Strangest Children's Books Tales You Won't Believe Are Real
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Coming up are some seriously strange children's tales you won't believe actually exist!
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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
Wow... I’m touched by that I hope you have a wonderful day
Same!
Yeah that was sad
I remember seeing something of a parody of the story in a "Dennis The Menace" comic book, in which Dennis meets the "little match girl." As in the original story, everytime the girl lights one of her matches, she sees visions of a better life (a room warmed by a fireplace, another room with warm clothes, another one with a table bearing food, etc), but eventually, she uses up all her matches, and now, she thinks she's doomed to freeze to death. Now, here's a new spin on this old tale. A boy comes along dressed in Arabian clothes, and Dennis tells him about the little girl's plight. The boy happens to be carrying an Arabian lamp, which he rubs, causing a Genii to appear. Dennis realizes that the boy is none other than ALADDIN himself! At Aladdin's request, the Genii provides everything the girl needs. He sets her, Aladdin, and Dennis up in a cozy room, complete with a roaring fireplace, a table with all kinds of delicious food (which the girl and her new friends enjoy), and a rack of new, warm clothes, which the girl gratefully puts on. After all this, Dennis tells the match girl that he once heard a story about a young lady just like her, that she used up all her matches, and then, "she froze stiff." This makes the girl even happier that she met such nice people as Dennis and Aladdin.
the first time I read "The little match girl" was because I wanted to distract myself because I **cough** overheard **cough** my mom saying we didn't have enough mula
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....
and the hand moves waving causing the bones to creek like an old door
That's scary and sad
Scary
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Netflix and chill that is
"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.
Same 😢
It used to be my favorite story as a kid-
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.
Whoa, your dad sounds like some kind of a NUT! (Nothing personal, of course.)
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.
Yeah it was really sad :(
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@@paulkitchen9429 Bro thats just fucking Messed Up
@@paulkitchen9429 how can u mess up typing word ew
I remember I used to read that book sometimes growing up because we had it in our bookshelf for some reason. I don't know who bought it or where it is now, but the message of the story I think is supposed to be that it's important to look out for others, show kindness to others, and treat others how you would want to be treat. Like if you find someone homeless and hungry on the streets you offer them food or if they are cold or don't have shoes you offer to buy them or bring them clothes or give them money. I think that's the message of the story. It's terribly sad but an important message.
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.
No Disney story is like the original story. I was an exchange student in Hamelin Germany where the story of the Pied Piper is from. They consider it the gospel truth that the story really did happen.
i know
Idk why but for some reason it seems like it’s aaaalways the Germans doing messed up stuff
@@bmac7643 yikes lmao
All of the Disney stories are made into happy stories but the true stories are so tragic.
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. :)
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.
that is one of the scariest one i have read
That story reminds of an almost similar tale that author Bennett Cerf related in his 1944 book called "Famous Ghost Stories." I've never seen the book myself (especially since it's out of print now), but I read about it in the book "'The Twilight Zone' Treasury." (I'll explain later.) Anyway, this story is about a young lady from New York City who goes to visit some distant relatives who live in an old antebellum mansion in the South. On two consecutive nights, just as she's about to go to bed, the lady looks out of her window and sees an old-fashioned horse-drawn coach, which pulls up and stops just below the window. The driver of the coach, who's a rather scary looking fellow, jumps to the ground, points a finger at the woman, and says "There's room for one more." This frightens the girl so much, that she decides to cut her visit short, packs her bags, and rushes back to New York. However, she can't get what happened to her down South out of her mind, so she goes to see a psychiatrist, who convinces her that what she saw was just her imagination. Accepting this diagnosis, the lady leaves the psychiatrist's office and is about to board an elevator to go down to the first floor of the medical building, when she hears a familiar voice say "There's room for one more." She realizes that it was the elevator operator who said it, and that he looks exactly like the strange coachman! Terrified, she backs away, refusing to get on the elevator, which leaves without her. Suddenly, the cables working the elevator break, causing it to fall all the way to the ground floor and crash, killing everyone aboard it! Now, here's the "Twilight Zone" connection. There was an episode of that show with a plot that was loosely based on the story I