10 Terrifying True Scary Stories (Volume 8)

[Music] [Music] there was a brief period of time that i lived alone when i freshly moved out of my parents house and before i met my girlfriend and she moved in i lived in a small one-bedroom apartment in the downstairs of someone else's house i spent a lot of time alone during this period of my life besides when i was at school or work and so i spent a lot of my time watching movies specifically i liked watching scary movies pretty often even as an at the time 21 year old guy i still would be

a little spooked trying to sleep after watching a scary movie especially living alone in that apartment and every time i did i would look around the room at a few points i would even turn the bedside lamp on just to check around the room the tenant upstairs wasn't home that night as his car wasn't in the driveway so the sounds i was hearing couldn't have been footsteps upstairs or anything like that my nerves were really starting to set in at one point because i just kept hearing noises and to be honest i couldn't tell from

where in the house they were coming from [Music] i got up to head over to the door of the bedroom and opened it outside of my bedroom was a very narrow hallway which had a door to the bathroom and then at the end of the hallway opened up to the living room at the end of this hallway though like a scene right out of the movie i had watched not even an hour earlier there was someone standing at the far end of the hallway right by the kitchen the moonlight from outside coming into the bedroom

windows and the windows in the living room was enough to see her this woman looking right back at me she started to walk backwards while still facing me i didn't care though i still screamed and backed into my room before slamming the door shut and locking it she didn't come running over and pounding on the door or anything like that instead i heard running up the half flight of stairs to the exit of my apartment and then the door slammed shut i was frozen in shock for at least 10 minutes before i felt okay to

take my phone and leave the bedroom to check the apartment it didn't take long it was a small apartment with not many hiding places it was empty i rushed to lock the door wondering who that could have been and how they got in i didn't call the police i couldn't tell you why but the next day i called the landlord and told him about it he made a phone call to the upstairs tenant and what i learned shocked me the woman that broke into my apartment was an ex-lover of the man who lived upstairs a

crazy one at that and after finding his address somehow she broke into the wrong part of the house my apartment the upstairs tenant came down to my door and apologized to me that following day but i never got much detail from him or the landlord i still wonder what that woman was planning on doing to him i'm not a fan of my dad's girlfriend at all not from the start her name is kathy my dad has been widowed since 2019 when our mom died and i know he's gotten lonely and he's pretty much ready to

settle with anybody now even kathy and against my warnings he doesn't listen i've been seeing her do some sketchy things around the house and it's really starting to freak me out now i'll start from the beginning i have two siblings my 10 year old brother jake and my two-year-old brother scotty from the day he introduced her to us i didn't like something about her smile it was just unsettlingly wide and exaggerated pretty soon he'd start bringing her around a lot more and i just never loved her honestly but at first it was only because i

felt something was off about her personality then things started happening she's been staying with us for a while now and a few weeks ago i caught her in my dad's closet while he wasn't home my dad's safe is in his closet along with where he hides the combination and some other valuables when she saw me at the doorway she smiled and said hey what's up sweetie to me with her annoying creepy smile i didn't say anything other than nothing then she shut his closet door and i walked away to my room i told my dad

about it but he didn't seem concerned a few days after that while my dad was at work again i just got back from school and i was walking upstairs to my room and as i was i saw kathy leave my little brother jake's room and shut the door behind her i asked her what she was doing in his room she smiled and said i was just opening the window it's hot in the house i didn't answer and walked up to my room when i heard her go downstairs eventually i snuck to jake's room to check

if she actually had opened the window and both windows were shut something was up with this lady and i knew it and i still know it i told my dad again and in response he asked me to just please be patient with the situation and that he knows i don't care for kathy i didn't bother telling jake fast forward to two days ago jake my dad and i were all not home and kathy was babysitting scotty i came home unannounced but i wanted to be secretive about it because i wanted to see if i could

catch her doing anything again i snuck into the house and went to my room quietly eventually from the kitchen downstairs i started to hear scotty crying not regular crying like a very distressed kind of crying and i heard kathy screaming at the top of her lungs to shut the f up it was the first time i heard her raise her voice and i believe it was the first time i was hearing her true colors come out i ran downstairs to yell at her to leave my brother alone she was startled and shocked that i was

