True Scary Story

Scary Stories

True scary stories shared by those who experienced them. These are real-life horror stories about strange and unexplained paranormal encounters.

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20 episodes
Updated Thursday

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Thursday · 27 min
The Strange Roommates of Los Angeles
This unsettling true story follows Chris, whose move to Los Angeles spiraled into years of confusion, hospital visits, harassment, and bizarre episodes of lost control after meeting roommates connected to a local tragedy. Is the explanation within in...
July 23 · 36 min
The Entity on the Hill: An Unexplained Encounter in New Mexico
In rural New Mexico, during a quiet walk beneath a full moon, both the storyteller and her husband witnessed something impossible: shadowy figures, an overwhelming sense of dread, and a pale creature unlike anything either had ever seen. Was it...
July 15 · 43 min
A Light in the Church & The Corner Bedroom (Two True Haunting Stories)
A late-night visit to the isolated Dode Church in Kent was supposed to be nothing more than a family adventure. Instead, it was the start of years filled with strange sightings, recurring dreams, unexplained noises, and eerie events witnessed by...
July 8 · 56 min
The House in Westport: A Kansas City Haunting
From the age of seven, one listener began waking to strangers standing beside the bed, desperately trying to communicate. It all began at a small Kansas apartment, but they eventually ended up in an 1880 home filled with unexplained footsteps,...
July 2 · 44 min
The Figure in the Wall: Utah's Most Disturbing Family Memories
In this true scary story, Mariah, a listener from Utah, recounts decades of chilling paranormal encounters experienced by multiple generations of one family. We'll hear about a mysterious presence in a nursery that coincided with a tragic death as...
June 24 · 27 min
The Shadow That Flickered
Shadow people. Hollow white eyes. Sudden paralysis. A listener recounts years of recurring nighttime encounters that blur the line between medical phenomenon and paranormal attack. As the experiences grow darker and more physical, one question...
June 18 · 31 min
When You Hear Voices of the Dead
In this scary story, Zack tells us about paranormal activity began following him everywhere he went. It started as small disturbances, but eventually became impossible to ignore: floating objects, shaking doorknobs, unexplained scratches, shadow...
June 11 · 33 min
The Babysitter’s Ouija Board: A True Horror Story from Texas
In the late 2000s, a family living in a newly built Texas neighborhood became close with the neighbors next door. Everything felt normal until a Ouija board entered the picture. Chris was just being curious, but it caused unexplained phenomena that...
June 4 · 37 min
The Thing in the Reflection
A childhood memory from Phoenix, Arizona describes a night in a mirror-filled bedroom where a young girl wakes up to something emerging from a reflection. What she saw challenges how mirrors, sleep, and perception are understood. A disturbing personal...
May 28 · 55 min
I Grew Up Haunted
Tonight’s terrifying account begins with childhood night terrors and evolves into something much more disturbing. After years of seeing the same shadow figure, playing with Ouija boards, and experiencing terrifying dreams, one person began to question...
May 21 · 33 min
Every House Was Haunted: A San Antonio Family Mystery
In this true scary story, James, a listener from San Antonio shares a terrifying multi-generational haunting that began in the early 1950s after his grandmother encountered a mysterious man wearing a top hat. Everywhere they lived, from newly built...
May 14 · 46 min
The Hauntings Kept Finding Them Again (Two Eerie Stories)
Tonight’s episode features two unsettling true paranormal stories from people who spent years hoping the activity in their lives would finally stop. Kaylee begins describing terrifying encounters beginning in early childhood: ghostly figures standing...
May 7 · 37 min
Why I Don't Play With Spirits (Two Stories)
It was replying to them with undeniable accuracy. There was a ghost with them in the room… or maybe something worse. In these true scary stories, we’ll hear from Vanessa who retells her experience in joining a group of friends to use the ouija board....
April 29 · 34 min
Dreams of the Dead: Chilling Premonitions That Came True
From a haunted childhood home in India to a quiet cemetery in Canada, Nitika recounts a lifetime of unsettling encounters that defy explanation. It all starts with a strange moment on a terrace soon unfolds into a series of deeply personal experiences...
April 23 · 48 min
The Man Who Crawls Along the Floor: What I Saw on the Night Shift
What starts as a routine overnight shift in a downtown Oakland call center slowly turns into a series of chilling, unexplained encounters. We hear about shadowy figures lurking in cubicles and an eerily disturbing presence that crawls across the...
April 16 · 41 min
What Never Leaves: True Stories of Lingering Presences and Haunted Spaces
In these true scary stories, two storytellers recount deeply unsettling experiences that followed them from childhood into adulthood. Breanna tells us about a ghostly family frozen in time and a presence that lurks in the shadows of a shared home....
April 10 · 41 min
Who Is That Walking Around at Night? (Two Haunting Encounters)
Two chilling firsthand accounts explore what happens when something unseen keeps showing up over and over. In Chelsea’s story, a series of escalating disturbances follow her across multiple homes. The strange thing is that they seem to be always tied...
April 2 · 42 min
Generations of Fear: Shadow Figures and a Child’s Midnight Terror
Two deeply unsettling firsthand accounts unfold. In the first, Cailynn recounts years of encounters with shadow figures tied to a dark presence that seems to follow her family across multiple homes and generations. In the second, Pablo shares a...
March 27 · 34 min
The Last Visit: A Best Friend’s Spirit Returns Home
On a quiet August night, an unexplained voice echoes through a home... seemingly real. By morning, tragedy strikes with shocking news that changes everything. As grief unfolds, strange dreams and lingering questions behind loss, but also something...
March 12 · 36 min
The Beating Heart in the Closet: Stories From My Grandmother's House
In this true scary story, we hear about eerie childhood memories inside James' grandmother’s house in Corpus Christi, Texas. There, he experienced paranormal encounters that seemed to follow him into adulthood. Tonight, he shares a lifetime of...

True Scary Story

The Strange Roommates of Los Angeles

The Entity on the Hill: An Unexplained Encounter in New Mexico

A Light in the Church & The Corner Bedroom (Two True Haunting Stories)

The House in Westport: A Kansas City Haunting

The Figure in the Wall: Utah's Most Disturbing Family Memories

The Shadow That Flickered

When You Hear Voices of the Dead

The Babysitter’s Ouija Board: A True Horror Story from Texas

The Thing in the Reflection

I Grew Up Haunted

Every House Was Haunted: A San Antonio Family Mystery

The Hauntings Kept Finding Them Again (Two Eerie Stories)

Why I Don't Play With Spirits (Two Stories)

Dreams of the Dead: Chilling Premonitions That Came True

The Man Who Crawls Along the Floor: What I Saw on the Night Shift

What Never Leaves: True Stories of Lingering Presences and Haunted Spaces

Who Is That Walking Around at Night? (Two Haunting Encounters)

Generations of Fear: Shadow Figures and a Child’s Midnight Terror

The Last Visit: A Best Friend’s Spirit Returns Home

The Beating Heart in the Closet: Stories From My Grandmother's House