mentioned above. In this tale, entitled "Twenty-Two," a woman (played by Barbara Nicolas) who's a nightclub dancer is in a hospital, where she's trying to recover from a nervous breakdown she suffered, as a result of doing too many shows in a short period of time. But she's not getting much rest or sleep because she keeps having a vision where she follows a strange-looking nurse down to the hospital basement, to Room 22, which happens to be the MORGUE, at which point, the nurse (who's rather beautiful, but in a disturbing way) looks at her, smiles in a sinister manner, and says "Room for one more, honey." The girl patient then screams and runs back to her hospital room. She relates her vision to her boyfriend and her doctor (played by Jonathan Harris, who also played Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960s sci-fi TV series, "Lost in Space"), who assure her that it was all just a recurring nightmare, which seems to be true when it's revealed that the actual night nurse for the morgue is not the same nurse from the girl's vision. Eventually, the patient is discharged from the hospital, and plans to board a passenger plane to another city (I think it was either New York or Las Vegas, but I'm not sure), where another dancing gig awaits her. At the airport, however, she feels a sense of deja vu when she's told that the plane she's waiting to board is FLIGHT 22 -- THE SAME NUMBER AS THE HOSPITAL MORGUE! As she's about to walk up the stairs leading into the plane, she notices with a start that the stewardess looks exactly like the mysterious nurse from her vision/nightmare. The stewardess smiles at her and says "Room for one more, honey." Screaming again, the former patient runs back into the airport terminal. The plane takes off without her -- AND EXPLODES IN MID-AIR!
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.
Excuse me… *WUT!?*
Wait my name is Olivia💀
hold on wait a minute- bro myone of my classmates name is olivia she had a injextion at the age of something so when she cries a bit too hard her eyes start bleeding can i just say here i hope thats not olivias ghost
Thats the dumbest moral ever
@@Wolfy22324I also have a classmate named Olivia 😭
19th century authors: Trauma is the best teacher!
Yeah
IKR
It worked
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I know, right?
13:13 Why did I just now realize that was Melanie Martinez??😅😂
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! :)
6:24 there is "The Little Match Girl" reference within Osomatsu-San
@Misplaced 0 yeah
Fun facts: Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were adapted into a movie films.
not to mention the amazing goosebumps tv show! that theme song used to freak me out
@@BeAmazed I loved the similar TV show called Eerie, Indiana.
How about the old nikolodean show are you afraid of the dark? Which was converted into a book series
I just watched scary stories to tell in the dark. I loved the scarecrow scene.
No way
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.
In 19:40 you described the Goosebumps books. I still read those books.
When I was 7 years old, the classroom I was in at school had Bony Legs. It was terrifying, and came with a cassette tape that made it that much worse. I miss that book.
I still have that book! I bought it from Scholastic decades ago, when I was a kid. Read it to my kids now, but they like scary stuff 😋
I never thought, that I would ever see a Struwwelpeter cosplay in my life. That is nuts.
So happy so see Hoffmann here, I really like his Sandman story. I love him.
My favorite horror stories to read during Halloween were the Green Ribbon, Goosbump stories and Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark.
Same.
The green ribbon>>>
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"
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what?😂😂🤣🤣
LMAO WTH 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
@@quailish2 I kid you not this actually happened
SAME have that book
I liked these storys as a kid. Maybe thats why I love horrorfilms so much. When I was 12 I looked Psycho for the first time with my mom. She first speak with me about the film and asked my if I feel ok with it and I should say when I want to stop.
Stories*and Spoke*
9:45 the tail didn't left my head scratching It left my whole body scratching.
16:30 - 17:27 wait, if her head was always not connected to her and she NEEDS to tie a ribbon round her neck, how is she alive and how she eats?
Three years ago, I actually read the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. I really really liked them, so I read them all. I really, really liked The Haunted House, and now I’m confused how people who like scary stories are scared of it. (No offense if any taken) I forgot the end, But the thing he was REALLY right about are the freaky as h-ll illustrations! They scared the living h-ll out of me! (I don’t know why I wrote this so please don’t ask)
ur so cool
i had scary stories to tell in the dark i had it win i was 8 im 11 now
@@finnpower8171 I had it when I was 6
i always had a weird intrest in the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” mainly because the drawings looked alot like some of the things i see and had dreams about. i also just generally liked horror stuff.
Same here my fav is The green Ribbon my 2nd grade teacher read it on a Halloween 2011
They.were fascinating and frightening. The stories weren't usually so bad.
i like them also unlike my classmates
Same
@@MarmaladeWizard DID YOU SAY THAT TO ME?
