The October Frights

 

With Halloween just around the corner, it's time to delve into the dark, the eerie, and the unsettling. What better time to celebrate the scariest holiday of the year other than October Frights blog hop? 

Below are a handful of unsettling stories, some true, some fabricated. If you haven't been scared yet, it's time to get rolling. Grab a blanket and a hot drink and dive into these deliciously spooky stories, and hope a monster doesn't grab your feet!

I'm not big on camping. I think I've camped twice in my life. Something about staying in a tent and sleeping on the ground just doesn't appeal to me. Though, some people really get into it and bring the entire home with them. Which, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of camping. But listen to this camping experience as told at 15 Spooky Stories That Will Keep You Up At Night. 

 So I live in eastern Oregon, and my mom lives in western Oregon. I went to visit her for the summer and she's very outdoorsy so we decided to take the 1-hour drive from her city to the coast. We end up at this free campsite at the top of this hill (huge foothills of the coastal mountains, about a 25-minute drive from the top where the campsite is to the bottom where the main road was) and we were the only campers there. We relaxed for the rest of the day, made food, etc. A truck full of men drive up the hill and talk with my mom (IDK what about, wasn't suspicious at the time) and they leave us. Fast forward to the middle of the night. I wake up to my mom sitting straight up in the tent. I wake easily so I heard her gasp and it woke me. As soon as she saw I was awake she put her hand over my mouth because I was starting to ask her what's wrong. It was dead silent and all of a sudden you hear footsteps RIGHT beside the tent. The little flap that covers the zipper was even moving. Thankfully my mom has quick wits and said very loudly, "Kenny, grab the gun"Kenny is my dad, although that doesn't matter, and mind you he was not there, just us girls like I previously said. They left. No harm was done. Thank the lord for my momma.TL;DR: Two girls at a campsite alone, people outside the tent in the middle of the night & my mom pulled some badassery.

Ouija board knocks back

Here's another story from the same source. Have you ever attended an ouija board seance? Any success summoning a ghost? If you haven't done it, would you if given the chance? I think I would or at least I thought I would. I'm not so sure after this story. 

In high school, my friends and I were messing around with an Ouija board one night. We had done it before and nothing remarkable had ever happened. We usually did it to try and scare each other or are girlfriends. We all thought it was a joke. That night there was no one else home except the 7 of us and we were all together around the board. One of the girls there wanted to try it. She had never done it before. This time was different. The board misspelled some of the words the same way every time. It gave answers that seemed really historically accurate for our town (things we neither knew nor cared about). Long story short, the “spirit” claimed it was a 10-year-old boy who had died on the property in the 1800s and was buried there too in an unmarked grave (my friend's house was on a farm in the edge of town). We were all a little freaked out because the board had never been so detailed and consistent. However, we were still skeptical and we were all assuming one of us was trying to scare the rest. Finally, my friend asked if the spirit could do something to prove he was there with us. It went to Yes and then spelled out k-n-o-c-k. Then the planchette stopped moving. We just all stared at it silently and then there was a rap-rap-rap on the window right next to us. The lights were on the outside and there was absolutely no one out there.                                                    We never touched that f-ing board again.

I will be adding spooky stories daily for the duration of the hop. So come back often to get your dose of fright. 

See you soon.