Unexpected

Gross by tubspidersApril 25, 2022August 11, 2022

One is Enough

I awoke to a skittering across my back. After jumping around and swatting at my back, I noticed the strange quality of my cat’s insistent meow. She had caught something and was proud of it. I just knew it. I tore apart the room to find it and sure enough, there was a mouse cowering […]

Unexpected by tubspidersApril 18, 2022August 11, 2022

MOMO

In Missouri, we have a sasquatch creature, Momo, the Missouri Monster. There was a guy I used to work with, a real old guy. He used to live out by Mark Twain National Forest. He was always telling us stories about seeing Bigfoot. He was real serious about it. He had plaster casts of their […]

Gross by tubspidersApril 4, 2022August 11, 2022

Karma

This is a hand me down story. I couldn’t remember who told it to me originally, so I had to track down the source. I got to ask a bunch of my friends and get the same response each time: “Wait. Through a manatee?” “Yes, through a manatee,” she said when I finally figured out […]

Spooky by tubspidersMarch 29, 2022August 11, 2022

Ghost Caused the Most

I volunteer at a Civil War historical site. Most of the time I wear a period piece outfit and play like one of the original residents of the house I give tours at. On this particular day, I just wasn’t feeling like it. Thank goodness I didn’t dress up that day. On the first tour […]

Creepy Crawly by tubspidersMarch 14, 2022

No Thanks for Dropping By

I was visiting my parents with my new puppy. The little bundle of fur wasn’t allowed anywhere except the basement until she was potty trained.Now, this wasn’t a finished basement. It was a giant cement room with bare rafters for a ceiling and piles of projects yet to be finished staked in every corner. There […]

Creepy Crawly by tubspidersMarch 7, 2022August 11, 2022

Don’t Bee Like That

I am not a fan of bees. Not anymore. My grandfather kept bees and I never had an issue besides occasionally one stuck in my hair. This time, though, one flew up my nose. It was on a tea towel and I flung the towel up to try to get the bee off. The bee flew […]

Creepy by tubspidersFebruary 14, 2022

Who’s the Dummy?

I came home one day to an empty house. I walked into my room, set something on my desk, then I saw it out of the corner of my eye. I spun around and walked right back out of my room. I was sure my sister had done it. Positive she did. But that didn’t […]

Creepy Crawly by tubspidersJanuary 17, 2022August 11, 2022

Bats in the Belfry, among other places

We were at the farm house. That’s what we called it at least, because that’s what it was, but it was more like a log cabin. Us girls would sleep up in the attic. One night I awoke to my older sister shrieking. She was running around, shaking her head, and waving her hands. It […]

Unexpected by tubspidersJanuary 10, 2022August 11, 2022

Swam Without Looking Back

I didn’t really think of this as horror, because I figured it was pretty much the experience of every kid growing up in Florida. Now that I don’t live in Florida anymore, I realize this is not a shared experience in the rest of the world. Sometimes when you’re swimming or snorkeling in the ocean, […]

Unexpected by tubspidersOctober 11, 2021January 5, 2022

Make it Rain

When I was in high school, during PE, I found a ball bearing on the gym floor. It wasn’t as large as a marble, but was bigger than a BB. I found that it bounced quite nicely. I was off in my own little world bouncing it off of the floor, the bleachers, and the […]