Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary was Mary Tudor, Queen of England, and daughter of King Henry the 8th and Catherine of Aragon. All her life, she was a mean brat to her little sister, Elizabeth and her brother Edward VI. She did not like them at all and was very jealous.

When Edward VI died, she became Queen Mary of England. She was hated all over for changing the religion in England from Protestant to Roman Catholic. She mass-murdered over 100 Protestant leaders, earning her name as "Bloody Mary".

~ mae413 from Talk Paranormal

Do you know the story of Bloody Mary? That is if you look into the mirror and say Bloody Mary 10 times she will appear behind you. Well, me and my best friend decided to try that one day. Nobody was home at her house so we went to her house and went into her bathroom and turned the lights off. We had decided earlier that we would say Bloody Mary 20 times; she would say Bloody Mary 10 times and I would say Bloody Mary 10 times.

So my friend said it 10 times and when it was my turn I couldn't speak, I was too busy staring at the green light forming behind me. I got more scared every second. I looked behind me to see if there was a night light in, but when I turned around, there was nothing there. I rushed for the door and tried to open it, but it was locked. I shouted at my friend why she locked it, and she told me she didn't. We burst out of the bathroom and outside.

I told her what I saw, and after that, we never tried anything like that again and I recommend that you never try it. We also figured out that if we do that, we are letting demons into her house, inviting in the devil.

Written by Jessalyn Adamson, Copyright 2009

When I was in the forth grade everyone was doing this "Bloody Mary" thing in the bathroom. All the boys would come out of the bathroom and say, "Bloody Mary's in the bathroom, don't drop her baby or she'll kill you!"

I was one of those girls that didn't seem to be scared of anything. I decided I would go into the girl's bathroom and try it out. I went in turned off the lights, and told my cousin Kayla to open the door and turn on the lights when I yelled for her. I turned off the lights got in front of the mirror and said, "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary" three times in front of the mirror and spun around three times.

I looked into the mirror and saw a tall woman standing there with a white dress on, red eyes, and fire behind her, just staring at me. I couldn't stop staring at her, I was stuck. My cousin Kayla ran into the bathroom turned on the lights and Bloody Mary was gone. I started crying like crazy and told everyone what happened to me and nobody believed me, and still to this day no one actually believes that this happened to me. When I think about this all I want to do is cry because it is so freaking scary.

I would totally not suggest doing Bloody Mary even as a joke because IT IS REAL and you do not want to experience anything like I have. Who knows what would of happened to me if my cousin had not turned on the lights?!

Sent in by Becky, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com

One night, my friend Sam and I were staying at my house. Bored and with nothing to do, she suggested we try the whole Bloody Mary thing. Of course, we both thought it to be fake and just a laugh. We were wrong.

We went into the bathroom, locked the door, turned off the light and lit a candle. Laughing, we spun around three times while saying "Bloody Mary". We stood facing the mirror, and at first all we could see was our own amused reflections.

I leant close to the mirror, trying to see anything, and I ended up with my nose touching the mirror. Then I saw something which caused me to scream. It was a woman, a face gaunt and leering, with long black hair that had been soaked in blood. She held a knife.

Sam screamed too, and she grabbed my shoulder to pull me back. Once her hand touched my shoulder, the face disappeared. I fell back beside Sam, and looked at her.

"You're face," she said to me, eyes wide.

I looked in the mirror, and there were four, long scratch marks from the corner of my left eye to my chin. They started to bleed as I watched them.

Since that day, all those years ago, I've been terrified to look into a mirror, fearing that woman's face. I've still got the scars on my face. Sam has been to a psychiatrist constantly since then. We don't talk anymore, the incident was much too horrifying that it cut our friendship apart. I regret it ever since.

Was it really Bloody Mary? I think so. It may of been a poltergeist, picking up on our energy and deciding to trick us. But, it was a woman, drenched in blood like the legends. Whether or not it was her, the scars remain and my life has been altered terrible since that night.

~ Jazmine, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com

My friends; Margaret, Katie, and I were doing the Bloody Mary ritual with a quarter. This is how you do the quarter Bloody Mary ritual;

a. Light 3 candles
b. Turn out the lights

1. Get at least 2 people in a circle
2. Put your knee's together and don't move them
3. Take a quarter and flip it
4. Ask a question
5. If it lands on heads it means yes
6. If it lands on tales it means no

Keep asking this as long as you want.

