It’s 100% fake. Pretty bummed they led with that one on this year’s post. Still, I love these, and on balance the stories are great and believable (even though I have, unfortunately, come to the conclusion that ghosts aren’t real, as much as I want them to be).

And remember: longer isn’t better, guys, pretty pls keep the unnecessary detail to a minimum kthnxbai

Or the rest of the month...

Your sulky, unhappy thing seems cool as hell. Like your own personal Eeyore who steals hazelnut syrup.

NGL, when I read this “but I explained to her that the noise was probably the wind outside knocking twigs off the tree onto the roof.” I said to myself, “That’s why I live in a boring new suburb. No chance of twigs knocking against windows. 

Huzzah! I have lots of free time lately while working from home, I shall read a good number of the submissions and ALL THE WINNERS AND STUFF.

Thrift Store Murder She Wrote seemed fake as hell to me. Like an author insert fanfiction.

I’ve grown up with ghosts and spirits being real, and a good grounding in how to handle them, and I’m afraid there’s only two times I’ve really been scared in that context – one a very weird encounter with a partial thing when I was a kid that’s not lending itself to a telling, the other a location near my family’s…

Wait, did we decide the “thrifting the dead lady’s dress” story was fake last year?

This happened to me a few years ago, and I still get chills every time I think about it.

This happened on Halloween night 6 years ago. I had been out partying with my friends for hours, so needless to say I was very drunk, and very tired of being in my makeup and heels. I was a student back then, and had no money to take a cab, so I left the bar and ran to catch the last subway (just before 2am). There…

AAAAA I *live* for these every year, even though oftentimes they creep me all the way out. Can’t wait to see this years’ submissions (except the inevitable dullards who think it’s witty to post some half-assed thing about Trump).

OMG Finally, I’ve been reading old posts to GET HYPE!!

Finally!

Welp, there goes any chance I had at productivity for today. 

I mean... he posted a picture of himself as a little kid in glasses, so they posted the lyrics “you used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed.” Is that even trolling?

Welp. If that isn’t weirdo behavior I don’t know what is! Let’s hope someone confiscates that man’s phone soon. [Page Six]

Demi:

Well, I did open with MOST people - I kinda figured there’s a few exceptions ;) My impression, for what it’s worth which might not be much, is that people like you are decidedly not having kids because of climate change a lot more rare than people who are simply ambivalent about kids in the first place.

I think most people who agree that “they’re not having kids because of climate change” likely never really wanted kids in the first place.