Sleepovers hold a special place in our memories, don't they? They're a time when young hearts gather, giggles echo through the night, and friendships are forged in the cozy glow of shared secrets.
Join me on a journey through some heartwarming sleepover tales, where innocence and camaraderie reign supreme. These stories are sure to warm your heart and remind you of the magic that comes with spending a night in the company of cherished friends.
1. The Haunting Truth Behind Closed Doors
My first time staying at a friend’s house was when I was about ten or so. I moved around a lot as a kid, so we were “new” friends and I didn’t know her that well.
Her stepdad came in to say goodnight and gave her a big long hug. She went really quiet and then told me she was glad I was staying over.
A few weeks later, she didn’t come to school on Monday. Tuesday night on the news, they reported a man had been arrested for sleeping with a minor, and named the fairly short street she lived on.
She didn’t come back to school. We moved again a few months later and I never saw her again. I still remember the look on her face after he hugged her. As a child, I didn’t understand, but as an adult looking back, it makes me stabby.
voxetpraetereanihill
2. The rundown slumber party
When I was in 6th grade a girl had a slumber party for her birthday. There were maybe 5 or 6 of us girls at her house. Their house was kind of run down and the parents didn't give a damn what we did and they were constantly sore. Just..was just an interesting environment.
She had two younger brothers (3rd grade maybe) who also had some friends who were girls (the same age) over for the night.
I walked downstairs and they had one of the boys' did something silly and the girls were playing with him.
They tried to do something that was meant for adults.
I was so shocked because of course I am only in 6th grade and haven't been exposed to stuff like this before. I went and told the birthday girl who just laughed it off. Super weird…
holla_at_cho_boi69
3. The Weed, the Den, and the Awkward Blanket Incident
Spent the night for the first time at a friend's house with another friend. Both were great guys, but later in the night, after we smoked weed, we went out to his den to watch TV. I'm on the armchair, both of them on the loveseat.
They toss my blanket and grab one themselves. He turns on addiction and they both proceed to beat their meat under the same blanket, and, since it was my first time getting high I just stared, flabbergasted at what was happening.
So I told them I had to go do it in the bathroom for privacy, but I just sat on the toilet for like an hour and went back outside when I heard the TV change to something else.
Not creepy, but their complete and total assumption I would partake with them felt strange to me.
Bross93
4. The Tale of the Pajama-obsessed Intruder
When I was about 11 or 12, I got invited over with maybe 5 other girls for a sleepover. Everything was normal until the middle of the night. We're all sitting in her bedroom with the door closed when somebody starts pounding on the door.
I mean I thought it was going to break off its hinges. We're dead quiet for a minute, and then some dude starts screaming "Let me in! I want to see your pajamas!"
A friend said she knew who it was, opened the door, and told him to back off. Turned out it was her (single) mom's friend (freaking buddy). he had come over at some point, they got drunk, and he decided it would be fun to scare the freak out of us since we didn't know he was there.
The pajama comment was still creepy though.
Nefarious__Nebula
5. The Curious Incident of Brandon and the Easy Cheese
We were all around 17, at my dude's b-day party. Everybody was drinking and smoking, having a good time, when we noticed this kid Brandon had gone missing.
We thought maybe he had passed out somewhere. Checked the whole house and yard, but nothing.
A few of us grabbed flashlights and went into the woods, and after a few minutes, we found him, pantsless against a tree, jacking off and using a can of Easy Cheese for lube.
I still don't know if it was just a weird drunk impulse he had, or if this was a normal thing for him, but he was known as a Cheese freak for years.
spiderlanewales
6. A Crash, a Broom, and a Giggle
When I was 8 I had my friend come over for a sleepover. She was sleeping and I was watching TV and randomly my bed fell apart and we fell onto the ground.
Funnily enough, she didn’t even wake up. I shook her arm and woke her up and she was as confused as I was. We then heard a noise outside my door, y'know that noise when you flip through a book really fast? and it makes that smacking sound?
Well, that’s what it sounded like. It all happened in what felt like 30 seconds. When we heard that we were freaked out, I ran to the door and grabbed the broom (which was right next to the light switch. I'm an idiot) and I flicked the switch with the end of the broomstick.
