A Plastic Halloween Skeleton by Mak Ralston

We hung that cheap plastic skeleton in the oak tree every fall like we always did. It wasn’t special. Dollar store bones, fake glow-in-the-dark paint, plastic joints that clicked in the wind. The neighbors rolled their eyes. My mom said it was “tradition.” My dad used it to scare me in a way that somehow made me feel safer. And then he went to war and didn’t come home.
After that, Halloween stopped being about candy. It became the one night I still felt like his kid.
The first year without him, I tried to pretend I was fine. I stayed in, skipped trick-or-treating, watched safe “scary” movies, and raided the candy bowl early. But when I went to close the blinds, I saw something outside the window. The skeleton hanging from our tree wasn’t plastic anymore. It was changing. Muscle. Tendons. Skin. It climbed down, pulled a sheet around itself, and stood in our yard. And it looked up at me.
It was my father.
He looked whole. He looked at me like he always did. And then he turned toward a light I can’t explain, something bright and wrong and beautiful at the end of our street. Before he walked into it, he mouthed the same words he used to say after every bedtime story: “See you in the morning.”
This is a Halloween story about grief, faith, and the kind of love that doesn’t stay buried. It’s not about jump scares. It’s about what it means when the dead come back to keep a promise.


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I Am Halloween by Natron25

Halloween is supposed to be pretend. Costumes, candy, fake monsters. Kids laugh in rubber masks, parents stand on porches talking about work and weather, and everyone goes to bed thinking it was all harmless. That’s what the town believes. That’s what they need to believe.
But Halloween isn’t a game. Not here.
Something old lives under this neighborhood. Something that remembers when October 23rd was the only night the walls between the living and the other side went thin. It watched humans move in, pave over the field, build houses on its home, and decide—without asking—that the rules had changed. Now those same humans celebrate Halloween on October 31st, dressing their children as vampires and witches and zombies, laughing at things they don’t think are real.
And that’s the mistake.
Because on Halloween night, the thing beneath the house comes out. It walks under the streetlights. It talks to the kids. It touches them. It chooses.
It doesn’t need you to believe in monsters. It just needs you to be afraid.
This is a first-person account from the thing that calls itself Halloween. It’s patient. It’s intelligent. It’s been here longer than your family has been alive. And it is not done.

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/I_Am_Halloween




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When Michelle takes a job at a pop-up Halloween store called Monster Mart, she expects long hours, fog machines, and impatient customers—not a stranger who seems to know her every detail. After a bizarre encounter with a pale woman fixated on her shoes, things spiral into the unexplainable. The next night, that same woman is found dead—dressed exactly like Michelle. As eerie coincidences pile up and her father’s secrets resurface, Michelle begins to wonder if the haunting didn’t start at the store... but with her. A chilling true-to-life tale about identity, fate, and the ghosts we create ourselves.

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Carrie_Morgan%27s_Halloween_Costume

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Every Halloween, residents of Brookhaven hear three knocks at their doors — long after the trick-or-treaters are gone. They smell gun smoke and copper but never see anyone outside. The legend says it all started with three teens who went too far one Halloween night — and who still come back, year after year, to finish their game.

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When a woman moves into a quiet home with a cave behind it, she begins noticing a faint light deep inside at night. Curiosity drives her to investigate—only to find small, barefoot prints in the mud that appear from nowhere. What she discovers inside the cave will cost her more than her sanity... and something she can never get back.

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Halloween is getting closer and it's time to start stories about witches and monsters! This delicious story about a witch's revenge against a cocky drunk man will have you rooting for the creepy, hungry, giant monster that is after him. After the witch shrinks him down to size and flushes him into the rat sewers that is.

Press play and listen. This story has lot of crunch to it and a big bite! :)

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You've probably heard the urban legend. You've probably watched the movie. I could have told this a million ways, but here we are with basic, frightening, original baby sitting story.

A teenage girl settles in for an easy babysitting job. The kids are asleep, the house is quiet, and the phone keeps ringing. The voice on the other end asks her one question — “Have you checked the children?” What begins as an ordinary night becomes the most terrifying call of her life.

Why haven't you checked the children?

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A long drive home turns into a detour through the Pennsylvania wilderness — and a nightmare that never lets go. When one man decides to take the back road to avoid traffic, he discovers a family frozen between life and something far worse… and learns that some shortcuts lead straight into the dark.

The story changes bit by bit, but the results are often similar.

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A story about the urband Legend - The Licked Hand also known as Humans Can Lick, Too.

A storm raged outside, but she wasn’t afraid. Her dog was with her — loyal, warm, and always by her side. Each time thunder shook the house, she reached down from her bed and felt the reassuring lick on her fingers.

But morning brought silence, and something else beneath the bed.

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In a farmhouse in Tennessee, a family heard a voice in the dark that knew their names and their secrets. They called her the Bell Witch — a presence that scratched, mocked, and promised a death she finally kept.

Tonight, while the storm strokes the cellar window and the fire breathes low, I’ll tell you why the house never seemed empty again.

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