home and for the first time she didn't give me her creepy smile she looked at me blankly and went downstairs and shut the door i called my dad and told him right away and that night my dad had a conversation with her about it i don't know how it went but i assume not good because that night i woke up in the middle of the night to something and looked up into my room there was someone in my room and they quickly left the room and shut the door behind them i got out of bed

and opened my door and as i got into the hall i saw and heard my dad's bedroom door close i went over to my dad's room and opened the door and both kathy and my dad were laying in the bed i woke my dad up furiously and told him kathy was just in my room she denied the whole thing saying she was in bed i don't know if my dad believed me or not but he told me to go back to my room and he'd talk with kathy i obeyed and i heard them whispering as

i shut the door i went back to bed and i was scared i'm still scared i want her out of the house and out of our lives i think she's dangerous why was she in my room it's freaking me out i worry for my family's well-being and i don't know what we can do [Music] this one goes back a few years ago to when i was 30 years old i was at my condo in fort lauderdale florida my condo which i still own is on the second floor of a decently nice building that i won't

name for privacy reasons whenever i go down there it's in the colder months up north and i'm a complete beach bum when i go down there luckily for me i work remotely for my job through my laptop and phone so i've been able to retreat down there whenever i'd like fort lauderdale is for the most part a pretty clean and safe city and the specific location my building is in is no exception that is usually it was the middle of january it was late at night past 10 o'clock i was out on my balcony with

my feet over the railing on my laptop when all of a sudden i heard from down below on the ground someone yelling something they were yelling yo and hey you at first i didn't move taking the assumption that whoever it was was talking to someone else they couldn't possibly be calling up to me but they followed with hey you up there and my heart skipped a beat because now i knew they were talking to me my main question was why i set my laptop down on the chair and looked over the railing down to the

ground below there was a guy in front of a car in the parking lot looking up at me and he said yeah you i asked what's up he told me to come down there so he could show me something cool i took a better look at this guy some guy with a backwards hat and tank top on i assumed he was just some punky kid messing with me so i ignored him and sat back down when i did that i heard him laughing as he said i'm gonna come up there and skin you alive you

prick i stood up again and looked at him he had this unsettling and sinister smile on his face i realized he looked older than i initially thought he wasn't some kid i literally opened my mouth to shout something back at him but for some reason i didn't bother i grabbed my laptop and went inside and shut the sliding door i expected him to yell up a couple things afterwards but i didn't hear him do so as uncomfortable as that made me i felt much safer being inside i chucked it up to just the occasional coked

up florida lunatic on the streets but things became next level when the silence of the room was broken by pounding on my condo door accompanied with a voice yelling obscenities and threats at me it was the guy again the bangs were so loud i was genuinely concerned he was gonna break the door down all i could do was yell i'm calling the police i didn't phase him his bangs turned to these carving and stabbing noises it probably all lasted for about a minute or two but felt like a century until he gave one more loud

angry bang screamed one more obscenity at me then left i knew because i checked through the peephole i called the police after the ordeal just to show them and report it to them on the other side of the door there were several stab marks in it confirming i did hear him stabbing at it and confirming this man had a knife i prayed nobody was harmed that night i doubt he knew me i think he was just a really drugged out crazy person looking to hurt someone [Music] i once spent a night in jail i know

everyone says it but i didn't do [ __ ] i was attacked by a bouncer at a nightclub in my hometown because some girl who i had history with was there and she had the nerve to lie to a bouncer and tell him i was touching her and her friends inappropriately when i never even said a word to them the bouncer came and put his hands on me and started pushing me out of the club and honestly i pushed back in my drunken state and of course cops were outside the bar and between a drunk

guy and a club bouncer who are they gonna side with well i end up handcuffed in the back of a cop car and i'm escorted to jail where i spent the night all that was in the cell was one wooden bar for sitting on and this other guy besides me he asked what i'm in for and i told him for [ __ ] i took one look at the guy and i knew i didn't belong here he had tattoos on his face he was missing a front tooth and he just had this face that said

don't mess with me or i'll cap you i didn't want to rub him the wrong way so i just tried talking with him if he talked to me at one point i did open up to him a bit just because of my anger at the situation and i needed to vent during this time i told him some delicate info like where i was from which is definitely the nicer side of town i told him how i had people over that night since my parents were away and we all pre-games and went to the club i

