My grandma had an old book in her attic called "more tales to tremble by" I can't remember if it was one or many authors but one tale in particular gave me nightmares. It was called "Thurnley Abby". Very much like the last story you mentioned. Another in the book was about a couple who moved into a new (to them) house. The husband worked nights and the woman began hearing a baby cry at night. She swallowed her fear after weeks of hearing the baby and followed the sounds to the attic stairs but couldn't bring herself to go any further. Telling her husband the next day, they both went up into the attic. They found a roughly patched part of wall and after breaking it open, the tiny skeleton of an infant....the story was chilling....
I remember reading "The Little Match Girl" while in a hospital where my cousin's uncle was dying. I literally felt pain in my chest as a child. The story was just too heartbreaking.
I remember I used to read that book sometimes growing up because we had it in our bookshelf for some reason. I don't know who bought it or where it is now, but the message of the story I think is supposed to be that it's important to look out for others, show kindness to others, and treat others how you would want to be treat. Like if you find someone homeless and hungry on the streets you offer them food or if they are cold or don't have shoes you offer to buy them or bring them clothes or give them money. I think that's the message of the story. It's terribly sad but an important message.
Fun fact: I live in germany and a few of this tales were made to movies and are in television and I even have the book of the little mermaid. Allmost all were original. Last Sunday I saw Rapunzel, I can say the OG story is not as funny and relaxing as the Disney version.
No Disney story is like the original story. I was an exchange student in Hamelin Germany where the story of the Pied Piper is from. They consider it the gospel truth that the story really did happen.
The little match girl was interesting to me as a child. I was sad that she died but happy that she was with her loved ones and no longer struggling to sell matches on the cold and harsh streets
I remember seeing something of a parody of the story in a "Dennis The Menace" comic book, in which Dennis meets the "little match girl." As in the original story, everytime the girl lights one of her matches, she sees visions of a better life (a room warmed by a fireplace, another room with warm clothes, another one with a table bearing food, etc), but eventually, she uses up all her matches, and now, she thinks she's doomed to freeze to death. Now, here's a new spin on this old tale. A boy comes along dressed in Arabian clothes, and Dennis tells him about the little girl's plight. The boy happens to be carrying an Arabian lamp, which he rubs, causing a Genii to appear. Dennis realizes that the boy is none other than ALADDIN himself! At Aladdin's request, the Genii provides everything the girl needs. He sets her, Aladdin, and Dennis up in a cozy room, complete with a roaring fireplace, a table with all kinds of delicious food (which the girl and her new friends enjoy), and a rack of new, warm clothes, which the girl gratefully puts on. After all this, Dennis tells the match girl that he once heard a story about a young lady just like her, that she used up all her matches, and then, "she froze stiff." This makes the girl even happier that she met such nice people as Dennis and Aladdin.
As a senior, I have a lot of memories of children's books that were really scary, but I loved them - especially Hilaire Belloc. He didn't just write about a kid who died from always slamming doors, but there was 'Matilda' who cried wolf so many times no-one believed her when she said her house was burning down, so she burned to death. Or 'Jim', who wandered away from his Nanny at the zoo, so naturally was eaten bit by bit by a lion, which the book describes in slow, excruciating detail. Maybe I enjoyed these books because back then kids got used to our parents overstating things. For example, my Dad didn't just ask us to pick up our toys - he'd say that if we didn't, Grandma would not see them and trip and fall and die and there would be a black cloud hanging over our heads for the rest of our lives. I'm not kidding. No doubt that is why so many of us are nervous, uptight adults.
I had a book that was just two pages. It's called, "The the blood rain." And seeing the title, it's pretty disturbing. I'm just gonna write down the whole story and it's exact words. One night, a little newborn girl was born in a local hospital. Her name was Olivia. As she grew up, she wondered how a storm would look like. She curiously stepped out of the front door, and looked around the village. She waited, and waited, and waited. She quickly shouted, "Rain! Rain! Oh please come down!" She waited. And waited. And waited. Nothing. She sat down and thought to herself, she'd never see a storm. She cried, and while wiping tears, her eyes had an extreme pain. She looked down at her cheek, and saw blood streaming down it. Despite the obscure pain, she kept rubbing her eyes, even when she stopped crying. At this point, she was bleeding at an alarming rate. But she did not care. She started to levitate. She kept on rubbing her eyes while feeling a butterfly sensation in her stomach. She kept rubbing her eyes no matter what. She was bleeding so much that when she bent down, drops of blood went falling as fast as a storm, and that was the only time she'd see a storm. She swallowed her blood, licking her lips, and smiled. The only reason why she was levitating, was because she was going to heaven. She realised she was already dead, and the only time she saw a storm, was when she died. Remember kids, don't expect storms in any time, because you might see one in your end. That was a stupid moral.
hold on wait a minute- bro myone of my classmates name is olivia she had a injextion at the age of something so when she cries a bit too hard her eyes start bleeding can i just say here i hope thats not olivias ghost
I actually ordered "in a dark dark room" so I could read it to my daughter! BY FAR my absolute FAVORITE is the story about the girl who the green scarf! That story has followed and haunted me my whole life! And I LOVE IT! 🥰
At my school they read the green ribbon to every grade, including kindergartner. Goosebumps is a recommendation as well. And, scary stories to tell in the dark was read by me and most of my class, the whole series. Coralline is one of my classes favorite movies. What can I say, those are some pretty good books. :)
For the last book series, that was part of my childhood I don't regret having. There's a story called "ghost with the bloody fingers" and my sister and I thought it ended in such a silly way, it stuck in our heads rent free. Edit for context: a man died in a hotel room and anyone who tried to stay there would run away from the ghost. One night a guy was there and playing his guitar. Once the ghost showed up, the guy ended the whole story off with "cool it man, get yourself a bandaid"
I liked these storys as a kid. Maybe thats why I love horrorfilms so much. When I was 12 I looked Psycho for the first time with my mom. She first speak with me about the film and asked my if I feel ok with it and I should say when I want to stop.
I’ve heard of “The Little Match Girl” story, but it’s quite different? So basically, there was this poor girl, shivering in the cold winter selling matches, she was afraid to go home because her abusive father would beat her up for failing to sell any matches. She kept trying to sell these matches but they just walked pass her and ignored her. In the flame of these matches, she could see scenes of comforting visions: The warm oven stove, the glowing Christmas tree, and the delicious roast goose. Each vision disappears as the match burns out. Then she sees and shooting star in the sky, which her late grandmother says it means someone is on their way to heaven. In the flames of the next match, she could a vision of her late grandmother, the only person who treated her with love, and kindness. The girl wanted to keep this vision alive for as long as possible, so then she lights the entire bundle of matches. When the matches were gone, she saw a real vision of her grandmother. She was so happy to see her. She said: “Don’t leave me Grandma!”, her grandma said: “This time I won’t, come with me.”. The girl took her hand and her grandma carries her soul to heaven. She froze to death, but she died with a warm smile on her face. The passer-bys express themself with pity seeing the little girl. But they do not know the wonderful visions she had seen, nor do they know that she is now happy in heaven with her grandmother.
My teacher in elementary school read one of "the scary stories to tell in the dark" to the entire class on Halloween month and it gave all of us chills. And I remember almost every detail about the stories. This is the story from what I remember: It is about a guy who gets invited to a party at a supposed haunted mansion that his friend to have fun. And when the guy goes to the party he has a good time at first but then needs to use the restroom which is downstairs in the basement. As he makes his way to take the stares he notices some people entering a elevator together and he notices a person with a creepy smile spotted him. The creepy man ask the guy if he wants to come on the elevator with them to go down but the guy refuses, and the creepy person keeps persisting for the guy to get on the elevator with them bit the guy keeps refusing. Eventually the Creepy guy stopped persisting and just press the elevator button to go down with everyone else while waiving goodbye as he continues to smile at the guy while the doors close. And so the guy walks down the stairs and he has a long way down since the house has multiple basement do to it being a abandoned wine seller house. But as he goes down he heard the sound of the elevator going down through the thin walls but the elevator wasn't going down slowly. The elevator was actually falling down incredibly fast and everyone in there was screaming in fear all the way down until the last thing the guy heard was the sound of a giant crash at the bottom. The guy then immediately bolted back upstairs and left the party in a panic, but as he was running he saw the same creepy guy bringing more people into the elevator with him and the creepy guy spotted him again and just waved a friendly goodbye as the guy continues to run away. The guy then realized that if he did go on that elevator with the creepy person along with everyone else he too would have entered the same fate as all those other people did.
