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800 | Not the scariest thing of my life but surely funny | My siblings and I wanted to do something creepy so we searched for this game. We met our first spirit, Daisy. We started with asking normal questions like “what’s your name?” And “how old are you?” She said she was 63 years old. We then got bored and said “63? You are ugly!” We called her ugly and left the game without... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/klu0af/not_the_scariest_thing_of_my_life_but_surely_funny/ |
801 | Scary Tales of my old childhood home. | Over the course of a few days, I've come to remember a number of pretty weird happenings around my old childhood home. I've been able to confirm some with my Parents, but my siblings often do not remember, tend to believe that it may have been a prank by other such siblings or outright deny it every happening.
"Prolog... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/bjzb8l/scary_tales_of_my_old_childhood_home/ |
802 | An unexplainable vision of my doll | The only thing that will surely haunt me my entire life are dolls. I was talking to my mom recently and apparently ever since I was 1 and 2, I always tried to stay away from dolls and would get uncomfortable around them, but it was when I was 4 that I went through a trauma. My great-grandmother, not knowing any better,... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/8upsi2/an_unexplainable_vision_of_my_doll/ |
803 | Watcher of my house?... | Id like to share some strange happenings in and around my home the last week or so. Im a 30 year old male-I have a small 2 bedroom house in the south end of my town. its decently populated and close to a local park and trail. My sister lives with me (shes 23) and she works 3rd shifts so i barely see her unless she has ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/80e3jq/watcher_of_my_house/ |
804 | Some of my true stories | I originally come from a tiny town in the middle of Puerto Rico. Lots of weirdness happens around that area, and I've seen my fair share of it. I decided to share some of my stories.
They all took place between 1995-1999, and all took place with my best friend at the time, who's name is Marvin. Most of them also took ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/4fgpvk/some_of_my_true_stories/ |
805 | scariest moment of my life | My story begins in the summer of 2011 when I was 8 years old and my mom,brother, and I were taking a once in a life time trip around the world. We eventually stopped in Turkey and visited a rug store were my mom started negotiating for one of the rugs. This is when I slipped out and walked around the market looking at ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/3s0dsf/scariest_moment_of_my_life/ |
806 | This has been bugging me for a while now | Ok so the story didnt happen to me but it involved me.
My mom and my sister were laying down on the sofa watching a tv show or something i cant remember since this happened a while back but as they were watching they just said loudly " Lis (Which is my name) stop messing with us" , at that time i was on my computer pl... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/kelrtn/this_has_been_bugging_me_for_a_while_now/ |
807 | I had hallucinations for a whole night | So this story took place 2 years ago and its the scariest thing ive ever experienced.
So I had just gone to bed it was about 3:00-4:00 am
I was woken up by my grandma (Who I live with)
She told me my aunt was having a heart attack and we had to go to the hospital.
So we went and she was okay but they needed to keep... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/g09b68/i_had_hallucinations_for_a_whole_night/ |
808 | Possibly had an intruder for a night or so. | So last Thursday night I was up at around 2 am on my computer talking to some friends on discord, when the distinct sound of the front door (or atleast a door) opening caught my attention. I let some people know on the server and they advised me to listen for more sounds. I did but didnt hear anything so I went down st... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/f8otpb/possibly_had_an_intruder_for_a_night_or_so/ |
809 | my story with the obsessive stalker i had in sixth grade and how i had to do something terrible to my best friend because of him. | In 2015, when I was in the sixth grade, I went through a horrible phase. An older boy named Marcos, who was about 12 or 13, wouldn't leave me alone. He knew everything about my life and had spies in my class just to feed him information. Marcos wanted to control me in any way possible, even though he was in the 7th gra... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1j0dful/my_story_with_the_obsessive_stalker_i_had_in/ |
810 | Possible encounter with the Golden State Killer? | I will prefece my story with the fact that my Dad, a prominent Surgeon in CA in his time, had a business partner (another surgeon) who actually was in fact one of the victims of the Golden State Killer.