basically told him the rundown of the whole night since i was drunk i wanted to just try and sleep but he'd keep talking to me and it was getting annoying eventually i think he caught on and shut up the next morning we had to go to court because yes sadly i was charged with assault and trespassing two bogus charges my cellmate had to go too i saw the judge before him though he was one of the other offenders in the back of the court listening to my charges i was released with a future court date

set a complete nightmare but that night when i was at home and all the windows were open so i heard everything from outside i was hearing footsteps circling the house multiple sets of footsteps i started to shut all my windows one by one on the first floor then i got to the backyard door which is a sliding glass door looking out to the deck i curiously flicked on the deck light and immediately two dudes ran out from the light into the darkness i recognized one of them to be my cellmate i closed the blind to

the door and continued closing the rest of the windows i couldn't believe he found me but he was obviously there to rob our house blind after i told him how my parents were away he must have seen dollar signs when i told him inside of town i was in and he probably heard my name called in the courtroom and one quick google search of my simple name turned up my address the two dudes took off i believe because i didn't hear from them the rest of the night i never told my parents i was arrested

and because of that i never told them about how my cellmate almost came and robbed our house this is something that just happened to me and i don't know how to feel about it other than freaked out i'm not a spiritual person at all i've been on and off seeing this guy named spencer i met him through a co-worker one night when we were out together at a bar and we hit it off i finally introduced him to my family while my parents were indifferent about him my grandparents didn't really care for him my grandma

especially they both said they saw something bad in him that he doesn't seem like a good guy my grandma mostly this wasn't after one time meeting though this was after i brought him around multiple times and everyone could get a good idea about him and honestly i started to see what they meant because spencer and i would get into constant arguments and he would lose his temper fairly easy on me for this we'd be on and off constantly there was one night that i felt like he was about to raise his hands to me but

he held back and then calmed down this was when i said i'm done and dropped him or so i thought i was going to my grandma was especially happy and said i could do much better then she went on about how i should go find a nice italian boy from a nice family like she always did anyway not long after this my grandma died of a heart attack during my grieving i hung a picture of my grandma up on my wall in my room to commemorate her this was only a month ago i had been

having a horrible month and out of weakness when spencer reached out to me two weeks ago i answered and we saw each other we had been seeing each other every night these past two weeks and i really thought he had changed because we hadn't argued a single time and i just felt safe around him well only a few days ago spencer and i agreed to be official boyfriend and girlfriend and that night i woke up to a crash in my room i panicked and flicked on the lamp and it took me a moment to notice

the picture of my grandma wasn't on the wall anymore i got up and saw the frame had fallen to the floor and cracked the picture frame i hung of my grandma had fallen and cracked on the night i agreed to date spencer i held the frame in my hand my heart in my throat my whole body shaking i called spencer the next day and told him i think we should go our separate ways for a while as my head isn't in the right place and he blew up on the phone in anger and that phone

call proved my grandma was right about him but that picture frame falling and breaking what could have caused it there was no draft in the room even as i imagined that it was somehow a sign for my grandma do you realize how freaking scary that is [Music] i took my jeep on a road trip to colorado to do some off-roading in the wilderness i was doing a bunch of trails in the red feather lakes and i was ending the night off on the dead man's road trail it was a somewhat challenging trail but the scenery

was unbeatable i packed a sleeping bag and planned on sleeping in the back of my jeep with the back seats folded down i pulled somewhere off the immediate trail just off the slight chance some other night drivers would pass by but that was very unlikely i guess people can call me a weirdo for enjoying off-roading on my own and camping alone but i've always liked doing things solo i used the word camping because i do consider this to just be luxury camping instead of being in a tent i'm in the back of my jeep in

the middle of the woods i ate some of the protein bars and other snacks i brought as my little dinner then i set up my sleeping bag in the back in case you're wondering if i was doing this in the dark i had the led light bar on my jeep on which basically lit up the entire surrounding area pretty nicely so i finally crawl into the sleeping bag and i'd be lying if i said it's comfortable sleeping back there it's the price to pay for off-roading in the sunrise for me i had the windows all

closed to avoid bugs getting in but i still heard everything outside and then it happened i heard a voice from out in the woods followed by a short loud laughter as deep into the trail i was there's no way someone was just walking around out there not in this total darkness i looked out the windows expecting to see headlights or taillights somewhere nope then i heard the voice again much clearer i couldn't tell if it was a man or woman at first i was shaking now though someone was out there that much was clear though