That story reminds of an almost similar tale that author Bennett Cerf related in his 1944 book called "Famous Ghost Stories." I've never seen the book myself (especially since it's out of print now), but I read about it in the book "'The Twilight Zone' Treasury." (I'll explain later.) Anyway, this story is about a young lady from New York City who goes to visit some distant relatives who live in an old antebellum mansion in the South. On two consecutive nights, just as she's about to go to bed, the lady looks out of her window and sees an old-fashioned horse-drawn coach, which pulls up and stops just below the window. The driver of the coach, who's a rather scary looking fellow, jumps to the ground, points a finger at the woman, and says "There's room for one more." This frightens the girl so much, that she decides to cut her visit short, packs her bags, and rushes back to New York. However, she can't get what happened to her down South out of her mind, so she goes to see a psychiatrist, who convinces her that what she saw was just her imagination. Accepting this diagnosis, the lady leaves the psychiatrist's office and is about to board an elevator to go down to the first floor of the medical building, when she hears a familiar voice say "There's room for one more." She realizes that it was the elevator operator who said it, and that he looks exactly like the strange coachman! Terrified, she backs away, refusing to get on the elevator, which leaves without her. Suddenly, the cables working the elevator break, causing it to fall all the way to the ground floor and crash, killing everyone aboard it! Now, here's the "Twilight Zone" connection. There was an episode of that show with a plot that was loosely based on the story I mentioned above. In this tale, entitled "Twenty-Two," a woman (played by Barbara Nicolas) who's a nightclub dancer is in a hospital, where she's trying to recover from a nervous breakdown she suffered, as a result of doing too many shows in a short period of time. But she's not getting much rest or sleep because she keeps having a vision where she follows a strange-looking nurse down to the hospital basement, to Room 22, which happens to be the MORGUE, at which point, the nurse (who's rather beautiful, but in a disturbing way) looks at her, smiles in a sinister manner, and says "Room for one more, honey." The girl patient then screams and runs back to her hospital room. She relates her vision to her boyfriend and her doctor (played by Jonathan Harris, who also played Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960s sci-fi TV series, "Lost in Space"), who assure her that it was all just a recurring nightmare, which seems to be true when it's revealed that the actual night nurse for the morgue is not the same nurse from the girl's vision. Eventually, the patient is discharged from the hospital, and plans to board a passenger plane to another city (I think it was either New York or Las Vegas, but I'm not sure), where another dancing gig awaits her. At the airport, however, she feels a sense of deja vu when she's told that the plane she's waiting to board is FLIGHT 22 -- THE SAME NUMBER AS THE HOSPITAL MORGUE! As she's about to walk up the stairs leading into the plane, she notices with a start that the stewardess looks exactly like the mysterious nurse from her vision/nightmare. The stewardess smiles at her and says "Room for one more, honey." Screaming again, the former patient runs back into the airport terminal. The plane takes off without her -- AND EXPLODES IN MID-AIR!
@@michaelpalmieri7335Oh God that's some freak stuff but yeah I can see the similarities in the stories. If something like that happens to me I'd be terrified.
I got a big book full of Hans Christian Anderson tales years ago. I read the little match girl with my mom and we both ended up bawling! After, I read The Little Mermaid and it quickly became one of my favorite tales. I don't know why but I quickly grew to prefer the true, original fairy tales rather than Disney's
Also, TH-camrs have been missing key details like Prince is in love with her but not romantically as he is in love with the girl he thought saved him from drowning and when he goes into an arranged wedding he discovers the girl he going to marry it same girl he is in love Also, Mermaid dies reborn as the daughter of air and gets a chance to earn her own happy ending with soul and rest in peace in Heaven
Omg I read both of them too although I'm happy her grandmother brought her to heaven and ended her misery it was an interesting part and the little mermaid that turned into a bubble and float to heaven I loved it also thank you I really appreciated sharing with you. 😊
The book "In a dark dark room" is still on my shelf and "The green ribbon" was my mum's favorite story that was the beginning of my horror story collection
i always had a weird intrest in the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” mainly because the drawings looked alot like some of the things i see and had dreams about. i also just generally liked horror stuff.
I was freaked out but idk like I just kept listening to it ( I was in preschool and did not know how to read) and eventually I just knew what was going to happen but I still got a little scared.
I love Goosebumps, Fear Street, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and all of Neil Gaiman's work. The stories are fun, creative, and memorable. And yes, scary, but in a way that was enjoyable. A shared experience since you knew you weren't alone in being spooked by these tales. Plus, horror stories are morality stories where the bad person gets their comeuppance in gruesome, creative ways.
Writers now: We need to make our stories as non-violent as possible so we can teach the value of friendship. Writers in the 19th century: _Everyone knows the best way to learn is in life threatening situations._
@@catmum1019 Stories aren’t the only ways to learn, most parents probably talk about “Don’t accept things from strangers,” etc. Or what my parents did was show me a couple videos about the topic, helping me learn what not to do, even if the kid tries to be edgy that’s their fault in the first place for getting kidnapped or otherwise, killed.
I regonize two of the stories: The Match Girl : I watched the disney one and it isnt really tragic. The ribbon girl: I heard a remake of the story in Royale High on Roblox. Its the same!
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was the book that started my love of horror. By the time Goosebumps came out I was already "too cool to read a nerd book". But, after having my own daughter and her reading the Goosebumps books do I see how scary they can actually be.
@@mingjiechen62 you might like 90s tv show 'are you afraid of the dark' it was before the goosebumps tv show by about half a decade. it was geared towards a slightly older audience, not by much granted- only a few years...but its enjoyable
The Little match girl was and is my favorite fairytale. When I was 9 yrs old (back in 2009) I read the story from my english textbook. Idk why but I've always found it fascinating.
Interesting theory going in the medical field: books are often a representation of how people see the world around them. The story Alice in Wonderland is about a girl who has a distorted world she thinks is real. Things seem to be larger or smaller, and even she grows and shrinks. Since then, a mental disorder has been discovered that causes the human brain to interpret things as being a different size. One person reported feeling taller than she actually was. It is now believed that Lewis Carroll (author of Alice In Wonderland) suffered from this disorder. Another famous person believed to suffer from this is Picasso. And for a weird tale, I was read a story in 4th grade about a lying frog. The lying frog was so bad that when the mother frog was sick and dying she told him to bury her in the opposite location of what she wanted. She wanted a beautiful meadow or something to be buried in. Instead she said in a bog where her body would eventually wash away. She thought her son wouldn't listen and do the opposite of what she asked because that was part of his usual attitude. Instead, he chose to honor his mother's wishes and buries her exactly where she asked. Super creepy
When I started school, the oldest daughter of neighbors walked with us to and from school. She told terrifying stories, gathered from possibly the newspaper or big kids books. I couldn't get enough of them!
I cried my eyes out when I read "The Little Match Girl" but I liked it. She was living miserably and finally found happiness in the end is how I thought about it. Such a bittersweet story
I've read about the ribbon girl before. The version i read was a little different, but freaky and unsettling still. Then, I was addicted to horror. Scary Stories to tell in the dark ended up being a favorite book. Her story and others actually helped me draw inspiration for writing horror stories.
When I was 7 years old, the classroom I was in at school had Bony Legs. It was terrifying, and came with a cassette tape that made it that much worse. I miss that book.
I actually read Coraline before i watched the movie. I didn't understand a thing at the moment but i can still understand the basics, still i don't find it terrifying. Also, i read the another terrifying version of The Little Mermaid. And again before i watch the movie of course. In that version, it's just as same as the original, but the prince DIDN'T FALL IN LOVE WITH HER, anddd as the evil witch had warned, if he didn't love her, she will turn into SPONGES. Egh! And for the Little Match Girl, i read the version said in the video (but translated) in the text book. Yeah, teaching children about a girl who dies in the cold with a bunch of matches is truly useful for their future. I also read an unknown story in the text book that is more terrifying than the cry baby. It's about a mother who got her child kidnapped by Death. So she tried to go to Death's castle to get her child back. Along the way, a huge river told her to give it her eyes and it will let her pass through, so she cried her eyes out for the river. And then after crossing, she somehow know there were 2 roads and she doesn't know which one leads to the castle. So there was a hedgehog there telling her it was cold and will tell her the correct road if she warms it up. So she hugged the hedgehog to warm it up and continue on the correct road. Death saw that she loved her child so much, so he gave the child back to the mother! Atleast it makes children love their mother more after reading the story.
the last one is The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen... and sadly that's just not quite the ending, but not tell you if you want to read by yourself
In case anyone was wondering a glutton ( 16:09 ) was a Roman slave who ate anything, anything who was put in front of him. (Including human flesh and bugs!)
