Spooky stories

## Stories we tell ech other in the dark

These stories were told during a Thaumodynamic class at a campfire. Please decide yourself weather you want to believe in them or weather you think they are totally not real and made up stories. Readers discretion advised as some stories may be graphic

The following story has been shared by ***SeleneDeVeros***:

Once upon a time, there was a young boy, raised by his mother because his father left when she was pregnant. He was a pretty odd kid, and quite a loner. Made him a target for bullies in school. He did his best to let it go and not let it get to him.... Even though he was an outcast, he had his mother, but one day she grew ill and soon passed away.

When word got out, he was actually treated well for awhile by the other kids... but only for a while. The bullying started again, and soon when one bully turned up dead. No one could prove anything, but everyone suspected the lonely little outcast. Then the next day, two more were taken and the little loner kid was arrested.

The sheriff's son was one of the bully's father and decided to arrange a little accident, to murder the boy that killed his son. The boy ended up dead, but the murders kept happening. Because a mother's love prevails, even in death, and she couldn't stand her sweet little son to hurt anymore. When he was slain, she went fully insane and the whole town soon suffered and such was the end, as it burned to the ground, the day they put her boy in the ground.

A story shared by ***LightSix***:

There was a little girl who really loved dolls. She had a big collection of them in her bedroom. One day, while she was browsing through a shop on her own, she spotted a really beautiful doll. It would make a perfect addition to her collection, she only hoped she had enough money to buy it.

"How much is that doll, Ma'am?" she asked the old woman behind the counter

"This doll is not for sale" replied the woman.

"But it is so beautiful" said the girl "I really want it"

The old woman became irritated "I told you its not for sale." She said.

"Why not?" persisted the girl

"Because the doll is Cursed!"

"Well.. That's OK I don't mind"

"I'm not going to sell it to you, But if you really must have it, go ahead and take it. Its yours but if something happens, don't blame me!"

"Ah yes thank you" said the girl smiling as she grabbed the doll and walked out of the shop.

The little girl was so delighted to get the doll for free that she ran all the way home, carrying it in her arms. When she got home to her apartment building, she went into the lobby. it was deserted, she stood there waiting for the elevator to arrive. The doors opened and she stepped inside clutching her new doll tightly. The doors closed, but the elevator did not move. the little girl got scared, and began trembling with fear. OMG, she thought to herself "is this the curse of the doll?". Suddenly she felt the doll move in her arms. ever so slowly, its head turned to face her. The little girl wanted to scream but she couldn't make a sound. The dolls eyelids fluttered and opened it stared at her with its lifeless glass eyes.

Then its mouth opened and it said "Push the button to go up, bitch!"

A story shared by ***Carlie***:

Sits up straight and clears her throat. “Alright listen up guys…because this story actually happened.” She let a dark undertone ring with her voice that fits the night theme too well. “So 60 years ago there was a student at the academy who sorted into a house, just like us. Who started to learn the different spells just like us, who visited the different classrooms, who sat down in the dining hall to eat meal just like us.” She gazes into the fire. “The student, her name was Mia Tyren… she was a curious one and so eager  and lusted for more…magic. Her naive mind brought her to the library. People say it always looked like it does to this very day…but Mia did always love this place. She even got locked in that cozy room of wisdom once… spend the whole night reading. But when she had trouble with a happy charm…she went to the books again. Hours passed by, she searched desperately for the answer why she couldn’t cast the charm. She knew she had to be sad or tired…any negative emotion…She tried everything, thought about her past relationships, stayed awake for nights… but nothing seemed to work."

"One thing that Mia also liked besides studies… was climbing. So she climbed on the pillars up to the second floor to the shelves to have a better view on the room and… well it was -her- favorite place, just like she always did when she was alone. She even used a rope that she threw over the railing. Why the rope you might ask? Well...she had a certain weakness and curiosity. And why just studying spells when you can also study certain ways of... binding and knotting techniques... right?"