That had happened before I was born, and growing up I never really knew of the story nor understood why he was such ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1fgl3qg/possible_encounter_with_the_golden_state_killer/ |
811 | night out with the guys | About one year ago, I organized a night out with the guys, four of us. We met at my house to walk to dinner; it wasn't a long walk, just about 5 km. I live in Australia, so it gets a bit cooler at night. We started walking when it got darker. The walk goes through mostly neighborhoods; it's a middle-class area, and the... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1bt3kur/night_out_with_the_guys/ |
812 | The Squatter With the Black Trashbag | I am a 20 year old female but the story I am about to tell happened when I was around 7 years old. So to give a little backstory, from the ages of 4-12, my family and I lived on a heavily wooded 14 acre property in the south. As a child, I loved playing outside and more specifically on an old car trailer my dad had tha... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/17u2lb4/the_squatter_with_the_black_trashbag/ |
813 | My Brush With The Dark Side | At the request of a dear friend, I have finally decided to reduce to writing the circumstances surrounding an experience I had a number of years ago, concerning the evil spirit two of my friends and I encountered in a house that, to this day, we believe was haunted. The simple reason I have never memorialized this stor... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/szowk0/my_brush_with_the_dark_side/ |
814 | My latest encounter with the Wendigo | This is my last post. I recommend reading it before you read this one
First Wendigo Story
It’s been a while. I got back from overseas not long ago. But that’s not why I’m here. This is from a while ago back near the end of 2020. I was visiting my family for Christmas and had to stay for a bit before I headed to visit... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/rwdktb/my_latest_encounter_with_the_wendigo/ |
815 | Encounter with the Devil | Before I start this story, it's important for me to clarify that the paranormal here in the United States isn't seen the same as it is in Mexico, from where my father's from and from who I heard this story. Here (at least from my experience) it's seen as nothing more than a cool and sometimes taboo subject to be into a... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/p56xb4/encounter_with_the_devil/ |
816 | Real estate agents shouldn’t be messing with the Underworld | I have my own fair share of scary experiences, mostly paranormal such as seeing a red eye poke out in the tall grass (Probably a Pokémon), Santa toy fell and turned out but it doesn’t have batteries, and witnessed two possessions, one in my classroom and during our field trip but the one that I will never forget lasted... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/lj881w/real_estate_agents_shouldnt_be_messing_with_the/ |
817 | My encounters with the paranormal | Long story short at the bottom of this post
As read by the title it’s as it sounds, I had multiple encounters with what I think was a ghost. It started when I was a first year in college in the year 2018. I had been living on campus for about 2 months and after month 1 my roommate moved in. And yes, the same roommate ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/icembu/my_encounters_with_the_paranormal/ |
818 | The boy with the strange ideas | So I went to a small high school, I was a young freshman girl who had learned to make new friends the previous year. So I sat in math class and introduced myself to the new kids, since I knew everyone else. I'm going to call him D in this story, now D was weird, so of course I made friends with him he also reminded me ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/i0d2j6/the_boy_with_the_strange_ideas/ |
819 | (True story) man with the hat | I was maybe about 9 years old at the time and my brother was 12, our dad left to the bar up the street. We had a nice basement set-up, at the bottom of the stairs was a nice hangout area table chairs almost like a small dinning room next to it was a living room set-up behind those rooms was my room and next to my room ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/9w13il/true_story_man_with_the_hat/ |
820 | My Experience with the Ouija Board Demon and other things | My story doesn’t really have a beginning. There are fragments scattered throughout my whole life, moments of clairvoyance that I have never been able to explain. When I was a child, I had a neighbor who was rather old. They were very sick and living out their last days in a house a couple houses away from mine. The nig... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/9qiisz/my_experience_with_the_ouija_board_demon_and/ |
821 | The Haunted House with the Angry Girl | This is another story told by my aunt, however this is an experience faced by her. We’ll call her Matilda for anonymity.
There were these twins (J and J, let’s say) who had bought a house together. It was an old, creepy house that was clearly haunted. J and J had a trip so asked Matilda to house sit. Matilda invited o... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/977g3q/the_haunted_house_with_the_angry_girl/ |
822 | The guy with the baseball cap. | Hi, Mr Smith here and here is what happened to me several days ago that absolutely freaked me out.
I live in a relatively quiet and safe neighborhood in the capital city of my country. There aren't a lot of people on the streets after 10pm apart from guys like me who work till late at night.
One night I was coming ho... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/5jzrev/the_guy_with_the_baseball_cap/ |
823 | The Door | I lived in the Appalachian Mountains my whole life, where the woods are thick, tangled, and full of mystery. Growing up there felt like stepping back in time. We had no cell phones or gadgets to distract us. Just the endless expanse of forest as our playground and our imaginations as our guide. My best friend Madison a... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1gnarib/the_door/ |
824 | Make sure you enter through the door. | When I was 12 me and my brother 16 we were known for being a cool hang. We would buy junk food and go to the port and pretend to be men of the sea, pirates, captains. After taking so many friends there we had developed an entire 2 man show.
