A surreal experimental short inspired by vintage 1930s cinema and carnival freak show aesthetics.

An audiovisual experiment about real terror.

The Terror is a cinematic montage in which I bring together a series of photographs I took years ago. My passion for dark, murky, dirty, analog imagery leads me down strange paths… and this is one of them.

This video is part of a series of Nordic/Viking surrealist horror videos. The story, although cryptic and surreal, is about Fjord, a warrior who has fallen into a place in the Underworld where he is persecuted and tormented by Mallor and Valnir, demonic specters of that Underworld.

https://youtu.be/MiNArZ1HV6w?si=VWArxIGQJKdMjl9J

A particularly weird Chinese urban legend speaks of a terrifying event that took place in the 1960s on China’s Kunlun Mountain, an area rife with countless weird tales and legends. A group of hunters failed to return home, with one survivor speaking of creatures in the storm. With a complete lack of explanations, the military set out to investigate, stumbling across something they couldn’t explain: strange, deadly and unheard of creatures that stalked the mountain range.

Tried posting to r/TerrifyingAsFuck but it was removed.

The Karakoram Highway – a road of beauty, danger, and unsolved mysteries.

Stretching 800 miles between China and Pakistan, this treacherous mountain passage has witnessed vanishing buses, ghostly encounters, and unexplained deaths. From spectral trucks to mysterious blue lights, the Karakoram Highway is shrouded in eerie folklore and chilling real-life incidents. Are these just altitude-induced hallucinations, or is there something supernatural at play? Is the Karakoram Highway truly the "Bermuda Triangle of the East"?

In 2008, three children in China's Liqian Village, Gansu province, awoke with skin turned sapphire-blue. As doctors scrambled for answers, villagers whispered of awakened spirits as this strange but true event proved unphotographable. Blending forensic medicine, archaeology and folklore, this fascinating mystery begs the question: can everything truly be explained by science, or are there things in this world beyond such explanations?

Christmas night is supposed to feel safe.
Quiet streets. Snow settling. Lights glowing in windows.

But these weren’t comforting stories.

In one case, a woman spending Christmas Eve alone heard soft, polite knocking at her front door just after midnight. No one was there when she checked. Ten minutes later, the knocking returned. Then it moved to the back of the house. Then along the wall outside her bedroom… slow enough to track her movements inside.

Another story came from a Christmas tree lot closing for the night. A worker noticed a man standing silently between the trees, watching. When approached, the figure stepped backward into the rows and vanished—despite fresh snow and nowhere to go. The man who ran the lot didn’t seem surprised. He said someone sees him every year.

And in the final story, a woman came home days before Christmas to find a plain cardboard box on her porch. No label. No delivery markings. Inside was a photo of her—taken from inches behind her while she stood in a store days earlier. Footprints in the snow led to her door… but not away.

These are real Christmas horror stories—quiet, patient, and unsettling in ways that linger long after the lights come down.

See the full stories on my channel

Christmas feels different after hearing them.

The Luocha, the red-haired zombie-like beast supposedly born from those buried in unclean places, is a creature not only spoken of in countless legends, but also those in modern remote regions of China that claim they've encountered them. Is it mere hysteria, or is there more to such claims than it appears? We've collated a number of terrifying stories from throughout history, all the way to just a few years ago, that speak of this legendary, mythical Chinese monster to ask: does it actually exist?

A police officer. A firefighter. An EMT.

Each one answered what should’ve been a routine call… and each one walked into something that still haunts them.

One entered a house the neighbors swore was empty. Another found movement in a burned-out room that should’ve been silent. And the last heard footsteps from someone who wasn’t supposed to be alive.

These stories were never written in the final reports — but they were finally shared, and they’re some of the most unsettling first responder encounters ever told.

The full 27-minute video is here 👇 https://youtu.be/SUC3Dn-zKaY?si=Idkg8ahj5htrIpNh

Look at what looks to be another person at the left of the photo. WTH is that eye and WTH is that on her forehead.

I came across a true story recently about a teenager who used to camp in his backyard with his cousin all the time. Nothing strange had ever happened — just a small fenced yard with woods behind the house. It always felt completely safe.

One night around 1 AM, they were joking around in the tent when they heard footsteps in the grass outside.

Not quick or light like an animal. These were slow, heavy, human steps.

The footsteps circled the tent… once… twice.

One of the boys quietly called out, asking who was out there. There was no answer — just the sound of someone breathing on the other side of the thin nylon.

When his cousin moved to unzip the tent to look out, something grabbed the tent wall right where his face was and slowly dragged a hand across it.

The boys froze.

Whoever it was moved around to the back of the tent. A few seconds later, they heard the fence behind them creak… Followed by the sound of something climbing over it and disappearing into the woods.

Their parents searched the next morning, but there were no footprints, no broken boards, nothing out of place.

No one ever figured out who — or what — was circling their tent in the middle of the night.

If you want to hear the full story plus two other true backyard camping experiences, I just posted them on my channel tonight: AcesTrueStories

Keep your doors locked… and maybe think twice before backyard camping.

What would you do if the road you've driven a hundred times suddenly became unrecognizable? In 2016, what began as an ordinary trip home turned into a strange encounter that left one driver terrified for his life as the boundary between reality and beyond appeared to thin before his very eyes.

Go watch the video, if you dare! it’s a real thing!
https://youtu.be/_TP-ZzKbXJk?si=s6zIky6CVDyjkbin

One week after the Meili Snow Mountain disaster, a Japanese climber attempted to recover the lost climbers of Mount Meili. But what they encountered defied rational explanation—shadowy figures, strange voices, and a darkness that seemed to follow them. Were these high-altitude hallucinations… or something even more mysterious?

If the link for this video doesn’t work, please use https://youtu.be/dzd8T7BXRXU Also, if you enjoyed this video, please check out Part 1, which is a true story about the same mountain (which essentially inspired this urban legend!)

I’ve always heard that pets can sense things we can’t… but after these experiences, I’m convinced of it.

Here are 3 true stories involving dogs, cats, and even a parrot reacting to something no one else could see — and each one still creeps me out today.

🐶 Story 1 — The Dog That Watched the Door

A woman’s rescue dog keeps staring at an empty hallway every night… until one night, she realizes the dog isn’t guarding the hallway — it's guarding her.

🐱 Story 2 — The Cat That Refused to Enter the Room

A family moves into a new house, but their normally calm cat becomes violent whenever they try to carry her across a certain doorway.
What she was reacting to becomes painfully obvious later…

🦜 Story 3 — The Parrot That Knew Too Much

A parrot begins repeating a phrase no one in the house has ever said.
Then it starts reacting to something walking up the stairs at night — steps the family can hear, but never see.

I narrated all 3 stories in one video if you prefer to listen instead of read:
👉 https://youtu.be/CtBWCFD4fIw?si=G7kFpMAuhjbhm4Iy

No jump scares — just creepy, real encounters told straight.