I actually liked “In a Dark Dark Room” when I was a kid. It was a surprise but not really scary.
I loved the book I still have it somewhere my favorite story was with the girl who had the ribbon around her neck
ya same
I was freaked out but idk like I just kept listening to it ( I was in preschool and did not know how to read) and eventually I just knew what was going to happen but I still got a little scared.
Ye I read that all the time, and I thought it was cool. I stopped reading at the green ribbon story tho… but then I read it again and enjoyed it
I randomly found it one day in my elementary school library, and I read The Green Ribbon. Scared me for years. Nowadays I love that stuff. XD
13:30 is that where don’t cry your eyes out came from?
I regonize two of the stories: The Match Girl : I watched the disney one and it isnt really tragic. The ribbon girl: I heard a remake of the story in Royale High on Roblox. Its the same!
The book "In a dark dark room" is still on my shelf and "The green ribbon" was my mum's favorite story that was the beginning of my horror story collection
Keep it up
@rod scarborough love your version.👊
I heard the green ribbon in my class room from my teacher
I actually ordered "in a dark dark room" so I could read it to my daughter! BY FAR my absolute FAVORITE is the story about the girl who the green scarf! That story has followed and haunted me my whole life! And I LOVE IT! 🥰
It sounds interesting, would you be able to link me to it? Or tell me where I can find it?
here is free reply
Ikr, for some reason that story stuck with me the most. Imagine being with a woman who might have been an undead person the whole time.
The little mermaid story in the horrible version was my favorite as a kid, it even has a movie, i remember how i cried when she died, i watched it thousand of times
omg the little match gril was one of my fav childhood stories and strubbel peter is also one that i liked (im german we have lots of horifying kids books/tales so its normal for me)
I got a big book full of Hans Christian Anderson tales years ago. I read the little match girl with my mom and we both ended up bawling! After, I read The Little Mermaid and it quickly became one of my favorite tales. I don't know why but I quickly grew to prefer the true, original fairy tales rather than Disney's
Also, KZheadrs have been missing key details like Prince is in love with her but not romantically as he is in love with the girl he thought saved him from drowning and when he goes into an arranged wedding he discovers the girl he going to marry it same girl he is in love Also, Mermaid dies reborn as the daughter of air and gets a chance to earn her own happy ending with soul and rest in peace in Heaven
Omg I read both of them too although I'm happy her grandmother brought her to heaven and ended her misery it was an interesting part and the little mermaid that turned into a bubble and float to heaven I loved it also thank you I really appreciated sharing with you. 😊
@user-kr8ql3gv1n Yes, both had endings that made me feel so many different emotions! Both are such beautiful works of writing 😍
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._
Nowadays kids have to learn the hard way by stepping into that murder van so which is really better?!✌️🐈😂😼
@@catmum1019 Stories aren’t the only ways to learn, most parents probably talk about “Don’t accept things from strangers,” etc. Or what my parents did was show me a couple videos about the topic, helping me learn what not to do, even if the kid tries to be edgy that’s their fault in the first place for getting kidnapped or otherwise, killed.
Let's find a happy medium. XD
NaH the middle Ages were worst
IT SCARE ME REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
16:38 What the!! Also this I remember reading this book back when I was in 2nd Grade School, I remember that was so terrifying that I never finish it, I only read on to the girl who her head got fell off I don't much but that was way to scary that I only read up to this.
im so glad you mentioned scary stories to tell in the dark its one of my favorite books out there!! i never finished the movie but the part that i watched was amazing!
Don't go banning books!! I was obsessed with the Goosebumps series as a kid!!! The Headless Ghost was my favorite!
I loved them too! I used to collect them as well. I always got endings where I died or had some horrible fate though lol.
