Scary Stories 2025

      The man at the door

By Laylah Govella

On a cold and stormy night, a knock on the door at around midnight woke me up. I got out of bed and went up to the door. I looked into the key hole and saw a shadowy figure of a man with a fedora standing motionless at the door. When I saw him, my heart almost skipped a beat. A few years ago, there was a man who made an attempt to summon someone from the dead. He got caught and ran away. The police found him hiding in an abandoned church. Before he was shot by a police officer, he said with a creepy smile, “Even if you kill me, I will come back from the dead and get my revenge on this useless town. And just like a shadow, you won’t notice me when the night comes. But you will when you take your last breath.” Soon after, there have been multiple reports of murder around the city. No one knew how the people were killed, but the only evidence the police had was that the victim’s body was a shadow. No body, just that shadowy silhouette of the person. Seeing the man outside, I knew I was going to be next. But I planned to go down fighting. I ran to my emergency cabinet and grabbed a bottle of holy water and a cross. With my heart beating like a drum, I slowly walked up to the door. I cautiously turned the doorknob and opened the door. But the man wasn’t outside. I turned around and saw the man in my house. With the same smile he made before he died, he grabbed my neck and squeezed it tightly. My vision turned black. And along with my heartbeat, my body faded away.

E SHADOWS BENEATH THE BED

A father went to say good night to his seven year old son, very well knowing that if he didn’t his son would have trouble sleeping. It was a nightly routine between them. He entered the dimly lit room where his son waited under his blanket. With the first glance the father could tell there was something unusual about his son tonight, but couldn’t put his finger on it. He looked the same but had a grin that drew from ear to ear, and his hair was a shade lighter than usual

“You okay, buddy?” the father asked.

The son nodded, still with the grin, before saying, “Daddy, check for monsters under my bed.”

The father chuckled a bit before getting on his knees to check only to satisfy his son.

There, under the bed, pale and afraid, was his son. His real son. He whispered, 

“Daddy, there’s someone on my bed”.

A few months had passed and the father had to repeat this every day, worrying more and more about his son. One day when he did this routine his son was sitting there under the covers looking scared, but still with the grin. 

“D-Daddy the b-basement scares me,” the son said, barely trembling those words out of his mouth even though he didn't look scared at all 

The father hugged his son and said “I’ll check it out.” 

“NO!” The son shrieked but it didn't even sound like his son, it was a mix and match of voices

The father opened his eyes wide and the door slammed shut behind him then he heard banging from the basement door. 

“Come check for monsters under my bed Daddy.” the son said firmly.

The father creeped over to the bed, tucked his son in, and began to kneel down as soon as his knee hit the floor. A cold, waxy hand creeped up his leg and then….. 

SCCRRRRATCH!

The father screamed in pain and grabbed a small toy knife, then slashed the hand, cold green thick liquid spurted everywhere and got all over him. But the hand continued to scratch him.He used the flat of the plastic blade to whack the hand away. The hand fell away instantly, and a faint, high-pitched giggle echoed from under the bed. He was no longer worried about the monster under the bed, but the one on it.

Once the boy had fallen asleep he creeped away to the basement. He opened the door and tiptoed down a bit. He saw his son, his real son. He reached out to help him, and then his wife yanked him out of the basement,and the door shut she then yelled at him. She had never yelled at him before, and it made him more worried about what was down there. Then she told him 

“Never go into the basement again!You'll ruin everything!”

The next day everything went as normal but his son kept that grin, his wife, his daughter, and everyone else didn’t question it they saw him as completely normal. His wife finished dinner and she walked away. When he looked close the father saw blood on her shirt. At this point he was questioning his own sanity. The next day the father woke up at 12pm and the house felt a bit different, everything seemed desaturated. He saw his son with the grin as usual but he seemed different. It seemed as if he was a giant metallic puppet, its head snapped to look at him with a metallic ‘click’, the father stared for a bit before bursting into a run towards the basement

The puppet let out an ear splitting shriek and floated towards him extremely fast, he had got into the basement and shut the door. He then opened it and the puppet had been smashed by the door into the wall, oil and wood spurted out everywhere and he only saw oil and heard repeated crashes and crunches. The father repeatedly smashed the door into the puppet until it rolled down the basement stairs, mangled,and leaving an oil trail on the stairs as it rolled down.

