One word horror story

One evening a man called James was on the road from Oxford to London. There weren’t many cars on the road because it was late. Suddenly in the lights of his car he saw a woman by the road – she was quite young and very pretty. ‘It’s dangerous to walk along the road when it’s dark and late,’ he thought. He stopped, opened the window and asked the young woman, ‘Where are you going? It’s dangerous to stand here at night… perhaps I can take you to London with me.’ The young woman didn’t answer but she opened the door of the car and got in.

James asked her a lot of questions: ‘What’s your name? Where do you live? Why are you on the road at night? Is your family in London? Where are your friends? Have you got any money? Are you hungry?’ The young woman sat next to James but she said nothing. Not one word. She only looked at the road.

Soon James stopped asking questions and they drove along without talking. Coming into London there were more cars and James had to drive more slowly. Suddenly the young woman started to open the door so James stopped the car quickly. They were in front of a house on a long street. The woman opened the door and got out of the car, then she slowly walked up to the front door of the house. James watched her and thought angrily, ‘She didn’t say «Thank you».’

Three days later he opened the back door of his car and found a coat. ‘This isn’t my coat,’ he thought. Then he remembered the young woman. Perhaps it was her coat. He had to drive to London again that evening so he thought, ‘l’ll take her coat back. ..I remember the street and the house.’ He drove there, parked in front of the house and walked up to the door. An older woman answered.

‘Does a young woman live here?’ he asked’. l think this is her coat – she left it in my car three days ago.’

The woman looked at the coat and began to cry. ‘That was my daughter’s coat.. .’

‘Here, please give it back to her then,’ James said.

‘l can’t,’ the woman said. ‘She’s dead.’

‘Dead!’ said James.

‘Yes, she died five years ago.’

Five years ago?’ James asked quietly.

‘Yes, on the road between Oxford and London. .. in an accident,’ the woman said.

When I was a child my family moved to a big old two-floor house, with big empty rooms and creaking floorboards. Both my parents worked so I was often alone when I came home from school. One early evening when I came home the house was still dark.

I called out, “Mum?” and heard her sing song voice say “Yeeeeees?” from upstairs. I called her again as I climbed the stairs to see which room she was in, and again got the same “Yeeeeees?” reply. We were decorating at the time, and I didn’t know my way around the maze of rooms but she was in one of the far ones, right down the hall. I felt uneasy, but I figured that was only natural so I rushed forward to see my mum, knowing that her presence would calm my fears, as a mother’s presence always does.

Just as I reached for the handle of the door to let myself in to the room I heard the front door downstairs open and my mother call “Sweetie, are you home?” in a cheery voice. I jumped back, startled and ran down the stairs to her, but as I glanced back from the top of the stairs, the door to the room slowly opened a crack. For a brief moment, I saw something strange in there, and I don’t know what it was, but it was staring at me.

We bought an old house, my boyfriend and I. He’s in charge of the «new» construction – converting the kitchen in to the master bedroom for instance, while I’m on wallpaper removal duty. The previous owner papered EVERY wall and CEILING! Removing it is brutal, but oddly satisfying. The best feeling is getting a long peel, similar to your skin when you’re peeling from a sunburn. I don’t know about you but I kinda make a game of peeling, on the hunt for the longest piece before it rips.

Under a corner section of paper in every room is a person’s name and a date. Curiosity got the best of me one night when I Googled one of the names and discovered the person was actually a missing person, the missing date matching the date under the wallpaper! The next day, I made a list of all the names and dates. Sure enough each name was for a missing person with dates to match. We notified the police who naturally sent out the crime scene team. I overhead one tech say «yup, it’s human.» Human? What’s human? «Ma’am, where is the material you removed from the walls already? This isn’t wallpaper you were removing.»

There was an old woman who had no family still living. Her only friend was a little white dog who went everywhere with her with one exception. The dog loved the fireplace in winter, and after the old woman went to bed he would sometimes go and lie in front of the warm coals. Usually though, the dog slept at the very edge of the bed on a throw rug.

The woman would’t allow the dog on the bed with her, but if she became frightened or had a nightmare, she would put her hand down to the little white dog and he would lick it reassuringly.

One night the woman was reading her newspaper just before going to sleep. She shivered and pulled the comforter up around her as she read that a mental patient had wandered off from a nearby hospital. No one knew if the patient was dangerous of not; he was a suspect in the murders of several women who had lived alone.