I just realized that I've been reading the less filtered versions (aka the original version) of children's story books and i still have some of them in my shelf
Stories today Cinderella’s married the prince and lived happily ever after in a castle over the rainbow. Stories back then Cinderella’s step sisters cut off their foot to fit in her shoe the. Get their eyes pecked out by angry birds
-and then she sends it to her step mother as a present and the step mother eats it with delight until she finds a skull at the bottom and dies of shock so uh yuh-
I am a pre-Disney princess woman, so I was angry when Disney bastardized my beloved fairy tales. For example, the original The Little Mermaid was a story to teach girls to NOT change who they are for a man. Her death was inevitable. Disney ripped the morality tale out for a happy ending that teaches girls to NOT be true to themselves. 🤦♀️ Disney has weakened the minds of children not strengthened their character. 🤬
I agree with this statement. It is a shame they changed it to much until its original morality lost. It is sad to think they change it just because it is to wild and not care about its original morality.😥😥😥
I was hoping you would mention the library book that haunts me to this day! A boy won’t stop eating chocolate, so at school his teacher makes the students chant “you are what you eat” trying to convince the kids to eat prunes or something. Our main character turns into literal chocolate and the teacher chases him down to eat him
I've read completely through" Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" And I've read 50 some odd of the goosebumps including three that he listed, also watched Coraline. I wasn't scared but my older sister at the age of nine was while I was 6.
This video stirred up some old childhood memories. I now remember being read some of these old stories as a child in pre-school or Kindergarten. This is not the first time I've heard some of these stories.
Scary stories to tell in the Dark is altogether 3 of the absolute best and most original authentic collections of dark, and preparatory tales ever written. Truly phenomenal.
The Green Ribbon was one of my favorite stories growing up. It always made me laugh when her head fell off. I had a dark twisted sense humor as a child and now that I'm an adult I embrace that part of me. It was a fun story but I would not recommend for sensitive young children.
@@ernestweaver1153 When you think most toddllers now use a tablet or parents phone, without supervision. They see more than they should before their school days. Let alone socialising with others after that.
Fun fact: in the 4th grade, I had the story of rebecca who slammed doors for fun and perished miserably in my English textbook. They never ended up actually teaching it, but I read it on my own and was traumatized the rest of the year
I come from Geramny and grew up with Struwwel Peter and it has never been so scary or traumatizing for me because I always knew that these were just stories and every child knew that adults lie to get children to do things like bathing, Combing hair and so on. I also grew up with the goosebumps books, which were intended for kids at the age of 12 and up. They were really scary but in a way we could handle. Lots of my friends read the books and we loved the thrill
Also, i found Puline's story much darker than the thumb-sucker. You can liitterally see her burning to ash and her cats crying over her ashes. The Soup-casper starved himself to death and they show his grave. At least the Thumb-sucker was aloud to live on. But i never knew of this american struwelpeter. Have to check that out.
You should also check out "Max and Moritz" from Willhelm Busch. It's a famous german kids book about two mischiefious boys. They put beetles in the bed of their uncle, sew the bridge over a river, so a teacher falls in, blow up the tabacco pipe of another poor human and let the hens of an old widow strangle themselves to death, only to stela them through the chimney when they're cooked. In the end, the miller grind them in his mill. He wrote other dark stories with morals , too.
@@MiaKerbow-Burlesonchubby_ducky Well, sucking the thumb can mess up your teeth, and it is considerate to be "inappropriate" over a certain age... crying too much would annoy your parents Lol
I remember in kindergarten that I used to love reading in a dark, dark room during play time because I just love weird and scary stories in general. The green ribbon girl is the one that stuck with me the most because of how weird it was.
8:40 here in Germany there also exist the movie „Achenputtel“ where the story happens like described in the video. Only exception is, that because it is a kids movie they don’t show how they cut off parts of their feet, they only say that it happens, and also there are no pigeons at the wedding. The movie is now about 40 years (but probably older) old and is still broadcasted every Christmas on TV.
I own many of these books like Hillaire Belloc, Struwwelpeter, the original Grimms, many goosebumps, other books like Prom Dress that came out on the 80s. I read them and loved them, my kids love them now. Teach your kids how to understand the difference between reality and fantasy
This reminds me of a book of Mexican tales I read as a kid. Most of them were pretty normal except for one called “The Weeping Woman”. It follows the tale of a very picky woman looking for the perfect husband. She finds him and gets married. They have kids and then she discovered her husband is cheating on her. Instead of doing the normal thing, she drowns her kids…
I was 10 when I got the Grimms fairy tales. Whoa!!!! These ain't Disney!!!! Years later my mom said they didn't read it before they got it for me. Whoops!!!!!!!!! Ha ha!!!! I still have it.
I don’t remember the author but my grandmother owned a book called “Goodnight Goon”. That book gave 5 year old me nightmares, and I still can’t look at it without getting shivers.
I remember The Green Ribbon. It, along with the other 4 stories in the book, were some of my favorites as a child. In the back of the book it said that a possible inspiration was the red thread that would be used to sow the head back onto a decapitated criminal for burial.
A good reading list! I wish I'd had more opportunities to read these to my grandkids on their sleepovers. It should be noted, though, that the Brothers Grimm were not so much the "authors" of their often violent and grotesque tales, but rather "reporters" or "transcribers" of those stories, time-worn folktales they collected from everyday people in the Grimms' role as cultural anthropologists. Another one that should be added to the list is the much darker original folktale version (predating Perrault) of "Sleeping Beauty" -- yow.
And little red riding hood. Let's just say you don't look like a grandmother when you only wear her clothes, so the wove clearly wore something different in the original. 😁
I remember how astonished I was when I discovered Shock-Headed Peter. I kind of knew about it from Pippi Longstocking. And Oh, God, the Green Ribbon. I randomly decided to read that book one day in elementary school, and I was scared for years. Goosebumps as well. I never read them, the covers were scary enough. XD
Goosebumps were my favourite as a kid! They're the reason why I still love horror films as an adult, I'm so sad I didn't keep the collection I had with my sisters back then 😂
I loved those "dark" stories as a kid. I would spend hours in Cole's Funny Picture Book, reading about Augustus who would not eat his soup, or Little Johnny Suck-a-thumb. I don't think they're that traumatic to kids.
I used to read Goosebumps in 4th grade (and a lot in 5th). It was great and I enjoyed the TV show as well. I remember my 3rd grade teacher introducing us to Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. We read that and I was so excited when I learned there were more books in the series. I don't think any of these stories should be "banned". I was terrified of the dark as a kid and I still enjoyed these stories.
Most of the standard : "Fairy Tales" were originally what is termed cautionary tales. They were NEVER meant to be funny or amusing, but they were meant to teach you the proper manners and ettiquet of the time. The blame for the loss of the learning type of those tales goes to hollywood and similar places. You might want to go look up the tale of the Scissor Man & little Jhonny Suck-a-Thumb. Or the history behind some of the Mother Goose and similar Nursery Rhyms, Pay specific attention to the rhym of Ring-a-round the Rosy, it has survived in it's original form from the time of the Black Death up til modern times UNCHANGED.
@@seldenrock9715 Nope - it's Struwwelpeter. As many Germans I grew up with it too, and I actually liked it. The stories were weird, but didn't seem as cruel to me then as they do now.
I was a morbid child, The Little Match Girl was one of my favorite short Christmas films. I don't think they ever ran it more than once I was mesmerised by the story. I look it up once in awhile on TH-cam just to get my fix
I STILL love goosebumps and scary stories to tell in the dark. And for those of you curious, I believe that the haunted house ends with the ghost telling the preacher that her husband killed her for her fortune, though she had hidden it. Then she says that if he finds her husband that she would tell him where the fortune is, which does end up happening. My favorite story from that trilogy is the story (I can’t remember the name) where there is a girl driving home from school. She notices that she is being followed. The person following her is turning on their headlights every once in a while. She drives in a circle for a while but she can’t get away from the person so she goes home to her family, runs inside and tells them to call the police. The man following her was following her was following her because there was someone in her backseat trying to kill her. Whenever the killer would raise there head, the follower turned on their headlights so that he would hide again. And this is probably the longest comment I’ve ever written.
