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The Last Room on the Left: Part 2

The man looked though the keyhole and saw a little girl, as pale as a sheet with blood red eyes, staring back at him. He immediately pushed away and went back to bed. In the morning he asked the lady about what he experienced the night before. "That's my daughter. She died 25 years ago. She was albino, and loved to dance. But she fell ill with an awful disgusting illness, then died the next morning," the woman wept. "But there is something else I should tell you," she continued. "Anyone who looks into her red eyes will experience the same illness, and she will gouge out your eyes the next night, for she is jealous of people with colored eyes." The man got scared and ran out of the house. That night, he found an inn to spend the night in, but he felt extremely ill. The next morning the innkeeper got constant complaints for a bad smell in the last room on the left. He looked in there and found the man, eyes gouged out his head. And in his blood on the wall, it said, "Eye Found You."
—Guest Horror Luver

The Last Room on the Left: Part 1

Once there was a man who was driving at night, when it started to storm. He saw his car start to smoke from the hood, and soon it came to a stop. He decided to get out of the car and look for a place to sleep for the night. As he was walking down the street in the pouring rain, he saw an old ranch with its lights on, and decided to stay there for the night until he could get a tow truck. As he knocked on the door, he could hear someone walking up to door, and soon a middle aged women (mid 50s) opened it. She asked, "What do you want?" in a raspy voice. The man answered, "My car broke down, and I was wondering if I could sleep here for the night until I can get a tow truck." "Sure," the woman answered. "Your room will be upstairs, the door at the end of the hall, but whatever you do, DON'T go into the last room on the left!!" He agreed and slowly crept into bed. During the night he woke to hear pounding and music in the forbidden room. So he went to investigate.
—Guest Horror Luver

Bloody Bill

I was told this urban legend when I was little. Back in the 1950s there was this man named Bill. Bill was a good family man. He was married and had 2 sons. He had a job but he didn't get paid much money, but he tried to get his wife and kids everything they wanted. One night Bill was getting ready to leave for work. He kissed his wife and kids goodbye and then he left. When Bill started walking to work that night he heard heavy footsteps behind him. He turned around to look back, but he saw no one. He started walking again and again he heard the heavy footsteps behind him. Before he could turn around, two crazed men grabbed him and stabbed him to death. When they knew he was dead they took his body to their house and hung him in a closet. After they did that they said a chant. It was: "NUM YOR HOR ENGAGOR!!!!" My aunt said if you said that chant out loud 3 times in the dark Bloody Bill would hide in your closet, and when you went to sleep he'd come out bloody and rotting with red eyes, and kill you.
—Guest Ms.Smith

Elisa Day

There once was a young woman named Elisa Day whose beauty was like that of the wild roses that grew down the river, all bloody and red. One day a young man came into town and instantly fell in love with Elisa. They dated for three days. On the first day he came to her house. On the second he brought her a single red rose and asked her to meet him where the wild roses grow. On the third day he took her down to the river, where he killed her. He waited till her back was turned, then took a rock in his fist, whispering, ''All beauty must die,'' and with one swift blow he killed her instantly. He planted a rose between her teeth and slid her body into the river and let her body sink under the crystal water. Her body was never found and over the years people forgot her real name and instead call her The Wild Rose. Some people claim to have seen her ghost wandering the riverside, blood running down the side of her head, a single rose in her hand.
—Guest missybethsparrow

21 and Still Counting...

One day a young girl is waiting at a train station when she hears someone muttering behind her. She turns around to see a woman sitting on a bench, her arms behind her back, rocking backwards and forwards and chanting, ''21, 21, 21'." She can see the woman is clearly distressed, so goes over to ask her what the matter is but gets no response. Suddenly she hears her train coming and the woman on the bench launches herself at the young girl, pushing her into the path of the oncoming train. The women then sits back down on the bench, arms behind her back, and begins to count: ''22, 22, 22.....''
—Guest Buzzcolatrapdoor!

