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00:00i'm a single guy in my mid-30s this happened a few years ago during a somewhat depressing
00:16period in my life i had just broken up with my girlfriend of five years the girl i thought i'd
00:21be marrying one day and starting a family with it's safe to say i was pretty lost at that time
00:28i can't lie the psychological damage of the breakup was pretty severe i spent entire weeks
00:34sulking and forgetting to take care of myself i'd wake up talk to no one go to work talk to no one
00:41and come home to spend the rest of the day in bed the weekends were even worse i'd forget to eat and
00:47i wouldn't leave the house i'd binge watch movie after mind-numbing movie not even realizing what
00:53i was watching half the time but enough with the sob story i'm much better now although i still
00:59often think about the life i could have had if things went differently anyway it was a saturday
01:04night i was slumped on the couch barely moving except to hit play on another random movie i
01:11couldn't even tell you what it was just another mindless action flick i'd forget about by the time
01:16it ended for context i was in my room which is on the second floor of my house i have a couch and a
01:23tv in my bedroom so i typically never watch tv anywhere else but there at one point i looked
01:29down at my phone it was a few minutes after 9 pm i remember that distinctly because my mom was calling
01:35me for like the fourth time that day i didn't want to ignore her but i let it ring out anyway
01:42i knew she meant well but i couldn't bring myself to talk i didn't want to hear the usual questions
01:47about whether i'd eaten or gone outside eventually i got tired of whatever was playing and backed out
01:54to the menu i wasn't really in the mood for anything but i clicked on some random horror movie i'd never
01:59heard of it was one of those generic ones with a grainy thumbnail i figured i'd half watch it until i
02:05fell asleep about 20 minutes in i realized the movie was even worse than i expected the audio was a
02:13mess every time someone talked i had to turn the volume way up just to catch a word or two and then
02:19the next sound effect would blast through the speakers and damn near rupture my eardrums for whatever
02:24reason though i kept the movie on i think it was just because i was too lazy to change it again
02:30at some point i started noticing this weird sound effect in the movie it was this sharp metallic
02:37clang kind of like a pipe hitting concrete it didn't match anything that was happening on the
02:42screen no one was holding metal and no one was in a warehouse or anything like that and it wasn't
02:47timed with the scares either it would just show up every minute or so like the director had accidentally
02:53looped it or something same exact sound same volume and same pitch it was almost too consistent to be
03:01a coherent sound design choice that plus the fact that the rest of the audio was mixed so poorly
03:07made me question how the movie had even made it to streaming platforms the poor quality of the movie
03:12actually made it harder to turn off partly because i was enjoying criticizing it but also partly because i
03:18needed to see how something so terrible would play out about halfway through i got up to use the
03:24bathroom and for whatever reason i actually paused the movie instead of not caring enough about what
03:29was going on when i got back and sat down i grabbed the remote and hovered over the play button but right
03:36as i was about to press it i heard that sound again that same sharp metallic clang except this time
03:44the movie was paused i froze for a second just staring at the screen no audio no movement the
03:52sound had been clear as day and it had come from somewhere inside the house that's when it clicked
03:59it had never been part of the movie i stayed completely still trying to make sure i hadn't imagined it
04:06i watched the paused screen and just listened hoping my mind had just been playing a trick on me
04:11but then about 45 seconds later there it was again the exact same clang i didn't waste another second
04:20i immediately jumped up grabbed a knife from my desk and started moving room to room frantically
04:26checking every place someone could possibly be hiding every room in the house was clear though
04:31there was no one in fact there were no signs that anything was out of place either but as i walked
04:37back up the stairs with my heart still pounding i heard the clang again it wasn't as loud this time
04:43meaning it must have been coming from my room where i had been watching the movie but i had been sitting
04:48there the whole time so that didn't make any sense that's when it hit me i had a few windows open
04:56it was spring and the weather had finally started warming up so i'd gotten into the habit of cracking
