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Behind the paywall this week: paranormal encounters of the military kind, and the fever dreams of literary darlings.

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It’s Halloween weekend, which means all the worst people you know are about to start pounding Buzzballz dressed as zombie looksmaxxers, Diddy’s baby oil, or, in the case of a couple, Chris Hansen and a 15-year-old. The other option is to stay home alone and scare yourself shitless with horror films and ghost stories. So if you’re friendless and/or pushing 40 and the only thing more terrifying than a vengeful poltergeist is the prospect of waking up after five beers, then you might be interested in this collection of real life X-Files entries from people in the military. 

Tales From The Grid Square is a project devoted to anonymously documenting paranormal or otherwise unexplained experiences reported by members of the U.S. Armed........

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