What's the scary story a grandmother told a kid to put them to bed?
November 16, 2022 6:54 PM Subscribe
What's the scary story a grandmother told a kid to put them to bed?
Why is grandma no longer allowed to tell bedtime stories?
Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
I ran across one of those awful listicle ads on Facebook, where the "headline" story doesn't include the important part, and then half the time, the headline story doesn't even appear anywhere in the damn list. (It's Factinate. I'm starting to block all their subsites as they come up.) This is one of those times.
Anyway, I still want to know the resolution of the setup.
The screenshot looks like Twitter, but it could certainly have originated elsewhere.
The setup for the story has the following elements:
When the storyteller was a kid, they had trouble falling asleep.
Nothing helped the kid fall asleep better than grandma's bedtime stories.
One particular story grandma only told when the parents weren't home.
The kid either told mom about the story or asked her about it, and mom decided on the spot that the kid shouldn't be alone with grandma anymore, or maybe just that grandma couldn't tell the kid bedtime stories anymore.
I'm not sure about the last part because that's where the picture is cut off.
I really want to know the rest. If anybody knows this story, point me to it, please?
I think I have seen the setup at least twice now, but never the rest.
I ran across one of those awful listicle ads on Facebook, where the "headline" story doesn't include the important part, and then half the time, the headline story doesn't even appear anywhere in the damn list. (It's Factinate. I'm starting to block all their subsites as they come up.) This is one of those times.
Anyway, I still want to know the resolution of the setup.
The screenshot looks like Twitter, but it could certainly have originated elsewhere.
The setup for the story has the following elements:
When the storyteller was a kid, they had trouble falling asleep.
Nothing helped the kid fall asleep better than grandma's bedtime stories.
One particular story grandma only told when the parents weren't home.
The kid either told mom about the story or asked her about it, and mom decided on the spot that the kid shouldn't be alone with grandma anymore, or maybe just that grandma couldn't tell the kid bedtime stories anymore.
I'm not sure about the last part because that's where the picture is cut off.
I really want to know the rest. If anybody knows this story, point me to it, please?
I think I have seen the setup at least twice now, but never the rest.
Yeah, I vote for B -- I've heard this as a "lateral thinking" puzzle, and the answer was "she's dead."
posted by nebulawindphone at 7:12 PM on November 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by nebulawindphone at 7:12 PM on November 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
Oh jeeze, I saw that today! I'm glad someone settled it with a pretty good guess. I literally clicked "I don't want to see more like this!"
posted by Temeraria at 7:39 PM on November 16, 2022
posted by Temeraria at 7:39 PM on November 16, 2022
Response by poster: I really hope there is a real story, even if it’s not a great one. Any bedtime story that’s wildly inappropriate for a kid will do the trick, but if it’s just fake clickbait, I will be both disappointed and left holding the door for a shadow that never arrives.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 8:44 PM on November 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Mister Moofoo at 8:44 PM on November 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
Please rest assured that even if there is a wildly inappropriate story, it is fake clickbait.
You know all those "Woman takes one look at this picture and divorces her husband" and "Dog hates bananas and when they find out why they call the police." etc. posts? When you get to the end of the 40 slides there's a disclaimer saying the story is for entertainment and is not actually true. Rest assured this is fake clickbait. It's possible they wrote some inappropriate story to complement their fake clickbait, but that won't change what it is.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 8:49 PM on November 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
You know all those "Woman takes one look at this picture and divorces her husband" and "Dog hates bananas and when they find out why they call the police." etc. posts? When you get to the end of the 40 slides there's a disclaimer saying the story is for entertainment and is not actually true. Rest assured this is fake clickbait. It's possible they wrote some inappropriate story to complement their fake clickbait, but that won't change what it is.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 8:49 PM on November 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
Response by poster: I guess I want less for it to be true than for it to be complete. I would rather it be one of fifty user-submitted pointless stories than a setup that never had a punchline to begin with.
Although it sounds like that’s what it was.
Boo.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 2:42 PM on November 17, 2022
Although it sounds like that’s what it was.
Boo.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 2:42 PM on November 17, 2022
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My guess is that
A) There is no story. Sometimes these clickbait articles never actually get to that thing. Think of all those "Celebrities we lost this year" with a clickbait of a not-dead celebrity.
B) The grandmother is dead. The child is talking to the ghost.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 7:07 PM on November 16, 2022 [3 favorites]