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Sitting around a campfire in the dark is a perfect time for telling stories. The stories in this article are designed for many different camping experiences and differing groups of campers. Choose one of our scary campfire stories for older kids and adults, or a funny camp fire story for younger kids. Our ghost campfire stories are sure to give all the listeners the shivers. Choose the perfect story for any age from our list of campfire stories.

Campfire stories are best if told dramatically, using different voices and sound effects add to the scariness. Some of these stories can be stretched out to make them even more frightening. Be creative and have fun!

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Scary Campfire Stories

Some people love to be scared and our selection of scary campfire stories will thrill and delight them. Make sure you do not tell any of these stories to very young children or to young campers just before bedtime, to avoid nightmares.

Do not Visit Lover's Lane

A young couple went to the movies, and stopped at the local Lover's Lane for some kissing. The boy turned on the radio to set the mood. Just as he reaches his arms around his girlfriend, a news bulletin warns of an escaped murderer who has a hook for a right hand. The man had escaped from a facility for the criminally insane.

The boy thinks it will be funny to tease his girlfriend to scare her. He begins to tell her he is sure they are in a place the escapee might choose to hide. He goes on and on terrifying his girlfriend. He hoped she would throw herself into his arms for comfort, however his plan backfires. His girlfriend insists they leave right away.

Reluctantly, the boy drives his girlfriend home. When she gets out, she begins yelling and faints. The young man jumps out and runs around the car. There, on her door handle, is a bloody hook!

The Unheeded Warning

A young lady was driving home after a long vacation. Sometime after midnight, a very heavy storm begins as she notices she is almost out of gas. She sees a sign for a gas station and convenience store and pulls off the interstate to fill her tank. The place is obviously open, but deserted, run-down, and old. She almost drives on, but concerned she might run out of gas, decides to stop and just get gas. As she pulls in, a tall man with a badly scarred face comes running through the rain. He pumps her gas and the girl rolls her window down just enough to hand him her credit card. He grabs it and runs back inside.

The scarred man comes back, tells her she will have to come inside, because her card was denied, and hurries back inside without allowing her to respond. She really doesn't want to go inside and considers driving off without paying. However, she decides to go in very quickly, take care of the bill, and leave as soon as possible.

When she gets inside, the man grabs her arm and tries to talk to her. His voice is rough and difficult to understand and she thinks he may have had his voice damaged in whatever accident scarred his face. The man gets increasingly excited and the young girl becomes more frantic. She finally wrests herself from his grip and runs back to her car, leaving the station as quickly as possible. She sees the old man through her back window yelling and gesturing her to come back, but she keeps driving.

She turns on the radio to help her relax and sees something move behind her. She looks in the rear-view mirror, just as a man appears in the back seat holding an ax. That is the last thing she sees in this life. The scarred man at the gas station had been trying to warn her.

The Killer Under the Bed

A young girl's parents were going out for the night. Although she was still young, she thought she was too old for a babysitter. She begs to be allowed to stay home alone, even though her parents will be out very late. She promises to go to bed at her regular bed time and calls her parents on her cellphone just before she settles down for the night to tell them she is fine and not to wake her when they come home. She will see them in the morning.

She is almost asleep when she hears dripping noises. She gets up to see if it is raining outside, but the star and moon are shining brightly. She returns to bed, and she as she closes her eyes, she hears the dripping noise again. Her hand is hanging out of bed and she takes comfort when she feels a wet tongue lick it. Knowing their dog is under her bed provides comfort. The dripping noise continue and she finally decides she must know what it is.

The young girl gets up and turns on the light. The noise continues and she keeps looking for the source. (At this point, the narrator can stretch the story out, describing various places where she looks, i.e. the hallway, the adjacent bathroom - sink and shower, etc.) Finally, she looks in her closet. There hangs her dog, dripping blood, with a note that says, "Humans lick, too."

Campfire Ghost Stories

Is there anything scarier than a ghost story? Perhaps it is because we all think spectral beings might possibly exist. Not all ghosts are malevolent, but they are all terrifying, and so are these stories.

The Ghost of Rest Haven

Aunt Lacy loved taking her niece, Felicity, on day trips. One of their favorite destinations was the beach. One summer day the air was particularly refreshing and the water a perfect temperature for wading. Aunt Lacy and Felicity became enamored with the little creatures they were finding in the tide pools, and all at once realized that not only was the sun setting, but it looked as if a very bad thunderstorm was coming. They quickly got in the car to head home.

The storm was worse than Lacy had thought and she was afraid to keep driving. She decided to pull off the road until the storm passed, but just as she was about to do so, Felicity declared, "Look! There's a place we can stay."

