This will probably not read as too scary, but it scared the absolute shit out of me at the time.

The house I lived in for ~9 years was haunted. I would swear it was.

This happened to a friend and I on a camping trip to a really remote national park in the South. The first night we lost our tent in an intense sand storm that blew in from the south and ended up having to sleep in the Jeep. We were inside the Jeep just killing time while the storm is going on hoping it would be over…

Years ago, in late fall, we moved our young family from a house in the city to my grandmother’s old home, which was rural and secluded. My grandparents had passed on, and so had my mother, but she grew up in that house. It’s a two-story farmhouse with hidden rooms, and it’s more than 150 years old. When we moved…

This story belongs to my dad, but I was present for it- albeit in my mom’s belly. My dad worked transporting buses across the country and taking odd jobs for a big part of his twenties, and by the time he married my mom, he’d experienced more strange happenings than the average person. But this story happened in his…

When I was 12, every night for close to two months someone would knock on my bedroom window. It was usually after 11 p.m. and before 2 a.m. and, at the beginning, would wake me from a dead sleep to where I thought I was dreaming. A few times I even heard the knocking in my dreams and then woke up and the knocking was…

PSA - usually there are comments/questions about being able to pick up where you left off - I don’t think there is still a good way of doing that, but the best method that I’ve been using for years is:
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My folks bought a large farm house built in 1924 the summer before I started 3rd grade (1984ish). My mom, brother and I had been gone all summer at her folks on the east coast, and my dad and some friends moved us in while we were gone.

When I was in fourth grade, my mom and I moved a few hours away to live with my grandma. I was an only child and painfully shy; all my friends had been my friends since forever, and I had no idea how to talk to these new kids at school.

In 2005 I spent the majority of the summer hitchhiking. I had just graduated from college and wanted to try something completely unfamiliar to me, and I insisted on making it a challenge. I lugged everything I had in two large backpacks, one carried on my back and the other on my front, filled with…

I was maybe 10 or 11. My Dad was out of town at a conference and I was home with my Mom. She was preparing to go take a shower when suddenly we both heard this horrible hissing noise coming from the bathroom. To her credit, my Mom carefully went to investigate. When she came out, all the color had drained from her…

I went to a boarding school when I was a teenager, at a very small, liberal prep school in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts. It was located on the ancestral estate of an old rich family, and most of the buildings and grounds we used were originally made in the 1800s. Some of the teachers had lived there for…

A little odd, but it was a Pull-up type. Cross between a diaper and underwear. Kids might still have accidents at that age while sleeping. 

Fair indeed! My misreading there.

Noma is a Danish restaurant

“Nobody wants to work anymore. I mean, these beetles aren’t gonna fruit leather themselves.”

“The problem is how to pay [the employees] enough to afford children, a car and a house in the suburbs.”

I’m going to take stab in the dark and assume Mr. Chef doesn’t live in a modest house in the suburbs, where his children attend a public school.

The most shocking thing I learned from this sideshow is the "Suits" aired for 7 seasons!

First of all, Harry inherited about $11 million from his mother. He got more than his brother because she knew that William, as King, would inherit much more in the long run. I think two things can be true. William can be an entitled POS but so can Harry and he’s proved this with this. book.  A lot of his gripes stem…