True Scary Stories

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  • The Dead Man Who Woke Up
    The Dead Man Who Woke Up

    A man wakes on a concrete floor with no memory, no wallet, and only a post-it note reading "Adam. Outside." What makes his situation impossible is that Timothy Gray was declared deceased five years ago, his conviction "carried out." How can a dead man be breathing, and why does he keep waking up in a deserted 1950s American town?

    In this episode, we uncover the chilling reality of Timothy Gray's existence, trapped in a meticulously constructed replica town with no living inhabitants, save for a mysterious woman named Eve and a man named Drake who claims to know the way out. Explore the unsettling truth behind the puncture marks on their bodies and the cryptic messages that hint at a deeper conspiracy.

    Person: Timothy Gray
    Status: Declared deceased, yet alive
    Location: Replica 1950s American town
    Object: Yellow post-it note
    Instruction: "Adam. Outside."

    - Timothy Gray was declared deceased five years prior to waking up.
    - He wakes in a full-scale replica of a 1950s American town, complete with a diner and church.
    - The town has a six-meter concrete perimeter topped with razor wire and a monitoring station.
    - He encounters Eve, who has more memory and similar puncture marks on her chest.
    - A second post-it note warns him: "Do not trust Drake. Find Eve. Help her."

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

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    27 min
  • The Museum That Vanished: He Saw It
    The Museum That Vanished: He Saw It

    A man walked through a museum that may not exist, seeing things that defy explanation: a pilot still in a charred F-35 cockpit, mummified soldiers, and severed heads. When police investigated the address, they found only an abandoned gas station in the Midwest. What did he truly witness, and how did he know the exact layout of a secret government installation that no record confirms?

    In this episode, we delve into the chilling account of a man who spent twenty years trying to forget what he saw inside a museum that vanished without a trace. From an ice-cold handshake with a mysterious curator to exhibits that blurred the lines between history and horror, this story challenges our understanding of reality and the paranormal.

    Person: Unnamed narrator
    Location: Abandoned gas station in the Midwest
    Status: Museum vanished, police found no evidence
    Event: Encountered a museum with impossible exhibits
    Time: Twenty years trying to forget

    - The narrator received a tip from an online forum for obscure military museums with coordinates, a day, and a time.
    - The curator's handshake was unnaturally ice-cold, and he knew the narrator's presence without prior introduction.
    - The museum's descent took longer than expected, opening into a space the length of two football fields with a sixty-foot ceiling.
    - The "Shock and Awe" exhibit featured an F-35 fuselage with a pilot still inside, and the "Invasion" section displayed mummified bodies in combat uniforms.
    - The "Spoils of War" corridor contained a row of severed heads, two of which the narrator recognized, one wearing a clerical collar and another a high-end suit.

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

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    26 min
  • Her Teeth Are Growing In Mine
    Her Teeth Are Growing In Mine

    A child found in a national park forest, scarred by acid and raised by a mysterious woman, now reports his own teeth are changing. Authorities closed the case, but the survivor's account of his "Madre" and her impossible abilities challenges everything known about the natural world. What truly happened in the silent clearing where he was found?

    In this episode, we delve into the unsettling story of a boy raised in the wilderness by a figure known only as Madre, whose existence defies explanation. We explore the official records and the survivor's chilling memories, revealing a gap between accounts where the truly inexplicable resides.

    Person: Madre
    Location: National Park Forest
    Status: Case closed by authorities
    Event: Child found by solo hiker
    Condition: Acid scarring, prolonged restraint, torture

    - A child was found in a national park forest, covered in scarring identified as acid damage from early infancy.
    - The woman with him, identified through DNA as a Jane Doe, was found dead nearby in a clearing described as unnaturally silent.
    - Madre had hair the white of old snow, fingers like hawk talons, and teeth that could snap a wrist-thick branch.
    - The boy remembers Madre's jaw unhinging slightly in sleep, her teeth catching moonlight as if waiting.
    - The forest itself behaved around Madre, with birds going quiet and insects retreating from her burrow.

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

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    24 min
  • St. Michael's: The Lighthouse That Demolished Itself
    St. Michael's: The Lighthouse That Demolished Itself

    In this episode, we delve into the unsettling account of Doug Whateley, an electrical technician whose life became entangled with the bizarre events surrounding St. Michael's Island and the man named Howard Marsh. From a North Sea drilling rig to a remote lighthouse, we trace the strange history that led to an impossible encounter.

