Hello Internet - it’s that time of the day again, where we bundle around a digital campfire
and tell some of the most terrifying tales that the deepest depths of the internet has
to offer.
As always - I’ll be your host Jack Finch, as we welcome you back - to Top 5 Scary Videos.
Today we’ll be covering that insatiable fear that only seems to occur when your parents
are out of town for the weekend, and then suddenly - you hear footsteps coming from
their bedroom, and the doorbell ominously rings.
Who is it?
Well - let’s find out - in 5 Scary Moments /You Thought You Were Alone/.
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Reddit is rife with creepy tales that will unsettle you and keep you up into the small
hours of the night.
But, for some bizarre reason, it’s always difficult to stop scrolling, especially when
it’s 4AM and you’re already scared witless.
Well - let’s take a look at them, shall we?
Kicking us off at Number 5 - we have The Creepy Artist.
A Reddit user, who will otherwise remain anonymous - details a bizarre encounter that occured
in broad daylight - sometime in 2014.
It was the height of summer - and she was home alone in her apartment, enjoying a bright,
warm afternoon.
Well - that all abruptly ended when she heard her doorbell ring.
As she opened it, a young - unassuming man stood in the frame holding a large, square
bag.
Being a Canadian - who, as we know, are incredibly polite individuals - she struck up a conversation
with the man, and discovered that he was an artist - and told her that he was in town
to open up a gallery nearby.
You see - he wanted to drum up some business and sell some paintings to the locals at a
discount rate.
Sounds reasonable enough, right?
Well - the first few paintings he showed her were nice - general landscapes of nature and
a few national parks.
But that’s when the nude portraits began.
The first one was conventional enough - a classical, Grecian style - with bowls of fruit
and the human form.
But the next one seemed eerily too photorealistic - and almost seemed to depict a crime scene.
Then, it became even more intense - and depicted scenes of gore and violence, even dismemberment.
The man - he just stood there, flipping through the canvases and grinning at her.
At one point - he even made a step towards her.
And that’s where she abruptly slammed the door in his face.
She was freaked out, to say the least - but after she’d calmed down, she went to check
from her bedroom window where the man had gone.
Well - he was still standing in the exact same spot, flipping through his paintings
to a closed door.
Next up at Number 4 - we have The Porch Creature.
Now - well all know that things that happen in the wilderness are already 10 time scarier
by default.
Reddit user, IamTheCage was house sitting for his parents, who - he describes - as lived
in the actual middle of nowhere.
The closest neighbor to his parents house lived about a mile away, and his parents had
taken their dogs with them on their vacation.
The house was eerie and completely silent - the kind of house that you had to keep the
TV on at all times of the day, else you’d be faced with nothing but the eerie sound
of your own breathing.
On one particular night, IamTheCage stepped out onto the back porch for a cigarette before
bed.
Don’t smoke kids!
As he reached the bottom of the porch steps, he flicked the wheel on his lighter and the
small flame briefly illuminated his surroundings.
It was then that our narrator realised he wasn’t alone.
He realised that in that brief period of dimly lit light, a massive - brown haired, four
legged beast was eating from one of the dogs bowls outside the house.
Now - I know what you’re thinking - its a bear.
But IAmTheCage described it as being something that he’d never before seen in the wild
- and it was covered in a strange, brown, human-like hair from front to back.
Whatever it was - our narrator didn’t have time to find out, as like anyone would do,
he quickly retreated into his cabin and hid himself under the covers.
Next up at Number 3 - we’ve got the Basement Cackle
One day, a Reddit user named Corby315, was in the basement, unassumingly doing their
laundry.
All of a sudden - the lights blew out.
No big deal, right?
Wrong.
When you’re in a basement in the dark, the demonic forces of evil and shadow are instantly
alerted to your location.
In Corby’s basement, it was partitioned into two sections - with the furthest away
section being where the washer and dryer were kept.
So, in order to get upstairs - you had to exit the laundry room and go through the other
part of the basement.
Which was now in absolute pitch black darkness.
It was dark - to say the least, but after finishing the laundry - and eventually mustering
up enough courage to brave the basement - Corby315 made their way through the darkness.
As they got to halfway - all seemed fine - until Corby315 heard a noise from behind them, that
was clearer than day.
A loud, continuous - cackle - a shriek that could only resemble that of a witches.
Corby315 described the cackle as deep and hoarse - as if whoever had made it had been
smoking for 50 years.
Whatever it was - they didn’t stick around long enough to find out.
Coming in at Number 2 - we’ve got the Bonneville Trail.
Years ago, Reddit user SevenSpace, who lived in Utah and was a keen hiker and camper, headed
out one weekend to the Bonneville shoreline trail.
On this particular occasion, though, he decided to take a trail that he’d never walked before.
Good idea?
Hm, let’s find out.
After hiking a few miles up the trail, he came across a bend where two trees had apparently
been uprooted.
Seemingly, though - they’d been placed over the trail in a way that resembled an archway.
This is where things get weird - because at the end of each tree, were two big elk skulls
purposefully put in place.
Sevenspaces describes the skulls as being placed to look directly at you.
He shrugged it off, though, and kept going on his way.
As soon as he passed through the threshold of the archway, though - he felt a cold chill
shoot up his spine, and the hairs on the ends of his knuckles stand on end.
He didn’t want to turn back - but the whole time he couldn’t shake the sensation that
he was being watched.
As he makes his way through, maybe 5 minutes later, - all of a sudden, the birds stop chirping,
all the little animals of the forest stopped moving - and even the wind seemed to die down.
It was total silence.
And as he’d been taught by his father - he knew that sudden quiet in the wilderness generally
meant bad news.
Sevenspaces broke out into a full blown sprint - and hauled his arse off the trail.
He didn’t see anything, but he knew at that very moment that something - or someone - was
stalking him.
He could feel their eyes burning into him as he ran back down the trail.
He doesn’t know exactly what it was - and he intends to never have to find out.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - we have the Abandoned Train Tunnel.
In this story, which happened around 2012, Reddit user DoodlingDaughter details the strange
events that happened in a set of old train tunnels in Colorado.
The abandoned train tunnels, which are just West of Manitou Springs, on Highway 24 - if
you wanted to check them out yourself.
Which - well, I wouldn’t really recommend.
Please don’t do that.
There are a reported 7 separate caves in the train tunnel system, but as DoodlingDaughter
entered this particular tunnel - she was overwhelmed with a horrible feeling that she was being
watched.
She kept hearing strange echoes and noises - but nervously, she laughed it off.
She made her way deeper into the tunnel system - and the flashlight which she had - well,
yeah - it started to die.
Because that’s what always happens in these situations.
Right before her flashlight fully went out - she saw a white, faceless figure up ahead.
It was a creepy, man-sized mannequin-esque doll.
As she inspected it - she had found that it had been stabbed with a blade where its face
and groan would have been, and inside the wounds were a strange, white substance.
But as she went to take a closer look, she heard footsteps shuffling behind her.
Needless to say - she ran as fast as she could out of there and never went back.
To this day, she has no idea what went down.
But - after submitting her post, another Reddit user claimed that they’d been to the same
tunnels, and found piles of bones that are supposedly related to a group of Satan Worshippers
that inhabit the tunnels.
Well - what do you guys think?
Would you want to head down into the Colorado tunnels on your own?
Me - well, I’m fine right here at Top 5 Scary Videos - wait, *look around* what was
that?
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