# Your "One sentence scary story" submissions. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083 "2015-09-30T21:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/141 "2015-10-05T11:25:03Z")
“In answer to your questions: he’s not any kind of ‘dog’…but yes, he does bite…” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/142 "2015-10-05T11:27:03Z")
When they found him later Stuart was cowering in a corner gibbering “Eyes shouldn’t have teeth and teeth shouldn’t have eyes!” over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/143 "2015-10-05T11:37:39Z")
Everett realized after the waitress serving the disturbing-looking party at the next table paused, leaned over to ask his name, and then announced to them that “Today’s roast special is Everett”, never to trust a Yelp review. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/144 "2015-10-05T14:17:09Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Another winner. Thank you. In play: When Stephen King got me alone in his hotel room, he told me he was doing real life research for his next book. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/145 "2015-10-05T17:35:10Z")
Story from my real life: “My home thermometer must be reading a degree or so colder”, thought Ludovic as the physician’s assistant measured his temperature at 99.9 after he told her that his temperature at home measured normal, and he silently mused about the time a few years ago when his temperature at home measured 103.5. ---
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/146 "2015-10-06T02:25:12Z")
As I continued eating his tasty soup, it slowly dawned on me that, when he said “my neighbor had a hand in it,” he was speaking literally. ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/147 "2015-10-06T04:45:00Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > “My only real friend,” chuckled Mary O’hara, as she slit the horse’s neck upward from the gut to the muzzle, thinking only of the smell of fresh Fried Flicka. Just thought I’d let y’all know that it is possible to barf and laugh simultaneously, and survive. ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/148 "2015-10-06T05:01:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > As it gripped him wetly, Tom realized that whatever he’d just put his foot in was not his bunny slipper. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/149 "2015-10-06T05:05:31Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Making no attempt to cover her nakedness, Vice-President Palin gazed with dreamy satisfaction out the window of the Oval Office as President Trump zipped up his pants and blew her a kiss. :eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/150 "2015-10-06T08:37:51Z")
As he plummeted through the Earth’s mantle, Dr. Filmore ruefully noted that his invention to allow himself to phase through walls hadn’t taken gravity into account. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/151 "2015-10-06T08:40:42Z")
Felicity had thought it odd that the crosswalk signals in her new town said “Flee” and “Don’t Move” but she soon understood all too well. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/152 "2015-10-06T18:47:13Z")
“It’s cold breath smells like death, I hope it’s not a scavenger” he thought as he continued to play dead while the thing sniffed and licked every inch of his exposed skin. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/153 "2015-10-07T20:12:38Z")
"She missed her baby brother _so much_, " the mother said through soft tears, “that I couldn’t bear to keep them apart” - and gently caressed the fresh dirt of the small graves. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/154 "2015-10-08T15:00:59Z")
When the screams at the buffet began, she realized how stupid it was to put the deadly poison in a salad dressing bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/155 "2015-10-08T16:01:11Z")
“But if the Thanksgiving turkey is in the crib, then where’s…” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/156 "2015-10-08T18:02:05Z")
The inspiring lyrics to the opening song of _The Sound of Music_ were cut off abruptly, and then the hill burped. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/157 "2015-10-08T18:05:53Z")
Daryl looked on in shock at the bloody, chewing horror clasped to his wife’s chest as she calmly said, “I didn’t want to interrupt his feed as he was _so hungry_ today…” ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/158 "2015-10-08T18:45:47Z")
For sale: Baby Shoes; feet included. ---
**Author:** ![IDtenT\_Error](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IDtenT\_Error](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDtenT_Error)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/159 "2015-10-08T20:00:40Z")
As the infant gasped, desperate to scream, Fluffy knew that this time … _this time_ the Humans would _finally_ acknowledge that she was a _good_ kitty for getting rid of that pest. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/160 "2015-10-08T20:40:45Z")
I stood at the cliff’s edge and stared at the matchstick Douglas firs 2000 ft below, dizzy with vertigo, pondering how long it would take to hit the bottom, whether I would scream, and was startled by My Beloved’s hard shove as I flailed into thin, air… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083.md?page=9)