We ended up moving the mattress off the thing it sits on and slept on it on the floor.
crustinajones
7. Pizza, Games, and a Mysterious Sprinter
I was staying over at a friend's house with others around junior year of high school. We were upstairs in his room, just eating pizza and playing games, when the friend hosting us started staring out the window.
We turned the TV and made the room quiet and we heard someone wailing. It didn't sound like anyone in pain or fear, just someone screaming. Keep in mind this was at 1 in the morning and on a dead-end street with only one functioning street light post.
We're all looking out the window at this point and hear the wailing getting closer to the entrance of the street. With the minuscule amount of light, there was, we all saw a silhouette of a super tall guy sprinting like a deer across the sidewalk.
The wailing faded the farther the guy ran away. We ended up staying up until 6 a.m. because we were too spooked to sleep.
SheZowRaisedbyWolves
8. The Forbidden VHS Tape That Haunted Our Dreams
In 5th grade (this was the 80s), I spent the night at my friend Janine’s house.
We found a VHS tape from her stepdad’s collection and watched an entire addictive movie called Sleeping with Capades. We were horrified and fascinated.
The next morning, her mom asked if we stayed up watching a movie. Janine told her we’d watched The Last Starfighter.
Tinyahjumma
9. Surviving a Night of Madness
It was my birthday sleepover. Everything was going semi-normal till about 11. My mother and baby sister were trying to sleep while my friend chased us around the house threatening to kill us.
We are very creeped out. My mom and baby sister somehow slept through this. She said “It’s a game, calm down omg,” multiple times.
She’s holding a knife from when we cut the cake at this point and my other non-psycho friend and I are hiding in the downstairs closet.
Thankfully some sort of switch flipped in her brain and she said “Come on guys, games over, let’s go sleep”. This was one of the only times I have ever been threatened with a knife. We honestly thought she’d kill us that night.
MidnightTonight
10. The Chilling Ouija Board Experience That Left Me Questioning the Afterlife!
My stepsister’s birthday party when we were like... 11 or 12 probably. We made a fake Ouija board out of a piece of paper and a deodorant cap. The “spirit” said it was my grandpa, who had died when I was 2.
My mom and stepdad didn’t get married until I was 6 so my stepsister and her friends *definitely* didn’t know anything about my grandpa.
I didn’t know that much either. I asked what his middle initial was and it said K. I went upstairs and asked my mom what Papa’s middle name was and she said “Kenny.”
It was probably just a coincidence but it scared the hell out of a 12-year-old me.
BlNGPOT
11.CB Radio Nightmare
We were 8-9 years old back in the mid-90s and for whatever reason one of the kids got a CB radio from his dad and we all took turns getting to use it and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Anyways a group of us were spending the night with my buddies on the same street. It's late and we all decide to get on the CB and see what's going on. We got to a channel and we heard this faint talking in the background and we called out "Breaker breaker"
This weird-sounding voice answers "Go ahead breaker" We all kind of look at each other and respond "How's it going tonight" and the guy on the other end just starts mumbling and then yells out all of my friend's names in the room and who our parents are and where we live and proceeds to start laughing and tells us to be careful.
Now for you all who grew up post social media, people having access to your information was uncommon and we were startled and a couple of the kids were nearly in tears. We talked to everyone's parents and they were equally as startled.
Found out about 10 years ago it was my dad screwing with us...he had completely forgotten about it until one of my buddies brought it up.
Manners_Bro
12. Bubble Baths and Unwanted Scrubbing
When I was in second grade (about 7 or 8 years old), I went to a girl's birthday sleepover. After playing outside, the girl's mother bathed all of us, two at a time in the bathtub.
I remember telling her that I had already taken a bath that morning, but she insisted that since we played outside, we HAD to have a bath, and she made sure it was done right.
Pretty traumatizing honestly. We were old enough to bathe ourselves if she wanted us to bathe that badly.
Dandelionhearts
13. From Truth or Dare to a Hilariously Bizarre Serenade with a Wine Bottle
Went to spend the night at my cousin's place. His younger sister had three friends over, too. So there was me, him, and four girls, all around 14-15.