The woman turned out the lights and tried to sleep, but she was frightened, and tossed and turned fitfully. Finally, she reached down to where the little white dog slept. Sure enough, a warm, wet tongue began to lick her hand. The woman felt reassured and safe, and left her hand dangling off the bed as she turned and settled in comfortably. She opened her eyes for a moment and looked through the open door into the living room.

There in front of the fireplace, sat her little white dog, gazing at the coals and wagging his tail. And down beside her bed, something was still licking her hand.

One morning, a man found himself walking along a deserted street in a small town. He had no idea what he was doing there or how he got there in the first place, or where he had been earlier. He didn’t even know what time it was.

He saw a woman walking toward him and stopped her.
I’m afraid I forgot my watch,’; he said with a polite smile. Can you please tell me the time?

When the woman saw him, she screamed and ran away. The man was shocked. A few minutes later, he noticed that other people were afraid of him too. Whenever they saw him coming, they flattened themselves against a building, recoiled in horror or ran across the street to stay out of his way.

«There must be something wrong with me,» John thought. «I’d better go home.»
He hailed a taxi, but the driver took one look at him and sped away. «This is crazy!» he said to himself. John did not understand what was going on, and it scared him. «Maybe someone at home can come and pick me up.» he thought. He found a telephone and called home, expecting his wife to answer. Instead, a strange voice answered.
«Is Mrs. Sullivan there?» he asked.
«I’m sorry, she isn’t,» the voice said. «Her husband died a few days ago in a horrible car crash, she’s at his funeral.»

Richard was living in a not-so nice neighborhood with his parents. Their house was badly in need of repair and none of the windows or doors ever locked properly. Richard complained to his mom about not being able to sleep because of the «scratching » noises in his room, his mom assumed that it was rats, or that some cat had managed to get in the house again and was in the room somewhere. After turning on the lights and not seeing any sort of animal, she told Richard to go back to bed.

So Richard went back to bed and was awakened almost immediately again by the scratching. Insistent, ceaseless. He still couldn’t tell WHERE the sound was coming from, but this time, he decided to ignore it. So he fell asleep again.
Richard had no idea how long he’d been asleep when he suddenly sat up in bed, crying out, his hands flying to his back. He’d been bitten in the middle of his back while he slept, yet he’d been LYING on his back.

Richard decided that things were just too weird and went to get his dad. His dad looked at his back. The spot that hurt certainly didn’t look like a bite. It looked more like a puncture wound. So he flipped on the bedroom light and
inspected Richard’s bed. There was a hole in the fitted sheet and some of the mattress stuffing was showing through the hole. At a loss to explain how it happened, Richard suggested that maybe a spring had come
through, so Richard’s dad flipped the twin bed over to see if the box springs were the culprit.

What he found was a long knife stuck in the mattress, pointing upwards, towards where a person might lie. He also found mud and dirt under the bed, the exact length of a person. Checking immediately outside the
window he found fresh footprints in the mud leading to and then away from the window. Someone had slipped into Richard’s room through the unlocked window and lain under his bed. The scratching sound he heard
was the person using the knife to dig through the box springs and mattress to kill him!

A sixteen-year-old boy worked on his grandfather’s horse farm. One morning he drove a pickup truck into town on an errand. While he was walking along the main street, he saw Death. Death beckoned to him.
The boy drove back to the farm as fast as he could and told his grandfather what had happened. “Give me the truck,” he begged. «I’ll go to the city. He’ll never find me there.»
His grandfather gave him the truck, and the boy sped away. After he left, his grandfather went into town looking for Death. When he found him, he asked, «Why did you frighten my grandson that way? He is only sixteen. He is too young to die.”
“I am sorry about that,” said Death. “I did not mean to beckon to him. But I was surprised to see him here. You see, I have an appointment with him this afternoon– in the city.”

A group of young girls were having a slumber party one night and began to exchange ghost stories. One girl claimed that the old man who had been buried last week in the graveyard down the street had been buried alive. She claimed that if you tried, you could hear him still scratching at the lid of his coffin. The other girls called her a bluff and told her she wouldn’t do it. They said she was too afraid to go down there to the grave that very night. They continued to challenge her and eventually she gave into peer pressure and accepted their challenge. Since she was going to go alone, she needed to prove to the others that she actually followed through with the task. She was suppose to take a stake with her and drive it into the ground so the next day the girls would know that she had been to the grave.

