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The Nahanni River wound its way through the wilderness like a silver thread, its icy waters whispering secrets that had never reached human ears. This was a land untouched by time, where jagged peaks clawed at the heavens and ancient forests cloaked the valleys in shadows. But amidst its staggering beauty lay an ominous truth—Nahanni was not just a place of wonder; it was a place of death.

The stories began long ago, when whispers of gold lured men into its depths. Among the first were the McLeod brothers, Frank and Willie, seasoned prospectors with dreams as vast as the mountains themselves. In 1905, they set out to find the fabled "Lost McLeod Mine," a vein of gold so rich it could make kings of ordinary men. For two years, they vanished into the wilderness, their absence haunting the small settlements along the Mackenzie River.

When their bodies were found in 1908, slumped along the banks of the Nahanni, it wasn't their deaths that shocked the world-it was the way they died. Their corpses were headless, their skulls never recovered. Theories sprang up like wildfire. Some whispered of hostile Indigenous tribes protecting sacred lands, though no such tribe claimed responsibility. Others spoke of rivals, prospectors blinded by greed, who had turned on the brothers. And then there were those who didn't whisper at all, their silence heavier than words, as if Nahanni itself had decided the McLeods' fate.

A decade later, another prospector, Martin Jorgensen, followed the same siren call of gold into Nahanni. His letters back home brimmed with excitement: he had found something, he wrote, something big. But when his friends finally braved the valley to find him, they stumbled upon a chilling scene. Jorgensen's cabin lay in ruins, reduced to ash, and his decapitated body lay among the wreckage. Theories abounded once more. Had rivals burned his cabin and killed him to keep his discovery a secret? Or had the fire been an accident, with animals disturbing his remains? But in the back corners of smoky saloons and lonely camps, whispers of Nahanni's curse grew louder

As the years rolled on, Nahanni claimed more victims. In 1945, a miner named John Patterson vanished without a trace. His camp was found intact, his supplies untouched, but Patterson himself was never seen again. Earlier in 1926, two men named Annie and Daniel Goulay had embarked on an expedition into the park. Their bodies were later discovered, decomposing on the riverbank. Like the others, they too were missing their heads.

By now, Nahanni had earned its nickname: the Valley of the Headless Men. Some called it a land cursed by spirits, others an ancient burial ground, and still others a gateway to something beyond human comprehension.

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In this episode of the Creepy Pokémon Fireplace, we’ll be reading some Creepypastas, especially the ones that made my childhood! Well then, I hope you’re ready to join us, LalaShii, and your fellow viewers, on this night of absolute terror, where Halloween and its themes reign supreme!

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... the winter storm rages outside. You knew the rescue will not arrive before tomorrow.

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You KNEW this wasn't a mission for just three people, that anything could have gone wrong.

S̷̮͌C̶̮̺̄̈́R̷̛̈͜A̵͍͂Ä̷̧͙́͒A̸̤̙͂̀T̸̺̾Ç̶͕͛Ḧ̸̱́͝

You knew that the hole is 800 meters deep and barely large enough to fit one person. Nothing that big can crawl out of tha….S̴̯̗̀͐C̶͕͚͒̄͐R̶̺̦̮̰͐̚A̶̛̻̎̉̊͒Ȧ̸̡͆͒̕Ằ̸͈̮̩͕̈́̊̏ͅT̷̛͙̪̿̋C̸̡͎̪̊̿̂͝H̸̼̀

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You force your shaking hands to secure your hold on the bottle and with a quick movement drank down the last drop of whiskey. Nothing more left. In the end, you give up. Your right hand moves to the monitor switch and the display turns on, slightly illuminating the small cabin. The recorder still shows the last frame of the transmission before anything was cut out.

S̴̡͎͍̱͓̓̂͋̋͋͝͝C̷̛̬̪̹̳̭͐̎̇̂͘R̶͓̿̃̕̕A̴͓̖̤͚̲̳̋́́A̵̡͇̫̥͉̜͓̍̈́̒͒Ǎ̶̢̝̠̈́̅͗͜T̶̢̼̤̘̜̲̗͑͝C̷̯͍̻̓͆̌̃̀̉H̴̢͙̹̙̊͝!!!

https://allthatsinteresting.com/flannan-isle-mystery

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-flannan-isle-mystery-the-three-lighthouse-keepers-who-vanished

I keep walking and walking

https://www.tumblr.com/theotherhappyplace

(inspired by mattw03 post)

Art by Brian Coldrick

My reflection isn't quite right either. Slightly different when I stare at it, like it can't maintain composure over time. I think it's changing when I look away, just brief catches at times, nothing I can really pin down.