Real Life Sleepovers That Turned Into a Total Nightmare

Everyone loves a sleepover— until something goes wrong. It doesn’t take much for an overnight trip to turn into a mess, whether due to uncooperative guests, bathroom accidents, or just weird family customs that freak other people out.

Here are some true stories from sleepovers that took a weird turn.

Cereal Milk

When I was a kid, I slept over at a buddy’s house for the first time. The next morning we woke up and his mom made us cereal, the milk tasted hella sweet, even for my child taste buds. Something about it all seemed off.

Just as my buddy finished his bowl of cereal, his mom came over and turned the bowl on its side to pour the leftover milk from the cereal bowl into a milk carton. The mom then did the same with hers. I felt my face turn red with shame and embarrassment and my stomach turn.

Horrified and confused I asked “what is that? What are y’all doing?” He turned to me and said “that’s our cereal milk.”

Turned out this ENTIRE family poured all of the leftover milk from each bowl of cereal back into a separate milk carton, specifically for cereal. I drank this entire family’s backwash.

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Hide and No Seek

Went to a friends birthday party in 4th grade. about half way through the night we decided to play hide and seek. maybe 30-45 minutes later (all i know was it was a long time) i come out of my hiding place to find them playing on the wii in the living room.

They’d forgotten about me and thought everyone was found so they moved on to the next thing without me.

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Holiday Ham

My.. well former friend.. had night terrors. He would occasionally murmur in his sleep. Not a lot, but enough to sort of wake you up, but be able to go right back to sleep.

Most of the time it wasn’t even that annoying, but once he awoke me with a blood curdling scream of, “I’LL CUT YOU LIKE A HOLIDAY HAM!” I didn’t sleep for the rest of the night.

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Nasal Pain

We were all like 9 or 10 year old girls and everyone else had fallen asleep except for me, so I decided I would play a prank on them. I got up and shook a good amount of black pepper into my hand and went to several of the girls and held it under their noses.

What I was thinking would happen was they would wake up sneezing and be like, “Hey! That was silly!” But instead they ended up waking up crying because they inhaled pepper and turns out black pepper being inhaled into a sensitive orifice can really sting.

The girls cried so hard that my parents woke up and I had to explain the whole innocent idea behind my scheme.

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