Scary Stories to Fall Asleep To | Screaming Saints

Eleven original horror stories from the deep woods, told slowly over a small campfire. A trail register in a wooden box, a hammock under old growth, a brass bear bell on a mountain trail, a still lake where every word carries, a pile of stones where two trails meet, and a campfire burning in the trees where nobody should be. Every one happens miles from the nearest road. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the fire keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:15 Party of One

4:09 Look Up

7:11 The Bell

10:13 Sound Carries

12:59 Go Down

15:53 Flat for a Reason

18:54 Keep the Line

21:41 The White Ones

24:37 A Stone for Gilman

27:33 The Meadow That Shivers

30:27 Somebody Else's Fire

33:20 Campfire until morning

All stories are original fiction by Screaming Saints.

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Eight true stories that have never been solved, told slowly over rain on the roof. The letters that came to 657 Boulevard. A farmhouse fire in West Virginia on Christmas Eve, 1945. A young pilot over Bass Strait and the last thing he said on the radio. A woman with eight names, found in a valley above Bergen. Three women gone from a house in Springfield, Missouri. A student in a red parka on Vermont's Long Trail. Two men on a hill in Brazil, wearing lead masks. And a ship found sailing across the Atlantic with nobody on board. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:16 The Watcher

4:50 Christmas Eve

8:56 It's Not an Aircraft

12:28 The Woman in Ice Valley

16:13 The Porch Light

19:29 The Red Parka

23:04 Await the Signal

26:21 The Ship That Sailed On

29:45 Rain until morning

These are real events, told from the record. Where the sources disagree, or a story is a claim rather than a fact, the narration says so. No one named here has been charged with anything. If you know something about one of these cases, tell the police, not the comments.

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SOURCES

The Watcher (Westfield, NJ, 2014): NBC New York, https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/the-creepy-true-story-behind-the-watcher-on-netflix/3918650/ ; TODAY, https://www.today.com/today/amp/rcna51754 ; CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/netflix-the-watcher-based-on-a-true-story-westfield-nj-house

Christmas Eve (the Sodder children, 1945): Sodder children disappearance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance ; Legends of America, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/missing-sodder-children/ ; The Line Up, https://the-line-up.com/sodder-children-disappearance-1945

It's Not an Aircraft (Frederick Valentich, 1978): Disappearance of Frederick Valentich, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich ; Skeptical Inquirer, https://skepticalinquirer.org/2013/11/the-valentich-disappearance-another-ufo-cold-case-solved/

The Woman in Ice Valley (the Isdal Woman, 1970): Isdal Woman, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman ; Life in Norway, https://www.lifeinnorway.net/isdal-woman/

The Porch Light (the Springfield Three, 1992): Springfield Three, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Three ; KY3, https://www.ky3.com/2024/06/07/springfield-three-32-years-since-disappearance-suzie-streeter-sherill-levitt-stacy-mccall/ ; KOAM, https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/joplin-news-first/now-missing-34-years-the-springfield-3/article_f2cd04fa-60c4-4428-aef6-658472ccc60a.html ; KOLR OzarksFirst, https://digital-release.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-the-disappearance-of-the-3-missing-women/

The Red Parka (Paula Welden, 1946): Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Paula_Jean_Welden ; Mental Floss, https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/mystery/bennington-triangle-paula-welden-vermont-mystery ; Bennington Triangle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_Triangle

Await the Signal (the lead masks case, 1966): Lead masks case, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_masks_case ; Estado de Minas, https://www.em.com.br/trends/2026/01/7329055-alem-de-varginha-5-casos-ufologicos-que-marcaram-a-historia-do-brasil.html

The Ship That Sailed On (the Mary Celeste, 1872): Mary Celeste, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste ; HISTORY, https://www.history.com/articles/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste

Eleven original horror stories about winter cabins, told slowly over rain on the roof. A cabin a mile in on snowshoes, a trapper's cabin with an iron stove, a rope to the woodshed in a whiteout, a little wooden sauna by a frozen lake, a white pine on the night of an ice storm. In the stories, it's snowing. Where you are, it's only rain. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:19 Your Own Track

4:29 His Place

7:37 Hold the Rope

10:39 Two Pairs of Boots

13:37 Hang It High

16:34 Clear of the Eaves

19:21 Frost on the Glass

22:30 A Long One

25:16 Stay on the Trail

28:28 Bring the Feeder In

31:24 Sleep in the Back

34:00 Rain until morning

All stories are original fiction by Screaming Saints.

