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Published May 29, 2023, 8:20 p.m. by Violet Harris
Chilling Scares presents: 3 scary real sports horror stories
It’s that time of year again. The leaves are falling, the air is crisp and, most importantly, Halloween is just around the corner. What better way to get into the spooky spirit than by reading some scary stories?
And what could be more spine-tingling than tales of terror involving sports? That’s right, sports horror stories.
From cursed athletes to murderous fans, these stories will have you thinking twice about your favorite pastime. So, without further ado, here are 3 scary real sports horror stories.
The Boston Red Sox were one of the most successful teams in baseball in the early 1900s, winning five World Series titles. But in 1918, they made a fateful decision that would come back to haunt them for over 80 years.
The team sold Babe Ruth, aka the Bambino, to the New York Yankees. And, as they say, the rest is history.
The Yankees would go on to become one of the most successful teams in baseball, winning an unprecedented 27 World Series titles. Meanwhile, the Red Sox would be cursed, failing to win a single title for 86 years.
It wasn’t until 2004 that the “Curse of the Bambino” was finally broken, when the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years.
The Chicago White Sox were one of the best teams in baseball in the early 1900s. They won the World Series in 1917 and were heavy favorites to win again in 1919.
But, in what would come to be known as the “Black Sox Scandal”, eight members of the team were accused of throwing the World Series in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate.
The players were acquitted in a criminal trial, but they were all banned from baseball for life. The scandal rocked the baseball world and forever tarnished the reputation of the White Sox.
3. The Murder of Olympic Figure Skater Nancy Kerrigan
In 1994, American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was the victim of a brutal attack. Just days before the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she was clubbed in the knee with a metal baton by an assailant.
The attacker turned out to be an associate of Tonya Harding, another American figure skater who was Kerrigan’s main rival. Harding was later stripped of her titles and banned from figure skating for life.
Kerrigan recovered from her injuries and went on to win a silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. The attack and subsequent trial were a media circus, and the story was turned into a Hollywood movie called “Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story”.
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my girlfriend and i have been together
for about a year now
we were both 19 at the time and i was
home alone this night
if i remember correctly it was a
wednesday when she texted me asking me
to do her a favor
now she had a younger brother dustin who
was 10
and at the time her parents were out of
town she asked me
if i could bring dustin to his baseball
game and drive him back afterwards as
she was swarmed with homework
and she said she couldn't find time to
do it herself i of course agree
yes i didn't have anything planned that
night and dustin and i actually got
along pretty well the game started at
seven
so i showed up at 6 30 to take dustin to
the field
the whole layout of the place was really
weird you had to park in this parking
lot and walk about five minutes on this
path just to get to the field
we live in a pretty forested area so the
whole place was surrounded in trees
once we finally got to the field dustin
went off to go to his team
and i proceeded to walk over to the
bleachers
the game lasted a pretty long time and
went into a few extra innings
by the time it was finished it was pitch
black outside
dustin had to talk to his coach about
something so we were the last ones to
head to the parking lot
now that the light to the field was
turned off pretty much all you could see
were trees
if i'm being honest it was a pretty
creepy setting but
we started to head back as we were
walking back a notification popped up on
my phone
it was my girlfriend asking where we
were i responded saying the game lasted
a while
but we were now heading back to the
parking lot as we kept walking down the
path
dustin stopped me he pointed in front of
us and said
dude do you see that i stopped
it was insanely dark but i squinted i
saw the outline of a figure standing in
the distance
as my eyes focused i noticed the dude
walk off the path into the trees
though i pretended not to see it as i
didn't want to freak dustin out
i just told him i didn't see anything so
we kept walking
as we passed the part where the figure
was i could swear i heard rustling in
the trees next to us
i didn't say anything and we just kept
walking
about a minute later we made it to the
car i reached in my pocket to grab my
keys
but i felt nothing my heart dropped
realizing that they had probably fallen
out of my pocket when i sat down on the
bleachers
i thought about going back for them when
dustin once again pointed out that he
saw some figure on the path
at that point i realized going back for
them wasn't an option
whatever that figure was really
disturbed me i mean
it was insanely late on a wednesday
night who would just sit in the middle
of the forest
we both agreed it was best to just walk
home as it was only like a 15 minute
walk
i just worry about finding my car keys
in the morning
so we started walking it was on a
straight stretch of neighborhood roads
with a decent amount of street lights
i looked back and that's when i saw the
figure again
this time since there was more light i
could tell it was a dude maybe mid-30s
he was just standing there underneath
one of the street lights looking up at
it
he was playing with something in his
hands i looked closer and realized it
was a knife
we were both extremely disturbed at that
point though we kept walking
checking behind us constantly i noticed
the guy seemed to be moving to a new
streetlight whenever i turned around
initially i thought it was my eyes
playing tricks on me but i started
counting them
and realized five street lights behind
us had quickly turned to three
i could hear the guy started faintly
making groaning sounds
i was absolutely terrified we picked up
the pace a bit and turned a corner we
were now on the last stretch of street
before we got to my girlfriend's house
that's when we heard heavy footsteps
charging down the path behind us
the guy was literally now running
towards us we immediately broke into a
sprint
once we got to my girlfriend's house we
crouched down behind a bush in the front
yard
i spammed her phone with messages to
open the front door
about a minute later i heard the door
start to open and me and dustin booked
it inside
i immediately went to the window facing
the street and we saw the guy
the guy was now in the middle of the
street just circling around
he was still groaning i could tell he
still had that knife in his hand
he started kicking people's trash bins
over we called the police immediately
