R/ Two Sentence Horror

[alexiat]

A thorough explanation for the counting one:
It refrnces an old Japanese folktale. It tells the story of a girl who was a dish washer for one of the royal people at that time. She was given 10 porcelain plates to look after, and was told that if anything happened to them she would be tortured or executed. One day, after completing her work, she goes to count the plates as she does everyday. One of the plates was shattered, and she didn't know who or what caused it. When they found out, she was tortured and killed. According to legends, her spirit still resides in that same palace, counting the plates each night and giving a blood curdling scream when she can't find the 10th one

[johnbones]

The second one is more tragic than scary.

[Legolas_simp]

“I can hear one year into the future.”
“Today it went silent.”

[sagethcrow]

Miss the dude who had explanations for all of them 😔…

[cta]

i think the counting is a reference to a japanese yokai. If someone can correct me, its something about a girl breaking a plate or something

[matsuu]

GODDAMNIT IS THE THIRD ONE MY COUSIN SINGING THE HAMILTON SOUNDTRACK WHILE WASHING THE DISHES AGAIN

[theenderdefender]

I got a text from a random stranger, simply saying '10'

The next day at my grandpa's funeral, the person texts me '9'

[SlmnArt]

For the third one those are just the hufepuffs making waffles in the middle of the night, don’t worry.

[Its_Eoda]

I wish I could do lip reading

I've always wondered what my reflection is trying to tell me

[jackblack]

“I told the child I adopted to never respond to the forest calling out his name.After all these years the search party still hasn’t given up.”

[sharpfang]

Bring a notebook in front of the mirror and start scribbling in it then show it to the mirror and read its reflection.

[kenneththelatexbeast]

That one with the plates, I think that was a myth I heard about, about a maid drowning and haunting a house, counting the plates

[burdenedsceptile]

That last one caught me off guard, I loved it.

[moonpanzor]

Wait so for my kindness of freeing the genie, I get infinite cosmic power, and free room and board? All while going potentially ten thousand or more years without dealing with another person? Sign me up.

[drnemo]

The voices stopped but the eyes kept staring.
Truthfully eyes in endless night could not bring fear as the reflection those eyes held.

[dearestmixoda]

*reads wikipedia on the plate demon*

TEN!

[RHCP_AKIRASTAND]

For people who doesn’t know what the 2nd one is about if you wish for the genie to be free you become the genie in their place

[savagecabbage]

The dish one counting plates is more funny and relatable than it is scary. Nobody likes the idea of Mom counting and finding dirty dishes you didn't wash properly

[ThatBuckskin-Frank]

The 2nd one doesn't seem so scary, if you look at the big picture in a big time lapse you could potentially see it as never-ending kindness 😊

[Calypso-ir]

the third one is actually a yurei, (japanese ghost) her name is Okiku and she haunts wells (notorious places of haunting in japan) the way the story goes is that she was accused by her lover that she broke very expensive china which were ten plates in total but she broke 9 i think (she was a maid) and i believe she fell into the well and died


so the way she haunts is just counting to 9 every night (counting the plates) but breaks off before 10 (the plate she didn’t know) the way she was banished or “sent away” was by this dude shouting 10 at the well she was in after she said 9, this indicating she found the last plate