Nightmare Fuel #17: The Dead of Winter

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

True Crime, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture, Horror

4.7 • 13.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this seventeenth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to the 1970s, where a woman finds a diary in an old homestead cabin that has been in her family's possession since the late 1860s. The author of the diary has obviously long been dead. But is she still somehow writing new entries from the other side?

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0:00.0	The So, I'm Dan Cummins and I'll be sharing another original short story of the fictional horror variety.
0:35.0	I highly recommend noise cancellation headphones for the best experience.
0:39.0	And I hope you enjoy this new nightmare.
0:42.0	Time now for the tale of the dead of winter.
0:47.0	In the summer of 1973, 32-year-old Laura Coulter inherited a 50-acre parcel of land along the banks of the
0:55.3	Laramie River just off the old Lincoln Highway about 20 miles northwest of Laramie
0:59.8	the city. The land was once part of a 160 acre homestead that belonged to Matthew and
1:05.4	Amelia Knight, who moved to Wyoming from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, arriving in
1:09.4	April of 1868.
1:11.8	Amelia and Matthew, or Laura's great, great, aunt and uncle, and the Acres Laura inherited, where
1:17.3	the original cabin was built, had never left the Knight's descendants possession in over
1:21.8	a hundred years. But it wasn't until 1973 when
1:25.8	Laura found an old diary hidden in the crack where the floor meets the wall in the
1:29.4	loft of the old night cabin that her family's long long held belief that the building and the land around
1:34.7	it was haunted was undeniably confirmed. And then Laura will find herself directly involved
1:40.1	in the haunting in the strangest of ways. The following are entries from the diary of Amelia Night,
1:46.0	beginning in December of 1868.
1:50.0	December 1st.
1:53.0	What a terrible day!
1:55.0	I would weep and wail, but what good would it do?
1:57.0	It would only further upset the children, and they were already nearly upset as I.
2:01.0	We lost most of our winter supplies late this afternoon, and right as winter has truly begun
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