Halloween is upon us. It doesn’t matter if you enjoy or celebrate this holiday, we all have scary stories to share. We all have our favorite and our worst tale to tell, but everyone has their first fear-fueled story that freaked them out. Whether it was told to us at a slumber party or by jerky older siblings, we’ll always remember those. Now that we’re older we’ve forgotten some of these old lores. So get your blankets and turn on your lights, because we’re going to look at some old horror stories.
Lights
The story goes that a girl comes back to her dorm room late at night after a party. Not wanting to wake her roommate she leaves the lights off and goes to bed. The next day she wakes up to find her roommate dead with the words written in blood on the wall saying “thanks for keeping the lights off”.This story scares me more now than when I was a kid. As a kid, this story is what basically fueled your fears of the darkness. Now that we’re older all you think about is this actually being possible. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather keep my roommate and me alive.
The Boogie Man
There is no real set story for the boogie man but he is a beyond basic monster. He the monster that’s going to grab your leg when you swing it off the bed. He’s watching you from your closet as you sleep. He’ll even follow behind you when you run up the stairs after turning off the lights. He’s just your go-to goblin to fill you with fear.
Clown Statue
When a teen is babysitting the neighbor’s kids, she calls the parents to ask them if she can watch cable TV in their room. The only request she had was if she could cover a clown statue’s face that was sitting in their room. That’s when the family explains that they don’t have a clown statue in their room. Later the parents come home to find the sitter and the kids dead. Clowns are already a no go, but the line is drawn when they become murderers. Honestly, if this story did not bring on your phobia of clowns as a kid, nothing will.
Humans Lick Too
This childhood horror story is a really freaky one. A woman sees on the news that a killer has escaped an insane asylum. That night she keeps waking up scared that the killer is near. Each time she wakes up, she sticks her hand down the side of her bed so her dog can lick her hand to comfort her. At one point though, she couldn’t take the stress so she went to the bathroom. When she opens the door, she finds her dog dead with words written on the mirror in blood saying “Humans can lick too”. WHO KILLS A DOG! That poor dog did nothing wrong and ended up dying in the end. That’s enough to make anyone cry and hate this old story.
The Girl in the Green Scarf
Okay, this last one messed me up! There was a girl who always wore a green scarf around her neck. She even met a boy, got married, and lived with him for years and never took off the scarf. When she got old, she got very sick and was told she was going to die. So she whispered to her husband to remover her scarf. When he did her head fell off! This girl just decided to decapitate herself instead of dying slowly. There are so many layers to this story I don’t even know where to begin. All I know is that this story is definitely the creepiest story I heard as a child.