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[eat_me_beat_me]

[Nora's sitting on the beach with her sketchbook drawing the sunset over the lake and thinking. After a while an idea strikes her. She picks up her journal with a smirk]

Hey we're supposed to be camping, right? Or something remotely similar?

Anyone want to hear a scary story?

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[soccerwhisperer]

H--How scary is it?

[eat_me_beat_me]

Oh preeeeeeeetty scary I don't know if you can handle it.

[soccerwhisperer]

I--I can handle it!

[eat_me_beat_me]

Alright, but don't say I didn't warn you. [She lets her voice drop into a spookier tone]

Once in a little village not that far from here, there was a problem. Animals had started dying off, one by one. In the morning their owners would see them lying outside with 10 holes in their chest. The people thought it was the work of the neighboring town.

Then, one night a man named Fred was closing his store for the night. It was very late, and he was anxious to get home to his family. He shut off all the lights, and closed the door. As he turned around to go to his car he saw a dark shape in the distance. He stood still trying to make out what it was. As it got closer, Fred turned to go. It was the last move he ever made. The next day they found him with 10 holes in his chest.

[She pauses, giving him time to react]

[soccerwhisperer]

A mu-murder story?

[exanimatus]

Yes.

[hi.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

You want a scary story? Dashboard Confessional broke up.

[HI, BRO, SHE LOVES YOU! She cracks up]

Okay no really just gimme a sec to think of one you haven't already heard.

[exanimatus]

[deadpan.] Oh noooo, I'll never love again.

Are you guys swapping notes behind my back, or what?

[SERIOUSLY WHY DOES EVERYONE DO THAT. ...but he will wait for a story.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

Alright [She drops her voice into a spooky story telling tone]

Once their were two girls who shared a college dorm together. Their names were Meg and Venida. The girls were out partying one night. Meg noticed she forgot her purse and went back quickly to the dorm. With out turning on the lights she walked in and grabbed the purse. Then she returned to the party. Later on in the night, Venida got tired so she went back to their dorm to go to sleep.
The next morning, Meg went back to the dorm. The police officers were outside.
"Officer, what's the problem?" She asked.
" There's been a murderer."
"Oh my god. Please let me see."
"No. It's too much of a mess." Said the officer.
"Please." Finally, the officer let Venida upstairs. When she walked in the room she saw her roomate covered with a clean white sheet. On the mirror there was a message written in big red letters: " AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU DIDN'T TURN ON THE LIGHT?"

I will be slow as molasses

[inafadingcrown]

Gladly. [Great-grandma's probably not the person you were expecting to hear from, was she? Maybe she should have been, given how much she loves telling stories herself.]

S'arrite /HUGS

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She chuckles. WHY SO COOL, GREAT GRANDMA?!]

Are you sure? I know some pretty scary ones.

[inafadingcrown]

I believe I will manage. [Please. She can take whatever you can throw out.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She drops her voice into a spooky story telling tone]

There was a girl driving along I-70 on the way back home after visiting her relatives out of state. It was about 1 am and it started raining when she realized she was almost out of gas. She saw a sign for a gas station about 3 miles ahead and breathed a sigh of relief. But when she got there she saw it was one of those old run down family-owned gas stations. She was scared to stop but she really had no other choice. As she pulled in an old man with a disfigured faces came running through the rain. He put the pump in the tank and asked for her credit card. She handed it to him over the top of the window and he ran back inside.

After a few seconds he came back out and told the girl she'd have to come inside, her card has been denied. Reluctantly, she walked inside. The old man grabbed her and tried to tell her something but she hit him with a can of oil that had been sitting on the counter. She ran back to her car and took off with the old man screaming and flailing his arms at her. After driving for a few miles she turned on the radio and started to relax. As she looked in the rear-view mirror, she saw someone pop up in the back seat holding an axe above their head.

It was the last thing she ever sees.

[wilder]

Gimme what you got!

[eat_me_beat_me]

You know my friend Julie, right? Ever since she was a little girl, when she got scared she would put her hand under her bed and her dog would lick her hand to comfort her.

When she was 14 her parents went out one night and wouldn't be home til late. Julie didn't want to stay home alone but her parents told her she was old enough and she would be fine.

When she went to bed that night she was kinda scared, sleeping with no one home. Suddenly, she heard a whimpering sound, almost like a puppy whining. She put her hand under her bed and it was licked. So she tried to fall asleep again. Then she heard it again, the whimpering sound, so she put her hand under her bed and it got licked again. She finally fell asleep and was woken up in the morning to the sound of her dog barking in the backyard. He had been outside ALL NIGHT LONG!

[wilder]

[Listening to the story!]

Hmmm...

B-.

[eat_me_beat_me]

Hey, man, I'm just getting started. [she laughs] That was just to give me a chance to warm up.

[formercheerio]

Ghosts again? [ Gosh, interupting her tanning ]

[eat_me_beat_me]

Ghosts, goblins, axe murderers, whatever I can think of [she chuckles]

[formercheerio]

What have you thought of this time?

[eat_me_beat_me]

A girl and her boyfriend are making out in his car. They had parked in the woods so no one would see them. When they were done, the boy got out to pee and the girl waited for him in the safety of the car.

After waiting five minutes, the girl got out of the car to look for her boyfriend. Suddenly, she sees a man in the shadows. Scared, she gets back in the car to drive away, when she hears a very faint squeak... squeak... squeak...

This continued a few seconds until the girl decided she had no choice but to drive off. She hit the gas as hard as possible but couldn't go anywhere, because someone had tied a rope from the bumper of the car to a nearby tree.

Well, the girl slams on the gas again and then hears a loud scream. She gets out of the car and realizes that her boyfriend is hanging from the tree. The squeaky noises were his shoes scraping across the top of the car!!!

[asaraindrop]

What's it about? [ She's not sure if she wants it. Scurrrry? No thank you ]

[eat_me_beat_me]

I know lots of 'em. What kinda story do you want to hear?

[asaraindrop]

Something not too scary?

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Sorry, kid, she's in a mood for spooky stories so you're getting an oldie but a goodie. Her voice drops into a spooky tone]

Long ago, a young man met and fell in love with a beautiful young woman. She was always dressed exquisitely and she always wore a black ribbon around her neck.

Soon the man and the woman were married and moved into a little cottage by the sea. They started out very happily, but soon the young man became more and more curious as to why his wife wore a ribbon around her neck all the time. One day he decided to ask her. The only answer he received was that he would be sorry if she took it off, so she would not take it off.

The young man was not happy with his wife's answer. Time passed and eventually all he could think about was that black ribbon. One day, he woke up before his wife, went into her sewing box and got a pair of scissors, and cut off the ribbon that was around her neck. His wife woke up with a start. Her head fell off and rolled onto the floor while the woman screamed "I told you you'd be sorry!".