i was hearing a voice i didn't know what was being said just yet and then i laid there waiting for it again scared to death for a while just crickets then much closer now i heard in a clear voice belonging to either a woman or a young boy hello i see you there now i was ready to throw up i wanted to move to the driver's seat and drive but i was too scared to move i felt like if i just stayed laying down that whoever was out there wouldn't see me i know that makes

no sense but hiding and not moving was me clinging on to the hope that this wasn't actually happening then there was one loud bang on my rear windshield and i jumped up and practically dove over the two front seats into the driver's seat and i started the car and drove as quickly as i could manage down the trail scared they were running after me because i could only go so fast on this rocky terrain i was scared to look in the rearview mirror but when i did i didn't see anyone through the red glow of

my taillights it was a nightmare i was tired but drove the rest of the trail until i was back on pavement then i drove for miles until i reached a motel some people have asked me what if it was someone stranded who needed help and i say no way no one's out there that late in the pitch black laughing without a flashlight that deep on some trail and they wouldn't bang on my windshield just once like that if they weren't trying to scare me people are messed up always watch your back and be woke to

your surroundings [Music] this is one of the few unexplainable events i've experienced in my life i was home upstairs in my room writing my paper for my history class as far as i knew i was home alone but apparently i was mistaken because my mom's voice called out from downstairs yelling my name i called back what she didn't answer so slightly annoyed because i didn't want to be interrupted from my train of thought on my paper i reluctantly got up to go downstairs and see what she wanted when i got downstairs i looked around for

my mom but she wasn't anywhere in sight so i yelled out mom and she yelled back my name in response her voice came from down in the basement so i went to the basement door but strangely the lights were off i called down the stairs mom again and she called back i yelled out what are you doing down there with the lights off she didn't respond i flicked on the light and went down the stairs i heard my mom call my name again as i was near to the bottom of the steps it was getting

weird each time she called my name it sounded exactly the same like there was zero difference in inflection every single time she said my name i yelled out mom again and she once again yelled back my name she was nowhere to be seen in the basement but then i noticed the little crawl space closet door was open i call it that because it's a weird closet that you have to kind of crawl into but it takes up a large chunk of the basement that was the only place left in the basement that my mom could

be so i said mom one final time no answer this time i went closer to the closet door and got on my knees just to try and look in it was pitch black inside and i was starting to get freaked out i said mom are you messing with me there was no response at all just the quiet buzzing sound from the basement light i got back up and for some reason decided to sprint back upstairs slamming and locking the basement door behind me i didn't know what i had just witnessed and heard but i went

to grab the house phone and call my mom's cell number it rang a few times until my mom picked up and i learned that she was out grocery shopping i told her but she didn't believe my story of course she thought i was messing with her it took half an hour of begging her to believe me that she finally went along with it and when she and my dad were both home we all went down to the basement together the closet door was still open my dad went inside but there was no one in there

this still remains to be the most haunting unexplainable experience of my life i was only about nine years old when this happened i was sleeping over my grandma's house for the weekend which i often did when i was little it was a stormy day out and my grandma was out at the nearby grocery store getting ingredients for dinner i was in the living room watching spongebob when the phone rang there was obviously zero reason for me to answer the phone but you know i was a little kid with a little kid brain there's no explaining

any decisions made i went to the kitchen and picked up the phone and after my little kid voice said hello into the phone the man's voice on the other end said can i speak to the adult in the house i said she's not home and the voice responded so you're all alone right now i remember i paused for a second then said yeah even at my age i knew after he asked that that it probably wasn't a good idea to have picked up the phone the person on the other end then asked if the current

address he had on file was correct but i didn't answer that i hung up the phone and now i was nervous i was worried i might have just gotten my grandma in trouble nonetheless i went back to watching spongebob 20 minutes later or so there was a frantic knocking at the door i muted the tv and listened along with the knocking someone on the other end cried out please help it was a man i snuck over to the edge of the wall where the opening for the front door was to take a peek and see

if i saw anyone standing on the other side of the door through the glass at the top of the door that was a mistake because i did and they saw me too the man on the other side of the door immediately said little boy please open the door i'm hurt bad i ran to the corner of the room by the window and close the blinds so i could hide behind the couch i was so scared there were no cell phones back then i couldn't call my grandma the man kept pounding on the door his cries

