User blog:Nolan Garrett-Swodeck/First day here as a signed up member...


 * I have actually been going to this site every other day or so since about... I dunno. Last summer? I just decided to sign up today. Kinda scared I might accidentally violate any rules. Anyhow, about myself...


 * I am sixteen years old, and have had an avid interest in Horror since...well, since I was old enough to draw or vocalize my imagination. I dreamt of zombies, and monsters, and ghosts. My very christian parents actually disliked my constant talk of thing dark and wicked, so I had to stop (or at least tone it down). Although, it never really stopped in my head. My head was still a giant fantastical graveyard. I would draw monsters and keep them in my head, but not talk about them. As I got older, my taste in horror became more refined, and my thirst for the macabre harder to quench.


 * When I was little, Dinosaurs, big animals, and ghosts were all it took to scare me. Jaws used to be one of my favorite movies when it came to getting a good scare. Eventually, that stopped beign scary (around third grade). Third-to-Fifth grade was sort of a slumber for my love of horror. Didn't do much with it at the time. I started liking it again late fifth grade, and read more ghost stories. This is the time when I picked up Cryptozoology. Cryptozoology fascinated me, and does to this day. What Cryptozoology really is can be a bit vague, but the basics are that it is the study of 'real' monsters. Example include Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster, and the Abominable Snow Man (Yeti). I actually study more obscure cryptids like the Jersey Devil, Black Chuck, MoMo, Mokele mbembe, etc. Then, in seventh grade, I picked up actual Horror again. I had liked Vampires all the way up to this point (and still kind of do), but stopped talking about it because of all the Twilight fans. I would read scary stories from books I can find in my library (tame compared to those here) and watch scary movies. And it was like that until the end of sophomore year. Then I found this site, which introduced me to online horror.


 * This site has some of the scariest things on the internet, and I admire it a lot. Another great site is 'TV Tropes' with the 'High Octane Nightmare Fuel' page.


 * And that is a fairly quick summary of me and my experience with scary stuffs :D