3 True Scary October Stories

for the month of October in 2016 I worked at Party City as a seasonal job it was pretty hectic for the Halloween season obviously I got stuck with the night shifts on weekdays since I didn't have early classes the location I worked at changed its closing hours on weeknights to 11 p.m. during the Halloween season my shift would start usually at 5:00 and I'd work till close the rush would die after 9:00 and after 10:00 there would hardly be anyone left in the store especially on weekdays on my shift on the day in question I started work at what was referred to as a costume grabber I would be told on walkie-talkie what costume and what size to grab so that I could hand it to the customer and they could try it on after it quieted down and later on in my shift I was told to start cleaning up the aisles restocking and bringing stuff either up from or down to the basement that God's hiring quickly because it was a lot of walking up and down stairs past 10:00 there were only about four of us still working a girl named Maria working the cash register Kyle cleaning aisles and stocking shelves Ashley the supervisor for the night and then me during the back and forth basement work the basement was at least connected straight to the upstairs costume storage room so it wasn't a super long walk from the basement I took a ten-minute breather then went to continue lugging boxes from the basement up to the costume storage room the lights of the basement had been turned off by someone I figured Ashley I flip the light switch back on and down into the basement I went as I was lifting a box of girls costumes I heard something fall on the other side of the basement not to make you think this basement was really big it was just one big circle full of boxes with a big shelf in the middle I put down the box I was holding and slowly peered my head around the shelf there was someone in a white hooded robe costume with a scary monster mask of course I jumped back at first then I left saying you got me whichever of my co-workers was in the costume didn't speak though they just tilted their head to the side a bit as if they were still messing with me I had a feeling it was Ashley at first even though she would supervise some nights she was a clown but then I realized this person was way too tall to be Ashley so it had to be Kyle I tried approaching him to remove the mask he just backed away from me though then I looked down at the boots on his shoes the dirty heavy work boots that I knew for a fact Kyle wasn't wearing I started getting the shivers I went back up the stairs without running to avoid suspicion I shut the basement door and went straight to Ashley who was talking to Maria by the register I asked where's Kyle and he literally called what's up from a nearby aisle that's when panic said him I asked if there was anyone else working that night she said everyone went home so I told her someone was in the basement and a costume who didn't belong there Kyle and Ashley came with me to the basement so I could prove it to them but like any cliche horror scenario whoever was down there was gone there was a back exit in the upstairs costume room for unloading truck shipments it was possible the intruder exited through there Ashley sped through the security footage of the past hour and didn't see anyone enter the costume room except for me but there wasn't a camera in the basement or the actual costume room itself to check that part of me felt like it was a prank and that if I went back down there I'd find the person in the costume again but my job was my job and I had to get back down there to continue stuck in the costume room when I got back down there I once again picked up the box of girl costumes I originally was trying to bring up got it to the stairs and stopped because I thought I may have heard the noise of a small plastic bag being a slightly crumpled of course I didn't want to stay down there to find out alone I wasn't getting paid enough my shift was almost over so I lugged the heavy box up the stairs dropped it in the costume room and went back to the door we have the basement to shut off the light before I did I looked down the staircase and at the bottom is that person in the white robe costume again only this time - the mask I saw his face his smiling face looking up at me I slammed the door shut and ran out to Ashley and the rest screaming for help they came as fast as they could to the costume room but the back exit door inside was wide open as was the basement door this time for real he was gone the one camera on the outside delivery area didn't even catch him I don't really know if that intruder managed to steal anything other than the costume he was wearing for all I know it could have been just one big Halloween prank or he might have been in there looking to actually hurt someone for all I knew it was an armed robber though and I treated the situation as though my life were in danger my favorite month has always been October it's that sweet spot temperature-wise it's never too hot and never too cold all the leaves start turning orange and brown and you just get that nice refreshing October breeze my friends and I always used to like to rake up the leaves into a big pile and have wrestling matches in them when we were young like from the ages of 9 to 12 I think when we were about 10 or 11 it was towards the end of October and a lot of the leaves had already fallen off the trees since my property was the biggest my friends Liam and Billy were helping me rake up the leaves on my property into a giant pile it was a cloudy windy day getting a little late the house we lived in at the time was a corner house with a huge space on the side next to the sidewalk which ran into a short dead-end street with only two houses in it one of which owned by an old stoner couple who didn't care about anything and across the street from that was a small disheveled house whose owner never seemed to come outside so this allowed us to be louder and more obnoxious without worry of a lot of neighbors watching or caring we wrestled around for a probably half an hour then we went inside after getting tired to have a snack and play video games the two of them wanted to go back outside for a night time triple threat match in the leaves again that's what we called our wrestling matches we always acted like we were in the WWE when we got back out there it was almost completely dark but a streetlight that stood in the dead end lit up this side of our property so he could see enough it seemed as though there were a lot less leaves in the pile right off the bat this time we tried wrestling a little more but the pile just spread too far so we had to grab the rakes and start building the pile again Liam noticed a long oddly shaped pile that we did notice from before he went over to start raking it over to our main pile but he seemed to be having trouble he shouted there's something under the leaves we came over to help him brush some of the leaves off whatever was underneath and all of us screamed when we realized there was a grown man hiding underneath the pile we stepped back and looked at each other and then back at him we didn't know whether to laugh or not like was he playing some kind of early Halloween prank on us the man's face was not yet exposed Liam and I dared Billy to go expose the man's face he walked up to the body on the floor slowly looked back at us and started lightly kicking the leaves away from where the person's face would be as he kicked he realized the body was hollow and hard there was no face or head it was a fake body that someone planted there some kind of prank but who placed it there a question was quickly answered when we noticed someone hiding in my bush right behind the pile we yelled we see you to the man hiding in the bushes and he came out laughing exclaiming how he got us so good but this man was older he looked 60 and he looks scary and