05:01them in the evenings to let some air in i started thinking maybe the sound wasn't coming from inside
05:06the house at all maybe it had been coming from right outside the house this whole time i don't know
05:12why but that thought scared me even more i went over to the window and pushed the curtain aside just
05:18enough to get a look at the backyard and there it was one of the deck chairs was sitting out in the
05:24middle of the lawn maybe 20 feet from the house and standing next to the chair was a kid a young kid
05:32i couldn't really make out any of his facial features given that it was so dark out but the
05:36silhouette was way too small to be an adult it was 100 a little kid he was holding what looked like a pvc
05:44pipe which explained the noise i had been hearing he must have seen me because as soon as i looked out
05:49the window he smacked the pipe against the chair i instantly stepped away from the window and felt my body
05:55start filling with fear i know it sounds silly that i was afraid of something like that but i
06:00couldn't fathom what that kid was doing outside my house did he have some kind of mental disorder
06:06it didn't make sense and then i thought about the fact that he must have been standing out there for
06:11nearly an hour which freaked me out even more i tried to slow my breathing and think rationally
06:17maybe the kid was lost maybe he had wandered off from a nearby house and didn't know how to get back
06:23i told myself i couldn't just stand there and do nothing so i went down the stairs and made my way
06:28through the house toward the back door trying to keep calm i even turned on the porch light
06:33thinking it might help the kid feel less spooked or at least give me a better look at him
06:38as i was turning the doorknob i froze something about it felt wrong like i was walking into some kind
06:44of trap if that kid were really lost wouldn't he ring my doorbell or call out to me through my window
06:51and even if he were too scared to and ultimately decided that banging a pipe against one of my
06:56chairs was the best option would he really stick to that strategy after a whole hour it was insane
07:02something in my gut told me not to go outside so i slowly backed away from the door i crept over to
07:08a small window just left of the door one that overlooked the porch and part of the backyard i kept
07:14the light off behind me and slowly tilted the blind with two fingers just enough to see through
07:20without drawing attention and there they were there were two men wearing all black crouching below my
07:26back door as if ready to ambush me the second i opened it i must have stared too long because one
07:32of the men suddenly turned his head and locked eyes with me through the glass i dropped the blinds and
07:37instantly dialed 911 i was halfway up the stairs when i heard banging on the back door those guys were
07:45trying to break in i sprinted to my bathroom and locked the door by that point i was having a
07:51fall-on panic attack i felt like i couldn't move i was struggling to breathe honestly shortly after i
07:58got to the bathroom i heard a crash from downstairs followed by the sound of footsteps walking around
08:03below me those people were in my house i heard a set of footsteps walking up the stairs and i held my
08:10breath as they made their way down the hall i saw the bathroom doorknob turn ever so slightly followed
08:17by a loud bang like they were trying to kick the door down that made me lose it i yelled at the top of
08:24my lungs that the police were on the way the person on the other side of the door instantly ran back
08:28down the stairs a few seconds later i heard one of the doors slam then silence the police arrived shortly
08:36after that and i told them everything there wasn't much they could do i didn't have any cameras and i
08:41wasn't even able to give them any valuable information the one thing that made them take
08:46things a little more seriously was the fact that there was a child involved according to the police
08:52that kind of involvement suggested whoever these guys were they weren't just impulsive criminals
08:57they were willing to go way further and that was the scariest part for me too i don't like thinking
09:03about the poor kid's involvement in the whole thing every explanation i came up with is equally
09:08sickening the police told me i was likely the target of a random attack but the whole scheme was
09:13just way too elaborate in my opinion nothing has happened since though and i've since moved on with my
09:19life i just really hope that kid is somehow safe even though i know the odds are slim
09:35it's currently 2024 as i'm writing this i'm a senior and i'm graduating in a couple weeks let me give you
09:41all a very brief rant i never understood how most of my friends could survive a whole week long spring
09:47break trip to miami or some other party destination i simply can't so for every year of college spring
