Buried Upside Down: My Family’s Curse

Death was supposed to bring peace, but in our house, it only unlocked a nightmare. When my penny-pinching great-grandfather finally passed, the whole family gathered—hungry for his hidden fortune. But secrets don't stay buried: a forbidden ritual brings him back, not as the man we remembered, but as something far worse. As relatives vanish and great-grandpa grows younger, I realize too late that greed has summoned a monster we can't control. Now, with the family turning on itself and the house filling with terror, I must decide: do I betray blood, or become a killer to save them all? What price would you pay to end a curse your family chose to unleash?

A Southern family’s life unravels after a stranger’s bizarre request on Grandma Carol’s birthday leads to her mysterious disappearance. As the family is haunted by misfortune and death, they turn to a feared local seer, uncovering supernatural forces tied to ancient rituals and the ghostly secrets of Willow Creek. With each failed attempt to lay Grandma to rest, the evil stalking the family grows stronger, culminating in a chilling confrontation at the drained pond.

Some families inherit silverware. I inherited a dead man’s warnings. Ever since Grandpa started visiting me in dreams, I’ve survived things no one else could explain—from a poisoned Christmas dinner to the secrets buried in our family’s old farmhouse. Now, jobless and desperate, Grandpa’s ghost returns with a final message: there’s gold hidden in the wall, and a curse waiting in the shadows. But in Silver Hollow, nothing stays buried for long—not greed, not guilt, and not the truth. When a hidden fortune tears the Carter family apart and old skeletons come to light, I have to wonder: am I cursed to repeat Grandpa’s mistakes, or is this my last chance to break free? What would you risk if the dead called you home?

Every man in my family dies younger—always on his birthday. Now, with my thirtieth looming, fatal accidents and freak illnesses stalk me like a shadow I can’t shake. If I can’t break the curse, my son will be next—and I’ll lose everything I love before I even get to say goodbye.

Twenty years ago, I locked my daughter in a cabinet and walked away, haunted by guilt ever since. Now, with my son's high-society wedding on the line, the past claws its way back—my daughter's voice echoing from the grave, demanding to be found. If I can’t face the horror I buried, my family’s future—and my soul—may be lost forever.

After thirteen years trapped beneath a cursed artifact, a vengeful spirit is resurrected in the body of Natalie—the Montgomery family’s discarded daughter. Betrayed by blood, Natalie returns to claim the life and justice she was denied. Now, with nothing left to lose, she’ll burn every lie to the ground and force the powerful to finally see her worth.

Every time someone hurt Mom, fortune rained down on them—money, love, success. But beneath her bruises, I saw something inhuman: she wasn’t just a hard-luck woman, but a creature who fed on the pain, quietly draining the lives of those who tormented her. Now, as my family’s cruelty spirals, I’m forced to choose—save Mom, or save myself before her curse devours us all.

Every night, my family runs from a monster that hunts us by name. Seven years ago, it took my twin brother—and if anyone speaks my name after dark, it will come for me next. Now the secret is out, and the thing that destroyed our lives is back, waving from the rooftop and demanding a sacrifice.

Some secrets won’t stay buried—especially when they come clawing up from the dark. When Eli’s grandfather dies under mysterious, violent circumstances, a tattered notebook reveals the truth: something monstrous was unleashed in the haunted coal mine decades ago, and it’s never stopped hunting. Now Eli is the only one willing to face the curse that shattered his family. As cryptic warnings, ghostly apparitions, and chilling messages begin to invade his life, Eli must decide whether to dig deeper into the mine’s nightmare—or run before he becomes the next to vanish. What really happened underground, and why is the terror following him home? The answers are buried in darkness... but some doors, once opened, can never be closed.

When Carter’s cousin returns from a night fishing trip unresponsive and ice-cold, the whole town whispers about curses and restless spirits. With his cousin’s soul trapped and a haunted apple tree blazing where a mute orphan girl once hanged herself, Carter is forced into a world of backwoods magic and secrets no one dares name. Now, the line between dreams and reality is burning—and Carter may be the only one who can save his family from a darkness older than the town itself.

My mother killed my sister for a dowry, injecting her with tainted blood and forcing a wedding to a cursed heir. Now, as my sister’s vengeful spirit rises in her red bridal dress, both the living and the dead want me dead before dawn. Trapped in a house of blood, betrayal, and greed, I must survive the night—or become the next sacrifice to my family’s sins.

Death was only the beginning—now I’m stuck in the afterlife’s endless line, desperate for a second chance. Forced into a ghost marriage and buried alive, my spirit lingers, tethered to the world by the wish for justice. When a wild bouquet leads rookie detective Quinn Harper to my lost grave, he becomes bound to my fate by a single broken bone. As Quinn investigates the tangled secrets of Maple Heights and my family’s hidden betrayals, every revelation draws him deeper into a web of lies, love, and vengeance. Can the truth set my soul free—or will the living and the dead both pay the price for what happened thirty years ago?