At about 1 in the morning we all sneaked out to go sit in the RV they had parked in the backyard.
Of course, a Truth or Dare game started up. Long story short, one of the girls wound up standing in the backline undressed at 2:30 am, freaking herself with the neck of an empty wine bottle and singing "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands" at the top of her lungs. The kicker is, that it was dared by one of the girls.
thudly
14. Closet Chronicles
Sleeping over, the dude heard his dad coming and made me hide in the closet and told me not to make a sound.
Whatever transpired outside that closet sounded normal enough, then the dad left.
I've told this before, and I don't know if the kid was abused or in what way, but I swear to god whatever that dad did other times was something really bad and just that little situation still bothers me when I think about it.
billbapapa
15. Locked Doors and Sleepwalking Nightmares
When I was seven I went to a sleepover at a friend's house who had a little brother. We all played together and had a lot of fun until bedtime when her parents proceeded to get her little brother into bed and then locked his door from the outside. The mom just looked at my confused face and said as casual as pie
“Oh don’t worry. He sometimes sleepwalks around the house and we don’t want him turning the stove on again.”
I never slept over at that friend's house again.
Lark1987
16. When a Rabbit's Scream Echoed
I grew up in a tiny ass white-bread mountain town. Think South Park on TV, but actually that small. I lived out in the woods. We were wandering around at night in a run-down old abandoned house. Made it to the attic, and there was a hole in the wall.
We were walking towards the hole, on the opposite side of the house from the stairs. Our only exit was out the hole and down two floors, or the stairs.
Cue a loud crash, a rustle, a growl, two floating green eyes, and the most blood-curdling death scream you've ever heard in your life.
So the crash was something downstairs being pushed over by my dog I didn't know what followed us. The rustle was a rabbit, I assume, you'll see that in a moment. The growl was my dog being a frightened freak (like us), the eyes were...my dog's eyes.
The scream. Oh sweet freaking Jesus the scream. It was a rabbit getting nailed by a predator - hence my assumption on the rustle. That, only panic and death instead of "Oh freak water."
And yeah, hell yeah, I freaked myself. But freak you if you think you wouldn't.
Khaoselement
17. Cockroach nightmare
I come from a pretty poor family. But my parents didn't work, we lived off disability and food stamps. I knew we were below average. But one day I spent the night at a good friend's house and realized I was much better off than I thought.
It's like she lived in a garbage dump.
I swear, her parents never threw away anything. And I don't mean like hoarders... I mean like garbage and food.
I don't think I saw where a wall met a floor anywhere in the house. The place was *infested* with cockroaches. Like, millions... I didn't sleep. I was afraid they'd crawl on me. I never went back.
And while I was never ungrateful about my family's situation before, it put things in perspective. At least my parents *cleaned*.
Crilbyte
18. Confronting the Clock Phantom
I was sleeping at a cousin's house in the living watching TV when the episode of Family Guy played
It's the one where Brian and Stewie got stuck in a bank and when the episode ended the credits roll was just silence.
When the credits were rolling I looked to my right and I saw someone standing behind a bar-like thing peeking over looking at me, all in black.
I freaked out and tried to make it out and then realized that it was a clock sticking out that looked like a head and a microwave in the wall that was a bit too big to fit so it was also sticking out.
I realized this and calmed down a little but when I turned to the TV from the corner of my eye it still looked like a person watching me. I haven't slept there since but might go back over.
Sekanireddit
19. Bleeding Ears and Pokemon Cards
When I was 9 or so my friend had a sleepover for his birthday. Late in the afternoon, we were playing Pokemon cards when his little sister came in to annoy us. As she ran off to go play somewhere else I found a ring on the floor.
A little while later the adults noticed that her ear was bleeding pretty badly.
Turns out the "ring" was her earring, which had been ripped out (I think she got it caught on the door).
Somehow she didn't notice and had been bleeding for that whole time (I'm still not sure how she didn't notice considering it tore her earlobe open and she needed stitches).
Deltajimm
20. Blonde Boy, Red Eyes
While I was living with my grandmother one day I was having a sleepover at a friend's house who also happened to live next door.
