The Red Spot is a short scary story about a young girl who wakes up one morning with a strange blemish on her face. It is based on an urban legend called The Spider Bite or Spiders in the Cheek. A version of this story appeared in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz.
One night, a young girl was sleeping in her bed when a spider crawled across her face. It stopped for a few minutes on her left cheek, then it went on it’s way. When she woke up the next morning and looked in the mirror, she noticed a red spot on her cheek.
“What’s this?” she asked her mother.
“It looks like a spider bite”, her mother replied. “It will go away, just don’t scratch it.”
Soon the small red spot grew into a big red boil.
“Look at it now,” the girl said. “It’s getting bigger.”
“That sometimes happens”, her mother said. “It’s coming to a head.”
In a few days the red spot was even larger.
“Look at it now”, the girl said. “It hurts so much and it makes me look so ugly.”
“We’ll have the doctor look at it”, her mother said. “Maybe it’s infected.”
But the doctor couldn’t see the girl until the next day. That night she decided to take a nice, relaxing bath. As she lay soaking in the warm water, the boil suddenly burst. Out poured a swarm of tiny spiders from the eggs their mother had laid in her cheek.
Iread this b4 in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Arnold Schwartz
umm. Well hate is a strong word….
ewww could that really happen?
Wow thats creepy,if thats really possible!
Ewwww, And Yes, It Is Possibly. That Must Have Been A Poison Spider…..Just Nasty
I love how this is short and simple, easy to remember for around the campfire and people won’t get bored listening. Totally gonna tell this at camp ;)
OMG, this is really gross.
I saw this in a magazine for kids…..
HAHAHA! This is gruesaome and hilarious at the same time! imagine a spider laying eggs on your cheek! Lmfao!
eww eww ewww ewww ewwwwww!!!!!
Not even scary although it is pretty reassessed!
pinkKaygana and kutiethekiller you are both right when i was reading that i was like that is from bloody mary then i looked at the comments both of you said the same thing
ooooooooooooooooooooooooh gross
EWW THAT’S NASTY! EEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!
ok……. coudve been longer…..
bleck! D: when i read this for the very first time, every itch/tickle i had on my face i slapped my cheek!
oh and how do u know it was SPIDERS!?! how do u know that maybe she was some evil monster who ate Ruth and was pretending to be her in order to get revenge on Ruth’s mother who the monster asked out but she said no, and the spider bit the monster and in the hot water the thing burst and black BLOOD poured out, huh?? how do u know that THAT’S not the story, you copycat people… XD jk THE SPIDER SAVED THE DAY!!
hey these people are copycats, this was in the movie BLOODY MARY!!!! the poor girl started ripping her face off after that.
It’s creepy, I am slightly arachnophobic. So I was a bit creeped out. I agree with wolfie. It could have been longer.
eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww i wonder if thats possible!!! i hate spiders, its on of the only things that creep me out!!! =O
gross, weird. Could have been longer, though.
i saw something like this in a bloody mary movie, some girl had a zit and she poped it, and then billions of spiders came out!!!!
Yuck, yuck, yuck! Oh I hate spiders and now I am gonna get the willies all night, thanks!
ewww thats nasty
that is just gross! but it could happen it happened 2 a man on animal planet