Interesting theory going in the medical field: books are often a representation of how people see the world around them. The story Alice in Wonderland is about a girl who has a distorted world she thinks is real. Things seem to be larger or smaller, and even she grows and shrinks. Since then, a mental disorder has been discovered that causes the human brain to interpret things as being a different size. One person reported feeling taller than she actually was. It is now believed that Lewis Carroll (author of Alice In Wonderland) suffered from this disorder. Another famous person believed to suffer from this is Picasso. And for a weird tale, I was read a story in 4th grade about a lying frog. The lying frog was so bad that when the mother frog was sick and dying she told him to bury her in the opposite location of what she wanted. She wanted a beautiful meadow or something to be buried in. Instead she said in a bog where her body would eventually wash away. She thought her son wouldn't listen and do the opposite of what she asked because that was part of his usual attitude. Instead, he chose to honor his mother's wishes and buries her exactly where she asked. Super creepy
I have a copy of "Cautionary Tales for Children" and I found them as well written dark humor stories. They were great.
I was scared the most as a kid by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I read some of them to my family at night while we went camping. Some are a group effort, and it was always fun to share something spooky. I was more afraid of bears who were lurking out of the lights reach. I was wondering if you would do an episode about TV shows and movies for kids that are scary. I watched an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and I developed a fear of empty walls. It was the episode with Quicksilver. Buffy the Vampire Slayer scared me a lot too.
The Little match girl was and is my favorite fairytale. When I was 9 yrs old (back in 2009) I read the story from my english textbook. Idk why but I've always found it fascinating.
You do love tears, don't you? 😢
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Outside Over There" has the script similar to the movie Labyrinth starting Davie Bowie.
Yes, I think many others thought that too. I know I did.
I *LOVED* The Green Ribbon! That book was one of my favorites!
I LOVED scary stories as a kid. I actually read many that are at the end of the video & still have them in a box of books I saved from my childhood. Others I just borrowed from the library. I loved the scary story section, & all the ones that popped up around Halloween.
I was hoping you would mention the library book that haunts me to this day! A boy won’t stop eating chocolate, so at school his teacher makes the students chant “you are what you eat” trying to convince the kids to eat prunes or something. Our main character turns into literal chocolate and the teacher chases him down to eat him
I loved reading Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark and Goosebumps books as a kid.
Then your satan!
@@alvarovasquez5999 lol😂😂😂😂😂 maybe he/she is Satan😂😂😂
@@Lil1W your damn fartin right!
I cried my eyes out when I read "The Little Match Girl" but I liked it. She was living miserably and finally found happiness in the end is how I thought about it. Such a bittersweet story
Oh my gosh, Coraline. When I was like 7 or 8 and staying at my grandmother's house my grandmother didn't realize what it was about and played it for me to watch. I didn't want to seem wimpy, and I wanted to stay up late, so when she asked me if I was scared I denied it. Traumatizing movie, really.. Then, when I was 11, I decided to read the book to see how bad it really was. Oh yeah. Don't read it or watch it unless you want to be traumatized.
I love Goosebumps, Fear Street, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and all of Neil Gaiman's work. The stories are fun, creative, and memorable. And yes, scary, but in a way that was enjoyable. A shared experience since you knew you weren't alone in being spooked by these tales. Plus, horror stories are morality stories where the bad person gets their comeuppance in gruesome, creative ways.
I just realized that I've been reading the less filtered versions (aka the original version) of children's story books and i still have some of them in my shelf
Coriline is actually a fantastic book! Yes it may be pretty creepy but it is so good! But I agree that it is extremely creepy.
OOOoo so good. Thanks for rehashing these stories including the goosebumps stories. Im a total wimp but I did like R.L Stine. Beast from the east is horrifically circumlocutory. A tale of being constantly on the run.
When I started school, the oldest daughter of neighbors walked with us to and from school. She told terrifying stories, gathered from possibly the newspaper or big kids books. I couldn't get enough of them!
IS IT YOU AMAZING FOR REAL!?!
I’ve heard of “The Little Match Girl” story, but it’s quite different? So basically, there was this poor girl, shivering in the cold winter selling matches, she was afraid to go home because her abusive father would beat her up for failing to sell any matches. She kept trying to sell these matches but they just walked pass her and ignored her. In the flame of these matches, she could see scenes of comforting visions: The warm oven stove, the glowing Christmas tree, and the delicious roast goose. Each vision disappears as the match burns out. Then she sees and shooting star in the sky, which her late grandmother says it means someone is on their way to heaven. In the flames of the next match, she could a vision of her late grandmother, the only person who treated her with love, and kindness. The girl wanted to keep this vision alive for as long as possible, so then she lights the entire bundle of matches. When the matches were gone, she saw a real vision of her grandmother. She was so happy to see her. She said: “Don’t leave me Grandma!”, her grandma said: “This time I won’t, come with me.”. The girl took her hand and her grandma carries her soul to heaven. She froze to death, but she died with a warm smile on her face. The passer-bys express themself with pity seeing the little girl. But they do not know the wonderful visions she had seen, nor do they know that she is now happy in heaven with her grandmother.
i heard this same version too!
