What is the scariest story you know? by Yeahidonthavethink

That's a really terrifyingly interesting question and I'm glad you asked that! When it comes to horror stories, I enjoy reading/ watching them. I don't know for some weird reason, watching horror films sort of helps to relax my nerves lol. I won't deny the fact that some of them are indeed nerve shaking and gruesome but stories about ghosts, mythical creatures and supernatural stuff intrigues me.

So, in this chapter, I will be talking about a favorite scary story that I've heard.

Warning! Viewer discretion alert- If reading scary and blood curdling stories gets you weak in the stomach or if you have trouble falling asleep due to nightmares that occur straight after watching a horror film, then I suggest you to skip this chapter for your own good. Therefore, reading at your own risk

This story isn't mine. It's from a horror story YouTube channel that I like..

The dream and the convenience store

There was once a guy and for the sake of this story, let's call him Mark. Mark lived a pretty normal and simple life. He lived alone and he worked at a convenience store at a gas station that paid him just enough to satisfy his daily expenses.

But just recently, something quite bizarre had been happening to Mark. Something quite unfortunate and also confusing. It all revolved around a nightmare he had been getting. In the nightmare, he was standing all alone in an deserted road in the middle of no where and it was eerily silent. There was not a soul in sight, nor any buildings or stores. Not knowing what exactly he should do to get out of this creepy place, he started to take some steps and walk forward on the road.

Then all of a sudden, he saw something on the road and what he saw left him speechless with fright. 

There was a young woman, who appeared to be in her 20s, lying across the middle of the road, just a few paces from him. She was screaming as loud as she can, while her body writhed and twisted in an unbearable pain and what was even more frightening was that the woman's entire body was on fire and her skin and face was distorting. 

Small fragments of her skin were cracking and peeling off from all her body parts. The woman continued to shriek and groan gruesomely in agony. Upon seeing Mark standing across from her with shock written all over her face, she turned her red eyes towards him, still writhing and shaking violently as she cried out, 

"HELP ME! WHY ARE YOU JUST STANDING THERE? HELP ME! PLEASE HELP MEEE!!" Then her cries for help gradually turned into wails and shrieks yet again as the pain of what her body was going through took over her again.

Mark, no matter how badly he wanted to save her, found himself being unable to do anything at that moment. It was as if the nightmare was not letting him atleast take a few more steps forward. He was just standing there, absolutely frozen in terror. The woman's kept on crying out desperately, "HELP ME! PLEASE HELP ME!" 

And then Mark woke up, throwing the sheets away and sitting on his bed, sweat pouring down the sides of his head and panting violently. Though he was wide awake, the woman's ominous cries for help were still echoing like a chant in his head. 

A few weeks passed, yet Mark continued to get the same nightmare over and over again each and every night. It was always the same dream. He would find himself on the isolated road with no one else but the suffering woman and not a night passed by where she didn't call out for his help to save her. However, there was no way for Mark to save her.

A few more months passed and fortunately for Mark, the ghastly nightmare finally stopped haunting his dreams and he was able to get a few months of peaceful slumber. The nightmare slowly started to drift away from his memories, almost to the point of him having forgotten it. However, little did he know that his nightmare was far from over and he was way too early to rejoice because then came a day....

Mark was working late night shifts at the convenience store by the gas station. None of his other co-workers were able to make it so he was the only one working on that day.  It was extremely late and he was sure that it must be atleast past 12am. Some customers came from time to time to pump some gas and to also grab some snacks from the convenience store for the drive home whereas some hours passed with not a customer in sight, leaving Mark all alone to his affairs and during these slow hours, he would busy himself by arranging the displays and stacks of food.

Around 2am, he saw from the glass window outside, a pair of bright headlights before a car pulled up in front of the store and when he saw the person who stepped out from the car, his eyes widened in surprise. For there was the exact same woman whom he had seen repeatedly in his nightmares  a couple of months ago. She was even dressed in the same clothes that she was wearing in Mark's dream. The same attire down to her shoes.

However, since quite a long time had passed since Mark last suffered from the nightmare, he was unable to remember exactly where he had seen the woman before. At the time, he wasn't reminded of the nightmare at all. Nevertheless, he knew that this wasn't the first time he was seeing the woman and he was sure that he had seen her before.

The woman entered the store and smiled politely at him before heading towards the aisles to search for whatever it was she had come for. She definitely captured Mark's interest, not because he was romantically interested in her,  but because his mind wouldn't stop pestering him by constantly telling him that he had seen this woman somewhere before.

He followed the woman to the aisle and found her examining some snacks and grabbing a few packets into her arms. He stood beside her, eyeing her keenly while raking his memories for any kind of information about her. Obviously, the woman sensed him staring at her because she turned his way and gave him a nervous smile, catching Mark off-guard.

"Uhh... can I help you?" the woman asked him unsurely.

"Uh.. no actually-" Mark stuttered, a bit flustered at being caught like that before sighing and explaining. "Its just... have we met before? You look strangely familiar to me."

At this, the woman stared at him blankly for a few minutes before saying, "No, I don't think so," she said as she eyed him from top to bottom. "This is my first time meeting you,"

Saying that she turned around and continued her shopping leaving Mark lost in a cloud of confusion. Defeated, he made his way towards the counter his mind refusing to quit pondering over that woman. 

After a few minutes, the woman came to the check-out counter with her few items before placing them on the conveyor belt for them to be scanned by Mark. As soon as the woman's face came in contact with Mark's eyes, his mind was screaming at him by that point to remember who this woman was.