Once I took one of my classmates to our infamous hangs. We had a great time, b... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1dvw2wu/make_sure_you_enter_through_the_door/ |
825 | That ghost behing the door... | Hello,
So, I've hesitated a long time before sharing this story because it's just so creepy and strange. It took place when I was about five years old but strangly enough I still remember every detail so cleary (I'm 25). It was a September afternoon and I had just started elementary school. I was playing alone in my r... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/kbz4bg/that_ghost_behing_the_door/ |
826 | The Noise Behind The Door | So one time my cousin had been staying over at my house, and we were in my room with three of my younger siblings -one being a girl, and the other two a boy. So as we sat in the dark giggling, we heard the door knob open and immedietly froze. A muffled groan reached from the darkness making our hearts jump to our throu... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/5pu88b/the_noise_behind_the_door/ |
827 | My mom told me that she once had a nightmare about rescuing a baby girl-next morning, she found out she was pregnant with my sister | According to her the nightmare went as followed:
She was in the forest with my dad and at some point they stumbled upon a beautiful swamp river. She described it as looking creepy and yet beautiful. They looked at the river for a while until they noticed a weird object floating in the water, upon closer look they real... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1kz0f7a/my_mom_told_me_that_she_once_had_a_nightmare/ |
828 | I matched With my stalker on tinder. | In 2022 I got bored and decided to try out tinder. Id had no look finding any potential long term partners so thought "Hey I'm 18 now, no harm in Trying it"
I set up my profile and put up Several pictures including me stood Infront of my Old car. It had no identifying features visible though so it couldn't be identifi... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1ixtv0a/i_matched_with_my_stalker_on_tinder/ |
829 | intruder break in with my cousin | this happened to me when i was fourteen, or rather should i say “this happened to us”. if you were to ask how many times my cousin’s parents bounced from house to house, he would just shrug his shoulders. that’s how often his parents would move. sometimes it would be houses, sometimes even apartments. i do miss the tim... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1fwkoz4/intruder_break_in_with_my_cousin/ |
830 | scary things I did with my bestie last night | so this isn’t rlly a story but I wanted to share this so badly but last night me and my bestie did a couple of scary things for fun in my room. we first did the cat scratch game and I did it on her first and it WORKED!!! then when she tried it on me it didn’t work :( but it sure freaked us out. then we tried calling ee... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1dujzcw/scary_things_i_did_with_my_bestie_last_night/ |
831 | interaction with my mom | so why back in 2006 my mother passed away from a brain aneurysm. I took it very hard due to my mom being my entire (my dad was anasshole when I became a teenager). Fast forward to that May dad move's another lady into our house (mom and dad were married almost 25 years) and she doesn't like me and vice versa I don't li... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1285ldn/interaction_with_my_mom/ |
832 | interaction with my mom | so why back in 2006 my mother passed away from a brain aneurysm. I took it very hard due to my mom being my entire (my dad was anasshole when I became a teenager). Fast forward to that May dad move's another lady into our house (mom and dad were married almost 25 years) and she doesn't like me and vice versa I don't li... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1285jq7/interaction_with_my_mom/ |
833 | What do you think is wrong with my house? | Before I start my story, I want to make it clear I don't believe in the paranormal. I'm skeptical of anything supernatural, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying the stories people tell me about their experiences.
My family and I have moved a lot throughout my life, and nothing strange has ever really happened in all... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/xp05y0/what_do_you_think_is_wrong_with_my_house/ |
834 | Walk down a lonely path with my giant dog | This might not be super scary to some but at the moment it happened I was pretty freaked out. I was walking my dog on the path that runs along the shore of the river near my place. It's in the city but there's a drop to reach the path and the nature is pretty dense, even in winter with long types of grasses still stand... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/w7ii5x/walk_down_a_lonely_path_with_my_giant_dog/ |
835 | Home Alone with my old dog | Although it doesn’t seem like it, this happened quite a while back. Probably over 10 years ago. I was in the later years of highschool, and was home alone. My parents were at a wedding that required them to stay at a hotel and my brother worked the night shift. At that time, my family lived in a very well known east co... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/mks17j/home_alone_with_my_old_dog/ |
836 | I go to work with my dad a lot... | hello, my name isn’t important. I’m 16 and live in the UK. i am meant to be in year 12 (lower sixth) doing my a levels but for unrelated medical reasons i haven’t been in for the last 6 months. my dad owns his own company. he goes to different houses every day before they are put on the market to take photos, do energy... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/b17xxr/i_go_to_work_with_my_dad_a_lot/ |
837 | Almost stabbed during a run with my sister (real) | I'm new to this, so sorry for any errors. So first let me explain how me and my sister look like. ( will with hold names for safety reasons) My sister lindsey is tall, lanky and really skinny she does track. I am also tall somewhat buff I guess. Wouldn't say jacked but in good shape. I also take boxing. But back to the... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/8w4z2i/almost_stabbed_during_a_run_with_my_sister_real/ |
838 | Do you have visions like my mom? | My mom has seen things a few times in her life. About 5 times. It isn’t like “I see a vision of my husband getting in a car crash.” And it happens. I’ll just tell you a few stories. When she was about 12 she woke up in the middle of the night and saw a headless man in a tuxedo a few weeks later her older brother passed... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/e5pqax/do_you_have_visions_like_my_mom/ |
839 | What do you see? | Story of things we saw floating by while goofing around driving at night.
