12 Terrifying Ghost Stories From Around The World

3. Thai Ghost Lady Spills Her Guts

Hold onto your hats, because from here on out things get spectacularly weird. We're not kidding. Children and pregnant women should look away now. Actually, screw it, you've already seen the picture, it's too late for that. If that isn't evocative enough for you, allow us to elaborate on just what the Cambodian ghoul the Krause is all about: she has the floating head of a beautiful woman, and also the internal organs of a beautiful woman minus her beautiful torso, meaning she flies around with her guts just kind of dangling below her chin. Which is HORRIFYING.

The Krause has become incredibly popular in her native country, appearing in countless horror movies and TV shows because...well, because she's one of the freakiest ghosts we've ever come across (as her position on the list will attest to), and because there ain't nobody but nobody who wouldn't be freaked out by a floating head trailing her intestines.

In Thai and Cambodian folklore the story goes that the Krause was once a princess who rejected an arranged marriage and was burnt at the stake; a wizard cast a spell that would protect her from the flames, but by that point her entire body had been consumed by the flames, save her head. Nice going, wizard. Since then the Krause has roamed the Earth with an insatiable hunger for blood, preying on cattle or even pregnant women just before or after giving birth, looking to satiate its bloodlust with either the placenta or the fetus itself.

As if pregnancy wasn't scary enough, you have to contend with the horrifying vision of a dead woman's head coming up to your window trying to feast on your menstrual blood or even your baby. Man, Cambodia sounds scary.