If you've got some time to kill in the Halloween season, why not check out some of the darker corners of the web?
Websites may not the classic format for scary stories, but there are some great pages to surf while you're waiting for the Halloween season to kick up. Here are a few of the weirdest and scariest sites I've found.
Snopes.com
Urban legends are usually grounded in some fact with an element of the morbid and the fantastic, and since they usually have innumerable authors, they've got something in them to creep out even the most iron set of nerves. This famous collection of urban legends has a special section for supernatural stories which makes for some great Halloween reading. To help calm your nerves a little, writer Barbara Mikkelson debunks most of the myths after relaying them. Some of the macabre stories are true, though, and of course the supernatural ones can never be really disproved.
Exit Mundi
Nothing's scarier than the end of the world, and Exit Mundi is a list of all the possible ways that our little race could suddenly stop existing, from overzealous nanotechnicians and terrorist plots to meteors, black holes, and time running backwards, arranged by onomatopoeias of the sounds they'd make (i.e. Flushh! when we're all drowned by a massive wave). It's written in a funny and easy to understand manner, but it can really make you uncomfortable if you're sensitive to such things--Exit Mundi pulls no punches, our race will die, just like our planet, ourselves, and eventually, our universe. But, as the site points out, that's not a reason to stop having fun.
Everything Scary
At EverythingScary.com, you can read user submitted scary stories, ranked by users and sorted by those rankings. Granted, this doesn't make it the best site for well-researched, completely true ghost stories, but it does provide some spine tinglingly good moments, regardless of authenticity. The forums are also a good place to talk the stories over.
Ted the Caver
The experiences of a caver and his friends in a dark, uncharted cave are chronicled at TedtheCaver.com, with pictures and journal entries from Ted as they unearth what appears to be some sort of evil presence. The site isn't real, it's based on a short story written in the 80's, but it's still as scary as hell and will make you think twice about spelunking in a dark cave.
If you know of another scary site, post it in the comments.
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