One night we were driving back from a party at a neighbouring town. It was two of my friends and I. We were laughing and telling stories of the night.
The old highway we took was a long straight shot. It was boring and had very little light if ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/bcnon0/what_do_you_see/ |
840 | My cat was a reincarnated child | I used to have a cat when I was a teen that I loved dearly. He was always a little strange, almost human like in his understanding but I didn’t pay much mind to it. Until this one night.
For context, I used to sleep downstairs in the living room sometimes. No real reason, just liked it. I also used to have terrible in... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/wzrvtu/my_cat_was_a_reincarnated_child/ |
841 | Didn’t realize she was a ghost until it was too late | My one and only encounter with a ghost happened so quickly before my eyes I wasn’t even sure what I just saw. But I was driving home on the highway that I always use ...it was a little after midnight and I was driving in the part that had tall eucalyptus trees and no street lights my lights flashed on a girl with long ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/l4k32v/didnt_realize_she_was_a_ghost_until_it_was_too/ |
842 | One of the teacher at my elementary school was a pedophile... | So when I was younger about 6-7 years old I went to kindergarten at this this elementary school. Berry school it went to preschool all the way up to 3rd grade. I had this teacher Mrs. Louis and every morning she would hang out and talk to this one teacher Mr Stroh. And little did I know Mr. Stroh was a pedophile when I... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/95r8qv/one_of_the_teacher_at_my_elementary_school_was_a/ |
843 | What was the thing coming out of the mirror | I have always been fascinated by the spirit world.
My dad died when I was 16. I ended up in a group home for a little while after this. It was in a very old 2 story house. The room I shared had 2 parts. The sleeping section and a dressing section. There was a full length mirror on the closet door in the dressing secti... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1czbpae/what_was_the_thing_coming_out_of_the_mirror/ |
844 | Saw something in the mirror | It was 3 years ago, I was 9 year old and I had a friend (He was 12 years old). I know,it would sound's like typical scenario of horor film,but I swear,it's true. Anyway,July,were playing outside in game like survival in real life,you know. My friend,Alex he's name,had a military flask at home,so we decided to get upsta... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/lkqkzx/saw_something_in_the_mirror/ |
845 | Lady in the mirror | Ive got a few scary stories but off the top of my head this is the one that comes to mind...
I was walking through my parents bed room to go to the toilet as it was closer than mine. My mum has a dresser with one of those detachable mirrors on top, but its one of those funny looking ones where its got three small mirr... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/6estks/lady_in_the_mirror/ |
846 | A Knock in the Dead of Night | I was a single mother in my mid-40s, and I had just moved to a new house with my then-4-year-old son back when we were living in our hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania. We had only been there for a few weeks when one late night, there was a knock on our front door. My son was asleep on the couch and I was still up unpac... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1inxdy0/a_knock_in_the_dead_of_night/ |
847 | The house that the dead frequented. | The following is a retelling of one of my long-time friends' experiences growing up. I will be sharing it as if I were him.
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I was 6 years old when we moved from the country to a big city in south Australia. As a 6 year old, I was already used to moving and never really felt like any place was home. You see, we ha... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1dcyi0m/the_house_that_the_dead_frequented/ |
848 | The dead guy’s phone | This isn’t scary like a ghost story but it is 100% true.
In the early 2000’s my best friend and I spent all of our free time racing dirt bikes finding new practice riding spots .
This particular day was super hot and humid, so we headed to a new spot that we heard about, which had a long established track but was tot... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/18vk9dn/the_dead_guys_phone/ |
849 | 15 YEARS SHARING MY HOME WITH A SPIRIT | I've been living in this apartment since I was 2 years old. We were 5 before, but now it's only my mother, my aunt and I. The first time this spirit, ghost or whatever it is, showed itself, I was 15. It was around 6:30 AM and I was almost finished eating my breakfast when I heard a faint sound coming right beside me.
... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1kp9phr/15_years_sharing_my_home_with_a_spirit/ |
850 | A story about an experience I had with a crazy person | So back in 2023 I (21f) had just gotten done picking up my mail from my parents house, when a "friend" of mine. Let's call him Mark, had been bugging me to hang out with him for a few months. There were other incidents that happened with Mark in the past, some of them involving hard core drugs, and using me to try to g... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1k3ytxp/a_story_about_an_experience_i_had_with_a_crazy/ |
851 | Chased With A Gun After Ding Dong Ditching. | Now i’m a teenager, and me and my buddy of mine like to ding ding ditch from time to time. we saw this house with a grey minivan. we thought it was the perfect house. they had a fence in their frontyard but the gate was open so no problem there. when we got closer to the door we saw a ring camera. we put our hoods on s... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1hz2wo9/chased_with_a_gun_after_ding_dong_ditching/ |
852 | WHATS THE SCARIEST ENCOUNTER U HAD WITH A CLOWN??. | Title: "The Night of the Clown"
It was a humid summer night, and my friend Josh and I had just smoked a joint behind the old community center. The weed hit us hard, and we were both in that giggly, slightly paranoid state when Josh suggested we take a walk through the deserted park nearby.
The park was dimly lit by s... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1dutvg6/whats_the_scariest_encounter_u_had_with_a_clown/ |
853 | My encounter with a glimmer man | I have an outside entertainment system that I use a lot during the summer. It's a large projection screen and some outdoor furniture. We use a projector to watch movies late into the night during the summer.
My 15-year-old son and I were out there watching a movie one night. It was around 2 or 3 in the morning. Sudden... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/14evk36/my_encounter_with_a_glimmer_man/ |
854 | Stranger with a Serious Feet Fetish | Not my story, but I heard this on the Mr. Ballen podcast and it terrified me. A daughter and her father were camping. They were in a pretty desolated campground. They both each had their single man tent to sleep in. They get there and nothing out of the ordinary was going on they were setting up their campground.
Nigh... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/143o8l6/stranger_with_a_serious_feet_fetish/ |
855 | My sisters encounter with a skin walker | Date, September 2017, Belen New Mexico.
It was about 7 pm, my sister (who I will call Marisa) was driving home from her dance practice. Marisa tends to be careless when it comes to driving, this particular night she was texting her friend barely paying attention to the road, then she noticed something moving in her pe... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/p3c2k9/my_sisters_encounter_with_a_skin_walker/ |
856 | Weird incident with a mirror | This event happened to me when I was in my mid-teens many years ago. I've always had sleep issues even when I was a kid. Mostly this is due to anxiety and depression issues. One time I was up in the early hours of the morning. Tried to read a book and then decided to walk around the house. I went to the bathroom and wa... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/nkt38x/weird_incident_with_a_mirror/ |
857 | My Encounter with a Skinwalker | It was after my Wendigo encounter in 2016. And my dog had died. In 2018 I was 18 and was told by MEPS that I would be going to infantry school in Fort Benning Georgia in 2019. I was told by my parents to walk the family dog. He’s a 80 lbs pure breed Chocolate lab named Cocoa. I decided to go to the same area I usually ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/el3z2f/my_encounter_with_a_skinwalker/ |
858 | My encounter with a Wendigo | I’m a Mortar Infantrymen for the Army, we’re trained to deal with deadly situations and be prepared to fight to the death if needed. My experience happened approximately 4 years ago but he hasn’t left me alone since then. One day during January that year my parents had me walk the family dog and my dog so I decided to ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/ekqfa8/my_encounter_with_a_wendigo/ |
859 | Walking with A Ghost | So last week, I had what is quite possibly my scariest encounter with the paranormal, at least that is what I make out of it. I can't explain it any other way.
Just for general information, I work nights and am completely adjusted to a night schedule. The particular day in question, I had a day off and it took place a... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/csc10k/walking_with_a_ghost/ |
860 | I had a close call with a potential kidnapper | When I was in Grade 5, I joined up in a spring drama musical themed off of the Jungle Book. I didn’t think of myself of that good as a singer, but I was still very enthusiastic about the play (in case you are wondering what role I got, I was one of the elephants and very much enjoyed doing their into song 😁). We often... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/aznybq/i_had_a_close_call_with_a_potential_kidnapper/ |
861 | Intense dream with a twist. | Before I begin, not only do I swear on my life that this is true, but the coincidence of this scenario makes my agnostic beliefs question what is real and what is not. Anyway, a few years ago, I had a dream of this news anchor who was showing a burned house when all of a sudden, a little girl appeared, who looked a lot... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/a9g9yg/intense_dream_with_a_twist/ |
862 | A Mysterious Yet Creepy Encounter With A Follower On Instagram | This story may not be scary, but it's still gives me chills to this day.
This happened somewhere around 2015, when I was around 11 or 12. I had an Instagram account which at the time was one year old and had over 3000 followers. Because of that achievement of such a large following, I decided to do a face reveal in wh... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/7dzjp2/a_mysterious_yet_creepy_encounter_with_a_follower/ |
863 | Man with a crowbar | For context, I am a female and was 14 at the time of this event. It was December and my parents were driving me and my brother down to my aunt's to drop of Christmas presents.
