Woods Horror Stories
Browse woods horror stories from the Horror Story Archive.
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.
Just Don’t Go Camping
A wounded survivor reaches a remote cabin, but the creatures hunting him are far more intelligent than anyone realizes.
Does Anyone Know Anything About the McKriss Abattoir?
He went into the abandoned abattoir on a dare. He came back hungry.
My Aunt Recorded People's Last Moments, and I Have No Idea Why
Her tapes captured something that should never have spoken again.
Welcome Home Lazarus
A first-time homeowner's exhausting workweek is interrupted when the house's former owner breaks in, pursued by armed men searching for something hidden behind the bedroom wall.
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.
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.
The Thing That Learned Our Routine
It didn’t break into the house. It waited until we let it in.