Dark Stories

Sally was sleeping when she was awoken by Jack. She walked to the door and found a letter. She read it and began to cry. She now knew that her boyfriend would never see her again. Why?

A woman finishes getting dressed and dies.

A dying man gives another man a gift, and then the dying man dies. Shortly after that the second man dies. How come?

In some city an amount of people injured in car accidents was very high. Then it was decided by administration to make the using of seat belts oblidatory. People started to obey this rule. But the amount of crash accidents remained the same. Moreover, the number of injured people who addressed to the hospital even increased.

At five minutes to midnight, I took the train on the outskirts of Tokyo. There were only me and a few other people in the carriage when a man entered. He looked around the carriage and as soon as the doors closed, his face was convulsed with horror. He approached a girl. – Excuse me, ma’am, are you 28 years old? – Yes! – she replied – How did you guess? He ignored her question and moved on to the man sitting next to him. – And you... are you 45? – Yes, right! He looked at me. – And you’re 35. – That’s right, but how do you know? – And you, miss, are you 50? – Yes, exactly, but tomorrow I’ll be 51... or rather, in 5 minutes. When she said that, the man’s face turned white as a sheet. Why?

Bill was late for a birthday party and ended up in prison because of it. What happened?

Everybody knew that if Julia took one step forward, she would die, but nobody told her.

A woman is planning to kill her husband during dinner. However, she commits suicide while preparing it.

A man wearing a balaclava runs out of a museum carrying a painting under his arm. A police officer sees him, shoots him dead and commits suicide soon after. A couple of days later, the man with the painting is buried and named favorite son of the city.

Landlords used to delay payment to people who built and repaired houses or even booted them out without money. But the builders came up with an uncommon move, which immediately made the landlords pay them in full. What did they do?

Two women are talking. One goes into the bathroom, comes out five minutes later, and kills the other.

Andrew was stabbed to death in his car. However, the doors were locked. The car wasn’t damaged: all the windows were intact and raised up to the highest position. How could this happen?