Eerie Horror Stories
Browse eerie horror stories from the Horror Story Archive.
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 ever imagined.
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.