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Project MKULTRA (Artichoke) — Sub-Project: 94.
Disposal Protocol: OMEGA-01.

Some secrets are too dangerous to keep, but too horrifying to let out. What exactly is happening behind those doors in the world of Akolyta? The glow is calling...

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DeadHead

The seat beside him was supposed to be empty.

The man in the pilot’s uniform took the empty seat beside me just as they closed the cabin door, and for one impossible second I thought he was the person I had killed.

Not because of his face.

His face was wrong. Too narrow. Too pale. Clean-shaven where Gordon had worn a short beard to hide the scar under his chin. The man beside me had no scar, no beard, no blood on his shirt, no look of surprise frozen forever in the dark pupils of his eyes.

But he had Gordon’s stillness.

That was what made my hands tighten on the armrests. The same awful quiet. The same way of occupying space as if the world had already happened and he was merely waiting for the rest of us to catch up.

He placed a black leather flight bag under the seat in front of him, buckled his belt, and turned to me with a small, tired smile.

“Sorry,” he said. “Almost missed it.”

I nodded because nodding was easier than speaking. My mouth had gone dry the moment he sat down.

Outside the oval window, rain slipped in bright threads down the glass. Blue runway lights blurred and trembled in the dark. Somewhere beneath my feet, engines groaned awake, deep and animal, and the plane gave a little shudder.

The man looked past me toward the window.

“Bad night to fly,” he said.

I forced myself to breathe.

“Are you flying the plane?”

He smiled again, but this time it seemed to arrive a second too late.

“Not this one.”

His uniform was dark navy, almost black in the cabin light. Four silver stripes on the sleeves. Wings pinned above the breast pocket. He looked like every pilot I had ever seen coming through terminals with coffee in one hand and the secret knowledge of weather in the other.

And still, for half a second, some ugly little part of me wondered how he had gotten there.

Not into the seat.

Into the uniform.

The thought came and went so quickly I almost missed it. But he didn’t. I knew he didn’t. His eyes shifted toward me, calm and dark and unreadable, and I felt suddenly exposed, as if the cabin lights had brightened just over my row.

I looked away first.

There was something wrong with him.

Maybe it was the rain.

Maybe it was the fact that no one had checked his ticket.

Maybe it was because the seat beside me had been empty all through boarding. I had watched it, prayed over it, guarded it like a miracle. No one beside me meant no questions. No accidental touches. No one noticing the mud on my cuffs or the bandage wrapped too tightly around my left hand.

No one leaning close enough to smell the smoke in my coat.

“I’m deadheading,” he said.

Read the rest of the story on Medium

The horror in Stuck in the Present isn’t just what’s hiding in the shadows, it’s in the way the stations seem to change the deeper you go ⚠️

Swipe through a few places you’ll encounter throughout the game.

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Haunted Yorkshire (British Library Tales of the Weird #74) by Elizabeth Dearnley
Release Date June 18, 2026
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https://www.risingshadow.net/book/90712-haunted-yorkshire

Backrooms (Film)

What Is It?

The 2026 American science fiction psychological horror movie Backrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjdiohVOik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z6a6NUFlsU

This is how Wikipedia describes this movie:

Backrooms is a 2026 American science fiction psychological horror film.[6]

Directed and co-scored by Kane Parsons (in his feature-length directorial debut) and written by Will Soodik.[7][8]

It is based on Parsons’s web series and inspired by the “Backrooms” creepypasta.

In the film, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a furniture store owner, and Mary (Renate Reinsve), his therapist.

Discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces accessed through the basement of the store.

Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell also star.

After uploading the web series in January 2022.

Parsons was approached by several studios about potentially adapting his series into a feature film.

In February 2023, it was officially announced that work had begun on a film adaptation of the Backrooms.

Based on Parsons’s videos, with Parsons directing.

Roberto Patino was initially set to write the screenplay, but was replaced by Will Soodik.

Filming began in the summer of 2025 and concluded in August 2025.

Backrooms premiered at the Aero Theatre in Los Angeles on May 7, 2026.

And was theatrically released in the United States by A24 on May 29.

The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $140.4 million worldwide.

Becoming A24’s biggest opening and domestic box office performance.

And making Parsons the youngest filmmaker to reach number one at the American box office.

As well as becoming the third-highest-grossing horror film of 2026.

Cast

Krista Kosonen as Nora Kline, Mary’s mother[13][14]

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark, a furniture store owner and failed architect[9]

Renate Reinsve as Dr. Mary Kline, Clark’s therapist[10]

Mark Duplass as Phil, an Async scientist and Backrooms researcher[11]

Finn Bennett as Robert “Bobby” Franklin, Kat’s boyfriend[9]

Lukita Maxwell as Kathrine “Kat” Taylor, Clark’s employee and Bobby’s girlfriend[9]

Avan Jogia as Naren Warne, an Async explorer of the Backrooms

Robert Bobroczkyi[12] as Pirate Clark, a monstrous entity resembling Clark in a pirate costume that inhabits the Backrooms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzdr78XK2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmFO_jwJIh4

My Thoughts

When my brother GC and I heard that Kane Parsons (Kane Pixels) was getting to make a Backrooms movie.

That would be distributed by A24 to movie theaters / the cinema.

We knew that we would probably watch it.

Because we follow his YouTube channel, and we have seen most of his short films about The Backrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVAh-MgDVqvDUEq6qDXqORBioE4Yhol_z

As well as various other people’s unique takes on The Backrooms with their own short films on YouTube.

So we wanted to go out and support a YouTuber making his first major movie.

I did not realize how young he was until I heard it on the news.

Congratulations, young man, for achieving so much, and I look forward to your future projects.

This movie is not for everyone. Do not watch it when you are tired and distracted, et cetera.

Watch it when you are in the mood for a slower-paced indie movie with a liminal space.

I watched this on Sunday, May 31, 2026, at the Regal movie theater in the city of L.

With my brother GC, my brother CC, my brother KDC, and my sister-in-law KC.

Unfortunately, this movie did not stick to his usual formula for The Backrooms.

Which is first-person, found footage, and an exploration of the liminal space known as The Backrooms.

I wish that would have been the main focus of this movie.

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve had good performances.

I hope to see Renate Reinsve in another movie or TV show in the future.

But I wish that they had spent more time exploring The Backrooms.

I also wish that we would have seen more unique areas in The Backrooms.

I also wish that a certain entity had either stayed in the shadows or that it did not look as goofy.

My brother GC and I did not like this movie as much as we had expected.

Because it was slower than expected and did not follow The Backrooms formulas as much as expected.

It was not bad, and I do want to watch it again when it is available at home.

Because I think that this might be a movie that I will like better on the second viewing.

Because when I left the movie theater / cinema, I was not exactly sure how I felt about this movie.

So I need to see it again.

Under more comfortable conditions, like at home when I am in the mood for this type of movie.

The rest of my family who watched it with me, besides my brother GC, did not like this movie.

But KDC and KC have disliked almost every movie that I have watched with them so far, so this is nothing new. :D

I would still recommend this movie to people who want to watch a movie like this.

I would rate it a 3.5 out of 5.

The end,

• John Jr

Remothered Red Nun's Legacy - Gameplay Trailer

Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy on Steam (Planned Release Date: 2026)

Monday Morning Musings

https://jlgang.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/monday-morning-musings-34/

Rich: Let’s follow our routine.
Faye: No.
Rich: 🙄👍

Stuck in the Present is available on Steam.

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