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Feb-23-2006 06:46

When I was about 4 years old, I was staying at my parent's friends house. They had a daughter about my age who was bigger, stronger, meaner and a lot tougher than me. I was staying the night and she told me the Incredible Hulk was under my bed and would grab my ankle when I got up. Well, I lay there terrified.
After that, whenever I went to bed, I'd have to jump from a distance into bed... or I'd make sure if we moved into a new house my bed was by the light switch so I could be in bed when the light went out and nothing could get me from under the bed.
I even still find myself leaping into bed sometimes to avoid the monsters from beneath.
Anyhow, I was about 8 when I first heard this story and about 16 when I heard it with the added dimension of "licking".
I am sure IF it was that story and not the Hulk story I'd heard at 4, I'd never have slept again.

Anyhow, here goes.

Feb-23-2006 14:28

When Peter showed up, they hid behind a couple of lockers. They stifled a few giggles before Peter touched the handle of the closet door. They quietly laughed and cackled as Peter walked in and closed the dorr behind him. When he disappeared into the closet, and after the door had clicked behind him, they tiptoed away from their hiding place and leaned their ears on the door. But instead of hearing a scream of fright, they heard a choking gasp. The girls stared wide-eyed at the door. There were no sounds of movement... and for five minutes they stood beside the closed door.

"What do you think happened to him?" asked Hannah.

Katie shrugged, but she knew that Peter was probably playing a small joke for revenge. But she had to admit he was making her worry a little. So she grabbed the handle of the door and tugged it open. What they saw inside made almost made them faint.

Peter was there, slumped in the middle near the mops... his neck swollen and his eyes bulging. The cadaver's hand was firmly gripping his throat... the grip that had killed the poor boy.......
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The story is indeed a frightening one, and the moral is that you should always double-check to see if the Cadaver's Hand isn't hanging on to a lamp string... or else you'll be like poor Peter, dead and gone...

Feb-23-2006 15:54

This is the verse found in my story "Doll Parts"

"There once was a place where evil men tread,
"But something bad happened, now it's owned by the dead.

"It's children are china. It's mother is woe.
"Once you come meet them, you won't ever go

"I can bind them no more in their vengeful calls,
"They rule the house from within its walls.

"For they are the children of restless hearts,
"And in their wake I am simple doll parts."

It's too long to put an excerpt here, but it's in "On the Other Side".

Feb-24-2006 05:44

My.......you folks are weird.

JUST KIDDING! :)

Feb-24-2006 15:23

My grandma always told me a story when I was little , called "It Floats". I cant remember how it all went but after she would tell the story, in her husky voice she had, she would say...."It Floats.......It Floats......It floats...." and each time she would say it, she would get closer and closer to me, and I would keep backing up, then she would go "IT FLOATS!!!!" real loud, and grab me, and I would scream my head off. She told it to me a million times, and even tho I knew what was coming, everytime she would say "It floats" as she came toward me.....my eyes would get bigger and bigger, and she would laugh harder and harder. I think "it" was a bar of soap lol I wish I knew how it all went. Thats the only part I remember and I think, why, is because thats the part that scared me the most. Looking back...how in the hell can "it floats" scare someone? LOL I think it was her voice, and how she was saying it :) Good memories for me tho :)

Feb-24-2006 18:42

whispers to Mak










it floats

Feb-24-2006 19:30

There was a haunted house on the ridge and then it turned out to be ghost of the old lady that died and all of a suden there was a hook on the car door and there was no one inside the car AND THE CALLS WERE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE OH MY GOD!!!!!

Feb-24-2006 21:29

Heh Mak, it's weird what scares you when you're younger. Besides that Hulk story, our teacher read us Roald Dahl's The Witches when we were 7... there's a part at the start when the boy's Grandad describes the time he saw a witch and stayed in his treehut or something hiding. It absolutely terrified me!

I later read an article on Roald Dahl and he said that part of the story was from a story HIS Grandad had told him about a scary childhood incidence.

Feb-24-2006 21:41

hahahaha nice try Ran :) heehee

I know Leddy! Its amazing!

Apr-11-2006 14:30

When I was younger I saw something behind me in the bathroom mirror. It wore a black cloak covering its entire body and head. It was short with blackness for a face. It was heading out of my parent's room and into the hallway. Then it stopped and began to turn its head to look at me. I watched it and feared it, I remember thinking "God make it go away. Please make it go away." I was watching through the mirror so I finally decided to turn around as its face was almost visible..... And it was gone! Scariest thing that ever happened to me, thats right, it was really did happen. And no I'm not crazy.

Apr-11-2006 16:27

Have you hurd of that movie "When A Stranger Calls"?
Its a real story exepct:

What happed was the guy kept calling the baby sitter and asking her to check on the kids and when she did she seen they where asleep, well on the third time or so he called she went in pissed off and yanked the covers off the children only to find he had slit there necks when she sreamed she ran down strars and was killed by him, cops say that he was in the kids rooms in a closes pleasureing him self when she came in to check on them.

my buddys grand mother was about a block or 2 over when this happend.