The Door Chain is a scary riddle about a young man who stays in his sister’s apartment one night. See if you can figure out the solution to this riddle.
My sister is an art teacher and, ten months ago, she rented a cheap two-bedroom apartment to use as a studio. She never actually lived there. She just used it as a place where she could paint and store her art supplies.
When I left college, I started a new job in the city. I desperately needed a place to stay, but I hadn’t received my first paycheck, so I couldn’t afford to pay rent. Luckily enough, my sister offered to let me stay in her apartment until I got on my feet. She gave me the keys and I moved my stuff in the next morning.
That evening, I arrived home from work. I was excited about having my own place for the first time. My sister had told me that there was a lot of crime in the neighborhood and to always be sure I locked the front door. To be extra safe, I locked the door with the deadbolt and the chain.
In the kitchen, I made myself some chicken curry with rice. Then I read some comics until it was time for bed. I checked the door and the gas and went to sleep.
I woke up in the middle of the night. It must have been around 2 or 3 in the morning and I heard the sound of someone unlocking the deadbolt on the front door.
Must be my sister coming to paint, I thought to myself. I heard her go into the the room next door to my bedroom. That was the room she used as a studio. I’d been in there earlier and it was empty except for some canvas and paints.
I was tired and I had work again the next morning so I stayed in bed. Through the wall, I could hear her mumbling and laughing to herself.
“These artists are weird people,” I said to myself and it wasn’t long until I fell asleep again.
When I woke up the next morning, my sister was gone and I was alone in the apartment. I got out of bed, showered and dressed myself. I quickly poured myself a bowl of cornflakes and ate it hungrily.
Then I grabbed my briefcase and went out the front door. When I turned around to lock the front door, I was suddenly terrified.
After work, I went home to my parents’ house. I never went back into the apartment after that. I was too scared.
Why was he scared?
There are two possible ideas that are logical:
1) His sister’s body was there.
2) If nothing could get in the house, nothing could get out.
Dummest story ever.
I mean we don’t know why he is scared. I guess because the door was unlocked or something happened to his sister. Its your story you tell me.
The door was never unlocked, maybe?
……… can someone plz plz plz explain this ?????
Based from your guesses, I think I found out the answer.
(also just a guess.) :D
Answer: When her sister came out to paint, she left the lock open. It was past midnight and the boy who is left in the house did not lock it back (maybe because his sister will come back.) and that morning, her sister wasn’t in the house and when he came to check the front door, he saw the chain/deadbolt was locked. (that means that someone else came in the house when he was asleep that locked the deadbolt maybe so that the intruder will kill the boy and noone else can enter.)
Summary: someone else came in past midnight and locked the deadbolt/chain. thats why he’s super scared.
You can’t unlock it from the outside can you?
thanks for the answer sfk but answer the difficukt riddles please :) or im coming with the knife, gun and evil possessed cousin. :PP im serious about my cousin though anyone know how to get an exorcism done?
if the doorchain was inside how did his sister lock it when she left?
the chain was latched. how could anyone possibly get in. unless they have some sort of freakin superpower that lets them go through doors. O_o
The ghost may be an artist, but he lives in the artist house and a ghost is a ghost even when artist ghost can they paint and be the paint?
Omg if sfk doesn’t start posting answers I’m coming with a knife and a gun and my evil possessed cousin.
Scaryforkids says: I think the answer to this one is that nobody could get in because of the door chain. SO it must have been a ghost. The place was haunted by the ghost of a girl. The sister never spent the night there, so she never knew there was a ghost.
why was she scared idk but i might have a clue her sister was at the front door dead or the door chain was broken and probably the laughing was from the criminals who were torturing her or were stealing the paintings and thought it was mischevious
ghostgirl12345
short and sweet :3 Hello goodbye! >:D *carrying a toy knife*
K k. I might not have payed enough attention so yaaaaaaaaaaaa awesome story though!!!!! I now command scary for kids to post dead girl story!!!!!! Or hmmm uh I know ELSE!!!
hello goodbye
Sarah heard a voice say hello goodbye just then
she died. Her mom yelled when she saw sarah
a couple nights later she heard hello good bye
then she died. then joe sarahs brother heard
the voice and died minutes later.ten the dad turnd on
the raido and said there was a killer
lose he would say hello goodbye then kill the
vicome be carful if you hear hello goodbye run
for your life!!!
@ Dead Girl XXx You’re most welcome :)
@ xX TO LIVE IS TO DIE Xx Thanks sooo much!! :D Im so glad u like it :D
@ hiccups erm.. Anne Howard was the name of the girl who told the story (main charac) If Adele hadnt died, she would be her next victim :) I hope u liked it :D
Deadgirl was the girl in the POV anne Howard?
furrykinz2234 and Dead Girl XXx I love your stories, I really hope that they will get added to the site! :)
Oh and furrykinz, awesome story :)
-The Silent Killer
If there is a word to describe Adele, it would be ‘weird’. She was always so quiet in class and never speaks to anyone and all her books until semester break too, were blank. I don’t like her. neither does any body else. The teachers know that she wouldn’t answer any question they ask so they don’t even bother asking her any question about her personality and even any school work. Nobody had ever met her mother or any of her parents because she goes home alone and no matter how much the teachers ask her to bring her parents to school, she never does it. And nobody knew her parent’s number either.
Adele is always being bullied, not only by my classmates but almost everyone from the grade. But then again, she never cares. The boys tear her books and break her pencils and pens, but still, she doesn’t care. What anybody doesn’t know about it the little blue notebook she carries with her wherever she went. it has a black pen attached to it too but nobody had seen her write anything in it.
