Three. 'I woke up in the dark. Something was watching me.'
One. 'I heard a knock on the door. It was my own reflection.'
She heard a knock on the door. When she opened it, no one was there but she felt a cold hand on her shoulder.
She opened the old wardrobe. A pair of eyes stared back at her from the darkness.
I woke up to a cold hand on my shoulder. When I turned, there was no one there.
I woke up to find a handprint on my window. It was on the inside.
Well, they are very concise. For example, 'I saw a figure in the corner. It disappeared when I blinked.' They quickly set a spooky mood in just two sentences. There's no need for a long build - up, and they often leave a lot to the imagination. The first sentence usually creates a normal or slightly strange situation, like 'The phone rang at midnight.' And the second sentence takes it to a terrifying level, such as 'But no one was on the other end.' This brevity makes them very effective in delivering a quick horror fix.
A third story could be: 'I took a photo of the cemetery. When I looked at it later, there was a figure standing behind me that I didn't see when I took the picture.' It gives a feeling of unease as it implies that there was some sort of ghostly or otherworldly figure present at the cemetery that the person was unaware of until they saw the photo.
I was walking alone at night. Then I saw my own shadow moving without me.
The first one: I woke up in the middle of the night to a noise downstairs. When I looked down from the top of the stairs, I saw my own face staring back at me. Another one: She heard a knock on the door. When she opened it, there was nothing but a cold handprint on the doorknob.
I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a figure at the end of my bed, just staring at me with empty eyes.
He was home alone. Suddenly, all the doors slammed shut and he heard whispering in his ear.