Strangest Children's Books Tales You Won't Believe Are Real

Coming up are some seriously strange children's tales you won't believe actually exist!

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[nerrissarichards]

19th century authors: Trauma is the best teacher!

[lesliethrasher]

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....chilling....

[eclectic_savant]

"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.

[nutmeg]

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.

[ahub]

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

[ddiwa_]

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.

[Imzesty]

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. :)

[GachaTori-cpxv]

13:13 Why did I just now realize that was Melanie Martinez??😅😂

[lordsimping]

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.

[warpey]

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._

[adoniahageraats]

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.

[zemmy]

I remember reading the green ribbon in 2022, I loved it, I showed it to my granny, I forgot about her reaction though. I didn't think that story would be there but it is, Thanks for nostalgia! :)

[samuelyu]

Fun facts:
Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were adapted into a movie films.

[inspiresmariokartchannel]

I actually liked “In a Dark Dark Room” when I was a kid. It was a surprise but not really scary.

[IWantToDie]

In scary stories to tell in the dark, there was one about a silver wolf and a hunter. The book ended with the Hunter's friends finding him up against a lamp post with a large gaping hole in his neck and his throat hanging out of it. Not kidding. I wish I was.

[miramrojas]

9:45 the tail didn't left my head scratching
It left my whole body scratching.

[Komachichuu]

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"

[pasqualevalerioti]

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.

[alokanandachandra]

In 19:40 you described the Goosebumps books. I still read those books.

[sean-keykong]

13:30 is that where don’t cry your eyes out came from?