Short Horror Stories

36. The Babysitter

A young girl was babysitting some children in a large old house, the children were in bed and she was watching TV when the phone rang.

All the voice on the other end did was laugh, she listened for a minute and then hung up.

A few minutes later the phone rang again and a scratchy, male voice said, "Have you checked on the children yet?" She asked who he was, but he just laughed and hung up.

She was very scared and called the police. They told her there was really nothing they could do about prank calls, but they'd trace the call if it happened again.

After she got another call asking her if she'd checked on the children, she hung up and the police called, telling her to get out of the house immediately.

The calls were coming from the upstairs extension, where he'd already murdered the children.