When we arrived my parents decided to stay and chat for a bit and naturally I got bored so I offered to take their dog, Dan, for a walked. He's... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/5qwjk4/man_with_a_crowbar/ |
864 | Never Going To Stop Running. | Okay, so some of you who read this (if anyone does...) might not think it's scary, but I was honestly scared, partially because I was 5-6, but also because I have never experienced something like that ever again. Okay, on to the story.
It was around April, and I was about 6 years old. I live in a pretty up and down ne... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/4fqegl/never_going_to_stop_running/ |
865 | The woman in the window | This is not my story, it’s my boyfriends, but I thought it was so creepy I have to share.
My boyfriend grew up in a small town in India. He lived in a small gated community and he was at the end of the street, next to his house was a forest. One night he woke up, took his blanket and pillow to the couch, and turned on... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/14y5xjy/the_woman_in_the_window/ |
866 | The Wide Eyed Lady in the window | I experienced this last year around February or March. I'm from the Philippines and as you may have heard we have a lot of beliefs here. I didn't really believe in paranormal events until this happened. So i live in a house with my aunt and cousins along with my sibling. There are a total of 5 people in the house at th... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/124pigr/the_wide_eyed_lady_in_the_window/ |
867 | Lady in the window | My entire life, I’ve had something attached to me. I’m not sure it’s a benevolent or a malevolent spirit, I’ve never felt unsafe when she’s around, but I also know that she’s not protecting me. She followed me across the country and even onto my first deployment when I was enlisted.
I’ve never seen her head on, only o... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/11gqxms/lady_in_the_window/ |
868 | I Found a Fresh Animal Grave(?) at a Beach | Here's something that's been weighing on me for ~20 years or so.
Maybe I can get some answers as to what I found - I'm from the UK, if that helps.
I'll attach some rough sketches of the scene for context.
Layout of the main beach
When I was in my mid-teens, my family & I went on holiday to Woolacombe.
We passed th... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1jw3p29/i_found_a_fresh_animal_grave_at_a_beach/ |
869 | So I found out about this creepy deleted podcast... Apparently.... | So yesterday, I was just having a casual sleepover with my friend y'know? Just having fun and stuff, but when it got a bit later in the evening my friend was like 'We should share scary stories...' And I agreed.
So she told me about this podcast channel that was completely removed from the internet. But she wanted to ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1jkw0fc/so_i_found_out_about_this_creepy_deleted_podcast/ |
870 | “I Found Your Brother!” | This story happened around 6 months ago. It all started at a house party when I was 15, my brother was 11, and my parents decided to take a trip up to northern Michigan. One of my mom and dad’s old friends had recently moved into a huge house there, in an area where houses were spaced out (not totally rural, but still ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1jkp5j2/i_found_your_brother/ |
871 | My Parents Old House and Stuff I found Burried in the Backyard | Not sure if the following story falls 100% as Scary but certainly intersting, creepy and odd.
The house that my Parents owned when I was born was built during the war years. I had always heard that a lot of these types of homes were built to house war workers and their families. Which is also how the other side of my ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1eyspjs/my_parents_old_house_and_stuff_i_found_burried_in/ |
872 | I found someone living under my couch | I was lucky enough to live a large house when I was a kid (my father was a physical therapist). My house had a side room towards the back side of the first floor. My siblings called it the “2nd living room” because thats basically what it was. It had an old recliner, a small table, and a mid-sized couch. Thats it. We h... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/tecbl7/i_found_someone_living_under_my_couch/ |
873 | I found the edge zone in schizophrenia | I have been schizophrenic my entire life as I have been able to confirm with my attending professionals, but the particular episode I am referring to was the culmination of a 3 year long social delusion. I believed people were talking to each other in their heads and were using verbal cues to associate with each other ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/n34v9v/i_found_the_edge_zone_in_schizophrenia/ |
874 | I Found The Arm of an Unidentified Creature | I was around the age of eleven when I went on a field trip with my 5th grade class to an abandoned old-timey schoolground. We were mainly there so the teachers could show how lucky we were to have the kind of schools we have now. The school was pretty broken down, with a few of the windows cracked and floorboards molde... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/g0v7j6/i_found_the_arm_of_an_unidentified_creature/ |
875 | This note I found... | the note
So I am a 24 year old female and I live with my dad.
It’s Sunday, Oct, 22nd, 2017 and I’ve been home alone all day.
I’ve been planning to go to this kickass haunted house with my friend and her bf, I’ve been talking about it all year since I went last year with an old bf and we had a blast.