Sure enough, Lacy saw a sign on a large house, "Rest Haven - Rooms for Rent - Day, Week, Month." Feeling relieved, Lacy pulled in, parked, and they both ran to the porch as quickly as possible. A white-haired woman answered the door before they could even knock. She said, "I have been expecting you."

Although this seemed odd to Lacy, the woman had a pleasant smile, so she pushed her feeling of unease to the back of her mind and smiled back. The old woman gave them a hot meal and showed them to a warm, cozy room. The furniture was old and worn, but clean.

When they awoke in the morning, they were eager to head home. There was no cell phone reception at the old house and Lacy was sure Felicity's mom must be frantic with worry. They wanted to thank the proprietor, but she was nowhere to be found. They left a note taped to the door-jam with some money for their stay and left.

A few miles down the road, Aunt Lacy's phone beeped, indicating she had a message or call. She stopped at a country gas station to call Felicity's mom and tell her they were on their way and okay. Lacy decided to fill her tank and buy some drinks. While paying for the gas and drinks, she made conversation with the attendant, telling him about their enjoyable stay at Rest Haven. Looking surprised, the man told Lacy and Felicity that the home had burned down years ago, killing the owner.

They could not believe what they had been told, so headed back to see. There was no house, but on the ground, lay their note and the money.

A Final Performance

Callie was extremely tired and stopped at an old house with a sign declaring, "The Oaks Inn - Bed and Breakfast." The room was very comfortable and she fell asleep as soon as she lay down on the bed. Callie woke up in the wee hours of the morning to the sound of a pianist playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Callie was a pianist herself, traveling to the next town for a concert, and was very impressed with the skill of whoever was playing. She glanced at the clock and wondered who and why someone would be playing the piano at 2:00 in the morning. She simply could not go back to sleep while the music was playing. She finally decided she must ask whoever was playing the music to stop so she could get some sleep.

As she entered the dining room on the first floor of the inn, she saw a man seated at a piano in the corner. He was extremely handsome and dressed in a tuxedo. With his thin mustache and slicked-back hair, he looked like someone from the roaring twenties. The man looked at her and said, "Well, Callie, here you are. I have been waiting for you for a long time." Callie was surprised that he knew her name, but felt enchanted by his tone of voice. When she made no reply - for she was quite speechless - he spoke again. "Come sit with me, Callie."

Unable to resist his command, Callie moved to the piano and sat next to the man. "Now, Callie, play with me."

Callie felt a chill in the air and shivered. Unable to resist the man's command, she placed her fingers on the piano and they began to play the sonata together. As they played, they both faded out of sight as the music became softer and softer. At the last moment before completely disappearing, Callie realized she had just played her last performance.

Johnny left his friend's house late at night and headed home down the dark country roads. It began to rain. Suddenly, Johnny saw the blurry image of a woman in a long, white dress walking down the middle of the road. Johnny had to stop, so he asked the young woman if she needed a ride. Without saying anything, she got in and sat in the front seat. Since she was shivering, Johnny took off his coat and put in over her shoulders.

After a few miles, the girl indicated, again without speaking, that she needed to get out at an old house. Johnny stopped the car and the girl opened the door. Johnny rolled down the window to ask for his coat, but the girl was gone.

He left his car and walked to the door. An older woman answered and he explained that he had forgotten to get his jacket from the young woman he had just dropped off at the house. The woman began crying and explained to Johnny that her daughter, on this evening ten years previously, was on the way to her Prom when she was killed in a car accident. She was buried in the cemetery up the road, in the exact spot where Johnny had picked her up.

The next day, Johnny drove to the cemetery to confirm the woman's story. There, on the grave of a young girl, was Johnny's jacket.

Tombstone Terror

Alan and Matt were ghost hunters. They would visit old cemeteries and see if they could stir up a spirit from an old tombstone. They set up their recorder on a particularly large and ornate headstone and prepared to begin. They were afraid to shine their flashlights on the stone to see the name engraved there, as trespassing in the cemetery at night was illegal. They had crawled over the fence at the rear of the cemetery to avoid the caretaker.

Matt flipped the on button on the recorder and said aloud, "We would like to speak to whoever lies beneath this stone." In response, all they heard was the scratching noise that seemed to come from behind the tombstone.

With a calm voice Alan said, "Please tell us your name."

Again, the only response was a scratching noise, so Matt said, "We only wish to speak with you. Please show yourself."

