True Creepy Stories

The award-winning Mystery Case Files hidden object adventure game series is back with their latest installment Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull. Looming eerily above the other residences on Rondebosch's Milner Road, this striking, three-storey Edwardian dwelling not only looks like something out of a horror movie (particularly at night, when it almost always sits in darkness), but has inspired a number of its own terrifying tales too.

Even if you have seen this movie, very few people know that Michael Douglas was actually forced to live out the plot of Fatal Attraction in real life. Kathy Lutz found the place creepy right away and 28 days later (interesting?) the family moved from that residence claiming they'd experienced traumatic paranormal events.

Eunice "Goody" Cole was the only woman in New Hampshire history to be tried let´s not meet stories for witchcraft — multiple times. Instead of a ghost, what he caught on camera was the presence of a real person, a woman who had managed to live in his house for a year without him being aware at all.

Anyone who's opened the heavy oak doors of the Romanesque Revival building, climbed the winding staircase — past the exposed brick walls bearing the ghostly signatures of students from long ago — to a tiny landing on the top floor where a pair of locked doors seem to lead nowhere, can appreciate his impulse.

The German author Heinrich Hoffman pretty much set the gold standard for nightmare-inducing children's stories with his most famous creation, Struwwelpeter, or Shockheaded Peter.” The title character of Hoffman's 1845 collection is all insane hair and grotesque fingernails (the story concerns the grisly fate of a young boy who refuses to bathe, trim his nails, or comb his hair), but the book also includes such gems as The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb.” In that tale, a child who won't quit sucking his thumb gets his digits snipped off by the Scissorman, a terrifying character that would go on to inspire Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.