9 Scary Campfire Stories (Slideshow)

Two sisters were traveling when they ran into bad weather in Cape Cod and their car broke down. Looking for shelter from the storm, the pair walked up to an abandoned house and decided to wait until the morning for a tow. During the middle of the night, they were awoken by a glowing figure of a seaman by the non-working fireplace. Thinking they were dreaming the sisters went back to sleep. When they awoke, they found seaweed and salt water by the fireplace. They eventually got a tow into town and discovered the home they were sleeping in actually was owned by a man who drowned. When a stranger offered to send the seaweed to a museum for analysis, the results were bone-chilling...

The sisters later went to a dinner party where they met a museum curator who offered to test the seaweed they had found. Days later, they received a note that said that it was a rare seaweed that only grew on dead bodies.

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This story tells the shuddering tale of a young girl alone in the house with a leaky faucet. The story goes that her parents bought her a dog before they left and the young girl allowed the dog to sleep next to her bed for protection. The night she was left alone, a leaky faucet caused her to wake up several times, checking the bathroom and finding the dripping faucet that would stop. Each time she returned to her bed, she'd place her hand over the side of the bed for a reassuring lick on her hand from her furry protector. After getting up several more times to find no leaky faucet, she heard the noise coming from her closet. She opened the door to a horrific scene...

Her dead dog's blood dripping with the super creepy words written on the wall "humans can lick, too!"

A woman who was desperately hungry went searching for food in the woods. All she found was a missing hairy toe. In her desperation, she cooked the hairy toe and made hairy toe soup which she ended up loving. Unfortunately, the owner of the hairy toe returned for it, and in its absence took the old woman instead leaving behind a dusty footprint... with a missing toe.

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When a couple heads to Lover's Lane for a little alone time, a scary broadcast comes across the radio. It warns listeners of a killer on the loose slaying victims with a hook and the young woman in the car becomes frightened and asks her boyfriend to take them home. The two fight about this until he finally gives up and drives her home, but not before hearing and awful screech as they pulled away. When the couple arrives home, they discovered a hook lodged in the passenger door. 

As the Great Depression took its toll on a small town, a man who owned small shop was visited by an old woman with two empty milk bottles. She put them on the counter in exchange for two full ones. When the shop owner asked for the 10 cents it cost to refill them, she walked away. The shop owner, being a compassionate man, let it go seeing the desperation on her face. She returned the next day and the day after that. Finally the shop owner asked her if she wanted a job and she took off running with the milk bottles. The owner watched her run past the town to the graveyard where she disappeared into the ground. He ran to the stone where she vanished and heard a muffled crying under the stone. Soon the graveyard was overrun with policemen and they frantically dug up the grave. In the coffin they unearthed the woman who visited the shop, who was dead and clutching two milk bottles. Nestled next to her was something that made every person present scream bloody murder...

A very much alive baby, crying for more milk.

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There was a woman who offered to give a ride to a stranger with a briefcase, although she was in a hurry to pick up her daughter. When she and her hitchhiker stopped at a rest stop, he mysterious passenger took too long in the restroom, and in her haste she drove off with the briefcase in her backseat. She forgot all about it until she picked up her daughter. When she saw the briefcase she opened it in hope of finding the man's information — but instead she found...

A large knife and a roll of duct tape.

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The tale goes that there was a young girl who always wore a yellow ribbon around her neck. A boy, with whom she had been friends for years, begged and begged her every day to take the ribbon off, and the girl refused. They went through life together, married, and even had children. When the girl was an old woman, lying on her death bed, she told her beloved husband he could remove the ribbon...

As he untied the ribbon, her old head rolled off of her shoulders to the floor.

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This story is about a veterinarian who visited MacPherson's farm. During their visit, they noticed a pig with three artificial legs walking around. When they asked about the pig, the farmer said that the pig has, on multiple occasions, saved family member's lives. The vet still didn't understand why the pig had three artificial legs so he asked again. 

The farmer replied... that the pig was too good to eat all at once.

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This story follows a family that owns a meat packing plant in rural America. Legend has it that the owner's children were brutally killed by their uncle by being fed through a meat grinder. The owner, so stricken with grief, took his own life in the meat cooler. After being reopened many years later, workers say they still see two children running around the warehouse.

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