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Just-urgh-name t1_iuf4d1n wrote

This reminds me of a short story I read when I was about 10, scared the shite out of me. No idea of the title or characters, just remember that the ribbon was undone and the girls head fell off? May have misremembered. UK

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CaptMeatPockets t1_iufvynu wrote

I might be completely misremembering, but I feel like a version of it is in one of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series(?). Admittedly it’s been like 25+ years since I read them.

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Will12453 t1_iufi9cv wrote

That sounds right

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Just-urgh-name t1_iufl8zc wrote

Got any idea of the title?

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Will12453 t1_iuft9l6 wrote

According to google it could be “The Green Ribbon” or “The Adventure of the German Student” which is by Washington Irving in 1824. He also wrote the story of the headless horseman

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Boevaya_Kiska t1_iuf5ixe wrote

I remember girls with this ribbons from Wolf Among Us. One of them open that and it didn't end well for her. Russia

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Ascendancy08 t1_iuf2akt wrote

Yep. I remember that story. - USA

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esp735 t1_iufqfnw wrote

Upper Mid West, USA. This story is one of my earliest memories. I was most likely 3, being watched by the neighbor girl across the street in the attic of their garage. (Ah the 70's...) She told this story, and I pictured the head tumbling down the ladder. (Their last name was also Ladder.)

The thing is, I couldn't ever get past how the ribbon could possible keep her head on if it was tied in a bow around her neck. Lost my willful suspension of disbelief at an early age!

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PortInvoker t1_iuf7zyw wrote

United States. Don't untie the ribbon.

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Odd_Current2382 t1_iufrz2g wrote

Is that from the Edgar Allen Poe Book?

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pichael288 t1_iufwc2x wrote

No, it was a popular book in the late 90s and early 2000s at bookfairs, it has these horrifying images in it

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&q=scary+stories+to+tell+in+the+dark&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8n8LWnIn7AhVyk4kEHRqfDoEQ0pQJegQIChAB&biw=432&bih=834&dpr=2.5

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Odd_Current2382 t1_iufzw9t wrote

I feel like I remember it the guys wife wears a ribbon and she never takes it off and one day he removes it and her head falls off or something

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pichael288 t1_iug06f6 wrote

Sounds about right, I was always scared of the thing in the cornfield story. That picture in the book was a bit much for a little kid

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Poly_Roly t1_iug39fv wrote

I don't remember it being in those books. The book I remember it from was in color. Scary stories illustrations were black and white. At least that's what I remember

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Poly_Roly t1_iug3gzr wrote

It was in a book called In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories.

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peachpinkjedi t1_iugb7up wrote

I understand it only because The Wolf Among Us used the story for one of the fables in the game. Also, am American.

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FuzzyMatterhorN t1_iuf7q61 wrote

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories. Canada

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TurkeyDinner547 t1_iufaznw wrote

Yes. I haven't read that story in a long time. USA

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Amish_u t1_iufdk10 wrote

Castlevania! US

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Bogo85 t1_iuflgfg wrote

USA - keep that ribbon on!

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thasnazgul t1_iufx1jw wrote

Everyone used to fight over renting that book from the school library when I was I kid. USA

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Texheim t1_iugd0if wrote

More scary stories to tell in the dark?

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Stewgy1234 t1_iugjx71 wrote

That was the scary story that kinda stuck with me. I loved those books and that one was terrifying. Lmao great costume

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Neither_Property_103 t1_iuij8jv wrote

I don't have any name for the story but I've heard the ghost story as a child here in Finland

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