Anyways we’ve b... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/783u19/this_note_i_found/ |
876 | What's the most disturbing thing you saw or heard when you jog in the park late at night? | For me,there was a somewhat very tall man standing not moving a muscle in the swimming pool at the park.Yes,there's a pool in the park.
Now,I was using a bike while,there was some people jog with me. The time was around 7:00pm I was close to getting home. But I told myself "one more lap".
The path on the park is seem... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1l0h1n5/whats_the_most_disturbing_thing_you_saw_or_heard/ |
877 | What's the most disturbing thing you saw or heard when you jog in the park late at night? | For me,there was a somewhat very tall man standing not moving a muscle in the swimming pool at the park.Yes,there's a pool in the park.
Now,I was using a bike while,there was some people jog with me. The time was around 7:00pm I was close to getting home. But I told myself "one more lap".
The path on the park is seem... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1l0h1jd/whats_the_most_disturbing_thing_you_saw_or_heard/ |
878 | I Hiked Through a Scottish Ghost Town At Night | For the past two and a half years now, I have been living in the north of the Scottish Highlands - and when I say north, I mean as far north as you can possibly go. I live in a small coastal town, which is actually the northernmost town on the British mainland. I had always wanted to live in the Scottish Highlands, whi... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1k020a4/i_hiked_through_a_scottish_ghost_town_at_night/ |
879 | a paranormal entity at night | this happened a couple years ago. at the time (M16) was having trouble sleeping on a particularly hot summers night and i kept tossing and turning and going in and out of consciousness. i did all the typical tricks to try and cool myself down with nothing working. finally i got into a somewhat comfortable position and ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1e74efc/a_paranormal_entity_at_night/ |
880 | “Maintenance man” tries to get into my hotel at 11 O’clock at night??? | Last night my wife, 1 year old daughter, and I were staying at the element in Orlando on I-Drive and at around 11pm we hear someone open our door and try to come in. For the layout to understand a little better, at the end of the hallway leading to our room there is another door that is before a set of 5 rooms, we are ... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1e335xd/maintenance_man_tries_to_get_into_my_hotel_at_11/ |
881 | Someone/something threw a tree branch at my friends car while driving in the middle of the woods late at night (we saw something in the woods) | Not really a scary story but more weird and unsettling and want to find potential answers. (Disclaimer I’m not very good at story telling I’m trying my best)
Few nights ago me and my 2 buddies were hanging out as we usually do late on Friday night as most teenagers do. We have this road near our town that leads to a m... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1dutecz/someonesomething_threw_a_tree_branch_at_my/ |
882 | BB gun fights at night. | I (20 M) had a boyfriend when I 15. My now ex boyfriend at the time was 16 (We will call him T).
T and I used to spend a lot of time together. Especially at his grandparents house which had a overgrown field of weeds on the other side of their tree line and to the back of the house woods we would explore looking for o... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1dse0mz/bb_gun_fights_at_night/ |
883 | Terror Knocks at Night | Copy to BlackBox
Hi, first time poster for this kind of thing. I, F26, have lived in my trailer home (about 45 minutes north from San Diego, CA) for just over 3 years now. I had roommates up until January, when we put the home on the market and everyone but me moved out. The house is mostly barren, and I keep everythi... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1d36ljg/terror_knocks_at_night/ |
884 | Watcher at night | As I was a kid, it happened occasionally that during the night, when I was lying in my bed in my room, I could feel a very intensive presence "watching" me. It was a rather rare event, maybe a few times in a year, and when I could feel it (usually when I woke up randomly at night from it) I just kept my eyes closed and... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1ccc7eb/watcher_at_night/ |
885 | Walking at Night | Ok, so this is a story that was told to my mother from a friend of hers, and it happened at some point in the 1970’s, so take everything with a grain of salt
My mom’s friend was living in Illinois at the time with his wife. He had ended up finding out that she was cheating on him, so in what I presume was a fit of ang... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/wglj4i/walking_at_night/ |
886 | If you are outside at night and you hear noises, run | Hi ! Another story time :)
It was night, around 10 PM if I remember well, and I went outside to look at the moon ( do not judge me, please, I just love the moon ). All good, until I heard something. At first, I thought there might be just dogs, but then the noise started to get louder and louder, and it was coming fro... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/vxixg4/if_you_are_outside_at_night_and_you_hear_noises/ |
887 | Please Be Careful When Driving at Night | I'm not a stranger to weird dreams… the majority of which turn scary in some way… but this one was all too real for me.
