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The Horrors of the backrooms

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Backrooms The Backrooms, are a containment fiction horror concept involving a labyrinthine, seemingly endless maze of rooms and environments, credited with popularising the idea of liminal spaces in online horror culture. Though the location has often been represented by branching aesthetic notions such as industrial areas and water-based architecture, its primary conveyance was through the adjacent image of a former furniture store, taken in 2002 but reposted to 4chan throughout the 2010s. One such upload in May 2019 came with a small text supplement, which would go on to become the first and most central piece of 'lore' surrounding the Backrooms: If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of...

Abandoned bus stop

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Abandoned bus stop  The bus stop across the street is supposed to be abandoned. Something still pulls up at 3:17 AM Getting the job in the other city felt like a blessing at first. It gave me a reason to get out of my hometown, out of the unemployment slump I'd been stuck in, and to change my surroundings for a while. The pay was better than I had expected. But I needed to start as soon as possible, which is how I ended up with an apartment in the outer part of the city. It was an old one-bedroom in a 60 year old building whose façade was crumbling, a relic from the military junta era. Decent enough and cheap, but most importantly, it was available immediately. Even if it turned out to be a dump, I could move in a few months once I'd settled. And it had one more thing that was good for me, a bus stop right across the street. At least, that's what Google Maps said. Now, I'm from the southern Balkans, specifically from Greece, and for those of you who aren...

Slenderman

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The Three Bells: During the process, the participants hear the sound of three bells: The First Bell: You must close your eyes and not say a word. The Second Bell: You must remain absolutely still as the entity approaches. The Third Bell: If you hear it, it means that Slender Man has accepted the "invitation" and is now hunting you. The Result: Once the ritual is complete, Slender Man begins to haunt the victims, causing hallucinations and eventually abducting them, into no one knows where.. probably another dimension... 21/2/2026 στις: 2:30π.μ.   Από τον/την TROMAKTIKO