• From stories you can't even talk about with dying, to girls living in shadows waiting
to drag you to Hell, we count 15 scary stories told around the campfires of history
15 - The White Death, • A story from Scotland about a little girl
who hated life - so much to the point that she wanted to destroy everything and everyone
she knew • She committed suicide, and only a few
days later each member of her family were murdered - their limbs torn apart
• The legend goes that upon learning about the girl's death, her ghost finds you and
knocks on your door, slowly knocking louder and louder until you open it and she kills
you 14 - Dead Dog,
• The tale goes, a kid is sleeping in her bed when she hears the sound of tap water,
so she heads over the faucet and tries to plug it up
• When she returns to the bed, she lets her arm drape over the side to let her dog
lick her fingers - which it does • The dripping continues, but not from the
faucet - she checks her shower only to discover her dead dog, dripping blood, with a note
on top that reads, "Humans can lick, too" 13 - Cow Head,
• A Japanese legend about a story so haunted that simply telling it usually leads to death
- one group of students were taken on a field trip, and on the bus the teacher decides to
tell a scary story • As he begins the story called Cow Head,
he gets more intense and involved - foaming at the mouth - the students yell for him to
stop but he can't • All of them were later found with the
bus in a ditch, all foaming in a sort of trance - all of them had blocked out the Cow Head
story and wouldn't even discuss it afterwards, some even died a few days later
12 - Cosmetic Sesame, • A South Korea story about a girl super
conscious of her own looks - she heard about a new beauty treatment involving soaking alongside
sesame seeds in bath water • She decided to give it a go in her own
bath, but several hours later her mother got worried and forced open the door when her
daughter refused to • She was horrified to find the girl crouched
in a corner of the room with seeds lining every wrinkle and pore in her body, roots
visibly growing insider her skin while she attempted to painfully remove them all with
a toothpick 11 - Girl From The Gap,
• The spirit of a Japanese girl who lives between the darkened gaps of furniture, doors
and drawers waiting for you to meet her gaze • She will then ask you to play hide and
seek, and the next time you meet her, she will pull you into the gap and drag you to
either Hell or an entirely new dimension 10 - Midnight Game,
• A game for kids like Bloody Mary, but with rules far more convoluted and terrifying
- before midnight you write your name on paper and dot it with your own blood
• Turn off all your lights, place the paper in front of a closed door, put a candle on
top of THAT and light it - then knock on the door 22 times with the 22nd knock at exactly
midnight • Then open the door, blow out the candle
and close it again - relight the candle and the game begins
• The Midnight Man will wander through your home - if he catches you, you will die - the
game ends at 3:33am but the Midnight Man may not actually leave after the game ends
9 - Choking Doberman, • An Australian legend about a couple who
came home one night only to find their dog choking on something - the man panicked and
actually fainted while the woman races off the vet to get her dog seen to
• She returns home to check on her husband when the phone rings - she picks it up only
to find the vet hysterical saying she needs to get out of the house
• As she and her husband run downstairs, a policeman passes them claiming the dog was
choking on a man's finger - that the intruder might still be in their home
• And sure enough, they found a burglar unconscious in the bedroom
8 - Noppera-bō, • A Japanese creature that likes to frighten
humans - it will appear in your life as an ordinary human being, usually impersonating
someone close to you • As you let down your guard around the
creature, it quickly drops its facade, causing its face to disappear, leaving a blank, smooth
sheet of skin where its face should be • This creature was the original inspiration
for the monster we know today as Slender Man 7 - Hello Kitty Murder,
• A 1999 Hong Kong abduction of this 23-year-old woman by 3 men, held captive for a month and
tortured relentlessly every day • In the end she died, her body was chopped
up and disposed with the trash - her head sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll which became
a press icon for the case • A 13-year-old girlfriend of one of the
culprits complained to the police that the ghost of the murdered woman visited her frequently
- and upon checking CCTV the police noticed ghostly female forms wandering the streets
- the criminals were given life sentences 6 - Black Volga,
• A story coming in from Poland about a black Volga car frequently spotted on the
streets in the 1960s, supposedly driven by kidnappers looking to steal children
• According to legend, Soviet officers would drive similar cars in Moscow during the 1930s
to kidnap young girls for sexual pleasure • Nowadays people have claimed this black
Volga to be driven by priests, vampires or even Satan himself
5 - Teke teke, • A Japanese schoolgirl that fell onto train
tracks and was cut in half, her legs and half her torso torn clean off
• She has supposedly returned as a vengeful spirit carrying a blade, travelling around
on her hands and elbows all the while making the dreaded scratching noise as she drags
along the ground on her upper torso • She attacks people too slow to run away,
slicing them in half with her blade just as she had been sliced by the train
4 - Midnight Bus, • An old Chinese tale about a man boarding
a bus at midnight alongside an old man - at the time the bus was empty aside from these
two • But after awhile, two more passengers
entered the bus and sat down - the old man immediately jumped up and accused the other
man of stealing his wallet, which he denied • He suggested they jump off the bus and
go the police station, but the man found when they did indeed get off the bus that the old
man wasn't angry - he said "I just saved both our lives"
• He then claimed the other two passengers had been floating - that they were ghosts,
and when the midnight bus was finally found days later all inside were dead, and the petrol
tank filled with blood 3 - Slit-Mouthed Woman,
• A legend found in both Japanese and Chinese cultures about a samurai's wife who cheated
on her husband only for him to find out and slit her mouth from ear-to-ear
• It goes that she still wanders the Earth, dressed in a surgical mask asking people "Am
I pretty?" to which she then rips off the mask and repeats the question
• Anyone who doesn't respond positively is slaughtered by the slit-mouthed woman
2 - Mae Nak Phra Khanong, • An 1800s story from Thailand about a woman
called Nak married to a man called Tid - he was called away by the army just as she got
pregnant, and while he was gone she died during childbirth killing both herself and her child
• When Tid returned, he found her and their child's ghost - pretending to still be alive,
fooling him, Nak killing any neighbours that might inform Tid that she and the baby were
actually dead • Eventually Tik realised the truth, and
Nak was sealed in a jar to be thrown in the canal, until she was eventually released from
her prison and vanished 1 - Greek Soldier
• A legend from WWII about a Greek soldier returning from the war to marry his fiance
-before he could, rebel Greeks captured him, tortured him and eventually murdered him
• During the 1950s, rumours grew of a handsome soldier seducing beautiful virgin girls and
impregnating them • After the babies were born, he would disappear
and leave a note explaining he had to spread his seed, that his sons might avenge him