There was a rock band on tour. They stayed in a creepy old mansion - like hotel. One of the guitarists went exploring in the attic and found an old diary. As he started to read it, he felt a cold breeze on his neck. When he turned around, he thought he saw a figure standing in the corner, but when he blinked, it was gone. He dropped the diary and ran out of the attic.
The tale of the headless horseman - like figure near the outskirts of Williamsburg is quite terrifying. He rides a horse and is often seen in the moonlight. Legend has it that he was a soldier who lost his head in battle and now roams the area in search of his lost head. The sight of this headless rider is enough to send shivers down anyone's spine.
The story of the LaLaurie Mansion is really scary. The thought of all those tortured slaves and their possible spirits lingering is terrifying. There are accounts of screams being heard from the mansion at night, as if the past horrors are still playing out.
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.
There's a story of a cursed mirror. A family bought an old mirror at a flea market on Halloween. That night, they saw strange faces in the mirror. Each night, the faces got scarier. It was later discovered that the mirror was used in a dark ritual long ago and carried a curse that affected anyone who looked into it. It took a powerful exorcism to get rid of the mirror and its curse.
A student was wrongly accused of cheating by a strict teacher. The student was expelled from school. Years later, the student became a successful hacker. He hacked into the school's system and released all of the teacher's embarrassing secrets. He also made it seem like the teacher was involved in illegal activities. The teacher lost his job and his reputation, a scary revenge for the false accusation years ago.
There's a story about a religious artifact that brought doom. A small village discovered an ancient religious idol. After it was brought into the village, people started having nightmares. The children were the first to be affected, seeing apparitions of a dark figure. As time passed, the adults also fell ill, and the crops failed. The villagers believed it was a curse from the idol because it was from a long - forgotten and perhaps malevolent religious sect.
There was a parrot that would repeat a strange, guttural scream every night at exactly 3 am. The owner couldn't figure out where it learned this sound. It was so unsettling that the owner eventually gave the parrot away.
The scariest I know is of a teacher who hanged herself in the school attic. Ever since, people would hear strange sobbing sounds coming from there. If you go near the attic during the night, you can sometimes see a faint silhouette of a woman swinging slightly, as if still in the act of her final moments.
A group of fishermen were on a riverbank when a bear showed up. It seemed interested in their catch. As they tried to shoo it away, it attacked one of them. The man was bitten on his arm and dragged a short distance. His friends had to fight off the bear with oars and fishing rods. It was a chaotic and scary situation.
Well, there's this one where a man put a fake spider the size of a dinner plate on his wife's pillow. His wife has a huge fear of spiders. When she saw it, she let out a blood - curdling scream. She was so shaken that she couldn't sleep in their bedroom for days. The man felt really bad afterwards but it was a very effective horror prank.