A well - known prison scary story involves a prisoner who was wrongly accused and hanged. His ghost is said to haunt the prison yard where he was executed. Guards and inmates alike have reported seeing a figure in the shape of a man swinging from an invisible noose.
There's a story of a prison library. At night, the books would seem to move on their own. An inmate who worked in the library said that he often felt like someone was watching him. One time, he saw a face in the bookshelf, a face that looked like a long - dead inmate who used to love reading. After that, he refused to go back to the library at night.
In one prison, there was an old, abandoned wing. It was locked up for years. One day, a new inmate was sent to clean it. He heard cries for help from empty cells. When he told the guards, they just laughed it off. But later, other inmates who passed by that wing also heard the cries, and it became a very spooky part of the prison.
One of the scariest is 'My reflection smiled at me, but I wasn't.' It's terrifying because our reflection is supposed to be an exact copy of us. When it does something on its own, like smiling when we're not, it completely defies our understanding of how things should be. It makes us question our own reality and what might be lurking in the mirror.
I was in the forest. A strange howl echoed. When I turned, a pair of glowing eyes stared at me.
Well, 'I opened the old book. Faces stared out. Their screams filled my head.' It's short but very effective in creating a creepy image of a haunted book with faces that seem to have a life of their own and are able to project their screams into your mind.
There was a neighbor who always wore a long black coat. He would walk around the neighborhood at midnight. One time, a neighbor's dog barked at him and then suddenly died. People started to believe that the man in the black coat was cursed or something even scarier.
I was home alone. When I looked in the mirror, there was someone else's face staring back at me.
I opened the attic door. A figure in white rushed towards me. I slammed the door shut, heart pounding.
One scary story is about the Battle of Stalingrad. The city became a hellish landscape. Soldiers fought in the rubble, and civilians were trapped. There was a constant fear of being shot, bombed, or starving. It was a battle of attrition where the survival rate was extremely low, and the cold added to the horror, freezing the bodies of the fallen.
The story of the Bloody Mary is quite terrifying. If you go into a dark bathroom, say her name three times while looking into the mirror, she's supposed to appear. Her face is all pale and covered in blood, and she has a menacing look in her eyes. It gives me chills just thinking about it.
A well - known scary Nevada story involves a desolate ranch. People say that late at night, you can hear the howls of what seems like a large, unidentifiable beast. Some locals claim it could be a werewolf - like creature. There have been sightings of a large, furry figure lurking around the ranch's perimeter, sending shivers down the spines of those who live nearby.
There's a story about a police station near a cemetery. Some officers claimed that on foggy nights, they could see shadowy figures walking from the cemetery towards the station. One officer even said he saw a figure that looked like a long - dead criminal they had once arrested. It made them wonder if there was some kind of connection between the cemetery and the station that was allowing these apparitions to appear.