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stranger sights

strangersights.com · a site they built themselves

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stranger sights publishes writing about horror & the uncanny at strangersights.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

1 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 7

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 7, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured1 section found
Front page
279 KB, 31 scripts, 29 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 15 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-09-16, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

sight187angy3ocker1gormican1eradicator1deady1anaconda1barker42movy367contain294partnering8raphael16simmon18vomit20

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches1 writer in the index

1 writer in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Mike Thorn15 sites outside the indexstranger sights
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The page tells search engines it belongs to a person.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • A heavy tracking stack is present.
  • Carries a full set of search-engine tags. This site is trying to be found, and the almanac scores that against it.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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