Haunting Stories

In the village she once called home, people know better than to ignore the sound of a drum after dark. After five years away, Noziphozamandla returns to the Eastern Cape hoping to bury the past. Instead, she finds a home that feels different, as though it has been waiting for her. Strange dreams become a nightly ritual, children sing where no children can be found, shadows linger a little too long, and something unseen follows her every step. As the line between the living and the spirit world begins to blur, Noziphozamandla discovers that her family's history is tied to ancient gifts, whispered warnings, and truths that were never meant to leave the riverbanks. The drums are calling her by name, and this time, they expect an answer.

Sleep is supposed to bring peace. For Dontae, it brings nightmares. Haunted by vivid dreams that feel more like forgotten memories, a struggling musician finds himself trapped between reality and something far older than humanity itself. As ancient visions, impossible encounters, and unseen forces begin invading his waking life, Dontae is drawn into a hidden war where every soul has a purpose-and someone has already decided his fate. The Soul'z Inferno: Man Without Sleep is the first installment of an original dark fantasy saga that blends mythology, supernatural horror, urban fiction, and psychological suspense into one cinematic journey. Some nightmares end when you wake up. His are only just beginning.

Alma has never questioned The Sanctuary. Beyond the pine forests lies the Noise, a corrupt and violent world abandoned by the faithful decades ago. Inside the compound, life is orderly. Silent. Pure. Every morning begins with prayer, every choice belongs to the elders, and every girl is taught the same truth: Obedience is love. Raised within the rigid teachings of Father Vale and the Church of the Holy Silence, Alma has spent her life preparing to become the kind of woman the Sanctuary demands, quiet, devout, unseen. But when her closest friend disappears without explanation and whispers of hidden truths begin surfacing beneath the compound's careful rituals, Alma starts to notice the cracks in the world she was taught to fear leaving. Jonah has noticed them for years. Assigned to maintain the Sanctuary's generators and forbidden technology, Jonah has seen enough hypocrisy to know the cult's holiness is built on lies. He's spent years surviving in silence after his brother vanished for asking too many questions. But the closer Alma gets to the truth, the more dangerous they both become. As Father Vale tightens his grip and an arranged marriage threatens to seal Alma's future forever, Alma and Jonah are forced to confront the terrifying possibility that escape may be their only chance at freedom. But leaving The Sanctuary is only the beginning. Because the outside world is louder, crueler, and far more overwhelming than Alma ever imagined, and some forms of conditioning do not end at the gates. *Cult of Silence* is a haunting psychological thriller about control, faith, survival, and what it truly means to choose your own life.

｡⚓︎ - In the lonely village of Eidolon Cove, the ocean is feared and worshipped. Every full moon, lanterns are sent into the water and during every generation, one person is chosen to be given to the sea as 'Beloved'. When Elias arrives looking for the truth behind the strange drowning of his sister, he finds Cael - a quiet and mysterious boy washed up near the cliffs. Elias begins to care for him and slowly, the two grow close. But the sea is waking up and terrible things begin to happen. People hear songs in their sleep, flowers grow from dead bodies and the village starts to fall apart. As the ocean rises and the curse grows stronger, Elias must make the hardest choice of his life. He can let the sea take or he can step into the water and face whatever waits beneath it. ⋆˚࿔

***** A gothic Wednesday AU ***** Reichenbach Academy has always thrived on perfection. Pressed Cabernet uniforms. Polished cobblestone. Pristine image. All while something ancient has been buried far beneath its halls. When a student, Daniel Gonzalez, collapses mid-class with glowing, unknown sigils carved into his skin, the administration insists that the situation is contained. But the students know better than to believe them. Thorn Rosales, known for trouble and sarcasm, hears the disturbance long before anyone names it. A song threading through the academy's bones. Xavier Thorpe, haunted by his past at Nevermore, begins drawing the same symbols that have appeared across campus, as if something is guiding his hand. Whether brought together by fate or something far more deliberate, they uncover the truth Reichenbach has spent centuries trying to bury. This is a slow-burn, lore-heavy gothic mystery about power, memory, and the lengths hatred can go. So, Welcome to Reichenbach Academy, where silence is a weapon, and the walls are starting to sing. I am also posting this to royalroad

Celia Jones can talk to the dead, but getting on with them is a different story. She always has at least three spirits following her around, complaining about their relatives, or the inadequacy of their funeral arrangements. The latest is a murdered actress, Maude Domby, but she's less interested in denouncing her killer than in accusing the understudy of stealing her favourite pearls. When the charming but utterly fraudulent medium Stanley Winter holds a séance to contact Maude, Maude insists she and Celia should attend, to see people mourning her 'properly'. But the séance ends up implicating an innocent woman, and now Stanley Winter is banging on Celia's door, begging her to help him find Maude's real killer. Unfortunately, helping Stanley Winter could lead Celia to confront her other power - the one that's both lighter and infinitely darker than talking to the dead. ONC Prompt: 72. A real necromancer sits in on a fake séance.

Lucas remembers everything. Every moment. Every promise. The Note. And the brutal reason why he can never speak of it again. After the accident, he chose silence over confession, carrying the weight of a love he can't afford to rekindle. Protecting Chloe has always come first - even if it means standing right beside her, unseen by the version of her that no longer remembers what they were. Chloe can't remember him. Not his name. Not their story. Not the way he used to look at her like she was everything. But something in his presence feels familiar. Safe. Warm. And as they find themselves drawn together once more, she begins to fall for him all over again - without realising it's the second time her heart has chosen him. In a world where the past hides behind silence and the future is too fragile to trust... Can love still find its way back? "You forgot me once. I just hope... You never remember how much it broke me."

