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36 Spooky True Stories We Regretted Reading Before Bed

September 09, 2023

If you’re looking for some spooky yet true stories that will for sure keep you up at night, scroll on down. Unless you’re a coward. Then just stay right here and do not touch that lil’ scroll wheel ya rascal.

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I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched one night when I was home alone. I thought I was going crazy. When I looked at my webcam, I saw that the light was on, so it was being broadcast. I don't know who was watching me, but I 2003-goals quickly unplugged McPad the thing, and haven't used it since. CRACKED COM 2008 schware — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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I woke up at 2 a.m. in a panic, heart racing, struggling to breathe, not knowing why. For some reason, I said a quick prayer for a friend of mine and finally went back to sleep. The next day, she told me she'd been robbed at gunpoint while leaving her nightclub job. The thugs had also tried to abduct her, but when they heard police sirens, they sped off. The time? 2 a.m. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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One day, an unknown number suddenly called me. When I answered, a female voice said It's done. Не won't be bothering you anymore. Then, before I could ask whom exactly she meant, she ended the call. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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A few years ago, I walked into the bathroom to find that the sink was COVERED in ants. It was literally black. To this day, I hesitate when I walk into that bathroom. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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CRACKED.COM I noticed a shadow of a person on the wall late at night in the bedroom my brother and I shared, projected by the streetlight outside my window. Its head was bobbing left and right the entire time and there was no one standing outside my window. When I woke my brother up to check the source of the shadow, he told me he couldn't see anything even though it was still there. — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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THE TWO DUTCH FRIENDS WHO WENT MISSING ON A HIKE IN PANAMA, AND THE CREEPY PICTURES ON THEIR PHONE. Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went hiking in 2014 and disappeared. Photos of their hike suggest that they may have trailed off the path and deep into the forest. Soon they were making phone calls to the Dutch emergency line, but couldn't get through. Nine weeks later, the girls' backpack was discovered, and bone fragments were found near a river as well as a boot with a foot inside. The photos authorities recovered from the phone were super eerie, with most — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE AIRBNB RENTAL WITH HIDDEN CAMERAS IN IT. Sounding a lot like the plot of The Rental sans all the murder, an Airbnb in Longboat Key, Florida, was found to be rigged with hidden cameras filming the unaware house guests (who, ironically, gave rave reviews of the place). The owner claimed that the cameras were for consenting sex parties, but no one bought his story, especially since none of the occupants who were filmed gave their consent, or even knew about the cameras. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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Once my printer unexpectedly printed a garbled mess of codes. At firstIthought it was logs of something unimportant, until I saw the login credentials from several of my accounts. GRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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I was woken up by someone grabbing my toe the night after my grandma's funeral, although I was sleeping alone in my room. Touching someone's toe was my late grandma's way to show affection. The next morning, my siblings told me that the same thing had happened to them. CRACKED COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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YOU HAVE MAIL Three months after a dear friend of mine committed suicide, I received an email notification. When I opened my inbox, I went cold. The email was sent from his account. It took a couple of seconds to realize that his account must've been hacked, but even thinking about it now, I shiver. It was haunting. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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CRACKED.COM During surgery, I saw myself from this angle. I figured they must have just had a ceiling mirror installed. Turns out - no, they had not. — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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12:35 AM AT&T LTE 80% < Back Contact Unknown Number Tue, Jun 6 2006, 6:06 PM Make your choice. I got a text from an unknown number, saying Make your choice. I thought it could be a friend pulling a prank on me. To this day, no one came forward about the text. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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One day, I was showing my niece an old family photo album. When a picture of a little girl came up, she pointed at her and said THAT IS THE GIRL WHO PLAYS WITH ME IN MY DREAMS. That girl was my father's older sister who died at age five. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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THE SCARIEST SHARK STORY EVER. In 1982, a group of five friends were sailing a yacht from Maryland to Florida when they capsized during a storm. For five days, they floated on a dinghy without food or water, surrounded by tiger sharks, and watched in horror as two of their friends lost their grip on reality, dived into the ocean, and became shark food. A third died from blood poisoning, and was fed to the sharks. Only two survived. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE SCHOOL BUS KIDNAPPING WHERE THE KIDS WERE ALMOST BURIED ALIVE. 3069 SCHOOL BUS 3800 DODE In 1976, a bus driver and school kids were overcome by three men, taken to a quarry, and forced to climb down and into an abandoned van buried underneath the ground. The men who kidnapped them wanted ransom money, and the kids were down in that dark van for 16 hours, with oxygen running out, before they managed to stack some mattresses and escape through a metal plate in the roof. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE SKIERS WHO MYSTERIOUSLY DIED ON DEAD MOUNTAIN. A group of skiers were hiking in the Ural Mountains of Russia when a blizzard hit. They camped out for the night, but something terrifying happened because, when all nine of their bodies were discovered, it was clear that they fled their campsite half-dressed with bare feet straight into the storm in the middle of the night. Some of them had broken bones. One had a crushed skull. What happened to the group remains the talk of a lot of conspiracy theories. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE PEOPLE WHO UNKNOWINGLY SLEPT ON TOP OF A CORPSE IN A MOTEL. For almost two months, guests complained about a foul odor in a room of a motel before a woman's body was discovered encased in the bed. Her boyfriend and father of her kids were found guilty for her murder. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE FAMILY WHO WAS PLAGUED BY GARDEN CERAMICS. A family in Southern California thought it was a prank when a bunch of ceramics appeared in their garden one day, but the creepy things didn't stop coming. Over 50 pieces showed up in about a month, with some in menacing positions as if they were supposed to stare at the family, watching them. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE JAPANESE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN THE CLOSET. A man in Japan probably thought his house was haunted when food started disappearing from his fridge. Не installed security cameras and streamed the footage to his phone, and when he caught movement of someone in his house, he called the police. On arrival, the door was locked and the windows were closed, but when they searched the house, they found a homeless woman hiding in the top compartment of a closet. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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APPARENTLY THERE'S A HAUNTED FROZEN ELSA DOLL. A family in Houston who purchased a singing Elsa doll claims the thing to be haunted. It speaks on its own without being switched on, and it has never needed new batteries in the six years they've had it. They've thrown the doll out twice, but it kept ending up back at their house. The whole thing sounds like a prank, but the idea is still pretty creepy. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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GRACKED.COM EXCEPT FOR OUR GUIDE, MY GIRLFRIEND AND I WERE THE ONLY ONES EXPLORING TENNESSEE'S BELL WITCH CAVE, REPUTED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTED SPOTS ON EARTH. I FELT A HAND STROKING THE BACK OF MY UPPER ARM. WONDERING WHY MY GIRLFRIEND WOULD CHOOSE SUCH AN INAPPROPRIATE TIME TO GET AFFECTIONATE, I TURNED AROUND... ...AND SAW SHE WAS A GOOD SIX FEET BEHIND ME. — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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Once during a night terror I had a vision CRACKED.COM of a window opening above my bed where I was being ALVE observed by two men in black. As I bolted out of bed I saw the window slam shut and disappear. At least I hope it was a night terror. — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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Once I dreamed I woke up in the middle of the night and went to the kitchen to grab a snack. When I was about to open the fridge, a ghostly figure sneaked up on me from behind. The fright of it woke me up, and I found myself in the kitchen, facing the fridge. That was my first and creepiest sleepwalking experience. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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Late one night, I saw a group of lights arranged in concentric squares moving left to right across the sky, over and over. CRACKED.COM never quite figured out what that was. — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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I WAS IN MY BATHROOM, BRUSHING MY TEETH, GETTING READY TO GO TO BED. SOMEBODY PUNCHED THE DOOR I WAS HOME ALONE. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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CRACKED.COM I was listening to music and reading a story about kids who kept hearing a ghost chant, Come out and play! Just then, Come Out And Play by the Offspring came on and the title lyrics synced up with me reading the ghost's words. Creeped out, I stopped reading and turned the music off. — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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When I heard that Johnny Ramone had died, I immediately put on my CD of RAMONES. I heard the drums and bass of Blitzkrieg Вор, but no guitar. My cat had chewed through the right speaker cable, but for just a moment I believed in ghosts. CRACKED.COM — Source: Your 20 Creepiest (Totally True) Stories