Suddenly, both young men felt the air turn cold, and a tall, dark shadow rose from behind the tombstone. The shadow moved to engulf them. Alan and Matt had many encounters with spirits, and were not afraid. Too, late, they both realized the apparition meant them harm. The shadow swept down, engulfing them, and pulled them into the ground beneath the tombstone.

The next morning, the caretaker of the cemetery found the recorder on the ground by the tombstone. He turned it on, and after each question, he heard the following response:
"Yes...I am here." "My name is never spoken by the living." "If I show myself, it will be the last thing you will ever see."
The caretaker quietly picked up the recorder. Knowing he had the only evidence that someone had been in the cemetery and by that tombstone, he went to his tool shed and tossed the recorder into a pile with many others.
"I got you both!"
Campfire Stories for Kids

S'mores and creepy stories both create camping fun. Our campfire stories for kids create just the right number of shivers without terrifying young minds. You can stretch out tales, add sound effects, and use creepy voices to enhance the campers' experience and create those awesome camp memories.

A Grave Problem

Two young girls, Maddy and Sue, were best friends who spent a great deal of time together. Maddy was spending the night at Sue's house when they decided to tell ghost stories. Maddy told a story she heard from her older brother about how, if you stabbed a knife into a grave, the person buried there will reach out, grab you, and pull you into the grave.

Sue did not believe the story. Maddy agreed, but said she was afraid to try it even it was just a story.

Sue exclaimed, "I am not afraid. I would try it."

Maddy called Sue's bluff, daring her to go to the cemetery down the road and prove that she was not afraid.

Both girls went to the kitchen downstairs, where they found a flashlight and a knife. Maddy decided her dare was silly and begged Sue not to go, but Sue wanted to prove the story was a hoax and that she was not afraid. Off she went, into the dark night.

Maddy sat at the kitchen table waiting for her friend. Fifteen minutes passed, then twenty. Finally, after thirty minutes, Maddy ran to her parent's bedroom, woke them up, and told them what had happened. She cried in her Mother's arms as her father grabbed a flashlight and headed towards the cemetery.

When he returned, he was pale and shaken. In a solemn voice, he told Maddy and her mother what he had found. There, on a grave, was Sue, dead with completely white hair. The police were called and after listening to Maddy's explanation of why Sue was in the graveyard, the investigation determined the death was accidental. When Sue stabbed the knife into the grave, it went through the hem of her nightgown. Thinking she had been grabbed by the person buried there, she died of fright.

Note: You will need someone to help you with this story. At the very end, you want someone to call out the name of the child in the story.

A group very much like this one was camping in these woods. A little girl (or boy) went missing when she/he wandered away from the group. That is why we are always telling you to stay with the group or your camping buddy.

Everyone was sitting around the campfire, when little Tonie (Tony) heard a rustling in a bush just out of the campfire's light. Wanting to catch a small animal to keep as a pet, Tonie (Tony) quietly got up from the campfire's circle and stepped into the dark.

When it was discovered Tonie was missing, all the other campers were sent back to their cabins and a search was launched. When a storm came up, only one camp counselor continued to search. The campers and other counselors could hear her calling, "Tonie, Tonie," until early in the morning.

When everyone awoke the next day, Tonie was discovered in her/his cabin. However, the camp counselor who had searched and called for Tonie all night long was never found. They say you can still here her calling in the woods at night. If you listen carefully, you might hear her calling. Listen!

When all the campers become quiet, have your partner yell, "TONIE," to scare everyone.

Do not Turn on the Light

Ashley and Courtney shared a room at college. The girls got along very well and spent their free time together. After an extremely busy week, they went to a party one evening.

Courtney is ready to go, Ashley, however, must get her purse from the dorm room. She rushes in and grabs her purse without turning on the light.

Courtney gives out at the party and wants to go home. Ashley wants to stay longer, so Courtney returns to the dorm alone. When Ashley returns to the dorm in the wee hours of the morning, the campus police have put up crime tape at the entrance. She runs upstairs, the police attempting to stop her. In their dorm room, she sees the body of her roommate, Courtney, dead. Written on the wall above the bed in blood are the words, "AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU DIDN'T TURN ON THE LIGHT?"

Saved by a Choking Dog

As newlyweds, Larry and Cindy love to spend time together. They both work long hours and frequently only have a few hours to spend together in the evening. To make the most of their time together, they meet for dinner before going home.

One night, the couple returns home to find their beloved dog choking. Larry attempts to remove the obstruction with no success. They rush their dog to the all-night emergency veterinarian's office, who says he must sedate the dog to remove the obstruction and the dog must remain overnight.

When they walk in the door of their house, the phone is ringing. When Cindy answers the phone, the vet is on the other end and yells, "Get out of the house, now!"