Until things started to go terribly weird with Adele. One day, Gary, the bad boy of the class called her a ‘brown pig’ and Adele quietly opened her notebook. She took out the pen and wrote something on it. Everyone was looking confused as she calmly closed the book and walked away. Gary did more yelling at her but it was the usual ignoring. However, i got a shocking news at school the next day. Gary was found dead inside the sports room of the school. My heart’s beating got fast. ‘Things’ started spinning around my head about Adele.
The same kind of thing happened the that day. Gary’s best friend tried to grab her note book but couldn’t do it and Adele wrote something in it again. The next day, he was also found dead, hung by a tree. Day after day, murder of the school students had been more. I was scared than ever. I never even wanted to go to school or see Adele’s face. Whatever she had been writing in her notebook, was very cruel.
One night, i was walking home from my best friend’s house when i saw some one sitting by a tree, facing back. i could tell that it was a girl by her long hair. i walked over and took a look, then screamed in extreme terror when i saw Adele’s dead body, with blood around her. My eyes got caught on her notebook, which lay beside her, and slowly took it. I opened the pages of it and nearly screamed out for a second time. She had prepared a page for everyone that had died in my school the previous days. Like this:
Name:
Things needed:
Date:
What he/she had done to me for the past days:
I was really freaked out. The notebook fell out of my hands when i saw the last page she had written on. Under the ‘name’, she had written “Anne Howard”.
Again i tried my best ^.^ Hope you people and SFK like it :D
hey guys i made another story
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Have you ever wondered what makes those sounds in the middle of the night while you lay in your dark room just brushing them off as your mind is playing tricks on you? Well little Sally Whitfield has done this every night until the unthinkable had happened
it was the day of her 12th birthday and she knew it was going to be unforgettable, her parents had a big surprise planned for her party, she invited many girls to come even new girls to stay for her sleepover. today was her day and in her mind nothing could possibly go wrong.
little did she know that not two towns away was lucas mannings the murderer who had killed his own family and had just escaped federal prison and was making his way to cumberland for hiding.
Sally went to school the next day and everything went on as usual, her class learned a little history, she did a little math, she ate lunch and before she knew it she was walking home for her party.
she dressed in her best clothes and fixed her hair just right. as the dorrbell chimed she looked oncem ore into the mirror to inspect herself.
“thats odd…” she said aloud shen oticed something different in her refelction but she just pushed past that feeling in the pit of her stomach that is alway saying “somethign is not right…”.
sally always pushed those feelings aside blaming them on her over active imagination. finally the party began there was music food games scary stories and even a scary movie before most of the guest left.
by the time the actual sleepover had started it was 9:00 and Sally and her two best friends rasha and kim had settled down to watch another movie while their mother went to bed.
“sally” kim said in a tiny voice, “why is the bathroom light on” she said glancing over, Sally knew somethign just wasn’t right Rasha had already fallen sound asleep oblivious to the terror they were about to face. “im not sure but i wouldn’t worry, Mom probably left it on for us so we could see.”
finally the two girls got tired and went to sleep blocking out any sounds they heard.
Sally jolted out of her sleep without knowing why. a feeling she had perhaps. the feeling of not being alone. heavy breathing penetrated her thoughts. all of a sudden she heard something that made her scared…. “footsteps…” she thought to herself as she made her way to her mothers room flipping light switches on the way without any result.
power outage her little brain assumes.
“mother?” she said in a hushed voice to keep from startlign her mother.she saw a sleeping form layign on her mothers bed and she made her way to gently nudge it to wake.
but before she could get to the bed she was grabeed and pushed against the wall
“why don’t you ever listen to your gut kid?” a hushed voice said
“thats to bad about your friend sally… it said again
m-m-my friends … she stammered.
“ha did you not notice their dissappearance? or did you think everything was like it was before when you laid your head on your soft pillow? poor little sally, always thinking that noises are the house setting or a branch tapping on the window. i hate to be the one to inform you this but” he lowers his head down to her ear “everyones dead your beautiful mother, sweet little rasha, and annoying little kim with that deer in the headlights look and yes…Sally…yes you are next.
Sally was terrified. she didn’t know what to do or how to react. she was only 12… was this how she was going to end her life? at the hands of a madman? Lucas stared at the terrified girl as he imagined how he was going to “do her in” some would say.
she was different from the other three he just got rid of. she wasn’t begging for her life or crying. she was standing there with a look of pure terror in her eyes. almost frozen and looking past him, not directly at him but behind him which gave Lucas the chills.
deciding to finish it he walked toward Sally with a knife in his hands with the thought of her warm young blood on his skin. suddenly Sallies eyes got big and round her mouth fell open open exposing gruesome yellow fangs and a horrible screech came from her foul mouth.
Lucas didn’t know what to do.looking at her brought him sudden terror but he couldn’t look away. her little girl eyes turned black as coal and her face twisted up as he had never seen before.the little hands turned long and skinny topped with vicious long fingernails.Her angelic voice turned demonic.
“are you scared of the things that go bump in the night lucas?Because im not… backing away Lucas felt something grab him around the waste. He feared to look back but what he felt was pure evil.this little girl walking slowly toward him was no little girl at all.this was the devil in disguise and when she jumped at him he knew this was the wrong house to hide in.he realized he had just made the worst mistake of his life as he was bleeding to death.
little Sally turned toward the bed where her mother had laid. with a long overdue sigh she grinned as she wiped blood from her mouth.”fathers home.”she muttered to herself as she walked toward the dark evil figure,that had black eyes and smoke circling his hooved feet, she had so bravely stared at while her “attacker” tried to kill her.
hope you liked it guys! this may be one of my best stories yet! btw plz post this story on your website so that other people won’t have to read the comments and can just read from the top plz!
U cant unlock the door from the other side and plus when he got up the chain was locked
Please I beg you scaryforkids just tell is the answers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sister couldn’t have gotten in with the deadbolt on or lock it when she left.