What are the most popular scary stories in the list of scary stories?

One of the most popular scary stories is 'The Tell - Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe. It's about a narrator who is haunted by the old man's vulture - like eye and eventually murders him. Another is 'Dracula' which features the iconic vampire, Count Dracula, who preys on the living. And 'Frankenstein' is also very popular, it tells the story of a scientist creating a grotesque creature.

Well, 'The Phantom on the Bridge' was also well - known in 2017. Legend had it that if you crossed a certain bridge at midnight, you would see a phantom figure. People who claimed to have seen it said it was a pale figure that would reach out as if to grab you. Many were too scared to even go near the bridge at night.

The story 'The Big Toe' is quite popular. It's about a boy who finds a big toe and things start getting really creepy when he decides to take it with him.

They are popular because they tap into our deepest fears. For example, 'The Tell - Tale Heart' plays on the fear of guilt and madness. The narrator's descent into insanity and his inability to escape the sound of the old man's heart, even after he's dead, is a very primal fear. 'Dracula' touches on the fear of the unknown and the supernatural. Vampires are creatures that defy death and live in the shadows, preying on the living, which scares people.

In my opinion, the story about the mirror is quite interesting. A woman buys an old mirror at a flea market. When she looks into it, she sometimes sees a different reflection, a face that's not her own and it seems to be in a lot of pain. Another interesting one is about a phone call. A man keeps getting calls from an unknown number. When he answers, all he hears is heavy breathing and a strange whispering that sends chills down his spine. And the story about the abandoned asylum is also great. People who enter it report seeing shadowy figures and hearing screams that seem to come from the walls.

The 'Russian Sleep Experiment' story from 4chan is also well - known. It tells of a group of test subjects who were kept awake for an inhuman amount of time in a Soviet experiment. As a result, they started to go insane and exhibited very disturbing behavior, which is really spooky when you think about it.

One of the popular seon scary stories is about a cursed mirror. People who looked into it would see a distorted version of themselves, and then bad things would start to happen to them, like getting sick or having accidents.

One popular one is about a haunted elevator. People would get in and it would go to random floors, stop in between, and strange noises would come from the speakers. But then it turned out it was a prank by some teenagers who had hacked into the elevator system. It's scary when you're in it but funny when you find out the truth.

A very popular one is the 'Ghostly Tractor'. People say that at midnight, a tractor with no driver starts up and drives around the fields. It makes a lot of noise and leaves strange tracks in the soil.

A popular one is the haunted campus chapel. People claim to see a nun - like figure near the altar at night. It might be because of the long history of the chapel and some tragedies that might have occurred there in the past.