As they stumble into the yard, the police arrive. They draw their guns and rush into the house. Just then the vet pulls up and asks, "Did they get him?"

The police drag out a man bleeding form one hand. "We found him in your bedroom," says one of the policemen.

Both Larry and Cindy are confused and ask the vet, "How did you know?"

The vet explains, "Your dog was choking on a human finger!"

Funny Campfire Stories

Rap, Rap, Rapping!

When my grandmother died, I was given the task of cleaning out her house in preparation for selling it. The second night I was staying in the house, I heard a faint "rap, rap, rap" sound somewhere in the house. I got up and searched for where the sound was coming from. In the hallway, it was louder, "Rap, Rap, Rap," and seemed to be coming from downstairs.

As I went downstairs, the sound became louder, "Rap, Rap, Rap!" I explored the entire downstairs, but could not find the source of the sound. It seemed to be coming from under the floor of the kitchen. The cellar?

When I opened the door to the cellar, the sound was much louder - "RAP, RAP, RAP!"

Although I was scared, I had to find the source of that rapping. The sound became louder as I descended the stairs. In the corner was an old trunk. Now I could tell the sound was coming from the trunk. I opened the lid very slowly, and there it was - a roll of wrapping paper!

On a dark night like this, a young man was walking home, on a dark, deserted street. As he passed the gates of a small cemetery, he felt as if he was being followed. Suddenly, he heard a bump behind him. Afraid to look back, he increased his pace. Bump, bump, bump.

The bumping behind him continued, getting closer and louder. Finally, unable to ignore the bump any longer, he turned around. Terror stricken, he saw a coffin standing on end, bumping down the road from side to side - Bump, Bump, Bump, Bump . . . He started running for his life, but the coffin only kept on coming, increasing its pace to match his. BUMP, BUMP, BUMP. As the man became tired from running, the coffin began to get closer. The man grabbed a large metal trash can as he ran by and threw it at the coffin. Unfazed, the coffin kept coming, getting closer and closer. BUMP, BUMP, BUMP.

He finally arrived home. As he ran into his yard, he noticed the axe resting against the side of the house next to the woodpile. He grabbed it up and hurled it at the coffin, but it simply bounced off. The coffin followed the man up unto the porch and crashed down the front door the man had closed and locked behind him.

BUMP, BUMP, BUMP. He ran upstairs and grabbed his shotgun from where it hung on the wall, firing at the coffin as it came through the doorway. Still, the now partially shattered continued towards him. BUMP, BUMP, BUMP.

In desperation, the man ran into the bathroom, closed the door, and backed as far as he could. He knew the coffin would simply break down the door. However, the man did not intend to give up. Grabbing a bottle of cough syrup, he hurled it at the coffin. The bottle shattered, covering the coffin with cough syrup. And the coffin stopped.

Be Careful What You Wish For

A young girl was late for school one morning, so she took a shortcut, through a neighborhood her Mom told her was dangerous. "Promise me you will never walk to school that way," her mother had said, "because it is full of temptation." Her mother went on to tell her that she had been tempted but resisted. She was afraid her daughter was too young to do so.

The young girl was almost to school and could not understand why her mother had issued such a warning. She had seen nothing tempting - no candy, toys, or other goodies. Just then, she saw, right in front of her, a large, copper pot. She scooped it up and rubbed it on the leg of her pants to clean it off as she thought it might be good to share for Show and Tell. Out popped a genie. She knew it was a genie from movies and television shows.

"I will grant you three wishes," said the genie.

The girl was very smart for her age and thought for a minute before responding, "Okay. For the first wish, I want unlimited wishes that will come true."

"Clever girl," said the genie. "And for wish number two?"

"I want millions of dollars!"

"Very good choice. And wish number three?"

"I want to make the best grades and be the most popular girl in school." Just as she finished, she could hear the school bell ring. "Oh, no, look what you have done! I am going to be late for school and get a detention. I wish I was dead!"

With a chuckle, the genie granted her wish.

When the campfire is lit, the moon is high, and everyone is relaxing, it is the perfect time to tell scary stories. All the stories we have shared with you are variations of favorite tales, some of which have been around for fifty years or more. Add sound effects and scary voices to entertain your listeners. Enjoy!

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14 Best Campfire Stories (Scary / Funny / Creepy) - Icebreaker Ideas

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Sitting around a campfire in the dark is a perfect time for telling stories. The stories in this article are designed for many different camping experiences and differing groups of campers. Choose one of our scary campfire stories for older kids and adults, or a funny camp fire story for younger kids.

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Some good reading and writing is what we need...

