I’m a firm believer that everyone has a
story to tell.
No matter who you are - life has a way of
washing us with bizarre and unexplainable
experiences, terrifying instances - and close
call encounters with strangers.
As we all know - the internet, and more specifically,
Reddit - is jam packed with the best of the
best of these tales.
Some of which, may just well make you think
twice about the people that you meet out in
this strange planet that we call home.
Hello horror fans - and welcome back to the
scariest channel on YouTube - Top 5 Scary
Videos.
As always, I’ll be your horror host Jack
Finch - as we invite you to share this digital
campfire, scatter some dust to the flames
- and curiously take a look at the Top 5 Scary
Reddit Stories That Turned Out To Be True
- Part 2.
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you, that scene was
from 2014’s The Babadook - and that particular
scene still manages to make my skin crawl.
The bloody Babadook eh?
Who knew?
Kicking off at Number 5 - The Recurring Dream
And this story from Reddit user Just_another_gamer
is a visceral and horrifying reminder that
lingering in the deep recesses of the human
mind, are some truly perplexing chemical reactions
that we can’t even begin to comprehend.
Have you ever had a recurring dream?
Ever thought - what the hell is this all about,
what does it mean?
Well, yeah - this person is still asking the
same question.
As the story goes - Just_another_gamer is
an avid cave diver, and since about the age
of 6 they explored the unknown caverns across
Florida.
When they were around 7 or 8 years old, they
started to have a strange recurring dream.
In the dream, they were exploring a cave - and
made their way through a little hole in the
bottom.
Inside was a 10-15 foot long corridor a few
feet in height, and a bent red-stop sign at
the end, like someone had ripped it off and
tossed it inside.
As they’d make their way through the corridor,
it started descending - quickly opening up
into a large vertical chamber with a path
leading down in a corkscrew.
Then things would get blurry - but they’d
remember the image of trash scattered around
the walls - things writhing in the distance.
Strange things.
Animals and corpses.
Amidst them, they saw their own family - each
one of them being tortured and killed - but
in the dream, all they could do is scream.
They had this dream for years and years, always
the same thing - until 7 or 8 years later,
when they were fifteen - and went on a caving
trip with their father.
A place called Dog Drop, out in the Tampa
Bay Area.
Well - when they were descending on a 30 foot
rappel - they felt a strange, familiar feeling.
When they reached the bottom and looked up
- they saw the exact same corridor from their
dream.
The same strange clutters of trash against
the walls - the same red stop sign.
Instantly, they were hit with this overwhelming
sense of nausea and primal fear - and they
froze.
All they could do is scream to leave - and
eventually, their father paid attention to
them and packed up their things to leave.
Whatever was lurking down their - our narrator
knew that it wasn’t good.
They’d seen it before, deep in the recesses
of their own mind and memory - and thankfully,
they never found out.
Coming in at Number 4 - The Boat Mechanic
And this short and sweet story comes from
2OttersInACoat - which is a fantastic name,
may I add - telling the real life tale about
a guy that they knew who made their living
working as a boat mechanic.
Now, random acts of violence are a different
kind of fear - but this one, takes it to a
whole new level.
As the story goes - one saturday, their friend
the boat mechanic was working alone in the
workshop, making some final repairs to a boat
that had been brought in.
Suddenly, out of nowhere - the mechanic wakes
up and he’s on the ground.
Now, he knew that there was water beneath
him just before, so he assumed that he’d
been electrocuted - and the shock had knocked
him away unconsciously.
The strangest part is that he could vaguely
sense someone behind him - so he started yelling
for help - letting them know that he’d been
electrocuted.
Whoever was behind him turned and left without
a word.
He keeps screaming for help - until eventually
a neighbouring business heard his pleas and
came to his aid.
Later on, once he’d been seen to by the
nearby hospital - he discovered from the police
that he wasn’t electrocuted at all.
According to the police, someone had entered
his worship while he was working - and hit
him on the back of the head with a mallet
from his own toolbox.
And - nothing had been stolen from the shop.
Now, this person was never caught - and CCTV
wasn’t clear enough to identify the perp.
But as it seems - they were walking by, and
spontaneously decided to knock him out, potentially
with the intention of killing him.
For seemingly no reason whatsoever.
Now, that’s terrifying.
Next up at Number 3 - The Closet
This story comes from tightiewhities37 - which
is - yeah.
As the story goes, back in 2002 - they were
living in an old apartment that had been built
back in the year 1900 - making it just over
a hundred years old when they moved in.
