There was a traveler who checked into a cheap motel. The room smelled musty. In the middle of the night, he woke up to find the TV turned on by itself, showing a static image. He tried to turn it off, but it wouldn't respond. Then he heard whispers coming from the bathroom. He slowly walked towards it and opened the door. There was a figure in the mirror that looked like a distorted version of himself, and as he blinked, it got closer and closer.
There was a small, desolate motel on the side of a long, lonely highway. A traveler checked in for the night. As he lay in bed, the lights started to flicker. He heard whispers coming from the walls. When he looked at the mirror, he saw a shadowy figure behind him, but when he turned around, there was nothing. The whispers grew into agonized screams that seemed to fill his head until he ran out of the motel in terror.
A family moved into a new house. The little girl noticed a small, locked door in the attic. One day, she found the key. When she opened the door, a cold air rushed out. Inside, there was a doll sitting on a chair. The doll's eyes seemed to follow her. At night, she heard the doll laughing. She told her parents, but they didn't believe her. The next night, she woke up to find the doll in her bed, its cold hands touching her face. She screamed and threw the doll back into the attic, and they never opened that door again.
Once upon a time, in an old, abandoned mansion at the edge of town, a young girl was dared by her friends to spend the night there. As night fell, she heard strange creaking noises. She saw a shadow moving across the wall that didn't seem human. Terrified, she ran to the door but it was locked from the outside. The cold wind blew through the broken windows, and she felt a cold hand on her shoulder. She screamed but no one could hear her. In the morning, her friends found her outside the mansion, pale and shivering, but she could never remember how she got out.
How about a story where a person buys an antique doll at a flea market. When they bring it home, they start to notice that the doll's eyes seem to follow them around the room. At night, they hear the sound of a child giggling, but they live alone. Eventually, the doll starts to move on its own, and it crawls towards the person's bed with an evil look in its eyes.
Well, once in a small business I worked for, the HR person hired someone without proper background checks. That new employee turned out to be stealing office supplies and causing a lot of trouble among the team. It took ages for the HR to finally fire him because they didn't have proper documentation of his wrongdoings at the start.
There was a small retail store. They had a very disorganized accounting system. During the audit, they couldn't find receipts for a large number of their inventory purchases. The auditor suspected that they might be over - stating their inventory value to get better loans. As a result, the bank froze their line of credit until the issue was resolved. It was a huge blow to the business as they were relying on that credit to buy new inventory for the upcoming holiday season.
There was a young woman who loved old books. She bought an ancient, leather - bound volume from a second - hand store. When she got home and opened it, she noticed a strange inscription. That night, she started to have nightmares about a figure emerging from the pages. Every time she tried to close the book, it would open again on its own. In the end, she woke up one morning to find the figure from her dreams standing at the foot of her bed, and she could do nothing but scream as it reached out for her.