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“On the same day, every year, is the smell of something burning. It can be detected in only two specific but unrelated parts of the house. You can even define the limits of where you can smell it by walking around. After about two hours it goes away. Until the next year.”

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“On the same day, every year, is the smell of something burning. It can be detected in only two specific but unrelated parts of the house. You can even define the limits of where you can smell it by walking around. After about two hours it goes away. Until the next year.”

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Have you heard the one about the hanging mannequin that actually turned out to be a suicide victim?

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The most persistent Halloween urban legend of all is the idea that somewhere in your hometown lurks a sadist who’s poisoning the Halloween candy he’s giving out to random trick-or-treaters.

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I pulled out my phone and flipped the flashlight on—and oh, God. They weren’t dogs. They were never dogs. They were the size of dogs, but they weren’t dogs.

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The single candle looked to still be lit in that room. I thought I could see the shadow of someone standing in there next to it.

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Delphine LaLaurie apparently punished her slaves by whipping. She apparently whipped one of her slaves so brutally, she fell off a roof trying to escape her master’s beatings.

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“When I got home the TV had a black screen with white text on the bottom that said ‘I’m not home.’”

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“There were fingernail scratches on the insides of the doors. The old tenants used to lock their toddlers in the closets for days.”

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Tom first responded with a nervous laugh, then a hiccup, before he finally gave a soft answer.

“Something was after me. Something in that house was after me.”