This creepy stalker story starts with a guitar pick in a sandwich bag. Someone left it in my mailbox with a label on it saying exactly when and where I’d dropped it. I hadn’t even noticed it was gone. My students like the best spooky stories at band camp. I’ve never told them this one. … Read more
My Facebook Marketplace horror story started with a lamp. A nice man bought it for twenty dollars, carried it to his truck himself, and asked me which room it had been in. Over the next six weeks, he bought something from every room in my house. It reads like one of those creepy short stories … Read more
Everybody has a dating app horror story. A guy who brought his mom. A woman who was ten years older than her pictures. Mine is about a woman who, on our first date, already knew which way my bedroom window faced. I read a lot of new scary stories online, and I never thought I’d … Read more
Most creepy text stories are about a wrong number that turns out to be right. Mine is about the man I sold my old phone to, and the texts he sent me about my life that he shouldn’t have been able to see. If you’ve read scary stories text threads online, you know how they … Read more
This Halloween stalker story is about a costume I spent six weeks making by hand, and the person who showed up wearing a perfect copy of it at three different parties in three days. I’ve read a lot of adult scary stories since, and none of them felt as close to home. I’m a dental … Read more
This late night radio horror story begins with a sweet little song dedication for the woman in the blue Corolla. Then the caller kept phoning back to tell me exactly where she was driving, and I kept reading it on the air. I hosted overnights at a small radio station in south Georgia for three … Read more
This truck stop horror story happened during a wind closure on I-80 in Wyoming, when the speaker in the drivers’ lounge called my first name for a shower I never booked. I thought it was a mix-up until the third call came from somewhere it shouldn’t have. I’ve been called just about everything over a … Read more
This trail cam horror story begins with a missing wool jacket at a campsite in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and an animal I was sure had dragged it away. Then I got home and looked at what my camera caught at 2:13 in the morning. I lost my dad’s jacket on a camping trip in September … Read more
This scary halloween story starts with a flyer in my mailbox and a house that went all out for trick-or-treaters. I filled out the raffle sheet like everybody else, and on November first, the prize came to my door. I don’t usually do Halloween. I live alone in a duplex, I work early, and I’m … Read more