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Some good reading and writing is what we need...

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“Dear Reader of Tomorrow (and Today),

When I was your age I had an agreement with my mother: Whenever she went shopping, she left me at a bookstore or a library. Wherever we were in the world, that was our arrangement, and it made us both happy. As a result, I didn’t complain about how long it took her to shop, ever. If anything, when she came to get me, even though I loved her, I was a little sad.

They called me a bookworm when I was your age. I taught myself to read and walk at the same time so I could read more while I walked to school. My mother was always telling me I was going to ruin my eyes by reading so much but I am still the only one in my family who doesn’t need glasses — it may be I even strengthened my eyes.

I started reading so much back then because we had just moved to Maine and I had wanted us to stay in Guam. Maine seemed hard, cold and hopeless compared to the beautiful South Pacific island with warm seas and colorful fish that we had left behind. And while there was no way for me to return, in books I found doors to other worlds besides the one around me — and many other lives. Pretty soon, I was sneaking away to read, and it was because each of these books I loved felt like a present left behind for me by a stranger who somehow knew exactly how I felt.

I learned, gradually, to love Maine as much as Guam. But I read now for the same I reasons I read then — to feel less alone. But I read for more than that: Reading teaches me the answers to problems I haven’t had yet, or to problems I didn’t even know how to describe. And when I feel less alone with what troubles me, it is easier to find solutions. A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have. Books aren’t just a door to another world — each book is part of a door to the whole world, a door that always has more behind it. Which is why I still can’t think of anything I’d rather do more than read.”

Yours truly,

Alexander Chee

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Two sisters, Sofia and Nicole aged 5 and 7, were on HOLIDAY with their grandparents in a mountain village.

They were very bored because there was nothing to do or even to visit.

So one day walking in a small path near their house, while they were gathering blackberries to make jam with their grandmother, they saw an uninhabited house with a big sign attached to the door that said "Do not enter".

The house in fact - ACCORDING TO the people of the town - was cursed: at night you could hear strange noises and you could see strange lights and distant voices, who had entered despite the prohibition, had never returned.

The two sisters entered;  they still didn't know how to read well.

They entered and from that day they never returned.

No one has ever known what happened to them.

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One night a boy was driving home, that night it was cold and the road was dark and isolated.
Suddenly in front of the street the boy saw a girl with a bouquet of flowers in her hand, he put his foot on the brake in time; he picked up the girl in the car to take her home, the boy tried to ask her a few questions about why she was on the road at night, but the girl didn't answer him, only gave him the indications of her house. When they arrived the boy turned to the girl, but she was gone, he suspiciously rang the bell of the house that the girl showed him. A woman opened the door, the boy asked her if a girl had come in with a bunch of flowers in her hand, the woman answered that her daughter died seven years ago in a wood while picking flowers.

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"On a full moon night guys like us were camping. Suddenly, however, footsteps could be heard in the distance. First one foot,then the other until everything stopped. From that moment on, only the sound of the wind in the branches and the sound of the camp fire were audible. But suddently their istructor emerged from a bush and laughed at the expressions of his mates, but he had not realised that he had something else behind him. A woman with long white hair, dirty white skin, torn clothes,very thin yellow eyes like those of snakes. They looked into each other's eyes until the boys started running and the strange woman followed them. Until, in a second the woman joined them and then -""BOO!""What?! Jamie!""You guys have to see your faces! They are incledible! Hahaha!!"

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There was once a teenage girl that lived in a small town with her mom and dad. She was going to be a freshman in high school and was invited to a party before the school started.
She saw it as an opportunity to make new friendships, so she accepted the invite.
When she arrived at the venue, she started looking around and saw that there was a lot of alcohol, which she decided to stay away from.
A group of older girls saw her standing by herself and told her to tag along for a game of truth or dare. When her turn came, she chose dare and she had to drink four shots of alcohol. Because she didn't want to be a party pooper, she accepted the dare and felt very dizzy after drinking. It was a long night and the only thing she remembered was going home and going to sleep.
The next morning she woke up and read the headlines of the daily newspaper: GIRL GONE MISSING AT HIGH SCHOOL PARTY LAST NIGHT. She started to panic and next thing she knew the police were knocking at her door.