The scarecrow story here is quite different from what I've read. in the version i read, the scarecrow belonged to an old farmer who's crops were excellent and whenever someone asked him about his secret, he'd tell them that it was all thanks to his horrendous looking scarecrow which he had made him himself. It had 6 foot long arms and large tall legs, making it look like a tree and a head carved out of pumpkin. It was so gruesome looking that even the farmer was scared to look at it. There were two farmer brothers who were lazy and jealous of the older farmer next door. So they basically steal the scarecrow and hide it in their house, refuse to tell the older farmer anything despite him begging and crying to them, and smash it's pumpkin head at night cuz they were too scared to sleep. So later at night the headless scarecrow barges into their house and catches one of the brothers. The other runs away but soon sees the scarecrow chasing him, getting closer and closer. The scarecrow was wearing the other brother's head as his own
My 3rd grade teacher read us the green ribbon story and I remember being horrified by that story it was stuck in my head as a kid. She with us other similar weird scary stories with that one I just remember the most
OMG, "I LOVE SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK", AND THE SEQUELS, THEY ARE SO FUN TO READ, I EVEN HAD BROUGHT THEM TO SCHOOL ONCE AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF MY FRIENDS WERE WANTING TO READ THEM, THEY ACTUALLY MADE IT INTO A MOVIE, 10/10, WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND
5:23 I know the original one! I’ve read it and I perfectly remember it being describes as stepping on knives. I knew about the ending too. I honestly didn’t know there was a Disney adaptation. I prefer the original ending in my opinion.
I had that book, "In a Dark Dark Room" and I remember the story about Jenny... Then as an adult I saw those 'Orphan' films and they made me think it may have been VERY loosely based on the story about Jenny. Though, the ribbons Esther wore around her neck she also wore around her wrists, and they were to hide scars, rather than keep her head attached...lol But it still gave me that vibe, because I found Ester to be really eerie just like I found Jenny to be especially eerie when I was a kid. I also had Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, as well as More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark , and Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones. I still have the first one from 1981, got it at my school book fair when I was in middle school, about 8 years after it was published.
I used to tell my daughter bedtime stories. When she misbehaved during the day, I would incorporate that into the story. It usually went something like, “Once upon a time there was a little girl. She didn’t listen to her mommy. One day she left the yard, knowing she wasn’t allowed to. She got ran over by a car and died. The end”. I regret it now, but it’s something my daughter and I can laugh over..
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My grandma had an old book in her attic called "more tales to tremble by" I can't remember if it was one or many authors but one tale in particular gave me nightmares. It was called "Thurnley Abby". Very much like the last story you mentioned. Another in the book was about a couple who moved into a new (to them) house. The husband worked nights and the woman began hearing a baby cry at night. She swallowed her fear after weeks of hearing the baby and followed the sounds to the attic stairs but couldn't bring herself to go any further. Telling her husband the next day, they both went up into the attic. They found a roughly patched part of wall and after breaking it open, the tiny skeleton of an infant....the story was chilling....
and the hand moves waving causing the bones to creek like an old door
That's scary and sad
Scary
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Netflix and chill that is
I remember reading "The Little Match Girl" while in a hospital where my cousin's uncle was dying. I literally felt pain in my chest as a child. The story was just too heartbreaking.
Yeah it was really sad :(
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@@paulkitchen9429 Bro thats just fucking Messed Up
@@paulkitchen9429 how can u mess up typing word ew
I remember I used to read that book sometimes growing up because we had it in our bookshelf for some reason. I don't know who bought it or where it is now, but the message of the story I think is supposed to be that it's important to look out for others, show kindness to others, and treat others how you would want to be treat. Like if you find someone homeless and hungry on the streets you offer them food or if they are cold or don't have shoes you offer to buy them or bring them clothes or give them money. I think that's the message of the story. It's terribly sad but an important message.
Fun fact: I live in germany and a few of this tales were made to movies and are in television and I even have the book of the little mermaid. Allmost all were original. Last Sunday I saw Rapunzel, I can say the OG story is not as funny and relaxing as the Disney version.
No Disney story is like the original story. I was an exchange student in Hamelin Germany where the story of the Pied Piper is from. They consider it the gospel truth that the story really did happen.
i know
Idk why but for some reason it seems like it’s aaaalways the Germans doing messed up stuff
@@bmac7643 yikes lmao
All of the Disney stories are made into happy stories but the true stories are so tragic.
"The Little Match Girl" broke my heart as a kid. I found the book a few months ago and once again, sat there crying like a fool.
Same 😢
It used to be my favorite story as a kid-
Same
I also cry everytime I read that story,my friends still have that book😭😭😭😭
no
The little match girl was interesting to me as a child. I was sad that she died but happy that she was with her loved ones and no longer struggling to sell matches on the cold and harsh streets
Wow...
I’m touched by that
I hope you have a wonderful day
Same!
Yeah that was sad
I remember seeing something of a parody of the story in a "Dennis The Menace" comic book, in which Dennis meets the "little match girl." As in the original story, everytime the girl lights one of her matches, she sees visions of a better life (a room warmed by a fireplace, another room with warm clothes, another one with a table bearing food, etc), but eventually, she uses up all her matches, and now, she thinks she's doomed to freeze to death.
Now, here's a new spin on this old tale. A boy comes along dressed in Arabian clothes, and Dennis tells him about the little girl's plight. The boy happens to be carrying an Arabian lamp, which he rubs, causing a Genii to appear. Dennis realizes that the boy is none other than ALADDIN himself! At Aladdin's request, the Genii provides everything the girl needs. He sets her, Aladdin, and Dennis up in a cozy room, complete with a roaring fireplace, a table with all kinds of delicious food (which the girl and her new friends enjoy), and a rack of new, warm clothes, which the girl gratefully puts on.
After all this, Dennis tells the match girl that he once heard a story about a young lady just like her, that she used up all her matches, and then, "she froze stiff." This makes the girl even happier that she met such nice people as Dennis and Aladdin.
I loved it too, and The Happy Prince which was horribly sad, but it was about caring for others without the thought of cost to yourself
6:24 there is "The Little Match Girl" reference within Osomatsu-San
@Misplaced 0 yeah
Fun facts:
Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were adapted into a movie films.
not to mention the amazing goosebumps tv show! that theme song used to freak me out
@@BeAmazed I loved the similar TV show called Eerie, Indiana.
How about the old nikolodean show are you afraid of the dark? Which was converted into a book series
I just watched scary stories to tell in the dark. I loved the scarecrow scene.
No way
As a senior, I have a lot of memories of children's books that were really scary, but I loved them - especially Hilaire Belloc. He didn't just write about a kid who died from always slamming doors, but there was 'Matilda' who cried wolf so many times no-one believed her when she said her house was burning down, so she burned to death. Or 'Jim', who wandered away from his Nanny at the zoo, so naturally was eaten bit by bit by a lion, which the book describes in slow, excruciating detail. Maybe I enjoyed these books because back then kids got used to our parents overstating things. For example, my Dad didn't just ask us to pick up our toys - he'd say that if we didn't, Grandma would not see them and trip and fall and die and there would be a black cloud hanging over our heads for the rest of our lives. I'm not kidding. No doubt that is why so many of us are nervous, uptight adults.
Whoa, your dad sounds like some kind of a NUT!
(Nothing personal, of course.)
I had a book that was just two pages. It's called, "The the blood rain." And seeing the title, it's pretty disturbing.
I'm just gonna write down the whole story and it's exact words.
One night, a little newborn girl was born in a local hospital. Her name was Olivia. As she grew up, she wondered how a storm would look like. She curiously stepped out of the front door, and looked around the village. She waited, and waited, and waited. She quickly shouted, "Rain! Rain! Oh please come down!" She waited. And waited. And waited. Nothing. She sat down and thought to herself, she'd never see a storm. She cried, and while wiping tears, her eyes had an extreme pain. She looked down at her cheek, and saw blood streaming down it. Despite the obscure pain, she kept rubbing her eyes, even when she stopped crying. At this point, she was bleeding at an alarming rate. But she did not care. She started to levitate. She kept on rubbing her eyes while feeling a butterfly sensation in her stomach. She kept rubbing her eyes no matter what. She was bleeding so much that when she bent down, drops of blood went falling as fast as a storm, and that was the only time she'd see a storm. She swallowed her blood, licking her lips, and smiled. The only reason why she was levitating, was because she was going to heaven. She realised she was already dead, and the only time she saw a storm, was when she died. Remember kids, don't expect storms in any time, because you might see one in your end.
