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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

'Twas the Night Before Christmas — In a Haunted House

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

“CREATURES WERE STIRRING” by Scott Donnelly

When Santa's sleigh crashes outside a haunted house full of zombie children, ghosts, and a blood-thirsty mouse, he quickly learns that sending away his reindeer and elf was a terrible mistake.
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0:00.0

Welcome to Micro-Terrors

0:14.0

Scary Stories for Kids

0:20.0

Where it's always the spooky season, full of chills, thrills,

0:28.6

and spine-tingling spooks.

0:33.6

Micro-terrorers are family-friendly frights for those ages eight and up.

0:39.3

And while our stories are for younger years, we are still talking about things that go bump in the night,

0:46.3

and some children may not be able to handle what others can.

0:51.3

Parental consent is recommended. Now, for tonight's micro-terror.

1:03.5

Creatures were stirring. A micro-terror's classic retelling of Twas the Night Before Christmas, written by Scott Donnelly.

1:13.9

T'was the night before Christmas, and all through the haunted house, several creatures were

1:19.8

stirring, including a morbid, bloodthirsty mouse. Old stockings were still hung by the chimney

1:26.3

from long ago when the inhabitants of the house

1:29.5

had yet to be turned to ghosts.

1:32.3

Zombie children all staggered the halls, some still limp in their beds, all craving brains

1:38.7

except for the dead ones in their own heads.

1:42.5

A snarling beast from the basement and the bloodthirsty mouse had

1:46.8

just settled for the night in the dark, scary house. But outside the window, they could hear

1:53.1

people shouting and they sprang into action to see what the night could be hiding. Away to the window,

1:58.6

the snarling beast flew like a flash, and the bloodthirsty mouse

2:02.4

tore open the sash. As the moon shined down on the fresh-fallen snow, the two creepy

2:08.2

creatures could see everything below. And to what did appear to the beast and the mouse,

2:14.5

were a tiny reindeer outside of the house. A plump little driver with a large

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