The Little Girl (True Story)

One afternoon a little girl named Sarah was outside picking up her toys. Then all of a sudden she looked up and saw a girl reading by an oak tree in her backyard. She ran inside to ask her mother who she was, but when her mother went to see the girl, no one was there and she told Sarah just to forget about it. But then when Sarah's grandmother was leaving , Sarah and her mother walked outside to say goodbye. As her grandmother was pulling out of the driveway, Sarah exclaimed, "There's the little girl! There by Grandma!" But her mother still did not see anyone and just ignored her comment. Later that night when Sarah and her mother were relaxing and watching TV, they ended seeing some disturbing story on the news. There was a murder not far away where a father killed his wife and daughter. The news showed pictures of the family, and as they showed the picture of the murdered daughter, Sarah shouted, "Look, Mom! It's the little girl!"
—Guest Alyisia

A Dream I Will Never Forget

I wake up on the lawn of an old abandoned lighthouse. As I wake up I look into the sky and see a storm is approaching, so I take refuge in the old light house. The first thing I do when I get inside is check the kitchen, and I could not believe what i saw. The sink was overflowing with bugs, earth worms, etc. So I run up the stairs and lock myself in the bathroom, and as soon as I turn around the toilet begins filling with maggots, and the tub, sink are filling with cockroaches. I huddle up on the floor, and as I feel the creatures climbing all over me I find myself in the dead silence of the long hallway, so this time I run into the bedroom and see the bedcover moving. When I lift it up bed bugs are all over the place, so I run into the the hallway and hear a wicked, bone-chilling laugh from behind me. I'm too scared to turn around, but when I finally start to, I feel something embrace me from behind, and I suddenly find myself in the dark and horrifying basement of the lighthouse........
—Guest unknown

My School

My friend and I made up this fake story to scare a kid in my previous school. There was a boy (can't remember the name) who played around the school when it was being constructed. He would swing over the bars and jump into the holes that formed the soon-to-be basement. He was under the band room when the poured the cement. He was buried under the cement, and when you are at the school after hours (2 people tops) they will hear a loud trumpet horn. The horn produces a wind and blows them into a corner of the band room, and he takes out a knife and.... bye bye.
—Guest dude with many stories

The Foolish Husband

There was once a couple on a road trip on the countryside. Their car broke down in the middle of the night in front of a small farm with a sign that said "No Trespassing". The husband tells his wife to stay in the car while he goes and asks for help, although the wife doesn't think it's a good idea. Some time passed and her husband didn't return. She decided to turn on the radio to pass the time, then she heard an announcement of an crazy killer that had escaped. She immediately started thinking of her husband, then suddenly she heard a tapping sound on the roof of the car. She locked all the doors and covered her ears until she finally fell asleep. The next day she was awakened by the police. They told her to come out of the car and to not look back. She ran out of the car as quick as she could and when she was finally with the policemen she turned around and saw her husband hanging from a tree, his foot slightly tapping the car, and around his neck was the sign: "No Trespassing".....
—Guest nereydarubio

Them

There was once this girl, Kelly, who liked to collect porcelain dolls. She had them surrounding her in her room. One night she awoke, startled to find that all of her dolls were looking at her. Kelly went back to sleep. She awoke again shortly after to find that the dolls had moved closer to her bed. Scared, she pulled the covers over her head. She heard a childish laughter and decided to peek out of the covers. The dolls were closer again. So she got out of her bed and put most of them in her wardrobe. She went back to bed and hid under the covers again. Minutes later she heard her wardrobe door creak and the words, "One step, two step, three step, four, I was in your wardrobe, now I'm on your floor." Terrified, she tried to bury herself further under the covers, only to hear the laugh again - and this time it was at her ear. She pulled back the covers to find that one of the dolls had a knife! In the next room her mum heard her scream. She went in to find Kelly dead, surrounded by dolls.
—Guest jade j

The Llorona

One day in a rural town in Mexico there lived a women named Allisa. Allisa had a wonderful husband and two children, a boy and a girl. Allisa was very proud of her family, until one day she and her son went to the store and left her husband alone with her daughter. Allisa forgot her purse at home, so she had to come back early. When Allisa opened the front door she heard a noise coming from her bedroom. She left her son in the car and went to see what the noise was. She opened her bedroom door to see that her husband was violating their daughter - at least that's what she thought. She found out that for 3 years they had been having sex behind her back and that the boy had been keeping the secret from her. Angry, she took both of her children to a nearby lake and drowned them. She came back to her house and tied her husband up. She gave him a kiss on the cheek and sliced his neck. The next day Allisa disappeared. No one knows what happened to her.
—Guest Big 0

