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Liver Theft

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Title: Liver Theft

General Information about Item:

Children’s Folklore (Horror Stories)

This story was collected at Dartmouth College,  United States

Informant Data:

Abby Star is 18 years old and goes to Dartmouth College. She is from Maine. She is from a family of 6 (including her).

Contextual Data:

Abby heard this story when she was 8 years old. She saw a cd on the bookshelf called “Scary Stories to Spook/Haunt the Soul” and she was curious and decided to play it. While she heard many stories, this one stuck with her the most. Horror Stories like this one are told between friends at any time. Normally, they are told during the night to add to the ambiance and fear factor of the story.

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It starts with this guy, ok, and he is on his first date with this chick. And he meets her at a bar and they start talking. She’s really beautiful. He’s feeing pretty good about the date. They sit down and she’s like “alright I’ll buy us some drinks.” and He’s like “ok” and they have more and more conversations and she’s starting looking down. She’s not having the best time and he’s like “what’s up are you good is it something u need to talk about?”

And she’s like “I don’t know. I’ve had a lot on my mind lately. My brother he is in hospital right now. We don’t know whether or not he’s going to live. We are trying to find an organ donor for him. His liver is having problems and my dad is trying to raise some money to make that happen.” And the guy was like, “oh gosh I’m really sorry that’s really awful is there anything I can do to help?” and she is like “oh you can always donate to the fund.” And the guy is like “ok ill make sure ill do that… donate to the fund.” The guy finishes his drink and he’s like all right. I’m going to get another drink.” She’s like “oh actually I got it. It’s ok. I know the bartender really well. He gives me free drinks.” He gets another drink and things getting a bit better now. She’s starting to perk up again. He’s starting to feel better overall.

A while later, they’re talking some more and he’s starts feeling tired. He’s like “maybe I should stop drinking.” So he gets some water. When she offers to get him another drink, he’s like, “I’m all set. I’m going to take it easy tonight.” As he is drinking his cup of water and talking to this girl, he starts to get really tired. He starts seeing things out the corners of his eyes. Colors are getting brighter and then dimmer and then dull. Things are getting strange and he’s like “whoa I’m not doing so well.” He asked to go to the bathroom. He goes to the bathroom. He’s getting pretty close to blacking out. He’s starting to hallucinate. There are people in his vision. He’s not having a great time and he passes out.

He wakes up in a little bit later. He wakes up in his bathtub. He’s like “that was a really strange dream man. “I hope that chick was ok and she’s not worrying about me.” He turns and his buddy’s there and he’s like “hey what are you doing here.”

He (his buddy) says, “You’ve been out for a long time. We were wondering where u were and the police got involved and everything. Like are you ok? The ambulance is coming right now.” And he’s like “what” and he (buddy) like “look down.”

And he looks down at himself in the bathtub and he’s up to his neck in water and basically his own blood and his guts have been cut open. And he’s freaking out and he asks his buddy what’s going on and his buddy says, “your liver is gone you have a couple hours left to live.”

Informant’s Comments:

  • This story scared her when she heard it (Also being 8 years old)

Collector’s Comments:

  • I have heard horror stories about someone stealing your organs in the passing but not the complete version of the story before.

Collector’s Name:  Andrew Alini

Tags/Keywords: Horror Folklore, Scary Stories, Children’s Stories

The Man in the Backseat

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Title: The Man in the Backseat

General Information about Item:

Verbal Folklore: Children’s Folklore (Horror Stories)

Collected in Dartmouth College, United States.

Informant Data:

Emma Hobday was born in Arlington Virginia and is 19 years old. Before attending Dartmouth, she went to Williamsburg Middle School and Yorktown High School. In her middle school, she took drama.

Contextual Data:

During Emma’s 8th grade drama class on Halloween, her teacher decided to suspend class for the day and have everyone sit in a circle and tell ghost stories in honor of Halloween. This story stuck with her the most. Horror Stories like this one are told between friends at any time. Normally, they are told during the night to add to the ambiance and fear factor of the story.

