Category: Ghosts
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Dark Earring

Clock ticks seem to echo through the darkening silence. On the dust-covered wooden floorboards, a black pearl lies unseen, lost years before. Its owner, too lost within the haunted thoughts of her own mind, has yet to realise her earring is without a pearl. Although, as she rocks gently with the cabin in its final…
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The Unicorn Challenge: The Sepia Spectre

Legend has it that a spectre, a ghost, or an entity, resides within every single photograph. The older the photograph, the more obvious the spectre’s presence becomes. Strange marks appearing over a person’s face being one example… or a face that seems to superimpose itself over a cloudy sky is another. Sir Langholm Newton, an…
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The Orb

The designers for the Summer House catalogue thought they’d captured the magic and majesty of what was originally called the Garden Shed perfectly. The out house building had had a new lick of paint, and powerful new light bulbs fitted throughout. The photographers came one slightly cloudy night of a Full Moon and took a…
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The Unicorn Challenge: Let There Be Light!

Gather round… gather round… my voice echoed around the empty cellar. I say, I say, I say… I laughed, noticing just how small things amuse me. The light from my torch flickered, creating a strobe effect in the dark room. I was positive I saw a face looking back at me but decided it was…
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The Unicorn Challenge: Serene

Maude was exhausted. She lay herself down on the bench in Glandolin Square and soon found herself within a castle courtyard. She moved the heavy blanket off her and sat upright. The indigo sky above was bright and interspersed with a multitude of tiny pulsating lights. This lucid dream felt different from the others. More…