Yesh I also heard a different versión as well.
Yeah thats the story i heard in hong kong translated to English
That's the version I heard, it was bittersweet 😭
@@ladymoichi6579yeah!
I grew up reading all the old fairy tales and I love to them then I found in the dark dark room at my school library and I fell in love with that so naturally after that I seeked out scary stories to tell in the dark my favorite one was The voice how it creeped up the stairs and into the little boy's room 😊 and I was a big fan of Goosebumps but I'm sure there's more now than when I was little 🤣
lol the Scary Stories to tell in The Dark was my aunt’s weapon of choice! She was babysitting me and my brother and thought she would be funny and read the book to us as a bed time story. Grammie and Mom were both upset with her
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was the book that started my love of horror. By the time Goosebumps came out I was already "too cool to read a nerd book". But, after having my own daughter and her reading the Goosebumps books do I see how scary they can actually be.
Same, and now I started watching 90s TV show GooseBumps and watching Scary Stories to tell in the Dark movie.
Same
@@mingjiechen62 you might like 90s tv show 'are you afraid of the dark' it was before the goosebumps tv show by about half a decade. it was geared towards a slightly older audience, not by much granted- only a few years...but its enjoyable
@@jarrettskelly2517 I get the understand of that reading books then the 90s TV show after could be growing up
I loved the Goosebumps books when I was a kid and teen :D choosing my own adventures were my favorite ones.
I had that book, "In a Dark Dark Room" and I remember the story about Jenny... Then as an adult I saw those 'Orphan' films and they made me think it may have been VERY loosely based on the story about Jenny. Though, the ribbons Esther wore around her neck she also wore around her wrists, and they were to hide scars, rather than keep her head attached...lol But it still gave me that vibe, because I found Ester to be really eerie just like I found Jenny to be especially eerie when I was a kid. I also had Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, as well as More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark , and Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones. I still have the first one from 1981, got it at my school book fair when I was in middle school, about 8 years after it was published.
12:27 The Tall Tailor is like "SORRY I WAS LATE FOR THE EVENT!"
I remember the green ribbon one the most, it scared me as a kid but now I'm loving it
same
ya i remember
I remember in kindergarten that I used to love reading in a dark, dark room during play time because I just love weird and scary stories in general. The green ribbon girl is the one that stuck with me the most because of how weird it was.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Goosebumps were my JAMSSSSS
Fun fact: Dutch themepark the Efteling has a recreation of The Little Match Girl and even as a young child, I've loved the story. It was a nice reminder that death can be beautiful, because it's like the final cutscene in a video game. It's over. You can rest now.
I liked the ending of "The Little Match Girl" I think it was sad but fitting. (He didn't explain the whole ending by the way)
what's the whole ending?
@@necromancer147 She was guided to heaven by her grandmother
@@davidsampedro895 now that's actually fucking wholesome.
@@davidsampedro895 yey happy ending :)
@@davidsampedro895 Thanks and that is a happy ending in a sense.
I grew up with the Books of the Brothers Grimm and Struwwelpeter, I found it less disturbing, more weird
It's Stummelpeter. It's really hard to see it in the font that the author chose.
@@seldenrock9715 No, it's Struwwelpeter, I had the german Version
@@seldenrock9715 Nope - it's Struwwelpeter. As many Germans I grew up with it too, and I actually liked it. The stories were weird, but didn't seem as cruel to me then as they do now.
Matilda Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death - my daughter age 9 or so found it on our libraries bookmobile and brought it home. She LOVED it -and thankfully we all have a dark sense of humor so --- she would take it our almost every week - I know the library worker thought we were weird. When my daughter went away to college one year for Christmas I found a copy on Amazon and sent it to her for a present - she was thrilled (The Door Slamming book is by the same author I believe)!!
