Artist: @northernblots (Instagram and Twitter/X) Audio: Veridis Quo by Daft Punk Story: “The Green Ribbon” Once there was a girl named Jenny. She was like all the other girls, except for one thing. She always wore a green ribbon around her neck. There was a boy named Alfred in her class. Alfred liked Jenny, and Jenny liked Alfred. One day he asked her, “Why do you wear that ribbon all the time?” “I cannot tell you,” said Jenny. But Alfred kept asking, “Why do you wear it?” And Jenny would say, “It is not important.” Jenny and Alfred grew up and fell in love. One day they got married. After their wedding, Alfred said, “Now that we are married, you must tell me about the green ribbon.” “You still must wait,” said Jenny. “I will tell you when the right time comes.” Years passed. Alfred and Jenny grew old. One day Jenny became very sick. The doctor told her she was dying. Jenny called Alfred to her side. “Alfred,” she said. “Now I can tell you about the green ribbon. Untie it, and you will see why I could not tell you before.” Slowly and carefully, Alfred untied the ribbon, and Jenny’s head fell off. - From “In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories” by Alvin Schwartz
Over thirteen years ago did I read this as a wee lad. Thank you. A story I had forgotten but am glad to remember. Might I ask if it was a picture book?
@mir1147 well, anyway Jenny waited until she was old and sick before revealing the truth... and losing her head..the husband had had commendable patience! 😂
The positive thing that can be taken here is that when we are in a relationship,there are things or boundaries that should not be opened, or you will lose them
FULL STORY; there once was a girl named Jenny who always wore a green ribbon around her neck. She fell in love with a boy when they were still children. He asked her why she always wore the ribbon, she responded with “once day I’ll tell you”. He asked again on their wedding day and she gave him the same response saying the time wasn’t right. Many years later, Jenny is on her deathbed and she calls her husband to her side, she tells him “now I will tell you about the green ribbon, remove it and you’ll see why I wore it”. When he removed the ribbon, Jenny’s head fell off. I loved this story growing up. I forgot which book it belongs in, but it had a bunch of short stories just like this
@@adorableadoryyeah it’s weird, in a marriage you should be honest and open to each other. That’s how a marriage can last: accepting your partner for who she or he is unless they break the wedding vows such as cheating. Having secrets means you have to hide something for your partner forever. That’s toxic. It means that secret is something negative. Married couples should be honest and upfront to eachother: communication is key
I remember this story when I was in the third grade. It's amazing that it surfaced on here. Out of the scary stories from that book, this one had really captured my attention the most.
Scary Stories To Read In The Dark? Is that the right name of the book? I loved those!! Terrified me though lol I don’t know how the school library was letting a third grader check out those books 😅
@jadesterbaby we didn't really checkout those books. It was in the 90s when I remembered this story clearly. They let us listen to it on tape while viewing the book that had that story in it among other stories.
@@aquaDo156 oh that’s really cool. I was born in 1996 so I was in 3rd grade in the early 2000s. There was a collection of stories in these books Scary Stories To Read In The Dark or something like that, and some of them were really scary! I remember the Green Ribbon story really bothering me as a kid lol
You too? I remember as a child telling scary stories in the dark. Each person who spoke held a candle. I had just read this story out of the school library. I decided to tell it. I did it well. Two girls had nightmares.
@@lazerfrogstudiosI think they were saying if someone was messing with her and took the ribbon off, her head would’ve came off in school lol I don’t think that’s the point they were making…
exactly, she was old and sick and dying so everything didn't seem to have changed much. I thought she would untie the ribbon on their wedding night...that would have been a real turn of events!
I don't know. I think she did him dirty. She said she would tell him when the time was right but instead she waited until almost her end and just told him to untie the ribbon, making her head fall off n causing her death. This must of been extremely traumatic for Alfred. And to add insult to injury, she never explained why this happened to her, how did she end up like this or who did this to her. In essence she made her husband kill her. No, she did him dirty, I tell you, just plain dirty. Aside from that good story. 😂
@@CecyCecyCecy exactly what I thought. He must be so traumatized, and he would never be able to figure out why that happened. Not even sure if he would be able to forgive himself ever, or perhaps her. Yes she was sick, but that doesn't necessarily mean that she would die quickly, so maybe he thought they had more time.
@@josi_k. Right, I mean, I could see not saying something all that time but to do what she did without an actual explanation is just cruel. I don't think that she truly loved him. Maybe there's more to this story. Maybe he was not as good a husband as he is portrayed and this is how she took revenge. What do they say? Hell has no fury like a women scorned.🤔
I feel like there was different versions of the story because I remember a version where the guy said he wouldn't marry her unless she took off the ribbon and so she did and her head went tumbling down a hill
Full story:There was a girl named Jenny she was like all the other girls but she always wore a green ribbon one day she met a boy named Alfred he asked her why she always wore the green ribbon? She said he has to wait to know a few years later they got married later Alfred asked since we are married I should I know about the green ribbon she again said you have to wait years went by they grew old together Jenny was about to die her husband Alfred was by her side Jenny then said Alfred it’s time you know about the green ribbon take it off Alfred did as she said and untied the green ribbon and her head went rolling down.I was very uncomfortable writing that part but since I got a lot of hate for this i had to. OMGN 1K and yes I know English I just came from a long day and have no time working on writing a whole essay
Basically she'd like to die and she married him.But the guy asked and always asked like.Why do you keep that ribbon on on their old age?She said it's time for him to know
