Also wondering if the cops ran the license plates. . . a car is a pretty big thing to leave behind.  

I loved this. I’m a fan of horror movies—the whole genre, from the classics, to originals, to cheesey screamfests—and there’s obviously a whole category devoted to shenanigans in empty mental institutions where torture was practiced more zealously than any type of medicine. I share this information because I can so…

That was beautiful. How lucky you are, to have loved and been loved by such a wonderful woman.

This is heartbreakingly familiar and scarier than any haunted house or restless spirit.  I’m a trauma psychologist who works with abused women (and occasionally men). I also grew up witnessing my father’s abuse toward my mother, sometimes explicit and evil, some times deeply insidious and gaslit. When the ones we…

Yeah, that part left a bad taste in my mouth. Grandmother “bounced back” because she had no other choice, which is tragic. Abuse wears down anyone over time, whether strong, fragile, educated, poor, wealthy and on and on. I found myself feeling sad that none of Grandmother’s adult children or extended family helped…

I am so over (and was years ago) this supposedly feminist website’s relish in bagging on Taylor Swift when there are actually truly reprehensible, corrupt, morally bankrupt people not just in the White House, but in pop culture as well. Dubbing Swift a “ Litigious trigger-happy popstar with a penchant for making…

Either you just really wanted out of the greys, or the Mimic doesn’t appreciate being made public… ;)

He’s never acted like that before or afterward?

Beautifully written and beyond terrifying. Thank you for sharing this. The love and desire to protect our loved ones is so primal. I hope you and your sister have been getting trauma therapy to help you begin to process even a sliver of this and come to realize that, although you were both once helpless and victimiz…

You read this intensely personal, traumatic, moving story and all you have to say is something trivial, petty, and condescending? You’re a terrible person and can fuck straight off, ya gremlin.

I’m thoroughly enjoying both ;)

Very creepy. FYI it’s “towhead” (old European reference to the light blonde color of the fiber of flax or hemp before spinning). . . “Toe head” conjures up another image entirely ;)

Well told, but this story is a notorious urban legend. I’ve heard it over and over for years, with differing details but always the same punchline.

This. Is. Terrifying. Have you ever heard the folklore of the “black eyed children”? Her insistent wanting to get inside reminded me of that—and your primal, instinctive resistance to taking the plate she brought or even fully opening the door.  

If you never actually reviewed the security footage yourself, the landlord could have been lying that there was nothing on it bc it was him. He would have had a key to your place, no? Any creepy vibes you remember coming off of him?

Well said. And normally I would agree with you. However. . .these are not normal times; no, what’s happening in the US right now is a grotesque mockery of every ideal I’ve been clung to and fought for. You spelled it out beautifully.

How often do you see women reacting this way to rejection? Occasionally, but it’s not at all proportional. Not even close.  If you’re a man and can’t concede this absolute fact, you will never understand a fraction of what it is like to live as a woman on a daily, hourly, minute by minute basis.

I think everyone who is asking how and why are speaking hypothetically; no one needs your Ted talk about presumption of innocence and a lawful society.

Thanks for this. Flobots’ outrage seems perfectly understandable. And Logan Paul needs to be called out on every gross, opportunistic stunt he manufactures.

He’s actually 19–so at what age should he be held responsible for his actions and not be referred to as a child anymore?