10 horror stories about camping that wake us up in cold sweats

Children’s horror stories have become part of city folklore. It is difficult to imagine change in a camp that does not have its own stories. Today they only make us smile and nostalgic, but in our childhood we talked about them with fear and our knees were shaking. We remember the most chilling stories that deprive us of sleep.

wheeled coffin

Once upon a time there was a girl. And one day his mother went to work and forbade him to turn on the radio at all costs. She didn’t listen and opened it. They say on the radio: “Girl, girl, a coffin on wheels has come out of the cemetery, looking for your street. To hide! However, he did not attach any importance to the warning, believing that the announcer was just reading a scary fairy tale. Suddenly the radio sounds again: “My daughter, my daughter, a coffin on wheels has found your street and will come home soon.” After the voice said her exact address, the girl got scared and closed all the doors, but she did not run away. Finally, an ominous voice on the radio says: “Girl, girl, a coffin on wheels has found your house and is heading towards your apartment.” Then her mother returns from work and her daughter dies there. Only there is some kind of wheel nearby.

By the way, there is also a second humorous version of the horror story. When a coffin on wheels rolls into the house and the girl hits it with a hammer. She suddenly appears a skeleton and says: “They broke the new car again!”

queen of spades

Two girlfriends at the camp decided to look for the Queen of Spades. In a quiet hour, they drew a house and steps with soap on the mirror and recited a spell. Suddenly a small, dark speck began slowly climbing the steps towards the house. The girls were scared, but there was nowhere to run; They both fell unconscious. Later, their lifeless bodies were discovered by a counselor who understood everything: each of them was holding a card with the Queen of Spades. Unfortunately, if he had known what the girls were up to, he would have warned them to wipe the drawing off the mirror and then nothing terrible would have happened.

blue curtains

One day, a girl was playing on the street with her friends. A stranger approached him and said: “Never buy blue curtains, it brings bad luck.” The girl just laughed and ran away. The next day, her grandmother noticed the blue curtains in the store, and the girl did not try to dissuade her from buying them. When they hung it in the bedroom, everyone noticed a small black dot. The old woman tried to wash him but it didn’t work. At night, the girl woke up from a terrible scream. He looks – his grandmother is dead and there are black fingerprints on her neck. Terrified, she called the police, who ambushed her in her bedroom. And then something incredible happened; A black hand reached out from there and reached for the girl’s throat. The police shot at the spot that turned red, but could not save the woman. After all, the curtains were magical.

black hand

Not far from the cemetery lived a man who worked on a railway switch. Every time a Moscow train passed by, the Black Hand appeared and took away part of his body: ear, eye, lung, finger. And now the switchman had only one leg left. With half-hearted grief, seeing off the train from Moscow, he limped to the crossing and returned home, where he lay down on the bed, neither alive nor dead. Black Hand flew out the window and took the last leg from him. Following the Moscow train was a locomotive from Kiev. If you don’t turn the key, tragedy will occur. However, only the man’s body remained. No matter how much he wanted to, he couldn’t save people. The train derailed and crashed. The police arrived at the scene and saw that the driver was miserable. Hearing his story, the police ambushes him at his home. It was pitch dark that night. Luckily the weather turned violent and wolves howled in the forest from time to time. And then the Black Hand flies home. The team starts shooting at him with pistols. Some even remove large handcuffs. However, the evil spirit easily broke them by simply opening his fingers. Black Hand showed nothing to the cops, ripping the man’s heart out of his chest and flying out the window. So the switchman is dead. His body was buried in the same cemetery nearby.

red gloves

One girl’s mother sent her to the store to buy gloves and told her to choose any gloves other than red ones. Of course, he disobeyed as soon as he saw the red gloves. Satisfied with the purchase, the girl hurried home and found her house on fire. Fire crews could not extinguish the fire. And suddenly a red-faced woman appears from behind a tree. Everyone who saw him ran away. The heartbroken girl remained. The woman came to her and said that she would extinguish the fire, but only on one condition. Just come to the cemetery at midnight and bring your red gloves. The girl was scared to death, but she agreed. She knew something terrible would happen if she didn’t keep her end of the deal. At night, a grave was opened in front of him in the cemetery. The coffin lid opened and a red-faced woman came out. He ran away in panic. The spirit following her wailed: “If you don’t give me your gloves, you will lose your grandmother just like your mother.” And so it happened. At her grandmother’s funeral, the girl again met a red-faced woman who prophesied her quick death. The girl came home, went to bed and died. She that she was buried she. Then she wakes up in a coffin and her mother and grandmother are next to her. And everyone has red faces. He looked at the reflection – his face also turned red. She then started coming to people living with her family and warning them not to buy red gloves.

