to drag you to Hell, we count 15 scary stories told around the campfires of history

15 - The White Death, • A story from Scotland about a little girl

who hated life - so much to the point that she wanted to destroy everything and everyone

she knew • She committed suicide, and only a few

days later each member of her family were murdered - their limbs torn apart

• The legend goes that upon learning about the girl's death, her ghost finds you and

knocks on your door, slowly knocking louder and louder until you open it and she kills

you 14 - Dead Dog,

• The tale goes, a kid is sleeping in her bed when she hears the sound of tap water,

so she heads over the faucet and tries to plug it up

• When she returns to the bed, she lets her arm drape over the side to let her dog

lick her fingers - which it does • The dripping continues, but not from the

faucet - she checks her shower only to discover her dead dog, dripping blood, with a note

on top that reads, "Humans can lick, too" 13 - Cow Head,

• A Japanese legend about a story so haunted that simply telling it usually leads to death

- one group of students were taken on a field trip, and on the bus the teacher decides to

tell a scary story • As he begins the story called Cow Head,

he gets more intense and involved - foaming at the mouth - the students yell for him to

stop but he can't • All of them were later found with the

bus in a ditch, all foaming in a sort of trance - all of them had blocked out the Cow Head

story and wouldn't even discuss it afterwards, some even died a few days later

12 - Cosmetic Sesame, • A South Korea story about a girl super

conscious of her own looks - she heard about a new beauty treatment involving soaking alongside

sesame seeds in bath water • She decided to give it a go in her own

bath, but several hours later her mother got worried and forced open the door when her

daughter refused to • She was horrified to find the girl crouched

in a corner of the room with seeds lining every wrinkle and pore in her body, roots

visibly growing insider her skin while she attempted to painfully remove them all with

a toothpick 11 - Girl From The Gap,

• The spirit of a Japanese girl who lives between the darkened gaps of furniture, doors

and drawers waiting for you to meet her gaze • She will then ask you to play hide and

seek, and the next time you meet her, she will pull you into the gap and drag you to

either Hell or an entirely new dimension 10 - Midnight Game,

• A game for kids like Bloody Mary, but with rules far more convoluted and terrifying

- before midnight you write your name on paper and dot it with your own blood

• Turn off all your lights, place the paper in front of a closed door, put a candle on

top of THAT and light it - then knock on the door 22 times with the 22nd knock at exactly

midnight • Then open the door, blow out the candle

and close it again - relight the candle and the game begins

• The Midnight Man will wander through your home - if he catches you, you will die - the

game ends at 3:33am but the Midnight Man may not actually leave after the game ends

9 - Choking Doberman, • An Australian legend about a couple who

came home one night only to find their dog choking on something - the man panicked and

actually fainted while the woman races off the vet to get her dog seen to

• She returns home to check on her husband when the phone rings - she picks it up only

to find the vet hysterical saying she needs to get out of the house

• As she and her husband run downstairs, a policeman passes them claiming the dog was

choking on a man's finger - that the intruder might still be in their home

• And sure enough, they found a burglar unconscious in the bedroom

8 - Noppera-bō, • A Japanese creature that likes to frighten

humans - it will appear in your life as an ordinary human being, usually impersonating

someone close to you • As you let down your guard around the

creature, it quickly drops its facade, causing its face to disappear, leaving a blank, smooth

sheet of skin where its face should be • This creature was the original inspiration

for the monster we know today as Slender Man 7 - Hello Kitty Murder,

• A 1999 Hong Kong abduction of this 23-year-old woman by 3 men, held captive for a month and

tortured relentlessly every day • In the end she died, her body was chopped

up and disposed with the trash - her head sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll which became

a press icon for the case • A 13-year-old girlfriend of one of the

culprits complained to the police that the ghost of the murdered woman visited her frequently

- and upon checking CCTV the police noticed ghostly female forms wandering the streets

- the criminals were given life sentences 6 - Black Volga,

• A story coming in from Poland about a black Volga car frequently spotted on the

streets in the 1960s, supposedly driven by kidnappers looking to steal children

• According to legend, Soviet officers would drive similar cars in Moscow during the 1930s

to kidnap young girls for sexual pleasure • Nowadays people have claimed this black

Volga to be driven by priests, vampires or even Satan himself

5 - Teke teke, • A Japanese schoolgirl that fell onto train

tracks and was cut in half, her legs and half her torso torn clean off

• She has supposedly returned as a vengeful spirit carrying a blade, travelling around

on her hands and elbows all the while making the dreaded scratching noise as she drags

along the ground on her upper torso • She attacks people too slow to run away,

slicing them in half with her blade just as she had been sliced by the train

4 - Midnight Bus, • An old Chinese tale about a man boarding

a bus at midnight alongside an old man - at the time the bus was empty aside from these

two • But after awhile, two more passengers

entered the bus and sat down - the old man immediately jumped up and accused the other

man of stealing his wallet, which he denied • He suggested they jump off the bus and

go the police station, but the man found when they did indeed get off the bus that the old

man wasn't angry - he said "I just saved both our lives"

• He then claimed the other two passengers had been floating - that they were ghosts,

and when the midnight bus was finally found days later all inside were dead, and the petrol

tank filled with blood 3 - Slit-Mouthed Woman,

• A legend found in both Japanese and Chinese cultures about a samurai's wife who cheated

on her husband only for him to find out and slit her mouth from ear-to-ear

• It goes that she still wanders the Earth, dressed in a surgical mask asking people "Am

I pretty?" to which she then rips off the mask and repeats the question

• Anyone who doesn't respond positively is slaughtered by the slit-mouthed woman

2 - Mae Nak Phra Khanong, • An 1800s story from Thailand about a woman

called Nak married to a man called Tid - he was called away by the army just as she got

pregnant, and while he was gone she died during childbirth killing both herself and her child

• When Tid returned, he found her and their child's ghost - pretending to still be alive,

fooling him, Nak killing any neighbours that might inform Tid that she and the baby were

actually dead • Eventually Tik realised the truth, and

Nak was sealed in a jar to be thrown in the canal, until she was eventually released from

her prison and vanished 1 - Greek Soldier

• A legend from WWII about a Greek soldier returning from the war to marry his fiance

-before he could, rebel Greeks captured him, tortured him and eventually murdered him

• During the 1950s, rumours grew of a handsome soldier seducing beautiful virgin girls and

impregnating them • After the babies were born, he would disappear

and leave a note explaining he had to spread his seed, that his sons might avenge him