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So one day after work, she works the late shift, a woman was driving home. And it’s all dark. She’s driving on barren country road. It’s misty. She drives through the forest and she notices a car behind her, following about 50 feet back. She says, “Well that’s unusual. I usually don’t get other people on this road,” but she keeps driving. Then, out of nowhere, the car honks at her and she’s confused. I mean, she’s just driving straight on the road nobody around she’s not using her… her front beams or anything. So she just writes off. “Oh this guy…whatever….he hit the horn by accident maybe.

So she drives on for another minute and the car honks again. This time twice! She looks in the rear view mirror and it’s just a guy in a car. He’s shouting something at her, but she can’t tell. He just being an aggressive drivers. So she keeps driving. She’s getting close to her turn off and she’s looking forward to not being near that car anymore

And he honk’s again! This time three times “BEEP BEEP BEEP!” She is lost, she’s lost faith in humanity. She’s sick of it so she waves out her window to follow her as she takes the turnoff and pulls into a gas station. She gets out of the car rounds on the other driver. He rolled down his window and she shouts, “Why have you been honking at me? I’m driving fine. There’s nothing wrong. Stop being an asshole.” And the guy says, “There was a man in your back seat. Each time I honked, he’d pulled out and he was making to kill you. I just saved your life not once, not twice, but three times!” The woman isn’t sure what to think. She looks back to her car and the door opens.

Informant’s Comments: Emma said that while she doesn’t remember many of the stories, this one stuck with her.

Collector’s Comments: I have heard a variation of this story. In the variation, the car behind the woman uses her high beams to signal the woman rather than honking.

Collector’s Name: Andrew Alini

Tags/Keywords: Campfire Story, Horror Folklore

Red Eye

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Title: Red Eye

General Information about Item:

Verbal Folklore: Children’s Folklore (Campfire Horror Stories)

This item was collected at Dartmouth, United States

Informant Data:

Emma Hobday was born in Arlington Virginia and is 19 years old. Before attending Dartmouth, she went to Williamsburg Middle School and Yorktown High School. Two of her friends in high school were Katie Dawkins and Elina Kent.

Contextual Data:

Emma and her friends had a sleepover party at Katie Dawkin’s house during around 9th grade.  During the night, they all went into the basement. Because the basement had a creepy swinging light in the center of the room, they decided to sit around it and tell scary stories. Elina Kent, who was also at the party, told the group the “Red Eye” story. Horror Stories like this one are told between friends at any time. Normally, they are told during the night to add to the ambiance and fear factor of the story.

 

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Transcript of Associated File:

So, a girl lives alone in a house and every night she goes to sleep, but she starts to have weird dreams that wake her up in the middle of the night. So, one night when she’s woken up by a strange dream she’s somehow inspired to go outside and her house is surrounded by a fence, a wooden fence, and there’s a tiny little hole in the fence that she’s never looked at before. And this night she goes and she puts her eye up to the hole. And all she sees past it is red. And so she thinks, “hmm, well I guess that just must be my neighbor’s putting in a new…new shed or something, a new little red shed. So she writes it off. She says, “oh I just had a bad dream.” she goes back to bed.

The next night the same thing happens. She wakes up sweating profusely. She’s had another terrible dream. She goes out to the yard sees the same red thing through the hole. So that goes on all week until one night she’s woken up by a dream where she sees a ghost. And as she looks at the ghost she notices that has pure red eyes. She screams and whips out of her bed and the ghost is gone. This time, she walks out to her yard, looks through the hole in her fence and the red is gone. She just sees into her neighbor’s yard. She’s panicking. She goes back to her room, splashes water on her face to calm herself down and in the mirror she sees that her eyes are now red.

Informant’s Comments: The swinging light in my friend’s made the stories extremely creepy.

Collector’s Name: Andrew Alini

Tags/Keywords: Horror, Campfire Stories, Children’s folklore,