i will never forget my second grade teacher telling us a (not watered down enough!) version of this story. looking back its a funny memory & im not sure how they got away with it😅❤
Alright guys, so here is an enhanced and exaggerated version of “The Green Ribbon”: The wind howled through the trees that lined the quiet little town of Ravensbrook. It was a place where the fog clung to the cobblestone streets like a shroud, and shadows seemed to stretch and whisper secrets to anyone brave enough to listen. But there was one thing that made the town even eerier: the legend of Jenny and the green ribbon. Jenny was not like other girls. She was ethereal-untouchable. Her eyes were like two pools of still water, deep and unreadable, and her pale skin seemed to glow faintly under the moonlight. She never spoke much. In fact, she only ever uttered a handful of words to anyone. But there was one thing everyone knew about her: the green ribbon. She wore it always-day and night. The ribbon was an odd, almost otherworldly shade of green, dark and glimmering with an unnatural sheen. It was thick, like velvet, and tied perfectly around her neck, as if it were part of her very being. People would whisper when they saw it, but no one ever dared ask. That was the first rule of Ravensbrook: you didn’t ask about Jenny’s green ribbon. But there was one boy-Alfred-who couldn’t help himself. He had seen Jenny for years, walking alone through the fog, always with that same strange ribbon around her neck. She would smile at him occasionally, and for reasons he couldn’t explain, Alfred was drawn to her, a pull he couldn’t resist. Over time, they became friends. He walked her home from school. They spent quiet afternoons together, talking about the weather, the town, anything, everything… except for the ribbon. Alfred knew better than to bring it up. But the curiosity gnawed at him like a pestilent wound. As the seasons changed, so did their bond. Jenny’s icy demeanor softened around Alfred, and the barrier that had kept her so distant for so long began to crack. He began to see flashes of vulnerability in her eyes-glimpses of pain she couldn’t hide. But the ribbon was always there, a constant reminder of the secret she was keeping. One night, in the midst of an eerie storm, Alfred found himself alone with Jenny in the little cottage on the outskirts of Ravensbrook. The wind rattled the windows, and the power had flickered out hours before. They sat by the dying fire, the room growing colder with every passing moment. Alfred’s heart raced. His eyes flickered nervously to the ribbon. “Jenny,” he said, his voice trembling slightly, “why do you wear that ribbon? Why never take it off? You’ve never told me.” Jenny’s face went pale. She looked at him with something close to sorrow in her eyes. Her lips parted, but no sound came out. The fire crackled loudly, breaking the silence. “I… I’ve waited so long for you to ask,” she whispered. Her voice was a soft, haunting melody, as though it had traveled from another world. “But you must understand, Alfred… Some truths are far too dangerous to reveal.” Alfred leaned in, his breath quickening. “I need to know, Jenny. We’ve been through so much together. Why won’t you tell me? Is there something you’re hiding from me?” Jenny’s eyes seemed to darken, as if a storm had gathered within her soul. She stood abruptly, her hand trembling as she touched the ribbon at her neck. She pulled it gently, as if it were a fragile thread tied to the very core of her being. “Alfred,” she said, her voice breaking, “I swore I’d never tell anyone. Not even you. But I can’t hide it anymore. I… I have to.” Alfred’s pulse thundered in his ears as Jenny slowly, painfully, began to untie the green ribbon. She did so with trembling hands, as though each movement brought her closer to an unspeakable fate. The room seemed to grow colder with every second, the shadows creeping closer, the wind howling louder outside. Finally, the ribbon fell away, and for the briefest of moments, Jenny stood before him, her face as pale as death itself, her eyes wide and full of unspeakable fear. She reached for her throat, but Alfred couldn’t understand why. Then, it happened. With a horrifying, sickening snap, Jenny’s head fell from her shoulders, rolling onto the floor with a hollow thud. Her body remained standing for a moment, as if unwilling to accept the truth. But the reality was undeniable-Jenny’s head had come off, and it was no longer hers to control. Alfred screamed, but it was a scream that would echo through the very fabric of the world. He tried to reach for her, but the room was suffocating, the air thick with a choking darkness. Jenny’s body slowly collapsed to the ground, her eyes still open, but her face frozen in a look of terror and sorrow. From the hollow place where her neck had been, something dreadful began to emerge. A dark, pulsing mist, coiling and twisting like a living thing, leaking from the wound that had once been her life force. “Alfred… I didn’t want you to know,” her voice came from the mist, but it was no longer Jenny. It was something ancient, something terrible, that had been kept dormant within her all this time. “I have worn the ribbon for so long, keeping the truth buried deep within me. I am not… I was never truly human.” Alfred stumbled backward, his legs shaking, his mind struggling to comprehend the impossibility of it all. He wanted to run, but he couldn’t. The room felt like it was closing in, the walls moving in rhythm with the eerie whispers now flooding his mind. Jenny-or whatever she had become-was no longer the girl he loved. She was something much darker. “I was a curse, Alfred. I was never meant to live. The ribbon… it kept me alive. It held me together. And now that it’s gone, so am I.” As the last words left her lips, the dark mist consumed the room, and everything went black. The next morning, the townsfolk found Alfred, sitting by the hearth, his eyes wide with terror, his face pale as death. But Jenny was gone. The ribbon was nowhere to be found. And in its place… a cold, empty silence. Alfred never spoke again. He never looked at the town the same way. The fog around Ravensbrook grew thicker, and the shadows deeper. And as for Jenny… her story became just another ghost tale, whispered by the wind on stormy nights, a warning to anyone who dared ask about the green ribbon.
I read a similar story, but it was of an old man who was invited into this family's home, and they insisted that he remove his scarf. He began to recount the war in which he lost his head to a sword, and picked it back up and tied his scarf around it. One of the children went "That's not true," forcefully removed his scarf, and his head rolled onto the floor, scarring the family for life.