gross huge bulging eyes crooked teeth and he was breathing very heavily he said he planted that fake body there because he always watches us play in the leaves and thought it would be funny I had creeped me out though how he said he always watches us playing the leaves Liam tried being nice but I thought the man was weird so I said come on guys let's go inside and we left the man there I told my dad and he went outside to check but the man had already moved the fake body by then we played video games the rest of the night all having agreed that guy was a freak my friends eventually left and soon after I went to my room I had my window open as usual to get a breeze into my room I was watching TV and I heard a man's voice at my window I jumped and looked up at the window but I couldn't see who it was The Voice said I didn't mean to creep you out earlier I live in the house across the street over there I like watching you kids playing the leaves I was in shock hearing a stranger's voice outside my window I continued looking at the window and eventually the familiar face of that freak Oh from earlier came into view he reached his arm under my window pushed it up further as he attempted to climb into my window when he realized he couldn't fit it seemed he started to try to reach for me I screamed for my dad and ran upstairs to his room I tugged him out of his bed and led him to my window the man was already gone but I told him he lived in the house across the street in the dead end my dad charged over to the house with me banged on the door but the man didn't answer so my dad called the cops and when they came he took me back to the house with the police and this time with the police the man opened the front door and it was in fact the same man I was too young to be able to tell but the police and my dad picked up on it right away that he was on something likely crystal meth is what my dad says I remember looking into the house from the doorway and seeing that it was an absolute pigsty thinking back now it would fit the description for the home of a meth head perfectly all those years living there we were none the wiser that there was a creepy meth head living in that disheveled house apparently watching my friends and I as we would play [Music] this past October I was talking to this girl I met at a party a month prior for the purpose of the story she'll be names Nikki we had been talking and hanging out like once a week for a few weeks she wanted to do a bunch of October activities so I came up with the idea that we go apple picking she loved it so we hopped in the car to take a trip to the nearest apple picking orchard which was about a half hour drive away out of the suburbs the more rural part of the area we live in Jersey so there's an abundance of places to go but I let her pick where it said we were still about 20 minutes away and we were driving down a scenic road with little to no traffic we actually passed what appeared to be another apple orchard so he turned down this dirt road up to a small wooden farm like house but there were no cars no people not even a little stand where people would go to pay to enter it seemed it wasn't open for business or maybe it just wasn't open to the public at all the house was very poorly kept it almost looked as though nobody lived there as we walked around the property Nikki said she felt uncomfortable so he got back in the car and continued the route to the originally planned destination however when we got there this one was also void of people though this one at least had a closed sign at the stand I told her what if we went back to that first orchard that looked almost abandoned and just go picking there we'd have the whole place to ourselves at first she was hesitant but I convinced her so I drove us back and found a low-key place to park on the grass by the woods we walked through the crushing leaves on the dirt path we were trying to be discreet that was out the window there was a little wooden fence we had to hop but it was easy once inside we were hidden by the symmetrical rows of thick apple trees but our feet were also covered in tall grass up to our shins we started walking down the row of trees filling the plastic bags we brought from my car with the best apples we could find though admittedly there weren't many there was a certain thrill in doing this knowing we weren't supposed to we had some fun with it I was launching apples up in the air and then I would start pretending like I was going to throw apples at Nicki she started screaming running off telling me to stop she cut through a couple trees to another row and when he got to the other side I didn't see her where are you I said she called back I'm picking my own apples and she actually sounded like she was a few rows over I apologized laughing telling her I'd stopped but she didn't answer I spent a few minutes trying to find her and suddenly an apple landed right in front of me which had been tossed from one of the rows nearby and another one landed close by I yelled stop because I was actually afraid of getting hit in the head and I ran through a couple trees and each row I'd pass I'd look left and right trying to find Nicki I went down this row I went through the first couple of trees I could fit through to get to the next side I looked left and I actually felt like my heart watched up into my throat because there was some guy a young guy like 18 or 19 year old with long black hair to his shoulder standing in the center of the row maybe five trees away from me it looked like he had a slight smirk on his face he didn't move so I did I squeezed through to the next row and then the next then Nicki called my phone I picked up in a hurry whispered where are you she sounded like she was in a panic she set into the phone there was a creepy guy following her around she tried talking to him but he wouldn't say anything and he looked like he wanted to hurt her and her description of him matched the guy I just saw I told her to meet me back at the car I ran the way back and Nicki was already waiting at the car we stopped to discuss what just happened but Nicky yelled there he is appointed in front of us I looked and I could see him he was half hidden by an apple tree could only see his left arm left leg in half his face the way he was just creepily spying on us I had to get us away I did a three-point turn off the grass onto the dirt road we passed the decrepit barn lake house and got back on the road we talked over possibilities maybe he lived there we passed by a fruit stand on the side of the road with a few people working on it Nicky and I lost our Apple bags so we figured we'd at least stop here we picked up some apples and berries and I just had to ask them about the apple orchard down the road the two ladies work in the fruit stand proclaimed nobody should ever go anywhere near there the owner's son had killed his girlfriend and then disappeared the body was found near the orchard in the forest the dad still owns the orchard to this day but he hardly ever returns and doesn't keep up with the police he practically jumped in their faces as we asked them to describe the son but they had never seen him and don't know anything about him admitted to them that we went apple picking on the property and some creepy young man was following us the two women said that it was best that we got out of there when we did they also kind of scolded us for not calling the police however one of the ladies said she was going to warn the police on the drive home his Nicky spoke to me about it everything she said really went in one ear and out the other because I really thought to myself he actually run face-to-face with a missing murderer in an apple orchard I still get chills wondering if that guy is still out there in that orchard

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Length: 16min 43sec (1003 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 09 2019