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r/horrorstories

82.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.1K upvotes, which works out to 13 per 1,000 members.

13peak upvotes per 1,000 members
82.4Kmembers
1.1Kbest post
133most comments
101posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I work as a morgue doctor. Our janitor can stop a family's grief in two minutes, but his price is horrifying.

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 81 text 2026

President Trump found tragically alive in the White House this morning, age 79

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 83 text 2025

I Broke an Appalachian Rule I Was Told as a Kid

↑ 859 πŸ’¬ 77 text 2026

Halloween night 2013

↑ 632 πŸ’¬ 8 video 2025

I Quit Commercial Diving After What I Saw at Hoover Dam

↑ 613 πŸ’¬ 91 text 2026

I was hired to catch a cheating husband. I found something worse.

↑ 576 πŸ’¬ 73 text 2025

I think my husband is a skinwalker and heres the horrifying reason why.

↑ 560 πŸ’¬ 66 text 2026

I downloaded an EVP app and it ruined my life…

↑ 508 πŸ’¬ 42 text 2025

I found my own exhibit at a serial killer museum

↑ 476 πŸ’¬ 31 text 2026

I found my grandfather’s cassette recordings from 1984. Something in them is wrong

↑ 398 πŸ’¬ 59 text 2026

Communities its size

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