True Horror

Sep 6, 20224 min read

[True Horror] Date City

By Robert Hamilton TW: mentions of SA Rumor has it that Date City, a small town near Holtville, California, is haunted by several...

Jul 26, 20224 min read

[True Horror] The Death House

by Robert Hamilton Holtville, California, once known for being the carrot capital of the world, was a small farming town that helped feed...

Jul 1, 202210 min read

[True Horror] Ghosts in New Orleans

By Rene Cizio During my first few nights in New Orleans, I participated in the traditional cemetery excursion, went on a haunted French...

Jul 1, 20226 min read

[True Horror] 8-Track

by Charlie Racehorse Nez Perce Indian Reservation, 2000 My boyfriend, Dwayne, lived in the last projects on the highway toward town. It...

Jul 1, 20228 min read

[True Horror] White Lady

By Alaric Cabiling I lived in Manila, Philippines, away from my province of Pampanga up north, home to both my mom and dad and our...

May 10, 20222 min read

[True Horror] Travertine Rock

by Robert Hamilton I was assigned to the Salton City station in the 1980s. At the time, there were only two deputies assigned to the...

Mar 29, 20225 min read

[True Horror] The Accident, 1984

By Robert Hamilton CW: sexual assault On Highway 111, north of the community college, there is an old, abandoned house, which used to be...

Feb 15, 20223 min read

[True Horror] The Call

by Robert Hamilton In 1993, I was working as a patrolman in the Salton City area of Imperial County. One day as I was writing reports...

Dec 14, 20218 min read

[True Horror] We're the Only Ones Here

by Leslie Gonzalez Eleven o’clock glared at me from the stove top, threatening me like the edge of a knife, and every minute after made...

Dec 14, 20217 min read

[True Horror] Ghost Stories

by Casey Reynolds I don’t believe in ghosts, but I live in a haunted house. The slow creak of phantom footsteps in the hallway rouses me...

Jul 16, 20214 min read

[True Horror] The Spooky Tap by Devin Meireles

By Devin Meireles It was the summer of 2009 that I worked as a patient transporter for a teaching hospital in downtown Toronto, one of...

Jan 12, 20214 min read

[True Horror] The Heber School

by Robert Hamilton In the small town of Heber, California, the old school still stands today. The classically styled Carnegie building...

Sep 1, 20209 min read

[True Horror] Graveyard Shifts

by Robert Hamilton, Deputy Sheriff (Ret.) Names of people have been changed to protect their identity. There are two jails in Imperial...

Jul 1, 20204 min read

[True Horror] The Lost Child

The Lost Child by Robert Hamilton, Deputy Sheriff (ret.) In 1980, I was a Sheriff’s Explorer training for my chosen career in law...

Jan 15, 20208 min read

[True Horror] Hellhounds

By Daniela Z. Montes I ran across UCSB’s bike path, narrowly avoiding a hoard of bikers headed home, to their next class, or wherever. It...

Jan 15, 20207 min read

[True Horror] Haunted

By Mark A. Larks I was five years old when I learned that my house was haunted. I woke up one night to what I can only describe as a...

Sep 20, 20191 min read

[Poetics] Seeing Ghosts in Vietnam ~ Two Poems by John Aller

Old Ghosts Old ghosts wandering the streets of old Saigon Lost spirits of the dead Died during the endless wars Ghostly apparitions...

Jul 4, 20191 min read

[True Horror] Teenage Possessions

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