There are so many fine things you can do online that you can’t do offline, with paper, illustrations, pictures, audio, video, radio, TV. And still there are not many genuine "online storytellers" among the online writers. Triond author Timothy Dumont Jr. however, offers us a great example of what a true online story can be…

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Timothy Dumont Jr. published with Triond some fine horror short stories and flash fiction, but his greatest achievement until today is the paranormal horror story he is publishing currently on his blog Unusual Circumstance. The author, as a real “composer of content”, tells his online story in blog posts, in a documentary style that reminds us of The Blair Witch Project, merging facts and fiction into “faction”, blurring the edges of reality and the paranormal, using only words and illustrations, pictures, fake newspaper articles – but all in a very clever way.

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His main character is Benjamin, a paranormal investigator, who is attempting to debunk or prove the existence of all sorts of paranormal phenomena. In his first post Benjamin tells us that he had to start this blog because people needed to know what he had seen in an old abandoned house in the forest.
There are rumours about a woman who was once living there with her two year old daughter; when the mother died of measles, the baby was left alone to starve.
Apparently some kids had broken into the house… and suddenly collapsed, or were attacked by the image of a young lady.
Later, the bodies of the kids were found. They died of measles…

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Benjamin packed his camera, tape recorder and EMF detector (to perceive electromagnetic fields generated by supernatural entities) and started his investigation in the creepy abandoned house, where all things were covered with cobwebs and dust… Laying on the top shelf of a small cabinet was a small leather bound book with crumpled edges…

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Want to read more? Then you definitely have to follow the Blog Unusual Circumstance. The story starts here.
The Blog Murder & Mystery Games, dedicated to Murder & Mystery games, Fiction & Non Fiction, True Crime, Interactive and Online Storytelling is following Unusual Circumstance already!
You might be interested too in the SuperNatural ParaNormalities Blog and in the GhostWritings Blog.

November 18th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
great writing.
Keep it up.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I love stories about the paranormal. Don’t believe any of them…but love them.
November 18th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Great write here. Thanks.
November 18th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Excellent write Patrick! I like paranormal stories and as you already know horror! This sounds like a very good story and I do like the fake newspaper clippings,very clever!!
November 18th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Intriguing Patrick.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Wow, I’m honored and thankful for this wonderful article. It’s made my day.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:33 am
You have convinced me to look up this blog