for help turning more annoyed sounding and his knocks got louder and more frequent then the pounds on the door stopped and he started knocking on the window right next to me the creep started saying things like i'm not gonna hurt you and please i'm bleeding bad i started to cry in the corner still hiding behind the couch the pounding stopped finally and after a minute i ran to my grandma's room and locked the door i laid in her bed under the covers with only my head sticking out the rain hitting the windowsill and the occasional

distant thunder was weirdly calming at least for a little bit the man on the other side appeared at one of the windows and started trying to lift it open thank god all the windows were locked now i hid under the covers completely and i don't think he saw me in there this was the last time i saw or heard that man 20 minutes later i heard my grandma come in through the front door i ran into her arms crying and apologizing and told her everything she of course called the police and when the officers needed

me to give whatever details i could my grandma called me into the room and i answered their questions then she sent me back off to the guest bedroom to watch tv unfortunately that man was never caught for this at least my grandma never told my parents and she told me not to tell them either but she also never left me alone again anytime i slept over after that which wasn't many times long story short i was one unlocked door away from undoubtedly being kidnapped [Music] i'm a father of two kids they're 15 and 10. my

wife was out of the house at the time of this happening i was in my room taking a nap in the middle of the day my older son is always in and out all day every day with his friends so when i heard the front door constantly opening and closing it didn't concern me but eventually when i heard the storm door slammed shut for a fourth time i started to get annoyed and whistled at him to quiet down i started hearing other loud noises from across the hallway in the direction of my younger son keith's

room i imagined he was playing with his wrestling toys or something regardless even with my door shut the noise got to be too much it was just like a constant thumping sound like what could keith possibly be doing when i went across the hall to his room the noise became more clear and there was this literal thumping on the wall sound i went into his room the door was already opened i said keith's name angrily but i didn't see my son i saw some grown man facing the wall banging his head into the wall there

was blood on the wall from his constant banging the man gave me a side glance without turning his whole head i managed to tackle the man to the floor and that's when keith emerged from under his sheets where he was hiding the man didn't fight back he started yelling the psychotic mumbo jumbo proving his lacking sanity i told keith to go get the house phone while i held the man down after calling the police i was in that same position for at least five minutes before they arrived the man just kept smiling and laughing and

saying things that made no sense the entire time the man was ill or on some serious drugs or both i didn't press charges and i'm sure he was taken somewhere to get the help he clearly needed and to get him off the streets [Music] i've had many night terrors in my life and i've struggled with many sleeping disorders hell i can't even count how many times i've experienced sleep paralysis it's a truly disturbing thing i've also woken to seeing spiders and other giant bugs in my bed countless times for them to only disappear as i

start to snap back to reality but the hallucinations are always so real and vivid i always find myself jumping out of my bed screaming throwing pillows at the non-existent bugs and don't even get me started on the constant nightmares i have there was one stressful week of school that i was up to my ears and homework with all my classes and i was admittedly exhausted mentally and physically with half of my assignments due the next day which was friday i was up extremely late for a school night it had to be like 3 am and

i had to be up in 3 hours when i finally finished all my assignments i literally crashed into bed and i was out cold faster than i could remember and that night i was having a bad dream again the best i could describe this bizarre dream i was for some reason in this linear building that i was trying to escape and in each passing room i kept finding candies like it was a halloween attraction or something but in the dream i was running away from something and the something i was running away from kept laughing

it was a child's laughter and it sounded like it was coming from everywhere what caused me to wake up was when i made it to what was presumed to be the final door of the building the laughing was the loudest now and when i opened the door i woke up in my bed i couldn't move it was happening again then there was a laughter from the middle of the room i moved my eyes to focus to the middle of the room there were four people standing in the center of the room it was like a

family a tall male and female and then a small boy and girl they were all holding hands and they were all laughing looking at me with giant grins on their faces impossibly wide grins and as i felt this tight pressure in my chest which is common in sleep paralysis i started to feel like they were getting bigger or just getting closer like they were all floating towards me when my body finally permitted i threw the sheets off of me and threw my pillows into the middle of the room and screamed but the pillows had nothing

as the four figures were gone and the horrible laughing had stopped i had never experienced a hallucination like that and i have had sleep paralysis many times i had to see my doctor the next day who prescribed me new medication since then i've still had my share of night terrors but nothing even close to that you