Hello horror fans, it’s me again - your horrific host, Jack Finch.
Once again, welcome back to Top 5 Scary Videos - the most terrifying channel on YouTube,
where all your nightmares are condensed into one easy, charming video.
Today, we’re going to be taking a look at those relatively innocent tales, that can
quickly turn into a slumber parties worst nightmare in - 5 Scary Sleepover Horror Stories
That Turned Out To Be True.
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You all know that feeling - as a kid there was something slightly magical with staying
at a friends house, or camping out in the yard under the stars - but then you’d hear
something a little out of place, a bump in the basement, or a strange scrape on the wall
- a snap of a twig out in the distance.
Seemingly innocent events, your parents would just tell you it’s the house adjusting,
or old piping in the walls - but you could never shake that feeling that something - or
someone - was out there.
Well - at Number 5 - we have the story of The Gasman.
Reddit user ligamentary tells a tale from the 1960s - where her and her older sister
were home alone for the weekend.
It was a different time, where people were generally less security conscious.
She was waiting for a friend to pick her up - when there was a slight knock on the door.
Thinking it was her friend, she answered it without checking the peephole.
It was a man - standing there, claiming that he was the gas man, and he needed to check
their meter.
Disappointed that it wasn’t her friend, she allowed the man in.
She didn’t notice this at the time, but the man wasn’t dressed as a city official
would - but he had a green and purple striped shirt on like the host of Blue's Clues.
Immediately, the man headed upstairs to the girls bedrooms, just as her older sister passed
him on the landing.
“Why is that man going upstairs?”
her sister asked.
She replied that he was just reading the gas meters.
Her sister turned pale - “our gas meters are outside” she said.
Ever resourceful, her older sister had a stroke of genius - and a man was passing outside
the house, when she yelled “Oh Dad, it’s good you’re home, there’s a man here to
read the gas meters upstairs.”
Just like that - the man in the striped shirt bolted out of the house.
Close call?
Well, you bet.
Because just three months later, a girl went missing under the same set of circumstances
- she was home alone, with no signs of forced entry.
They later found the girls body, she’d been held captive for a few days - then burned
alive.
Coming in at Number 4 - The Drums of Warwoman Dell.
Now - this one is a little short but sweet - and completely terrifying if you have a
morbid fear of the unknown.
Reddit user Cough_Cakes shared this unnerving tale to strike fear into the heart of campers
everywhere.
It was the year 2000, and he had spent a year at Aspen Youth Alternatives - a wilderness
survival camp that taught young people the important of independent survival and self-reliance.
During one of their more remote hikes, they ventured off trail and made camp near a place
called Warwoman Dell.
It was a beautiful location - but many of the campers said it just felt a little bit
off.
There was a strange silence in the air that didn’t make sense, and an absence of something
that they couldn’t quite put their finger on.
There were 15 campers - sleeping in groups of three, and two staff members that took
turns on night shift, keeping an eye out in the woods.
Gradually, he started to hear a faint rhythm in the distance, slowly getting louder and
louder.
Thinking it was all in his head - he asked a girl next to him if she could hear it.
At first she said no, but then it got louder - and closer, and she could definitely hear
the drums.
Thinking it was the kids - a staff member hollered at them to knock it off, it was time
to sleep.
But the drums just kept getting louder.
By this time - the whole group were out of their tents - looking at each other, staring
in bewilderment.
A few of the campers were stood still, tears streaming down their faces.
The drums lasted until daybreak.
Needless to say - the group quickly left the trail.
Next up at Number 3 - Not My Boyfriend.
Now, this one creeped me out a little - so let’s hope we never run into this person.
Reddit user heartx3jess lived with her boyfriend in their swanky downtown apartment.
She worked from home, and her boyfriend was a teacher in a town about 15 minutes away
by train.
He got home pretty much the exact same time, every single day.
Pay attention to that detail, because it’s important.
Well, Jess and her boyfriend had been in a pretty big fight - the kind of fight where
you don’t even speak to each other, call - or text.
At this particular juncture, Jess was lying on her bed - roughly the time that her boyfriend
was due home - and she was ready to make amends.
She was preparing herself for that awkward, hey - shall we stop fighting - kind of smile.
She had her earplugs in - but she could hear his heavy footsteps walking around the apartment
- waiting for him to finally head to the bedroom.
The door opened slowly, just a few inches - she turned her head towards the door - but
it stayed still this time.