Hey ^^ the video was great! I just wanted to leave a comment to „Aschenputtel”. It’s going to be long 😅🥲 So when the first stepsister cut of her toe and put the shoe on the prince and her started riding away on his horse but then they came to the tree on Aschenputtels grave and there say white pigeons who told the prince that it was the wrong girl and that blood was dripping out of the shoe. The same thing happens to the second stepsister. The prince asked the stepmother if she had another daughter and she sat no. Then Aschenputtel managed to free herself out of the room she was locked in and the prince realized the stepmother HAD another daughter but hid her so he let her try on the shoe and it fitted. Then they rode of came to the tree again and the Withe pigeons were really happy and said something like „Thats the right girl” I know this since I’m German and I read the story when I was younger :D Ofcourse it could be that to the story I read was more information added Also i think we call „struwwelpeter” „Struppelpeter”. It’s hard to explain put „struppelig” is like something you call hair. As example: „struppeliges Haar” its like „messy hair” so hair that basically is really hard to brush I read the story too. 😅 I actually liked some German kids story which were kinda brutal if you look far into it. Like „Max und Moritz” (Max and Moritz) (they die at the end and get eaten bye ducks lol. I loved that story and read it like a hundred times) I read all of the German story’s in this video. Yes the brutal ones. I didn’t think of it as tragic when I was young. My brother also liked them.
I remember how astonished I was when I discovered Shock-Headed Peter. I kind of knew about it from Pippi Longstocking. And Oh, God, the Green Ribbon. I randomly decided to read that book one day in elementary school, and I was scared for years. Goosebumps as well. I never read them, the covers were scary enough. XD
When I was a kid, I remember Mrs piggel-wiggle, and of course I read all the original Grimm stories.
I was 10 when I got the Grimms fairy tales. Whoa!!!! These ain't Disney!!!! Years later my mom said they didn't read it before they got it for me. Whoops!!!!!!!!! Ha ha!!!! I still have it.
One of the most messed up ones is where she cried her eyes out and the author told people to just be happy. Imaging your dog died and people expected you to "Just smile more" or "Just be cheerful."
Those "Scary Stories" books came out around the time I was in 4th grade. There were a bunch of us who used to race each other to those books when we got our weekly library visit. lol I'm now in my 40's and the illustrations from those books are burned into my memory to this day!
I had a lot of these books when I was a kid. I actually loved them and this brought back a lot of nostalgia
I've read completely through" Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" And I've read 50 some odd of the goosebumps including three that he listed, also watched Coraline. I wasn't scared but my older sister at the age of nine was while I was 6.
I remember The Green Ribbon. It, along with the other 4 stories in the book, were some of my favorites as a child. In the back of the book it said that a possible inspiration was the red thread that would be used to sow the head back onto a decapitated criminal for burial.
I used to read that book
I heard the "Green Ribbon" as a long-winded joke story. I never knew it was based on anything literary until today.
16:31 is a really popular story. ‘The Green Ribbon’ has an animated and slightly different adaptation to it on another channel which tells horror stories that are really nice. The channel is called ‘Snarled’! It has a bunch of good folklore and legends if you’re into that.
I know his story, i’m from Denmark as well. He was traumatized as a kid, led alone to himself, poor, on the street, after he was mentally tortured by his parents, and then he wrote the books, and he lived a little more happy after.
🤣😂The narrator, “ What the hell, Jenny??” 😂🤣
Mm hm
Mary just can't stop eating Me: how is she not chubby-
Ikr
High metabolism? LOL.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 damn she lucky then
should could of had Prader Willie Syndrome.
Tapeworms. >.>;;
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In a dark dark room is an awesome book and so is scary stories to tell in the dark Alvin Schwartz is just phenomenal
I've read about the ribbon girl before. The version i read was a little different, but freaky and unsettling still. Then, I was addicted to horror. Scary Stories to tell in the dark ended up being a favorite book. Her story and others actually helped me draw inspiration for writing horror stories.
At one point, this was also a concept for Gacha Life videos for TikTok. That’s just messed up.
Same I saw it and was having nightmares ad a kid
Coralline no matter how many times I watch it I’m still terrified for 4 years and still now I feel creeped out
It's one of my favourite movies ever. I got the version with 3D glasses and it's great. :D
Im love the movie but a picture in the book has spooked me for life (its at 18:54)
That Hilaire Beloc was a riot. I learned Matilda as a child: she told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.... when her Aunt returned, Matilda and the house were burned. This was fun. Thanks.
