Keep the lights on while you watch these scary stories unfold. Everyone loves a good scare — a chilling shiver down their spine, but it's even more thrilling when the frights come from scary videos that are true. There are a whole lot of true accounts of the sinister and the paranormal captured on tape out there, and in this list I’ve analyzed just some of the best. Here are 15 scary videos filmed by accident! And the way the entries in this list are, they will redefine the word "creepy" in a whole new, eerie, and ominous way.

Ready to be freaked out of your wits? You are at the right place! But before you hit play, be warned that after watching these creepy videos, you won't get to sleep in peace for weeks. Your own home sweet home is going to feel like a hair-raising haunted house when you're done watching this countdown to the end. Every one of us has spent our fair share of time scrolling through YouTube's recommendations. As it happens, the platform is also a humongous hub for some of the most spine-chilling scary videos to have ever been uploaded on the internet.

But there's a catch. Most of the scary videos you will find on YouTube are just cheap attempts to trick you into a silly jump scare. They are no creepier than someone wearing a sloppily draped bedsheet, screaming "boo" as you walk past them around a corner. In short, most creepy videos on YouTube merely have meaningless frights to offer. But in this list of top 15 scary videos, I've made sure to analyze only the entries that will simply chill you to the bone. These creepy videos will wreak havoc on your psyche, make your heart race, and make you feel like your home is a hotbed for paranormal activity. What's more horrifying, is that the entries in this list of creepy videos have an eerily strange vibe. When something scary defies any logical explanation science has to offer, it instantly becomes a whole lot scarier — and that's what the videos in this creepy countdown are all about.

Familiar with the feeling you get while sleeping at night when your foot dangles slightly off the edge of your mattress and you feel like the monster under the bed will pull you into the depths of some other scary dimension? You probably are. Let me caution you that after watching this list of creepy videos to the end, you'll be left with nothing but the same feeling multiplied by a couple thousand. Proceed at your own peril.

Done watching? That's great!
Which of these scary videos frightened the living daylights out of you the most? Let me know right below in the comments!

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15.
https://youtu.be/7OEkdHYYoZg
14.
https://youtu.be/TkelgmtdGOc
13.
https://youtu.be/RPvnpKHs0E4
12.
pepsodon/TikTok
11.
https://youtu.be/_ebwFYdxGK8
10.
https://youtu.be/14YSJhU2OQY
Original Source Unknown
9.
https://youtu.be/DfbyT0i2OoU
8.
https://youtu.be/rJPu-O-mLBo
local10.com
ndtv.com
7.
https://youtu.be/kbCQu4ZhbWU
6.
https://youtu.be/BwgF_93hEHQ
4.
HrsHD/Reddit
3.
 r/ChillsNarrator-Crims021
2.
https://youtu.be/dkxKYgyMjBM
1.
https://youtu.be/dWwgQEdGriY

Music:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
jdgehlert (pond5.com)