The Journal

Candle Face's Lair: The Price of Speaking

The breakthrough had a cost. Furious that a Lost Soul spoke to me directly, Candle Face pulled me back into her lair and made me...

Arthur Mills
A man submerged underwater, eyes wide and mouth open in panic, as a pale, ghostly translucent hand presses down on his head from above.

Candle Face Victim #13: Beneath the Surface

This one came back angry. A spirit I'd met in late December and never written up returned tonight, and for the first time one of...

Arthur Mills
A formal comparison table matching a missing persons report against the spirit's testimony across seven details that nearly all align.

Identified? Candle Face Victim #11: The Girl from the Shack

An anonymous tip connected Victim #11's account to a real Austin cold case. The similarities are unsettling, but I'm holding the line: a spirit's testimony...

Arthur Mills
A small, weathered wooden shack with broken-out windows, standing abandoned in dense woods, shot in black and white.

Candle Face Victim #11: The Girl from the Shack

A skeptic raised by rationalists, she mocked the Candle Face story her boyfriend told her. Then the dreams started, and left marks. What her boyfriend...

Arthur Mills