I was playing under the blankets and when I popped my head out of one side I saw this blonde kid with pure red eyes staring down at me. As a kid and this being the first kind of supernatural or vivid hallucination I've ever had I hid back under the blanket and moved to the side my friend was on.
This wasn't the last time something like this happened in his house. The second time was less menacing and instead of a blonde boy it was a girl with light brown hair and she was simply walking out of the room.
I have a theory as to the identity of both that boy and the girl but I'll never know for sure I never did any proper research on that house.
AkumaEzekiel
21. A Birthday Party Turned Mysterious
I was at this sleepover party when I was about 11. It was my friend's birthday. At about midnight, his father left us to go to work.
He worked as a security guard on the graveyard shift somewhere.
Not less than 20 minutes after he left, another guy showed up at the door, and the mother of my friend told us to not say anything.
Now I am 11. But I wasn't stupid. We all knew what was going on. No one said a whole lot after that happened.
Daa_hoovaa
22. Blankets, Buddies, and Things That Go Bump in the Night
This happened to me about 5 years ago when I was in school after a long day of lessons. My good buddy Jeff at that time asked me to come over and stay, play games all night, and eat junk food! That was always something we'd do and it was great.
After hours of hard-core gaming and Doritos we ended up in the living room where Jeff grabbed the blankets for him and me, he slept on one couch and I was on the other and that was when I fell asleep, minutes later I woke up to something touching my knee.
I was frustrated I told Jeff to get back onto his couch before I beat the freak out of him (he used to wake up and either scare me or just freak around to piss me off).
I looked up to shout at him but noticed through the darkness that nothing was near me, shaken I looked beside my couch and there was nothing I could literally make out him sleeping across the room and for some odd reason I called his name out just to make sure he's actually over there and shortly after I saw him turn over.
OK now I'm freaking out because I took my knee out from under the blanket to make sure it wasn't the blanket itself causing that feeling but as I did this I could literally felt cold and rough hand softly put its whole hand onto it.
I jumped up and went straight upstairs to the toilet and basically sat there for a couple of hours.
Hybridpacman
23. The Dark Side of a Birthday Celebration
I was at this guy's birthday party and he invited me to a sleepover. After everyone left he locked his door and got a military flashlight and a camera.
The dude proceeded to interrogate me at very private/uncomfortable levels and every time I refused to answer, he'd hit me with the flashlight. He had to take a leak and lock the door on the way out, leaving me locked.
I didn't have a cellphone at the time ( I was 12, it was circa 2006) but he did have a phone there.
I left a desperate voicemail in my house and hoped for the best. It took my mom three hours to listen and go pick me up.
By the time she arrived, I was scared, bruised, and crying a freaking ton.
Also, there was no way to overpower that sicko, I was by no means small or weak (I probably had 170-180cm) but the dude was just enormous (he has gigantism, he had well over 200cm). It was one of the worst experiences of my life.
Justbronzestuff
24. The Cat, The Claw, and The Chaotic Night
I used to sleep over at my friend's house fairly frequently, like two or three nights a month.
One day, back when we were 10, we were coming back from a public pool when he saw a cat that looked rough, and being someone who always helped animals he said he had to check on it and help it.
So he goes over and tries to lure it to him, once it's close enough he grabs the cat and it loses it, the cat freaks out and claws my friend like crazy. My friend was bleeding quite a bit, so we rushed to his house and he cleaned his wounds and bandaged them, but he's kinda bleeding through them.
My friend is now lying on his bed groaning in pain and bleeding. I told him I was going to go find his parents, so I ran down the street and started checking all the restaurants and stores.
Eventually, I found them in a restaurant, and they were both asked. I tried to explain the whole situation to them, explaining again and again, but they were getting it.
Running back to my friend's house I checked on him, he was groaning and rolling around on his bed, still bleeding. helped and encouraged him more, gave him some water, and asked if he wanted me to call 9-1-1, but he insisted on calling 9-1-1.
So I went back down the street to his parents, explaining again the situation and that he needed help. Finally, they cave and slowly get up and stumble back to their house. But once they got in the house they just went into their bedroom and fell asleep.
I then try to comfort my friend more and ask about calling 9-1-1 again but he begs me not to. I tried calling my Dad to see if he'd help, but no answer at my house.