The head of the mangled puppet seems to follow a set path as if this was rehearsed, and it stops in front of a door that he had never seen before the puppet's head seemed to repel from the door. The father went in and just the air from the room seemed to resaturate the house. The puppet let out a shriek and burst into oil and wood, getting it everywhere. He then saw his real son sitting in the room with cuts and bruises smiling as if to hide and repel the pain. The father rushes in to grab his son as soon as his foot enters the room he feels happiness flood him.The father rushes into the room, and the bliss of its atmosphere washes over him. He grabs his son and clutches him close, feeling the pain his son feels and pushing it away with his own strength. His son looks up at him, no longer with the painful grin, but with the familiar smile he used to have. The happiness from the room has now spread throughout the house, and he can hear his wife's familiar cooking downstairs, he can see his daughter coming up the stairs to play with his son. It is all normal again. Too normal.

His seven-year-old son smiles at him from under the covers.

"Daddy, check for monsters under my bed," his son says with a wide, ear-to-ear grin. His hair is a shade lighter than usual.

A sense of cold dread washes over the father, instantly eclipsing the temporary happiness that had filled the air. The words are identical, the expression the same, an echo of a moment he has already lived. His heart pounds in his chest. He remembers the cold, waxy hand, the scream, the metallic puppet, the basement, the rush of happiness, and now this. He remembers it all. The happiness he'd felt in that secret room was not a cure, but a reset button.

He grabs the edge of the bed and, with a furious surge of will, flips it over with a violent crash. Months of torment being repeated, over,and over, and over again.

Year 1944 june 9th d-day the day it started the day they escaped the year they were forgotten that day they were declared dead killed by germen hands but they were just lost,lost in the red

Lost in the red was supposed to be a comic but it became a book im trying to make and the real reason im making this is to write what i imagined d-day t be in a au i hope you like this ww2 horror 

My name is jack ranson im 26 and a private im on a mission with 156 thousand other soldiers we are invading normandy after the axis took it from the french i just hope i make it past the beach

 the beach is coming into view  

jack: “the hell,Rob you seeing this”

Rob a 25 year old a private along side me we’re friends Rob : “yeah why arent they shooting” as the as the LCPV  or Landing Craft, persnnal , Vehiclehit the 100 mark still no bullets from the germens and one boat landed on the beach and another one and one after that men started to fill the beach one brave man got a bangalore to get past the sea wall but he stopped dead at the sea wall he saw fresh blood a hand,head and a gutted body it looked like a nest as more came to check a deep fox like laugh but it was distorted like it didn't belong in whatever made it a forced call nothing natural could've made it as group of soldiers headed out to look for whatever made that sound jack and rob were in the group they walked as most soldiers were still on the beach to continue to look for where the nazis were as jack and rob found a town they got a radio to call for back up but silence yeah the radios couldve got damaged by the rain but they wouldve still be able to radio to one another but it wasnt the radio it was nothing how did 156 thousand soldiers get lost how did they just disapear was it germens but as jack came to that conclusion he turned back and saw no one just blood but somthing was coming to him crawling like a lizard it stood up on two leg s as jack fell to the ground from the shock this huge lizard stood on to legs a huge 10 ft tall blood covering the mouth and claws    this but longer mouth bigger body and long claws standing over you blood all over it this thing killed 156 thousand men alone? No it wasn't alone there was hundreds of things out there and on tied around its neck was a tag in German experiment 038 the lizard man or in germen Experiment 038: Der Echsenmensch a 8 ft monster just stared and the eyes were like it was trapped in a hell it never wanted to be apart then it left jack was on the ground and he looked to his left and saw a dog but it was all flesh and mussels and bones but no skin and no eyes and when jack looked up he saw a german scientist with a knife the scientist  “ gute nacht” and stabbed jack and with that part one is over did he die how did all 156 thousand men disappear and where is this leading to

I used my first wish to end world suffering, and my second to see what happens after death.

I was going to use my third to set the genie free, but instead I used it to become immortal.

“Mom, that weird lady says if you say someone's name backwards they will do anything you tell them to.”

“Nonesense, ellebannA, now go hide the body.”

She clearly didn’t like me anymore since she canceled our date.

I don’t know if it was the blood on my hands or my weird smile that gave it away but she has to be next.

