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

Here's a dream that still keeps me up at night.

I was walking in a strange looking place.A flying entity attacked me from the sky.It was hitting me with something like a jellyfish tentacle.Stinging me all over.

I couldn't get away.I couldn't take the stings anymore.I looked down and saw a gun.I did the unthinkable.I picked up the gun and shot my head.

Everything went black.

Then I started feeling a dull headache.I opened my eyes.There was a bloody towel wrapped around my head.I had a tremendous headache.

I looked up.There was the demon.It said,"You're not getting out of here that easy".

I woke up.

Look up "the way I heard it" podcast from Mike Rowe. He tells awesome stories from different perspectives

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I recently saw a true-crime documentary on HBO Max called "Alabama Snake" about a backwoods Pentecostal preacher who allegedly tried to kill his wife with a rattlesnake.

It has sort of a True Detective vibe to it, and there's a running thread about demon possession throughout.

At one point reference is made to Mark 16:17, "In my name they shall cast out devils," and in an interview, the preacher proceeds to explain, "When a demon starts coming out of them, it tears them. One time we was casting out a devil out of one and it come out like a water-dog. It was long and sort of brown-black. And slimy. It hit the floor and went over into a crack in the corner."

Their son adds, "I saw demons cast out. I saw my daddy do it. I saw him cast one out of a guy one night at church. There was somethin' come out of him and just run right across the floor. And it was runnin' around everywhere trying to get back in somebody else. And they just kept prayin'. It was almost like a fog-like - you can't explain it."

The cinematography and the heaviness of these interviews almost ends up turning this thing into a real-life horror film, with demons and snake-handling and attempted murder.

Creepy. As. shite.

Okay, sorry for the bump but I've been re-reading this thread and decided to compile all of the links into one(or several posts) since a recurring theme seems to be people asking for links. There are also some great stories posted in text form, so the thread is still worth reading start to finish, but really I just figured it would be helpful to have all of the links together in one place. This should be updated as of this current post, and if I fricked up and any of the links are bad let me know and I will fix them.

Also, I took the liberty of adding some links for informational purposes (i.e. Wikipedia pages) for some of them, or finding revised links for broken ones posted years ago.

*If Fusaichi wants to revise the first page/OP with links, that'll work too.

The main sites related to this kind of thread:

Creepypasta

Reddit nosleep

Reddit glitch in the matrix

Awesome story/thread from 2008: Broken arse glass

Stories posted so far:


The Smiling Man

Smiling Man video (youtube)

Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom

Gateway of the Mind

Ted the caver

Fear of Darkness (Ted the Caver continuation) (posting it but the Ted story is much better if you don’t read this one IMO)

Asian ghost horror story/slideshow

Russian sleep experiment

Autopilot

The face in the window (youtube)

Travis (chimp) attack 9-1-1 call (youtube)

The Rake

Keddie cabin murders

Old Hag info

Dionaea House

Spongebob - Squidward suicide episode

Fan video of Squidward's Suicide

More info on Ted the Caver (IRL info)

Footsteps (part one of what became "Penpal," which is far and away the best story in the thread IMO)

Abandoned by Disney

It was the worst accident I've ever seen... (youtube - Large Marge)

Psychosis

lsutigerinbama demon story (just posting it since it's in the thread and I always have trouble finding it with Google)

What's some awesome graffiti you've found?

Creepy children's show (youtube)

Daniel LaPlante

Another LaPlante article

Ben Drowned/Majora's Mask game

Found something weird in my office's basement (this is another favorite of mine, but it's only ever been updated once )

Woke up with amnesia in Chicago (this one is a long, three-story series IIRC)

Dr. Ramsey

The Orange

Henry Lee Lucas

Summer camp

An Ouija board is never a good idea. Ever.

The Soul Game

630-296-7536

No End House

I found some old documents at work that reveal something disturbing...

I found this on my gf's computer, what the hell?

Operation Singray

Best nosleep stories of 2013

Case Files

I once asked a famous ghost hunter what his scariest moment was. This was his story.

Bunny Man wiki

Betsy the doll

He's not the man I fell in love with.

Woke up in the hospital

The visitor in the communal bathroom

Cowman

"Alphabet" story

World's Best School Psychologist

Just Another Night

Nice!!! Love this thread!
The footsteps series is some next level writing

I saw that “Alabama Snake” show...very creepy.

Anyway, after reading this thread for years, I’ll share my own story...about 10 years ago, my wife and I were living in the North Georgia Mtn town of Helen. We lived in a community in the Nacoochee Valley called Sautee. None of you have ever heard of it, but it is paradise.

Camping is a big deal up there, so one weekend we decided to go with another couple. We were having a great time until the second night. It was on a Saturday night in mid October, 2011...for some reason my wife and I couldn’t sleep so we got out of our tent and stoked up the fire again until it was burning brightly.

I’m guessing it was around 2 in the morning when I saw him. At the furthermost edge of the light from the fire, I saw the huge shadowy figure of a man. He had to be at least 7 ft tall...he was standing probably 30 ft from the fire and he was slumped slightly toward his left shoulder. I could not see his face. Only shadow. I had never known true fear, but at that moment, the darkest fear imaginable consumed me. We were way up the mountain, away from everything and everybody, or so we thought.

I couldn’t speak, scream, yell...nothing. My wife was sitting to my left side as I stared at the figure in the darkness. Finally, she noticed my gaze and turned to look as well...what followed was the most piercing scream in the worlds history. The giant man neither advanced nor retreated. He just stood there with that odd favor to his left shoulder. Obviously when my wife screamed our friends came scrambling out of their tent. I feebly pointed toward the dark figure. Still the man remained.

We all stared, in stunned silence for what seemed like an eternity, until I weakly croaked out something like “who are you”? At that point the huge man begin to slump over, forward, but never moving his head. One of our friends tossed something onto the fire to brighten up the area and the man finally turned and, still bent over, slowly disappeared into the hills...

It was awhile before any of us spoke. We all stayed awake the rest of the night and, at first light, packed up and made the short hike to our truck and quietly drove home...none of us told anyone what happened for a long, long time...to this day, we have no idea what that giant, strange man was doing on the mountain that night...all I know is, I hope I never see him again.

Poster gulf bang encountered a ghost so I figured I would bump to look for similar experiences

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It was on a Saturday night in mid October, 2011

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themetalreb
Ole Miss Fan
Mississippi

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That was just your subconscious letting that anger out about the Ole Miss Football team that year.