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Welcome to the Halloween season, folks! Let’s kick things off with a seasonally appropriate creepypasta: “My Prop Halloween Skeleton Keeps Showing Up.” With a classic variety of title and a seemingly innocuous but deliciously eerie conceit, this one is just right for this time of year.

Uploaded in November of 2020 by Creepypasta Wiki user Nerdcore Creepy, this one might make you choose your Halloween decorations a little more carefully this year… or at least reconsider where you source them from. It’s a lesson we see over and over again in these kinds of stories: If it’s a deal that seems too good to be true… it probably is.

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Find an excerpt below, and read the full story over at the Creepypasta Wiki.

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… Everything arrived a couple of days later and I got the apartment all set up for the party, the last thing being the prop skeleton that  I had set up to be near the entrance. As soon as I was finished, I got a… weird feeling. I looked at the skeleton and there was something… off about it. I couldn’t tell you what it was, it just looked like an average prop skeleton you’d see in a biology class… but there was something about this one that stuck out and, if I’m being frank, scared me.

I stared into its dark, eyeless sockets and I swear it felt like it was staring back at me. It was so unnerving… but I shook my and dismissed it all as me just being overly tired and anxious about the party. Later that night, I was in and out of sleep, and I had the chilling feeling that someone (or something) was watching me. I turned my head and could have sworn I saw that skeleton standing over me as I laid in my bed. I shot up, ready to scream at… nothing. There was nothing there… no skeleton… nothing. I decided to get up and head to the living room to check on it and lo and behold there it was standing exactly how I had left it.

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