She headed off to the graveyard, stake in her hand, and never returned. The other girls assumed she had «chickened out» and had just gone home instead. The next morning as they passed the graveyard they saw here there at the old man’s grave. She had accidentally staked her nightshirt to the ground and when she tried to run from the grave, she couldn’t……….. she died of fright right on the grave.

On a saturday afternoon a little girl called emily was out shopping with her mum and baby brother.They passed an old shop and in the shop window was a beutiful china doll. Emily was only ten years old and was into collecting dolls.This doll that emily found had a white and blue frilley dress on and blonde curley hair. Emily begged and begged her mum to buy it until her mum gave in. By the time they got home it was pitch black out side so they all went to bed and fell a sleep. In the middle of the night emily woke up to a crash and a smash sound but she ignored it untill she heard a voice. «Emily im on the bottom step.» «Emily im on the second step.» «Emily im on the top step.» «Emily im on the landing.» «Emily im in your mums room.» «Emily im on your mums bed.» «Emily im gunna kill her» siad the voice emily was gettind kind of scared but she heard it agian but louder.»Emily im on the top step.» «Emily im on the landing.» «Emily im in your brothers room» «Emily im gunna kill him.» The poor little girl emily is so scared she buts the blanket over her head and she hears it agian but this time its outside her door. «Emily im on the top step» «emily im on the landing» «Emily im in your room» «Emily im on your bed» «Emily Im Gunna kill you.» The person who lives next door heard all this and dieced to call the police. About ten minutes later the police inspected the house and found every had been murderd in the house and they saw this doll sat on the matail place and they heard the same noise again and the doll had a bloody axe in her hand the only thing is the police died hearing police men im behind you.

A young man and his wife were on a trip to visit his mother. Usually they arrived in time for supper, but they had had a late start, and now it was getting dark, so they decided to look for a place to stay overnight and drive on in the morning.

Just off the road, they saw a small house in the woods. «Maybe they rent rooms,» the wife said. So they stopped to ask. An elderly man and woman came to the door. They didn’t rent rooms, they said, but they would be glad to have them stay overnight as their guests. They had plenty of room, and they would enjoy the company. The old woman made coffee and brought out some cake, and the four of them talked for a while. Then the young couple were taken to their room. They tried to insist on paying for this, but the old man said he would not accept any money.

The young couple got up early the next morning, before their hosts had awakened. They left an envelope with some money in it on a table near the front door, to pay for the room. Then they went on to the next town. They stopped at a restaurant and had breakfast. When they told the owner where they had stayed, he was shocked. «That can’t be,» he said. «That house burned to the ground, and the man and the woman who lived there died in the fire.»

The young couple could not believe it. So they went back to the house. Only now there was no house. All they found was a burnt-out shell. They stood staring at the ruins trying to understand what had happened. Then the woman screamed: In the rubble was a badly burned table, like the one they had seen by the front door and on the table was the envelope they had left that very morning.

Jerry was driving home late one night when he saw a young lady waiting by a bus stop. He stopped his car and told her that he didn’t think the buses were running so late at night and offered her a ride. The fall night air was getting chilly, so he took off his jacket and gave it to her. Jerry found out that the girl’s name was Mary and she was on her way home.
After an hours drive, they arrived at her home and he dropped her off by the front door. Jerry said goodnight and went home himself.
The next day he remembered that Mary still had his jacket.
He drove to her house and knocked on the door, an old woman answered.
John told her about the ride he had given her daughter Mary, and had come back to get the jacket he had lent her. The old woman looked very confused.

John noticed a picture of Mary on the fireplace mantel. He pointed to it and told the old woman that that was the girl he had given a ride to.

With her voice shaking, the old woman told Jerry that her daughter had been dead for many years and was buried in a cemetery about an hours drive away from there.
Jerry ran to his car and drove to the cemetery.
He found his jacket, neatly folded on top of a grave…the name on the gravestone was Mary!

In a small town of Georgia there was an old man who had no legs. The only way he could move around was by dragging himself around by his long, long, nails. He was also a killer. He would sneak around the town and kill people with his long, long, nails. So, because of this, the people were ordered to go inside at exactly 6:00 pm and lock their doors until he was caught.
One night a little girl asked her mom if she could go play at her friends house. The mother looked at the clock, it was 4:00pm. She told the little girl to be home by 5:45 because thats when «click-click» came out. The little girl
agreed and was on her way. She played and played but lost track of time because when she headed home, it was already 5:48. By the time she was close to her home it was 6:00 pm. She observed people locking their doors
and calling in there kids.

