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True Scary Story

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True Scary Story

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Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

During a simple house repair, Eric encounters something that follows him into another home, connecting people and places through a series of strange and unsettling moments. This is a true story of eerie coincidences, unexplained presences, and a lingering sense that some houses remember who lived there.
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0:00.0

The sound started at one into the couch and worked down the couch.

0:07.0

You know, if you were dragging your hand down on top of the couch,

0:09.0

and stopped right behind her.

0:11.0

And then she said, she heard the sound of two little children giggling.

0:15.0

It was supposed to be a quiet renovation project,

0:19.0

but then it turned into an experience where mirrors defied gravity

0:22.6

and visitors from the past still make themselves known.

0:27.6

My name is Edwin, and here is Eric's true, scary story. Back in the early 90s, I had just gotten out of college.

0:46.3

My girlfriend at the time, my wife now, were from the same little town in Illinois.

0:51.3

Her dad, my future father-in-law, well, I was kind of his handyman.

0:55.0

He used to hire me to do various work for him.

0:58.0

I put a fence into his house or I roofed his house one time.

1:02.0

This particular time he had hired me to go down and do some work in a house that he was taken care of.

1:10.0

There was a care of.

1:16.7

There was a lady in town, Mrs. Jones.

1:20.1

He had taken care of her for years. She was a widow,

1:22.1

lived just down the street from him.

1:27.3

I think she had fallen at the time and had gone into a nursing home in town and the house was empty.

1:30.3

When she went into the nursing home, he knew she probably wasn't coming to come back out and needed to take care of the house.

1:38.3

He didn't want it sitting empty.

1:40.3

My wife had a childhood friend to live next door to her.

1:45.0

She and her husband had just been married and were moving back to town.

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