short scary stories

27. The spider

There once was a 10-year-old girl with braids. The girl had been wearing her braids in a ponytail for the longest time, and the braids were old, at least two to three months old, and the girl's mother never took them down to wash them.

The girl had been complaining to her mother about having a headache for about two weeks. Her mother just brushed it off, assuming that the girl had just bumped her head on something. One morning, while getting ready for school, the child again began complaining to her mother. Again her mother brushed her off. At school, the girl told her teacher that her head was hurting. The teacher assumed that the braids were too tight in the child's hair and attempted to let the ponytail down. When she removed the hair piece and let the braids loose, the teacher saw a spider in the child's hair.

The spider had laid eggs in the child's hair and the spiders were eating her scalp. The girl was rushed to the hospital, where she later died.