{"id":29845,"date":"2017-10-31T09:55:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dolly.com\/blog\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:53:03","slug":"moving-horror-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/blog\/moving-horror-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Horror Stories That Will Give You Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone loves a good horror story &#8211; the most terrifying are, of course, moving nightmares. We asked our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dolly\/\">Facebook<\/a> fans to tell us their moving horror stories and they had us spooked. Check out our favorites below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2214\" src=\"https:\/\/dolly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dolly_Marketing_UGCContent_MovingHorrorStories_FB_Oct31_01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was moving into an apartment about two years ago, and my girlfriend and a good friend volunteered to help. My friend is the &#8216;guy with a truck&#8217; among us college students who is notorious for having helped everyone move. My friend had to leave, but since he and I are close, he let me drive the remaining rounds back and forth from the old place. My girlfriend and I stopped on the way back for a snack at Dairy Queen: I had a burger and she had a blizzard\u2026big mistake. On the way back, my girlfriend quietly said that she wasn\u2019t feeling well and that she needed to use the restroom. Since we were close to the place, I figured we might as well go the small remaining distance. As we started to pull into a parking space, she quickly reached for a shopping bag that was in the truck, and immediately started to vomit all over the interior of the truck and the bag. Let\u2019s just say the smell never quite left the truck, and my friend hasn\u2019t let me borrow the truck for a move since.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Daymon, Seattle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2215\" src=\"https:\/\/dolly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dolly_Marketing_UGCContent_MovingHorrorStories_FB_Oct31_02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy mother woke me in the middle of the night and said, &#8216;You\u2019re taking your three siblings on the bus from Longview to Seattle in the morning, gramma will pick you up and I\u2019ll be up in Seattle on Saturday. We will get you enrolled in school up there on Monday. Here\u2019s twenty bucks for snacks at the stops.&#8217; Not long after, Mount St. Helens erupted. It blew out so much stuff into the Columbia river that fall flood tide moved from 2 inches under our house to 4 feet\u00a0<em>in<\/em> our house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christian, Seattle<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2216\" src=\"https:\/\/dolly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dolly_Marketing_UGCContent_MovingHorrorStories_FB_Oct31_03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dolly_Marketing_UGCContent_MovingHorrorStories_FB_Oct31_03.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dolly_Marketing_UGCContent_MovingHorrorStories_FB_Oct31_03-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dolly_Marketing_UGCContent_MovingHorrorStories_FB_Oct31_03-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dolly_Marketing_UGCContent_MovingHorrorStories_FB_Oct31_03-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My move had 2 stops. The second was the consignment shop, where I brought some extra furniture, so we loaded those first, to come off the back of the truck last. Halfway through, the movers decided we must do that stop first, so when we got to the consignment shop, they had to offload the stuff in the front to get to the stuff in the back, then reload the stuff in the front. Should I mention they stood my box spring on its side, and it promptly fell on the dirty loading dock floor? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I dealt with the consignment shop staff while they reloaded everything, then went to my car as they closed the truck for the last stop at my new place. They broke a few more items over the next couple of hours, then told me they were done. What do you mean, done? Where&#8217;s my bed? They left it on the loading dock of the consignment shop, which was now closed. I hadn&#8217;t slept for two days straight, and I had to go back to my old place to close up, where I fell asleep sitting on an exercise ball leaning against the wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next day I called the shop and learned they can&#8217;t accept beds, so they usually send them to the landfill. But in this case, an employee had taken it to donate to the needy. In Tijuana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luckily he hadn&#8217;t made the trip south of the border yet, but I still had to wait like a week for him to get time to bring it to me. In the meantime I slept in the tub or a chair, since I had brought my couch to consignment. It was a nightmare!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Linda, San Diego<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dolly\/posts\/1682121018527085\">sharing your stories<\/a> &#8211; we got some great ones! <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to avoid a horror story next time you move? <a href=\"https:\/\/book.dolly.com\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=halloween-horror-stories\">Book a Dolly<\/a> &#8211; we\u2019ll bring the truck and muscle and your move will be a sweet dream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone loves a good horror story &#8211; the most terrifying are, of course, moving nightmares. We asked our Facebook fans to tell us their moving horror stories and they had us spooked. 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