Top 5 spookiest Internet tales for Halloween

Carmen Winstead

The tale of Carmen Winstead reads more like an anti-bullying anecdote, with a spooky twist that claims failing to repost her story will result in some pretty horrible consequences. It has its roots in chain email and tells the story of how Carmen managed to get her revenge on the girls who pushed her into a sewer, subsequently killing her. It’s not for the faint hearted!

R.I.P Carmen gone but not forgotten… Keep Reading: They hurt her After lunch, her teacher announced that the school was holding a fire drill. When the alarm sounded, Carmen and the other students filed out of the classroom and assembled in the yard outside. As the teachers read out the roll call, the gang of five girls decided that this was a great opportunity to embarrass Carmen in front of the whole school during the fire drill.
They moved over to where Carmen was standing, near a sewer drain, and began crowding the poorgirl, getting in her face and nudging her towards the open manhole. They pushed her and she tripped over and fell head-first down the manhole.

When they saw her falling, the girls started giggling and when Carmen’s name was called out, they shouted “She’s down in the sewer!” All of the other students began laughing. But when the teachers looked down the manhole and saw Carmen’s body lying at the bottom in the muck and the poop, the laughter abruptly stopped. Her head was twisted around at an odd angle and her face was covered in blood. Worse still, she wasn’t moving. There was nothing any of the teachers could do for her. Carmen was dead. When the police arrived and went down into the sewer, they determined that she had broken her neck. Her face had been torn off when she hit the ladder on the way down and her neck snapped when she landed on her head on the concrete at the bottom. The police hauled Carmen’s body out of the sewer and sent her to the mortuary. Everyone had to stay behind after school while the police questioned all of Carmen’s classmates. The five girlslied to the police, saying they had witnessed Carmen falling down the sewer. The police believed the girls and Carmen Winstead’s death was ruled an accident and the case was closed.

Everyone thought that was the last they would hear of Carmen Winstead, but they were wrong. Months later, Carmens classmates began receiving strange e-mails on their MySpaces. The e-mails were titled “They Pushed Her” and claimed that Carmen hadnt really fallen down the sewer, she had been pushed. The e-mails also warned that the guilty people should own up and take responsibility for their crime. If they didn’t there would be horrible consequences. Most people dismissed the e-mails as a hoax, but others were not so sure. A few days later, one of the girls who pushed Carmen down the sewer was at home taking a shower, when she heard a strange cackling laugh. It seemed to be coming from the drain. The girl started to freak out and ran out of the bathroom. That night, the girl said goodnight to her mom and went to sleep. Five hours later, her mom was awoken in the middle of the night, by a loudnoise that resounded throughout the house. She ran into her daughter’s room, only to find it empty. There was no trace of the girl. The worried mother called the police and when they arrived, they conducted a search of the area. Eventually, they discovered the girl’s grisly remains. Her corpse was lying in the sewer, covered in muck and poop. Her neck was broken and her face missing. It had been completely torn off. One by one, all of the girls who pushed Carmen that day were found dead. They had all been killed in exactly the same way and were all found at exactly the same spot. In the sewer at the bottom of the same uncovered manhole where Carmen had met her doom. But the killing didnt stop there. More and more of Carmen’s former classmates were found dead. It seemed that anyone who didnt believe that Carmen had been pushed, was eventually found down in the sewer with their necks broken and their faces torn off. They say that Carmen’s ghost is still on the rampage, hunting down anyone who doesn’t believe herstory. According to the legend, Carmen will get you, whetherits from a toilet, a shower, a sink or a drain. When you go to sleep, youll wake up in the sewer, in complete darkness, paralyzed, unable to move, hearing cackling laughter all around you. Then, as you scream in horror, Carmen will come and tear your face off. So be careful who you bully, because you just might find yourself on the receiving end of the curse of Carmen Winstead. FACT: About two months later, 16-year-old David Gregory read this post and didn`t repost it. When he went to take a shower, he heard laughter, started freaking out, and ran to his computer to repost it. He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep, but five hours later, his mom woke up in the middle of the night from a loud noise and David was gone.
A few hours later, the police found him in the sewer, with a broken neck and the skin on his face peeled off. Even Google her name -you`ll find this to be true. If you dont repost this saying “They hurt her,” then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet,or the shower

Flashing Headlights

Many a spooky tale takes place on rural roads at night, and this classic legend is no different. Again there are many different versions to this tale with varying details, but the basic premise claims that a lonesome female driving home at night is soon startled by the car behind flashing his headlights. She races home only to discover that someone was hidden in the backseat of her car with a knife, and the driver flashing his headlights was actually not the threat, but someone trying to warn her of the impending danger.

An example reads below –

One night a woman went out for drinks with her girlfriends. She left the bar fairly late at night, got in her car and onto the deserted highway. She noticed a lone pair of headlights in her rear-view mirror, approaching at a pace just slightly quicker than hers. As the car pulled up behind her she glanced and saw the turn signal on — the car was going to pass — when suddenly it swerved back behind her, pulled up dangerously close to her tailgate and the brights flashed.
Now she was getting nervous. The lights dimmed for a moment and then the brights came back on and the car behind her surged forward. The frightened woman struggled to keep her eyes on the road and fought the urge to look at the car behind her. Finally, her exit approached but the car continued to follow, flashing the brights periodically.
Through every stoplight and turn, it followed her until she pulled into her driveway. She figured her only hope was to make a mad dash into the house and call the police. As she flew from the car, so did the driver of the car behind her — and he screamed, “Lock the door and call the police! Call 911!”When the police arrived the horrible truth was finally revealed to the woman. The man in the car had been trying to save her. As he pulled up behind her and his headlights illuminated her car, he saw the silhouette of a man with a butcher knife rising up from the back seat to stab her, so he flashed his brights and the figure crouched back down.
The moral of the story: Always check the back seat!

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The Russian Sleep Experiment

If you’ve heard the tale – and saw the disturbing images – regarding the apparent “Russian Sleep Experiment” then you’re certainly not alone. The shocking story about Russian researchers testing the effects of sleep deprivation back in the 1940s is one of the most widely read accounts of modern fiction in cyberspace – but that’s all it is. Fiction.

The tale – posted on the site CreepyPasta – tells the story of an experiment gone wrong, where 5 inmates – promised freedom is they could go 30 days without sleep – slowly went insane, resulting in violence, murder and general craziness.

If you’re interested, you can read the original story here.