Kimmalah posted:

Zippy the Bummer posted:

What's that one story where the author is supposedly recounting a story from his childhood in which he and his friend are being stalked by some creepy dude? It involves someone being buried alive.

Accordion Man posted:

That was some good poo poo, but there is one problem with it though. It makes no sense why the stalker wouldn't have just kidnapped the protagonist a lot sooner if he was already able to break into their house and take the protagonist into the woods. It felt like the author originally planed it all to be supernatural but changed it without revising that.

newts posted:

It's called Backwards and Forwards and in One Place. Just scroll down here: http://jezebel.com/10-of-the-scariest-stories-weve-ever-heard-1652856691

It freaked me out

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Backwards And Forwards And In One Place, from Gnomi Malone

A few years ago, I asked my SO if he had ever seen a ghost. He got really uncomfortable and squirrelly, lots of hemming and hawing. Annoyed, I said "Just say yes or no! I won't judge if you think you have seen a ghost." (I'm a skeptic and figured he didn't want to sound like a rube or something).

Turns out he was hesitant because he believes he saw one but it was while he was deployed on a mission in the Middle East, and he was trying to think of how he could describe it without giving up any classified info. The story is this:

He was in the spooky, vague "Middle East" when there was a commotion from the soldiers watching the perimeter. Apparently, they could see a man about 100 yards away from the camp. He had appeared out of nowhere, no one saw him walking up. The man was just standing there, not doing anything threatening. But since it was a strange man in a war zone, they broke out all the high tech gear to see what was going on. They could see his face, his clothes, his height, but he looked bizarrely distorted and was not giving off a heat signature (they have infrared jimjams and whatnot, it's the freaking military not a piddling ghosthunting troupe here). He was not the temperature of a human being, he was the temperature of the air around him. They had no idea what was going on and people were freaking out.

At this point I said some obvious stuff- "Maybe it was a scarecrow or dummy. Or a shadow. Or the soldiers were really tired and delirious and their eyes were playing tricks on them. Or it was a hologram weapon shaped like a human".

His response: They called different people up to come look at the man, it wasn't just a few soldiers who saw this- dozens of people came to look and everyone confirmed that it was definitely a person. Eventually they decided to send out a team to check this guy out. When they got about 50 yards away, the man started walking- only it didn't look like he was walking toward or away from them, only walking in place. They froze, expecting an attack. But the man never got any closer.

Me- "So he was, uh, moonwalking? OooooOOoohh a terrorist with dance moves, scary!"

His shaky response: It looked like it was trying to walk but instead of moving like a regular person, its bones were breaking and splintering backwards and forwards at the joints. I can't think of a better way to describe it. Its head was jerking around like a puppet. When the convoy got a few yards closer, it disappeared entirely. The team hauled rear end back to camp and as soon as they returned, the man-thing reappeared in its spot. Everyone took turns watching it for an hour or so until it disappeared for good. Didn't walk away, didn't fly or melt or explode, just stood there for a looooong time then vanished.

hard counter posted:

I have no idea how my Grandfather came to be the owner of the mask.

deadwing posted:

yo whatup fam I really like reading random people's spooky short stories, the problem is that a lot of them suck, and there's not much content produced here anymore which is bad because a lot of the ones from here were good

so I am here to trawl r/nosleep and repost the actual good stories in this here thread

here's the first one


like a lot of the stories on reddit I think this one goes a little too far in the conclusion with the whole head in the window thing and would have been more effective if it reinforced the weird dog proportions to even spookier levels instead of oooooo a head 2 spooky but this one's pretty good and way better than most of the poo poo posted there

i'll be back with more content freshly stolen from the reddits, I read 15 other highly rated but not very good stories to bring you this one

also too many stories are about kids being abused over there I mean what the gently caress reddit

deadwing posted:

I just read another fifteen or so of the month's "top" stories and they were all poo poo, I'll be sure to post if I read any good ones though

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I had to stop Dale. What he did to Jimmy's son was unthinkable. That rat bastard had gone way too far, and someone had to stop him. I had to find that bastard, but he disappeared after he did what he did. I knew who could find him though, but it would cost. The cost didn't matter none considering what was at stake.

Khazar-khum posted:

That set goes from Intriguing to 50ft Ant.

ChogsEnhour posted:

How long are those S&R stories? Any chance of getting them posted in this thread? Pretty much every website is blocked where I work (How SA slipped through the crack I'll never know, but I'm eternally grateful) but they sound pretty interesting.

If they're dead long then no worries.

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I can't really talk about what I do. It's not that it's classified or anything, but it's definitely a specialized field, and the last thing I need is for someone I know to read this and report it to my bosses, which they almost certainly would do. What we do, we have to be really mentally on our game, because if we're not a lot of things can go wrong really quickly, and a lot of money can be lost. A lot of your money, frankly, since your taxes are going toward funding the things I need to do my job. What I can tell you is that what I do involves me being out on the open ocean for long periods of time, in a very small submersible that is capable of going down a very, very long way. It sounds a lot more exciting than it is, I can promise you that, but it's an interesting job, to say the least. Although it's a lot more cramped in there than you'd ever believe. This is not a job for the claustrophobic. It's also not a job for people that are easily scared, or prone to any kind of panic. I'm a level-headed guy, I don't scare easily, and I'm pretty small, so I was sort of uniquely suited to this work. I really enjoy it, actually.
The only thing I don't enjoy is what I want to talk to you guys about. Or, rather, give you a heads-up about.

We started noticing them about a year ago, when I was doing some research at a pretty shallow depth, all things considering. At first we thought it was just some kind of weird camera anomaly, because the pressure really messes with things down here. We have a camera mounted on a little arm that extends from the sub. There's a few arms that do different things, but the one with the camera is important because that's how we can record things like sulfur lakes near volcanoes, which is something we didn't know existed until recently. But as I mentioned, the pressure can really take a toll on the equipment, and glitches are to be expected.

Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:

I'm starting to think it's about time someone makes one of these threads for 2016... I'm tired of reading anti-Semitic conspiracies on /x/ when I could be reading bomb-rear end ghost stories

samu3lk posted:

Bigtime. Thelittlefears was fantastic. Creepy stories, well produced, in an even tone. Too many people that do this try to "act" or they haven't rehearsed at all and mispronounce words and sound like they're reading.

I don't have a link since I'm on my phone, but I'd also like to hear more like the Kimberly Story. It's not a great story, but the guy telling it is really convincing and has the gift of gab and makes it really engaging.

Is there anything out there like that?