Creepy and true stories....worth reading...

[crazytp93]

The Legend:
A couple checks into a hotel and have to put up with a foul odor in their room all night. They call the staff to complain and somebody figures out the stench is coming from the bed.

Now, there's no way that scenario is going to have a good ending. You're almost hoping at that point that it'll turn out the last guest just got drunk and pooped behind the headboard. But, no, the staff take off the matress and discover the couple has been sleeping over the rotting body of a dead girl who had been stuffed in the box spring.

The Truth:
This actually happened, in Las Vegas. Also, Kansas City, MO and Atlantic City, NJ and several times in Florida and California and, well, let's just say that in or under the bed in a hotel room seems to be a fairly popular destination for the recently deceased.

It makes sense if you think about it. The closet and under the bed are the two most popular places to hide just about anything, so it's not surprising a hell of a lot of corpses end up there as well. In fact, the odds are pretty good that at least once a guy has killed a prostitute, tried to stuff her under the bed, only to find there was already a body there.
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The Legend:
Some poor schmuck is committed to his or her eternal resting place, even though they aren’t quite ready to take that final dirt nap. Scratch marks are later found on the coffin lid along with other desperate signs of escape.

The Truth:
This not only happened, but back in the day it happened with alarming regularity. In the late 19th century, William Tebb tried to compile all the instances of premature burial from medical sources of the day. He managed to collect 219 cases of near-premature burial, 149 cases of actual premature burial and a dozen cases where dissection or embalming had begun on a not-yet-deceased body.

Now, this may seem ridiculous, but keep in mind this was an era before doctors such as the esteemed Dr. Gregory House gained the ability to solve any ailment within 42 minutes. If you went to the doctor with the flu in those days, he’d likely cover you in leeches and prescribe you heroin to suppress your cough. Their only method for determining if a person had died was to lean over their face and scream "WAKE UP" over and over again. If you didn't react, they buried you.

The concern over being buried alive back then was so real that the must-have hot-ticket item for the wealthy and paranoid were "safety coffins" that allowed those inside to signal to the outside world (usually by ringing a bell or raising some type of flag) should they awake 6-feet under. Though, answering that bell sounds like a good way to get ambushed by a zombie if you ask us.



Unfortunately safety coffins aren’t in vogue anymore, so if you’re at the cemetery and hear a muffled voice calling out "OK guys, joke’s over. Let me out!" it might be a good idea to inform someone with a shovel quickly.

Of course, that last sentence was merely facetious, there’s no way something like this could still happen today. Uh, well, except for this story about a Venezuelan man waking up during his autopsy. On second thought, you might want to consider adding a line in your will that states you’re to be buried with a gas-powered auger in your casket when you go.

 

[crazytp93]

That would be creepy finding a dead body under your bed. And yeah in the old days the didnt have all the technology we had for dead people, so people were buried alive, and then died because they suffocated.

 

[::Snow_White::]

I heard about the bed thing.
And the burial thing is just creepy....
That's the one way I'm scared of dying. Being buried alive. Ahh.

Have you read any of the Scary stories books?

I read all of those in about 5th grade.
The pictures were horrifying to me.
Suprised I never had nightmares.
Now they aren't such a big deal.
But certain ones still send chills up my spine.

 

[wishspirit]

why do you think night shifts are called 'graveyard shifts' people used to be paid to walk around the graveyard listening for bells!

 

[marypops!]

there's a show in the UK (and possibly elsewhere) on a channel called Zone Reality X (i think) called "Mostly True Stores, Urban Legends Revealed" which is all about stories like this :-D I watch it whenever I can. It has stories like:

A woman is getting married soon but her skin is pale. She won't be able to get a tan before the wedding so she books an appointment with a tanning salon. She gets annoyed when they only give her 15 mins a day. Then she has an idea. She gets the phone book out and calls another 4 salons and make appointments one after another for everyday until the wedding. On her wedding day, she has the skin tone she wanted for her wedding but was feeling sick with bad stomach pains but thought it was her nerves. She realises her breath smells foul so she takes some breathmints. During the ceremony, the pains get so unbearable that she falls unconcious to the floor. People crowd round to get her up but she's died. People around her start to notice a foul smell coming from her mouth. It turns out she's been cooked from the inside-out! BUT can this really happen? Well... no. But you have to take extreme caution when going to a tan salon. The reason they give you a small amount of time is because they use UV rays. Too much of it and it acan be fatal.

I would say another but that took about 5 mins to write from memory...

 

[life of the party]

I heard about the bed thing.
And the burial thing is just creepy....
That's the one way I'm scared of dying. Being buried alive. Ahh.

Have you read any of the Scary stories books?

I read all of those in about 5th grade.
The pictures were horrifying to me.
Suprised I never had nightmares.
Now they aren't such a big deal.
But certain ones still send chills up my spine.

I read every single in 5th grade also
they are very entertaining !
The pictures scared me too.
& yeah the stories arnt too bad,
but some sent shivers up & down my body !

 

[DramaQueen]

YUCK GEORGE!! GROSS!!

I will never ever ever go in a tanning bed.
TOO MANY scary movies include scenes with tanning beds that end with frightening & grotesque results.

 

[tinkerbellblondie19]

The second one was actually a major inspiration for a lot of Poe's writings/was included in a lot of his writings, as it was one of his biggest fears. Like in "The Cask of Amontillado," Montressor bricks in Fortunato, like being buried alive. It shows in a lot of his other pieces as well.

And the bells were typically tied on strings, and then the strings would be tied on the "deceased" person's finger. Then, were the person to move, people visiting the cemetary would know and then they could try to save the person.

 

[Vannah]

I heard about the bed thing.
And the burial thing is just creepy....
That's the one way I'm scared of dying. Being buried alive. Ahh.

Have you read any of the Scary stories books?

I read all of those in about 5th grade.
The pictures were horrifying to me.
Suprised I never had nightmares.
Now they aren't such a big deal.
But certain ones still send chills up my spine.

I think I've read this book...
Did it have a story about a Scarecrow named Harold (or something that started with an H) in it?

Those other stories are way freaky.

 

[::Snow_White::]

I think I've read this book...
Did it have a story about a Scarecrow named Harold (or something that started with an H) in it?

Those other stories are way freaky.

Uhh.
I haven't read them in awhile, but I know there was a story with a scarecrow and I do believe his name was Harold or something like that.