The Babysitter and the Man Upsairs
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In
this classic urban legend dating from the 1960s, a teenage babysitter
calls the police after receiving prank phone calls from a creepy
stranger. "Have you checked the children?" the man keeps asking. While
waiting for a patrol car to arrive, the babysitter has a terrifying
realization: the stranger is calling her from inside the house!
2. The Killer in the Backseat
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One
night a woman went out for cocktails with her girlfriends. After
leaving the bar late at night, she got in her car and headed for home on
a deserted highway. Several minutes later, she noticed a lone pair of
headlights in her rear-view mirror. It was another car — the only other
car on the road — approaching at a frightening pace.
3. Humans Can Lick, Too
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Now, this
is a scary story! Once there was a beautiful young girl in a small town
just south of Farmersburg. Her parents had to go to the city for the
night, so they left their daughter home alone, protected by the faithful
family dog. They instructed her to lock all the doors and secure the
house after they left. She did as she was told, a little nervous about
being left alone, but confident that if anything happened her dog would protect her.
4. Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Light?
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As
if we needed proof that horrible things happen in the dark, this
unnerving tale about a murderous madman lurking undetected in a dimly
lit dormitory room demonstrates that sometimes what you don't know can hurt you — even if it chooses for the moment to hide and wait.
5. The Fatal Hairdo
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A
stylish teenage girl who has grown tired of spending hours a day
teasing and lacquering her hair to attain the "beehive" hairdo so
popular in the 1960s decides instead to wash it in sugar water and let
it to harden into the preferred style. Before going to bed each night,
she carefully wrapped a towel around her sugared hair and even slept on a
special pillow so as not to muss it. Then one morning she failed to
come downstairs for breakfast.
6. Bloody Mary
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They
stood before the bathroom mirror in dim candlelight, chanting in
unison: "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary." The
thirteenth time they said it, something very odd and frightening
happened. Not all of them lived through it. Some of those who did wished they hadn't.
7. The Hook
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teenage boy drove his date to a dark and deserted Lovers' Lane for a
make-out session. After turning on the radio for mood music, he leaned
over and began kissing the girl. The music suddenly stopped and an
announcer's voice came on, warning that a convicted murderer had just
escaped from the state insane asylum.
8. Buried Alive!
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A
long time ago, before adequate technology for detecting patients'
critical life signs existed, an elderly woman was pronounced dead and
scheduled for burial. On the day of the funeral, family members
literally had to pry her unembalmed body from the clutches of her husband, who insisted she wasn't really dead.
9. The Boyfriend's Death
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While
parked late at night on an isolated country road, a teenage girl waits
for her boyfriend to return after going outside to relieve himself.
After what seems like an eternity, she's startled to hear something
scraping across the roof of the vehicle. Then she finds out what it is.
10. The Clown Statue
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A
babysitter taking care of two small children called their parents late
in the evening to ask for permission to cover up the life-size clown
statue in the corner of the family room. "It's not that I don't like
it," she said. "It just kind of freaks me out with nobody else here.
It's hard to watch TV." The parents' reaction to her request freaked her
out even more. "WHAT clown statue???" they asked, frantically. "Dial
911! Call the police!! DO IT NOW!!!"
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