21 People Share The Creepy (And Completely True) Stories That Will Make You Sleep With The Lights On

A legit sock demon

It was like 2 am, I took my clothes off and went to sleep. A minute later something hit me at my head. It was one of my socks. When I take them off I throw them in a corner of my room, so someone threw it back at me.

But there was no one in my room, was alone 100%. May not sound so scary, but it was for me!

It’s still there, waiting

When I was 17, I went to my mates house for some beers for his Birthday, I probably only had about five drinks. Come the early hours of the morning, probably around 2/3am, I head out to the kitchen for a drink. I pour a drink of water and turn around and take a sip, and as I’m swallowing I swear I hear footsteps(the ground in the entire room is all made up of tiles), so I hold my drink down and listen for a few seconds.. Next thing I know, I hear fast footsteps in front of me running towards me, and suddenly a huge cold breeze blew right through me..at that point, I just freaked out and ran back for the bedroom. I ended up waking my friend up and telling him what happened and we listened and could hear odd bangs and bumps from out there, but nothing out of the ordinary after that ever happened. I’ll still always remember it though, gives me goosebumps writing this.

Leo Hidalgo
Leo Hidalgo

A warning

Me and some friends had just graduated high school and wanted to do something fun now that we had some free time. We end up going camping on this native american land in california. Well we spent like 2 days there and then packed up to go home. On our way out of the land, me and my friends started to joke around about the natives and said things like “drive faster before the shoot their arrows at us” and bullshit like that. Then out of nowhere, our car hits a bump as if we had ran something over. We stop and try to see if we hit an animal and then we see it. It was like some fucked up skinny, long legged coyote. We start looking at eachother debating on what we should do and then, the coyote starts getting up and we see its real size. That. Shit. Was. Massive. So me and my friends are already shitting our pants at this moment so we decide to get the flying fuck out of there, then, we saw what we still don’t bring up today. While leaving the scene, me and the driver here our 2 friends in the back scream and shout “OH MY FUCKING GOD GET US OUT NOW!!!” me and the driver check our mirrors and the coyote was fucking walking off into the distance ON ITS FUCKING HIND LEGS. We jammed faster out of that creepy ass land and didn’t say a word til we got back on the freeway. To this day I still think we might have being just seeing things but it looked so real. This is the worst thing I can remember when it comes to shit like this

Lessons learned in Montana

I’ve learned some things since moving to Montana. 1. Don’t fuck with Coyote. 2. Steer clear of Skin Walkers. 3. Do NOT camp or hike near burial grounds.

The tall man

I once worked on an Indian reservation and it’s late at night in South Dakota. Some friends and I are driving, one of them is native and we are discussing folk tales of the area. Suddenly I see the white light running towards the road across the plains and my friend steps on the breaks. “you’re doing that because you saw it too right?” “yup”

We pull up to the area and there is nothing there. I have goosebumps all the way back to where I’m staying. That night I have awful dreams about native warriors trying to destroy new York city and then I wake up with something breathing in my ear, whispering to me. I scream my friends name and he looks over at me and tells me it’s okay. I fall back into the same dream over and over again. I keep trying to change the outcome.

The next day my friend told me when he woke up and saw me screaming a massive shadow was above me. The tall man. Not slender man- this guy is different. My friend didn’t want to tell me he saw it since he knew it would freak me out even more.

Was afraid to sleep for weeks, smudged the crap out of my room, put sage on the window sill and hung up mad dream catchers. Shit was scary but also kinda funny. I think they had fun messing with the white girl.

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