Echoing Stories

Hallie Carter and Hayden Taylor have been best friends forever, meeting everyday at their old tree house watching the sunrises and sunsets. They have always considered each other "Just Friends" even though they both start to feel otherwise. However, what happens when the new boy shows interest in Hallie? And does what Hayden said years ago: "You'll always be my girl Hal. Forever." really mean something to the both of them? The most important words to Hallie, "For Keeps Forever" will be echoing through her mind when it'll be time to make the choice and answer the hardest question... Am I really falling in love with my best friend? To some this could be a cheesy love story... but who says those can't be fun?

Centuries after the bloody Battle of Visby, archaeologists uncover a warrior's perfectly preserved face in a mass grave-but when night falls, the echoes of armor and the restless dead rise once more, seeking vengeance beneath Gotland's soil.

During Notre Dame's post-fire restoration, archaeologists uncover a medieval knight's unnaturally elongated skull sealed in a lead sarcophagus. When night falls, something stirs beneath the cathedral-an ancient presence reclaiming the sacred ground it was buried beneath.

A forgotten Viking sword rises from the Vistula's depths, stirring fog, footsteps, and river-born shadows as something ancient reclaims its weapon and returns to the dark beneath the water.

A colossal fallen statue of Ramesses II begins to shift on its own at night, groaning from within as new scratches form on the stone. By dawn, it has dragged itself closer to the ancient ruins of Memphis-guided by the relentless, buried heartbeat of a king who refuses to rest.

When a gas pipeline cuts through an unmarked grave in Eastern Europe, strange knocks echo through the pipes, and workers begin to vanish. The earth breathes, the metal groans, and something ancient stirs beneath-reminding the living that the past is never truly buried.

Walk through of echoing. Pretty much explains the lore in the most straight-forward way that I could think of. Please let me know if you get confused on any part so I can create a chapter about that ✨

Deep beneath Cappadocia, archaeologists uncover a colossal pyramid built entirely of human and inhuman bones. As they explore its spiraling depths, strange vibrations and impossible carvings reveal that the structure is not dead-but slowly growing, one layer at a time, fed by those who find it.

An archaeologist uncovers ancient skulls marked with strange drilled holes, believing them to be medical relics. But as night falls, the skulls begin to hum and breathe-awakening something that was never meant to be unearthed.

In "Beneath the Still Ones," a lone diver descends into the deep to witness sleeping whales suspended vertically in eerie stillness. But as the whales awaken, their silent formation becomes a slow, encircling ritual-one that reveals the ocean never truly sleeps, and not all watchers return to the surface.

A cursed Roman soldier's skull-still pierced by the lance that killed him-rests in a museum far from its ancient battlefield. At night, its violent past awakens, shattering glass and sanity as the spirit trapped within marches again, seeking new victims to join his eternal war.

In the frozen Yukon, miners uncover a perfectly preserved baby mammoth from the permafrost-but as the ice thaws, something ancient and restless awakens beneath the tundra, hungering for the warmth that disturbed its eternal sleep.

A buried tower of ancient skulls awakens in the jungle, stirring with rhythmic, bone-deep hunger as it rebuilds itself using the remains of those who dare to uncover it.

A long-abandoned hill collapses to reveal a glowing cavern, unleashing metal-crowned figures that rise silently from the depths and drive an entire village into terrified flight.

"Fortune telling can be deemed unlucky"

Shadows of Fear and Hope is a historical fiction short story that follows Liesel, an eighteen-year-old girl struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied territory. Fear rules her world-fear of the soldiers marching through her town, fear of the whispers of betrayal, and fear of the consequences of defiance. But when she reunites with Elias, a former classmate marked by the yellow star, she is forced to choose to remain silent and safe or risk everything to help someone in need. In a time when kindness is punished and survival demands silence, Liesel must decide if she will let fear define her or fight for hope.

Archaeologists uncover a twisted skeleton beneath unnatural stones, only for the bones to move on their own and the team to vanish, leaving behind signs that something below the earth has awakened.

An ancient warrior unearthed in the desert awakens a buried terror, revealing that his final stand was not a death but a seal-one that has now been broken.