Short Scary Stories

Behind the walls

Eddie Goodman just moved into a suburban house with his wife, Misty. They were very nice and intelligent people. Once they had moved and settled in, they immediately began hearing knocking behind the walls. They brushed it aside as an echo at first, but after a month of it, they decided it was something else. 

Misty went to the local library and searched up many possibilities. She couldn't find any reasonable answer for their problem. They endured it for a long time. 

One day, their friend Jordan came to stay with them for awhile. Every morning, he would complain about knocking in the walls. Misty and Eddie told him about what had been happening. That day, Jordon got on his laptop and searched up the history of the house. 

He had found out that in 1582, there was a family that had lived there. They were all insane. One day the boy had found a voodoo book. He had flipped to a page that would bury all of them inside of the walls. He took it up to his family and told them that the spell would give them fame and fortune if they recited it. 

They followed along with what he said. They bought brown dust, lit a whole bunch of candles, and began to recite the spell. Immediately, claws came out of the walls and pulled them in, keeping them lost in their forever until they died. 

They now knock on the walls, begging for someone to let them out. If someone doesn't answer after five months, whoever resides in that house will die. Jordon got up and ran to go tell Misty and Eddie. What he didn't know is Misty was in the middle of mopping the kitchen floor. As Jordon ran through the kitchen, he slipped, fell, and cracked his head open on the edge of the counter, dying instantly. 

They held a funeral for him. It had already been three months of the knocking in the walls. Misty and Eddie decided to call the landlord and ask him what happened in that house. The landlord knew what had happened, but was forced to not to tell anyone about it, so he kept his mouth shut. 

On the forth month, going on fifth month of the knocking in the walls, the landlord came and locked all of the doors and windows of their house. When Misty woke up that morning to check the mail, she couldn't get out. They called the cops, but all they heard was breathing on the other line. Misty and Eddie went into their bedroom and prayed. 

At midnight, it was the fifth month. They had dozed off to sleep in their bed and woke up the very loud knocking. They began to hug each other and kiss. Then, both of them saw a tall, black figure come up to their doorway. His eyes were glowing red and he began to approach them. 

Eddie picked up the lamp and tried to hit the dark figure, but the lamp just bounced off of it and broke against the wall. The figure grabbed Eddie by the head and ripped it off in one motion. He tore Eddie's body into tiny pieces then threw them at Misty. 

Misty backed up into the corner and cried. She tried to open the window but it wouldn't budge. She began to bang on the window, but the dark figure grabbed Misty by the legs and dragged her across the room and into the wall. Ripped pieces of her body flew out as her screams filled the house. 

The next day, the landlord came to the house and cleaned it up, making it look new and clean. He put the house back up for sale and waited for more business.