"She climbed up there, the wood creaked under each pull that she made and each centimeter she made towards the balcony. By now it was past midnight, not even the ghosts were in the library at this late hour. Mia was all by herself, when she made it up there. She enjoyed the view, played with the rope, made some knots into it for fun and read through her notes for the thousand' time that night. Everything seemed normal. But then... suddenly the light began to flicker! A cold breeze ran over the back of her neck and soon the girl began to worry. Her breath went faster, the heartbeat increased... did the wood just creaked? Carefully she gazed down and spotted something! No... someone! A shadow rose from underneath... a man... woman? No wait... it wasn't... it wasn't even a human! Nor another magical creature she knew! That thing made it's steps in the library, dark wobbling mist, red eyes... and a thousand sharp teeth. It looked through the library, hunger in it's eyes.... Mia whimpered, crouched to the railing and tried to lay down flat on the ground."

"But it was too late... she felt a pull! A scream! Something grabbed her leg and turned her around! Pulled her towards the edge of the balcony! Her nails dug into the wood! Her eyes full of tears! The shadow's corrupted voice shouted "Make us happy! Ssssssmiiile for us!". She tried to escape but there was no use. Her legs got tangled in her rope, and she fell off the edge, hung there upside down and... and nothing... the shadow was gone... but instead of crying... she started to smile... no Mia started even to laugh and couldn't hold back. She laughed until her belly hurt and even far beyond that... and when she was found next morning... her eyes were blood red... and she wore a sweet smile on her face...so if you go into the library... and study through the night... maybe you should watch over your shoulder... when you hear that lovely girl laugh again..."

A story shared (and the winner of best student story) by ***AlexaNekoPaw***:

"Ok, this story takes place at the school's woods from few years back, a story of a little girl named Nadia. Nadia was beautiful, blonde long hair, green eyes, very smart and talented in school maybe one of the best in some of her classes, very quiet and shy though, she wasn't social, she would leave the school grounds to go in the woods to study by herself. She would do it many times only during the day, cause she knew at night there is bad stuff in the woods, but one day she felt bored, felt like she needed to walk, get some fresh air, so she decided to look at the time and said to herself "Ok, I have about 1 or 2 hours of walking before its getting dark so I'll make it fast", so she leaves her room and enters the forest, the sun was already setting, with the trees, it made her feel like its already dark outside. So she decided to walk for about 30 minutes."

"As she is walking in the woods she sees a little pathway, one that she never saw before, and she knew certain sections of the woods, cause she goes almost everyday there but this time the path was new.. So she got curious and walk down that path to see what is there. She walked for another 10 minutes until she found a dead animal... a dead Beaver, no blood, no bite marks, no stab wounds or gun wounds. So she was wondering what happened but shrugged it off and kept going on that path, after another 5 minutes of walking she decided to stop and look at the time on her phone and see its been 45 mins she's been already walking and it's getting very dark, the full moon light barely giving any light in the woods, so she starts to worry, knowing she needs to walk another 45 minutes to go back safe at the school, as soon as she started walking she heard, twig snapping, leaves shuffling."

"She turned her head left and right looking all around her but couldn't see a thing so she starts to walk faster. As she arrived where the dead beaver was... she noticed the body has disappeared... no blood trail nothing, just disappeared in thin air. So she starts to freak out and take her phone and light her flashlight and look around, she starts dialing her friends phone number to tell her she might need help and to meet half way. But as soon as the phone started to ring... a bell started to ring from far away. She turned her head toward the sound and point her flashlight in direction of the bell, but she didn't see nothing, she started to panic and started to run. Her friend answered the phone, Nadia so freaked out she starts to scream on the phone "COME AND GET ME!" "SOMETHING IS IN THE WOODS AND ITS AFTER ME! PLEASE HELP" and after 20 min of running and hearing that bell coming closer and closer, she tripped and fell to the ground, hurting her ankle and she flashed the light toward what she trip on and it was the dead beaver.... but this time headless... blood everywhere, she noticed it was a perfect cut, not a rip off or tear just perfectly cut."

"She starts to scream and gets up and fast walk, another 10 minutes of walking almost at the end of the woods she stops hearing the bell, and just heard walking, leaves shuffling. She flashed her light and all she saw about 20 feet from her on the her right side between 2 trees was a pale white, black hair girl.. walking towards her like she was glitching or like her legs are broken and slowly walking toward Nadia with a death rattle sound and slow but loud croaking noise, her eyes and mouth wide open. Nadia dropped her phone and ran and finally reached the place where she meets her friend, she jumps in her arms, crying, screaming... But her friend says no words, and Nadia knew something was wrong so she stops crying and screaming and open her eyes and move her head to gaze upon her "friend" and she now saw the pale white girl, the pale girl grabbed her and disappeared in the woods, being dragged away" (Bearbeitet)

"Ever since that day, Nadia has disappeared and her body was never found..."

