Best Short Horror & Scary Stories

One day when they heard a baby crying from the dead-end alley, one of the cousin’s friends decided to go investigate. While he never revealed what he saw, it was obvious it was something he would never forget. This story will definitely spook people at a campfire, and have you all guessing what he was exposed to. John List killed his whole family-wife, mother, daughter and two sons.
And it showed the left half of an elderly woman's face." Apart from my teacher and my best friend, nobody knows this story. I never even told my girlfriend because I know very well that like everyone else she would never believe me. Even I wouldn't believe it if someone told me about it."

According to the verger, they’re carvings of the damned, with the figures nearest to Haynes’ pulpit having a particularly diabolical past. How was an eight-year-old exposed to this, you might wonder? Age restrictions in Chinese cinemas were almost non-existent until the '90s, and as children we saw some of the most shocking Eastern and Western horror movies far too young. A doctor in a small town gets a panicked visitor late at night, asking him to come check on his ailing wife. As the doctor follows the man through unlit roads, he realises that there's something very, very wrong. After some promising Skype sessions, a woman agrees to marry a man she hasn't met in real life yet.
Doctors are the people we run to for medical attention or care. They are the answer when our injuries are beyond just poppin’ two Panadol tablets and sleeping it off. They are ultimately the people who we trust our lives with, but one video proved that not all doctors are saints. Delaware's forts were an important part of the harbor defense protecting the ports of Wilmington and Philadelphia.

According to locals and residents, the building has since been demolished and replaced by condos, but the evil energy is still present. When the girl came back to herself and articulated the vision she saw to the guys, everything started adding up. The housemates explained that just some time ago, before they had moved into this house, a previous resident who perfectly matched the girl's vision had passed away from an overdose. Turns out, the man who perished had fallen into heavy narcotics use before his demise, which led him to destroy his relationship with his girlfriend. “One night when I was 10, I was woken up by my bedroom door opening, followed by someone sitting on my bed,” Reddit.com user kmendo4 recalls of a childhood brush with a very persistent ghostly apparition. “I felt my leg grazed and the bed sink under a person’s weight.
So not really a scary story, but still a ghost story. Lived in the back of an apartment complex and on the third floor. She told me recently that every single night she’d hear noises of knocking and banging and such around the apartment. His parents came home and saw that he burned his brothers ouija board. They grounded him and threw the burnt board away.
But you might not realize how close the Germans got to the American coasts in the 1940s. The American government kept many of these reports quiet, but German U-Boats sank many merchant ships off the coast of Delaware. In just one instance, a Panamanian United Fruit Company ship "San Gil" was hit by a torpedo. When the ship was evacuated to lifeboats, the U-Boat surfaced and fired shots at the lifeboats and ships. When the shells did not sink the ship, they put it into its grave with another torpedo.

He’d been rejected by this girl so he lured her to his house on the pretense of taking modelling photos. He strangled her to death when she got there and dumped her body miles away. At the trial it was established that at this location, one of the boys threw blue Humbrol modelling paint, which they had shoplifted earlier, into Bulger’s left eye. They kicked and stomped on him, and threw bricks and stones at him. Police believed some batteries may have been inserted into his anus, although none were found there.
"Are you sure that's the person you came to see?" They said yes. Then she nodded, and told them to follow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZDc6pegNs her, leading them to the backyard of the house. Right there was a grave, with the girl's name on it.

Martha always dropped when her classmates nudged her to explain why she seemed to be fixated on the color red. Martha struggled to make friends with the students since she was shy and from out of state. She seemed different from them, and they misunderstood her timidity for contempt when they found out she was wealthy.
He wrote her faithfully, but his letters were returned unopened. "I wait for you by our fountain … to share our timeless love, our destiny is time." According to legend, Lucinda died of a broken heart; Rowe, who said he would never love anyone else, would go on to build his hotel. It was completed in 1928 and features an exact replica of the fountain where the lovebirds spent happier times. Rowe's ghost has been spotted on the beach, on the hotel's fifth floor and in the lobby, and in the garden, where he is sometimes seen holding the hand of a woman believed to be Lucinda.
The most famous ghost is Earl Beardie, or the Earl of Crawford. This noble visited the castle in the 15th century, and one night, he got drunk and demanded that someone play cards with him. If no one would, the Earl declared, he would play the devil himself.