Insomniac Nightmares

Yesterday, I was playing around with an app called Spirit Story Box. The results were… odd. But not necessarily alarming. Just for fun, I decided to leave it running on the nightstand last night.

The results were worrisome. It is pretty long, so feel free to skip it if you like.

Staring at 11:54 PM, and running to 3:30 AM (when the battery died), I was presented with the following list:

• 11:54 PM – Boyfriend Executes (Hmmm. Great start, right?)
• 11:56 PM – Coarse Cousin (Is that who got executed?)
• 11:59 PM – Orphan (Ruh roh.)
• 12:00 AM – Object (Well… okay.)
• 12:09 AM – Grandfather (Still okay, I guess.)
• 12:10 AM – Ruthless nurse (Was she the orphan, the executed, a cousin or mean to grandpa? Who knows?)
• 12:10 AM – Species (This is one of the few words that doesn’t seem to fit a theme.)
• 12:12 AM – Discovers (This could go poorly…)
• 12:15 AM – Creates (…or it could go nowhere.)
• 12:16 AM – Companionless (My brain insists on tying that to grandpa and his ruthless nurse.)
• 12:17 AM – Steve learns (What did Steve learn?)
• 12:27 AM – Startled (I bet he was…)
• 12:34 AM – Come (Come where? Are we going somewhere? Fun!)
• 12:35 AM – Hand (Ewwww.)
• 12:37 AM – Grandfather (Again?)
• 12:41 AM – Crazy soldier (Was grandpa the soldier? The boyfriend?)
• 12:50 AM – Powerless (Interesting word, here…)
• 12:53 AM – Lazy nurse (Another reference to nurses. Weird.)
• 12:55 AM – Thrown (What’s getting thrown? Do I really wanna know?)
• 12:58 AM – Alone (It seems like it’s repeating a pattern, now. Interesting.)0
• 1:01 AM – Chef (Another one-off word that seems irrelevant. Hmm.)
• 1:02 AM – Helps (Or maybe not, depending on if we assume this is related to “Chef.”)
• 1:03 AM – Boyfriend murders (The boyfriend apparently has a murder boner.)
• 1:05 AM – Bashful (Well, apparently not that bashful, if he’s executing and murdering folks…)
• 1:09 AM – Dejected (Hmm.)
• 1:10 AM – Depraved (Yeah, I’d say so…)
• 1:14 AM – Milk (More nonsense. At least I think so.)
• 1:18 AM – Tuberculosis (Is that what landed grandpa in the hospital with the crappy nurses?)
• 1:19 AM – Immobile (Seems to fit the pattern.)
• 1:22 AM – Diseased veins (More references to being sick. Though I wonder what kind of disease?)
• 1:22 AM – Old (Well, I’d assume so, given everything else…)
• 1:26 AM – Underneath shack (Ruh roh, again. What shack? Kinda worried, now.)
• 1:27 AM – Fedora (Apparently gramps was a snappy dresser.)
• 1:29 AM – Wounded (By the ruthless nurse? By the boyfriend?)
• 1:32 AM – Next to place (Guessing that the “place” is the shack.)
• 1:35 AM – Depraved (Again. Interesting.)
• 1:36 AM – Grant (The app specifically capitalized this, implying the proper name rather than other uses.)
• 1:37 AM – Head (Hmm.)
• 1:38 AM – Frightened (Gramps? Boyfriend? Grant? Betting grampa.)
• 1:39 AM – Egotistical farmer (Wait…what??)
• 1:40 AM – Blacksmith (Are we just spouting random professions, now?)
• 1:42 AM – Drudge (Well, if I was an egotistical farming blacksmith, I’d probably be drudging, too.)
• 1:45 AM – Shack (Same shack? The recurring themes are what really concerns me, here.)
• 1:52 AM – Acid (Oh snap. Is that what was being drudged?)
• 1:59 AM – Uncle covers (What was he covering? Is this uncle related to the earlier “cousin?”)
• 2:00 AM – Plaza (Seems unrelated. I think.)
• 2:02 AM – Architect (Again with the random professions.)
• 2:02 AM – Cracked wrist (More injuries. Hmm.)
• 2:04 AM – Threatened (If there was a broken wrist involved, that’s more than a threat…)
• 2:05 AM – Excited (Think the boyfriend gets off on naughty stuff, eh?)
• 2:05 AM – Grouchy (That was a quick mood swing…)
• 2:09 AM – Stem (Seems unrelated.)
• 2:13 AM – Charlotte smells (Well, that wasn’t very nice.)
• 2:14 AM – Thigh (Here’s where it starts getting a little odd, like it’s shifted tracks.)
• 2:16 AM – Back (Naming body parts, now?)
• 2:21 AM – Distracted (I bet you are.)
• 2:26 AM – Bernard travels (Well, good for him.)
• 2:28 AM – Ridiculed (Well, you already told her she smells. Jeez!)
• 2:34 AM – Lively (Not for long, eh?)
• 2:35 AM – Around castle (Where’d Bernard go, if he’s in a castle?)
• 2:37 AM – Leader (Of the castle?)
• 2:40 AM – Lungs (Back to body parts? The previous mention of tuberculosis seems weird, though.)
• 2:42 AM – Guy (What guy?)
• 2:43 AM – Modern (Is Bernard a modern guy? I hope so.)
• 2:46 AM – Mistress judges (“Judge not lest ye be judged,” honey.)
• 2:48 AM – Jonathan (Hmmm.)
• 2:49 AM – Hospital (Back to this theme again. Interesting…)
• 2:53 AM – Befuddled (Seems like it could fit with grandpa, old, ruthless and lazy nurses. Maybe.)
• 2:55 AM – Fretful (Not sure what to make of this one.)
• 2:55 AM – Laborer (When taken with the other random job things, I wonder if someone was a jack-of-all-trades.)
• 2:56 AM – Be courteous (Always good advice.)
• 3:00 AM – Vengeful (Well that escalated quickly.)
• 3:06 AM – Befuddled (Apparently gramps is still a little confused.)
• 3:09 AM – Pants (Are we talking about clothing or breathing?)
• 3:10 AM – Window (What window?)
• 3:14 AM – Visitor (Given that I sleep with the window open, I’m now slightly concerned.)
• 3:22 AM – Basement (Well, at least I don’t have one.)
• 3:23 AM – Book (Okay. Seems unrelated.)
• 3:26 AM – Shoved friend (Back on message. People gettin’ violent everywhere, it seems.)
• 3:29 AM – Dining room (Scene of the crime?)
• 3:30 AM – Around nine (Time of death?)

I really wish I’d thought to plug in the phone before passing out, since I’m curious to see if things would have continued in this vein. But still, interesting.

What do you folks out there think? Random chance or spooky weirdness? Have you tried the app, and if so, what were your results? Let us know down below!