Eerie Horror Stories
Browse eerie horror stories from the Horror Story Archive.
Part 1 - Just Another Night Shift
A motel night clerk has seen plenty of strange things, but some guests leave behind mysteries that refuse to make sense.
Part 4 - Lost And Found
A missing motel room, a suitcase that keeps filling itself, and a disturbing discovery on the security cameras.
Part 8 - NAPS
Two paranormal investigators arrive at the Wayfarer Motel, but their equipment detects something that shouldn't be there.
Part 3 - New Name Same Shift
A strange guest, a relentless possum, and a bloody message turn another motel shift into something far worse.
Part 2 - Out In The Hallway
A missing child, voices in an empty hallway, and footsteps that seem to come from everywhere make another night at the roadside motel anything but ordinary.
Part 9 - St. Agnes
A door that never existed leads to a hallway frozen in 1912, where the past is far from finished.
Part 10 - The Overlap
The motel's impossible measurements were only the beginning. Now, every room seems to be calling from somewhere else.
The Place No One Returns From
Four friends—Aleah, Allyssa, Alex, and Leo—travel to Eldemoor, a mysterious place where people disappear or return changed. Their journey leads them to Blackthorn, a terrifying mansion filled with dark secrets,…
Part 5 - Unregistered Guests
A strange door, a motionless man, and something lurking in the motel's maintenance corridor make for another unforgettable night shift.
He Didn't Stay In The Photos
A final visit to Grandma's attic reveals the truth about the boy who has haunted the family photographs for generations.
It's Lonely Here
He wakes to a perfect summer day, only to discover that paradise has left him completely alone.
The mask killed you not I
A mysterious mask follows a grieving couple wherever they try to escape it.
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.
My bird keeps calling out my husband’s name, but he died a year ago
A grieving widow begins receiving impossible anniversary gifts from the husband she lost, but each gift grows more disturbing.
The Halo
Her halo proved she was free of sin, but anyone who touched her would pay the price.
The purple hat kept us safe from the trees
A purple hat protects two siblings from the voices calling them into the forest.
My Aunt Recorded People's Last Moments, and I Have No Idea Why
Her tapes captured something that should never have spoken again.
Someone keeps knocking on my back door at exactly 2:15am
After his wife's death, an elderly widower begins hearing relentless knocks on his back door every Thursday at 2:15am until he discovers the impossible source is much closer than he…
I moved into a haunted house for all the wrong reasons
A first-time homeowner discovers that the ghost haunting his new house isn't trying to scare him away... it might be protecting him.
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.
Mom, please rest in peace
A grieving child struggles to move on as comforting reminders of a lost mother become something far more unsettling.
Her Loving Embrace
Every nightmare ends the same way: A gentle embrace that melts away the fear. There's just one terrifying detail that makes it impossible.
My daughter keeps asking for her other family
A little girl's strange obsession with another family becomes impossible to ignore after she vanishes without a trace one ordinary night.
Expecting to only see animals I set up a ring camera pointing into the woods behind my house.
I pointed my Ring camera at the woods. It wasn't recording animals.
My Best Friend Keeps Pranking Me, Even Though He's Dead
For fifteen years, my best friend and I secretly passed the same broken plastic fork back and forth. His funeral should've been the last time I ever saw it.
The last thing that grief takes
Each night the tree grew taller. Each morning, my wife became a little more like a stranger.
There’s a Face in My Ceiling
Every night, it gets a little closer.
The Girl in the Recovery Ward
My daughter came back from the accident, but something else came back with her.
The Last Tape in Evidence Locker 9
Nobody remembers filming it.
The Man Who Came Back Wrong
After the accident, I survived. But something else came home with me.
My Son Keeps Waving at the Hallway
He says the woman outside his room waves back now.
The Patient Who Never Left the Queue
He checked into the hospital, but no one remembers admitting him.
The Voice in the Baby Monitor
My son started talking to someone upstairs after midnight.