Phone horror stories
Your phone knows where you are. These stories ask what else it knows.
The Other Mom
Her daughter drew four stick figures and labeled the extra one "the other mom — she sleeps under my bed."
HorrorH-001The Babysitter Upstairs
The babysitter texted that the kids were asleep. They don't have kids. Their house has no upstairs — and something is walking above them.
HorrorH-004Photos From a Trip We Skipped
Photographs from a canceled Maine vacation show a third traveler getting closer, and every file carries evidence that the impossible trip happened.
HorrorH-005The Hotel Key That Worked
A traveler's working key opens a vacant hotel room staged with her discarded identity, and escaping requires her to prove which version checked in first.
HorrorH-003The Wrong Baby Monitor
A baby monitor shows a nursery that does not exist, but its serial number and network address lead to the empty house next door.
HorrorH-010The Call From My Number
A woman receives a warning from her own phone number, then has to decide whether the thing in her house is trying to save her or lure her back.
HorrorH-009The Last Table at the Diner
A widower visits a roadside diner and learns someone has been sitting at his regular table, wearing his wife's old grief like a coat.
HorrorH-008The Laundry Room Light
An apartment tenant follows a light beneath her building and finds a sealed laundry room that knows exactly what she wore yesterday.
HorrorH-006The Neighbor Who Moved Out
A woman moves in next door minutes after the previous tenant leaves, but the spare key and the attic keep proving the old tenant never really went away.
HorrorH-007The Voice in the Transcript
A daughter revisits a saved voicemail from her dead father and finds a new warning that points to a recording hidden in the family home.
HorrorH-013Patient Zero-Zero
A night-shift nurse realizes that the comatose patient in Room 112 has been appearing in every other patient's medical chart — listed as their emergency contact.
HorrorH-012The Growth
A homeowner discovers a strange organic growth in her basement that seems to respond to her emotions — and it's spreading faster than she can cut it away.