10 scary stories

The Dog Who Sees Spirits

"My dog has a nasty habit of scratching the door in the middle of the
night. One evening she wouldn't stop scratching the door for any
reason. After calling her five times, I threw a pillow towards the door to
make her stop. That's when she barked ... from right beside me. She'd
been next to me the whole time."

–Victória Koehler

2. Shadowy Figures Descending from the Ceiling

"When I was little, every night when the lights were turned off and I went
to sleep, two dark forms would descend from the ceiling near the
doorway into my room. They walked quietly up to my bed and one
stood on each side of my headboard, looking at me. I would cover my
head with the blanket, until one day I had the courage to tell my mother.
She put a lamp in my room and told me to pray and ask them to leave. I
sleep with a lamp on all night to this day."

–Alba Eres,

3. The Phantom Student

"One day, during a break in class, a friend of mine put his head down and
took a quick nap. I took this photo to show some other friends who were
in another classroom. When I took the photo, nobody in the room was
standing, there was nobody behind me who could have cast a shadow,
and there was nobody walking by in the classroom.

–Mariana,

4. Caressed by a Spirit

"My father died in 1996, when I was 10 years old and my brother was 12.
We slept in a bunk bed, and my brother had the upper bunk, while I had
the lower one. One night, I woke up in the middle of the night with
someone softly caressing my head. I thought it was my brother and
ignored it. When I went back to sleep, the feeling returned. I got out of
bed to confront my brother, but he was snoring quietly. I went back to
bed and the caressing began a third time. I've never prayed so hard in
my life. I prayed until sunrise the next morning."

–Ernani,
5. Hands of Blood and Bone

"When I was about eight or nine years old, my mother worked nights and
we shared a double bed. One day I felt a strange presence in the
bedroom. I had my eyes closed and when I opened them, I saw hands
wrapped around the bed from underneath. The hands were made of
blood, bone, and hanging skin, and they tried to climb up the bed. I
turned away and there was a white "shadow" lying next to me. I
managed, after a loooong time, to get up and run to my grandmother's
room. She didn't dare come back to the bedroom with me."

–Anonymous testimony

6. Grandmother's Spirit

"My grandmother lived with my family during the last months of her life.
She died on the sofa in our house one Sunday night. The following
week, I started to see someone in white passing through the house
occasionally, and when I went looking for them, there was never anyone
there. My sister claimed that she actually saw physical forms. We were
terrified for a good while, until my sister and I could no longer sleep in
our rooms because we were too afraid. My mother prayed, burned the
couch in the backyard, and we never saw anything again."

–Aline Rsd,

7. The Bearded Man in Black

"When I was about five or six years old, I woke up to a noise in my room.
When I opened my eyes there was a man standing in front of me, with
a big brown beard, dark hair, and black clothes. I kept looking at him
in fear and backed away on the bed until I was up against the wall. Then I
felt the mattress sink down beside me and I started to cry. When I
looked again, he had vanished, but it still seemed as if there were
someone lying next to me on the bed. I asked it to leave because I was
afraid, and the bed returned to normal. I cried myself to sleep, and I still
remember the man's face to this day. I'd never met anyone who looked
like that, and neither had my parents."

–Beatriz S. Carneiro, via Facebook

8. The Haunted Building

"I work in an old building that was built in 1929. The space was closed for
at least 20 years before we moved in because the previous owner had
killed his wife, and then himself. We moved in two months ago
and almost every day at exactly 12:08 p.m. the bell for the front door
rings, but there's never anyone there. We've looked at the security
recordings and everything, and there's never anyone there.

The other day I was alone in the office late in the evening. I was on my
way out so I turned off all the lights, closed the windows, and activated
the alarm. When I turned to close the door, the kitchen light was on (even
though I had just turned it off). Another time, I arrived in the morning and
the light in the main room turned itself off. I even heard the sound of
the switch flipping. The last straw was when I saw my someone else's
face next to mine in the reflection of my computer screen. There was
no one there when I turned around.

I decided to talk about these things with the building manager's wife,
who's lived in the building for several years. She assured me that it's
actually pretty quiet in the building these days, and that there used to be a
lot more strange occurrences, and at least now she can take the elevator
by herself. I just laughed nervously."

–Almiro Dias

9. Nightmare Time

"My mother always complained that she had a lot of nightmares, but she
would never say what her dreams were about. One day while we were at
the mall, I suggested that she wait in the food court while I was getting
our food. When I returned with our meals, she had a strange look on her
face, so I asked her if she was okay. She said she was fine, so we
finished our meals and left.

As we were riding down the escalator to leave, I turned to talk to my

mother, and I almost had a heart attack because standing behind her
was a man in old-fashioned clothing holding one of my mother's
shoulders and looking at me with a very angry expression. She saw the
shock on my face right away and shouted at me asking what was wrong.
When I told her what I had seen, she started crying and said, 'you just
described the man that tries to kill me every night in my nightmares.'"

–Ana Carolina Paris, via Facebook

10. The Faceless Figure

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"When I was 15 years old, I stayed up late watching a TV marathon with

my sister. In the middle of the night, after my sister had fallen asleep, I
saw the nearby computer mouse start moving by itself. I called my
mother into the room and she said it was probably a rat that was pulling
on the cable from underneath the desk, and that I should just go to sleep.
Suddenly, I swear I saw a black figure with no face or human
features behind the bookcase. It looked in my direction and pointed. I
nearly shat myself with fear! I remember saying, 'Who are you? I do not
want you in my house! Nobody wants you here! Get out of here now!'
The thing left, and I actually heard it hit the cabinet before it just went
through it. The cabinet began to sway, and the door slammed and made
a loud bang."

–Weslley Rodrigo