Full explanation: Jenny aur Green Ribbon Jenny ek pyari si ladki thi, lekin uski ek ajeeb baat thi-uske gale ke ird-gird hamesha ek green ribbon bandha rehta tha. Har koi is baat ko lekar curious tha, lekin Jenny kabhi kisi ko nahi batati thi ke wo ribbon kyu pehenti hai. Jab log poochte, to wo sirf muskura kar ke kehti, "Ek din tumhe pata chal jayega." Ek din Jenny ek ladke, Alfred, se mili. Alfred ko Jenny pasand aa gayi aur dheere dheere dono kareeb aa gaye. Alfred aksar usse green ribbon ke baare mein poochta, lekin Jenny hamesha uska jawab tal deti thi. Waqt guzar gaya, aur Alfred aur Jenny ne shaadi kar li. Alfred bahut khush tha, lekin uske dil mein hamesha yeh sawal rehta tha: "Yeh green ribbon ka raaz kya hai?" Lekin Jenny hamesha kehti, "Abhi nahi, ek din." Saalo baad, jab Jenny bohot budi ho gayi aur bistar par thi, Alfred ne phir poocha, "Jenny, ab tum mujhe bata do. Main aur intezaar nahi kar sakta. Green ribbon ka raaz kya hai?" Jenny ne uska haath pakda, dheeme se muskuraayi aur kaha, "Theek hai, Alfred, tum ribbon utaar sakte ho." Alfred ne dheere se ribbon khola... aur jaisi hi ribbon khuli, Jenny ka sar uske dhad se alag ho gaya aur zameen par gir gaya. Moral: Yeh kahani suspense aur mystery se bhari hai, aur aksar iska use karte hain dark tales ya supernatural stories mein. Ye dikhata hai ke kuch raaz hamesha raaz hi rehne chahiye. . . . . Drop a pin🤧 One like❤ bcoz it was take so much time to write ✍ 🙃
This just unlocked a core memory 😭😭😭 (please tell me I'm not the only one who had a more simplified version of this read-out loud when they were younger)
I had a book called " In a Dark, Dark Room" by Alvin Schwartz. You know, the guy responsible for "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark." This book has not as intense but creepy pictures. They reminded me of darker fairy tale drawings or sketches. Get the 90S version, though. That's the original book; the new ones are too clean to be creepy. But it has this tale, along with my other favorite, The Witch, where a young girl's kindness keeps her alive and helps her escape the witch who wants to eat her.
Please please, do NOT get these for your children. Why would you want your kids whose brains are clean and clear to have these awful images in them?! WHY?!?!
I've seen so many variations of this story, mostly with red ribbons, and now I know exactly what's about to happen anytime the story goes "She always wore a ribbon around her neck/wrist"
@@siouxiewongNah, they should've had a trigger warning. You can be up to 100+ years old and still find that image disturbing. I know my mood is a little dampened.
My interpretation of this story: the green ribbon would be like the representation of a secret that she has and that she would carry until her death. And what keeps her head on straight, it's the fact that no one knows her secret, hidden by the green ribbon.
You know what I always loved about that story? That her lover never once tried to untie it before she was actually dying Not once They waited until she had passed away, because tot who it was something she never took off, so it must have been important to her … And this wanted to keep it now with her gone and then they knew the truth Idk it just feels like a nice story to me , from what I remember the version I read had the lover wrap it around their wrist after burying her .
Damn, I wish I got that version. The version I saw, she was slowly dying of heartbreak because her lover resented her for never taking off the ribbon, and despite wedding her, went on to cheat on her openly with multiple other women. Her wish was that, if she died instead of recovering, to be buried with her ribbon untouched, but her lover untied it anyway as she slept, killing her. And then her ghost came back to kill him or something.
I had this book when i was a kid!! This story in particular scared me so bad! But i was morbidly fascinated by it and read it more than once, and was just as scared lmao
Him talking about walking on eggshells while living with an abuser is so real. Normal no big deal things set them off. Breathing the wrong way may set them off. Sometimes they aren’t even really upset about the thing, they’re just using it as a justification for their abuse and control.
My conspiracy theory 😅: Actually the girl died during a war, protecting the boy, when a soldier slit her throat. She was burried with a ribbon around her neck. The boy never forgot the trauma, he grew schizophrenic. Believing that she married the girl. On the day of his death, the scenes played in his mind and that was the real story of the poem.
I love this story because nothing bad happened. Her life was good, the lover was trustworthy, and he only took it off when she was about to meet her end.
I'm from Manila. This was one of those horror stories we passed around the classroom in 2nd grade! In that version, the guy pulled the ribbon off while the girl was asleep during their wedding night. Nice to know more about the origins and different versions of this story.❤
@@vanillasaiki5050 Boy and girl friends sila since kabataan. Curious si boy and palagi niyang tinatanong si girl, bakit may ribbon ka sa leeg? Sagot ni girl secret at hindi pwede tanggalin ang ribbon. Years pass, kinasal sila. Nung wedding night, bago sila matulog, sabi ni girl wag mo tatanggalin ang ribbon ha. Oo naman si boy. Nung tulog na si girl, tinanggal niya yung ribbon at gumulong yung ulo ni girl sa kanya.
It's nice for me to know the story before, at least after seeing a green ribbon on her neck. If I never realized it I might have a heart attack because I'm scared of that headless picture so much.
This picture of Jenny always reminded me of Anne Boleyn, strange thing, she was executed and her signature color was green (Green Sleeves, poem dedicated to her). But as far as I know about the origin of the story "The Green Ribbon," it was about a girl executed on the guillotine when it was first told/or was similar with the story we know today. But I strongly doubt that these two people have anything to do with each other, because the guillotine (by that name) began to be used in France by order of the doctor of the same name, in order to obtain a more humane way of capital punishment, which is much faster and imperceptible, and that happened around 1792, and Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536.
I remember this story. Except for the colour of the ribbon was black velvet. It was over 60 years ago. WoW, I just can't believe that in this day people still remember this story. I don't know how to say Thank You enough for sharing your post.
For ppl who don't understand and want a shorter version, the green ribbon was holding her head bc if she untied the ribbon then her head would fall off.
I recognized it as soon as I saw the green ribbon. The story is definitely my favorite out of scary ones. I’ve heard in my life. I’m really glad that people are talking about it.
I remembered this as soon as I read green ribbon. It unlocked my memory vault of a spooky book of short stories when I was about 8 or 9. Loved that book....
We were taught the ribbon represented Trust/innocence that is so hard to earn but if broken can never be mended. The Husband should have realised it's what kept her together earlier but after years that curiosity killed her.
I still remember this book today... It shows that love may not turn right. But. If you go the right way. Maybe it will. So. Be grateful for the memories along the way.
I heard this story but it was a scarlet ribbon and it was from the time of the French revolution, and a young man met a beautiful girl weeping by the gallows-guillotine and fell in love with her. She would never take off the ribbon, and I forget what led to him taking it off, but it turns out she was one of the many who had been sent to the blade by that mad crowd
I loved this horror story growing up, and when I played the game "the wolf among us" and saw Jenny as a fairy tale character within the game it brought back a wave of nostalgic memories of this story.
