Turn off the lights for tonight's unsettling tale of childhood terror in an old house. In The Music Box, a ten-year-old moves into a house where their grandmother's antique music box sits gathering dust.

The seven-note melody is eerie enough, but when the box begins playing on its own with the key wound down, things take a darker turn.

Incomplete phrases, random sequences, and then one October night, the music box appears at the foot of the bed, playing single notes that grow closer and closer. By morning, it's back on the mantel - with the key fully wound.

A chilling story about heirloom objects that listen, melodies that break their own rules, and the terror of knowing something is playing its own game.

Perfect for grown-ups who remember childhood objects that felt wrong.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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Turn off the lights for tonight's chilling tale of holiday horror.

A college student accepts an invitation to spend the holiday with a friend's family. But the dining room holds something wrong: Nana Jo sits motionless at the head of the table hours before dinner, staring at an empty seat with food that looks days old on her plate. They soon realise this family's Thanksgiving has a permanent, unexpected guest.

A haunting story about the anchors that hold the dead in place and the families who silently accept their presence year after year.

Perfect for grown-ups who dread holiday gatherings for reasons they can't explain.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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Turn off the lights for tonight's unsettling tale of roadside horror.

In Last Vacancy, a desperate traveler caught in a blizzard takes the last available room at the Sunset Motel. But Room 7 is not all it seems, and most terrifying of all - a voice from Room 8 that sounds exactly like the traveler's mother, humming childhood lullabies and speaking to someone who isn't there.

A chilling story about motels that exist outside of time, the smell of failed purification rituals, and the horror of hearing a familiar voice in an impossible place.

Perfect for grown-ups who've stayed in strange roadside motels.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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An exhausted new mother hears strange sounds through her baby monitor - first an off-key lullaby, then whispers that know her name. But when the voice reveals a childhood secret that no one else knows, the horror gets dangerously real.

A chilling story about the technology we trust, the guilt we bury, and the voices that know us better than we know ourselves.

Perfect for grown-ups who understand that some secrets never stay buried.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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I move into my late aunt's isolated Sussex cottage and discovers a massive antique mirror in the guest room. At first, the reflection shows only subtle differences, but during a power outage, the reflection stops following.

A haunting story about mirrors that trap more than light and the question of what happens when your reflection decides it no longer wants to be you.

Perfect for grown-ups who avoid looking at mirrors in the dark.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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A homeowner living on an isolated property discovers a tall figure standing at the end of their driveway - appearing at exactly 2:17 every single night, without fail.

Security cameras capture his instant arrival but never his approach. Motion sensors fail to detect him. Police find no evidence.

With a desperate attempt to confront him up close, the true horror becomes clear: this isn't random trespass. It's calculated, repetitive, and impossibly patient.

A chilling story about the watchers who appear like clockwork and the question of what happens when they finally decide to move. Perfect for grown-ups who check their locks at night.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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A Grandfather's death leads to the discovery of his keeper's log from Point Obsidian lighthouse. But what begins as routine weather reports slowly deteriorates into frantic accounts of something massive in the fog - something that waits for the light's rhythm and scrapes along the catwalk two hundred feet up.

When they visit the decommissioned lighthouse to understand what broke their Grandfather, they hear it too. But the true terror lies in the journal's final page...

A chilling story about the things that wait in fog and the final words we're too afraid to know. Perfect for grown-ups who love maritime horror and atmospheric mysteries.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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A homeowner three hours away in a conference room receives a notification that their smart lock has been disengaged - but they're the only one with access.

What follows is a terrifying digital game of lock and unlock, repeated over and over, until security camera footage reveals something impossible standing in the living room. A tall, indistinct shadow that doesn't walk but flows, reaching toward the camera and waiting for the door to finally stay open.

A haunting story about modern security systems, the things that learn to manipulate them, and the cold certainty that something dark now knows where you live.

Perfect for grown-ups who rely on smart home technology.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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A twelve-year-old growing up on picture-perfect Willow Lane becomes fixated on the mysterious neighbor who only emerges at dusk to stare at the sky.

But it's the rhythmic scraping sounds from his basement at 2am - a methodic, labored sound - that truly disturb. And when curiosity finally gets the better of them... they're not prepared for what they discover.

A chilling story about the neighbors we never truly know and the secrets buried beneath suburban normalcy. Perfect for grown-ups who remember the strange adults from their childhood neighborhoods.

This episode features: neighbor horror, suburban mysteries, basement secrets, childhood terror, nocturnal rituals, and atmospheric dread perfect for bedtime listening.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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Three years after moving out, I return home to house-sit with my skeptical boyfriend. When the unmistakable sound of shattering glass sends us into panic mode, police rush to the scene, and... no windows are broken, nothing is damaged.

My boyfriend, who never believed the stories, finally sees what can't be explained.

A chilling finale about the darkness that follows us, the skeptics who become believers, and the question of whether we carry hauntings with us or if they're always part of who we are.

Perfect for grown-ups who know some places never truly let you leave.

This episode features: phantom sounds, police involvement, skeptic conversion, lasting hauntings, inherited darkness, and atmospheric dread perfect for bedtime listening.

Not for kids - listener discretion advised.

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