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Lemmy Scare You! A community for sharing short scary stories.

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Inspired by r/nosleep, but without the "Everything here is true" and "You can't criticize the OP" rule. Post your scariest original short stories here.

Rules are simple:

  1. Be nice, criticize constructively, no name-calling.
  2. No obvious AI generated stories, or other spam.
  3. Everything posted here is creative fiction, any similarity to real life is pure coincidence.
  4. Prompts are allowed, but should be prefaced with "[WP]"
  5. Collaborative storytelling is fun, so if you'd like to continue your own story or other people's story as a series in the comments, start your comment with [CHAIN]
  6. Troll/Parody Stories would be allowed on Sundays, but the title should start with "[PARODY]"

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What if someone you lost… came back? Not in memories. Not in dreams. But in your home… at night. This is a chilling story of a single mother trying to move on after a tragic accident… until her son starts talking to someone who shouldn’t be there. At first, it seems like grief. Then it turns into something much darker. Whispers. Footsteps. A presence that doesn’t belong. And one terrifying question… What really comes back when someone dies? Watch till the end for a disturbing twist you won’t forget. Like, Share & Subscribe for more horror stories and dark storytelling. https://youtu.be/0JdKR_Ac4OE

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