The Neighbor in My Attic

• 🏠 A man renting a duplex experiences escalating disturbances from his neighbors, Joe and Susan, including loud arguments and property damage.
• 🔪 The situation culminates when Joe, after being arrested and released, confronts the narrator with a knife, leading to a police standoff.
• 👤 The narrator realizes the "furniture moving" noises were Joe hiding in the attic, watching him, and his sleep paralysis hallucinations were of Joe.
• 💥 The roommate returns and shoots Joe, who was found in the narrator's bedroom with a knife, confirming Joe had been hiding in the attic.

Amusement Park Encounter

• 🎢 While traveling in Spain, a 9-10 year old boy is separated from his parents at an amusement park and feels stalked by a suspicious man in a bathroom.
• 🏃‍♂️ The boy flees the man, who pursues him through a large crowd, and narrowly escapes by darting through the throng.
• 👨‍👧‍👦 His father dismisses the experience as imagination, while his mother believes him, but the event leaves him with a lasting fear of crowds and a need to always have an escape path.

The Ace Motel's Dark History

• 🏨 The narrator recounts the history of his family's apartment building, originally an "Ace Motel" built by his great-grandfather.
• 💔 The building later became a nursing home and then an abandoned property where the narrator's cousin, Charlie, tragically died by suicide.
• 🔫 A tenant named Rudy dies in a Russian roulette game in one of the apartments, with the narrator's father present and attempting to help.
• 👻 A tenant named Buddy Clifford's son, dressed as a ninja, hides under the narrator's parents' bed.
• 🎪 A group of circus performers, including a bearded lady and midgets, break down outside the building, scaring the narrator's sister.

Cyberstalking and Harassment

• 📱 A user named Izzy from Canada begins harassing the narrator online after being removed from a group chat, escalating to threats and the creation of doctored images.
• 🕵️‍♀️ Despite involving police, family, and campus security, Izzy's actions continue, causing the narrator severe distress and paranoia.
• 💔 The narrator eventually deactivates their Kik account and changes Instagram usernames, ending a nine-month ordeal.

The Cabin That Vanished

• 🌲 While exploring near their grandma's farm, the narrator and their brother discover a seemingly lived-in, old cabin that disappears when their grandma accompanies them to find it.

The Japanese Room and the Smoke

• 🇯🇵 In a family building that was once a jewelry store, the narrator experiences a strange phenomenon in a Japanese-style room where smoke appears and behaves as if alive, descending the stairs.
• 👻 The narrator's cousin Jenny recounts an encounter where her friend Kate drinks sake with a mysterious lady in the Japanese room, only for the lady and the room's contents to vanish, and Kate later dies in a car accident.

The Hunter in the Cul-de-Sac

• 🌲 An 11-year-old narrator sees a man with a rifle in their neighborhood cul-de-sac and later hears tapping on their window, later learning someone was hunting in the nearby forest.

Ghost Children and Curses

• 👧 Ben, the narrator's cousin, engages in reckless behavior and a relationship with Hannah, who comes from a wealthy family with occult practices.
• 👶 Hannah reveals she keeps fetuses from her pregnancies with Ben as "ghost children" to increase her family's power.
• 💔 Ben breaks up with Hannah, takes back gifts, and she retaliates by sending her ghost children to retrieve them and curse his new relationship.

The Ouija Board Incident

• 👻 A group of friends uses a Ouija board, which allegedly summons a slave's spirit, leading to unsettling events and the board being burned.