Scary stories (dont read if you are easily scared)

[HonouNoKage]

Here's a good piece of folklore from Japan, which can be found on scaryforkids.com:

(I did not make this up. I am only telling the way I remember. Also there is a movie out about it, which is called "Carved.")
A long time ago there was this samurai, and he had a beautiful wife who thought highly of herself. She was so gorgeous that all the men wanted her and the women were jealous about her looks. Well, the husband got sick of her being so self-centered that he took his sword and slit her mouth apart, calling "Who will think you're beautiful now?!" Her looks were ruined.
So now she is called the Kuchisake Onna, or Slit-mouth Woman. She carries a large pair of scissors and wears a trench coat, and a flu mask around her mouth. She commonly appears in urban areas on foggy nights, and asks mostly young people if they think she's pretty. She will then remove the mask and say "Am I pretty NOW?!" Try to run away, she'll corner and kill you. Say yes, she'll cut your mouth to make you look just like her. Say no, she'll kill you by slitting your throat. The only way to escape is to say she's average, or ask if she thinks that you are pretty. That will give you enough time to run away from her.
Other variations suggest she was in a car crash that tore her mouth apart, or that if you DO say she's pretty, she'll leave you alone. Others say that if you give her chocolate or say you have a former engagement to attend to, she will excuse herself and apologize.

Look it up on Google, you can find pictures of her and the story.

[just'marley]

This was in the movie Red Riding Hood.

In a town about 200 years ago there was a wolf. A werewolf actually. The wolf terrorized thr town, he slaughtered kids, and butchered adults... But no one knew who he was... A search party went off. They questioned everyone! Then... They found proof. A little boy had chicken bones in his room mistaken for a human's. They grabbed him and shoved him in a large oven. They closed the door and turned it on. Sickingly everyone watched him melt and burn. The mayor even laughed at his screams for help! 2 days later they opened the oven and bones and melted skin fell out. Later that night the wolf terrorized again.

[greysilence]

Okay, this happened to me last night, and I'm a little freaked out. I was in bed with my feet sticking out from under the blanket. (I never do that) Then, all of a sudden, it felt like a warm, sweaty hand grabbed my foot. And warm fingers wrapped around it. I was like so scared that I didn't even move. I opened my eyes and there was no one there.

NOTE: I'm not making this up, this really happened and it freaked me out.

[HonouNoKage]

Okay, this happened to me last night, and I'm a little freaked out. I was in bed with my feet sticking out from under the blanket. (I never do that) Then, all of a sudden, it felt like a warm, sweaty hand grabbed my foot. And warm fingers wrapped around it. I was like so scared that I didn't even move. I opened my eyes and there was no one there.

NOTE: I'm not making this up, this really happened and it freaked me out.

Happens to everyone at some point. Don't worry, unless it hurt, you probably have nothing to worry about. But if you're really scared, you could burn some white sage in your house. I've heard that gets rid of ghosts.

[. silent]

Okay, this happened to me last night, and I'm a little freaked out. I was in bed with my feet sticking out from under the blanket. (I never do that) Then, all of a sudden, it felt like a warm, sweaty hand grabbed my foot. And warm fingers wrapped around it. I was like so scared that I didn't even move. I opened my eyes and there was no one there.

NOTE: I'm not making this up, this really happened and it freaked me out.

EEK! That kind of sounds freaky...but you know what? My house is haunted. Because one time, I was at the back of my barn and read a sign. It read: 'BEWARE'. Yep, it freaked me out. Then one night I went to the Bathroom and then back in my bed, and after a few moments of dead silence, a clattering sound [like a knife falling on the floor] sounded outside my bedroom, and when I went to look, there was nothing there, but I heard a scream.
NOTE: Not making this up either, like Legit, it's real.

[Donnie Darko]

like Legit, it's real.

Oh my god, you sound just like my friend Rachel when you say that She says "Like, Legit." all the time to prove her point

[greysilence]

Okay, this happened to me last night, and I'm a little freaked out. I was in bed with my feet sticking out from under the blanket. (I never do that) Then, all of a sudden, it felt like a warm, sweaty hand grabbed my foot. And warm fingers wrapped around it. I was like so scared that I didn't even move. I opened my eyes and there was no one there.

NOTE: I'm not making this up, this really happened and it freaked me out.

Happens to everyone at some point. Don't worry, unless it hurt, you probably have nothing to worry about. But if you're really scared, you could burn some white sage in your house. I've heard that gets rid of ghosts.

