Scary Campfire Stories

Once in a little village not that far from here, there was a problem. Animals had started dying off, one by one. In the morning their owners would see them lying outside with 10 holes in their chest. The people thought it was the work of their neighboring town (insert name). Then, one night a man by the name of …

The car finally gave out. Jeff hit the dashboard in frustration. It was bad enough that the car had to break down, but at night, in the rain, in the middle of God knows wherever he was, it was a fitting end to his bad week. The week had seen his wife leave him, taking the kids with her. He …

A laundress, newly moved to Charleston following the Civil War, found herself awakened at the stroke of twelve each night by the rumble of heavy wheels passing in the street. But she lived on a dead end street, and had no explanation for the noise. Her husband would not allow her to look out the window when she heard the …

There’s a girl driving along I-70 on the way back to Colorado after visiting her relatives in Illinois. It’s about 1:00 am and it starts raining when she realizes she’s almost out of gas. She sees a sign for a gas station about 3 miles ahead and breaths a sigh of relief. But when she gets there she sees it’s …

Once there was a young woman who had a child, but couldn’t afford to take care of it by herself, so she put a blue baby bonnet on it’s head and carried it two miles from her house and left it in the woods As she began to walk home she heard “Blue Baby Bonnet One Mile Away” As she …

“Creak”, a sound, faint, distant, but still heard. “Crack”, something snapping, or being trampled on. The man sits in his room, reading. The room is silent except for the quiet fire burning. “Creak”..Just the the house settling, nothing more. “Crack”, Perhaps some small animals outdoors. “Whoosh”, Was that the wind? The man stands up and peeks out the window. A …

Eversince Julie was a little girl, when she got scared she would put her hand under her bed and her dog would lick her hand to comfort her. Well now Julie was 14 and her parents were going out and were going to be out until late at night. Julie didn’t want to stay home alone but her parents told …

Once their were two girls who shared a college dorm together. Their names were Meg and Venida. The girls were out partying one night. Meg noticed she forgot her purse and went back quickly to the dorm. With out turning on the lights she walked in and grabbed the purse. Then she returned to the party. Later on in the …

Tell it at night, and sound effects work well to make the story scarier. It was a late night, rainy, and very dark. A young woman was driving home alone from work after a long, tiring day. Her two-seater pickup truck had been driving on steadily through the rain for the last half hour- aand she still had another half-hour …

The number 12B Train was on its usual journey from Royston to Monkton taking workers to and from the coking factory. The day was supposed to be wet and gloomy and a mist is said to have swept in from the east that cold autumn night. The moon was full looking over Royston that night but still wives and children …

Not long ago, but before interstate highways ran around towns and cities, a young man left Greensboro late one night to drive to his old home in Lexington. At that time, just east of Jamestown, the old road dipped through a tunnel under the train tracks. The young man knew the road well, but it was a thick foggy night …

My friend Isabela called me one evening before dinner. She was sobbing as she told me that she and her husband Enrique were getting divorced. He had moved out of the house earlier that day and Isabela was distraught. I called my husband, who was on a business trip in Chicago, and he agreed that I should go stay with …

It was a dark and stormy night. Steve had just came in from having tied down anything that could possibly blow away in the wind outside. Cold seaping into his bones, he decided to go sit by the fireplace to warm up. He closed the door to the large living room of the large house he had just purchased. His …

When I was 18 I started babysitting my Aunt’s youngest three kids. I always got a very uneasy feeling when I went into her house, the only reason I agreed to stay in house was because I was just out of High School and I needed the money. You need to know that her house is a bi-level. When entering …

The dream was so vivid, she didn’t realize at first that it was a dream. The party was crowded, the guests cheerful, the food delicious. Then a rumor began to circulate among the guests. The Devil was coming to the party. The Devil was on the way. She didn’t pay much attention at first. Until a hush came over the …

Once there was a little girl whose name was Rose Marie. One night she woke up about midnight because she heard someone walking across the floor downstairs. step…step…step…step…step She quickly pulled the covers up over her head and shivered, holding her breath. Soon, she hears a wavery voice (say slowly in a scary voice). ” Rose Marie – I’m on …

SCREAMS IN THE DARK She was my best friend. But I try never to think about her. It’s only on certain nights, when I’m all alone in my room, that I remember… It was last year when my best friend asked me to stay at her house overnight. She lived in a big, gloomy house set way back in the …

You can give them all a mirror while you say the story. (Or not!) To SCARE them Silly! Whoever is foolish enough to say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror is sure to die. Once upon a time, there was a woman called Mary Worth. Everyone insisted she was a witch, and no one dared go newar her house. …

It started with little things, strange incidents that were sometimes inconvenient, sometimes almost amusing. But then the heavy trouble began… and the terror. In the early 1970s, two sisters, Lois Dean and Diantha Summer, moved their families into two old houses in the middle of Rawlins, Wyoming, a small city in the Rocky Mountains. Lois and her husband and their …

The trials and tribulations of living in today’s modern society can tend to wear on your nerves. One can grow very weary of dealing with bills, taxes, insurance, traffic, and pollution; not to mention anything about keeping food in the refrigerator. Often times the whole thing can make you wanna holler, throw up both your hands! And that’s exactly what …

A boy was digging at the edge of the garden when he saw a big toe. He tried to pick it up, but it was stuck to something. So he gave it a good hard jerk, and it came off in his hand. Then he heard something groan and scamper away. The boy took the toe into the kitchen and …

A storm was raging that night in 1735, when Mother Leeds was brought to bed in child birth. The room was full of woman folk gathered to help her, more out of curiosity than good will. They had all heard the rumors that Mother Leeds was involved in witchcraft, and had sworn she would give birth to a devil. Tension …

Long ago, a young man met and fell in love with a beautiful young woman. She was always dressed exquisitely and she always wore a black ribbon around her neck. Soon the man and the woman were married and moved into a little cottage by the sea. They started out very happily, but soon the young man became more and …

A young couple were delighted to purchase the old-fashioned house in the Stuyvesant Square section of Philadelphia. They moved into their dream home in the winter of 1889, bringing their six year old daughter with them. There was a lot of refurbishing to do, so the little girl tended to go up to the attic to play while her parents …

The girl hurried through her schoolwork as fast as she could. It was the night of the high school dance, along about 70 years ago in the town of Kingsville, Texas. The girl was so excited about the dance. She had bought a brand new, sparkly red dress for the dance. She knew she looked smashing in it. It was …