Drowned Olya

According to a legend, the ghost of a drowned woman haunts the Orlyonok camp, which was closed in 2006. The girl’s name was Olya. She was very beautiful, so she immediately attracted men’s attention. Her peers were very jealous of her and decided to play a prank on the first beauty. They called him to the lake and asked him to play a guessing game by touching. Olya was blindfolded, turned around and pulled into the water by sounds. Then the jealous women jumped after him, pushed him into the lake, and ran away laughing. It turned out that the girl could not swim. When Olya disappeared, the advisors were horrified. They looked for him everywhere, but his body was not found. It was as if it had never existed. However, with his disappearance, something strange and terrible began to happen in the camp. With each subsequent shift, the girls, whose bodies were pulled from the lake, began to disappear. The schoolgirls who managed to survive remembered that a beautiful girl had pulled them to the lake. According to the description, the drowned woman looked very similar to Olya.

Pannochka died

This is more of a game than a story that children of the 80s and 90s played in schools and camps. A girl was chosen from the group and had to lie down on a bed, table or just on the floor, fold her arms over her chest and close her eyes. Others stood around her (sometimes on their knees) wailing: “The woman died because of the Earl!” He will be buried! Heaven rejected the woman, so let the demons bury her!” In the last word, it was necessary, by joint efforts, to throw the “dead woman” with her fingertips so that the body rose to the ceiling. Of course, he had to be caught later. After all, no one canceled the force of gravity. For some, the “spiritual session” only caused a smile, for others it frightened them to the point of trembling in their knees.

artek freak

In the 1960s, a strange burial was found on the territory of the Artek camp. These were the remains of seven people without skulls and hands. It is unknown whether they were victims of war or a bloody ritual. According to one legend, they were killed by the Artek maniac. The pioneer leaders liked to tell the children what would happen to them if they left the camp unannounced. Maybe the method was brutal, but most of it followed discipline. After all, it was described in vivid colors how the spirit of a maniac continued to torment and kill children even after his death.

Ghosts of Children

Another popular horror story allegedly “about dead children” occurred at Artek, when two consultants were placed in a small house on the outskirts. Real evil happened there at night. The girls couldn’t sleep because of the sound of the doorknob turning, books falling off the shelves, and whisper-like voices. The next day, one of the counselors had to go on an overnight camping trip, so his roommate was left alone in the room. Apparently he hid what happened that night because he was afraid he wouldn’t be taken seriously. But in vain. As darkness fell, the door to his room opened and was filled with the spirits of children. They were pale and very sad. His hands reached out to her as if begging for something. The counselor fainted at what he saw. It turned out that in the 1930s, tuberculosis patients were kept in this very place. Many patients died in terrible pain. Maybe the souls of children fought so hard for life that they could never leave this world…

cannibal advisor

This story happened at Rainbow camp. We were told that during one of the shifts a very nice-looking consultant, Evgenia, arrived. The kids adored him, but soon many of the students in his team began disappearing without a trace. The counselor answered all questions about their parents allegedly taking them away for disciplinary violations. When it turned out that this was not the case, he was put under surveillance. One day, a group of young scouts noticed how Evgenia went down to the basement of one of the buildings at night. And then a terrible picture appeared in his eyes: the counselor was talking to someone in the dark, promising to sacrifice a new child, and the voice from beyond the grave answered him. The information was immediately passed on to the director, but the incident was covered up. Evgenia was sent to a psychiatric hospital and the camp was soon closed. What happened to the children is still a mystery. Perhaps he had swallowed the children or sacrificed them in some terrible ritual.