Best Creepy Kids Stories Post

The Creepy Kids Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.

1. The Baby Laughed At The Empty Doorway For Eleven Minutes And I Timed It

   She was ten months old and she was the happiest baby I have ever met, and that is important, because this is not a horror story about a poss…

   2318 Upvote · 89% of readers believe this story

2. The Girl I Babysat Drew Our Street And Put A House Where There Is No House

   She was seven and she drew constantly and most of it was fine. The street drawing was very good for her age. She got the shape of the lamp p…

   2104 Upvote · 87% of readers believe this story

3. The Twins Would Only Answer To Each Other's Names And They Were Not Joking

   They were six. Identical. Nice kids, both of them, and — this is important — completely distinguishable, because one had a scar on his chin …

   1874 Upvote · 84% of readers believe this story

4. The Boy Asked Me Not To Sit In The Green Chair Because It Was Occupied

   The green chair was in the corner of the living room and it was hideous and I loved it. The first night I sat in it. The boy — four, blond, …

   1792 Upvote · 84% of readers believe this story

5. My Daughter Said the Man in the Attic Was "Waiting to Be Let Down"

   My daughter, four, was a great sleeper until we moved into the old house. There she began fighting bedtime, hard, every night, with the same…

   388 Upvote · 84% of readers believe this story

6. My Son Described His "Other Mother" From "Before"

   My son was three, chatty, sweet, and completely normal in every way except for the things he sometimes said with total calm about a life non…

   356 Upvote · 87% of readers believe this story

7. Mr. Elbow Knew About the Wall

   My daughter's invisible friend arrived the week we moved in, and his name — she was four, and firm about it — was Mr. Elbow. He lived, she s…

   199 Upvote · 96% of readers believe this story

8. I Watched You From the Window Before I Came

   The nursery was originally green. That matters. We painted it green in the eighth month, decided it looked like a hospital, and repainted it…

   187 Upvote · 86% of readers believe this story

9. The Twins' Friend Moved Away on the Same Night

   Our twins have never agreed on anything with less than forty minutes of arbitration — except Old Pete. From age three they reported him iden…

   175 Upvote · 89% of readers believe this story

10. The Words Were in Polish

    Bedtime, ordinary Tuesday, monitor humming. My wife grabbed my arm in the hallway outside our son's room because through the door came his t…

    150 Upvote · 94% of readers believe this story

11. He Won't Go Near the Reservoir

    My son learned to swim at three and would fling himself at any water on the map: pools, seas, questionable fountains. Except one. The reserv…

    138 Upvote · 93% of readers believe this story

12. She Draws the Family With Five

    Children's drawings are propaganda for the fridge, and my daughter's had a consistent cast: Mummy with enormous hands, Daddy the height of t…

    113 Upvote · 88% of readers believe this story

13. Tilly Left When We Took Out the Stairs

    Tilly was part of our household for two years. Our daughter set places for her, blamed her fairly — only for things a small invisible girl c…

    101 Upvote · 98% of readers believe this story

14. The Counting Man in the Ceiling

    The first time my son mentioned the counting man, we were making pancakes and he said it the way children hand you tickets they don't know a…

    76 Upvote · 92% of readers believe this story

15. Don't Let Grandpa Drive on Sunday

    My son was five and not a dramatic child — he was the kind of kid who reported playground injustices with the neutrality of a referee. So wh…

    64 Upvote · 82% of readers believe this story

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