With Spooktober finally here and Halloween right around the corner, it’s officially time to start carving pumpkins, work on your costume, and, of course, brush up on your storytelling skills – some would argue that there is no better time for scary stories than this.

If you’re more fearful of not having enough stories to tell, rather than the stories themselves, you’re in luck, as today we’re shedding light on quite a few of them. Scroll down to find some terrifying tales, as shared by the ‘Scary Stories’ Instagram account, on the list below and expand your selection of chilling accounts to scare your friends and family with this spooky season.

Below you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with a behavioral scientist at the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark and in the Psychology Department at Arizona State University, Dr. Coltan Scrivner, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about why people like scary stories.

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Just a boring person
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So who's the small child if it's not Robert?

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    Libstak
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    1 year ago

    That's more intriguing than scary but you would have to play it with complete silence imo as your only other available sense is now hearing.

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    1 year ago

    Really, hope whoever comes up with this stupid idea get arrested and fired. That is invasion to priorities.

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    Libstak
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    1 year ago

    This is an opportunity for an underwater breathing apparatus that does not require you to carry an oxygen tank imo, hope someone figures out how to synthetically create that net.

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    Dzessa Golden
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    1 year ago

    Damn impressive. Helluva yogi!

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    Tiffany Sauter
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    1 year ago

    That's kind of cool.

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    John Nelson
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    1 year ago

    I'm old enough to remember the TV ads reminding people of the danger and to remove the doors from any old refrigerators they were disposing of.

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    1 year ago (edited)

    Alot of care shown there. Must be great respect or a whole lot of love by the people applying that.

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    1 year ago

    The murders, a nazi terrorist group. The victims (except the last one, who was a policewoman) were all immirants, mostly from Turkey (one or two from Greece). They were shot in the middle of day in their self-owned shops. I am so truely ashamed to say that for YEARS, German police did not suspect rascist motivation, even when the families and immigrant communites got the message. Instead, police suspected the victims were part of organised d**g crimes and therefore assisinated by some mafia groups, and kept questioning the families about their dead father's criminal businesses. They killed a total of 10 people in 7 cities and only got caught after setting their camping van on fire. The two men died, the women survived and was convicted to life sentence. It is likely that not all supporters/criminals have been detected.

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    1 year ago

    On the next episode of "Nope Rope Island"...

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    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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    1 year ago

    Kathy Bates is really good at portraying characters that are just off. I expect in real life, she's a very nice person.

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    Aroace tiger (she/they/he)
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    1 year ago

    Split is so good!! Theres 3 films in the series and tou have to watch em all, the other 2 are called unbreakable and glass. Cannot remember the order u gotta watch em

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    glowworm2
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    1 year ago (edited)

    If your mirror has a monster in it do not shout. This kind of situation does not call for freaking out. And do nothing that you would not like to see him do. Cause that monster in the mirror, he just might be you!

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    1 year ago

    You missed out that he MURDERED women to make it, for f***s sake!

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    Beak Hookage
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    1 year ago

    Just call it "the hot hole challenge" or something equally stupid and people will be falling all over themselves to do it for internet clout.

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    Never miss a story that brings joy to the world. Add us on Google

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    Farah the Turtle
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    1 year ago

    wtf

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    Dzessa Golden
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    1 year ago

    Kid’s first name was Tyler. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyler-hadley-who-killed-his-parents-at-17-then-threw-party-sentenced-to-life/

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    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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    1 year ago

    Personally, I'm ok with him not getting his spaghetti-o's.

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    Tempest
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    1 year ago

    The Earth’s butthöle

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    Kate
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    1 year ago

    That's right! Everytime I look in the mirror, all I see is my mom!

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    Weasel Wise
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    1 year ago

    I get to deal with sleep paralysis as a symptom of my ptsd. It super sucks being trapped in a nightmare, unable to move, while hearing and feeling my husband trying to wake me. It's terrifying.

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    1 year ago

    There's an episode of Hannibal based around this.

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    1 year ago

    The first thing I thought of was the gom jabbar.

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    Dzessa Golden
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    1 year ago

    Not long enough.

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    SkyBlueandBlack
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    1 year ago

    Which is why it's believed that syphilis is a New World disease. The conquistadors brought smallpox and measles, and returned with syphilis.

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    Veronica Jean
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    1 year ago

    ...wtf this is fifteen min from where I live?!?!

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    Argle Bargle
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    1 year ago

    Where else was he supposed to keep them?

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    Tempest
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    1 year ago

    Looks like those £2000 per month apartment units that get advertised now.

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    Beak Hookage
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    1 year ago

    I read a book about her and the whole thing was just appalling from beginning to end. The kid was being subjected to horrendous abuse at home. Then she murdered those two little boys and afterwards smilingly asked one of the bereaved mothers if she could please see the victim in his coffin. She was also aided by another young girl who seems to have been drawn in by her and who after their arrest acted like you'd expect a child that age to act, crying and terrified. Mary, on the other hand, was eerily calm and told all sorts of elaborate lies to try and get herself off the hook. She was eventually set free as an adult and even had a child of her own.

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    1 year ago

    No. They were more concerned about overdosing little babies than managing their pain.

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    The guillotine was meant to be merciful. Before its invention, people were beheaded by axes that weren't always the sharpest. Sometimes it would take several minutes of hacking by the executioner. With the guillotine, one slice and you're done.

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    1 year ago (edited)

    Bean disproved.....

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    worse it's also covered in giant spiders

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    Pretty good movie. Make sure to watch it in Spanish with subtitles (if needed).

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    1 year ago

    Statistics like this rarely mean anything. I'm reminded of a news report stating that prisoners with surnames beginning with M were more likely to reoffend. Guess where the survey was taken? Scotland.

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    Katie Everswick
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    Sleep paralysis?

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    Ariom Dahl
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    1 year ago

    Now that one was creepy.

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    Barry
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    1 year ago

    Religion is so stupid

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    Hugh Crawford
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    1 year ago

    So the film she used up during the day, some how got an extra photo on them, taken at night, after it was taken out of the camera...? Maybe update this scary story with a digital camera. Would make more sense

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    Rebelliousslug
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    1 year ago

    This description is ridiculously inadequate. Her and her boyfriend that she was hooked on d***s with, killed the two girls along with their boyfriends, one of which was suspected of dealing d***s. The way the murders took place was quite disturbing. And the state they found her in when they finally went to arrest her was equally appalling.

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    1 year ago

    Bull puckey

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    But you managed to get out to write this story? :-/

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    G A
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    1 year ago

    Well, who is it then? What have the photos got to do with anything?

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    Geoffrey Scott
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    If it has never happened before or since, ok. My daughter used to sleepwalk when she was younger. She and her husband were staying over once, she crawled into bed with me(wife sleeps in other room), she still sleepwalks apparently, at 36. Had no recollection.

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    Melissa Harris
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    1 year ago (edited)

    Did you live near a body of water? If so it was a heron.

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    Even AI couldn't write this badly

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    The Big Bad
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    1 year ago

    So he was murdered...

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    1 year ago

    Lame

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    I thought it was them...suddenly it's WE?

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    Sunsfever83
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    I don't think Hasbro really has a gateway to hell that they mass produce. This is why religion is so dangerous. It has people believing in things that are not real. Delusional, sick people.

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    If you try and retell a well known story, at least get the basic facts straight.

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    Fiction again

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    G A
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    Try looking up 'tihsllub.com'

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    Sunsfever83
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    So you take a 3 year old outside and leave them? And because you didn't see anyone trying to take him, all is good?

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    Omg this video terrified me when i was like 7 i couldn't sleep after watching this😞

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