A ghost story mashup and collection of short tales from my various experiences with the paranormal. Fact or fiction? You decide! Rated mature for paranormal themes some might find disturbing. All rights reserved. Copyright by K E Jennings 2022.
Ever wondered why the early hours of the morning are so still, so silent, and yet so ... creepy? The Witching Hour isn't just when the bars close; it's an archaic belief that sinister forces emerge between the hours of midnight and 3am, growing heightened in their powers and number. But here on the dark side of Wattpa...
The @Adultfiction, @ChickLit, @Microbytes and @Paranormal profiles bring to you 30 days of fright for the whole month of October! We have something for everybody, whether you are looking for something scary to read or for a prompt to hone your writing skills, this is the right place for you to be. Enter and find out m...
Here lie the best of the best from the submissions for the 30 Days of Spooky Tales event run by @MicroBytes, @Adultfiction, @Paranormal, and @Chicklit. Enter if you dare!
Whether it's a story of a mysterious disappearance, a cursed object, an eerie spiritual possession or an unnatural encounter with a loved one, the Paranormal & Supernatural Team bring you an assortment of personal, real-life paranormal experiences from the Wattpad Community. There's something uncanny out there and it...
Personal, real-life paranormal experiences from the Paranormal Community. Because sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
"What if it wasn't an accident?" Tom's father died in an accident eight years ago. However, that was no longer the case after he found something in the school basement. He becomes uncertain about the cause of the death and decides to delve deeper into this closed case. He stumbles upon things and truths that make eve...
When her close friend and neighbour, Sarah, is found dead in a pool of blood, Lisa sets on a mission to unravel the mystery behind the very first murder in their quaint town but it proves not to be the last. ***** It was a cool night when Lisa stepped in to check on her best friend and neighbour, Sarah, but the sight...
Someone will be getting coal in his stocking . . . It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the small town of Bradley, North Carolina. Wreaths adorn doors, halls are decked, and candles cheerfully glow in windows. Adding to the Christmas excitement, there's also a lovely local wedding with many guests to wish t...
It was a heck of a shot. It was the perfect murder. Someone killed Kyle Winthrop as he lay in his bed. His mother, Claire, doesn't care much - she's too strung out on prescription pain pills. But his Grandmother cares, and she begs her good friend, Hadley Pell, to try to solve this horrible crime. Hadley runs into a b...
A monster is running down Main Street! An old mountain hermit, dressed as Death, drops dead at a Halloween festival in Hope Rock County. Nobody knows why. But mysterious forces are at work on the Appalachian ridges. Granny witches and the Ancients. Black witches and sin eaters. Most folks think the old ways and trad...
A reluctant mountain housewife joins ghost hunters. Hadley Pell lives in a small town in the Southern Appalachians with her feline friend, Onus. She and her boyfriend, musician and instrument maker, Hobie Stricker, are on the outs. She's also on the outs with her baby sister, Maury. Strange things are happening to he...
Fly fishing was something that her late husband, Harry Pell, loved to do. When Hadley's friend, Hobie Stricker, invites her to try for the Big One, she only has trout in mind. A dead body brings a lot of unwanted attention and a lot of unanswered questions, too. Her brother-in-law, Sheriff Bill Whittaker has sworn Had...
A Clean Cozy Mystery - Mountain Air and Murder Hadley Pell, a college-educated housewife and widow, is still reeling from the loss of her beloved husband five years ago. She lives in a small town in the Southern Appalachians where nothing much happens. Nothing much, that is, until murder comes to town. And it isn't un...
❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, wh...
[ONC 2020 Shortlister] Something evil dwells in the black lake by the misty woods, something that will claim the souls of those who dare to dive into its realm. Lynn Morris is ready to enjoy some well-deserved holidays in the company of her closest friends. And that house on the lakeshore looks like a dream come tru...
Some relatives are meant to stay distant. * * * Josephine Lyttleton-Bradley can't understand why she must leave her London home - in the middle of the night during a wicked storm, no less - to live with a relative she's never even met. When Josie realizes she's stuck indefin...
A town with secrets. A girl with questions. And a revelation that's more shocking than any of them ever expected. * * * * * Sarah wants to spend the last months before college exploring her aunt's sleepy New England town while quietly crushing on the local football star, but the resident ghost has other plans. Whe...
If you can't beat them, join them. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover is so annoyed by the infighting at tiny Bradley, North Carolina's town council meetings that she decides on a radical course of action: she'll run for the open seat on the council. After all, she taught most of the elected officials-she should be able to en...
After a traumatic breakup, Cassidy moves into a new home. In an old wardrobe, he finds a mirror on which messages begin to appear from a brutally murdered girl who insists ghosts don't exist... ### Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the murderer of you all? Cassidy is attempting to rebuild his life after a torturous br...
Sadie Goodwin thought she'd endured the worst life could throw at her when she lost her mother and was left to face her future alone. That was until she was kidnapped and dragged into a world where the monsters and legends of her childhood walked the streets. Certain that a mistake has been made, Sadie struggles to un...
*Featured Story* Readers of dark tales, are you in the mood for holiday cheer? Enter DEAD WINTER and get your fill. But mind your step! In this frozen world, victory belongs to the villains. DEAD WINTER: A CRYPTIC Anthology is a collection of 25 chilling tales penned by Wattpad's finest authors. Stories will be publis...
Get out your popcorn, tourists beware, here comes a paranormal adventure with a historical twist, set in Egypt--and Britain. From Chapter 29 'Darkness': 'Did I just try to dive into that goo to get at a dead guy?' Trueth asked. Define dead,' Metjen said with a half-smile. He muttered something and touched Trueth...
ParanormalCommunity is hosting a magazine for Halloween! ...or do I mean #WATTOWEEN . Come read stories and poems gathered from the Collective of the Wattpad Paranormal Research Society, along with featured columns: *HORRORscopes for October! * Dressed to KILL! (Fashion) * GORE-met treats! (Paranormal Snacktivity at...
Del Granger moves from Chicago to a small rural Illinois town after a painful divorce. She meets a young man, Evan Drake, with who she shares an almost instant mutual attraction and begins to enjoy the promise of her new life. As she settles into her new home, however, she begins to hear the eerie sound of a crying ba...
Fall under the spell of Keira and Ryker as they work together find the killer behind the brutal deaths of Salem's Crossroads Coven. ***** Dr. Keira Wynter, an Anthropology professor and expert in the occult, is called in to assist with an investigation that has her returning to a place she vowed she would never se...
[Merry Sister Mary Series Book 2] Sister Mary is a nun of extreme exceptions. She loves playing pranks, manipulating people for her own gain, running and screaming from the smallest of water droplets, and finding trouble wherever she goes. But behind her unholy exterior, lies a woman devoted to doing good in her own u...
After the events of the summer, Mahogany hoped for a quiet fall, but this is Pandemonium, where nothing is ever calm, and silence carries consequences. __________ When Matt Hader, the president of the Pandemonium Clock Tower Committee, is brutally murdered, Mahogany is reticent to find his killer. After breaking her...
Witches and humans have always existed peacefully in Sweetland Cove... until now. Someone is killing humans and drawing unwanted attention to the supernatural residents of Sweetland Cove. Ava Rose just turned twenty-one, and with her birthday came a few surprises. One: she's a witch. Two: she's part owner of a mag...
Sixteen year old Kait Lenox has a reputation as the weird girl in her high school, mostly because of her ex-best friend turned mean popular girl, Ariel, but maybe it has a little to do with the fact that Kait has a hobby crashing funerals. At one of these, Kait is outted by the most popular guy in school, Ethan Ripley...