My friend asks if I'll play games so he can watch, so I play a PS1 game for a while until he falls asleep, it's now like 4 AM. I check on his parents but they're out cold, won't even wake when I try to wake them up.
I write a note about the whole situation and leave it outside their bedroom door on the floor. Then I leave the house and walk across town back to my house where I finally go to sleep.
My friend was okay, his parents eventually brought him to the hospital, he had to get a bunch of stitches and a cast type thing over it, he also needed to get a shot for rabies, and missed a month of school.
**TL;DR:** Went to a friend's place expecting a sleepover, but before we got to his house he got scratched up super bad by a cat. I tried to convince his parents he needed help but they were too drunk, and he did not want me to call 9-1-1. Hung out until he fell asleep and then I walked home.
Vegeton
25. A Middle School Sleepover Emergency
While in middle school I went to a friend's house for a sleepover. Her parents went for dinner.
My friend, her little brother, and I were the only people in the house when my friend had her first seizure. I called 911 and paramedics came but I couldn't find her parent's cell phone number to tell them what was going on.
As the ambulance pulled out of the driveway her parents drove up. I got a ride home with her dad and stayed up at home watching Life of Brian till they called me to let me know my friend was okay.
She wrote me a thank you note for calling the ambulance. It was uncomfortable.
Pailcat
26. The Prank Call Predicament
I was staying over at Elizabeth's house. I think we were in fifth grade. I was jealous of her because her family had money and my family was lower-middle class, so I was so excited to see her fancy house.
We let the teachers know I was going home with her (it was a Friday and my mom would pick me up early on Fridays) and we had a blast at her house dancing and playing games.
Elizabeth decided to prank call one of the guys in our class, Ian, and said she was another classmate, Lynne, and that he was invited to her house. She left a voicemail and soon after her, me, and her parents went out for dinner.
When we got back to her house, there was a message from Ian's mom accusing me of leaving a voicemail, although I didn't hear the message.
Elizabeth's dad told me to go into the family room and said he needed to talk to me. He accused me of making the phone call. I kept telling him I didn't do it and was crying. Elizabeth eventually came into the room and confessed. I didn't sleep well that night and I never slept over her house again.
degrassibabetjk
27. The Night of the Damp Bag
My mom got a new job and she was a member of our church. Her new boss had a son my age so they arranged for me and my brother to spend the night at her boss's house.
We set up sleeping bags in the living room that night. Right before going to bed, the son said, "Don't wet the bed" or something like that. So sure enough that night I decided I pee all over myself. I woke up warm and ashamed.
When we got back to her house, there was a message from Ian's mom accusing me of leaving a voicemail, although I didn't hear the message.
Elizabeth's dad told me to go into the family room and said he needed to talk to me. He accused me of making the phone call. I kept telling him I didn't do it and was crying. Elizabeth eventually came into the room and confessed. I didn't sleep well that night and I never slept over her house again.
degrassibabetjk
28. Popular Girls, Potty Breaks, and Unforgettable Embarrassment
I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, I had made friends with the "popular girls" and they had a birthday/sleepover I got invited. I was ecstatic, to say the least.
During the night time, we were all laying down on the bed and I was quite a shy kid at that time and had to use the restroom.
I laid there until I was nearly going to pee myself, gathered the courage to ask my friend where her bathroom was when another girl came up saying she had to go as well and would show me.
Well, we got into the bathroom and I insisted on going first but she ran to the toilet and then... It happened. I had my legs crossed and clenched as tight as possible, she got off the toilet and I tried to hobble over but unfortunately lost control.
Told the girl what happened she ran out laughing at all the other girls and I was utterly embarrassed.
I lay back down and the girl whose house it was asked if I had wet myself and I couldn't even talk. I had to use hand gestures to say yes. I was crying my damn eyes out. Never been more embarrassed to this day.
Wafflemunch
29. Sweat, Blood, and the Mysterious Disappearing Fan
My cousin(A) and I went to another cousin's(B) house to spend the night. We started gaming on his Xbox then we got tired, he gave us a fan and then a pillow/blanket.
