True story

[kidnemo]

A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that on the way to his room, there was a door with no number that was locked and no one was allowed in there. Especially no one should look inside the room, under any circumstances. So he followed the instructions of the woman at the front desk, going straight to his room, and going to bed.

The next night his curiosity would not leave him alone about the room with no number on the door. He walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough it was locked. He bent down and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling his eye. What he saw was a hotel bedroom, like his, and in the corner was a woman whose skin was completely white. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. He stared in confusion for a while. He almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity, but decided not to.

This disinclination saved his life. He crept away from the door and walked back to his room. The next day, he returned to the door and looked through the wide keyhole. This time, all he saw was redness. He couldn’t make anything out besides a distinct red color, unmoving. Perhaps the inhabitants of the room knew he was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red.

At this point he decided to consult the woman at the front desk for more information. She sighed and said, “Did you look through the keyhole?” The man told her that he had and she said, “Well, I might as well tell you the story. A long time ago, a man murdered his wife in that room, and her ghost haunts it. But these people were not ordinary. They were white all over, except for their eyes, which were red.”
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[Eerongal]

reminds me of those old kids books, scary stories to tell in the dark. I read those all the time as a kid. The art in those always freaked the crap out of me. I didn't find the stories scary, but the art was a whole different matter.

Edit:Thank you image dump, for having the art from the books for me to look back on
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[byronhulcher]

holy crap. The stories never bubgged me, but as a kid the art in that was just so grotesque and horrifying. What's the artist done other than kid's books.
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[Eerongal]

[jesternim]

That art makes me sad, because you know that most kid-horror books contain purple zombies with smiling faces, and bows in their hair.

The ending of that story actually creeped the hell out of me. Thanks, Kid. I probably won't sleep tonight. I'm not even kidding ):
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[king istrom]

The next time you're alone in your room, turn down the lights. Think of something on your body that varies in length, such as hair. It must be clearly viewable from your perspective. Grab a ruler and, looking in the mirror, quickly grab a hair at random; you must confuse it. Hold it in position as best you can and note the length. Look down. Yours will be different.

Don't look back up.

Don't turn your back to that mirror ever again.

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[Ramen King Roshi]

[Gil]

Istrom's story makes no sense?

[king istrom]

[Gil]

No, I literally don't understand what it says.

[king istrom]

[Gil]

Oh yeah, I get it now, thanks

This is one of those things that are hard to grasp if they don't work on you.

[Ruskin]

I think you're supposed to grab a random hair so the 'thing' in the mirror gets confused and doesn't know what you grabbed. That way, when you measure it in the mirror, your reflection is measuring a random hair that may not be the corresponding one on you. Then when you measure yours without the mirror, you realize that omg the mirror is different omg its watching omg dont turn your back oh shit oh shit oh shit

or something
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Rawr.

[jesternim]

[Shavic]

I don't know what the scary part is but I understand the hair thing, I think. If you pull a hair out and it is of a decent size, the shock from ripping it out will cause the hair to shrink a bit and it won't be the same size as before. How this is scary I don't understand.
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