That was a stupid moral.
Excuse me… *WUT!?*
Wait my name is Olivia💀
hold on wait a minute- bro myone of my classmates name is olivia she had a injextion at the age of something so when she cries a bit too hard her eyes start bleeding can i just say here i hope thats not olivias ghost
Thats the dumbest moral ever
@@Wolfy22324I also have a classmate named Olivia 😭
I actually ordered "in a dark dark room" so I could read it to my daughter! BY FAR my absolute FAVORITE is the story about the girl who the green scarf! That story has followed and haunted me my whole life! And I LOVE IT! 🥰
It sounds interesting, would you be able to link me to it? Or tell me where I can find it?
here is free reply
Ikr, for some reason that story stuck with me the most. Imagine being with a woman who might have been an undead person the whole time.
19th century authors: Trauma is the best teacher!
Yeah
IKR
It worked
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I know, right?
At my school they read the green ribbon to every grade, including kindergartner. Goosebumps is a recommendation as well.
And, scary stories to tell in the dark was read by me and most of my class, the whole series. Coralline is one of my classes favorite movies. What can I say, those are some pretty good books. :)
For the last book series, that was part of my childhood I don't regret having. There's a story called "ghost with the bloody fingers" and my sister and I thought it ended in such a silly way, it stuck in our heads rent free.
Edit for context: a man died in a hotel room and anyone who tried to stay there would run away from the ghost. One night a guy was there and playing his guitar. Once the ghost showed up, the guy ended the whole story off with "cool it man, get yourself a bandaid"
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what?😂😂🤣🤣
LMAO WTH 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
@@quailish2 I kid you not this actually happened
SAME have that book
I liked these storys as a kid. Maybe thats why I love horrorfilms so much. When I was 12 I looked Psycho for the first time with my mom. She first speak with me about the film and asked my if I feel ok with it and I should say when I want to stop.
Stories*and Spoke*
I’ve heard of “The Little Match Girl” story, but it’s quite different?
So basically, there was this poor girl, shivering in the cold winter selling matches, she was afraid to go home because her abusive father would beat her up for failing to sell any matches. She kept trying to sell these matches but they just walked pass her and ignored her.
In the flame of these matches, she could see scenes of comforting visions: The warm oven stove, the glowing Christmas tree, and the delicious roast goose. Each vision disappears as the match burns out. Then she sees and shooting star in the sky, which her late grandmother says it means someone is on their way to heaven. In the flames of the next match, she could a vision of her late grandmother, the only person who treated her with love, and kindness. The girl wanted to keep this vision alive for as long as possible, so then she lights the entire bundle of matches.
When the matches were gone, she saw a real vision of her grandmother. She was so happy to see her. She said: “Don’t leave me Grandma!”, her grandma said: “This time I won’t, come with me.”. The girl took her hand and her grandma carries her soul to heaven. She froze to death, but she died with a warm smile on her face. The passer-bys express themself with pity seeing the little girl. But they do not know the wonderful visions she had seen, nor do they know that she is now happy in heaven with her grandmother.
i heard this same version too!
Yesh I also heard a different versión as well.
Yeah thats the story i heard in hong kong translated to English
That's the version I heard, it was bittersweet 😭
@@ladymoichi6579yeah!
My teacher in elementary school read one of "the scary stories to tell in the dark" to the entire class on Halloween month and it gave all of us chills. And I remember almost every detail about the stories.
This is the story from what I remember: It is about a guy who gets invited to a party at a supposed haunted mansion that his friend to have fun. And when the guy goes to the party he has a good time at first but then needs to use the restroom which is downstairs in the basement. As he makes his way to take the stares he notices some people entering a elevator together and he notices a person with a creepy smile spotted him. The creepy man ask the guy if he wants to come on the elevator with them to go down but the guy refuses, and the creepy person keeps persisting for the guy to get on the elevator with them bit the guy keeps refusing. Eventually the Creepy guy stopped persisting and just press the elevator button to go down with everyone else while waiving goodbye as he continues to smile at the guy while the doors close. And so the guy walks down the stairs and he has a long way down since the house has multiple basement do to it being a abandoned wine seller house. But as he goes down he heard the sound of the elevator going down through the thin walls but the elevator wasn't going down slowly. The elevator was actually falling down incredibly fast and everyone in there was screaming in fear all the way down until the last thing the guy heard was the sound of a giant crash at the bottom. The guy then immediately bolted back upstairs and left the party in a panic, but as he was running he saw the same creepy guy bringing more people into the elevator with him and the creepy guy spotted him again and just waved a friendly goodbye as the guy continues to run away. The guy then realized that if he did go on that elevator with the creepy person along with everyone else he too would have entered the same fate as all those other people did.
that is one of the scariest one i have read
That story reminds of an almost similar tale that author Bennett Cerf related in his 1944 book called "Famous Ghost Stories." I've never seen the book myself (especially since it's out of print now), but I read about it in the book "'The Twilight Zone' Treasury." (I'll explain later.)
Anyway, this story is about a young lady from New York City who goes to visit some distant relatives who live in an old antebellum mansion in the South. On two consecutive nights, just as she's about to go to bed, the lady looks out of her window and sees an old-fashioned horse-drawn coach, which pulls up and stops just below the window. The driver of the coach, who's a rather scary looking fellow, jumps to the ground, points a finger at the woman, and says "There's room for one more."
This frightens the girl so much, that she decides to cut her visit short, packs her bags, and rushes back to New York. However, she can't get what happened to her down South out of her mind, so she goes to see a psychiatrist, who convinces her that what she saw was just her imagination. Accepting this diagnosis, the lady leaves the psychiatrist's office and is about to board an elevator to go down to the first floor of the medical building, when she hears a familiar voice say "There's room for one more." She realizes that it was the elevator operator who said it, and that he looks exactly like the strange coachman! Terrified, she backs away, refusing to get on the elevator, which leaves without her. Suddenly, the cables working the elevator break, causing it to fall all the way to the ground floor and crash, killing everyone aboard it!
Now, here's the "Twilight Zone" connection. There was an episode of that show with a plot that was loosely based on the story I mentioned above. In this tale, entitled "Twenty-Two," a woman (played by Barbara Nicolas) who's a nightclub dancer is in a hospital, where she's trying to recover from a nervous breakdown she suffered, as a result of doing too many shows in a short period of time. But she's not getting much rest or sleep because she keeps having a vision where she follows a strange-looking nurse down to the hospital basement, to Room 22, which happens to be the MORGUE, at which point, the nurse (who's rather beautiful, but in a disturbing way) looks at her, smiles in a sinister manner, and says "Room for one more, honey." The girl patient then screams and runs back to her hospital room.
She relates her vision to her boyfriend and her doctor (played by Jonathan Harris, who also played Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960s sci-fi TV series, "Lost in Space"), who assure her that it was all just a recurring nightmare, which seems to be true when it's revealed that the actual night nurse for the morgue is not the same nurse from the girl's vision.
Eventually, the patient is discharged from the hospital, and plans to board a passenger plane to another city (I think it was either New York or Las Vegas, but I'm not sure), where another dancing gig awaits her. At the airport, however, she feels a sense of deja vu when she's told that the plane she's waiting to board is FLIGHT 22 -- THE SAME NUMBER AS THE HOSPITAL MORGUE!
As she's about to walk up the stairs leading into the plane, she notices with a start that the stewardess looks exactly like the mysterious nurse from her vision/nightmare. The stewardess smiles at her and says "Room for one more, honey." Screaming again, the former patient runs back into the airport terminal. The plane takes off without her -- AND EXPLODES IN MID-AIR!
@@michaelpalmieri7335Oh God that's some freak stuff but yeah I can see the similarities in the stories. If something like that happens to me I'd be terrified.
@@adoniahageraats1690
And I wouldn't blame you for it.