«Shoot, I’d better run» she thought. Finally she reached her street. But that’s when she heard the noise…click click drag click click drag. It got louder and louder. She turned around and there he was, Click-Clack! She ran to her front door…click clack drag click clack drag… She pounded on the door but her Mother had fallen sleep…Click Clack Drag Click Clack Drag… The pounding stopped.
Upon waking, and forgetting that her daughter had gone out to play the last evening, Mother opened the door to get her newspaper. She screamed in horror at the sight. Written on the step in blood was, «Mother, why didn’t you open the door?» She was never seen again..

While Ruth slept, a spider crawled across her face, stayed there for a minute, then went away.

«What is this red spot on my cheek?» she asked her mother the next morning.

«Looks like a spider bite.» her mother said. «It’ll go away, just don’t scratch it.»

Soon the spot grew into a red boil. «Look at it now,» Ruth said, «It’s getting bigger.»

«That sometimes happens.» her mother said. «It’s coming to a head.»

In a few days the boil was even larger.»Look at it now.» Ruth said. «It hurts and it’s ugly.»

«We’ll have a doctor look at it, maybe it’s infected.» her mother said. But the doctor couldn’t see her until the next day.

That night Ruth took a bath. As she soaked herself, the boil burst. Out poured a swarm of spiders from the eggs the mother laid in her cheek.

It was about three o’clock in the morning and I was in my house alone. I was getting ready for bed and was beginning to say my prayers. I have a special prayer room where I go and say my prayers.

Something told me to go into my room and begin to say my prayers NOW.
down on my prayer rug and started saying my prayers.

While saying my prayers, I began to hear this thumping noise. It sounded very far away. I wondered to myself what it was because there was no one else in the house but me. The thumping started to get louder and closer. I listened again and wondered what is was.

Suddenly I began to smell this smell, it was faint at first, but became stronger as the thumping became louder… This smell, smelled like despair, hopelessness, unhappiness,being loss, extreme sadness, emptiness, it grew stronger and the thumping louder…

I continued with my praying, wondering who, or what was coming my way, for it was obvious it was coming to me, the thumping became like drums banging one step at a time,louder and louder it came, the smell overwhelming high.. I continued praying. The sound suddenly stopped. I was totally petrified, out of the corner of my eyes (for I was looking straight ahead, saying my prayers fervently), I saw this Thing standing in the entrance of my prayer room. It was 8-9 feet tall, it was so black that the darkness silhouetted around it. (I had no lights on in the other part of the house) It had a face like a bull and it slowly turn its red eyes towards me and looked down on me where I was sitting saying my prayers.

The feelings of despair, hopelessness, unhappiness, swaying and churning inside of it, screaming, crying out, from its being. This Thing looked straight at me for a full thirty seconds, not saying a word, just looking, watching, not coming into the room. I continued saying my prayers, suddenly it vanished, disappeared without a trace. I finished my prayers and went to bed.

True story, no lie. My experience from this made me realize that all the misery and misfortunes that mankind is experiencing and trying to correct, stems from this one creature, who creates and consumes people manifesting these types of energies. Until we realize this is the real villain, trying to correct those ills mentioned it is useless.

A beautiful 8 year old girl, Izzy, got this adorable china doll for her birthday. She called her Sam. One day Izzy was playing with her doll until her mom called her for bed. Izzy put the doll in the basement and went up to bed.

In the middle of the night she heard weird noises. Then she heard «China doll, china doll in the basement, china doll, china doll on the stairs, china doll, china doll in your parents room, now they’re dead.» Izzy fell back into a troubled sleep.

In the morning she raced to her parents room and they were dead. She cried as her brother planned the funeral. Izzy did not play with Sam that day. She went up to bed early and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night she heard chanting again. China doll, china doll in the basement, china doll, china doll on the stairs, china doll, china doll in your parents room, china doll, china doll in your brothers room now he’s dead.» Izzy shivered and fell into another troubling sleep.

In the morning she went to her brothers room, he was dead. She spent the day in her room and wouldn’t come out. Night fell again and she went to sleep.

She heard the chanting again. «China doll, china doll in the basement, china doll, china doll on the stairs, china doll, china doll in your parents room, china doll, china doll in your brothers room, china doll, china doll in your room.» She gazed up to see the doll. «Now you’re…dead!»

The police found her the next day with no sign of the murderer. All they heard was chuckling in the distance. The chuckle of a brown haired, brown eyed china doll, on the hunt for her next victims.