1: The Evil Doll
My mother had a large Shirley Temple doll when she was little whose eyes she says followed her, literally. She hated that doll, and it ended up buried somewhere, only to resurface when she was much older. She would not tell me the rest of the story until I begged her, and made me promise not to ask my aunt about it, and to not mention it again after she told me.
She gave the doll to my cousin. Why she did this, I can't imagine. She says that she had convinced herself that she was imagining things as a child herself, but seriously?
Anyway, my cousin is playing with the doll one day, when my aunt comes in and finds the doll TALKING to my cousin. So, she promptly freaks out, and takes the doll away. My uncle buried it, in pieces, as it continued to laugh up a storm.
That crap is evil.
I asked my aunt about it (against my mom's wishes), and she simply said, "I don't want to talk about it."
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2: Great Grandmother
My great-grandmother was very close to my mom and was apparently an incredible woman. She died before I was born, but my mom tells us a lot of stories about her. From the time my little sister was born, she's had a very strong resemblance to old pictures of my great-grandma and her whole side of the family. Once, when my sister was a baby just beginning to learn to speak, my mom was holding my sister on her lap, talking and playing with her. My sister reached up and took my mother's face in her hands (like my great-grandmother used to do to my mom when she was alive), looked her in the eye, and very clearly said, "You always were such a beautiful baby." My mother was shocked, but my sister, who was not yet speaking in full sentences, had gone back to making her typical baby sounds.
My mom told this story at dinner when my sister was about six or seven. This was the first time my sister ever heard the story, and she was a little freaked out. As soon as my mom finished telling the story though, my sister's eye twitched, as if she were winking. (my bold won't turn off now)
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3: Confusion
So, as a little girl, my friends' mother used to talk about this nice old lady who used to sit on her bed and stroke her hair as she fell asleep. Now, the parents thought she was just imagining it, and other relatives called 'ghost' — but on the whole they just put it down to the overactive imagination of a little kid.
THEN — one day, their housekeeper sees a woman coming out of the little girls' bedroom. So she runs after her and grabs this real-life woman, who is in her 80's and very confused.
Turns OUT that this woman used to live in the house and moved nearby, but since they didn't change the locks when they moved in, she kept letting herself into the house at night and gently petting my friends' mum as she fell asleep!
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4: Stairs
Whenever I turn on the computer, I have a weird fear that maybe there is a virus that puts screamers at the beginning of the start-up. Screamers are those abrupt loud noises with a monstrous picture used to scare you. So anyway, I usually keep my sound turned off until I actually log in, and sometimes it takes awhile. One night, I started it up and went to the kitchen to fix some food. I came back, and the monitor has something on it...something I've never seen before. A screensaver? Hmm...
I turned the sound on and got this loud, high-frequency ambiance. It startled me, so I quickly turned the sound off. At first, I thought this was a screamer...
I looked closer to see that the "screamer" was a picture of a set of stairs, viewed from the top. The environment...looked too familiar. Those were...my stairs. I looked back to see the staircase. Was this a joke? I got up and went in front of the staircase, and looked back at the computer. Now I could see me at the bottom of the steps. What the heck was this? I flipped the switch at the bottom of the stairs to turn on the lights at the top, but there was just a flash of light....like the lightbulb burned out. In that flash of light, I saw something. A shadow of a man, or at least what I thought was a man. Then, every light that was on went out. It was pitch black now...and I could feel someone or something near me.
"O-okay...joke's over, guys....", I said nervously...
This was no joke...
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5: Science
Try this. Turn off the music. Turn off the TV. If you have to, turn off the computer. Then go to another room, and sit. In total silence. Do you hear that? That ringing? People say it is your brain making up a sound to explain the silence.
People lied.
I cant tell you what is making that sound, but whatever it is, you don't want to meet it. It is trying to break through. Force its way onto our plane of existence.
Now try this. Repeat the first steps. Turn everything off. This time, turn the lights off too. Still hear that ringing? Better hope you do. If you don't, its because they have finally managed to break through.
And no amount of running will save you.
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[A/N: Did I scare you? Good. Sweet dreams! -Kiara]
