Scary Stories - My Brother Was Eaten

A teenager breaks into a seemingly abandoned apartment in his building, looking for things to steal. He finds a pile of human bones inside a refrigerator, and then the refrigerators themselves come to life and attack him. His younger brother is dragged into one of them. The story becomes a strange negotiation: the narrator realizes the refrigerators are a family, and he has taken their child—a small olive-colored mini fridge. He returns it, and his brother is released, covered in pink goo but alive.

The Break-In and the Discovery

The narrator, Frank, convinces his reluctant younger brother Alex to break into a seventh-floor apartment that has appeared vacant for years. The apartment is strangely cold and mostly bare, but it contains two refrigerators: a large grey one and a smaller sickly yellow one. A mini fridge sits between the sofas. Frank bullies Alex into carrying the mini fridge back to their own apartment as a condition for leaving. While Alex complies, Frank explores the bedroom and finds a stash of valuables—jewelry, vintage coins, two-dollar bills, and a wallet belonging to a James A. Herman, a former resident his parents once mentioned. As he gathers the loot, the apartment grows warm, the lights cut out, and the refrigerators begin to shake and hiss. The grey fridge bursts open, spilling a human skull and bones onto the floor. The refrigerators then launch sh