At horror stories they arouse an intense feeling of fear in people. This is justified by the presence of elements similar to reality, with some interference that usually scares listeners.
There are not few people who appreciate the genre. So much so that there are several successful books and movies in this genre, such as Evil Invocation (2013) or The Exorcist (1973).
Do you like horror stories? So check out some now scary stories to tell in the dark!
Index
- 1. the Ernesta pumpkin
- 2. the greedy ghost
- 3. the horseless cart
- 4. the walled woman
- 5. the nanny and the phone
- 6. Damn cemetery
1. the Ernesta pumpkin
Once upon a time there was a pumpkin that lived in a plantation, among many other pumpkins cultivated by a gentleman farmer.
This pumpkin was called Ernesta and it was the smallest of all the pumpkins in the garden. For this reason, one day, the farmer decided to throw it in the trash, saying: “Small pumpkin is of no use to me”.
Ernesta didn't want to believe she was being despised and separated from the rest of the pumpkins.
She was so sad and angry that her appearance changed. Scars appeared on her tender face, and her smile turned into a terrifying grimace.
From that day onwards, Ernesta decided to appear every night of halloween (Halloween) to scare children on the street.
When the farmer realized this, he realized that he shouldn't have treated the Ernesta pumpkin that way.
Even though she was small, she deserved to be treated like other pumpkins. But it was too late! Today, the Ernesta pumpkin is on the loose…
If you see her around, tell her parents to pick her up, because if she goes back to socializing with other pumpkins, maybe she'll be nice again. Oh, and never make the same mistake as the farmer.
*Adapted from For me website.
2. the greedy ghost
Anita was a girl who believed in the existence of ghosts. As Halloween approached, I just wanted to go looking for treats, hoping to find a spooky ghost to take a good fright.
Needless to say, Anita loved horror stories. On the night of October 31, she put on a mask and, with her friends, went looking for sweets and a little adventure.
When she returned home after dinner, her disguise gone, she found a place to store all the goodies she had been given, hiding them well, as she didn't want to share them with anyone.
Shortly thereafter she fell asleep. At midnight, a noise woke her. Immediately Anita poked her head out of the sheets. What a fright! At the foot of the bed was nothing less than a… ghost!
All in white, it glided, floating. Anita watched him closely, barely breathing. Suddenly, the ghost disappeared. In the morning she told her family what had happened during the night.
Her mother was trying in vain to convince her that it had all been a dream, but Anita insisted that her parents accompany her to her room. Then Anita indicated the location of the ghost's appearance and… surprise!
The sweets cache had been robbed! There was no sign of the caramels, the chocolates, or the lozenges, which she had managed so hard the day before.
Was it the ghost? Do ghosts eat candy?
Today, 22 years later, Anita still has no answers, and scientists also don't know what a ghost's diet consists of.
What Anita knows is that if she had shared the candy that day with her parents and siblings, she wouldn't have been without.
So this Halloween, share your candy with whoever you can. Don't wait for a ghost to eat first!
*Adapted from For me website.
3. the horseless cart
It is said that on cold winter nights, there was a heavy fog brought by the sea and many strange noises were heard.
Residents of the city of San Francisco, which is the oldest city in Santa Catarina, were awakened at dawn with a disturbing noise.
When they opened the window of the house, the residents were frightened by the scene: they saw a cart walking without a horse and without someone driving… The cart walked alone!
In it, there were noisy objects, such as pots and pots, including some objects tied up outside. Fear gripped the small town.
The legend still says that, some time before, a carter was kicked by his horse for mistreating the animal.
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On the haunting nights, the cart would appear from a fog, scare the population and then disappear again.
*Adapted from Gazeta Online newspaper.
4. the walled woman
Jaime Favais owned a store that operated on the ground floor of the manor house on Rua Nova, in a prime address in the Recife.
He was is a very rude and vindictive man. One day, Jaime discovered that Clotilde, their only child, had become pregnant by a seductive man named Leandro. To complete the confusion, he discovered that Leandro was the lover of his wife, Josefina.
Jaime orders his lover to be killed, Josefina goes crazy and he tries to marry his daughter to a nephew.
As the boy did not accept, he placed his daughter in a macabre punishment: he tied her with ropes, covered her with white sheets and placed her in a bathroom in the manor.
With the help of a partner, Jaime forced a bricklayer to brick the bathroom door.
After spending three years away in Portugal, Jaime returned to Brazil to live on top of the manor house, where he put his daughter in a wall.
The big house was plagued by dark moans and the white, vaporous figure of his daughter.
To this day, witnesses guarantee seeing the apparition in a commercial building on Rua Nova.
In the same place, inexplicable phenomena occurred, such as furniture being dragged by invisible hands, grim banging on the walls, in addition to a lamentable cry that would have belonged to the walled one.
*Adapted from Gazeta Online newspaper.
5. the nanny and the phone
The young couple has hired a nanny to stay with the children while they go out. After putting the kids to bed, the nanny went downstairs and went into the living room to watch TV.
The phone rang, she answered it and a voice said, “I'm up here with the kids. You better come here.”
She thought it was a prank call and continued watching TV. The phone rang again, between laughs, the same sinister voice saying, “I'm up here with the kids. You better come here.”
So the nanny called the police and told them about the hazing. They asked her to try to prolong the conversation with the person on the phone so they could trace the call.
Then the phone rang. Ominous voice: “I'm up here with the kids. You better come here.” She was unable to prolong the call.
Seconds after that, the police call and warn: "Leave the house, the man is on the other line." She hung up the phone and prepared to leave when she heard someone coming down the stairs.
She then ran outside while the police searched the house.
Inside they found a man covered in blood with a huge knife. He came in through some upstairs window and killed the two kids, and the nanny would be the next victim.
*Adapted from Gazeta Online newspaper.
6. Damn cemetery
Slowly wander through the alleys,
Those rotten resurrected corpses,
The creatures with dry bodies,
Through the mists of these cloudy days
Undead start to dig
When at night the cold wind rumbles
The smell of death is in the air,
In the breeze, in the cave and ends in this tomb
But every horror has its mystery,
Under the moonlight in morbid pallor
Never open the grave in the cemetery
I wouldn't want to resurrect again!
Everything around here seems cloudy
Skulls and bones crack in tombs
This solo was pretty cursed
And the zombies expel the fetid mucus!
In the distance the wolf seems to howl
For all eternity I condemn that day,
the dead seem to get up
From your deep sleep in immersed lethargy
I now sense the cinereous dread
There could never be another maybe,
don't bury me in this cemetery
I wouldn't want to resurrect again!
*Poem based on the eponymous film and book by Stephen King, by Rodrigo Kurita.
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