re: Need to Kill Time: What's a story that you've heard that still gives you chills

I did a search and saw someone had done the Spongebob one, which is pretty freaky, but not Danny LaPlante or the USSR one (which I may not do...its a little TOO fricked up), so here we go with the story of Danny LaPlante:

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It's Townsend, Ma in 1987, I think. My parent's lawyer comes home from work to find his wife raped and shot to death in their bedroom and their two kids, boy 4 and girl 6, raped and drowned in bathtubs. When the news hit the next morning, there were no suspects. People were freaked out.

This was a huge thing in our town of 8,000 people. Nobody locked their doors. I remember my father putting deadbolts on that very afternoon. Everybody in school was scared shitless.

Then the next day came and we find out that the suspect was this 17 year-old kid Danny LaPlante. Every kid knew who that was. Among the Iron Maiden shirt wearing toughs, he was the one everyone was scared of because he seemed wrong. I remember his friends taunting a kid (mean, but harmless in retrospect) when Danny came out of nowhere and broke is arm. This was at recess. He was 13 at the time.

After finding out Danny was the suspect, we all went to school to find our middle school's gym taken over as FBI staging area.

Things got scarier the next day They couldn't find him. There were sightings. He did a home invasion and a carjacking in the town over but they still couldn't catch him. Word was that he knew the woods like the back of his hand and he was running around out there. That scared the shite out of me because our house was right against wilderness. That night I snuck down to the basement, grabbed my dad's machete and put it under my bed.

Finally, they caught him. And then the news came out with a scary-arse crime he committed when he was 15, but only served a little time in juvie for. This was the dude's prequel.

This girl, who had broken up with Danny two weeks earlier and hadn't seen him (weirdly know one had), was babysitting her sisters while her father was out and watching Nightmare on Elm Street. The kids started to notice weird things that night while they were watching the movie. They opened a box of Fiddle-faddle, took a little bowl, and went back to the movie. When they went back for more fiddle-faddle, the box was empty. In hindsight, they noticed how weird it was but had no conception of what was coming next.

The movie finished and the girls went off to change for bed. At the same time the dad came home. The youngest, 8 or so, was in her bedroom. She opened her closet and found Danny LaPlante standing there with a hatchet. He was dressed in her dead mothers clothes with make-up smeared on his face. He told her to be quiet and tied her up. He eventually tied up the whole family in the bedroom. He told them he was going to kill them, he'd be right back so start praying. The guess is he went to ransack valuables. Thankfully, the youngest was able to wriggle free. She jumped out of the neighbors house who called the cops before coming back over with a gun to free the family. He freed the dad and the daughters but didn't see LaPlante. Cops came and couldn't find LaPlante.

The family stays with relatives for two weeks to get away from the house. In that time nobody's found LaPlante. The family has to come home. They pull in their driveway see that motherfricker standing in the window. The father starts yelling. Neighbors come over. They surround the house. Cops come and search the house.

They don't find Danny but find a disturbing scene. Pennies are glued to the ceiling. Strange writings are on the wall. All of their clothes, furniture, and fricking everything had been jacked off on. But no Danny. They search the house. Nothing.

Nothing until a cop in the basement hears a noise coming from behind the washing machine. Cops rush in and pull the washing machine away from the wall and find a hole. In that hole is Danny.

Not only do they find danny but they find that since the girl broke up with him, he's been LIVING IN THE FAMILIES WALLS. They find peepholes everywhere.

So, being 15, they send him to juvie. He gets out in a year. Then he really does kill a family."

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