09:54break was an excuse for me to just go home and relax this past spring break was no different i'd
10:01essentially be going off the grid for a week taking a break from grueling school work and mindless drama
10:07i was actually really pissed because i had been working on a flawless regrade request for a midterm
10:12i had just taken and my scummy ta denied it for no good reason but anyway it was a monday morning
10:19i didn't really have any plans just needed to get a workout in but that was about it i've always been
10:25a morning workout guy it's the one thing that makes me feel like i have my life together so even though i
10:31was home for spring break and technically had nothing to do i still set my alarm for 6 am and forced myself
10:37out of bed i figured if i got to the gym early enough i could beat the rush by 6 20 i was already
10:43dressed out the door and on the road the drive to the gym takes about 15 minutes mostly back roads
10:50through quiet residential neighborhoods nothing ever really happens out there it was definitely a nice
10:56place to grow up in but a little boring once i got older and all my childhood friends started moving
11:01on with their lives i was driving along listening to some youtube beats when something strange caught
11:07my eye there was an ice cream truck parked along the curb just sitting there engine off no lights
11:15that wouldn't have been weird in the summer i guess but this was mid-march it was still kind of
11:20chilly out all the kids were still in school too there was no reason for an ice cream truck to be
11:26sitting there at 6 30 in the morning it looked completely out of place as i drove past the truck
11:33i slowed down just enough to glance through the driver's window it was empty by the time i turned
11:39the corner and left it behind i found myself thinking more about it than i should have i don't
11:45know why the site just felt a little bizarre it wasn't just that it was too early in the year for ice
11:50cream trucks it was that i couldn't remember ever even seeing one in my neighborhood at all
11:55not even when i was a kid my area just wasn't that kind of place as weird as the whole thing was
12:02i quickly dismissed it and proceeded with my workout after the gym i got a quick bite to eat
12:08and headed home feeling like i'd actually done something with my morning but as i turned onto the
12:14same street from earlier the ice cream truck was still there in the same exact spot that made me
12:20pause i figured someone would have called it in by now this is the kind of neighborhood where people
12:26are really uptight and get twitchy if you park too long in front of their house that actually
12:31reminds me of a time when some grumpy woman gave my friends and i crap for parking in front of her
12:35house even though we were waiting for our other friend who lived right next door i say that to say
12:41that i'm not crazy for expecting someone to have called the police about the truck curiosity got the
12:46better of me instead of heading straight home i circled around the block to pass the truck again
12:52just to see if someone was inside it now and someone was as i drove past the second time i
12:59must have been a little too obvious with how slowly i was driving because the guy in the front seat locked
13:04eyes with me for a few seconds he looked really off he had this long almost cartoonishly pointed nose
13:11and a scraggly beard that looked like it hadn't seen a razor in years he genuinely looked like
13:17someone who lived in his vehicle and it rubbed me the wrong way i drove straight home after that
13:23my parents were both at work so i had the place to myself i spent the next few hours just killing time
13:30sometime in the afternoon i walked down the driveway to check the mail as i got to the end of the driveway
13:36i glanced down the street and nearly died inside it was that same ice cream truck from before it was
13:43parked across the street about three houses down it wasn't facing me but i had a feeling it wasn't
13:49just a coincidence i didn't move for a second i just stood there trying to make sense of what i was
13:55seeing had that guy really followed me home i knew he had there was no other explanation i grabbed the
14:03mail and walked straight back inside trying not to make it obvious that i'd seen anything once i was
14:08upstairs though i went to one of the guest bedrooms there's a window that overlooks the street from a
14:14better angle so i pulled the curtain aside and peeked through sure enough the ice cream truck was still
14:20there i watched it for a few minutes but nothing happens i'm not sure what i expected to see but i
14:26couldn't bring myself to look away eventually i had no choice i didn't have all day to spend
14:32staring out a window so i tried to get some stuff done on my laptop i couldn't focus though every
14:39half hour or so i'd feel the urge to go back to the guest room and glance out the window every time i