I love the _Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark_ series. The stories are great. The only thing that ever scared me were the images in the book. Especially that huge white lady with the black hair. Those always freaked the hell out of me.
This video stirred up some old childhood memories. I now remember being read some of these old stories as a child in pre-school or Kindergarten. This is not the first time I've heard some of these stories.
I actually read Coraline before i watched the movie. I didn't understand a thing at the moment but i can still understand the basics, still i don't find it terrifying. Also, i read the another terrifying version of The Little Mermaid. And again before i watch the movie of course. In that version, it's just as same as the original, but the prince DIDN'T FALL IN LOVE WITH HER, anddd as the evil witch had warned, if he didn't love her, she will turn into SPONGES. Egh! And for the Little Match Girl, i read the version said in the video (but translated) in the text book. Yeah, teaching children about a girl who dies in the cold with a bunch of matches is truly useful for their future. I also read an unknown story in the text book that is more terrifying than the cry baby. It's about a mother who got her child kidnapped by Death. So she tried to go to Death's castle to get her child back. Along the way, a huge river told her to give it her eyes and it will let her pass through, so she cried her eyes out for the river. And then after crossing, she somehow know there were 2 roads and she doesn't know which one leads to the castle. So there was a hedgehog there telling her it was cold and will tell her the correct road if she warms it up. So she hugged the hedgehog to warm it up and continue on the correct road. Death saw that she loved her child so much, so he gave the child back to the mother! Atleast it makes children love their mother more after reading the story.
the last one is The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen... and sadly that's just not quite the ending, but not tell you if you want to read by yourself
The description of harold dancing on the roof out in the distance after rolling out one of the dead farmer's skins to bake on the sun... is just haunting and stuff of nightmares. If i saw that from afar, i would run like the wind and scream at the top of my lungs. And im the type of guy who would love shark cages and skydiving. Alvin schwartz is a master at making you feel so unsettled. Arguably more so than stephen king
In the story 3:11 I can Kind of relate Cause when I was little I slammed a door and a painting fell on my friend's head
The Green Ribbon was one of my favorite stories growing up. It always made me laugh when her head fell off. I had a dark twisted sense humor as a child and now that I'm an adult I embrace that part of me. It was a fun story but I would not recommend for sensitive young children.
Me too! And im still a kid
There are worse stories than the green ribbon so much worse
and so much more horrifying
I come from Geramny and grew up with Struwwel Peter and it has never been so scary or traumatizing for me because I always knew that these were just stories and every child knew that adults lie to get children to do things like bathing, Combing hair and so on. I also grew up with the goosebumps books, which were intended for kids at the age of 12 and up. They were really scary but in a way we could handle. Lots of my friends read the books and we loved the thrill
Also, i found Puline's story much darker than the thumb-sucker. You can liitterally see her burning to ash and her cats crying over her ashes. The Soup-casper starved himself to death and they show his grave. At least the Thumb-sucker was aloud to live on. But i never knew of this american struwelpeter. Have to check that out.
I remember having that Sruwwelpeter book when I was a little kid. My Oma (German Grandmother) gave it to me when I was born. Good times!
Goosebumps is never gonna be canceled
I own many of these books like Hillaire Belloc, Struwwelpeter, the original Grimms, many goosebumps, other books like Prom Dress that came out on the 80s. I read them and loved them, my kids love them now. Teach your kids how to understand the difference between reality and fantasy
The haunted house picture scared me for years as a kid!
I read The little match girl in 1999 when I was 12. I didn't think much about it, but reading it again, its actually such a sad story.
I got worried for a second because the thumbnail made me think it was a different book I read when I was little, but it wasn't lucky. Cause that brings back a lot of memories for me. Oh yeah! I still have the book btw! :)
8:40 here in Germany there also exist the movie „Achenputtel“ where the story happens like described in the video. Only exception is, that because it is a kids movie they don’t show how they cut off parts of their feet, they only say that it happens, and also there are no pigeons at the wedding. The movie is now about 40 years (but probably older) old and is still broadcasted every Christmas on TV.
Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel
When I was little, I climbed a flag pole birdhouse to check for eggs, stuck my hand in to find a wasp nest... Live and learn!
Loved the video as weird as some of those stories were
Thank you God Bless you and your Beautiful Family