4 True Creepy Stories from Quiet Small Towns

In 1957 North Hatley, Canada, a woman attempted to murder her lover's 7-year-old son and his friends by driving into them and then shooting at them. Her motive was revenge against the narrator's father, who had promised to leave his family for her but then reneged.

a lady I'd never seen before in my life tried to murder me... she told them how she and my dad had been having an affair and that he'd promised to run away with her and leave his wife and kids... but then one day, he changed his mind.

In early 1900s Stone, Scotland, Constable Mallister fabricated a story of embezzlement and abscondment by the postmaster and his two assistants after the post office burned down. The truth, revealed 25 years later, was that the postmaster had locked his assistants and himself inside and set the fire, believing them to be dangerous 'beings.' Mallister covered it up to protect the village's reputation and tourism-dependent economy.

The post office suddenly burns down... he announced... they appeared to have absconded with over £1,000... But it was all a lie. The truth didn't come out for another 25 years... they found the bones of the postmaster along with his two assistants... Postmaster Dalish had left an extensive handwritten note describing exactly why he chosen to lock himself and his two assistants in the post office before personally setting it on fire... Constable Mallister made what you might call an executive decision and covered everything up, sacrificing the reputations of the deceased for the reputation of the village.

In a rural Minnesota religious cult in 1997, the narrator's grandfather, the cult leader, starved and physically abused his wife to death, believing she was possessed by the demon Leviathan. This event, coupled with later exposure to outside education, shattered the narrator's faith and led him to realize his grandmother was murdered.

my grandma was making dinner for my grandpa when she suddenly attacked him with a knife... she came to tell me grandma had been possessed by a demon... she only got worse... he resorted to quite literally trying to beat the devil out of my poor suffering grandmother... I realized my grandma hadn't simply passed away. She'd been murdered.

In winter 2022, a Siberian village experienced a massive explosion in the sky, followed by falling flaming debris. The Russian military swiftly evacuated the villagers, subjecting them to non-voluntary medical examinations and interviews, and relocating them to a controlled apartment block outside Moscow, effectively detaining them under false pretenses of rebuilding their village.

the village was awoken by the sound of a very large and very loud explosion... The first pieces of debris started falling to Earth... Eight people lost their lives... a large number of soldiers arrived that very same day... they had arrived to take us away from them... the additional medical examinations that we were subjected to were not voluntary... we were being moved to a suburb outside Moscow called Mutishi... There was a fence and guards. Medical facilities had been set up... a person needed a series of military approvals to do so.