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For Sophie's birthday,her mother went to a shop and bought her a doll that seemed a normal doll without anything wrong.
After a couple of days , Sophie left "Giorgia"(the doll) on the bed and then she went to school .When she came back the doll wasn't on the bed anymore it was sitting on the chair.At the beginning the girl didn't give much importance about that.
Days passed and she noticed that the doll was changing every time it position, Sophie tought she was going crazy so she throw Giorgia in the trash.
The next day when she was walking in her house she saw a piece of paper ,it was a message written with blood and it says "Miss me?",she was scared so she tryied to go out and look for help ,however the door couldn't open and Sophie started floating ,something invisible strangled her and she died.
The doll was taken by a medium and enclosed it into a box with holy symbols and every week an exorcist pray for the possesed doll.

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Asia D’s story
Gaia Is a girl, she is 9 years old, she likes being in the company and play with your friends.
Every evening she love play with her mother and your peluches. But one day her mother had to go a visit.
Gaia when come back home, put away the peluches.
After many days his dad told her that she had a surprise for her.
Your dad opened the door and Gaia saw your mother.
Finally they went to bed happy.

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Once upon a time there was a man, a weird man who used to wear winter clothes in summer and summer clothes in winter, and he used to wear strange glasses and strange shoes. Every morning he walked the dog, and at the same time I usually went working, because that weird man was my neighbour.

One sunday, I woke up early and I decided to follow the man because I really wanted to know more about him. I found him and I followed him. He walked a very long distance, until he arrived in a field, and I hid behind a tree.

He opened a manhole and he entered. I could hear some voices crying, I was terrifyied. Some minutes later he came out and walked back with his dog.

The next night I went there because I had to know the truth. It was midnight and nobody was around. I arrived there and then I broke the manhole and entered.
Everything was dark and I could smell a really awful smell.
I turned the lights on and I saw something really terrifying.

The room was full of dead and naked bodies. I shouted and I felt disgusted and afraid. I took my phone to call the police, when that man, that weird man was suddenly in front of me and said: "It's too late".

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"The door"
A long time  ago when my mother's aunt died, stranger things happened.  While she was in the house of her dead aunt and was chatting with her grandmother, she falls fell asleep so my mother remained alone.

A total silence is made…

There was only her and her dead aunt ... they all seemed to have disappeared.

At one point the door's room where the deceased was suddenly, shut.  Immediately the grandmother wakes woke up and said: "Who was it? Did my daughter woke up?"

Both were scared.

The door opens ooened and the aunt's husband, who had fallen asleep in a chair, comes came out from behind....

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It was a dark and stormy night. It was 11:00pm and Anna was going to bed, when she saw a scary figure.”Who’s there” she shouted, then she saw a lion followed by a scary roar.
It looked like the lion from the local circus that had been announced on the television. So she felt very scared. She ran to her bed and she pulled her blanket over her head. She started to shout for her parents but there was no reply so she remembered that they were at a night party.
Although she felt so frightened she fell asleep.
Next morning she narrated the incident to her parents

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''BLOODY MARY''

Many years ago there was a child named Mafalda and she was 10 years old.

One day she went into a toy store to buy a new doll. The seller, who was a strange and mysterious man, recommended  to her a doll with big black eyes and large red breids. The man told that her name was BloodyMary and recommended to Mafalda to never to leave her alone because something terrible could happen, but the child listened to him without much interest.

Just arrived at home, Mafalda and BloodyMary went to the swing but after 10 minutes it came a very big rain and the child came back to the house and left the doll ALONE in the rain. In the evening Mafalda went to bed and at a certain point she heard a little voice saying: Mafaldaaaa Mafaldaaaa I’m coming up the stairssss; and the child hid herself under the covers: Mafaldaaaa Mafaldaaaa I’m opening the doorrrr, Mafaldaaaa Madaldaaaa I’m getting on the bed, Mafaldaaaa Mafaldaaaa I’m going to ………………………………… K I L L  Y O U !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mafalda looked around and saw her new doll, blood stained with a hammer in her hand and before the child noticed it  the doll had already hit her 7 times with the weapon and so the doll killed Mafalda just because she had left her alone.

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“Hi, I’m Anna and this is the story of how my life has totally changed. I’m a young woman and a serving girl who works for a rich family in the 19th Century in England. I’m not alone, I live and serve with four other women who are about my age.

It all started when my best friend Lily died in her sleep and only at in the morning I found out that she wasn’t breathing anymore. I was devastated and I couldn’t sleep for a while. When I fell asleep I had terrible nightmares where Lily was screaming and at night I always heard scraping sounds near the window.

At last , one night, I remembered that when she died I forgot to open the window to let her spirit out. I immediately ran to open it while hoping that it wasn’t too late. From that moment I was able to sleep although sometimes I dreamt dead people.
There was another problem: some mornings I woke up with feet and the nightgown dirty of earth. It didn’t seem anything too strange, because I thought they were just bad dreams, until I woke up in an asylum.

