In the old house, I found a doll with eyes that seemed to follow me everywhere. It was really terrifying as I moved from room to room, and it just kept 'watching'. I couldn't shake off the feeling that it was alive.
Walking through the cemetery at night, I saw a figure that vanished when I blinked.
The phone rang in the middle of the night. No one was on the other end, but I could hear faint whispering.
Sentence scary stories are often very concise yet extremely effective at creating a sense of fear. For example, 'The handprint on the window that wasn't there when I closed the blinds.' Just this one sentence can make you wonder what could have caused the handprint. It plays on our natural fear of the unknown and the unexplained. These types of stories are great for quickly sending a shiver down someone's spine without having to build up a long, elaborate plot.
I woke up in the middle of the night to see a figure standing at the foot of my bed. It disappeared when I turned on the light.
I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a figure at the foot of my bed. It just stared.
The old house was empty for years. I heard a child's laugh and saw a shadow on the wall.
I was home alone. Then I heard the doorknob turn slowly, but no one was supposed to be there.
As I entered the old, abandoned house, the door slammed shut behind me. I then heard a slow, creaking sound coming from upstairs, and I knew I was not alone.
I woke up in the middle of the night to see a figure at the foot of my bed, then it vanished. It was my dead grandmother.
She always heard whispers in the attic. One day, she went up there and the whispers stopped forever.
I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a figure standing at the foot of my bed, its eyes glowing red.
Once upon a time, in a dark forest. A hiker heard strange whispers. He saw red eyes in the bushes. His flashlight died. Then a cold hand touched his shoulder.