I got a big book full of Hans Christian Anderson tales years ago. I read the little match girl with my mom and we both ended up bawling! After, I read The Little Mermaid and it quickly became one of my favorite tales. I don't know why but I quickly grew to prefer the true, original fairy tales rather than Disney's
Also, TH-camrs have been missing key details like Prince is in love with her but not romantically as he is in love with the girl he thought saved him from drowning and when he goes into an arranged wedding he discovers the girl he going to marry it same girl he is in love
Also, Mermaid dies reborn as the daughter of air and gets a chance to earn her own happy ending with soul and rest in peace in Heaven
Omg I read both of them too although I'm happy her grandmother brought her to heaven and ended her misery it was an interesting part and the little mermaid that turned into a bubble and float to heaven I loved it also thank you I really appreciated sharing with you. 😊
@user-kr8ql3gv1n Yes, both had endings that made me feel so many different emotions! Both are such beautiful works of writing 😍
The book "In a dark dark room" is still on my shelf and "The green ribbon" was my mum's favorite story that was the beginning of my horror story collection
Keep it up
@rod scarborough love your version.👊
I heard the green ribbon in my class room from my teacher
i always had a weird intrest in the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” mainly because the drawings looked alot like some of the things i see and had dreams about. i also just generally liked horror stuff.
Same here my fav is The green Ribbon my 2nd grade teacher read it on a Halloween 2011
They.were fascinating and frightening. The stories weren't usually so bad.
i like them also
unlike my classmates
Same
@@JuliusCeasarZeppeli DID YOU SAY THAT TO ME?
13:13 Why did I just now realize that was Melanie Martinez??😅😂
OH YEAH!
i realized it lol and when i saw it i sing cry baby from Melanie Martinez
SAME
OH MY GOD LOL
@@skyoffice3123 same 😭😭😭😭
I actually liked “In a Dark Dark Room” when I was a kid. It was a surprise but not really scary.
I loved the book I still have it somewhere my favorite story was with the girl who had the ribbon around her neck
ya same
I was freaked out but idk like I just kept listening to it ( I was in preschool and did not know how to read) and eventually I just knew what was going to happen but I still got a little scared.
Ye I read that all the time, and I thought it was cool.
I stopped reading at the green ribbon story tho… but then I read it again and enjoyed it
I randomly found it one day in my elementary school library, and I read The Green Ribbon. Scared me for years. Nowadays I love that stuff. XD
I love Goosebumps, Fear Street, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and all of Neil Gaiman's work. The stories are fun, creative, and memorable. And yes, scary, but in a way that was enjoyable. A shared experience since you knew you weren't alone in being spooked by these tales. Plus, horror stories are morality stories where the bad person gets their comeuppance in gruesome, creative ways.
Writers now: We need to make our stories as non-violent as possible so we can teach the value of friendship.
Writers in the 19th century: _Everyone knows the best way to learn is in life threatening situations._
Nowadays kids have to learn the hard way by stepping into that murder van so which is really better?!✌️🐈😂😼
@@catmum1019 Stories aren’t the only ways to learn, most parents probably talk about “Don’t accept things from strangers,” etc. Or what my parents did was show me a couple videos about the topic, helping me learn what not to do, even if the kid tries to be edgy that’s their fault in the first place for getting kidnapped or otherwise, killed.
Let's find a happy medium. XD
NaH the middle Ages were worst
IT SCARE ME REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I regonize two of the stories:
The Match Girl :
I watched the disney one and it isnt really tragic.
The ribbon girl:
I heard a remake of the story in Royale High on Roblox. Its the same!
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was the book that started my love of horror. By the time Goosebumps came out I was already "too cool to read a nerd book". But, after having my own daughter and her reading the Goosebumps books do I see how scary they can actually be.
Same, and now I started watching 90s TV show GooseBumps and watching Scary Stories to tell in the Dark movie.
Same
@@mingjiechen62 you might like 90s tv show 'are you afraid of the dark' it was before the goosebumps tv show by about half a decade. it was geared towards a slightly older audience, not by much granted- only a few years...but its enjoyable
@@jarrettskelly2517 I get the understand of that reading books then the 90s TV show after could be growing up
The Little match girl was and is my favorite fairytale. When I was 9 yrs old (back in 2009) I read the story from my english textbook. Idk why but I've always found it fascinating.
You do love tears, don't you? 😢
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting theory going in the medical field: books are often a representation of how people see the world around them. The story Alice in Wonderland is about a girl who has a distorted world she thinks is real. Things seem to be larger or smaller, and even she grows and shrinks. Since then, a mental disorder has been discovered that causes the human brain to interpret things as being a different size. One person reported feeling taller than she actually was. It is now believed that Lewis Carroll (author of Alice In Wonderland) suffered from this disorder. Another famous person believed to suffer from this is Picasso.
And for a weird tale, I was read a story in 4th grade about a lying frog. The lying frog was so bad that when the mother frog was sick and dying she told him to bury her in the opposite location of what she wanted. She wanted a beautiful meadow or something to be buried in. Instead she said in a bog where her body would eventually wash away. She thought her son wouldn't listen and do the opposite of what she asked because that was part of his usual attitude. Instead, he chose to honor his mother's wishes and buries her exactly where she asked. Super creepy
Coriline is actually a fantastic book! Yes it may be pretty creepy but it is so good! But I agree that it is extremely creepy.
When I started school, the oldest daughter of neighbors walked with us to and from school. She told terrifying stories, gathered from possibly the newspaper or big kids books. I couldn't get enough of them!
IS IT YOU AMAZING FOR REAL!?!
"Outside Over There" has the script similar to the movie Labyrinth starting Davie Bowie.
Yes, I think many others thought that too. I know I did.
Don't go banning books!! I was obsessed with the Goosebumps series as a kid!!! The Headless Ghost was my favorite!
I loved them too! I used to collect them as well. I always got endings where I died or had some horrible fate though lol.
I cried my eyes out when I read "The Little Match Girl" but I liked it. She was living miserably and finally found happiness in the end is how I thought about it. Such a bittersweet story
I remember the green ribbon one the most, it scared me as a kid but now I'm loving it
same
ya i remember
I never thought, that I would ever see a Struwwelpeter cosplay in my life. That is nuts.
I loved reading Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark and Goosebumps books as a kid.
Then your satan!
@@alvarovasquez5999 lol😂😂😂😂😂 maybe he/she is Satan😂😂😂
@@Lil1W your damn fartin right!
9:45 the tail didn't left my head scratching
It left my whole body scratching.
16:30 - 17:27 wait, if her head was always not connected to her and she NEEDS to tie a ribbon round her neck, how is she alive and how she eats?
I've read about the ribbon girl before. The version i read was a little different, but freaky and unsettling still. Then, I was addicted to horror. Scary Stories to tell in the dark ended up being a favorite book. Her story and others actually helped me draw inspiration for writing horror stories.
At one point, this was also a concept for Gacha Life videos for TikTok. That’s just messed up.
Same I saw it and was having nightmares ad a kid
When I was 7 years old, the classroom I was in at school had Bony Legs. It was terrifying, and came with a cassette tape that made it that much worse. I miss that book.
I still have that book! I bought it from Scholastic decades ago, when I was a kid. Read it to my kids now, but they like scary stuff 😋
I actually read Coraline before i watched the movie. I didn't understand a thing at the moment but i can still understand the basics, still i don't find it terrifying.
Also, i read the another terrifying version of The Little Mermaid. And again before i watch the movie of course. In that version, it's just as same as the original, but the prince DIDN'T FALL IN LOVE WITH HER, anddd as the evil witch had warned, if he didn't love her, she will turn into SPONGES. Egh!
And for the Little Match Girl, i read the version said in the video (but translated) in the text book. Yeah, teaching children about a girl who dies in the cold with a bunch of matches is truly useful for their future.
I also read an unknown story in the text book that is more terrifying than the cry baby. It's about a mother who got her child kidnapped by Death. So she tried to go to Death's castle to get her child back. Along the way, a huge river told her to give it her eyes and it will let her pass through, so she cried her eyes out for the river. And then after crossing, she somehow know there were 2 roads and she doesn't know which one leads to the castle. So there was a hedgehog there telling her it was cold and will tell her the correct road if she warms it up. So she hugged the hedgehog to warm it up and continue on the correct road. Death saw that she loved her child so much, so he gave the child back to the mother! Atleast it makes children love their mother more after reading the story.
the last one is The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen... and sadly that's just not quite the ending, but not tell you if you want to read by yourself
In case anyone was wondering a glutton ( 16:09 ) was a Roman slave who ate anything, anything who was put in front of him. (Including human flesh and bugs!)
