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Premise labels used: hidden room, mysterious death, scientific conspiracy, secret experiment, think tank, investigation, strange phenomena, abandoned project, mad science, coastal mansion
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A man recounts a night of strange death, eerie marriage, and widening dread to uncover the truth behind a friend’s suicide.
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Premise labels: mysterious death · strange woman · cosmic dread · forbidden knowledge · campus return · scientific mystery · suicide mystery · investigation frame · alien presence · uncanny explanation
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Distance: 0.1765
Two 1930s novellas unite science, mystery, and dread as brilliant men confront deaths, secrets, and the unknown.
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Premise labels: cosmic horror · scientific mystery · forbidden knowledge · investigation · locked-room death · communication with the dead · scientific experiment · otherworldly intrusion · grief-driven obsession · unexplained phenomenon
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Distance: 0.1785
A secret Saudi space mission to study a strange sky object spirals into time shifts, hidden truths, and a shocking reveal.
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Premise labels: mysterious object · secret research · space mission · time travel · fate alteration · cosmic mystery · rescue mission · hidden truth
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Distance: 0.1972
A ghost-hunting documentary team spends two nights on a haunted Caribbean island, where every fear seems to come alive.
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Premise labels: haunted island · haunted house · ghost investigation · documentary crew · scientific investigation · hidden secret · afterlife proof · ulterior motive · sealed location
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Distance: 0.2006
A state investigator pieces together a massacre at a secret research facility while buried evidence exposes a larger conspiracy.
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Premise labels: investigation · cover-up · secret research facility · corrupt regime · mystery · revolution · forbidden experiments · conspiracy
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Distance: 0.2013
A physics team’s time-viewing experiment on a remote island unleashes a deadly mystery years later.
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Premise labels: time viewing · past observation · string theory · scientific experiment · remote island · mysterious deaths · physics research · secret project · time travel
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Distance: 0.2019
A boy in a perfect New Mexico town uncovers a hidden experiment that makes him and his friends question everyone.
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Premise labels: hidden conspiracy · isolated community · crime-free town · secret experiment · clones · criminal masterminds · truth discovery · parents are hiding something · escape plot · investigation
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Distance: 0.2072
At CERN, a physicist is found dead in a tunnel, and a private investigator uncovers secrets that blur science, love, and rivalry.
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Premise labels: lab death · scientific mystery · locked-room mystery · scientific investigation · academic intrigue · physics lab mystery · corporate secrecy · mole hunt
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Distance: 0.2074
A fugitive young woman hides in a Scottish manor where gothic secrets, mad science, and family legacy collide.
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Premise labels: mad science · forbidden experiment · play God · life and death · family legacy · inheritance of madness · safe haven with secrets · manor mystery · haunted estate · scientific experimentation · reanimation · moral dilemma
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Distance: 0.2093
A scientist’s device opens perception to hidden planes of existence, drawing him and his friend into terror.
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Premise labels: mad scientist · limited senses · alternate perception · hidden reality · interdimensional horror · forbidden knowledge · scientific hubris · experimental machine · cosmic terror
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Distance: 0.2096
A naval doctor investigates a mysterious illness at a secret deep-sea facility and uncovers a far stranger hidden truth.
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Premise labels: undersea discovery · medical mystery · secret facility · mysterious illness · Atlantis mystery · deep sea excavation · military science project · cover-up · unknown signal · alien technology
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Distance: 0.2103
A teen journalist investigates a mass disappearance tied to her missing uncle and a secret research facility.
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Premise labels: missing persons · research facility · family mystery · journalist investigation · parallel timelines · psychic powers · secret experiment · prequel backstory
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2106
