As a young kid I used to listen to my walkman at night while everyone was sleeping. In the middle of a song someone yelled HEY! into my ear so loud I jumped and took my headphones off. No one was there! All I could hear was my headphones still playing music and my heart beating fast. 

My mother was young and pregnant with my older brother living in a big town, she said it was raining pretty bad one day and had to walk to get where she was going. A nice looking man pulled up and offered her a ride, Mom gets a horrible feeling and tells the man no thank you. He keeps insisting but she still says no.…

I remember that a turtle is dead in its tank and the kids not knowing they had a turtle. Also Jackie sending her help to buy a ton of chicken nuggets and every sauce for their hairdressers.

Awesome list, now do a Batman fights ranked.

Ricky Fitts the neighbor boy

I call him John Dunbar bc of all the time I watched Dances with Wolves. 

Imaginary friend shaped like a lobster than would come visit at bedtime and the author slowly forgot about, only to be reminded at adulthood by his mom of it. Went to re-visit his old apartment and found scratch marks on his window sill. That’s about it.

Exactly what I think when I get to a story and its super long, I skim over it and only look for and read the important stuff. Too many details makes me think to myself the author is making it up or is trying to fill up their story to make it seem more realistic. That’s my thought. 

No kidding, like ok we get it! You like to get descriptive with the location but get on with it already!

Awesome! thanks for the link!

Not too scary per se, but I was a little kid at the time of this and didn’t really get scared at all around the time. Shoot -I used to make my way to the outhouse at night if I needed to, even though the house I lived in was in a small opening in the middle of rolling wooded hills.

haha, thanks for making me laugh. If the descriptions drones on for that long I usually just tell myself: “oh FFS!” then scroll onto the next tale.

Can we also add: To please not repost/recycle stories submitted from last year and or the previous years before that? 

Just watch! come back and tell us what you think!

Cars didn’t exist when Jesus was walking around so he did his best trying to steer the car (haha)

The one that usually comes to mind is “James” or the possession one where the mom was crazy and picked up the author from a church lock in in the early morning hours and didn’t remember coming to get her when she saw the author in the morning. 

We got little people around here too (United States Midwest), my elementary classmates always had a story or two about seeing them *usually inside the house*. I saw one once while driving around on a winter night, I shared my story 2-3 Halloween’s ago its probably lost in the grays. My niece seen a little man when my…

Thanks a bunch good human

Lol as long as it takes out the hassle of trying to find my save spot, charge the damn thing. Take my $1.

You painted a picture of that woman so well in my imagination. I can see very vividly. Great story.