Retreat House

I still remember that cold November night back in 2006. Me and my junior high class had just finished a retreat session very late into the night, some time around 2 in the morning. We weren't feeling any sleepiness then because we had such a fun activity that evening. Anyways, on the old retreat house that we rented, we were the only occupants there. The only lighted part of the building was the side of the floor that we stayed in. The opposite side was totally without light... and/or people. I and some friends were grouping and chatting at the lobby outside our quarters when suddenly, two of our guy classmates (not sure whether they were really guys) came running towards us drenched in sweat, panting and looking disoriented with pale faces. We who were nearby immediately asked them what the matter was and all they could do was point to the corridor that lead to the other side. Most of us there in the lobby got pretty interested and packed ourselves as we ventured into darkness of the other side. Slowly, our eyes adjusted to the faint glow cast by the city lights kilometers away from where we were, and we found ourselves on a deserted lobby very much similar to our lighted side. We formed a tight pack, by the way, because we had to admit despite being very thrilled to be there, we were pretty much scared, too. The retreat center was relatively old, built around the early '60s and hardly gets people. Of course, rumors of the old place being a host to a number of eerie tales of suicide and ghost hauntings were not alien. The place was also surrounded by ancient tree so stories of dark elementals, of dwarves and fairies, were also known. The night was still, distant barking of dogs could be heard, then suddenly I felt a cold brush of air on my left arm, making the hairs on it stand. Several minutes past until I decided to tell my closest buds fronting me what I felt. Jeffrey, directly in front of me, then confessed that he felt something similar, but on his right side. We then spread it throughout our classmates and had everyone to start staring half-way through the entire length of the building. There was enough light to make out a silhouette of a door with crisscrossing wood work which allowed us to view the continuation of the building beyond it. It was closed (we all assumed it was locked since no one was there) but just as suddenly, the view just beyond the door darkened, the door opened an inch, and the next thing we knew, we were all running for our lives, with some screaming, others just laughing, going back to the lighted lobby, to safety. No one spoke of the incident until the next morning.
—Guest girancentrino21

4 Stairs, 4 Squares

A young woman was taking care of her baby when she remembered that she had some chores to do. She put the baby down in the crib and started working in the kitchen. After a few minutes the phone rang and she picked it up. The man on the phone said, "4 stairs, 4 squares," and then hung up. Five minutes later the phone rang again and the man said, "4 stairs, 4 squares," and hung up. Five minutes later the same man calls and repeats, "4 stairs, 4 squares," again. The woman says she's going to call the police if he calls again. He calls and repeats the same thing, so she calls the police. The police trace the call and they find out it's coming from inside her house. The man calls again and says, "4 stairs, 4 squares." The woman, now very scared, replies, "The police are on the way." The man says, "Wait... go up 4 stairs," and he hangs up. The woman goes up 4 stairs and finds her baby cut up into 4 squares.
—Guest karan

Red Roses

A little girl named Katrina was out looking for berries for her family's dinner one night. Her older brother had told her stories about ghosts that wandered around the meadow she was looking in, and one he absolutely swore was true: the Red Rose Killer. Supposedly, a woman had killed herself and was found with a red rose in her hand. Katrina didn't believe it, and noticed a bush of red roses. She decided to pick some for decoration, and when she chose a burgundy one, she saw a bloodied woman grinning at her. Katrina was never seen again.
—Guest Ghostee

The Pale Girl

I myself have experienced this. There's an old road that people don't go by much up here. Not sure 'bout the story, but certain people, people who have dark secrets, troubled pasts, will sometimes get a "curse" thrown on them. Driving down this one night, my car broke down. While waiting for my friend to come to get me some emergency gas, I heard some laughing. Thinking some girl was being flirtatious, I called out to it. I got a reply that I wont post here. Luckily, my friend arrived, and started to hear the laughing too. He immediately went pale white, and told me to get in his car, and he took me home. Later that night, at about 2 a.m., I heard the same laughing downstairs. I heard footsteps coming UP the stairs. Switching to instinct mode, I jumped out the window just as my door started to open and grabbed onto a tree branch outside. Sitting in the tree, I looked up to see the lights in my room off, and a woman with a white face (bottom jaw was torn up) smiling at me.
—Guest Mr. Grimm

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