Halloween is just around the corner. The scariest season of them all has been the subject of many spooky tales over the years. Stories of evil and the supernatural go hand in hand with the annual celebration. So today is the day we bring you some of the most sinister of them all. Whether you’re trick or treating, partying or working a shift, be sure to keep your wits about you and these stories in the front of your mind on the notorious Hallows Eve! This blog is called Happy Halloween: 10 Terrifying Tales To Celebrate Spooky Season. Read on if you dare, it’s at your own risk! (All stories are fictional. At least, we think they are…)
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Happy Halloween: Oujiaboard
“In high school my friends and I were messing around with a Ouija board one night. We had done it before and nothing remarkable had ever happened. Me and my friends usually did it to try and scare each other or our girlfriends. We all thought it was a joke. That night there was no one else home except the 7 of us and we were all together around the board. One of the girls there wanted to try it. She had never done it before.
This time was different. The board misspelled some of the words the same way every time. It gave answers that seemed really historically accurate for our town (things we neither knew or cared about). Long story short, the “spirit” claimed it was a 10 year old boy who had died on the property in the 1800s and was buried there too in an unmarked grave (my friends house was on a farm in the edge of town). We were all a little freaked out because the board had never been so detailed and consistent.
However, we were still skeptical and we were all assuming one of us was trying to scare the rest. Finally, my friend asked if the spirit could do something to prove he was there with us. It went to Yes and then spelled out k-n-o-c-k. Then the planchette stopped moving. We just all stared at it silently and then there was a rap-rap-rap on the window right next to us. The lights were on outside and there was absolutely no one out there. We never touched that f-ing board again.”
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Happy Halloween: Clockwork Orange
“This happened not to me, but to my sister. Her husband and her had just had their first child a few months prior. It was Halloween and my brother in law was working the graveyard shift at his job as my sister stayed home taking care of my nephew. Around 2am, she heard loud knocking on her back door. She went to go check it out and saw a lady banging on the door asking for my sister to let her in. The lady told my sister that her husband had just beat her down the street and was looking for her.
My sister was hesitant to let her in since she had a new born baby in the house and didn’t want to interfere. She told the lady that the best she could do was call the police for her. The lady told my sister to not call the police and to let her in. This is where my sister got suspicious. She went to get her phone and called 911. When she went back to the door, the lady was gone. The police arrived a few minutes later and they told my sister that the same situation happened a few streets down. Apparently the couple would do this act to get into peoples homes. Very unsettling.”
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Happy Halloween: The Farm House
“I lived in a very large farm house , that was converted into two apartments. It was used to house boys with behavioural issues but was closed due to allegations of molestation. Anyway , I was living with my boyfriend and three year old daughter at the time. My bedroom had a large fireplace that had been boarded up and painted over. I decided to push my bed up against it one day while I was rearranging things , It was like a headboard.
That night, around 1 am I had heard a small voice saying ‘mom , mom , mommy’. I had sat up in bed but didn’t see anything so I reached over my boyfriend trying to grab down to grab my daughter and put her in our bed. I kept feeling around and I was still hearing the voice but I couldn’t feel her. My boyfriend woke up and turned the bedside lamp on asking me ” What the hell are you doing ”. I explained that Amelia was trying to get in our bed and I was reaching for her. There was nobody there. My daughter was sound asleep in her room.
Then the next night came. Around 1 am again my dog had started to whimper at out door so my boyfriend got up to take him outside. You know that feeling in a bed when someone lies down next to you? Where the bed pushes in and there is a warmth in your back? I felt that , So I assumed my boyfriend had come back to bed. So I rolled over , my boyfriend wasn’t in the bed and I felt the fucking bed release pressure , whatever was laying next to me has gotten up in that second. I moved my bed the next day to the other side of the room and I never had another incident in the two years I remained in that house.”
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Happy Halloween: A Message From Beyond
“I saw a dead solders ghost in my barracks room before I deployed. It was the guys room who died on my company’s last deployment and I was the first to be issued it. He told me to be safe. He had half a head. I’m agnostic but that makes me question it.”
