So... many people did not understand the assignment. Nor did they follow your (good!) rules. I have read every story on the Google doc and the amount of people with self-indulgent, rambling, long stories that amount to “I felt something” is ridiculous. Those aren’t SCARY stories! Also “this isn’t scary but...” then…

Probably a bit late, and has no real narrative structure. (Thank goodness.)

On Friday night I decided to go do a ghost tour double date with my husband, a co-worker, and her boyfriend. My husband and I got there early and it was a really wonderful set-up- revolutionary war fort out of the city with super old buildings, a campfire, a drinks station, an outdoor movie theater (tragically playing…

Yes, I remember that one-that was BAD news! She had a sleeping loft above the main room, and it tormented her, and worse, it tormented her little dog when she was out of the house/at work. She was so scared one night she was doing a video call with a friend of hers and the friend told her there was something full of…

The Trench

I went to BU and always felt so bad for the people working at and using that PP. Felt like the crazies were there protesting more often than not, and every time the state tried to pass a law to make it better the supreme court shot them down. 

Goosebumps! What a good boy. 

My husband bought me a dachshund puppy, a few months before we got married, and he was my best friend. Walt was the sweetest, most loyal and precious dog. He was my constant shadow and my sidekick. When we brought our daughters home, I never did a late-night feed alone, he was always curled at my feet. He doted on the…

Not my story, but my Mother’s (and my Aunts). I have permission to relay.

I posted late sometime in one of the Halloweens of the pandemic blur but was inspired to post again because it feels like there aren’t as many this year? Getting the creeps already thinking about this.

Here are a few of my spooky encounters over the years:
-One summer when I was in law school, I worked at a small law firm whose offices were in a 100+ year old house. It was a very small firm, and the offices of the attorneys, paralegal, and assistants were spread out over the whole house. And I knew every person that…

I remember that youtube story and it still gives me chills.

I look forward to this all year! Nothing brings the spooks quite like this community. I’ve thought about writing up my story for years now, but I always put it off. The first part is mine, and the second part happened to my best friend, who I can vouch for - she doesn’t really believe in the paranormal, but can’t…

I don’t think you’re alone in that sentiment. I didn’t see any notifications for it and I wait for it every year too. I was a few days late after it had been posted, and there were only about 170 posts! I went through them in a matter of a couple days and I was a bit disappointed (normally I take all month to read…

We moved into a new to us house 6 months ago. There are 2 large bedrooms upstairs, and 2 small bedrooms on the main floor. My husband and I take one of the upstairs bedrooms and our 2 year old daughter is in the other. Since moving in, she’s been a bad sleeper - up several times during the night, sometimes crying,…

This isn’t scary in the slightest but thought I’d share anyway. My Mum died 12 years ago following a short but very vicious fight with cancer. On the morning she passed (she insisted on being at home the whole time during her illness) we were able to be there when she took her last breath. A few hours later, after the…

When I was in high school, I worked at an event space that was part of my town’s park district. It was a 12,000 square foot mansion built in the early 1910s, which was owned for many years by a Chicago industrialist who left the property to his orphaned, penniless niece. She eventually deeded it to the town in…

It’s the 80s it’s Halloween on a weekday and I, being the oldest and a girl, am responsible for taking 2 younger brothers trick or treating, along with 2 young sons of my parents’ friends. My parents and the kids’ parents are at our house playing cards and and smoking cigarettes.

My favorite aunt “Laura” killed herself several years ago. 

I was always a weird kid. Quiet, anxious, always thinking I heard voices in the night or saw shadows cross my room. As I grew up, I started having — not visions, really, but maybe premonitions?