One creepy true story is about a cemetery caretaker. He noticed that every time he passed a certain grave, he would feel an intense cold. One day, he saw a strange mist hovering over the grave. When he looked into the records, he found that the person buried there had a very tragic death. It makes you wonder if there's something more to it.
There was a family that had a doll in their house. Strange things started to happen. The doll would move on its own, and they would hear giggling when no one was around. They later learned that the doll was said to be cursed. They got rid of it, but the memories of those creepy events still haunt them.
A woman once bought an antique mirror. Every time she looked into it, she saw a different face that wasn't her own. It was always a sad and pale face. She tried to get rid of the mirror, but it kept coming back to her. Finally, she found out that the mirror was from a house where a young girl had died tragically and her spirit was trapped in the mirror.
The story of the Headless Horseman is quite spooky. Legend has it that on Halloween night, he rides through the woods, his horse's hooves making an eerie sound. He's in search of his lost head, and if you cross his path, he might mistake you for the one who took it.
The unknown is a big factor. When you can't explain what's happening, like sudden cold drafts in a warm room or objects moving on their own, it's really spooky.
Well, a friend of mine was staying in a hotel room. In the middle of the night, she heard the sound of a child crying in the hallway. When she opened the door to check, there was no one there. But the crying continued. She called the front desk and they said there were no children on that floor.
In a particular urban cemetery, people have reported seeing a figure in a black cloak moving among the tombstones. This figure seems to disappear and reappear at will. One man was taking a shortcut through the cemetery at dusk and saw the figure. He thought it was a prankster at first, but as he got closer, the figure just vanished. It gave him such a fright that he now always takes the long way around the cemetery.
A family heirloom watch that would start ticking in the middle of the night when no one touched it. It had belonged to a relative who passed away under mysterious circumstances. The family thought it was the spirit of the relative trying to communicate. It was really creepy as it would stop as suddenly as it started.
At a certain boarding school, there was a large oak tree on the grounds. Underneath the tree, a student was rumored to have hanged himself years ago. Ever since then, students who walked past the tree at night would feel an overwhelming sense of dread. One night, a student was walking back to the dormitory and passed the tree. He saw a figure hanging from the branch. He rubbed his eyes, thinking it was a trick of the light, but when he looked again, the figure was still there. He ran as fast as he could back to the dorm, and the next day, he found out that other students had also reported seeing the same thing over the years.
One really creepy story is about the haunted house. There was this old, dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of town. People who entered at night would hear strange whispers and see shadowy figures. It was said that a family was brutally murdered there long ago, and their spirits still roam the halls.
A girl was babysitting at a big house. She put the kids to bed and was sitting in the living room. Suddenly, all the lights in the house started flickering. She thought it was just an electrical problem at first. But then she heard a child's giggle that didn't belong to the kids she was babysitting. She ran out of the house immediately.
There's a story about a person who got lost in a maze - like cemetery at night. They kept seeing a figure in white that would disappear whenever they got closer. It was so frightening that they ran around in panic until they finally found their way out.