We did this about 6 times until we got something. We were at Margaret's house when the lights went out, and the 3 candles went out. The next day we tried it again, except we did it in the bathroom. The toilet flushed. We asked; Bloody Mary if you are there please do something to one of us. Do you know what she did? She knocked a bottle of shampoo and it spilled all over Katie and some went on me. When this happened the door flew open. So we turned on the lights before something happened.

The next week we were outside and we did it and it was outside at night. We threw a hool-a-hoop onto a telephone pole hook. We did the ritual again but we asked can you knock the hool-a-hoop down. It knocked down and Margaret broke the circle. If you break the circle something bad will happen to you.

The next day Margaret said to me that someone was in her room and when she woke up she had a cut on her arm. It was the size of a mini carrot. She didn't know how she got it. We never did it again because to this day she hears that same noise in her room.

It was quite scary because we are at such a young age of 12, 13, and 9. I was quite scared so I thought I would share this with you

Written by Brittney Lee Alicene, Copyright 2009

Well it happened not that long ago at my mums house and I was by self and got bored so I decided to try the Bloody Mary thing. Anyway I went into the bathroom, turned off all the lights and did my thing. Nothing happened so I just went to my room and went to sleep. I turned off all the lights.

I thought I heard someone come into my room. I opened my eyes and out of the corner of my eye I could see a lady I only saw the back of her and what looked like long black hair thinking it was imagination I just closed my eyes and tried going to sleep but something made me wake up and I saw her again. This time she was facing me. I saw long black her and what looked to be an eye in an opening of her hair. I closed my eyes and then opened them again and she was gone. Still scared I closed my eyes tight and tried to go to sleep.

The next morning I was thinking about it. I'm still not sure who it was. All I know is that I don't know anyone with black hair. Was it bloody Mary or was it just a ghost? Strange things still happen in my room after I tried to summon her like something always wakes me up in the middle of the night or strange voices even during the day.

~ Lexi

My mother loves hearing scary stories and freaking me out since I'm a scaredy-cat. I've always been scared of ghosts but I listen to her stories all the same. One night I invited my friend over who I'll call Jane. Jane and I loved freaking ourselves out and when my mother told us about Bloody Mary we immediately wanted to try it.

We were told by my mother that if you stand in a bathroom with no lights and no candles or anything and you chant 'Bloody Mary' three times she'll appear.

We both piled into our bathroom. Our bathroom was a narrow room with two doors. We entered a door from the hallway and there was a sink and the mirror to the left, the toilet next to that, and the shower straight ahead. Right across from the toilet was the other door which led to a bedroom. Anyway, Jane and I were in the bathroom with the lights off. My hand was on the light switch so I could flip the switch quickly and so we chanted 'Bloody Mary' three times.

Nothing happened for a few minutes until we finally heard a little rustling. We both looked over and the shower curtain was swinging wildly back and forth with no wind or anything to cause it. I immediately tried to turn on the light but the light-switch didn't do anything. Me and Jane both started screaming and didn't even bother to see if Mary appeared.

I was flipping the light switch up and down but the light still wouldn't turn on. Finally I tried the door but it was locked, and I know I didn't lock it. I unlocked it and we both, quite literally, fell out of the bathroom. We both ran as far away from the bathroom as we could. I went and got my mother to investigate.

The shower curtain had swung so much that a couple of the rings had broken. My mother grabbed a flashlight since the light still wouldn't turn on. My mother examined the light bulbs and discovered that all four of them had been unscrewed, even though they worked fine before me and Jane chanted Bloody Mary.

Jane and I freaked out and needless to say never tried Bloody Mary again. Every once in a while when I go in there to shower the shower curtain will rustle or the lights will flicker. Fortunately since then we've moved from the house but I now know better than to do any strange chants.

Sorry it's kinda flippant. I originally submitted this story under a humorous true ghost stories site and had to edit it a little bit. You an edit as you see fit. Unfortunately true.

~ Mackenzie, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com

My friend I were bored one day because we were at our cousins house. All of the adults and other kids were inside right before the football game. So we put on are coats and headed out our cousins back door that led to this deck type thing.