He finally couldn't take it anymore as he again questioned her. "Look, are you sure we haven't met before? Did we go to school together or something?"

The woman stared at him surprised at hearing the same weird question from him again. Yet, she still gave the same reply. "No, we haven't met before,"

Unable to put off this strange feeling away from his chest, Mark remembered the job that he was getting paid for, and quickly got down to scanning the items and putting them in a bag one by one. After finishing the task of scanning the items and successfully putting them in a bag, he didn't however, hand the bag over to the woman. 

It was as if he was in a trance as he stared at the woman's face with the most perplexed expression. At that moment, nothing else mattered to him than figuring out why the woman seemed so familiar to him.

Witnessing his odd behavior, the woman started to get alarmed as she firmly asked, "Are you going to give me that?" she pointed to the bag in Mark's hands.

Then the puzzle pieces finally snapped together in Mark's mind as he suddenly exclaimed, "I know where I've seen you before!" he cried out pointing directly at the shocked woman. "You are the woman from my dreams!"

At this, the woman's expression swiftly transformed from one of alarm into one of annoyance. She rolled her eyes and sighed loudly in frustration before bluntly saying, "I have a boyfriend,"

Mark's eyes widened and his cheeks reddened at the unexpected misunderstanding. "No, no, that's not what I meant!" he tried to stutter out a frantic protest. "It's just that..." but seeing the woman's already pissed off expression he decided to shut up with a sigh. "It's nothing," he said defeated and handed the bag to her. "Here's your stuff," the woman huffed in anger before slamming some bills down on to the counter.

She was about to leave when the chiming of the front door being opened was heard and a round but slightly creepy looking man stepped in. He was short and was big bellied and he had the most sadistic grin plastered on his face. He made his way towards the counter and started to mumble some incoherent nonsense to Mark and flashed a flirty wink at the woman standing beside him making her groan in fury.

Mark immediately frowned at him and firmly asked him to leave the store. He assumed that the guy was drunk and had no idea where he was and according to his experience, guys like these would always stop at the store to waste theirs and also the worker's precious time and would end up not buying anything.

The creepy guy let out a snort of displeasure before waddling out of the door. Soon after, the woman whom Mark had run into earlier also took her stuff and left the store. A few minutes passed in silence with Mark all alone in the store, causing him to wonder whether he was going insane and he was also starting to get ashamed about how uncomfortable he had made the woman feel earlier with his abnormal behavior.

But just then, the atmosphere was pierced with the loud wails of a woman in anguish. It was terrifying.

"HELP ME! SOMEBODY HELP ME!" the feminine voice screamed. Mark immediately jumped out from the counter and dashed towards the entrance of the store and sprinted out towards the parking lot near the gas pumps.

The abominable sight that Mark ran into left him shivering with fear, his eyes widened and you could see the red blood vessels in the whites of his eyes, he stood frozen on the spot. His terror stricken eyes sat fixated at the sight before him as his hand slowly came to cover his gaping mouth.

The woman was lying on the road, screaming in an unnatural way from the pits of her vocal chords, shouting and writhing in pain. Her body was combusting in flames and bits of her skin peeled off and revealed blood red and raw skin. "HELP ME! PLEASE HELP ME!" she shouted and as she caught sight of Mark staring at her, his face white as a sheet, her cries got even louder. "WHY ARE YOU JUST STANDING THERE?" she shrieked as she twisted and thrashed in pain. " HELP ME! PLEASE HELP ME!"

Mark caught sight of the creep guy from earlier standing just a few paces away from the combusting woman and in his hand was a gasoline pump and he was spraying the contents mercilessly onto the woman's tormented body, grinning and chuckling loudly like a mad man.

What made the video even more scarier was...

As Mark stared at her terrorized, the video switched back and forth between the woman combusting in Mark's dream and the woman who laid combusting in front of Mark in real life. The two scenes replayed back and forth as the dream scene flashed like a true horror story before Mark's eyes as the woman's wails went on as she pleaded, "HELP ME! SOMEBODY HELP ME!" However, Mark was too frozen in shock to save her.

The video ended with Mark screaming and howling in fright like a madman as he realized that he had seen the woman's death coming and he knew that he would be unable to save her.  Then the screen went black.

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So, what did you all think? Don't worry, you can come out of from under the blanket now. Don't feel bad if Hobi left the premises after listening to this. LMAO!

 I feel really sorry for the woman's fate. :(  Sorry, if you found my narration to be a bit crappy. I swear the actual video narrator did a better job than me.

This really scared me for a couple of day after watching it for the first time. This is an animated horror story for your information. Unfortunately, even though I love this story to bits, stupid me had forgotten to like the YouTube video and now no matter how badly I want to re-watch it, I'm unable to find it on YouTube and neither do I remember the exact channel I watched it on so... T_T 

I watched this a long time ago and to this day I've been trying to find the video again. So, if any of you guys run into a scary animated YouTube Video with the same storyline, please do inform me on the spot. 

If you want some YouTube channels with really interesting and entertaining horror stories, then I recommend you the channel- Wansee Entertainment. It has some of the best animated horror stories.

By the way, check out this other scary story that I like from Wansee Entertainment. I'm just going to let you all watch it, because I'm too lazy to type the entire thing( typical me) and the video narrator does a much better job at narrating the story than I do. Plus, this story below is apparently true... so Good luck to you all!

https://youtu.be/8Jb3FRdE3qc