They called the Mammoth police department, and they called local businesses to ask if the online reports of the epidemic were true. But apparently a few casual readers, coming across the story (which was actually part of a series, but only the Arizona instalment took off), felt concerned. Pretty standard stuff for a horror story, not even particularly original. The post cut off with the writer pleading: “The sirens have me terrified and the sun is almost down here.” The CDC, the writer said, was ignoring her frantic calls, but some kind of authority seemed to be closing in. The mysterious disease was now afflicting the poster’s sister. The plague had then spread to the kids, and to their families. The elderly owner had collapsed and died after bleeding from the ears and screaming in a fit of rage – and the children had been with her at the time. The epidemic began at a daycare, the writer said. It described the outbreak of a mysterious disease in a small town called Mammoth, population 12,000. For example, just under a year ago a popular NoSleep writer posted an item titled WTF is going on in Pinal County, Arizona?.
What many NoSleep stories have in common is that it's impossible to know exactly what happenedīut the indeterminacy of a NoSleep story can backfire. What both stories have in common is that it’s impossible to know exactly what happened the unsettled feeling they leave behind is wholly a function of the answers the authors never give. The story, which you could say is about demonic possession, is told in an epistolary mode, each episode proceeding by emails, texts and blog comments.
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Meanwhile, Khristopher Patten, another moderator who by day is a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience based in Arizona, said his favourite is a series called Correspondences, written by a user who goes only by the name “bloodstains”.
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Kerrima likes a story called Free Coffee with Order of Pie, which deposits the reader in a diner in the middle of nowhere that is visited by a mysterious, prescient stranger. Take, for example, the stories NoSleep’s moderators cite as their favourites. The best ones are rarely gory, a function of the fact that images are more or less banned – you can link to them, but only sparingly. The vague, unresolved nature of the stories are key to their appeal. ‘Everything is true here, even if it’s not.’ Photograph: Alamy
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