I liked the ending of "The Little Match Girl" I think it was sad but fitting. (He didn't explain the whole ending by the way)
what's the whole ending?
@@necromancer147
She was guided to heaven by her grandmother
@@davidsampedro895 now that's actually fucking wholesome.
@@davidsampedro895 yey happy ending :)
@@davidsampedro895 Thanks and that is a happy ending in a sense.
I just realized that I've been reading the less filtered versions (aka the original version) of children's story books and i still have some of them in my shelf
Stories today Cinderella’s married the prince and lived happily ever after in a castle over the rainbow.
Stories back then Cinderella’s step sisters cut off their foot to fit in her shoe the. Get their eyes pecked out by angry birds
this is going to be weird but...
what are you doing step sisters?
-and then she sends it to her step mother as a present and the step mother eats it with delight until she finds a skull at the bottom and dies of shock so uh yuh-
@I am a mega simp for fictional characters
what the fu-
AND the mother had to dance in metal shoes on hot coals until she died
I prefer the darker, creepier versions.
In a dark dark room was one of my favorite horror books growing up. You just brought back way to much nostalgia.
I loved the Goosebumps books when I was a kid and teen :D choosing my own adventures were my favorite ones.
I am a pre-Disney princess woman, so I was angry when Disney bastardized my beloved fairy tales.
For example, the original The Little Mermaid was a story to teach girls to NOT change who they are for a man. Her death was inevitable. Disney ripped the morality tale out for a happy ending that teaches girls to NOT be true to themselves. 🤦♀️
Disney has weakened the minds of children not strengthened their character. 🤬
I bought my kiddo the original book. There was a stop motion movie of it when I was a kid in the 80s. We watched it in 3rd grade.
I agree with this statement. It is a shame they changed it to much until its original morality lost. It is sad to think they change it just because it is to wild and not care about its original morality.😥😥😥
yeah, it's kind of messed up how they tried to make the stories safer but took the main moral of the story out in the process!
@@BeAmazed yeah so rude
Disney is a thief nothing more. They use stories from non other contries americanise them and never include those people from those countries
I was hoping you would mention the library book that haunts me to this day! A boy won’t stop eating chocolate, so at school his teacher makes the students chant “you are what you eat” trying to convince the kids to eat prunes or something. Our main character turns into literal chocolate and the teacher chases him down to eat him
So happy so see Hoffmann here, I really like his Sandman story. I love him.
I had a lot of these books when I was a kid. I actually loved them and this brought back a lot of nostalgia
I've read completely through" Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" And I've read 50 some odd of the goosebumps including three that he listed, also watched Coraline. I wasn't scared but my older sister at the age of nine was while I was 6.
This video stirred up some old childhood memories. I now remember being read some of these old stories as a child in pre-school or Kindergarten. This is not the first time I've heard some of these stories.
Scary stories to tell in the Dark is altogether 3 of the absolute best and most original authentic collections of dark, and preparatory tales ever written. Truly phenomenal.
5:09 IM DANISH AND I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THIS?! we even had A WEEK LEARNING ABOUT HIM?!
The Green Ribbon was one of my favorite stories growing up.
It always made me laugh when her head fell off. I had a dark twisted sense humor as a child and now that I'm an adult I embrace that part of me.
It was a fun story but I would not recommend for sensitive young children.
Me too! And im still a kid
There are worse stories than the green ribbon so much worse
and so much more horrifying
Mary just can't stop eating
Me: how is she not chubby-
Ikr
High metabolism? LOL.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 damn she lucky then
should could of had Prader Willie Syndrome.
Tapeworms. >.>;;
I think that's how the kids are growing up now, these stories will surfice.
🤣🤣!
I T I S D A S P O O K Y M O N T H
Sad story of henry (1953)
You definitely have a point.
@@ernestweaver1153 When you think most toddllers now use a tablet or parents phone, without supervision. They see more than they should before their school days. Let alone socialising with others after that.
Fun fact: in the 4th grade, I had the story of rebecca who slammed doors for fun and perished miserably in my English textbook. They never ended up actually teaching it, but I read it on my own and was traumatized the rest of the year
I come from Geramny and grew up with Struwwel Peter and it has never been so scary or traumatizing for me because I always knew that these were just stories and every child knew that adults lie to get children to do things like bathing, Combing hair and so on. I also grew up with the goosebumps books, which were intended for kids at the age of 12 and up.
They were really scary but in a way we could handle. Lots of my friends read the books and we loved the thrill
Also, i found Puline's story much darker than the thumb-sucker. You can liitterally see her burning to ash and her cats crying over her ashes. The Soup-casper starved himself to death and they show his grave. At least the Thumb-sucker was aloud to live on.
But i never knew of this american struwelpeter. Have to check that out.
You should also check out "Max and Moritz" from Willhelm Busch. It's a famous german kids book about two mischiefious boys. They put beetles in the bed of their uncle, sew the bridge over a river, so a teacher falls in, blow up the tabacco pipe of another poor human and let the hens of an old widow strangle themselves to death, only to stela them through the chimney when they're cooked. In the end, the miller grind them in his mill.
He wrote other dark stories with morals , too.
at least that moral makes sense. sucking your thumb or crying is not bad!
@@MiaKerbow-Burlesonchubby_ducky Well, sucking the thumb can mess up your teeth, and it is considerate to be "inappropriate" over a certain age... crying too much would annoy your parents Lol
Bro litwraly 5 seconds before he said scary stories to tell in dark, my dad turned off the light and when he said that i was like ''wtf''
I remember in kindergarten that I used to love reading in a dark, dark room during play time because I just love weird and scary stories in general. The green ribbon girl is the one that stuck with me the most because of how weird it was.
13:30 is that where don’t cry your eyes out came from?
8:40 here in Germany there also exist the movie „Achenputtel“ where the story happens like described in the video. Only exception is, that because it is a kids movie they don’t show how they cut off parts of their feet, they only say that it happens, and also there are no pigeons at the wedding. The movie is now about 40 years (but probably older) old and is still broadcasted every Christmas on TV.
Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel
🤣😂The narrator, “ What the hell, Jenny??” 😂🤣
Mm hm
I own many of these books like Hillaire Belloc, Struwwelpeter, the original Grimms, many goosebumps, other books like Prom Dress that came out on the 80s. I read them and loved them, my kids love them now. Teach your kids how to understand the difference between reality and fantasy
In 19:40 you described the Goosebumps books. I still read those books.
This reminds me of a book of Mexican tales I read as a kid. Most of them were pretty normal except for one called “The Weeping Woman”. It follows the tale of a very picky woman looking for the perfect husband. She finds him and gets married. They have kids and then she discovered her husband is cheating on her. Instead of doing the normal thing, she drowns her kids…
ngl that story reminds me of a Mexican horror urban legend named "La Llorna"
@@minukhan8422 this is late and i dk if your being sarcastic but it is La Llorona
that is the La Llorona legend..
There's a lot of variations of the La Lorrona story. None of them are pleasant.
Isn't this based off of a mythical monster from Mexico? (It is)...
These stories only made me more grateful for Disney.
Okay
Same
Don’t make such a rash move, there’s far more “behind the scenes” that isn’t widely known that may change your mind.
@@jackdurden466 Keep her opinion!
Not really as they turn you away from reality and the truth. Plus, there is a lot of dirt behind of scenes of Disney.
When I was a kid, I remember Mrs piggel-wiggle, and of course I read all the original Grimm stories.
I was 10 when I got the Grimms fairy tales.
Whoa!!!! These ain't Disney!!!!
Years later my mom said they didn't read it before they got it for me.
Whoops!!!!!!!!!
Ha ha!!!! I still have it.
I don’t remember the author but my grandmother owned a book called “Goodnight Goon”. That book gave 5 year old me nightmares, and I still can’t look at it without getting shivers.
I remember The Green Ribbon. It, along with the other 4 stories in the book, were some of my favorites as a child. In the back of the book it said that a possible inspiration was the red thread that would be used to sow the head back onto a decapitated criminal for burial.
I used to read that book
I heard the "Green Ribbon" as a long-winded joke story. I never knew it was based on anything literary until today.
A good reading list! I wish I'd had more opportunities to read these to my grandkids on their sleepovers. It should be noted, though, that the Brothers Grimm were not so much the "authors" of their often violent and grotesque tales, but rather "reporters" or "transcribers" of those stories, time-worn folktales they collected from everyday people in the Grimms' role as cultural anthropologists. Another one that should be added to the list is the much darker original folktale version (predating Perrault) of "Sleeping Beauty" -- yow.