A few years ago when I was back in high school, I'd gone to sleep and had begun to dream about an odd place, which I remember had maroon walls and deep red carpeting (it reminded me a lot of a suit p... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/dwxfdr/please_be_careful_when_driving_at_night/ |
888 | Saw something creepy at night. Friend thinks it's a skinwalker. | This was some time ago, earlier this summer around june or so. I was sitting in the drive thru at In N' Out at around 10:30pm and I had just finished ordering and was turning down the drive thru to head to the window when i see this like... gaunt, pale shoulder and arm just visible behind this bush behind the chain lin... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/dpe688/saw_something_creepy_at_night_friend_thinks_its_a/ |
889 | YouTube Late at Night | I watched YouTube last night, and suddenly after watching some Top 10 videos at 3 AM, a video about 10 seconds long showed up. It first showed a tree. The grainy footage made me believe it was a short story or something to try to scare you. After the image of the tree was there for about 5 seconds, a photo popped up of... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/6pk0xm/youtube_late_at_night/ |
890 | Dont leave your room after 3am.. if you do RUN!!!! | I've grown up in the same house ever since birth as I was little my childhood was like every other, on my 5th birthday the night as I was getting tucked in for bed my parents strictly told me to never leave my room after 3am, I never really woke up in the middle of the night so I had no problem with it and simply thoug... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1bbbjt7/dont_leave_your_room_after_3am_if_you_do_run/ |
891 | If you see someone waving you down on a desolate highway, don't stop | I was on an assignment for the Army, making my way up from San Antonio, Texas, to Tacoma, Washington. It was a long drive, and they gave me six days to report to my new unit, but I didn't mind. I love road trips. There's nothing like the freedom of exploring the world by yourself. The first day of my journey, I planned... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/whbboj/if_you_see_someone_waving_you_down_on_a_desolate/ |
892 | Please let me know, honestly, if you have seen this creature. | so this happened to me during the fourth of july, 2007. Me and several of my friends and family watched the fire works that night without incident, until the very end. It was after the show was over that we decided to wait at our spot in the grass for the traffic to die down. After a very short time of waiting my boyfr... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/3myt92/please_let_me_know_honestly_if_you_have_seen_this/ |
893 | I almost ran smooth out of that house. | I was a paranormal investigator with a local team for a few years before circumstances made me unable to keep up with the team. During that time, I fought off multiple strong attacks from non-corporeal beings who wanted to either harm or possess me. I saw and heard things that were definitely not normal.
There was a t... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1htv3sk/i_almost_ran_smooth_out_of_that_house/ |
894 | Get that board out of here | For all long as I can remember, I’ve had an interest in the spiritual world and thought it would be cool to communicate with the dead. So back in 2014, my mom was browsing around the local FB Buying/Selling group, and she came across someone selling a used Ouija board. It caught her attention because it was a glow-in-d... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/zll4ru/get_that_board_out_of_here/ |
895 | My guitar is scaring the hell out of me | My guitar is an antique gibson acoustic. And for the past week it has been strumming itself randomly. Its done this about 5 times now and the last time it happened I rushed towards it, high on adrenaline, and I touched it. it was cold. Like, colder than room temperature. My original theory, like the first 2 times it ha... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/ngohfd/my_guitar_is_scaring_the_hell_out_of_me/ |
896 | Djinn necklace out of nowhere | OK. SO.
I'm p. sure what's around my neck right now is a Djinn or something similar.
Why is that? Glad you asked. SO. I'll tell you.
It all started when my friend gave me a bag of jewelry. Cheap costume or stage stuff, old kid-made plastic stuff, broken stuff, just... junk from the bottom of the jewelry box, y'know?... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/ixfag4/djinn_necklace_out_of_nowhere/ |
897 | HELP! He's not leaving. I'm out of options. | Just to preface this story, it is true. I have had many paranormal experiences in my life. This is one of them. This is the one that is continuing...
When I was 10 years old, my parents divorced, my mom remarried, and my mom, siblings, stepdad and I moved into a new house. We lived in a little town in Ohio where the p... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/8wzd97/help_hes_not_leaving_im_out_of_options/ |
898 | What Did I Just Witness? | This story takes place when I was about 8 years old. I always slept on the couch downstairs because it was next to my dad’s bed and I was afraid of the dark. My mom wouldn’t be home until around 11 pm, so I would always sleep near my dad. One night, I was on his iPad watching YouTube to fall asleep, but I suddenly hear... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1bnr2n9/what_did_i_just_witness/ |
899 | I just went into the murder-suicide house on my street. Nothing had been touched since the bodies were removed nearly a year ago. Not even the mattress where the bodies sat decomposing for six weeks. | Most of the neighbors on our street are friendly. We look out for each other, we text, chat and say hello when we see one another, etc. It's a sweet feeling of community.
In the past, there had only been one household that wasn't interested in being friendly with any of us. An elderly woman (mid 70s, we'll call her Ma... | https://reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/wtl5ql/i_just_went_into_the_murdersuicide_house_on_my/ |
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