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One-hour horror stories, told slowly over rain or a small campfire, made for falling asleep. No jump scares, no loud sounds. This trailer has a little of The Bell Board, from Volume 8. New episodes every week. Follow and rate the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It's how new listeners find us.

Eleven original horror stories about old houses, told slowly over rain on the roof. A dumbwaiter in the wall of a tall brick house, a farmhouse storm cellar, a row of servant bells in a Victorian kitchen, a bed from an estate sale, a cottage moved four miles on a truck. Every one happens in a house that has stood a hundred years. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:21 It Only Goes Where It's Sent

4:37 Put It Back

7:56 Just Go Back to Bed

11:06 Bolt It Behind You

14:22 Her Side of the Bed

17:34 Hold Still

20:52 Old Houses Talk

24:07 Nothing That Makes Heat

27:14 The Bell Board

30:20 Leave It Up

33:18 She's Sitting on Blocks

36:16 Rain until morning

All stories are original fiction by Screaming Saints.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA

Eight true stories from summer camps, campgrounds and campfires, told slowly over the sound of a small fire. The real Boy Scout camp where Friday the 13th was filmed. A mountain that fell on a campground in 1959. A light over a lake in Maine, and four men who never agreed on what happened next. Two campsites in Glacier, nine miles apart, on one night in 1967. The footprints that gave Bigfoot his name. A canyon flood on the eve of Colorado's 100th birthday. A meadow in the Smokies where a little boy went missing. And a man lost in the Yellowstone for thirty seven days. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the fire keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:20 The Real Crystal Lake

5:40 The Night the Mountain Came Down

9:55 The Fire That Burned Too Fast

14:21 Nine Miles Apart

18:48 Big Foot

22:57 Climb to Safety

27:14 Spence Field

31:17 Thirty Seven Days

35:44 Campfire until morning

These are real events, told from the record. Where the sources disagree, or a story is a claim rather than a fact, the narration says so. Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco is a private Scout camp and is not open to visitors outside its official tour dates. Sources for every story are below.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA

SOURCES

The Real Crystal Lake (Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, 1979): Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-1980-slasher-movie-friday-the-13th-was-filmed-at-this-boy-scout-camp-in-new-jersey-180978933/ ; Crystal Lake Tours, about the camp, https://www.crystallaketours.com/about-the-camp

The Night the Mountain Came Down (Hebgen Lake, 1959): USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, The 1959 Madison Slide, https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/1959-madison-slide-part-1-a-deadly-consequence-hebgen-lake-earthquake ; USGS YVO, 60 years since the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake, https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/60-years-1959-m73-hebgen-lake-earthquake-its-history-and-effects-yellowstone

The Fire That Burned Too Fast (Allagash, 1976): The County, part 1, https://thecounty.me/2016/09/21/houlton/how-much-of-a-famed-1976-ufo-abduction-is-true-4/ ; The County, part 2, https://thecounty.me/2016/09/28/caribou/how-much-of-a-famed-ufo-abduction-is-true/

Nine Miles Apart (Glacier, 1967): Flathead Beacon, https://flatheadbeacon.com/2017/08/09/lessons-night-grizzlies/ ; The Washington Post, via Anchorage Daily News, https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/08/03/the-story-of-2-fatal-grizzly-bear-attacks-that-changed-our-relationship-with-wildlife/

Big Foot (Bluff Creek, 1958): The Seattle Times, 5 Dec 2002, https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20021205/raywallaceobit05m/lovable-trickster-created-a-monster-with-bigfoot-hoax ; Mental Floss, https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/bigfoot-word-origin-hoax

Climb to Safety (Big Thompson, 1976): USGS Fact Sheet 2006-3095, https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3095/pdf/FS06-3095_508.pdf ; The Coloradoan, via Claims Journal, https://amp.claimsjournal.com/news/west/2016/08/08/272639.htm

Spence Field (Great Smoky Mountains, 1969): National Park Service case file, 1969, released under FOIA ; Hellbender Press, https://hellbenderpress.sustainably.org/item/7-missing-persons-in-the-park

Thirty Seven Days (Yellowstone, 1870): Truman Everts, Thirty-Seven Days of Peril (1871), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30924 ; National Park Service, Yellowstone, https://home.nps.gov/yell/blogs/truman-c-everts-yellowstone-s-first-unlucky-adventurer.htm

Eleven original horror stories about back roads at night, told slowly over gentle rain. A gravel crossroads with no sign, a railroad crossing in the fog, a logging road cut into a mountain, a ranch road with four gates, a moose standing in the road. Every one happens where the pavement runs out. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:11 The Dome Light

