Strange Photos
Strange Photos is a scary story about a boy who is terrified of a picture he finds in an old book.
Charles found the old book when he was 12 years old. It was stuck in behind an old bookcase in the attic of his house. The cover of the book was missing and so were some of the pages inside. It was a book of frightening ghost stories but without the cover, Charles could never been sure if the stories were real or just made up.
Lying in bed at night, Charles would read the stories quietly to himself. They terrified him, but for some reason, he couldn’t stop himself from reading each one again and again. His heart would be pounding and his breath would catch in his throat, yet he still felt unable to put the book down.
There was only one illustration in the book, a solitary strange photograph in the middle pages. Charles could never bear to look at it. Something about the photo unnerved him but he found himself string at it for hours. He never understood why the photograph held such a strange fascination for him.
There was nothing in the picture that should cause him such fear and dread. It merely showed an empty metal staircase leading down into darkness. Could it be the fear of something or someone lurking in the darkness? Perhaps it was the fact that the rusty metal steps looked as if they were covered in blood.
For some reason, the photo terrified him so much that he finally reached breaking point. He ripped it out of the book and threw it in the trash. Charles thought that would be the end of it, but he found that he was unable to get the picture out of his mind.
When he fell asleep at night, he would see the empty metal staircase in his nightmares and he always woke up drenched in a cold sweat. The strange photo haunted him for years. As he got older, he would often be reminded of the photo and then the nightmares would start again. It was as if what he had seen in the photo could never be unseen.
Walking home from college one night, Charles took a shortcut through a dark alleyway and came upon a scene that seemed all too familiar to him. Up ahead, he could see the same rusty metal staircase that had haunted his dreams for so many years.
Charles felt a chill go up his spine and he had the sudden urge to flee. But his curiosity got the better of him. He had to find out why the staircase had disturbed him so much.
Charles approached the staircase cautiously, staring down into the darkness that lay below. In his terror, his mind began to recognize strange shapes in the pitch black. He could hear odd sounds and moans coming from underground.
As Charles stood at the top ofmthe stairs, he began shaking with fear. He was about to turn and leave when he heard something strange. A whisper or a low groan. He looked down and started screaming.
I want to die!!!! Thats soooo scary!!! The-the picture!
that was a scary story……………… thats all i can say
that was gross this aint scary its wierd and i dont have nightmares i dont really dream
ahh..okay. i got it. at first i was actually staring at the white blurry image at the middle of it then i was frightened of what will i read and see next. then i saw what the picture what was really been pionting out. it was a person who was traped? i don’t really know,but the pic really creeped me out
Oh geez, nightmares for a week!!!
EYEZ EYEZ EYEZ EYEZ EYEZ EYZ EYEZ EYEZ EYEZ EYEZ EYEZ EYEZ
OOH NOEZ i know i’ve seen this before but when i read the story and look at the picture i was like brrrrr mah bones be chilled
it was ok i was freaker out at the image but the story freaked me out 2 and some of it didnt make sence
I have this photo hanging in my house.when i first got it from my grandmother,i knew there was some missing message.i asked my grandmother were she got it,and she replied “i found it next to area the photo shows”.A day later i noticed the eyes under the staircase.i went back to my grandmothers and asked why the’re are a matching pair of eyes.she didnt now.the same day i found out the photo was in a newspaper saying a guy named charle was kled their 5 years ago.aparently a psycho was hidden under there waiting for people to come.i found out where the location was and i went there.what i found was a skeleton with a kitchen knife in its chest with blood on it and ripped up clothing.
True Story about my life.
Omq i juss freiken noticed the eyes!!!!!!!!! SCARY!
thats the scariest picture ive ever seen in my life on everything
OMG…i stared at this pictures for an hour and i just noticed the eyes…this creeped me out..this is SCARY!!!!!
:0 that was so freaking creepy!
makes you think, are you looking at the picture or is the picture looking at you?
The eyes…whats so scary about them? My FRIEND even looks scarier then that.Sure, those are eyes. But who’s are they? Where did they come from? Is it a witch? Is it Charles imagination? Is it a dream?
EYESEYESEYESEYESEYES!!!!!
OMG SCARY!!!!!!!!
SO FREAKIN SCARY I WILL NOT SLEEP FOR A WEEK!!!
(im on vaca anyway)
wat is it?
omg
i
just
noticed
the
eyes
scary
!
!
me either no matter how scary something is i just like seeing and discovering more abbout it
When you see it you’ll s**t bricks.
SUPER CREEPY MY HEART IS POUNDING LIKE CRAZY! AAH!
Ahhhhhh!! So scary! If you look close enough in the first pic its there too. EEEEEEWWWW
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
EYES!!
OMFG!
it does look like their is blood on the stairs and those
eyes
bloody hell… I didn’t realise what was so scary until I saw the eyes… I think I just soiled myself
Scary and the pictures are even more scarier !!
OH MY GOD!!!! Creepy.
that is soooo gross i thought the stairs were corvered in blood…ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
wow i did notexpect tht tht scared me sooo bad
lol i dont get it
I was looking at that image on the top like “oohh, whats so scary about that light?” I looked all around it to find something hiding, but i couldnt. I noticed that crack in the floorboard, but i thought those were just cement rocks! Then…in the end…*shivers* EYEZZZZ!!
Wow i think i just sh*t myself. BTW if you cant see it, its where the crack in the cement is before the rusted stairs.
i skipped at beat when i saw the eyes):
Im confused, whers the eyes?
oh lovely, MORE nightmares! i already get them on a regular basis!!
ok tht was not scary at all. not even creepy.