Now, everything in the apartment was great
- apart from one thing - they bedroom - and
in particular, the closet in the bedroom - which
gave them the unnerving feeling that someone
or something was watching them when it was
left ajar.
So much so, that when this particular reddit
user was sleeping - they’d often hear strange
gasping noises, and it would seem that they
were coming from within the closet.
They’d check, nothing there.
But for that reason - the closet would always
stay closed.
A month or so into them staying in the apartment,
there was a loud bang on the closet door - and
our narrator was woken from their sleep.
It was pitch black - yet they sensed that
something can emerged from the closet - standing
over them, a pressure holding them down in
their bed.
And yeah - you could explain this away with
sleep paralysis - but the end of this story
may just make you think twice.
Throughout their stay at the apartment, the
encroaching sense of dread from the closet
had never quite left - and even their friends
would comment on the strange feeling that
they felt when in the vicinity of the closet.
It got so bad - that eventually, they had
the chance to move to another unit - so they
jumped at the opportunity, packed their stuff
up and got the hell out of there.
Well, a few years later - the owners were
renovating the building - when our narrator
was walking past the doorway of their old
apartment.
Curiously, they caught the building manager,
who was painting in the bedroom - and began
talking about the strange feeling that they
felt whilst living there.
Without thinking twice, the building owner
explained that the former tenant of the apartment
had committed suicide - they’d hanged themselves
in the closet.
And not only that - but the original designer
of the building, who had also stayed in the
same apartment, had also committed suicide.
They’d hanged themselves in the exact same
closet.
Swinging in at Number 2 - The Baby Upstairs
And this story comes from Reddit user urgehal666
- spooky name bud, who explains an incredibly
strange moment during their teenage years.
As the tale goes - when they were in high
school, their uncle would throw them a couple
of bucks every now and then to babysit his
kids with their aunt.
They lived in a beautiful old two story house
by the water in a nice area - and the two
children were around 3 and 6.
One day, they were sitting in the den scrolling
through their phone - when they started to
hear a baby crying.
Of course - it must be the three year old
distressed upstairs - so doing their babysitting
duty - they headed to check of them.
They called out a couple of times while heading
upstairs - to no response.
They called for their aunt to see if they
were dealing with it.
No response again.
When they turned to start walking up the stairs,
they caught a glimpse outside in the yard.
It was their aunt, with her two children - laughing
and playing on the grass.
They heard the baby cry again - the noise
coming from upstairs, and all of the hairs
on our narrators body stood on end, a chill
running down their spine.
Quietly, they turned around - walked down
the stairs - got in their car and drove away.
The baby was still crying when they closed
the door behind them.
A few years later - our narrator was drunk
at a family party, and they mustered the courage
to tell their uncle the story.
He said that him and his wife used to hear
the baby too - crying when no one else was
around.
According to him, the previous owners had
a small child that had died of cot death in
the same room that the cries were coming from.
Spooky stuff.
And finally - coming in at our Number 1 spot
- The Attic
And again - another tale of spooky kids in
upstairs locations.
Sorry, I hope that wasn’t a spoiler.
This story comes from Reddit user Gules - who
tells the tale of the time that they’d moved
into their new childhood home.
Their family had managed to snag a deal - because
previously, the house was used as a model
home to show off the housing design of the
surrounding area.
Upstairs, it has this loft area - that had
two stairwells that attached to it on either
end - one in the front, and one in the back.
You could pretty much hear everything from
up there as it was so open.
Anyway - one day, our narrator and their two
friends - a guy and a girl - were hanging
out in the loft.
It was high school - so teenagers being teenagers,
the pair were pretty handsy.
They were watching TV, all snuggled together
on the sofa - when our narrator got up to
take a leak.
When they got back - the two of them were
on completely different ends of the couch
- their faces drained of all colour.
Our narrator asked them what was up - and
the guy said - your little sister is home.
Instantly, our narrators faced went white
as a sheet.
What’s wrong? - the girl asked.
You see - our narrator didn’t have a little
sister, and he asked them what made them think
he did.
They replied that they’d heard her - and
they’d seen her.
But for all they knew, no one was in the house.
To this day - our narrator’s two best friends
swear that they heard a little girl laugh
and run up the stairs, hitting her hand on
each step like she was running up on all fours
like kids do.
As it turned out - before it was a model home,
a family had lived there - and their young
daughter had been playing upstairs in the
loft.
She’d climbed a railing, slipped and fell
to her death below.
And no one had thought to mention that fact
when they were flipping the house.
No wonder they got such a deal.
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