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Happy Halloween: The Boy In The Basement
“When I was young my mum told me never to go in the basement, but I wanted to see what was making this noise. It kind of sounded like a puppy, and I wanted to see the puppy, so I opened the basement door and tiptoed down a bit. I didn’t see a puppy, and then my mother yanked me out of the basement and yelled at me. Mum had never yelled at me before, and it made me sad and I cried. Then mum told me never to go into the basement again, and she gave me a cookie. That made me feel better, so I didn’t ask her why the boy in the basement was making noises like a puppy, or why he had no hands or feet.”
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Happy Halloween: Adam
“When my daughter was 2, I found her twirling paper towel tubes, tied with twine, in the air. I asked her what she was doing. She said she was practicing her “nun chucks”. I was very confused as she’d have no way of knowing what they were. I asked her what she meant and she said that Adam had told her how to make them and showed her each night how to use them. She went on to say that Adam told her to practice because she may need to know how to defend herself someday.
I almost freaked out, but asked her what Adam looked like. She said he was tall, blond, and had blue eyes. She said “Mommy, you KNOW how he looks – you know him! He died of a headache.” I had to leave the room. You see, 4 months before she was born, my tall, blonde, blue eyed, martial arts-pro friend had died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 27. She has not spoken of him since that day, so I’m not sure if I scared her with my reaction or if she had completed her lessons.”
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Happy Halloween: Under The Bed
“It was late one night on Halloween, and I was saying good night to my son. I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy, check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy, there’s somebody on my bed.””
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Happy Halloween: Mother
“When my sister Betsy and I were kids, our family lived for awhile in a charming old farmhouse. We loved exploring its dusty corners and climbing the apple tree in the backyard. But our favourite thing was the ghost. We called her Mother, because she seemed so kind and nurturing. Some mornings Betsy and I would wake up, and on each of our nightstands, we’d find a cup that hadn’t been there the night before. Mother had left them there, worried that we’d get thirsty during the night. She just wanted to take care of us.
Among the homes’ original furnishings was an antique wooden chair which we kept against the back wall of the living room. Whenever we were preoccupied, watching TV or playing a game, Mother would inch that chair forward, across the room, toward us. Sometimes she’d manage to move it all the way to the centre of the room. We always felt sad putting it back against the wall. Mother just wanted to be near us.
Years later, long after we’d moved out, I found an old newspaper article about the farmhouse’s original occupant, a widow. She’d murdered her two children by giving them each a cup of poisoned milk before bed. Then she hung herself. The article included a photo of the farmhouse’s living room, with a woman’s body hanging from a beam. Beneath her, knocked over, was that old wooden chair, placed exactly in the centre of the room.”
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Happy Halloween: The Decoration
“In 2005, a 42-year-old woman in Delaware committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree across the street from a residential area. Though the body was easily visible to passers by and passing vehicles, no one called the police for hours. Why? They assumed the woman swaying in the wind was a Halloween decoration.”
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Happy Halloween: Making Bets
“So when I was a kid, I would race up to the top of the stairs as fast as I could, like it was some sort of silly game. Well, I must have been five or six at the time. I’m not sure, but I know I was very little. Somewhere along the way, a voice at the top of the stairs started to whisper to me. It would make bets with me, such as… “I bet you a penny you can’t make it to the top of the stairs.” I don’t really think there was a certain amount of time or anything. As I said, I was very little so I probably didn’t have any counting abilities anyway. Ha. I recall just sitting at the top of the stairs, having conversations with this voice, about the betting, of course.
Eventually, the voice (it was like a whisper of a man’s voice, not my own voice in my head) started to bet me my life. Instead of pennies, it’d say “I bet you your life you can’t make it up the stairs blah blah.”
As I got older it stopped. I never really thought about it at all. I never mentioned it to anyone until one night I was sleeping over at my brother’s place (I was about eighteen, he was twenty-two) and we were talking about “spooky” stories. Out of nowhere, I brought up the “voice at the top of the stairs” and my brother got all quiet and weird. Before I even mentioned the betting aspect, he said: “Did it make bets with you?”
We both looked at each other, horrified. It certainly was freaky after the fact.”
Some of the scariest Halloween stories are the true ones. Fingers crossed none of these were. Remember to stay cautious this Hallows eve, you just never know what might be waiting around the corner for you… If you want to read more terrifying tales about the events of Halloween and related horrors then please click here. Or, if you want to buy the t-shirt that inspired this ghoulish blog then please click here. Thankyou for reading this weeks entry, and congratulations if you made it to the end without feeling a little scared! Stay tuned for the next one.