but of course he was gone by the time
they arrived
and as far as i know they never found
him i had to have my girlfriend bring me
home
and on the way i told her everything
later that week
her parents would thank me for keeping
their son safe and didn't hold any ill
will against me for this situation
i also went back to the field a few days
later this time with a few of my friends
and sure enough there my keys were lying
on the ground next to the bleachers
overall the whole situation was insanely
terrifying
whoever was following us that night
clearly wasn't in their right mind
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this was back when i played basketball
in middle school
i was in eighth grade and we had a lot
of games that season
so it wasn't uncommon to have three or
four games fit into a single week
it was a monday and we had a home game
against one of our rival schools at 8
that night
no we almost never played games that
late but
at the time our second gym was under
construction so
all the younger teams had to play before
us on the main gym which caused our game
to get pushed back pretty late
i remember the score was close pretty
much the whole game
though we lost after giving up a decent
lead in the last few minutes
we all headed to the locker room to get
our stuff which was in the basement of
the building
as i opened my locker my coach called me
to his office
so i followed him to another part of the
basement
he wanted to talk to me about my plans
for pursuing basketball in high school
and just some general stuff like that we
talked for around 10 minutes
and when we were done i realized
everyone else had left we were the only
ones in the basement at that point
if i'm being honest it was a pretty
creepy setting i mean
i do have classes in the basement but
that was always during the day
and never alone my coach left but i
still to get some stuff from my locker
and change my shoes
i walked into the locker room got my
stuff and proceeded to sit down to take
off my shoes
as i was untying them though i swear i
could hear someone walking down the
stairs to the basement
at first i just figured it was my coach
thinking he must have forgotten
something
but no i saw a man in a janitor uniform
now walking around the basement
i thought it was weird as i didn't think
school janitors worked this late
but i just reasoned it was possible that
they did as i hadn't even ever been in
the school this late
so how could i have known i quickly
forgot about it and continued changing
my shoes
that's when the man walked in the locker
room with a mop in his hand
we made eye contact but i quickly looked
back down at my shoes
i could tell the dude was just staring
at me i was insanely weirded out at that
point
i mean the guy wasn't even using the mop
he was just holding it and staring at me
this went on for a good 20 seconds when
i heard the guy walk over to the back
exit in the locker room
now the school basement had a couple
emergency exits
one of them being in the locker room the
guy opened the door
and that's when i knew i was in some
sort of danger three other dudes wearing
almost
all black entered the room now at this
point not a single word had been
exchanged
the four guys were now just looking at
me i could feel my heart pounding
without having much time to think i got
up and ran as fast as i could up the
stairs and to the school front door exit
no i swear the whole time i could hear
footsteps chasing me
when i got to the front door i looked
behind me but there was no one there
i walked outside and i saw an illegally
parked white van right next to the
school
though the parking lot itself was empty
i ran home that night
and the next day at school i told my
principal about the whole incident
but he honestly didn't seem like he
cared at all so nothing ever came of
this situation
to this day i still don't know what the
intentions of those guys were
or how the first guy even got in the
building but i could tell
just by the stare alone that those guys
gave me they didn't have good intentions
[Music]
i live in a small town it was a friday
night
and every friday me and my younger
brother would go to a nearby elementary
school soccer field play soccer with
some of our friends
my brother was 10 and i was 12.
our parents weren't that strict and for
whatever reason the school would leave
their field lights on at night so we
would always play at night
i remember it was around 8 at night when
me and my younger brother made the
half-mile walk to the field
the route we took was pretty remote
anyway
we showed up met our friends and messed
around for about an hour
that's when i noticed a car show up and
pull up into the school parking lot
i thought it was weird but didn't
mention it to anyone
we continued with our game though the
whole time i would constantly glance
back at the car
it was just sitting there with its
headlights on that's when i noticed a
man
get out and walk up to some bleachers
near the field
he sat down and was now just watching
all of us
my friends who were now aware of the guy
pointed him out saying how weird it was
we tried to keep playing but honestly we
couldn't knowing some stranger was
watching
us we all agreed to cut the game short
and just walk home as most of us felt
pretty uncomfortable
so we did me and my brother headed off
back towards home
we were walking for a while and i
quickly glanced behind us
i noticed the guy stood up no we just
continued our walk
up ahead of us was an unlit dirt road
that continued for a good part of the
trip
i looked behind us again and that's when
i saw the dude now walking in our
direction
i panicked but quickly figured he could
have been just walking back to his car
as it was in the same direction but that
hope was quickly shot down as i noticed
the guy walk
right past his car at that point i was
almost certain he was following us
i noticed my brother knew something was
wrong looking at my expression
now the dirt road we were on went
through a forest
and had a curve at the start of it once
we got to the curve i looked back
and noticed that for this little section
of the path we were out of the guy's
sight
thinking fast i pulled my brother into
the woods and we ducked down behind some
bushes
a few seconds passed until we could see
the man's shadow coming down the road
he walked past us but then realizing we
were no longer in front of him he turned
back around
i was now 100 certain this guy was
following us
my heart was racing but i tried to keep
as quiet as possible
after a few minutes of searching the man
did find us
and finally gave up continuing forward
on the path
we stayed in the forest for a while
before getting the courage to come out
we walked the rest of the way home with
no problems though
the next time i saw my friends at school
i told them what happened
and to my horror almost every one of
them said they had a similar experience
on their way home
we all agreed it was best just to keep
it between us and not tell our parents
thinking back to that situation still
gives me chills to this day
i don't like to think what that guy's
intentions were that night
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