My friend and I went on the side of the house and said this spell that she got off the internet it was how to summon Bloody Mary and we said the spell and nothing happen until just then when we went inside the house there was a dark creepy shadow with deep red glowing eyes following us around every time we turned around the thing would vanish but we looked in the mirror and saw it.

Then we went outside and we heard all this shooting coming from down the road and we looked and there was a faint image of a hunter from about the 1950's and we ran into her moms van and the door shut on us and all the doors locked on us. We could not get out for 5 minutes. That was one crazy day for us and we were glad it was over. We thank god that we were alive. Creepy for all

~ Kiersten, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com

This may not seem scary but to us who experienced it, it was terrifying. So we were at a sleep over and two of girls decided to do Bloody Mary. My other friend and I wanted to watch outside the bathroom and the last two were to scared to watch. The girls who did it went inside the bathroom and outside it, me and my friend were watching in horror. We both heard screaming from inside and the girls ran out breathing hard and saying "oh my god oh my god!" then they laughed when they saw our scared faces and said "Ha Ha just kidding!" so then they went back in and did it again. Me and my friend who were watching saw a bright light that faded to purple that came from the crack under the door. Then screaming followed that. They came yelling "oh my god, oh my god! Saw a face! A faint white face!" I know Bloody Mary seems like a joke but you should try it and it will scare the crap out of you! They weren't joking! I'm totally honest!

Most people don't take Bloody Mary seriously but I always will. At my birthday sleep over, I decided to do the Bloody Mary trick with my friend. We went in the bathroom and waited. Then we ran out screaming to scare the people who were watching. But the second time, we were really going to try Bloody Mary. We preformed the ritual. When we looked in the mirror, we saw a malevolent, vague, white face there. Then there was a flash of bright light, only it wasn't light. It was bright, but gray and dark at the same time. Like shadow light or something! Me and my friend ran out of the bathroom yelling our heads of. We were crazy scared and had scratches on us. This is why I will never forget my 12th birthday party. Respecting the dead would probably be in your best interest.

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~ Anonymous, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com

My friend Ashley and I were having a sleep over at my house, and we were so psyched. It was about, like, 11 at night, and we had just finished watching Mean Girls. We were really bored, and no where near tired. "We should do Bloody Mary!" I screamed. Ashley looked at me with that what-the-bleep-are-ya'-five look. "Blue Baby," she whispered with the same look. I recalled what had happened after school at the Y about a year ago.

The legend says that Blue Baby was bloody Mary's baby boy. He had died at birth, because he had some weird fever that turned ya blue. If you go into a bathroom, turn of the lights, cradle your arms, and chant Blue Baby 3 times in front of a mirror, you will feel something get heavy in your arms. That is Blue Baby. If you drop 'im, you'll get scratched.

My friends Erika, Lyndsey, and Ashley went into the bathroom and did Blue Baby. My friends Hollee and Crissiana and I waited outside, cause we were all freaked to death of that story. Like, 5 minutes later, Lyndsey came running out like she was bein' chased. Ashley stumbled out, and then finally Erika. Erika had this HUGE cut down her leg. I hate the sight of blood, but I asked what happened anyway. "Blue Baby!" She yelled. "Dingbat!" Ashley yelled.

She interrupted my thoughts. "So, ya gonna do Blue baby or what?" She kept going. "Y-yeah! I aint chicken!" I kept yelling. So we did it. Right on the third chant, I felt my arms go heavy. I nearly choked. I wouldn't dare drop what was in my arms. "T-turn on the light." I said to Ashley. Blue Baby goes away if you turn on the light. Ashley, I knew, didn't have her arms cradled. "What?" She whispered. "TURN ON THE BLEEPIN' LIGHT NOW ASHLEY!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. She sure heck did. The weight in my arms was gone now.

We crawled into bed, swearing never to tell anyone this. Well, I broke my promise, but for a good reason. This happened when I was 10. I'm 11 now, (big difference). Please, if your gonna do this, have another person in the bathroom with you, just to turn on the lights!

This was the scariest thing that's ever happened to me besides 9/11

~ Valerie Katherine Copyright 2009

"The legend of Bloody Mary has endured for many years and people to this day still believe it to be true. Whether or not it's true is debatable but what most people agree on is that wearing scary Halloween costumes at Halloween is fun. And for those who don't want to be scared, there's always the funny or sexy costumes. The options are endless."

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