruins of Schauenforst Castle, a knight spends eternity with playing bowling as an ironic punishment.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #bowling #ghost #ghoststory
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Ghosts can be difficult to dislodge. In this particular case, 16 horses were needed to drag the ghost away.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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Strange lights can sometimes be spotted in the German countryside at night.
Some of them are friendly, and some of them are... not.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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The ghosts of the old Noricans fled into the depths of the mountains when they longer wanted to witness the shame of their descendants losing to the forces of Napoleon.
#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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It is easy to be virtuous if you are rich.
But for others, poverty can even deny a peaceful stay in the afterlife.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Burial_Gown -
Buildings can leave psychic impressions long after they are gone.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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Do not build new facilities on the ruins of an old, haunted monastery - unless you are okay with inheriting their ghosts.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghosts_Haunting_the_New_Mill_at_the_Innerste_River -
Some ghosts have no concept of personal space.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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Exorcists have a bad habit of dumping malevolent spirits at the nearest convenient hill, swamp, or forest - without considering that other people might want to use those places, too.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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Malevolent spirits can haunt even churches.
All it requires to fall into their power is a minor act of negligence...
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #church
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In life, a tone-deaf nun.
In death, an avian companion to the Wild Huntsman!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #bird #owl #WildHunt
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Headless ghosts are a common sight in German folklore.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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When you see two men carrying a heavy load across a lonely mountain one evening, it's best to leave them well enough alone.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
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DeadHead
The seat beside him was supposed to be empty.
The man in the pilot’s uniform took the empty seat beside me just as they closed the cabin door, and for one impossible second I thought he was the person I had killed.
Not because of his face.
His face was wrong. Too narrow. Too pale. Clean-shaven where Gordon had worn a short beard to hide the scar under his chin. The man beside me had no scar, no beard, no blood on his shirt, no look of surprise frozen forever in the dark pupils of his eyes.
But he had Gordon’s stillness.
That was what made my hands tighten on the armrests. The same awful quiet. The same way of occupying space as if the world had already happened and he was merely waiting for the rest of us to catch up.
He placed a black leather flight bag under the seat in front of him, buckled his belt, and turned to me with a small, tired smile.
“Sorry,” he said. “Almost missed it.”
I nodded because nodding was easier than speaking. My mouth had gone dry the moment he sat down.
Outside the oval window, rain slipped in bright threads down the glass. Blue runway lights blurred and trembled in the dark. Somewhere beneath my feet, engines groaned awake, deep and animal, and the plane gave a little shudder.
The man looked past me toward the window.
“Bad night to fly,” he said.
I forced myself to breathe.
“Are you flying the plane?”
He smiled again, but this time it seemed to arrive a second too late.
“Not this one.”
His uniform was dark navy, almost black in the cabin light. Four silver stripes on the sleeves. Wings pinned above the breast pocket. He looked like every pilot I had ever seen coming through terminals with coffee in one hand and the secret knowledge of weather in the other.
And still, for half a second, some ugly little part of me wondered how he had gotten there.
Not into the seat.
Into the uniform.
The thought came and went so quickly I almost missed it. But he didn’t. I knew he didn’t. His eyes shifted toward me, calm and dark and unreadable, and I felt suddenly exposed, as if the cabin lights had brightened just over my row.
I looked away first.
There was something wrong with him.
Maybe it was the rain.
Maybe it was the fact that no one had checked his ticket.
Maybe it was because the seat beside me had been empty all through boarding. I had watched it, prayed over it, guarded it like a miracle. No one beside me meant no questions. No accidental touches. No one noticing the mud on my cuffs or the bandage wrapped too tightly around my left hand.
No one leaning close enough to smell the smoke in my coat.
“I’m deadheading,” he said.
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#AirplaneHorror #atmosphericArt #DarkArt #darkFiction #deadhead #Deadheading #DeathAndJudgment #eerieIllustration #FictionWriting #ghostStory #GothicFiction #gothicIllustration #HauntedFlight #HorrorFiction #juneteenth #kmls #moralReckoning #murder #mystery #PeaceGrooves #psychologicalHorror #Racism #shortStory #StormyNight #SupernaturalThriller #suspense #ThePassenger #ThePilot -
This evening's viewing distraction: a revisit to 1981's Ghost Story, based on Straub's novel, boasting a cast of elder Hollywood royalty: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., & John Houseman, & an early #film for Alice Krige.
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#Horror #Horreur #GhostStory #1980sFilm #HorrorFilm #PeterStraub #AliceKrige #FredAstaire #JohnHouseman #DouglasFairbanksJr #MelvynDouglas
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👻 Famous atheist philosopher claims to have seen *something* when he was *dead*—because who doesn't love a good ghost story from a guy who devoted his life to saying there's nothing to see? 🚫🧙♂️ Apparently, a brush with #pneumonia and the #afterlife turns even the staunchest #skeptics into spiritual storytellers. 🧐📜
https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-what-i-saw-when-i-was-dead/ #famousathetist #ghoststory #philosophy #HackerNews #ngated -
Treating this translation in Kuroneko (1968) as 100% accurate
(It's a great film, btw)
#film #movies #cinema #cinemastodon #Kuroneko #JapaneseFilm #horror #HorrorMovies #GhostStory #FolkTale