15 Creepy Stories From Reddit’s ‘Nosleep’ Forum That Will Keep You Awake Until the End of Time - Lifehacker
Reddit's nosleep forum is a short-horror online crucible, wherein the most horrifically unsettling content is sent to the top and merely mediocre example of the macabre die an ignoble death.
The conceit among the subreddit's authors and commenters is that these are all true stories (they are, uh, not, I think), so they're all grounded in something like reality, and the commentary that follows them is often as entertaining as the tale itself.
Here are some of my favorite selections. Any of them will perk you right up, should you be lying down in a dark room at night.
In this tale, a paranoid father barricades himself in a bunker he built on land that used to be an army base. What he finds inside is even more frightening than the world he's trying to flee.
Netflix recently purchased the screen rights to this multi-part mind-screw of a nosleep tale, so read it now, before the mini-series drops.
In We Used to Live Here, the previous occupants of an old house visit the young couple who just purchased it. They seem like a very nice family, but they don't want to leave...
It's not all death, gloom, and ghosts over at nosleep. This story is a refreshing horror-comedy piece in which everyone's favorite romance-movie mill, The Hallmark Channel, becomes an existential prison of sorts.
In this creepy story, a boy's elation over his new relationship turns sour when his new love turns out to talk in her sleep, giving a true answer to one question per night. (If this ever happens to you, ask for the next day's lottery numbers. Under no circumstances should you ask when you will die.)
A dead mother leaving videotapes to be played at specific moments in her kid's life is creepy enough—but when she seems to know what happened after she died it's just very, very bad.
The only thing this psychological horror story has in common with the Simon and Garfunkel song "At the Zoo" is the title. If you like stories of supposedly insane people trying to piece their reality together, this one is for you.
There's something about horror set in amusement parks that just works. In Uncle Gerry's Family Fun Zone, intrepid urban explorers set out to locate the ruins of the titular establishment, long closed down after a boy got lost forever in the ball pit.
Sometimes the best horror comes from the simplest premise. In The Quiet Neighbor, children exploring the spooky house down the street find something unspeakable inside it.
I love this story. Not only is it super creepy, but author natesw goes the extra mile and provides links to screenshots of the messages that he received from his dead girlfriend. It really pulls you into the narrative.