OMG I LOVE THIS STORY I REMEMBER READING IT IN GRADE 3-4 and I was like WTF but it’s a core memory the second I read she always wore a ribbon around her neck I was like YEZZZZZ I THOUGHT IT WAS MADE UP BY MY SCHOOL
@Україна-ц7э Well, I read lots of uncensored fairy tales ad a child, and can tell that none of them traumatized me. (Some of Bible Old testament stuff did though) As for the stories, we could create cautionary tales reflecting reality nowadays. Nature crisis, military conflicts, corporate horrors, possibility of being stalked/molested, modern privacy issues, etc. Soft launch for the harsh reality may be useful, you know. I think some of the Ghibli works actually do this in some measure, but mostly leaning into the mental side of it. And yeah, this is not medieval age, but some human nature issues may remain the same. But it’s just a some stranger’s opinion on internet. Guess I just wanted to rant. Everybody’s free to be entitled to their own. Have a nice day~
I remember watching an Berry Avenue 'horror' story and its the same like this one. I tough the Person that made that Berry Avenue story just made it up but its true.
the full story is there once was a girl named jenny she was like all the other girls aside of a green ribbon around her neck there was a boy named alfred. alfred liked jenny. jenny liked alferad one day alfred asked jenny why do you were that greenribon around your neck all the time jenny said it was a secret. jenny and alfred grow older and they get married alfred asks jenny can you now tell me why you were the green ribon around your neck jenny says shell tell him when the time comes she'll tell him. jenny and alfred grow old and jenny becomes sick the docter tells her she has five minutes to live jenny calls for alfred and tells him now is the time to tell you about the green ribon untie it and you will see the reason i could not tell you all those years you've asked alfred slowly unties it... jenny's head falls.........off
Artist: @northernblots (Instagram and Twitter/X)
Audio: Veridis Quo by Daft Punk
Story:
“The Green Ribbon”
Once there was a girl named Jenny. She was like all the other girls, except for one thing. She always wore a green ribbon around her neck.
There was a boy named Alfred in her class. Alfred liked Jenny, and Jenny liked Alfred.
One day he asked her, “Why do you wear that ribbon all the time?”
“I cannot tell you,” said Jenny.
But Alfred kept asking, “Why do you wear it?”
And Jenny would say, “It is not important.”
Jenny and Alfred grew up and fell in love. One day they got married.
After their wedding, Alfred said, “Now that we are married, you must tell me about the green ribbon.”
“You still must wait,” said Jenny. “I will tell you when the right time comes.”
Years passed. Alfred and Jenny grew old. One day Jenny became very sick. The doctor told her she was dying. Jenny called Alfred to her side.
“Alfred,” she said. “Now I can tell you about the green ribbon. Untie it, and you will see why I could not tell you before.”
Slowly and carefully, Alfred untied the ribbon, and Jenny’s head fell off.
- From “In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories” by Alvin Schwartz
İs it a representitive of virginity or smt or a lover kills his lover,sorry i never heard of this story so got curious
Over thirteen years ago did I read this as a wee lad.
Thank you. A story I had forgotten but am glad to remember.
Might I ask if it was a picture book?
remember reading this as a child too. It terrified me but I loved this book 😅
@mir1147 well, anyway Jenny waited until she was old and sick before revealing the truth... and losing her head..the husband had had commendable patience! 😂
So good. ❤❤❤
The positive thing that can be taken here is that when we are in a relationship,there are things or boundaries that should not be opened, or you will lose them
Thanks that explain me about this story bro
like cheating or
FULL STORY; there once was a girl named Jenny who always wore a green ribbon around her neck. She fell in love with a boy when they were still children. He asked her why she always wore the ribbon, she responded with “once day I’ll tell you”. He asked again on their wedding day and she gave him the same response saying the time wasn’t right. Many years later, Jenny is on her deathbed and she calls her husband to her side, she tells him “now I will tell you about the green ribbon, remove it and you’ll see why I wore it”. When he removed the ribbon, Jenny’s head fell off.
I loved this story growing up. I forgot which book it belongs in, but it had a bunch of short stories just like this
@@adorableadoryyeah it’s weird, in a marriage you should be honest and open to each other. That’s how a marriage can last: accepting your partner for who she or he is unless they break the wedding vows such as cheating. Having secrets means you have to hide something for your partner forever. That’s toxic. It means that secret is something negative. Married couples should be honest and upfront to eachother: communication is key
I remember this story when I was in the third grade. It's amazing that it surfaced on here. Out of the scary stories from that book, this one had really captured my attention the most.
It’s an old story.
Scary Stories To Read In The Dark? Is that the right name of the book? I loved those!! Terrified me though lol I don’t know how the school library was letting a third grader check out those books 😅
@jadesterbaby we didn't really checkout those books. It was in the 90s when I remembered this story clearly. They let us listen to it on tape while viewing the book that had that story in it among other stories.
@@aquaDo156 oh that’s really cool. I was born in 1996 so I was in 3rd grade in the early 2000s. There was a collection of stories in these books Scary Stories To Read In The Dark or something like that, and some of them were really scary! I remember the Green Ribbon story really bothering me as a kid lol
You too? I remember as a child telling scary stories in the dark. Each person who spoke held a candle.
I had just read this story out of the school library. I decided to tell it. I did it well. Two girls had nightmares.
She is so lucky nobody bullied her and undid her ribbon in school. In the schools I went to she wouldn't have made it past eight grade.
Bro went to timmy turners school 💀
Bro stop trauma dumping I assure you no one gives a shit 🙏💀💀💀
@@lazerfrogstudiosI think they were saying if someone was messing with her and took the ribbon off, her head would’ve came off in school lol I don’t think that’s the point they were making…
@@PatrickBaur-o9j congrats bud, out of curiosity how old are you?
@@lazerfrogstudios and they don't care what you have to say about it. speak for yourself kid
I like the fact that her husband never untied it until she was dying and gave him permission to do so. He never bothered to figure it out for himself
Luv this story, especially because she lived a whole life and was dying when the ribbon came off...happy ending!
exactly, she was old and sick and dying so everything didn't seem to have changed much. I thought she would untie the ribbon on their wedding night...that would have been a real turn of events!
Are we talking necrophilia?