A story shared by ***MipiMoonBlossom***:

stands up and approaches the fire, the misty fog all around their feet growing even thicker, or one could swear so for sure, the fire flames just dancing in the mist "I have one story to tell, be warned, this story is absolutely serious and will chill you to the very core of your being and soul if you have one. It was a quiet night at the academy, almost like any other night. Just like this night right now. You could see the stars up in the sky, the moon light was illuminating the surroundings.. faint voices of chatting students coming from the common rooms, courtyard, dorms, dining hall. People were just going about their business, you know, studying, sleeping, practicing, training. You know just like you should."

"The air felt so clean, so pure, refreshing even, but suddenly, someone named.. lets say Bob. Felt like doing research on forbidden studies at the library, somehow the wards stopped working and Bob got access to higher level books, he picked one that was standing out from the others, the book was almost calling his name... it looked like a grimoire, at first glance, it looked like any leather bound book but when Bob inspected the book closer he thought to himself.. "is this book made of.. human skin?" he was very surprised the school even had something like that, this naturally got Bob very intrigued, interested. He opened the book and got to reading or tried to. The book seemed to have been written in symbols, maybe ancient language? One thing was for sure, Bob had no idea what any of that meant, as he kept looking into the book, trying to decipher something, anything, the symbols in the book formed into letters and soon enough Bob could clearly read what it was saying. Bob read a certain incantation, now we all know you're not supposed to mess with dark stuff you don't understand but Bob? Oh no, Bob didn't care, he kept reading and reading and when he finished nothing happened. Bob was disappointed and he put the book back in place, leaving the library with sad expression."

"Few minutes passed, some of the students were slowly setting for their bedrooms as it was pretty late anyway but suddenly.. The air got very dense and thick, even heavy to breathe, hard to breathe, people were confused as the atmosphere was changing out of nowhere, or at least they thought so.. The library was empty at this point, not a single soul wanted to read or study in it anymore and suddenly.. BOOM! The skin bound book flew off the shelves! It fell down to the floor and opened, the pages in the book rapidly moving from right to left then from left to right, no one was there to witness it, but students started to hear faint voices in their heads, almost whispers, something calling them.. looking for them. Some people even froze in place, they suddenly stopped talking.. some people while they were going on about their night soon went back few seconds and repeated their actions, one could say they were.. lagging even" shrugs "I think that's the term anyway.. the professors scurrying around, trying to make sense of what's happening, trying to repel it, but no.." leans closer to the fire, making her face glow "this Thing, this Being was way stronger than the most adept casters even could even dream of being.. Their efforts were in vain.."

"Then a moment of silence.. the air was eerie.. you could smell an evil danger around.. and then people heard.. a distant song, a lullaby maybe? the words they could make out, or at least some people could were.. "1..2.. it is coming for you.. 3..4.. better close your doors" naturally this got some people confused, what was coming for them?! Was it an eldritch horror? Was it the opposite of life and death itself? no no.. no one knew and then.." the fire in front of her makes a cracking sound and whooshes high up into the sky "poof! one person disappeared in a red mist.. poof! another person disappeared"

"People were disappearing into a red mist left right and center.. some year 7 student came rushing through the dorms, screaming, yelling, wailing in terror "Run people! It is the red monster again!" and before the student could say anything else their sentence was cut off and they also disappeared in a thick red mist. The curse of the red being, the red menace was upon the school, it has been unleashed by unsuspecting Bob."

"Bob hid somewhere deep within the school, deep in a labyrinth of ancient relics only hearing the distant screams of students and teachers alike before they got taken. When the night passed, little scared Bob made his way out of the labyrinth and looked around, the courtyard was empty, you could barely see anyone there. He could only hear some distant cries and sobs of the ones that actually did survive the red menace. Unsuspecting Bob unleashed an invisible red monster that removed people from existence, over half of the school population turned into red mist, never to be seen again and the rest was lucky enough to survive with poor little Bob. They lived through the night to tell the tale or forever shiver in fear and never speak of this again."