We woke up sweating, I have dried blood around my nostrils, the fan was gone B is nowhere to be seen...we walked downstairs and were hit with a wall of frozen air, my B was lying there snuggled under a comforter next to the a/c.
We asked why he abandoned us upstairs and mentioned the heat and how sweaty we were. We walked back to A's house and B's (mom or dad) called A's mom and told her that we were rude and weren't allowed to come over.
I started getting stern talking and I stayed away from B's house for a few years, even during family events.
Fungi_Punisher_68
30. The Bed Swap Fiasco
I was young. I don't recall exactly how young. I think close to second grade if I had to make a guess.
At this age, I sometimes still sleep in my parent's bed with them when distressed, i.e. nightmares.
Anyway, when I was away from home I had a bit of severe homesickness when night time came around. The best I can describe it is separation anxiety and dread/sadness. I could never fall asleep. I think I got lost once when I was very young, so my biggest fear was being left behind at, let's say a department store. Instant weeping.
One time at a sleepover, when I woke in the morning, with absolutely no recollection or context, I was sleeping in the bed of my friend's parents. Right between them. I remembered waking up before either of them had, walked toward the stairwell and had a long sit down and legitimate thought. I think I grew up a bit that day, because I never slept in my parent's bed again, either.
Awkward as hell. I'm still uncomfortable thinking about it. But it's never been brought up. Until now.
storytimeme
31. A Tale of Turbulent Childhoods
Stayed at a friend's house and I woke up before he did. Like 7 or 8 a.m. His stepbrother was also awake and I went to use the bathroom. Noticing he was up and I said hi as all three of us were hanging out all night. We ended up playing twisted metal black in his room waiting for my friend to wake up.
My friend eventually woke up and when he saw I was hanging out with his brother he lost his calm and started screaming, crying, and punching a few holes in his bedroom door all the while screaming that I was supposed to be his friend.
His brother just told me to go to the kitchen. My friend at this point was on the phone with his dad still screaming and crying. Eventually gave me the phone and his dad told me I had to leave. So I had to call my dad and have him come pick me up.
Never spoke to that kid again. His brother was chill, never saw him again either. We were like 10 or 11.
Now here's the kicker. About 6 or so years later that same kid ended up burning down that house after his parents divorced and his mom passed away because he didn't want his dad to get the house. freaking crazy.
germinixTS
32. Midnight Baseball Mishap
This one time I was having a sleepover with a new friend. We were both 11 and lived in the same neighborhood. It was our first sleepover together. Somewhere around midnight, we decided to play baseball in her room with a cane and a giant blow-up ball.
She hits the ball and it hits the fan and turns it on high.
We giggle and then she climbs up on her loft bed to turn the fan off. She leaned too far forward and hit her head on the fan while it was on.
She buried her head into her bed and started laughing. Until she lifted her head and saw in the closet mirror that she was gushing blood. I ran and got her parents. We all went to the hospital. She needed a few stitches but was fine otherwise.
Much_Cat_932
33. TV, Cupcakes, and a Surprise Visit
It was my house and my cousins came over (we were all about 5), we planned out an operation to steal cupcakes from a high-up cupboard at night time.
We all stayed awake long enough to wait for my parents to go to bed, and then they would wake up the next shift (who would wait about half an hour) and go to bed
After the second shift, everyone would wake up and I would climb up the counter to get the cupcakes to hand off to one of my cousins waiting below (to free my hands so I could parkour down)
Once we got the cupcakes we sat in the middle of the living room watching TV (TV left on by parents) eating cupcakes
About 10 minutes later my dad woke up to use the restroom
somerandomidiot26
34. Pyjama Party Terror
In elementary, we had a sleepover at a friend’s house for their birthday. Everyone shared one room. Some on the bed, some on the floor on a mattress.
Of course, the adults used the party as an excuse to do their own thing and have a grown-up party elsewhere in the house. That friend and his cousin got into a relationship.
We were kids, so we didn't know much. Just that touching forbidden areas was taboo - and therefore the friend and cousin wanted to proceed. Wasn’t too bad. Just awkward and something that still taints the recesses of my memory.
veotrade
35. When Roofs Go Wrong
I was about 10 and one of my best friends’ house was being renovated so my friend invited us to a slumber party on her roof, soon to be the second story, where construction had barely begun.