14:45looked the ice cream truck was still visible but it was in a different spot which meant the driver was
14:50intentionally moving around the street for whatever reason i didn't know whether it was a good idea to
14:55call the police or not i wasn't sure what i'd even say given that nothing had actually happened
15:01even now i wish that i had just done what any normal person would have done and either called
15:05the police or tried to ignore the truck but i was too curious my older brother is really into bird
15:11watching so i started digging around his room for a set of binoculars i knew was in there somewhere
15:17eventually i found them and returned to the guest room i pulled the curtains aside and looked at
15:22the truck through the binoculars i was not prepared for what i was about to see
15:27through the driver's side window i could see that man from earlier only he wasn't just sitting there
15:33he was looking back at me with a pair of his own binoculars as soon as he saw me looking he instantly
15:39dropped the binoculars started the truck and drove off i was horrified that guy had been spying on me
15:46and my house for the better part of three hours after literally stalking me home that's when i finally
15:52called the police i didn't even know what i was expecting from it i just didn't know what else to
15:57do i told them that this ice cream truck had been circling my neighborhood all day that i'd seen a
16:02man inside watching my house through binoculars and that he drove off the second i looked back
16:08the dispatcher was calm and told me they'd sent someone to patrol the area and keep an eye out
16:13she told me it should be relatively easy to spot an ice cream truck given how distinctive they were
16:18then she hung up i didn't know what else to do after that when my parents got home a little while
16:24later i filled them in they were obviously concerned but they also told me it probably wasn't worth
16:30worrying about anymore i was pretty tired by then so i fell asleep pretty quickly sometime later i woke
16:38randomly in the middle of the night instinctively i grabbed my phone off my nightstand it was sometime
16:45just after 3am i sat there in bed trying to figure out what had woken me up when i heard it music
17:00it was very faint almost too faint to notice at first i kept listening and panic started building
17:07inside me when i realized what kind of music it was the jingle of an ice cream truck before i could do
17:14anything something clicked softly against the glass of my bedroom window i instantly connected the dots
17:21someone was throwing rocks at my window that had to be what had woken me up the music was way too quiet
17:28on its own i sat frozen for a while staring at the wall across from me i kept telling myself to look to
17:36just get up and check but every time i started to move my body locked up again eventually i forced
17:44myself to do it i crept toward the window and stood to the side of it for a second on the count of
17:50three i peeled back the curtain in one fluid motion and looked the man from earlier was standing in the
17:56middle of my front yard right below my window and on either side of him holding his hands were two
18:03small children or at least they looked like children based on how short they were i really couldn't
18:09tell on account of how dark it was i didn't waste another second i tried to ignore the pounding in
18:15my chest stepped away from the window and immediately went to wake up my dad i had already dialed 911 by
18:22the time he went downstairs to have a look around my dad's a pretty tough guy so i figured he'd want to
18:28handle things himself unfortunately that man had somehow slipped away in the few minutes it took us to
18:33get outside the police arrived a while later a few days went by and we never heard anything and i
18:40eventually had to go back to school but my parents promised me they'd be on high alert that was almost
18:46a month ago and luckily my parents haven't told me about any strange occurrences since then the reason
18:52i'm writing this now though is because my mom called me a few days ago apparently there was a missing
18:58persons case that had just gone public in our hometown two six-year-old twins a boy and a girl
19:04had vanished from a neighborhood about 30 minutes from where we lived the moment she said it my mind
19:09went straight back to that night to those two small figures standing on either side of the man in my
19:14front yard the whole thing honestly makes me sick why would that guy sit in my house for hours and throw
19:20rocks at my windows in the middle of the night and why even go to those lengths if he was involved in
19:25something as serious as a kidnapping maybe he was worried that i had somehow caught on to what he was
19:30doing but if he had really taken those kids wouldn't attention be the last thing he'd want and then