Yeah, we have sooo many ghosts in our house. Because after we bought the house, then the people decided to tell use that three people, including a little girl, died in it. >.< My mom has been considering the sage thing.

Okay, this happened to me last night, and I'm a little freaked out. I was in bed with my feet sticking out from under the blanket. (I never do that) Then, all of a sudden, it felt like a warm, sweaty hand grabbed my foot. And warm fingers wrapped around it. I was like so scared that I didn't even move. I opened my eyes and there was no one there.

NOTE: I'm not making this up, this really happened and it freaked me out.

EEK! That kind of sounds freaky...but you know what? My house is haunted. Because one time, I was at the back of my barn and read a sign. It read: 'BEWARE'. Yep, it freaked me out. Then one night I went to the Bathroom and then back in my bed, and after a few moments of dead silence, a clattering sound [like a knife falling on the floor] sounded outside my bedroom, and when I went to look, there was nothing there, but I heard a scream.
NOTE: Not making this up either, like Legit, it's real.

:what: That's scary. I've had a lot of paranormal experience. When I was little, I would always tell my mom that I'm playing with the little girl. (the one who died in the house) And then one day, a bottle fell off the counter and started to roll along the floor, turn, and then turn again, only to roll all the way down the hallway. And then I have two dogs, Moose and Bentley. One day I heard a little girl's voice talking to me. Bentley was on my lap, I was on the computer, Moose was laying next to me. All of a sudden, the voice called, "Mooose. Come heeeere." Moose and Bentley started barking and growling, and I turned towards the doorway to see a shadow that was in human form. I turned quickly back around and shut my eyes. Then the voice was like, "....., make Moose and Bentley be nice." The dots stand for where SHE SAID MY NAME. Yeah, I don't stay home alone anymore. Oh! And then sometimes I'll feel a dog licking me while I'm in bed (perhaps two older dogs of ours that died), and then sometimes when I go to bed, I will have no marks on me, and then when I wake up there will be scratches or red hand prints. (half the time, they're around my neck) Stuff goes missing all the time too. We also hear footsteps in the attic, in the hallways, and on the front porch when no one will be in those areas. So my house really creeps me out. And as I'm typing this the hair on the back of my neck is standing up, I feel eyes watching me, and something just scratched my back.

[just'marley]

About ahundred pages back i said my house was haunted. I WANNA SAY IT AGAIN! PM me for how the ghost haunts my house!!!!

[Chara Dreemurr]

Here's one called The Theater. It's not by me though.

Have you ever heard of an old PC game called “The Theater”? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Probably because many people say it doesn’t even exist. You see, The Theater is an old computer game released around the same time as Doom. Today, if you ever find it, it’s only available on crappy bootleg CD-ROMs, which, more often than naught don’t even actually contain the game. The actual legitimate copies that they say were released back in the day feature a blank cover with nothing but the sprite of what has since been named the ‘the Ticket-Taker’. He is simply a poorly drawn, pixelated Caucasian, bald man with large red lips wearing a red vest over a white shirt and black pants. He is completely emotionless, though some say that if you smash the disc his face is shown as angry the next time you look at the cover. But this is just dismissed as an urban myth. What is peculiar about The Theater, though, is that there is no developer named on the jewel case, nor a game description on the back. It is simply the Ticket-Taker on a white backdrop on both sides.

The game was initially known for its inability to install correctly. The installation process immediately locks up the computer when the user reaches the licensing agreement. Also strange about the licensing agreement for The Theater is that whenever the development studio is supposed to be named, the text is simply a blank line. Anyways, most people who have claimed to owning one of the original CDs say that they figured out how to install the game by simply rebooting their computer on the licensing agreement with the disc still inside. Then they are prompted to press ‘I AGREE’ on startup. Then they continue with the installation. The game then starts up without any introduction besides a main menu that is simply the sprite of a movie theater’s exterior on an empty city street. The title fades in and then the 3 menu buttons ‘NEW GAME, LOAD, OPTIONS’. Selecting OPTIONS immediately crashes the game to the desktop. LOAD is said not to function at all. Even if you do have a saved game, nothing happens when you press it. Thus, NEW GAME is the only working menu option.

