I used to be a cowardly girl, being unable to sleep alone due to fear of darkness. I
took forever to brush my teeth, afraid that something would pop out and grab me. I
remember the first time I heard the chilling tale of Bloody Mary. It is a quiet night of
October with crisp air and cool breeze, a group of my older sister's friends. Seven or
eight people sitting together in the garden of our house. I can still remember they
called that night "Horror bedtime". The eldest boy named Jan, read the story to us
with deep voice from a book with the face of a sliced-up, gruesome, grinning face of a
skeletal woman on the cover. I believe it was called "Scary Stories to Read in the
Dark". As I sat on the carpet in the dark, dank corner,
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The woman, in her anguish, brutally
committed suicide in her bathroom. That night, her spirit haunted and killed the man
who took her son as he gazed into the bathroom mirror. But Bloody Mary's vengeance
is not complete.At midnight, if you say her name in front of your bathroom mirror three
times, she will come for you. Grant you a wish, or kill you.
There were many different tales over that October night, but Bloody Marry was the
one frightened me most with the imagination of how Bloody Mary would eat me from
the inside out, or how she would pluck my eyeballs out. It is still clear in my head the
feeling of a chill when Jan suddenly screamed at us at the end of the story. Story
time ended at around ten o'clock, my sister decided to sleep with her friend and I had
to sleep by myself. It was alone in my bedroom alone suffering from unreasonable,
irrational fear. I could not close my eyes without turning the lights on, and I couldn't
not even go to afraid to look at bathroom mirror for fear that I would see a mutilated
woman's face staring back at me. I tried to tell myself that the stories were just
words, just conjured up to give someone a cheap thrill of terror. But I
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It read something like
this: "If you do not forward this text to 20 people then Bloody Mary will come for you
at midnight and stab ur eyes out with a sharpen fork. " Normally, such a poorly written
text attempt to scare me would be laughable. However, what cemented the
truthfulness of this text was the picture that came along with it. A grinning, bloodied,
pale woman's face stared at me from my phone screen. Finally, my nightmares had
taken on a real and terrifying shape and my breath came in staggered breaths. I came
crying to my parents, but they laughed out loudly and said it easily " It must
be your sister's work, just ignore it." . Suddenly, a sense of embarrassing grabbed me,
courage came out and I decided to overcome my fear, no one can make jokes on me.
That night, I went into the bathroom and turned on both sets of lights. I stared at
the mirror for a long time, afraid to do anything. I was utterly terrified, afraid that I
would anger Bloody Mary somehow, since I had not forwarded the text. But I kept
talking to myself, " I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid..." Slowly, I managed to open the
drawer and take out the toothbrush and toothpaste that may helpful to distract