19:36there's the kids themselves i wonder if they were already with him when i first saw the truck that
19:41morning or were they somewhere else i really can't stop thinking about it the only explanation i can
19:48come up with is the type of person who'd kidnap a child doesn't think like normal people do which is
19:52why that man would risk getting caught just to freak me out my mom followed up with the police to try
19:58and shed some light on the case and our possible connection to it if anything ever happens i will
20:03send an update this happened last spring about nine months ago i'm a sales associate for bmw so my weeks
20:20are pretty busy when i'm not at the dealership i'm answering my phone because of all the phone
20:26work involved sometimes i feel like i have more to do when i'm not at the dealership as funny as that
20:31sounds because of the nature of my work i pretty much have to answer my phone every time it rings
20:37especially when it's an unknown caller so as you'd expect i get a lot of scam calls but i have no choice
20:43but to answer just in case it's a client or an interested party one night sometime after 10 pm
20:50my phone started ringing it was a number my phone didn't recognize normally i would have picked up
20:56without thinking but this time i was already in bed halfway through winding down something about how late
21:02it was just made me let it ring out they didn't leave a voicemail i figured if it was important they'd
21:08leave one but a few minutes later the same number called again i sat up and answered it i was a little
21:17irritated but i still tried to keep my voice polite just in case it was someone serious at first all i
21:24heard was static just this thick uneven fuzz i was about to hang up when i caught something underneath it
21:31a voice i held the phone closer and listened
21:39it was my voice i was 100 sure of it that actually made me freeze up a little bit after a few seconds
21:48i realized it was more than just a recording of my voice it was a conversation i'd had earlier that day
21:53with a client just standard stuff pricing availability setting up a test drive nothing sensitive but it
22:01was definitely real it was definitely my voice i still don't know if it was the right decision but
22:07i instantly hung up the phone i sat there for a while just staring at my phone trying to make sense
22:14of what i just heard i wasn't panicking but i definitely wasn't calm either the best way i can
22:20describe what i was feeling was a mix of confusion and unease my first thought was that maybe it was the
22:26client i had talked to earlier maybe he had accidentally called me while trying to play back
22:31the call or record it for his own notes i really don't know it felt like a stretch but it was the
22:37only explanation that didn't immediately spiral into something worse that didn't really explain why the
22:43number was unknown instead of the number he had called from earlier but it was the best i could come up
22:48with the next morning i decided to call him back just for my own sanity he answered right away and
22:55seemed totally normal friendly even but when i brought up the call from the night before he had no
23:01idea what i was talking about he sounded genuinely confused i apologized for the mix-up and hung up
23:08and for whatever reason i believed him the rest of the day was normal i had a few appointments
23:14followed up with some leads nothing out of the ordinary i didn't think too much about the call
23:19from the night before but later that night around the same time i got another call the number wasn't
23:26saved in my phone again but it was different from the number that had called me the night before
23:31this time i answered it immediately exactly what i was dreading happened it was another static heavy
23:38recording of a conversation i had that day with a client a different client a whole different
23:44conversation entirely i hung up again without saying anything that night was when it really started
23:51getting to me because now it felt intentional and i noticed something else the recording didn't include
23:57the client's voice it was only me talking like a one-sided call i started wondering if someone had been
24:04listening in on my conversations and recording me somehow i didn't sleep very well that night as i
24:10couldn't stop thinking about it but i didn't know what to do i never thought i was a paranoid person
24:16but the next week of my life proved me wrong every night for a week the same thing would happen i'd get
24:22a call from a random number and would listen to a staticky recording of a conversation i'd had that day
24:29i started recording the calls myself i can't even tell you why i just thought it was a smart thing to do
24:35by the third or fourth night it started to wear on me not just in a creepy this is weird kind of way
24:42i mean it started to actually mess with my head i couldn't relax i couldn't think i'd catch myself
