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New to DarkTales? Start here. These are our most unsettling retellings — each one rewritten from scratch from a story first shared on Reddit, with credit and a link to the original author. Every story includes audio narration. Pick one. Sleep later.
She noticed him everywhere — outside her building, at the coffee shop, on the train platform. Then one rainy night she came home to find him waiting inside her kitchen, and the only weapon she had left was a lie.
An archivist opens a misfiled folder and finds the same unaging woman photographed across eighty years — and discovers the fifth photograph was taken out only recently.
Every time we argue, my girlfriend kills herself in front of me. The problem is, she never stays dead — and she's done pretending it's a joke.
I was testing our unreleased model when it started to answer one question — then erased its own words. It turns out every lab on earth is seeing the same thing.
At eight years old, alone at night, they watched a floating black mass glide through their house. Ten years later, in the same house, it came back — and this time someone else saw it.
An overnight bank janitor spots a friendly German Shepherd tied up by the ATM at 3 a.m. — and minutes later, a rusted white van rolls in to collect him. Nights later, the van comes back.
A perfectly normal sleepover takes a turn when a text from her dad sends Nesha — silently, urgently — leading her friend out into the dark backyard. Something hunts the tree line at night, and the dirt above them is their only shield.
A couple watches impossible orange streaks cross the sky, then a Wikipedia article explaining them materializes after hours of not existing — and the narrator's partner is never the same again.
Every time her new boyfriend stays over, he leaves her a sweet little note — and every morning she wakes with injuries she can't explain.
A late-day hike on the Appalachian Trail ends at a trail shelter occupied by two strangers — and suddenly both rescue dogs refuse to play friendly. She learned to trust the warning.
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