I don't know. I think she did him dirty. She said she would tell him when the time was right but instead she waited until almost her end and just told him to untie the ribbon, making her head fall off n causing her death. This must of been extremely traumatic for Alfred. And to add insult to injury, she never explained why this happened to her, how did she end up like this or who did this to her. In essence she made her husband kill her. No, she did him dirty, I tell you, just plain dirty. Aside from that good story. 😂
@@CecyCecyCecy exactly what I thought. He must be so traumatized, and he would never be able to figure out why that happened.
Not even sure if he would be able to forgive himself ever, or perhaps her.
Yes she was sick, but that doesn't necessarily mean that she would die quickly, so maybe he thought they had more time.
@@josi_k. Right, I mean, I could see not saying something all that time but to do what she did without an actual explanation is just cruel. I don't think that she truly loved him. Maybe there's more to this story. Maybe he was not as good a husband as he is portrayed and this is how she took revenge. What do they say? Hell has no fury like a women scorned.🤔
I feel like there was different versions of the story because I remember a version where the guy said he wouldn't marry her unless she took off the ribbon and so she did and her head went tumbling down a hill
That's like the unpredictable bad ending in a visual novel blindsiding you for no reason 😂 guy must have tried again to clear the marriage route 😅
😅, hope she didn,t run after it
@@rosauroberbon554😂😂 LoL
That's traumatizing
Yes I remember that ending as well! It was that and the other one where she just gets old and has her husband take the ribbon off.
Full story:There was a girl named Jenny she was like all the other girls but she always wore a green ribbon one day she met a boy named Alfred he asked her why she always wore the green ribbon? She said he has to wait to know a few years later they got married later Alfred asked since we are married I should I know about the green ribbon she again said you have to wait years went by they grew old together Jenny was about to die her husband Alfred was by her side Jenny then said Alfred it’s time you know about the green ribbon take it off Alfred did as she said and untied the green ribbon and her head went rolling down.I was very uncomfortable writing that part but since I got a lot of hate for this i had to.
OMGN 1K and yes I know English I just came from a long day and have no time working on writing a whole essay
I don't aundersatnd anything..!!
@@zzza537 well you see, the ribbon is like the only thing that makes Jenny's head attached to her body. Once the ribbon got untied, her head go off.
Basically she'd like to die and she married him.But the guy asked and always asked like.Why do you keep that ribbon on on their old age?She said it's time for him to know
I read that so fast as if it was a study guide ;-;
@favourkolawole4054 still....
i will never forget my second grade teacher telling us a (not watered down enough!) version of this story. looking back its a funny memory & im not sure how they got away with it😅❤
My art teacher did the same thing also in second grade. It wasn’t scary, but still I feel like she could have made it a little more.. something
First grade for me! Fun times!
Omg 2nd grade for me too!
me toooo wait what was ur teachers name
Where did y'all go to school? I never heard this story
Alright guys, so here is an enhanced and exaggerated version of “The Green Ribbon”:
The wind howled through the trees that lined the quiet little town of Ravensbrook. It was a place where the fog clung to the cobblestone streets like a shroud, and shadows seemed to stretch and whisper secrets to anyone brave enough to listen. But there was one thing that made the town even eerier: the legend of Jenny and the green ribbon.
Jenny was not like other girls. She was ethereal-untouchable. Her eyes were like two pools of still water, deep and unreadable, and her pale skin seemed to glow faintly under the moonlight. She never spoke much. In fact, she only ever uttered a handful of words to anyone. But there was one thing everyone knew about her: the green ribbon.
She wore it always-day and night. The ribbon was an odd, almost otherworldly shade of green, dark and glimmering with an unnatural sheen. It was thick, like velvet, and tied perfectly around her neck, as if it were part of her very being. People would whisper when they saw it, but no one ever dared ask. That was the first rule of Ravensbrook: you didn’t ask about Jenny’s green ribbon.
But there was one boy-Alfred-who couldn’t help himself. He had seen Jenny for years, walking alone through the fog, always with that same strange ribbon around her neck. She would smile at him occasionally, and for reasons he couldn’t explain, Alfred was drawn to her, a pull he couldn’t resist.
Over time, they became friends. He walked her home from school. They spent quiet afternoons together, talking about the weather, the town, anything, everything… except for the ribbon. Alfred knew better than to bring it up. But the curiosity gnawed at him like a pestilent wound.
As the seasons changed, so did their bond. Jenny’s icy demeanor softened around Alfred, and the barrier that had kept her so distant for so long began to crack. He began to see flashes of vulnerability in her eyes-glimpses of pain she couldn’t hide. But the ribbon was always there, a constant reminder of the secret she was keeping.
One night, in the midst of an eerie storm, Alfred found himself alone with Jenny in the little cottage on the outskirts of Ravensbrook. The wind rattled the windows, and the power had flickered out hours before. They sat by the dying fire, the room growing colder with every passing moment.
Alfred’s heart raced. His eyes flickered nervously to the ribbon.
“Jenny,” he said, his voice trembling slightly, “why do you wear that ribbon? Why never take it off? You’ve never told me.”
Jenny’s face went pale. She looked at him with something close to sorrow in her eyes. Her lips parted, but no sound came out. The fire crackled loudly, breaking the silence.
“I… I’ve waited so long for you to ask,” she whispered. Her voice was a soft, haunting melody, as though it had traveled from another world. “But you must understand, Alfred… Some truths are far too dangerous to reveal.”
Alfred leaned in, his breath quickening. “I need to know, Jenny. We’ve been through so much together. Why won’t you tell me? Is there something you’re hiding from me?”
Jenny’s eyes seemed to darken, as if a storm had gathered within her soul. She stood abruptly, her hand trembling as she touched the ribbon at her neck. She pulled it gently, as if it were a fragile thread tied to the very core of her being.
“Alfred,” she said, her voice breaking, “I swore I’d never tell anyone. Not even you. But I can’t hide it anymore. I… I have to.”
Alfred’s pulse thundered in his ears as Jenny slowly, painfully, began to untie the green ribbon. She did so with trembling hands, as though each movement brought her closer to an unspeakable fate.
The room seemed to grow colder with every second, the shadows creeping closer, the wind howling louder outside.
