Case Reports: Mystery Stories, Filed and Judged
Every story on file, as a clean police-style excerpt you can read in a minute and share anywhere. Each report links on to the full story and its reader jury.
- The Fifth Man On A Four-Man Observation Post
- I Dreamed The Same Canal For Thirty Years
- She Ghosted Me For Eleven Months, Then Apologised About The Car
- Ecologists Watched A Silent Craft During Night Wildlife Survey
- The Pencil Marks Behind My Door Kept Getting Taller
- Somebody Built Cairns on the Wrong Ridge, and I Followed Them
- Our Farmhouse Swallows Sound, and We Taped Out Where
- She Was Standing at Mile Marker 212 in Three Different States
- There Were Three Doors on C Wing. In January I Counted Four
- I Count Things for a Living, and One Night Won't Balance
- We Logged Them as Weather, and I Typed the Entry Myself
- The Same Man Asked Me for Directions Twice, Word for Word
- Three Nights the Whole Feedyard Looked at the Same Corner
- The Elevator Logged an Hour I Never Worked
- The Recipe Card Was a Confession
- The Patient in Bed 9 Had Been Dead Since My Rounds Began
- He Finished the Crossword After He Died
- She Talks to the Corner About the Fire
- He Sat Down and Told Me My Own Week
- The Best Man Read the Wrong Speech Off the Wrong Phone
A case report is a story told the way a file is written: what happened, when, who else was in the room, and what the person still cannot explain. Some of these are ordinary mystery stories with an ordinary ending. Some are not.
What counts as a case report
Every report here is a first-person account — eyewitness accounts of things the author swears took place. True paranormal stories sit next to workplace absurdities and things that turned out to have a very boring explanation, and nothing is labelled in advance.
The reader jury does the labelling. Each report carries its verdict: true, fake, or still undecided. You can read the file first and vote before you scroll to what everyone else thought.