Beauty Queens

Beauty Queen is a weird and disturbing story about two girls whose mother who is crazy and very vain and obsessed with looks and appearances. 

My sister, Sarah, disappeared a week ago. My mother hasn’t gone to the police. We haven’t put up any missing posters. We aren’t looking for her at all. That’s because we know exactly where she is.

Muddy Footprints

Muddy Footprints is a scary story about a teenage boy who has a creepy encounter one stormy night when his parents go out and leave him home alone.

One evening, when I was around 15, my mom and dad went out, leaving me home alone. I had a lot of homework to do, so I spent the whole evening sitting at the desk in my bedroom.

Mary Mallon

Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as carrier without obvious clinical signs of disease the symptoms of microorganisms that can cause typhoid fever.

Mary Mallon was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in what is now Northern Ireland in 1869.

She left Ireland and headed for the United States in 1883 at the age of 15, heading for New York City, where she lived with her aunt and uncle until their deaths.

The Make-over

The Make-over is a short scary story about a vain young woman who is cursed to become ugly. It is based on an episode of the TV series Beyond Belief.

There was a young woman named Jocelyn who was very vain and shallow. All she thought about was her own looks. She often boasted about how beautiful she was and spent hours every day gazing at her own reflection in the mirror.

The Dongdong Baby Girl

Lu Xiayun was a pregnant woman from the Chinese province of Dongdong. She was living in an agricultural area and had no access to modern medical care.. She was thought to be 4 months pregnant, when she went into labor, Everyone was expecting a stillborn baby. When she gave birth, the child was unresponsive, everyone assumed it was dead.

Video Camera is a scary fictional horror story about a young university student who comes to believe that he is being stalked. He leaves a camcorder in his room to act as a surveillance camera.

A few years ago, there was a young man named Bryan who went to college, He didn’t have enough money to live on campus, so he had to rent an apartment on his own in the city.

After he had been living there alone for a while, he began to notice some strange things happening. Often, when he came back from school and the curtains in his bedroom would be drawn, when he distinctly remembered having left them open when he left that morning. At other times, some of his belongings seemed to have been moved and other possessions were nowhere to be found.

Urban Legends from Thailand

Naresuan’s Elephant Battle

The times when Thailand was known as the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, during this time Thailand had the most legendery battle in Thai History, this happened when King Naresuan reigning the country.

The King called out Burmese Crown Prince Mingya Swa to face him in single combat, he accepted this, and King Naresuan killed his opponent

Today elephant riding is hugely criticised.


*Elephant duel itself is actually a subject of historical debate. It only appears in the Thai chronicles, Burmese chronicles state that the Uparaja (crown prince) was killed by a gunshot. The duel features heavily in traditional Thai historiography.*

Hisarukia

Hisaruki

Hisaruki is a creepy Japanese urban legend about something mysterious that only young children seem to know about. People often hear kids whispering about Hisaruki, but nobody seems to know who or what it is. This story combines two obscure urban legends: “Hisaruki” and “Kirakira-san” which are essentially the same thing.
I’m a teacher and recently, I found a job in a nursery school in Japan. There is a Buddhist temple right beside the school and right behind both buildings, there is an old graveyard.

The Dark Castle

The Dark Castle

The Dark Castle is a spooky story about a man who buys an eerie painting of a Scottish castle with one solitary light in the window.

There was a man who enjoyed collecting antiques. On weekends, he would often drive to a small town nearby and search the side streets for a new antique shop. In one dingy little store, his eye was caught by a strange old framed picture. He picked it up and dusted it off. It was a painting of an dark castle that stood on a barren, windswept hill.