The pink hands could be from a cursed person. Maybe a magician's experiment went wrong and the person's hands turned pink and they became a malevolent force. For example, if the magician was trying to create a new form of life and something in the spell made the hands mutate into these scary pink ones that now haunt people.
Perhaps they are the hands of a long - dead serial killer. In life, the killer used their hands to commit heinous crimes. After death, the hands remained, filled with the evil energy of their past deeds. The pink color could be a sign of the blood that was once on them, now a permanent stain in the afterlife, reaching out to terrify the living.
Perhaps it's from a dark ritual. The person performing the ritual had to use their hands to handle some dark and bloody substances, and that's why their hands are bloody. In a scary story, this could be part of a curse that spreads fear to anyone who sees the bloody hands.
In a dark, abandoned asylum, there were reports of pink hands. These hands seemed to belong to a patient who had long passed away. A journalist decided to investigate. As he walked through the cold corridors, he felt a strange presence. Then, he saw the pink hands sliding under the door of one of the rooms. He opened the door, and a gust of cold air hit him. The pink hands were gone, but he could still feel them brushing against his skin. He quickly left the asylum, vowing never to return.
The scariest part might be when the pink hearts are associated with a loss of self. Imagine a story where people who come in contact with the pink hearts gradually lose their memories and personalities, becoming empty shells while the pink hearts seem to thrive on their essence. It's a slow and terrifying transformation that takes away what makes a person human.
In such a story, it could be that the person who licks hands gradually loses their ability to communicate in a normal way. Instead, they start making strange guttural sounds while licking, as if they are being controlled by an unknown force. This force could be an ancient evil that has been awakened and is using the person's body to manifest its presence. As the story progresses, the person's appearance might also change, becoming more and more distorted, with their eyes taking on a glazed and menacing look.
The scariest part could be when the pink jelly bean starts to change in an unexpected and menacing way, like turning into a monster. It catches you off guard because you initially think it's just a normal, sweet jelly bean.
Perhaps it's a ghost tied to a certain place. The ghost might be repeating an action from its past life, like carrying a heavy object and dropping it over and over, which results in the thumpety thump. For example, if the ghost was a miner in its past life and it's now in the old mine shaft where it used to work, the sound could be it dropping its pickaxe in a never - ending loop.
The origin could be from people's fear of the unknown in nature. Maybe they heard strange animal sounds in the wild that they didn't understand, like a lizard's tongue flicking which could be the 'lick lick' sound, and their imagination turned it into a scary story.
It could be a result of some kind of pollution or mutation. Maybe chemicals in the water made the fish develop a strange and scary face.
They might have belonged to a deranged killer. After years of committing heinous acts, the boots became a symbol of his evil deeds and now carry a malevolent energy. For example, in some horror stories, serial killers have an item that they keep as a sort of 'trophy' and the boots could be that for this particular killer.
It could be from a genetic experiment gone wrong. Scientists were trying to create a new type of humanoid, but something went terribly wrong, and the result was a being with skinny toes that was full of rage and now lurks in the shadows seeking revenge on those who made it.