And little red riding hood. Let's just say you don't look like a grandmother when you only wear her clothes, so the wove clearly wore something different in the original. 😁
I remember how astonished I was when I discovered Shock-Headed Peter. I kind of knew about it from Pippi Longstocking. And Oh, God, the Green Ribbon. I randomly decided to read that book one day in elementary school, and I was scared for years. Goosebumps as well. I never read them, the covers were scary enough. XD
Coraline is not a children's story, it's a story about a child.
Coralline no matter how many times I watch it I’m still terrified for 4 years and still now I feel creeped out
It's one of my favourite movies ever. I got the version with 3D glasses and it's great. :D
Im love the movie but a picture in the book has spooked me for life (its at 18:54)
When I was little, I climbed a flag pole birdhouse to check for eggs, stuck my hand in to find a wasp nest... Live and learn!
The haunted house picture scared me for years as a kid!
Goosebumps were my favourite as a kid! They're the reason why I still love horror films as an adult, I'm so sad I didn't keep the collection I had with my sisters back then 😂
I loved those "dark" stories as a kid. I would spend hours in Cole's Funny Picture Book, reading about Augustus who would not eat his soup, or Little Johnny Suck-a-thumb. I don't think they're that traumatic to kids.
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The kid in little suck a thumb is Conrad
Johnny is the one who looks in the air
“Wrote a book that made full grown men cry for their mommy’s”
Me: I’m 10 I didn’t shed a tear
same xd
I'm 11
i was confused at these stories back then i didnt understand but my sisters understanded then they never readed book tales from now on
Im 10 to
@@thinkgalaxy6199 cool
I used to read Goosebumps in 4th grade (and a lot in 5th). It was great and I enjoyed the TV show as well. I remember my 3rd grade teacher introducing us to Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. We read that and I was so excited when I learned there were more books in the series.
I don't think any of these stories should be "banned". I was terrified of the dark as a kid and I still enjoyed these stories.
Most of the standard : "Fairy Tales" were originally what is termed cautionary tales. They were NEVER meant to be funny or amusing, but they were meant to teach you the proper manners and ettiquet of the time. The blame for the loss of the learning type of those tales goes to hollywood and similar places. You might want to go look up the tale of the Scissor Man & little Jhonny Suck-a-Thumb. Or the history behind some of the Mother Goose and similar Nursery Rhyms, Pay specific attention to the rhym of Ring-a-round the Rosy, it has survived in it's original form from the time of the Black Death up til modern times UNCHANGED.
I grew up with the Books of the Brothers Grimm and Struwwelpeter, I found it less disturbing, more weird
It's Stummelpeter. It's really hard to see it in the font that the author chose.
@@seldenrock9715 No, it's Struwwelpeter, I had the german Version
@@seldenrock9715 Nope - it's Struwwelpeter. As many Germans I grew up with it too, and I actually liked it. The stories were weird, but didn't seem as cruel to me then as they do now.
I remember my teacher reading our class the Scary Stories to tell in the dark in elementary school. Good times.
Lucky school
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I was a morbid child, The Little Match Girl was one of my favorite short Christmas films. I don't think they ever ran it more than once I was mesmerised by the story. I look it up once in awhile on TH-cam just to get my fix
Goosebumps is never gonna be canceled
AS SOON AS I HEARD THE GREEN RIBBON, I'VE NEVER WOKEN UP AND SHUT MY PHONE THIS FAST BEFORE
I originally heard the green ribbon from scary stories to tell in the dark 💀
@Kingfrogguy7474 What is englosh? You no spell.
I remember the green ribbon story. I mean, I knew about a lot of these, but the green ribbon one was one I'd FORGOTTEN about and now re-remember it.
I STILL love goosebumps and scary stories to tell in the dark. And for those of you curious, I believe that the haunted house ends with the ghost telling the preacher that her husband killed her for her fortune, though she had hidden it. Then she says that if he finds her husband that she would tell him where the fortune is, which does end up happening. My favorite story from that trilogy is the story (I can’t remember the name) where there is a girl driving home from school. She notices that she is being followed. The person following her is turning on their headlights every once in a while. She drives in a circle for a while but she can’t get away from the person so she goes home to her family, runs inside and tells them to call the police. The man following her was following her was following her because there was someone in her backseat trying to kill her. Whenever the killer would raise there head, the follower turned on their headlights so that he would hide again. And this is probably the longest comment I’ve ever written.
Pre-Internet creepypasta story
I thought that was a true story that became an urban legend. 😳
Oh, I remember that story! That's the true creepy horror since it's realistic.
Its called high beams
The scarecrow story here is quite different from what I've read. in the version i read, the scarecrow belonged to an old farmer who's crops were excellent and whenever someone asked him about his secret, he'd tell them that it was all thanks to his horrendous looking scarecrow which he had made him himself. It had 6 foot long arms and large tall legs, making it look like a tree and a head carved out of pumpkin. It was so gruesome looking that even the farmer was scared to look at it. There were two farmer brothers who were lazy and jealous of the older farmer next door. So they basically steal the scarecrow and hide it in their house, refuse to tell the older farmer anything despite him begging and crying to them, and smash it's pumpkin head at night cuz they were too scared to sleep. So later at night the headless scarecrow barges into their house and catches one of the brothers. The other runs away but soon sees the scarecrow chasing him, getting closer and closer. The scarecrow was wearing the other brother's head as his own
14:34M-m-my name is Phoebe💀
My 3rd grade teacher read us the green ribbon story and I remember being horrified by that story it was stuck in my head as a kid. She with us other similar weird scary stories with that one I just remember the most
Mine too
OMG, "I LOVE SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK", AND THE SEQUELS, THEY ARE SO FUN TO READ, I EVEN HAD BROUGHT THEM TO SCHOOL ONCE AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF MY FRIENDS WERE WANTING TO READ THEM, THEY ACTUALLY MADE IT INTO A MOVIE, 10/10, WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND
5:23 I know the original one! I’ve read it and I perfectly remember it being describes as stepping on knives. I knew about the ending too. I honestly didn’t know there was a Disney adaptation. I prefer the original ending in my opinion.
Same. I have a big book of Andersen’s fairy tales and The Little Mermaid is in it. It’s sad, but it’s interesting.
Same!! Except as a child I read it before watching the movie lol
i was surprised and exited when i saw that he used the official crybaby art from the song crybaby by Melanie Martinez
These stories literally qualify as creepypastas.
When I was a child I had an album of Danny Kaye telling Hans Christian Anderson stories, and 'The Little Matchgirl' was my favorite.
You forgot The "Daughters of Air" ending, which was by Hans Christian Anderson, making it "word of God", therefore "canon"
What is it about?
The little mermaid (who was not named in the original story) gained a soul for her sacrifice, and became a Daughter of Air. I recommend it.
And the Prince was really in love with the other girl, though he really cares for the Little Mermaid also
I had that book, "In a Dark Dark Room" and I remember the story about Jenny... Then as an adult I saw those 'Orphan' films and they made me think it may have been VERY loosely based on the story about Jenny. Though, the ribbons Esther wore around her neck she also wore around her wrists, and they were to hide scars, rather than keep her head attached...lol But it still gave me that vibe, because I found Ester to be really eerie just like I found Jenny to be especially eerie when I was a kid.
I also had Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, as well as More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark , and Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones. I still have the first one from 1981, got it at my school book fair when I was in middle school, about 8 years after it was published.
These stories were intended to warn kids and keep them acting right. 😁
By golly, it works XD
Yes, to control them.
I used to tell my daughter bedtime stories. When she misbehaved during the day, I would incorporate that into the story. It usually went something like, “Once upon a time there was a little girl. She didn’t listen to her mommy. One day she left the yard, knowing she wasn’t allowed to. She got ran over by a car and died. The end”. I regret it now, but it’s something my daughter and I can laugh over..
um u may need help
@@stripyd007 there’s no “may” about it….😅
XD honestly thoi sure ur a great mom@@mattiemathis9549
The translation for Struwwelpeter is not right, struwwel means uncombed or messy for hair, not electrified.
I’m going to call myself “electric head Tina” seeing as I sometimes look like I’ve been electrocuted. Thank you for the proper translation. X
@@tinawebb9124 Lol!
OMG I LOVE THE GREEN RIBBON
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