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THE PEOPLE WHO WERE BEING WATCHED. A family fled their home after being tormented by someone who called themselves the Watcher. The stalker wrote a letter to the previous owners of the home in Westfield, New Jersey, telling them to bring me young blood. When the new owners moved in, they received menacing letters too, claiming the house didn't belong to them, and threatening the children. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE TWINS WHO WERE ALWAYS TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER. Also called the Silent Twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons never spoke actual words to anyone except each other. They would have little rituals like deciding who gets to wake up first, who gets to breathe first, and who can't breathe before the other one breathed first. They went on a five-week crime spree when they turned 18, and were sent to a criminal hospital. When Jennifer died suddenly in 1993, June revealed that they had a death pact, agreeing that one of them needed to die SO the other could — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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A GHOST HUNTER STABBED HIMSELF IN THE AXE MURDER HOUSE. THE Villysca Ax Murder House JUNE 10 1912 The famous Villisca Axe Murder house in lowa is thought to be haunted by the family murdered there in 1912. In 2014, a group of paranormal investigators stayed at the house overnight. One of them, Robert Steven Laursen Jr., was alone in his bedroom when he started calling for help on a two-way radio. The group found him stabbed in the chest, and he was rushed to the hospital. The incident happened around 12:45 AM, the same time as the 1912 murders. — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE BABYSITTER WHO DISAPPEARED. In 1954, a Wisconsin teenager named Evelyn Hartley was babysitting a little girl, but when she failed to call her parents to check in, they became worried. When they went to the house, they found the doors locked, the baby sleeping safely, but no Evelyn. The place was scattered with Evelyn's belongings, and one of her shoes was found in the basement. There was also a window missing down there, pry marks on some of the windows, and footprints of an intruder. Despite all the evidence the case produced, no one ever found her. Ed Gein — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE NORTH LONDON EXORCISM GONE WRONG. Kennedy Ife (26) lost his mind one day when he started biting his dad and threatened to cut off his penis. His mother went to a minister, asking for help, and Kennedy was restrained for three days to cure him of the evil spirits causing his distress. Не died, his entire family stood trial for manslaughter, but all of them were found not guilty. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE WITH DEAD ANIMALS IN THE WALLS. The Bretzius family discovered animal carcasses and half-used spice hidden inside the drywalls of their home. It's believed to be the remains of Dutch magic called powwow that was used to heal all sorts of troubles. Powwow originated in the culture of the Pennsylvania Dutch, but the magic also caused a brutal murder to occur back in 1928. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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THE MAN WHO PHONED HIS FAMILY, EVEN THOUGH НЕ WAS ALREADY DEAD. In 2008, a Metrolink train crashed in the northern San Fernando Valley, killing 25 people, including Charles Peck who died instantly. His family, however, started getting calls throughout the night from his phone. The calls kept coming for about 12 hours, and when they answered, there was only silence on the other end. His phone probably went haywire from the crash. Probably. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies

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