At first I didn’t know why everybody was looking at me terrified with mouth and eyes open. Then I found out that they accused me of murder. After a few minutes I realised that I couldn’t remember anything of the last two weeks. But there was one thing I could hear: Lily’s voice whispering me that she was sorry.

Here I can only hear people screaming and trying to escape from this hell.
I think I’m becoming crazy insane too.”

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There was a young boy once, he was 12 years old and loved video games. One time he was playing on his console, home alone because his parents were having a drink with friends.

He was playing a very hard game, and he kept losing because he was very stressed by it.
"If only this game ran better, I would've won that time!" "I was so close! If I was there, I would've surely won!" "What's wrong with this game? I'm not that bad!"

He was getting very angry, when suddendly, after what seemed like the hundreth death, instead of restarting normally, the game presented a question: "Do you think you have what it takes to be the next hero?" The boy, although puzzeled by the question, pressed "YES".

After that, the screen turned in a static mess and a face could barely be seen. A hand came out of the screen just as the boy realised what terrible mistake he just did made but it was too late. He could not go back.

He lost all his senses, and woke up in an unfamiliar place. It didn't take him long to realise where he was. Just as he did, he heard a growl behind him, very similar to that of the enemy he was fighting...

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“Everything started as a joke…  we were bored and wanted to try something new, so Claire, Josh, Chris, Jessica and I decided to go to the Cornell bridge. We heard some really spooky stories about that place, most specifically about the suicides that a lot of people committed there . It was located  near the Cornell University, the college we went to, so we thought that it was the perfect location for our party.
We drank a lot and we were exhausted, so we decided to stay the night and lighted a fire.
After a long dance-off we went to our camping tents and started to narrate spooky stories about the bridge. Everything was fine when, suddenly, we heard some footsteps coming from behind the tent. After that, Josh decided to make sure that everything was okay so he went out and started walking around the fire place.
The fire burned out and we heard him screaming and an extremely loud gun shot. All of us ran out of the tent and desperately started to look for him. Unfortunately we found him... I mean, we found his bleeding body. We tried to help him but we failed.
I was taking my phone out of the pocket to call 911, when something hit my head. I don’t remember what happened after that... It’s like a giant black hole..."
“Don’t worry, we will find who killed your friends” said the police officer.

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A young girl was walking home from school. Once she arrived at the front door she started searching for the house keys in her backpack but she couldn't find them. She panicked, since there was no one at home. Her parents were at work and they couldn't get home until 7 PM.
There was nothing she could have done but wait.

Time was passing fast. It was only 5 PM when it started getting darker and darker, since it was winter.

"Only two more hours" she kept telling herself.
While she was reading a school book with her phone's flashlight, she heard the sound of some broken branches, as if someone was slowly walking towards her. She got up quickly and started looking around with the flashlight.
The sound was getting closer and faster. She was frightened.
She started stepping back, but after a few moments a black cat came out of some bushes and started meowing at her. The girl took a deep breath and sat back down, waiting for her parents to come home.

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Some years ago, Maria, a girl who lived in Trentino, in Italy, after a strong fight with her parents decided to run away from home.
Not knowing where to go, she decided to go to her grandmother's house.

To get there you had to take a small road through the woods.
Usually that street was very bright with street lamps, while this time it was completely dark, but Maria didn't worry.

At one point, as she was walking, she heard noises behind her, she didn't give it too much weight  importance and kept walking.
After a while she heard an even louder noise, then at that point she turned and saw a man dressed in black who was following her.
She accelerated the pace and tried to sow him.
She was very scared, also because if something happened, nobody would have noticed.

The man continued to follow her all the time, until Maria finally came to her grandmother and calmed down...

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A long time ago a little girl wanted a doll and asked her parents if they could buy it.

Her parents decided to buy it for her. They went to a store in the city centre, the girl decided the doll and the salesgirl told to her never to leave the doll alone.

One day, the parents of the girl went to a restaurant and leave left the girl with a babysitter at home.

For the little girl it was time to go to sleep bed, she said goodbye to the babysitter and she went to the bedroom but she forgot the doll in the living room alone.

Around midnight the doll came to life, went in to the kitchen and took a knife and went up the stairs.

When the doll arrived in the girl’s bedroom, it began to tell her:” I’m under your bed”. It repeated it several times and then killed the girl...

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Tara was an orphan girl because her parents were died during a cruise trip.

She was adopted by her uncle, who lived in a house near the sea.

Every day she spent time on the beach for was watching the waves of the sea

Until one day, while she was looking the sea, she seems to hear her mother’s voice

So she was starting to walk towards slowly to the sea. Although was autumn she didn’t feel cold.

