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#MuslimGirlCampfire: “I Sleep Here!”

This story is based on an adaptation of true events: This story starts innocuously enough. My best friend flew out to visit her cousins in India, as she did every summer. I used to miss her, but the plus side was that she would always return from India with a treasure trove of jinn stories,…

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#MuslimGirlCampfire: The Lady With the Scar

Gather around the campfire, #MuslimGirlClique, as we countdown to Halloween with the spookiest stories our girl gang has to offer! Check back on the daily to jump in fright to a new story every day… I must have been four. It was the year before I started kindergarten, and my brother was already in the…

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#MuslimGirl Campfire: Machete Play at Devil’s Point

Gather around the campfire, #MuslimGirlClique, as we countdown to Halloween with the spookiest stories our girl gang has to offer! Check back on the daily to jump in fright to a new story every day…  The story below is based on true events that took place in 2001 in Karachi, Pakistan. The young boys of…

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#MGCampfire: The Sleep Paralysis Nightmare

One of my biggest fears has always been sleep paralysis. The thought of being trapped inside of my limp body, unable to scream for help, tortured by whatever demons my mind conjured up, terrified me. It also didn’t help that whenever the topic of sleep paralysis would come up around my Muslim friends, they would…

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#MuslimGirlCampfire: The Screeching of the Spectral Dog

Gather around the campfire, #MuslimGirlClique, as we countdown to Halloween with the spookiest stories our girl gang has to offer! Check back on the daily to jump in fright to a new story every day… My cousin and I went to a cinema in Bangalore, for a late-night viewing of the latest blockbuster on offer….

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#MuslimGirlCampfire: My Ghostly Rendezvous

Gather around the campfire, #MuslimGirlClique, as we countdown to Halloween with the spookiest stories our girl gang has to offer! Check back on the daily to jump in fright to a new story every day… Now, this story happened in London when I was 17. My family went to Wales for a wedding, since I…

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#MuslimGirlCampfire: The Woman From Gizri

Gather around the campfire, #MuslimGirlClique, as we countdown to Halloween with the spookiest stories our clique has to offer! Check back on the daily to jump in fright to a new story every day… The story below is based on alleged true events that transpired in the winter of 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan. Deep in…