Finally, the ribbon fell away, and for the briefest of moments, Jenny stood before him, her face as pale as death itself, her eyes wide and full of unspeakable fear. She reached for her throat, but Alfred couldn’t understand why.
Then, it happened.
With a horrifying, sickening snap, Jenny’s head fell from her shoulders, rolling onto the floor with a hollow thud. Her body remained standing for a moment, as if unwilling to accept the truth. But the reality was undeniable-Jenny’s head had come off, and it was no longer hers to control.
Alfred screamed, but it was a scream that would echo through the very fabric of the world. He tried to reach for her, but the room was suffocating, the air thick with a choking darkness. Jenny’s body slowly collapsed to the ground, her eyes still open, but her face frozen in a look of terror and sorrow.
From the hollow place where her neck had been, something dreadful began to emerge. A dark, pulsing mist, coiling and twisting like a living thing, leaking from the wound that had once been her life force.
“Alfred… I didn’t want you to know,” her voice came from the mist, but it was no longer Jenny. It was something ancient, something terrible, that had been kept dormant within her all this time.
“I have worn the ribbon for so long, keeping the truth buried deep within me. I am not… I was never truly human.”
Alfred stumbled backward, his legs shaking, his mind struggling to comprehend the impossibility of it all. He wanted to run, but he couldn’t. The room felt like it was closing in, the walls moving in rhythm with the eerie whispers now flooding his mind. Jenny-or whatever she had become-was no longer the girl he loved. She was something much darker.
“I was a curse, Alfred. I was never meant to live. The ribbon… it kept me alive. It held me together. And now that it’s gone, so am I.”
As the last words left her lips, the dark mist consumed the room, and everything went black.
The next morning, the townsfolk found Alfred, sitting by the hearth, his eyes wide with terror, his face pale as death. But Jenny was gone. The ribbon was nowhere to be found. And in its place… a cold, empty silence.
Alfred never spoke again. He never looked at the town the same way. The fog around Ravensbrook grew thicker, and the shadows deeper. And as for Jenny… her story became just another ghost tale, whispered by the wind on stormy nights, a warning to anyone who dared ask about the green ribbon.
Out of all the versions I read, yours made more sense to me, or better put, I liked it the best.
Such a detailed explanation should be appreciated🎉
Thank you
Tq very much. Good writing.
I love this.
I read a similar story, but it was of an old man who was invited into this family's home, and they insisted that he remove his scarf. He began to recount the war in which he lost his head to a sword, and picked it back up and tied his scarf around it. One of the children went "That's not true," forcefully removed his scarf, and his head rolled onto the floor, scarring the family for life.
oh god.
he didnt even get to sit down :(
These damn kids man
He survived all that just to be taken out by a lousy kid 😢 😂
@@whatsherfacegal why the laughing face?
Full explanation:
Jenny aur Green Ribbon
Jenny ek pyari si ladki thi, lekin uski ek ajeeb baat thi-uske gale ke ird-gird hamesha ek green ribbon bandha rehta tha. Har koi is baat ko lekar curious tha, lekin Jenny kabhi kisi ko nahi batati thi ke wo ribbon kyu pehenti hai. Jab log poochte, to wo sirf muskura kar ke kehti, "Ek din tumhe pata chal jayega."
Ek din Jenny ek ladke, Alfred, se mili. Alfred ko Jenny pasand aa gayi aur dheere dheere dono kareeb aa gaye. Alfred aksar usse green ribbon ke baare mein poochta, lekin Jenny hamesha uska jawab tal deti thi.
Waqt guzar gaya, aur Alfred aur Jenny ne shaadi kar li. Alfred bahut khush tha, lekin uske dil mein hamesha yeh sawal rehta tha: "Yeh green ribbon ka raaz kya hai?" Lekin Jenny hamesha kehti, "Abhi nahi, ek din."
Saalo baad, jab Jenny bohot budi ho gayi aur bistar par thi, Alfred ne phir poocha, "Jenny, ab tum mujhe bata do. Main aur intezaar nahi kar sakta. Green ribbon ka raaz kya hai?"
Jenny ne uska haath pakda, dheeme se muskuraayi aur kaha, "Theek hai, Alfred, tum ribbon utaar sakte ho."
Alfred ne dheere se ribbon khola... aur jaisi hi ribbon khuli, Jenny ka sar uske dhad se alag ho gaya aur zameen par gir gaya.
Moral: Yeh kahani suspense aur mystery se bhari hai, aur aksar iska use karte hain dark tales ya supernatural stories mein. Ye dikhata hai ke kuch raaz hamesha raaz hi rehne chahiye.
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@PandaAttackHaha koi nhi
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You have such an amazing storytelling ability!!
This just unlocked a core memory 😭😭😭 (please tell me I'm not the only one who had a more simplified version of this read-out loud when they were younger)
YES! Mine was on a CD and it was narrated by a man with a creepy voice
Yesss
i read it with an audio in 2nd or 1st grade with a group and we were all screaming at the end as if we saw it ourselves 😂
Yep
Wow.. i’ve never heard this story before. I love how eerie yet heartfelt it is tho😭🤚
I had a book called " In a Dark, Dark Room" by Alvin Schwartz. You know, the guy responsible for "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark." This book has not as intense but creepy pictures. They reminded me of darker fairy tale drawings or sketches. Get the 90S version, though. That's the original book; the new ones are too clean to be creepy.
But it has this tale, along with my other favorite, The Witch, where a young girl's kindness keeps her alive and helps her escape the witch who wants to eat her.
I read those
I just recently bought the book In a dark, dark room because I loved reading it as a kid. 😊
Same
same here, i remember this story being in there!
Please please, do NOT get these for your children. Why would you want your kids whose brains are clean and clear to have these awful images in them?! WHY?!?!
Bro thats twisted, i cant even imagine how her lover must have felt after he saw that sight 💀 😳
im PRETTY sure its a book.