She was entering in the water more and more until her figure disappeared…

The uncles saw she didn’t return, they went to the beach where they knew they would find her. But she wasn’t there…

They called the police who searched her for a long time

However she has never been found...

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Once upon a time, there was a young boy, called Jason, who was coming back home from school when he saw AN old, abandoned building.

Curious, he entered to see what was inside. He was alone but he was quite calm and courageous. He saw a lot of fascinating stuff.

Although he was tired, he stayed there for about about one hour.

He was looking for the exit door when he felt something touching him.

He turned around slowly to see what it was.

The first thing he saw, it was a cold hand on his shoulder.

Eventually, he saw the face of HIS mum. She was looking for him, she was worried.

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Many years ago there was a family who lived in Udine. They were in four: mum, dad and two twin brothers. They were 7 years old.

One night their parents were at work and they couldn’t came come home before 11 p.m., then so they called the babysitter for their children.
When the baby sitter arrived at home, the two brothers were watching the TV, but she told them it was time to go to sleep bed, because it was getting late so she brought them to sleep bed.

After ten minutes, one of the two children got up because he heard strange noies. When the babysitter saw him, she became nervous and she said to told the child to go back to bed.

The children got up together at 2 a.m. because they heard strange noises for the second time. Then, they went into the living room and they found the babysitter: she was eating the body of an animal. She saw them and she started to run to catch them. They started to run and they left home. They arrived at the park when they both fell asleep.

When they opened their eyes, they found themselves in their bed again and near them, there was their babysitter.

They thought it was a dream but it is was not...

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It was a cold and foggy day of December, when a guy boy decided to go for a walk in the wood.
While it he was walking among the threes, he saw an old mansion and he decided to go there and see whether there was someone in the house.
After he entered, he saw that nobody was there and the furniture was very old.
Suddenly he heard a noise behind him, so he looked over his shoulder and saw that the walls were covered by blood and few seconds later he felt very cold: someone started to scream while the man started to ran away in the wood.
The man arrived safe at home and he went to bed.
The day after, the man went into the wood with the Police but the house had disappeared.
The Police officer thought that the man was probably insane so he called the nearest asylum.
After that the man was ospitalised in a psychiatric hospital.

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A 17 year old girl was alone at home while her parents had gone out

She heard the phone ringing

.  "Hi, who is it?  " the voice said.

" I really think you know me, as I know you " she answered.

" I don't understand "

“look out of your window and you'll see me"

The stranger hanged up the phone.

The girl was intrigued but also frightened so she went to the garden but forgot to close the door of the house, but she saw no one and returned.

at home waiting for her there was the murderer who killed her.

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As soon as I saved this document I heard a strange noise in the living room...

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Rose was a very special girl, she was 10 years old and she lived in New York.

She loved to play with dolls, and on her 12th birthday her dad, presented a very misterious doll to her.

She really loved that present, but her friends at school made fun of her, she was very angry and she returned home.

The following day, after she went to school  with her doll, she wanted to kill she's her "friends"...

Suddenly her friends laughed....
Three minutes later they were dead.

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One Friday night Lucy, a young girl, was alone at home because her parents were at the restaurant.
She was bored so she decided to watch a horror film. She loved horror films.
When she finished watching the film, she went into the kitchen and she heard a noise coming  from the fridge. She tryed tried to keep calm. But 5 minutes later she heard again that noise again. She wasn't so scared because she thought that it was in her mind.
Although she was a less scared, she opened the fridge and she escaped found that an orange felt had fallen down.
However, she started to watch another horror film.
When she finished the other film she heard again that noise again, but this time it was coming from the sofa where she was sitting.
Although she wasn't very scared, she felt something like a hand taking her from her neck.
She tryed tried to broke break free and she started to cry.
But she heard a familiar voice coming from behind the sofa
It was her dad, who took her from her neck for a trick. Lucy didn't believe in what her dad did had done
However she and her parents laughed a lot about what had happened....

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Once upon a time there were me and two little friends of mine in an abandoned old farm.

We were playing in the garden, when there was  we heard a noise that was coming from inside. We wanted to go in and saw see what was going.

Inside the od farm there was nothing... We looked around in all the rooms ... nobody was  there.

A few moments later, one of my friends fell down and he broke his leg.

Suddenly, the windows started banging, the door closed and we felt something mysterious was approaching. We panicked and we started to run away.

We left in a hurry and began to flee through the fields as fast as possible, but all of a sudden I saw everything vanish. I understood therefore that it was all a dream, a bad dream.