4:18 Steady as a Clock

7:33 Who Are You Here For

10:46 Don't Swerve

13:58 Stand on the Wrench

17:05 Stay With the Car

20:15 Leave It How You Found It

23:22 Call Your Mile

26:34 Anything Low With Eyes

29:50 Legs Like Trees

33:02 Watch the Lines

36:08 Rain until morning

All stories are original fiction by Screaming Saints.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA

Eleven original horror stories about dark water, told slowly over gentle rain. A fishing pier at night, a houseboat in an empty cove, a hot tub under the pines, a town pool after closing, a little dam on a quiet river. Every one happens at the edge of water you can't see into. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:10 Throw, Don't Go

4:31 Never Put Your Head Under

7:49 Somebody Stays Aboard

11:01 Where There's Little Ones

14:17 The Wash

17:37 Did You Tell Anyone

20:48 The Drowning Machine

23:56 Marco

27:15 Shore Power

30:06 Seatbelt, Window, Out

33:18 The Hatchet

36:18 Rain until morning

All stories are original fiction by Screaming Saints.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA

Eight true, unexplained stories, told slowly over gentle rain. Three lighthouse keepers who vanished in 1900. A bomber found in the Sahara fifteen years after it disappeared. A masked man who hijacked two Chicago TV stations and was never caught. A city that couldn't stop dancing. A lake that breathed out. A keeper alone on a rock in a storm. A doctor who tried to weigh the soul. And a village where people kept falling asleep. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:14 Three Keepers

5:32 The Bomber in the Sand

9:45 The Face in the Signal

14:06 The Summer the City Danced

18:29 The Lake That Breathed Out

22:56 The Keeper on the Rail

27:16 Three Quarters of an Ounce

31:35 The Village That Kept Falling Asleep

35:59 Rain until morning

These are real cases, told from the historical record. Where the sources disagree, or a famous detail is legend, the story says so. Sources for every story are below.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA

SOURCES

Three Keepers (Flannan Isles, 1900): National Records of Scotland, https://nrscotland.gov.uk/learning-and-events/for-the-safety-of-all-scotlands-lighthouses/the-flannan-islands-lighthouse-a-disappearance/ ; Northern Lighthouse Board, https://www.nlb.org.uk/lighthouses/flannan-islands/

The Bomber in the Sand (Lady Be Good, 1943): U.S. National Archives, https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2017/06/16/lost-and-found-the-story-of-lady-be-good-and-her-crew/ ; Air & Space Forces Magazine, https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0214lady/

The Face in the Signal (Max Headroom, 1987): Vice, https://www.vice.com/en/article/headroom-hacker/ ; Chicago Sun-Times, https://chicago.suntimes.com/2014/11/22/18445550/27-years-ago-saturday-chicago-tv-got-hacked-in-the-max-headroom-incident

The Summer the City Danced (Strasbourg, 1518): John Waller, The Public Domain Review, https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/ ; National Geographic, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/dancing-plague-of-1518-strasbourg-choreomania

The Lake That Breathed Out (Lake Nyos, 1986): USGS Open-File Report 87-97, https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1987/0097/report.pdf ; Kling et al., Science 236 (1987), https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.236.4798.169

The Keeper on the Rail (the Smalls, about 1800): Trinity House, https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/smalls-lighthouse ; J. S. Rees, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (citing the 1858 account), https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/100-9-Rees.pdf

Three Quarters of an Ounce (MacDougall, 1907): MacDougall's 1907 paper, full text, https://newdualism.org/papers/D.MacDougall/soul-substance.htm ; New York Times, 11 March 1907, https://www.nytimes.com/1907/03/11/archives/soul-has-weight-physician-thinks-dr-macdougall-of-haverhill-tells.html

The Village That Kept Falling Asleep (Kalachi, 2013 to 2015): The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/17/mystery-kazakhstan-sleeping-sickness-solved ; Tengrinews, https://en.tengrinews.kz/emergencies/kazakhstani-scientists-explain-kalachi-sleeping-syndrome-260466/

Eleven original horror stories about people who work while everyone else sleeps, told slowly over gentle rain. A toll booth on an empty causeway, a 24-hour pharmacy, an office tower with thirty floors of nobody, a hospital basement, a sleep clinic. Every one happens on the night shift. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:14 Keep the Change

4:38 Test Before You Touch

7:47 Something to Help Her Sleep

11:06 The Friendliest Sound

14:15 Rounds at Four

17:32 Bluebird

20:52 The Cold Room

23:57 The Lady in Blue

27:14 Halfway Across

30:24 Say Your Name

33:43 The Corner

37:00 Rain until morning

All stories are original fiction by Screaming Saints.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA