I know I posted this in a bulliten but I decided that this would be a better place for it ..
- Working at night, you hear a vacuum cleaner down the hallway from you. You don't think about it and continue. Eventually, when you finish, you move to the elevator. You push the down button. You hear footsteps behind you. The door opens. You step in as the person steps in with you. You push the ground floor. The person pushes a floor below you, but not the ground. You notice that the person's hands are callused and slightly gnarled. Soon enough, the elevator stops. You glance at the floor number as the doors open and the person slips out. You blink to make sure you're seeing the number right. 13.
"See you soon," the person says, using your name, as the door closes. You look at the panel of floor buttons. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15....13 isn't listed. You can't stop shivering.
- Taking up a pen to sign a document, you find that the ink is red. The pen is a black ink pen, at least it was yesterday. The ink only turns red when you sign your name. The ink turns (dries?) black after a few moments.
- You are shaving, when you nick yourself. As you look in the mirror, you realize that the mirror image is moving one-half second behind you.
- For a second, the mirror image uses the same arm as you do...
- You have the feeling that you could reach through the mirror. You suddenly know that you can. You reach for the mirror. Your hand is centimeters from the surface. Suddenly, you feel flesh at your fingertips. You jerk your hand back. When you reach again, the mirror is solid. The moment passed...this time.
- (Premise from a short story I've written) There is a cargo truck that travels from state to state. The drivers change, but the trailer is never opened. Drivers report scratching sounds and stomps from inside the trailer...but no food is ever put inside. Nothing. Yet the sounds continue...
- Ambulance number 23111 never takes it's passengers to the emergency room. It always goes into the parking garage and goes down.
- On certain nights, the mortician in the morgue locks his office door and spends the night praying. He shivers when the scraping noises pass by his door. He never looks for the bodies that disappear...
- A woman, all in white, with black hair, is staring directly at you. You see that the crowd pushes around her, but her eyes never leave you. A pool of blood collects around one foot. When you run toward her, she vanishes as a truck passes in between you two.
- Everytime you turn around, you notice that it takes everyone else half of a second to start to move.
- Children chant a new rhyme as they play jumprope.
"One for blood, two for stone.
You never know, when you'll be bone.
Three for fire, four for death.
You never know, you'll loose your breath.
Five for sin, Six to kill.
You never know, what's under the hill."
- Dogs stop barking as you walk by. They all stare at you. ALL of them.
- You can hear a heartbeat. But, whose, you don't know. It grows faster over time. What happens when it stops?
- After investigating a place where a murder had taken place, you find a simple audio tape. Playing the tape reveals it to be a typical mix tape made by the victims lover.
However, between one of the songs, a strange sound is heard. Repeated playing reveals that the sound changes each time it is played.
Playing the sound backwards reveals it to be a chilling voice that says: "Four
Playing it again results in Three
Again: Two
- Middle of the night. A furious rainstorm. Thunder, swaying of trees. You can hear rain falling on the roof over your head and splashing on the windows. But when you look outside, the sky is clear.
- Sitting in your chair, watching TV or something. You get the occassionaly feeling of being watched, but no one is there... Eventually you get the impression of something breathing lightly against the back of your neck.
- You hear rats in the walls of an old house you've bought. They seem to move constantly, running over the timbers and between panels, but you never see any. Exterminators brought in find the skeletons of children.
- You call a friend on the phone. He answers and you say "hey, it's <>" He goes silent for a few seconds. He angrily replies, "Who IS this? <> has been dead for 2 years!"
- Your tire goes flat. While changing it, you see that the old tire was punctured by bones. Human finger bones
- The room you are in has a large picture on the wall of the local skyline lit up at night. As you turn to leave the room, out of the corner of your eye, you see a window in one of the buildings go dark.
- A hiker finds the skeletal remains of a body. The skeleton is intact except for a shattered skull. Forensic examination of the remains shows that the deadly blow came from inside the
skull.
- You are eating unshelled peanuts. Cracking open one of the shells reveals the fingerbones of children instead of peanuts.