The Murder of the princess 

       Once upon a time there was a royal family : Queen Stephiny,King Hunter, Princess 

Wimerela, and the young Princess Mia.The had a picnic in the courtyard. It was one of

the beautiful ones in the land.The two princesses played as their mother and father, the 

King and Queen watched them play.They were happy and had a good relationship with 

each other. Although the two princesses did fight at time but the still have a good 

relationship with each other.They are a good family for now until they get betrayed. 

         One sunny day Princess Wimberela and  Princess Mia are bored in the cassel so they decided to find something to do.They go outside to the garden in the courtyard then they hear a russel in the nicely cut bushes and Princess  Mia is scared.Then Princess Mia says to Princess Wimberela “I’m scared and I don’t know what to do. Can you check it out PLEAS” then Princess Wimberela replays “Fine but stay here and you owe me your biscuit today after dinner.” she says to Princess Mia . After Princess Mia says “ ok ok fine! “.Then Princess Wimberela sees what it is and it was a Possum. Then they carried on to running and playing hide and seek and tag. Then they heard it again RUSEL RUSLE RUSLE. They thought it was a possum again but something was off. Princess Wimberela checked and let out a shriek “ Agggghghgh” louder than she had ever. “What is it?!” Princess Mia asked. Princess Wimberela calmed down “ Few” “It's a kid!”.“Hi I’m Kamrin sorry for scaring you,” the kid said. Princess Mia then grabbed his hand and asked him if he wanted to play.Then they played the rest of the afternoon.

        In a  month Queen Stephiny and king Bob noticed Kamrin would go to their cassel often to play with their two daughters.Then they thought it would be a good idea to say hi to him so they did.They all trusted him and thought he was a good kid. Princess Wimberela was sceptical as to why Kamrin kept coming but she trusted him and warmed up to him.Later when it was his second month King Bob and Queen Stephiny decided to invite him for dinner.When he arrived they thought he would wear a suit but he came in his regular close like a plain long sleeve shirt and dark blue plants with belt. They asked him if he had a family and he said he had left his home because they didn’t really take care of him.After  he said that they took him in as their own child. They gave him a room,clothes,shoes,and food like if he were their child.

            After two months Kamrin grew jealous and wanted the crown. He started to watch every move of Queen Stephiny and King Bob. He also started to remember what time Princess Wimberela and Princess Mia would be together or close to each other. Princess Wimberela noticed he was acting strange but didn’t know for sure. Then he stalked each and every one of them. He slowly got better at stalking them. He also knows what time they shower,sleep,eat, and what time they go outside even a lot more.Princess Wimberela started to slowly find out what he was doing. She still wondered why he was doing this and how without the others noticing. 

             Princess Wimberela knew he was stalking her but he didn’t know that.    Princess Wimberela started to not trust him and she saw him in a new way. After that she started to do things differently.When she was worried she would hang out with Mia for the whole day.She slowly watched his every move and stalked him for a while.One day she found his things to prove she was right about him.However her parents thought she was messing with them. She tried explaining but they didn’t listen.

          Then one day it was raining.Rrrrrriiiiiisssssshhhhhhh toop toop rrrrriiiiiisssssshhhhhhh the rain went. As the day went on Kamrin then played and hung out with Princess Mia and Princess Wimberela. She knew he was still stalking them but she didn’t care for a day. He made it seem normal like if he was just a regular kid doing nothing wrong. She started to get skeptical but she thought she was wrong for just a second. Until he asked them what they were doing in the next 2 weeks.

          A week goes by and nothing happens.Until the next day on Monday afternoon. Princess Mia gets bored and Kamrin could tell. He then says “Hey Mia do you want to go play with your toys and play?” “Yess!” she says eagerly. Princess Wimberela couldn’t go with them because her Royal ball was coming up and had to be fitted for her dress. Kamrin and Mia then play and hang out for the whole afternoon. By then princess Wimberela is done and hears them playing. She decides to wait and watch through the crack of the door. Then she sees him grab a knife and he stabs her multiple times in the stomach and her chest. Princess Wimberela saw as her little sister slowly died.Kamrin then acted like he knew nothing about it and was “shocked” and “sad” about it.

          Then she showed her parents and they were devastated. They cried as they looked at Mia’s dead corps.Then Queen Stephiny said “WHO  DID THIS WHYYY” in a shaky sad voice. King Bob didn’t say anything and cried.They all agreed to not trust anyone that was not part of the family. Wimberela knew the truth but Kamrin was prepared and he looked like he did nothing. He did cry and he was sad but happy. Princess Wimberela then leared you can’t trust everyone