@@mimi-ll8xr IN the book, you Pringle
and like there was NO explanation as to how or why because • dead + decapitated
major bummer mystery
@@mimi-ll8xr it is! i remember reading it in 6th grade
Omg JENNIE ??? ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😮😮
I love how Alfred did not forcefully take off Jenny's ribbon until she told him to
That is true love right there
I've seen so many variations of this story, mostly with red ribbons, and now I know exactly what's about to happen anytime the story goes "She always wore a ribbon around her neck/wrist"
ITS 1 AM I WAS NOT READY TO SEE A HEADLESS PORTRAIT FK IM NEVER GONNA SLEEEEEP
How old are you? Maybe yt not for you 😅😂
@@siouxiewongNah, they should've had a trigger warning. You can be up to 100+ years old and still find that image disturbing. I know my mood is a little dampened.
This story made me want to cry as a child, and now that I see a drawing of it, I get not only flashbacks, but also goosebumps
My interpretation of this story: the green ribbon would be like the representation of a secret that she has and that she would carry until her death. And what keeps her head on straight, it's the fact that no one knows her secret, hidden by the green ribbon.
Interesting
You can see her tears from her eyes in the first portrait when you zoom in…Really sad but I liked this story so much ❤
It’s so crazy and sad that that little ribbon held her whole head in place-😢
From whoever said they remember this story in third grade, I read that too in my third grade class. It was truly disturbing
You know what I always loved about that story? That her lover never once tried to untie it before she was actually dying
Not once
They waited until she had passed away, because tot who it was something she never took off, so it must have been important to her …
And this wanted to keep it now with her gone and then they knew the truth
Idk it just feels like a nice story to me , from what I remember the version I read had the lover wrap it around their wrist after burying her .
Awwwwwwwwwww
Damn, I wish I got that version. The version I saw, she was slowly dying of heartbreak because her lover resented her for never taking off the ribbon, and despite wedding her, went on to cheat on her openly with multiple other women. Her wish was that, if she died instead of recovering, to be buried with her ribbon untouched, but her lover untied it anyway as she slept, killing her. And then her ghost came back to kill him or something.
they? its he
@FallenderSternwhy are you so pressed about a neutral pronoun
It said husbend so its a he@@tonystarks_wife
I had this book when i was a kid!! This story in particular scared me so bad! But i was morbidly fascinated by it and read it more than once, and was just as scared lmao
Him talking about walking on eggshells while living with an abuser is so real. Normal no big deal things set them off. Breathing the wrong way may set them off. Sometimes they aren’t even really upset about the thing, they’re just using it as a justification for their abuse and control.
My conspiracy theory 😅:
Actually the girl died during a war, protecting the boy, when a soldier slit her throat. She was burried with a ribbon around her neck. The boy never forgot the trauma, he grew schizophrenic. Believing that she married the girl. On the day of his death, the scenes played in his mind and that was the real story of the poem.
Wow it’s amazing actually
Makes more sense
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@@HeavenlyBell 😂
Yes definitely makes way more sense this way
The full story is so sad, especially since they were childhood friends.
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This is one of my most favorite stories ever
I love this story because nothing bad happened. Her life was good, the lover was trustworthy, and he only took it off when she was about to meet her end.
I'm from Manila. This was one of those horror stories we passed around the classroom in 2nd grade! In that version, the guy pulled the ribbon off while the girl was asleep during their wedding night.
Nice to know more about the origins and different versions of this story.❤
Sis ano story
@@vanillasaiki5050 Boy and girl friends sila since kabataan. Curious si boy and palagi niyang tinatanong si girl, bakit may ribbon ka sa leeg? Sagot ni girl secret at hindi pwede tanggalin ang ribbon. Years pass, kinasal sila. Nung wedding night, bago sila matulog, sabi ni girl wag mo tatanggalin ang ribbon ha. Oo naman si boy. Nung tulog na si girl, tinanggal niya yung ribbon at gumulong yung ulo ni girl sa kanya.
@ potaaaa SHEYT ang delayed pala nung takot ko HAHAHAHAH thanks thanks ♥️
@@vanillasaiki5050 No prob, hehehe.
BAHWHDJDJDEJE ANONG GUMULONG
So happy nobody bullied her or untied the ribbon.
This story scared me so much as a kid. I had nightmares for weeks and couldn’t sleep alone for months. Something about it was so… unsettling.
This was THAT book for me as a child!! It brings me back seeing this!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I remembered her!!! I knew the story but never know from where!!! When I saw her picture I just knew it was her!!!! 😮
This last picture jumpscared me so much. I don't know why. You could even tell from the first picture that she's dead 😂
It's nice for me to know the story before, at least after seeing a green ribbon on her neck. If I never realized it I might have a heart attack because I'm scared of that headless picture so much.
I find this story so fascinating for some reason. I’m not quite sure why
This picture of Jenny always reminded me of Anne Boleyn, strange thing, she was executed and her signature color was green (Green Sleeves, poem dedicated to her). But as far as I know about the origin of the story "The Green Ribbon," it was about a girl executed on the guillotine when it was first told/or was similar with the story we know today. But I strongly doubt that these two people have anything to do with each other, because the guillotine (by that name) began to be used in France by order of the doctor of the same name, in order to obtain a more humane way of capital punishment, which is much faster and imperceptible, and that happened around 1792, and Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536.
Core memory released! Only this story goes back *much* further than even my great grandma's childhood. Omfgoodness this gave me chills. TY ❤
I remember this from a book of short stories that I still can't find to this day
I guess it's her body and other parties
Scary stories to tell in the dark
The book I read it in was a collection from a region
What is the name of the book please
real scary stories or another one in the series
Oh!!! I remember hearing this story as a kid!! It was my favorite for ages
I remember this story.
Except for the colour of the ribbon was black velvet. It was over 60 years ago.
WoW, I just can't believe that in this day people still remember this story.
I don't know how to say Thank You enough for sharing your post.
insane strength on that material
For ppl who don't understand and want a shorter version, the green ribbon was holding her head bc if she untied the ribbon then her head would fall off.
but how is she still alive if her head was not attached?
@@menotme-k7d exactly 😭 my question
@menotme-k7d really? It's a fairy tale
Still don’t make sense to me..
Still doesn't make sense , how the hell is she alive if her head isn't even attached to her body ?!?!
I recognized it as soon as I saw the green ribbon. The story is definitely my favorite out of scary ones. I’ve heard in my life. I’m really glad that people are talking about it.
