Best Alien Stories Post

The Alien Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.

1. The 911 Call I Took That Was Not On The Recording

   Dispatch is a job of paperwork with adrenaline stapled to it. Every call is recorded. Every keystroke is timestamped. This is the whole arch…

   158 Upvote · 73% of readers believe this story

2. The Man At The Bus Stop Told Me I Would Remember In Nine Days

   It was the 06:20 bus, which is a bus for people who have to be somewhere unglamorous by seven. There were four of us at the stop. I noticed …

   149 Upvote · 61% of readers believe this story

3. The Ferry Was Twenty Minutes Late And Nobody On Board Agrees Why

   I have crewed the same night ferry for six years. It is a ninety-minute run and it is so dull that we time it against a kettle. On 3 Novembe…

   140 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story

4. I Bought A Camper And Inherited The Previous Owner's Notebook

   The camper was two thousand and a bit, sold by a woman clearing out her late brother's things. She was brisk and sad and wanted it gone befo…

   130 Upvote · 64% of readers believe this story

5. The Thing In The Orchard Had Knees That Bent The Wrong Way

   Our orchard is nine trees and a fence. In September the ground goes yellow with windfalls and the wasps get drunk and my mother pays me to r…

   121 Upvote · 76% of readers believe this story

6. The Grain Elevator Kept A Record Nobody Wanted

   The weighbridge at the elevator is dumb and honest. Truck rolls on, it prints a ticket, and the ticket goes in a folder that nobody reads un…

   118 Upvote · 72% of readers believe this story

7. The Cattle Guard Ate Twenty Minutes Of My Life

   I drive the same forty miles of county road twice a week to check my father's water tanks, and I know that road the way you know a hallway i…

   96 Upvote · 76% of readers believe this story

8. My Sleep App Recorded Three Voices In A Room With One Person

   I am a boring man with a boring problem: I snore, my ex complained, and now I record myself out of habit even though there is nobody left to…

   88 Upvote · 64% of readers believe this story

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