Stories of things that go bump in the night, and steal your televisions

October 31, 2019 10:19 AM

Are you afraid of the dark? You will be! It's time for Jezebel's Annual Scary Story Contest, where Jezebel readers submit their own real stories as comments. Bonus from Jezebel: scary story videos
posted by filthy light thief (5 comments total)

Has anything spooky happened to you at work?
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:14 AM on October 31, 2019 [1 favorite]

Oh god we should all get the day after this drops off from work cause we’re just going read all of them til we can’t sleep and be useless the next day.

Also the fucked upness of each year’s stories being like 75% spooky and 25% oh yeah that was a stalker men are horror stories.
posted by The Whelk at 11:14 AM on October 31, 2019 [4 favorites]

This thread seems less scary in context of the next one about climate change.

Except for the 25% of the stories that are about stalkers.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:19 PM on October 31, 2019

Still getting to the Jezebel stories (I recall how good some were other years). But if you also need a chuckle, read the comments under jenfullmoon's link, at least through the one about a container of bones.
posted by NorthernLite at 6:26 PM on November 1, 2019

Wow, this story is... spooky and horrible and yet intensely satisfying.

Thanks for making this post! I always forget Jezebel does this feature but I love it every year.
posted by daisyk at 10:17 AM on November 3, 2019