24:48looking out the window every few minutes like someone might be standing out there watching me
24:54i started triple locking my front door then i started leaving a light on in every room at night
24:59at one point i even moved a chair in front of my bedroom door looking back it's really hard for
25:05me to explain any of these decisions but my mind was in a very different place during that period
25:11anytime my phone rang even during the day i'd step outside and answer it from the safety of my car
25:16where i could see every angle around me it sounds crazy now but i couldn't shake the feeling that i was
25:22being watched at one point i even brought it up with the police i felt ridiculous doing it but i
25:29figured if someone was monitoring me i had to at least make some kind of report the officer i spoke
25:35to was polite enough but i could tell right away they didn't take it seriously he said they could try
25:41looking into the numbers but unless there was a direct threat or evidence of harassment there wasn't
25:46much they could do i don't know if they actually tried to trace the calls or just filed it away and
25:50forgot about it either way it didn't help if anything it made me feel more alone in it a few
25:58days later though the call suddenly stopped that week of obsessively checking my surroundings and
26:04answering calls from my car must have deterred whoever was harassing me part of me wanted to
26:08believe it was over but i couldn't relax if anything the sudden absence of contact actually caused
26:15me to spiral even further into paranoia my mom is schizophrenic so i always figured i was predisposed to
26:22developing some kind of mental condition but it was literally happening right before my very eyes
26:27i was becoming one of those reclusive people who think the entire world is spying on them
26:32i ended up getting a brand new personal phone number it was a massive headache switching numbers
26:37meant having to re-establish contact with clients update everything linked to my phone and risk
26:42missing out on people trying to get in touch with me but i did it anyway i couldn't shake the feeling
26:48that my old number had been compromised somehow after a few more days of radio silence the thing i
26:54was dreading happened one night after work i got another call it was exactly like the ones before it
27:02i kept my cool and instead of remaining silent and hanging up i actually spoke i said something along the
27:09lines of i don't know who you are or why you're doing this but if it's money you want i've got it
27:14i went on to say that i'd happily pay to be left alone i gave the person my address and said i'd be
27:20willing to meet and then for the first time there was an actual voice on the other end it sounded like
27:26they were using a voice changer and all they said was 11 o'clock before hanging up i know what you're
27:34thinking why the hell would i volunteer my address like that honestly i can't answer that question
27:39i was acting irrationally i know that but it's impossible for me to explain exactly how my mind
27:44was working during that time so i'm not even gonna bother the next four days were the most traumatic
27:50and stressful moments of my life i'm not sure how much i can even type out without getting too graphic
27:56but here goes i have a handgun in my house for personal safety i grabbed it from my room loaded it and
28:03sat at my kitchen table and waited i can't even begin to explain all the thoughts that were bouncing
28:08around in my head as i sat there i contemplated a lot of things in those four hours i'd go as far
28:14as to say that had it not been for sheer chance i might not be typing this out right now just
28:20thinking about that night gives me a sickening feeling 11 pm came and went and no one showed up
28:26there's no telling what i would have done had they actually showed up i ended up sleeping at the
28:31kitchen table with the gun in my hand it was by far the worst night of my life but thankfully that was
28:38the end of it i never got another mysterious call again but that didn't change the fact that that
28:44person had done irreparable damage to my mental state it took me a lot of therapy and time off work
28:49to recover fully and i still get chills thinking about how easily i was almost driven to complete
28:55madness i will never have an explanation for what happened to me i have no idea how that person recorded my
29:01conversations or who they even were i have no idea why they harassed me or why they stopped for that
29:07matter i've since moved out of that house but there's not much i can do beyond that if anything
29:13this experience has made me a lot more fearful of the future i can't help but think that i'm destined to
29:19end up just like my mom hopefully getting this out there will help me heal in some way
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