Jess could see a reflection on the doorknob, it wasn’t her boyfriends hand - but a woman's
hand, with dark, red nail polish.
Whoever it was - they slowly closed the door just as they had opened it.
As you would, she freaked out - and hid on the balcony as she frantically called her
boyfriend.
Was it his mum or sister who came to visit?
No, they didn't have keys.
The Landlady?
No, she always lets them know a day in advance.
Nevertheless, her boyfriend said don’t move - I’m calling the police.
The mystery remained unsolved, not a person in sight - but the next day, when the landlady
was changing the locks - they found a strange, square area by the keyhole that had been scratched
away by something.
Tools.
Someone had forced their way inside.
Spooky, eh?
Coming in at Number 2 - Gilbert, Arizona.
This one is definitely a doozy, so strap on in.
It’s the late 90s - and reddit user kan610 - who was 14 at the time - moved from Phoenix
to Gilbert, Arizona - which at the time was just beginning to develop from a town into
a bigger city.
Previously, most of the land around Gilbert had been rich, well used farmland - and it
had a long line of rural history.
Now, kan610 was the oldest of seven kids - and although their house was always bustling with
noise and activity, the family quickly noticed that there were a number of strange noises
that would occur.
The house was brand new, mind, and the land around it nothing but cornfields.
One night - she was having some friends over for a slumber party.
As is custom at these kinds of events, the talk quickly turned to ghost stories.
The Hook Man.
Rat Tat Tat.
They laughed at how lame they were - until they heard a strange shuffling noise outside
their room.
Someone dared her to take a look - who knows, perhaps it’s a ghost?
So, feeling brave, she did - and quietly crept down the hallway.
As she got to the end of the house, she noticed that the back door was actually wide open.
Strange, everyone in the house was sleeping.
Stranger still - someone had tracked mud all over the floor.
The footsteps didn’t seem to move in a straight line, either.
They had a strange property about them.
It was a thick, consistent layer of mud - almost too perfect to be an actual footprint.
She screamed - and the slumber party ran down the hallway to her.
As they huddled together, they all saw the same thing.
Standing just beside the TV - was a small boy, maybe eight or nine years old.
He wore nothing but plain denim overalls - and was filthy, covered in mud.
For a moment, he looked at the girls with a sad, somber look - and then just like that
he was gone.
The next morning - the mud had completely disappeared, except for two, dirty footprints
by the back door, and a dried mud mark on the outside doorknob.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - Goatman While Camping.
Now - if you’re aware of the legend of the Anansi Goatman, then you’ll easily be able
to fill in some of the gaps of this story - because there’s a lot left to the imagination.
It’s 2007, and Reddit user _coyotes_ was out with a couple of friends camping in the
woods, 13 of them - kids between the ages of 16-18, wanting to drink a few beers at
the weekend in relative peace and feel like adults.
They’d planned to stay for 4-5 days over the summer vacation, but little did they know
what would transpire.
On the first night - around 7 PM - they heard something, or someone moving in the bushes.
They threw an empty beer bottle, heard it smashed - and slowly watched something - or
someone, climb out of the bushes and lumber back into the trees.
That’d be the first warning, for me - anyway.
Later that night, as they slept in their tents - they heard a strange popping sound coming
from the fire.
They shot up out of bed - to find the fire, that was previously just dying coals, roaring
with flames as if someone had poured gasoline on it.
Well, obviously.
No one had.
It was then that they began to smell a scent like no other.
At first they thought it was skunk, but then they realised it was more like the smell of
rotten meat.
Then - they heard a soft voice coming from the line of trees.
The group stopped.
One of them, named Ben, cried out ‘Oi - who’s there?’
Silence.
And then - in a similar, but eerily not quite right imitation - the sound of a reply.
Oi - whos there?
And then a figure emerged, maybe 40 or so feet away - Oi, who’s there?
It said again.
The group stood transfixed - it was only then that they noticed the figure looked eerily
familiar.
It was the double of their friend Ben that had shouted out into the woods, in every likeness
- except that it wasn’t.
It stared at them for what seemed like hours, even as they hurriedly packed away their camp
into their cars.
Every now and then crying, Oi - who’s there?
Sheesh.
Spooky, eh?
Well - unfortunately that’s all we’ve got time for today horror fans.
I sincerely hope you’d enjoyed these terrifying tales.
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Videos, and until next time - take it easy.