A dead rangers ghost stalks the life of a young woman who moves to the west coast in search of her long lost mother. In addition to her discovery she uncovers the truth behind the haunting and how it relates to her mothers unspoken past.

Verena, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, has been plagued by the same dream every night for years. In the darkness, a pair of crimson eyes watches her with an unsettling familiarity, leaving her questioning whether the dreams are warnings or forgotten memories. When her brother returns from a trading voyage to Italy, he brings home an ancient manuscript titled The Crimson Damned. The mysterious book tells of immortal beings whose glowing crimson eyes mark them as the undead-the very eyes that have haunted Verena's dreams. As the line between nightmare and reality begins to blur, Verena is drawn into a world of ancient curses, dark secrets, and forbidden love, where discovering the truth behind the crimson eyes may cost her everything.

What happens when Death falls in love with the paramour he is gifted? Cursed to kill everyone he touches, beastly Lord Damien Casteel lives in anger and loneliness. During a rare game of poker, he wins the final hand against a petty criminal named Luca. The prize is a pouch of twelve precious gemstones. But Luca is determined to get the stones back, no matter what. Breaking into Damien's mansion to exchange the real gems for fakes, he is captured and threatened with death. Begging for his life, he strikes a deal: his freedom in exchange for his adopted son, Jemison, who will serve the lord as his paramour for twelve days; one day for each stone. Although he is reluctant to let anyone into his life, Damien is desperate to keep Jem away from Luca's abuse, so he agrees. What he does not expect is to fall for the tormented young man. Prompt used is number 46. We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than you. (Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid) My writing is AI-free. Any emdashes are here because I LIKE them. The poetic purply prose is here because I LIKE it. Computers don't write my stuff. The Muse inside my head who keeps me up till 3 AM and wants to drive me bonkers, does. Warning for: spicy situations, alcohol, some swearing, blood, abuse, and typical Christine darkness. There's no graphic sa, torture, gore, or animal abuse.

Every night for seven days, the same nightmare dragged her deeper beneath her apartment building. She woke with bruises she couldn't explain, the smell of saltwater clinging to her skin, and the growing certainty that something was waiting for her in the dark. When an elderly neighbor warns her to never take the elevator after 3:00 a.m., she laughs it off. She shouldn't have. Because some floors don't exist on any blueprint. Some doors were never meant to open. And at the end of the hallway beneath B3... someone has been waiting to ask her one question.

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What do you do when you're betrayed? --------- Her straight, black hair is getting lightly dusted by the snow that only now started to fall. Her brown eyes are shimmering dark pools of contradictions, and she stands with her hands in the pockets of her pants. Her stance is casual, seemingly unaffected by everything that she has witnessed, has done. Like she hadn't stabbed somebody moments earlier. "Louve!" I gasp out, the only word that I can even think of saying. It repeats over and over it my head; Louve, Louve, Louve. I can hardly believe what has happened, I did not think that Louve could have ever done this to me. A small voice in my head whispers are you sure about that?

Du bist mein Geheimnis. Mein einzigstes & größtes. Handsome & Haunting. - Alexis hat keine Ahnung wie man trauert. Bis zu dem Zeitpunkt wo ihre beste Freundin stirbt und sie von Logan's Haus abhauen muss. Etwas was nicht ihre Schuld ist, doch ihr für immer angehangen wird. Sie und ihr großer Bruder, Sam, wuchsen ohne Eltern auf. Somit waren sie Waisenkinder. Und obwohl Sam für immer auf sie sauer sein wird, liebt er seine Schwester trotzdem und lässt sie sogar bei sich wohnen. Zwischen Geheimnissen, Joints und nicht wissen was Liebe ist, findet sie jemand ganz besonderen am Strand sitzen. Ihr Geheimnis.

Six months after their rescue, Ralph begins to see hallucinations of Simon.

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Harfleur is a tomb. The march to Calais is a slow, muddy death. When the call to war comes, Elric, a farmer from the tiny village of Oakhaven, is ripped from the only life he has ever known. For a farmer turned levy in the King's army, the war is not won with glory, but with the cold weight of iron. As march drags on, the landscape of France begins to blur into the memory of home. By the journey's end, Elric will realize the true price of the king's road.

Heather daughter Addison Martin follow is her footsteps, she becomes an author of crime but with her own twist, she lives by the Lockwood asylum hospital that say to be haunted and the theory is that there were a lot of mistreating patients when it was open. Addison goes to the asylum not knowing what she was getting into, she runs into an old classmate while to is walking the grounds, and he is offering to help her out with her book not knowing that she is digging where people don't want her to be will she able to solved what someone want to stay hidden you will have to read to find out

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*the place and character in this story are fictional * Tanvi, a girl who had struggled a lot in her life finally gets a big break when Narmada Malhotra, a very famous and influential lady from a billionaire family offers her a job of teaching at her newly opened school. And obviously looking at her pay scale she agrees. The school was 400 kms away from where she stays. It was in the hills of Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh. Tanvi at first was in awe of the amazing school. But remember..."The most beautiful things in nature are often the most dangerous ones" She met The dean of that school Aryan Malhotra, not at all like people say about him..instead he is way more mysterious, moody and most of all weird. The staff seems good but they all seems to hide something.. Too many mysteries..too many questions..but no answer.. Tanvi have to find her way out..if she wants to survive she needs to figure out her friend and foe. Welcome to the Mountain Primary School, owned by Malhotra group? Best ranking:- #108 in scary #5 in occult #4 in haunting #830 in crime #71 in Indianstory #360 in general fiction #131 in wattpadIndia #137 in mystery-thriller in