Happy Halloween! Enjoy the following 2 Sentence Horror Stories, written by the Fall 2025 Journalistic Writing class.
“‘I’m so excited, I love haunted houses,’ I said as my friend and I squeezed through the hallway, which was plastered with synthetic dead bodies. As I paused, I brushed past one of them that looked like it had been bludgeoned to death; it was still warm.” – Beret Anna Hilsman
“When I woke up, I jokingly greeted my cardboard cutout resembling a clown, then walked downstairs to my kitchen for some coffee, but then something in the garbage caught my eye. There was ripped up cardboard in the garbage.” – Cameron Chanthavong
“As I heard the nicest things said about me, I was happy. Then they said to lower the coffin.” – Jonah Santos
“I was singing in the shower to my favorite song. When I stopped, the singing didn’t.” – Isaac DeFeyter
“I saw an ominous figure on the show I was watching. Then realized my TV wasn’t on.” – Lincoln Taylor
“I went to tuck my brother into bed, and looked under his bed as a joke. Eyes and a grimacing smile looked back, as my brother said ‘that’s the person under my bed.'” – Eva Carini
“I was home alone watching a movie when the TV flickered off, leaving the room completely dark. As I reached for the remote, a cold hand grabbed my wrist and whispered my name, and that’s the last thing I remember.” – Lyla Dowling
“My parents were out of town for the week. I pulled into my garage, and the door was open, and a dark figure stared with blood red eyes.” – Garrison Gardiner
“The sound of the insects suddenly went silent as I walked through the woods. I soon found out the bugs weren’t the only things accompanying me.” – Elijah Gutknecht
“I woke up from a nap in my friend’s car while he was driving at 6:06 A.M. on October 30, 2018. But I remembered that he died in a car crash at 6:07 A.M. on October 30, 2018.” – Ryan Park
“I was walking alone, clearing my mind and I turned around to see a tall man right behind me. I turn around to check again, he’s not there but a body is laying down lifeless.” – Avi’yonna Partee
“I was driving at 3AM and saw a body in the mirror, but when I turned around there was no one. When I turned back around it was closer in the mirror and there were now two of them.” – Dineah Quintanilla
“In the quiet of the night, he glanced at the family photo on the wall, where everyone was smiling except for the dark figure lurking in the corner. It wasn’t until he looked away he realized the figure had moved, the figure was right behind him.” – Raymond Casares
“When I woke up it was completely dark, but I could feel I was laying on something flat with walls close on all sides. Somewhere far away I heard a funeral march playing, followed by the thumping of dirt clods dropping onto the roof over my head.” – Mr. Piersma