So she was some form of undead the whole time. Got it.😮😮😮😮
This is a lesson that sometimes being nosy can hurt someone
As soon as I saw the picture and the “her name was Jenny” the childhood trauma came racing back to me😭
She is beautiful 😊
I remember reading this book when I was 9! I got nightmares for a week straight😂
I liked this kind of stories even as a child. And I still thank my parents for not hiding books from me, at least not well enough. 🙂
My first introduction of this fairy tale was in The Wolf Among Us, that TellTale game.
how could it be ur favorite childhood book if it was written 4 years ago
The story has been around since the 1800s
@ ah ok. i was going off of the date in the title
BRO I REMEMBER THIS STORY FROM WHEN I WAS IN GRADE ONE IT FOREVER TRAUMATIZED ME
I remembered this as soon as I read green ribbon. It unlocked my memory vault of a spooky book of short stories when I was about 8 or 9. Loved that book....
We were taught the ribbon represented Trust/innocence that is so hard to earn but if broken can never be mended. The Husband should have realised it's what kept her together earlier but after years that curiosity killed her.
I love this. This was my favorite story out of the whole book. I could never get over how sad and tragic it was
I heard this one before and I love it❤❤❤❤
I still remember this book today... It shows that love may not turn right. But. If you go the right way. Maybe it will. So. Be grateful for the memories along the way.
I remember this story 🪦
Something majestic i have seen..i love these kinds of paintings..they're my type
I’m a psychopath this made me laugh so fvcking hard💀😭
She's beautiful.
I’ve never heard this before! ❤️
I heard this story but it was a scarlet ribbon and it was from the time of the French revolution, and a young man met a beautiful girl weeping by the gallows-guillotine and fell in love with her. She would never take off the ribbon, and I forget what led to him taking it off, but it turns out she was one of the many who had been sent to the blade by that mad crowd
This was a story a old friend told me about 6 year ago but she left town and I never saw her again this reminds me about all the good times we had
BRO I USED TO LOVE THAT STORY WHEN I WAS IN ELEMENTARY
I loved this horror story growing up, and when I played the game "the wolf among us" and saw Jenny as a fairy tale character within the game it brought back a wave of nostalgic memories of this story.
OMG THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD STORY ISTG I MADE A BOOK REPORT ON THIS 😭😭😭
OMG I LOVE THIS STORY I REMEMBER READING IT IN GRADE 3-4 and I was like WTF but it’s a core memory the second I read she always wore a ribbon around her neck I was like YEZZZZZ I THOUGHT IT WAS MADE UP BY MY SCHOOL
I had a little book of horrors when I was a child, this story was my favorite and seeing it circulating now just bring me so much nostalgia
I read this when I was a kid and I got scared and now im just seeing it again in years
I just realized how many people had similar experiences
Amazing metaphor for the one trigger that can bring your organized life to a disassociated puddle of failed plans and dreams
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I totally had forgotten this book until now!
This story scared me so much when I was little
I remember reading this in the short story compilation "In a Dark Dark Room".
Kids need more stories like this. Real life is messy, and unpleasant sometimes, the sooner you learn that the better.
Maybe you're right. It's like old yeller or Bambi.
Nah. People doing things and improving the world, and people not being complacent and saying it is what it is, is what kids need. You're old.
@@Madlyallzpromethwe need both, making the world better place AND preparing the young. Not all of the messy stuff we can control, so…
This isn't the 1600s 😂
@Україна-ц7э Well, I read lots of uncensored fairy tales ad a child, and can tell that none of them traumatized me. (Some of Bible Old testament stuff did though)
As for the stories, we could create cautionary tales reflecting reality nowadays. Nature crisis, military conflicts, corporate horrors, possibility of being stalked/molested, modern privacy issues, etc.
Soft launch for the harsh reality may be useful, you know. I think some of the Ghibli works actually do this in some measure, but mostly leaning into the mental side of it.
And yeah, this is not medieval age, but some human nature issues may remain the same.
But it’s just a some stranger’s opinion on internet. Guess I just wanted to rant. Everybody’s free to be entitled to their own.
Have a nice day~
I remember watching an Berry Avenue 'horror' story and its the same like this one.
I tough the Person that made that Berry Avenue story just made it up but its true.
This short is now my favorite one
The last photo jumpscared me i was playing adoraboo while watching 😭
the full story is there once was a girl named jenny she was like all the other girls aside of a green ribbon around her neck there was a boy named alfred. alfred liked jenny. jenny liked alferad one day alfred asked jenny why do you were that greenribon around your neck all the time jenny said it was a secret. jenny and alfred grow older and they get married alfred asks jenny can you now tell me why you were the green ribon around your neck jenny says shell tell him when the time comes she'll tell him. jenny and alfred grow old and jenny becomes sick the docter tells her she has five minutes to live jenny calls for alfred and tells him now is the time to tell you about the green ribon untie it and you will see the reason i could not tell you all those years you've asked alfred slowly unties it... jenny's head falls.........off
Oh my gosh!! I remember this from a book of scary stories or smth! The nostalgia
the real scary stories version scared tf out of me as a kid.
I remember this and being absolutely terrified by it as a kid
I'm an Indian girl named Jinia and my mates and friends used to call me Jenny thus I was so invested in the story, didn't expect this ending 😭
omg this was my favorite book growing up😭
She looks like Drew Barrymore in the 1600's
I read this story around Halloween to an elementary class I taught years ago. They liked the story.
Why life is so painful and complicated, we are humans and still can't be able to share true feelings with others.
Feelings? Dog, her head fell off its from a children’s I can read book, lmao 😂
this story and the rough faced girl always stuck with me
Also considering she is undead, cant he have tied the ribbon back? or used duck tape or smth to secure the head.
She was already dying. It wouldn't have saved her.
That was my favorite book
So, essentially, the ribbon literally held her head to her body, like a mended porcelain doll with a broken limb tied to her body... wow
As i say... OLD PAINTING ALWAYS HAS BEEN HISTORY
it remainds me story from The Wolf Among Us
i remember reading this from a children's horror book in my local barnes and nobles as a child; holy heck its been a while
wait so she was decapitated the whole time and the ribbon was the string that was keeping her body fully intact?!
I think the ribbon kept her head attached to hear neck thats why it fell off when it was untied
I was obsessed with this story as well as a kid. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