Body Horror Horror Stories
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Nana’s banana bread turned my parents inside out
Nana's baked goods always brought warmth and happiness, but this time they left something far more horrifying behind.
The Time-Out Room
A childhood punishment reveals a darkness that was never meant to be disturbed.
I Clean Crime Scenes, Decrepit Houses, and Evicted Residences and Every House Is a Surprise
Every filthy house hides something different, but some jobs leave more than a mess behind.
I'm Stuck in a Simulation Please Send Help
A miracle treatment promises to cure her troubled mind, but every awakening pulls her deeper into a terrifying cycle.
No One Is Taking Me Seriously
A seemingly harmless bug bite begins behaving in ways no doctor can explain.
The story of why I have no bones
A childhood experiment leaves one patient trapped in a body that can no longer support itself.
Carved
A mysterious artist promises to transform Nyssa into the beautiful person she has always wanted to be, but beauty comes with a price.
I survived drowning as a child and now The Drowned Mother wants me back
After surviving a childhood drowning, a woman discovers that the entity who pulled her under has never stopped waiting for her.
If you find a hacienda in the middle of nowhere, leave before sunset
A hidden hacienda offers paradise by day, but its true caretakers emerge when the sun begins to set.
Does Anyone Know Anything About the McKriss Abattoir?
He went into the abandoned abattoir on a dare. He came back hungry.
My Aunt Collected People's Last Moments, and Now I Think She's Haunting Me
My aunt left behind tapes of dying strangers. Now something from those recordings may have followed me home.
The flea market sells strange things at night.
A strange mirror offers a doorway into a dark ocean... and something enormous is waiting below.
There Is Something Inside of Me, Keeping Me in My Apartment
Every night, something else seems to take control of his life... and he has no idea what happens while he's gone.
Public Safety Notice
A harmless emergency alert becomes something far worse when people discover their bodies aren't entirely under their control.
Did You Know Bones Can Sing?
A routine medical screening uncovers a rare condition that causes one man's bones to emit strange radio signals. When researchers tune in, they hear something that was never meant to…
My father walked out on me twenty years ago. Tonight I found out why.
After twenty years of silence, a man finally meets the father who abandoned him, only to uncover an impossible family secret.
Every kid in my class is sleeping except me.
A student discovers the terrifying truth behind a mandatory sleep curfew and the hidden war happening beyond their dreams.
My torture victim refuses to die
A seasoned killer encounters a victim unlike anyone before, as a night of violence turns into an impossible psychological battle.
Despite doing my best to keep my 5 year old son away from anything he could hurt himself with, to my horror I found him digging around his bleeding ear with a pair of tweezers.
It started with tweezers. It ended with a nightmare.
'It doesn't matter what I'm convicted of after this, you all will use my finding', the researcher sneered from the podium at his appalled audience.
His experiment worked. That's what terrified everyone.