It was July in the Bay Area so I thought it would be ok but the fog came in and the wind whipped up and I remember being frozen stiff and could not sleep.
I wanted to go home but didn’t want to bother everyone so as soon as the sunrise (and when we all got up), I ran home got into my warm bed, and stayed there most of the day
Faeriequeeneeee
36. The Lady Who Cried in the Night
I was at a sleepover with two friends of mine. We can call them L and A. We were at A's house and had just watched a movie. L and I started talking about some horror movie and A told us that her house was probably haunted. We laughed because we were like 14-15.
Nothing happened until we started getting ready for bed. There were two beds so A slept in her bed and L and I shared a bed. L was facing the wall and I was facing A's bed. We fell asleep but I woke up in the middle of the night because I heard an old lady.
Like stereotypical creepy old lady voices. I tried to sit up but I couldn't.
The lady kept saying something along the lines of 'it burns. it hurts.' for a minute. But then she said 'It will be okay' and just kinda stopped?
I could finally move so I looked at L and she was fast asleep with her back to me. I turned towards A and her eyes were wide open and she had this awful smile on her face. I just tried to go back to sleep.
I didn't tell them about it was the next day but a few weeks later L had stayed at A's and mentioned something similar. A did some digging and a farmhouse burned down on her property decades before. So yea.
Ambrosiality
37. When PlayStation Turns into a Nightmare
When I was around 6 years old I had a sleepover at my mom’s aunt’s house. At the time she had 3 sons. 2 were twins who were 3 years old & a daughter who was 9 or 10 and a son who was 7.
The 7-year-old son was a close friend of mine for a while and we were playing PlayStation in the bedroom while his sister was sitting behind us.
They started to argue over something and their dad came in the room and started chasing them around and hitting them and it was honestly really scary.
Afterwards, they managed to convince me it was all fake and they put tomatoes on their faces to make it look like they were crying and stuff like that. I believed this for a long time until a while ago when I realized their dad is an abusive freak.
fmz__
38. Paws on the Move
This was in around 2013 - maybe early 2015 at the very most. I remember being 10 or so at the time. A shadow dog was walking in circles in my friend's bathroom.
So when you enter the room it's a boxed-like room, I remember it somehow. The door is on the very left, then to the right is a table with a console and TV, and to the right of that is a bed. I was sleeping on the side of the bed and they were sleeping on the middle to right.
I was on the very left and I think we were on a large bed when I saw it.
We were both asleep. I remember being awake since it usually takes me a while to go to sleep. It was repeatedly walking in circles. The bathroom had no door and was open. When you enter the door to the box-shaped room, it's to the left of that after you go straight.
Very terrifying experience. My friends have had dogs and I think one of them could've died so maybe that could have been the ghost. still straight-up creepy. I could have just been hallucinating but I remember clearly.
TF5TLK
39. A cautionary tale of sleepovers gone wrong
I was sleeping over at my friend's house. She was known for being...well, really weird, but she was a nice girl. I was her only guest, and the rest of the guests were her sisters. We were all sleeping in the den.
The upstairs part of the house had an overlook with a railing that gave anyone who looked down a full view of the den.
Since everyone had fallen fast asleep and I was still wide awake, I broke out my DS and started playing Mario Party (with the volume fully off so I wouldn't wake anyone).
At about a quarter to three, I got bored and turned my DS off. I settled back down to go to sleep when I noticed my friend's dad watching us all sleep from the upstairs overlook.
He stayed there silently watching for good ten minutes before he went to his room. I was sixteen. I have never gone back, and it still creeps me out to this day.
DoctorBreadLegs
40. Midnight Drive to Nowhere
I once went for a sleepover with a couple of buds at one of our friends' places. It was a drive for over 3 hours late at night. Turned out the place where he had his house was in a really rural and secluded place.
To reach the house we had to go through some really creepy roads and I mean creepy; no street lights other than that of my car, no one on the streets, No network. Nothing, only barren land and patches of trees around.
When we reached the place, it turned out to be a really small rural community and not a single soul.