Once it is selected you are in the first person view. You are standing in an empty movie theater lobby, with the exception of the Ticket-Taker standing in front of a dark hallway which one can only assume leads to the theaters themselves. There’s nothing to do but look at the poorly-drawn, mostly illegible movie posters or approach the Ticket-Taker. Once the player moves towards the Ticket-Taker a very low-quality sound clip plays saying “THANK YOU PLEASE ENJOY THE MOVIE” along with a speechbox saying the same thing. You then walk into the hallway and the screen fades to black and you’re back in the empty lobby and you do the exact thing again and again and again.

While this may sound like a really horrible game, a number of peculiar things occur as you continue to play it. The number of times that you have to continue into the hall after giving your ticket to the Ticket-Taker before the strange events happen is unknown. Most state that it’s completely random and could take anywhere from the first playthrough to the four hundredth. What happens, though, has deeply disturbed some players.

The first occurrence is when the player fades back in after walking into the hallway. This time they will notice the Ticket-Taker is completely absent. The player then, without any other options, decides to walk into the dark hallway. The sound clip and text box mentioned previously still play in the absence of the Ticket-Taker, but when the player walks into the hallways the screen does not fade out. It goes pitch black as they walk deeper into the hall, but the player’s footstep sound clip is still playing as they continue to push the up button on their keyboard. Those claiming to have played the original game report to have felt extremely uncomfortable walking down the hallway, anticipating the whole way something horrible happening. Well, eventually the player is unable to move forward. There is nothing for a few moments before a strange sprite that is described as ‘the Ticket-Taker but with a swirl for a face’ appears and stands before the player. The original players of the game say their bodies immediately froze up and their stomachs churned they saw this sprite (which has been appropriately named the ‘Swirly Head Man’). Nothing happens as the Swirly Head Man stands before them. Then suddenly a piercing screech plays as the game glitches out. This lasts for a few minutes, with the screeching being continuous. Then the player is abruptly returned to the lobby with all the sounds and graphics being as they should be.

The game continues normally for the next couple of ‘cycles’ of entering the hallway, with a couple of the original players claiming the Swirly Head Man would briefly appear and disappear in the corner of the screen as a brisk ‘yelp’ sound effect plays. Then, at some point after meeting the Swirly Head Man, the player sees the Ticket-Taker pacing back and forth (though there is no walking animation – the sprite’s limbs are completely static, so he just hops up and down slightly as a substitute) with his eyes being wide and his mouth open to simulate a worried facial expression. Some players noted that the movie posters had been replaced with images of the Swirly Head Man, which caused them to immediately turn their character’s head away from the posters and approach the Ticket-Taker. Then another, different, low-quality sound clip plays, but the speech box contains nothing but corrupted characters that cause whatever text that would have been in the box to be completely illegible. Due to the extremely low quality of the sound, it is debated by players what exactly the Ticket-Taker says at this point, though it is widely agreed that he says ‘NEVER REACH THE OTHER LEVELS’. Then the screen fades out once again and returns the player back to their starting point in the lobby, but the Ticket-Taker is gone and the hallway is blocked by a large brick wall sprite. Touching the brick wall will immediately crash the game. And that’s all there is to it. No one knows what the ‘Other Levels’ are or how to gain access to them, nor is it known why the Swirly Head Man causes such acute fear in those who have seen him in the game. All the original copies of The Theater have either been lost or destroyed. But the creepiest part is the fact that is that all the original players of the game claim to occasionally see a brief glimpse of the Swirly Head Man out of the corner of their eyes…

I think I posted that one very long ago. ^^
I'll need to find it.

[Chara Dreemurr]

(Sorry, too lazy to edit)

Don’t dismiss this outright as the work of some raving lunatic. There’s some sense to this story, if you’ll just hear me out…

Look, we all wonder if time travel is possible, right? Well, let me tell you something… it is. I’m from the future, actually. I know you probably don’t believe that, but seriously, I’m from the future. It’s a really great thing; getting to see the past, watching events unfold… stuff like that. We know more now than we ever would.

Behind all the fun, though, there’s a more serious aspect. We aren’t supposed to go in our own lifetime, and we are never allowed to contact our past selves. Let me tell you, I’m breaking that rule right now. Yes, kid, you’re talking to yourself. Your future self. I’m going to be executed for this, but you know what? I accept that. I’m preventing something by talking to you that is worse than death. I can’t tell you outright what to do, because the filters would catch it. This is the closest I can get, trust me. I can, however, send a little message.

You should probably read the first word of every paragraph, now.