You wake up, but you can’t move. Your chest feels heavy, your voice won’t work, and there’s a sense that you’re not alone. Sleep paralysis, for many of our listeners, is where their most unsettling experiences begin.

Stories include:

A listener who repeatedly wakes during paralysis contorted into impossible positions, as if something has physically moved them A couple whose sleep experiences begin to overlap, as one partner’s recurring entity bleeds into the other’s nightmares

A childhood bedroom transforming into a western saloon during a vivid episode

A shadowy figure that restrains a listener and destroys a protective necklace

A sleep paralysis encounter escalates when a listener is dragged across the bed

Watch the video version here.

Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected]

New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us! 

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Edited by Jaimi Ryan and produced by Emma Leventer and Jaimi Ryan, original music by Arms Akimbo!

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