What was creepy about this area was the minute we stopped to find the house, every single person was standing outside looking at us. It was the creepiest thing I've seen.
The house was in some forest-dense area with no other house than that of my buds. We told him and the entire family what we had witnessed, and they simply laughed and brushed it off as us imagining stuff. We left after a few hours of how creepy the whole ordeal was.
rogue-raptor
41. Moisturizer Mishap
When I was around 8 I was at a sleepover and one black girl was there. She had just washed her face and asked if anyone had moisturizer. I said that I did, and then remembered that I have really dry skin and if someone with oily skin uses it, it would be uncomfortable. So I decided to ask her if it would be okay.
What I meant to say: "Do you have dry skin? This was meant for dry skin."
I said: "Oh wait, what kinda skin do you have?"
She just stared at me for a second, and then changed her mind about using my moisturizer, much to my confusion at the time. I think she went home after that.
Eagle13559
42. Toothpaste Pranks and Unfriendly Faces
Went on overnight in a cabin with Girl Scouts. I was kind of an odd man out because I went to a different school than a lot of the other girls.
There were a couple of other girls that were also not part of the clique, one because she was a nice girl who was the troop leader's daughter and she wasn't a cheerleader like the others, and the other because she was a black girl who was a year younger. Even though Girl Scouts are supposed to foster friendships and stuff, the cheer clique were not nice girls.
They waited till we fell asleep then decided to smear food and toothpaste on our faces. That wouldn't have been so terrible if they hadn't put marshmallows in the black girl's hair. That would be bad in anyone's hair, but in natural hair like hers, it would be a nightmare. They were just so cruel to her.
The only thing that saved me was my propensity for talking and interacting with people in my sleep". This was apparently enough to get them to stop for the rest of the night. I still feel really bad for what they did to that other girl though.
scarletnightingale
43. The Light Bulb Effect
I once was playing laser tag outside with a couple of friends at about nine or ten. I went to hide for a couple of seconds and heard rustling in the bushes next to me.
Naturally, I backed away considering I lived in a fairly forested area, it seemed to me that there might have been an animal in the bush and I'd rather not take a chance at it being something dangerous so I got out of there.
I told my friends and they said that it was probably just one of the dogs that roamed the neighborhood.
On the opposite side of the yard we were playing in I saw a four-legged animal that looked like a dog and indeed it was but I thought it looked kinda strange.
Long story short there recently had been a stray that wandered out into the forest and had contracted rabies. Luckily we had just been packing up when it decided to show up on my friend's lawn.
Caynon
44 . When The Grudge Met Dad's Perfect Timing
Was ~16 and stayed the night at my friend's house with other friends. It was about 10 pm and The Grudge came on one of his movie channels. At the time I didn't do horror but not wanting to be the chicken I didn't complain.
The movie ended and it wasn't as bad as I thought. We're all joking around when my friend's phone rings. He looked at it with a puzzled look and then answered it. His face went to dread and the color drained and he half dropped/tossed the phone on the table.
The phone clicked over to the speaker and we all heard the metallic gurgle of the Grudge Lady that lasted for a good 8 seconds. The room was freaking silent when it ended.
And for about 3 seconds you could only hear a distant cricket. Then we hear a familiar voice chime in. "Hello? I didn't scare y'all all did I?" It was my dad and my friend who had looked at me funny because he called from my phone so it appeared as me calling.
The Grudge had started playing at my house and he found my phone I had forgotten. His timing was perfect.
Charon711
45. Camper Escape
When I was around 6 or 7, my family road-tripped up to Canada to visit my mom’s relatives. While we were staying with some family in Maine, one of my 2nd cousins was around my age so my parents urged me to hang out with her.
It was cool at first because I finally had someone to chill with besides my immediate family, as we had been driving up from Georgia. It was a long trip! I decided I’d bunk up with my cousin and we’d have a fun sleepover in the basement together.
As we stayed up later into the night she told me with complete and utter seriousness that she was a witch.
She told me to think of anything and she’d be able to wipe my mind and control my thinking. Dead-ass I thought she believed herself. I noped the *freak* out and went to sleep on the floor of the camper with my parents.
jmb12563