Scared All The Time

How long could you survive without sunlight, clocks, internet, or another human being? This week, we flash back to when we learned about a Spanish athlete who went underground for an extraordinary experiment in isolation and stayed there for 500 days. But when it was finally time to bring her back to the surface, something much stranger had happened: she had lost her sense of time so completely that she believed only a fraction of those 500 days had passed.

It's the bizarre true story of extreme isolation, hallucinations, human endurance, and what happens when time itself stops meaning anything.

THIS ORIGINALLY AIRED ON PATREON 12/04/25

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Welcome back to Scared After Dark, a Scared All The Time bonus series where Chris reads you an old spooky story that will either lull you to sleep or keep you up all night.

Tonight's bedtime story: "The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce.

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What happens when a haunted house decides that jump scares aren’t enough? 

In Part Two of EXTREME HAUNTED HOUSES, Chris and Ed leave traditional haunted attractions behind and descend into the controversial world of immersive and extreme horror experiences.

They trace the rise of attractions like Blackout, where guests entered alone and surrendered control, before digging into increasingly intense experiences including Miasma, Freakling Bros.’ Victim Experience, and other haunts built around physical contact, isolation, endurance, and psychological torment.

And then there’s the living nightmare that is McKamey Manor. We examine the notorious attraction, the videos that made it an internet legend, and the larger question hanging over the entire extreme-haunt industry: when does being scared stop being fun?

Listener: Enter at your own risk.

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Welcome back to Scared After Dark, a Scared All The Time bonus series where Chris reads you an old spooky story that will either lull you to sleep or keep you up all night.

Tonight's bedtime story: "The Upper Berth" by F. Marion Crawford.

Feel free to read along HERE

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t’s Flashback Friday, and we’re revisiting one of our wildest NEW FEAR UNLOCKED stories: Japan’s terrifying surge in bear attacks. With fatal encounters and maulings hitting record levels, authorities deployed troops to help affected communities - and the danger became common enough to inspire actual bear-attack insurance.

Plus, we look at another horrifying encounter involving a grizzly attack on a group of students and their teacher. Turns out the bears may be unlocking some new fears of their own.

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Introducing Scared After Dark, a bonus series for the month of too many treats, in which Chris reads you an old spooky story that will either lull you to sleep or keep you up all night.

Tonight's bedtime story: "Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft.

Feel free to read along HERE

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Every October, millions of people willingly pay strangers dressed and monsters and demons to chase them through dark buildings. But how did haunted houses go from simple parlor tricks to massive attractions designed to push our fear response to the breaking point?

In Part One of EXTREME HAUNTED HOUSES, Chris and Ed trace the strange history of the fear business - from the ghostly illusions of 18th-century phantasmagoria and the homemade haunts of the Great Depression to amusement park dark rides, Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Halloween Horror Nights, and the horrifying real-life tragedy that changed the haunted attraction industry forever.

Welcome to the fear business. We're just getting started.

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This week, we flash back to the strange story of June Field, a Scottish spiritual medium who claims she’s spent years privately advising royal clients, exchanging messages with them, and even helping them connect with loved ones who have died. So how does someone become a psychic to royalty - and what happens when you almost reveal too much?

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Originally aired on Patreon: 11/12/25

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Chris just turned 40, and he’s handling it extremely well (trust us!). So naturally, we’re investigating why this particular birthday became synonymous with existential dread, midlife crises, collapsing bodies, and the horrifying realization that the clock is ticking.

Along with writer Gaby Moss, co-author of "The Midlife Plot Twist: How to Reboot Your Life Without Burning It Down Even If You Really, Really Want To," we trace the strange significance of the number 40 through history, discover how “life begins at forty” went from a bestselling promise to a cultural punchline, meet the psychoanalyst who coined the midlife crisis, and find out what science says is actually happening to our bodies as we cross into middle age.

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Remember that embarrassing thing you did fifteen years ago? Your brain brings it up enough already. Now imagine remembering your past so vividly that the feelings come back with it.

This week, Chris and Ed flash back to when they explored hyperthymesia, a rare ability to recall personal experiences in extraordinary detail, and the case of a 17-year-old who describes filing her memories in rooms inside her mind. She's got mental binders, a room for cooling down, and a chest holding a painful loss.

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Originally aired on Patreon: 11/05/25


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Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime