The Red Stain
One of the most widespread Soviet scary stories. A family moves into a new flat and finds a red stain on the ceiling or the wallpaper that will not wash off and will not paint over: every morning it comes through again, a little larger. At night people vanish from the room, one at a time, and after each one the stain is brighter. The moral, in the children's telling, is always the same and always said out loud: they should have called the police at once.
The Stickman
A figure assembled from sticks — arms, legs and neck longer than a person's — that stands motionless in the forest and copies the posture of whoever saw it. The legend was born on Russian-language imageboards in the early 2010s and rests on one detail retold almost word for word: the stickman does not attack and does not move while it is watched, and the distance between you closes only in the seconds when you blinked or turned away. In ten years no photograph of it has survived examination.
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