scared with jess

A woman downloads a sleep-recording app after waking up exhausted every morning.

At first, it only captures normal sounds. Then the app records a man asking her questions while she sleeps—and her voice answering every one.

As the questions become more personal, she realizes whoever is speaking may be inside her apartment.

An original scary story about sleep talking, unexplained recordings, a possible intruder, and the voice waiting beside her bed.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

A woman begins having the same terrifying dream every night: a faceless man slowly climbing the stairs from her basement.

Then her neighbor asks how far he has made it.

As the dreams become more vivid, the basement door begins opening on its own, and a late-night recording captures something speaking from downstairs.

A creepy paranormal horror story about recurring nightmares, sleepwalking, a haunted basement, and the terrifying possibility that some dreams are not yours alone.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

A woman receives a call from a funeral home saying her mother has died.

But her real mother is sitting right across from her.

The dead woman listed her as her only daughter, left behind years of secret photographs, and seemed to believe they belonged together long before they ever met.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

A woman arrives at a remote mountain cabin and finds her full name written in the guestbook seven years earlier, in handwriting identical to her own.

Beneath it is a warning: Do not sleep in the room at the end of the hall again.

As pieces of a forgotten childhood trip begin coming back, she realizes someone, or something, has been waiting for her to return.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

My best friend had been jealous of my life for years.

Then she invited me to spend a weekend at her family’s remote cabin.

At first, everything felt normal. But during a hike into the woods, I realized she had been taking pieces of me—my hair, a missing earring, even my full name written down—and bringing them to something she believed lived in the forest.

She told me it could “balance” our lives.

Then I saw the thing waiting for us in the clearing.

And I realized she hadn’t brought me there for a girls’ weekend.

She had brought me there as an offering.

A horror story from Scared With Jess.

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A woman stays overnight at her mother’s house after a minor surgery and wakes to the sound of her mom talking in the kitchen at 2:13 a.m.

But when she goes downstairs, her mother is asleep on the couch.

In the kitchen, someone is sitting at the table with her back turned, wearing her mother’s robe, speaking in her mother’s voice, and waiting beside a mug that should have been destroyed years ago.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

A newly married couple on a cross-country road trip stops at a tiny roadside fair to stretch their legs, only to be led by a strange old man to a row of barrels filled with rotting deer carcasses. When they run, he’s already standing right behind their car holding a blood soaked antler, and calling after them that they ran before the best part.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

Today’s episode features Woman in the Hallway.

A woman living alone checks a late-night security alert and sees a woman already walking through her hallway in real time. As more motion alerts come in, she realizes the figure is moving through her house without opening doors — and using a voice that sounds almost exactly like her own.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

Today’s episode features She’s Lying.

After her grandfather dies, a woman finds two old VHS tapes hidden in his attic — one unlabeled, and one marked SHE’S LYING. When she plays them, both tapes show the same house at night and the same woman walking its halls with a hatchet, but each one tells a different version of what was really stalking the house.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

Today’s episode features She Wanted My Face.

A woman looks back on a childhood sleepover where one extra girl seemed to be there by the end of the night, even though nobody could clearly say who she belonged with. Hours later, she woke up to find the girl still awake in the dark, asking horrifying questions about faces, whispering that some come off easier than others, and then disappearing before morning — leaving behind only photos that prove she was there.

Good luck sleeping tonight.