    Case: St. Michael's Island Lighthouse Incident
    Person: Doug Whateley
    Location: Cumbrian coast, Irish Sea
    Date: Late autumn, five years ago
    Status: Unexplained demolition

    - Howard Marsh's last clear word was Doug Whateley's name.
    - Whateley drove to St. Michael's Island with a loaded revolver and a letter from Marsh.
    - The island's causeway, the Devil's Spine, was passable for 40 minutes twice daily at low tide.
    - Locals in Seascale referred to the island by its older name: the Witch Mound.
    - Whateley observed a figure descending the lighthouse stairs with a structurally altered gait and eyes possessing unusual reflectivity.

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

    Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation  real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on.

    © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network, who owns and is solely responsible for this content. All rights reserved. Reproduction or commercial use without the creator's written permission is prohibited. Business: [email protected].
    27 min
  • The Letter That Knew Tomorrow's Dead
    The Letter That Knew Tomorrow's Dead

    A letter arrived in a maximum-security cell, sealed with black wax and smelling of almonds, containing knowledge of events that hadn't yet occurred. By the time the recipient understood the terms, three men were dead inside the prison, and no charges were ever filed. What impossible secret did this letter hold?

    In this episode, we delve into the story of Joseph Alejandro, a man serving time in a panopticon-style prison where electric shock collars enforce control. We uncover the mysterious AF Trust, an organization that delivers letters with uncanny precision and a disturbing scent, and explore the dark web forums where a woman named Catherine Letty Alejandro was exploited for her "latent abilities."

    Person: Joseph Alejandro
    Location: Sturgeon
    Organization: AF Trust
    Object: Black wax-sealed letter
    Smell: Almonds

    - The letter arrived in a maximum-security cell without a messenger or sound.
    - Joseph Alejandro was serving a five-year sentence in a panopticon-designed facility.
    - The prison held roughly ten times more inmates than guards, and every inmate wore an electric shock collar.
    - The first letter gave Joseph three names and predicted a cell inspection exactly nine minutes later.
    - Catherine Letty Alejandro was drugged, taken, and filmed for dark web forums under the premise of extracting "latent abilities."

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

    Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation  real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on.

    © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network, who owns and is solely responsible for this content. All rights reserved. Reproduction or commercial use without the creator's written permission is prohibited. Business: [email protected].
    24 min
  • The Forest Hung Them: Centriia, 1972
    The Forest Hung Them: Centriia, 1972

    Four men were found hanging upside down from oak trees in 1972, their rifles untouched, ammunition still slung across their shoulders. Whatever killed them wasn't interested in their gear, a detail that should have ended the investigation, but didn't. What happened to the two men who kept looking?

    In this episode, we revisit the chilling events of October 14, 1972, in Centriia, where each piece of evidence contradicted the last, and no version of events has ever held together. We explore the impossible sequence of discoveries, from the initial finding of the bodies to the inexplicable appearance of a mature fir tree in the middle of a road.

    Event: Four men found hanging from oak trees
    Location: George Washington Park, Centriia
    Date: October 14, 1972
    Victims: Carl Deetman, Roy Demund, Phil Okafor, Thomas Brightwell
    Suspect: George Callum

    - Four men were found hanging upside down from oak trees at 4 AM, their rifles untouched.
    - The coroner noted hundreds of shallow cuts and deeper puncture wounds across all four bodies.
    - Detective Martin and his apprentice Drew Kowalski investigated the case.
    - George Callum claimed he instructed the trees to kill the men for taking from the forest.
    - A mature fir tree, three feet across, inexplicably appeared in the middle of the road after the detectives had already driven through.

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

    Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation  real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on.

    © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network, who owns and is solely responsible for this content. All rights reserved. Reproduction or commercial use without the creator's written permission is prohibited. Business: [email protected].
    25 min
  • The Hole: It Saw Him First
    The Hole: It Saw Him First

    A 22-year-old engineering student made a 4-minute, 37-second recording describing a doorless concrete room with a circular hole. He died eleven days later, two fingers removed, convinced something had been watching him. What did he discover in that impossible room?

    In this episode, we delve into the chilling case of Zachary, an engineering student whose meticulous records of a recurring dream became a terrifying reality. We explore his precise observations of a mysterious room, the unsettling changes he noted each night, and the chilling premonition that something on the other side of a dark hole was aware of his presence.

    Person: Zachary
    Age: 22
    Occupation: Engineering student
    Date of final recording: March 6, 2026
    Recording length: 4 minutes, 37 seconds

    - Zachary made his first recording alone in his apartment after 11 PM, whispering to avoid waking his roommate.
    - He described a room with no doors, concrete walls, and a circular hole approximately two fists wide.
    - The air in the room had no temperature, a detail he noted in every recording.
    - He woke one morning with soreness in his feet, as if he had been standing on a hard surface for a long time.
    - Zachary calculated the room's dimensions and concluded that if real, it would have to be underground.

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

    Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation  real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on.

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    25 min
  • Beaconville Mall: The Game No One Survived (Except One)
    Beaconville Mall: The Game No One Survived (Except One)

    A security guard's spilled coffee, a detail easily dismissed, was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. By the time Greg understood its true meaning, three people were dead, and every exit of Beaconville Mall was sealed from the outside. What exactly did the lone survivor escape?

    In this episode, we delve into the chilling events that unfolded inside Beaconville Mall during one of the worst storms in recorded history. We explore the ordinary details that preceded an extraordinary horror, and the question that still haunts the lone survivor.

    Case: Beaconville Mall Incident
    Location: Beaconville Mall
    Event: Lock-in and deaths
    Survivor: One man
    Object: Dead man's keys

    - The security guard's coffee cup was tipped, a dark stain spreading across the desk.
    - Three people Greg knew were dead before he realized the danger.
    - Every exit in Beaconville Mall was sealed from the outside with a padlock.
    - The mall's exterior locks were replaced before opening, and the new keys were taken.
    - A voice identified as "Big Ed, owner of MegaMart," announced the exits were locked and "the game was beginning."

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

    Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation  real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on.

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    25 min
  • The Mirror That Shows Your Other Self
    The Mirror That Shows Your Other Self

    A man walks into the Irish Sea and vanishes, leaving behind a cottage, grimoires, and a mirror that doesn't reflect. Years later, his heir finds a cryptic final sentence and a dead man in his basement, with strange footprints on the floor. What happened in Barton Village, and what did the mirror truly show?

    In this episode, we delve into the unsettling inheritance of Sebastian Frederick Marsh, a man who disappeared into the sea in 1954. We explore the strange events surrounding his cottage in the Gunner's Cloth, a forbidden woodland, and the mysterious deaths linked to his possessions, including a seven-foot-tall mirror.

    Person: Sebastian Frederick Marsh
    Event: Disappearance into the Irish Sea
    Location: Seacale Beach, Copeland, Cumbria
    Date: July 24, 1954
    Object: Seven-foot-tall mirror

    - Sebastian Frederick Marsh walked naked into the Irish Sea on July 24, 1954, and his body was never recovered.
    - The narrator inherited Sebastian's cottage, grimoires, ritual artifacts, and a library of "books about things best left unread."
    - Dr. Artemis Harlon Glass died in the narrator's basement, officially from cardiac arrest, after examining the collection.
    - Green-gold, sourceless light pulsed from a seven-foot-tall mirror found face-up on the basement floor.
    - A boy named Jaime Burle walked into the Gunner's Cloth on a dare and never spoke again, dying thirteen years later after jumping from a window.

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

    Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation  real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on.

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    26 min
  • Grey Val Park: The Locket, The Voice, The Crawling Man
    Grey Val Park: The Locket, The Voice, The Crawling Man

    Three people vanished from Grey Val Park, their bodies never recovered, and the sole survivor is dying, calling himself "the Crawler." What unspeakable horror did they encounter that left behind a melted crater in the snow, a strange warmth, and a haunting, rhythmic sound from below?

    In this episode, we delve into the chilling events at Grey Val Park, a place with a dark history of disappearances and a serial killer. We follow Cal and his crew as they uncover a mysterious, stone-lined shaft beneath a cabin, leading to an inexplicable tunnel and a sound that defies all logic.

    Person: Cal
    Location: Grey Val Park, Shellville
    Event: Unexplained disappearances and discovery of a mysterious shaft
    Status: Three people missing, one survivor dying
    Object: Wedding locket

    - Three people never returned from Grey Val Park; their bodies remain unrecovered.
    - The only survivor, known as "the Crawler," is dying in a hospital bed.
    - A crater of melted snow was found in a cabin, indicating heat radiating from below the floor.
    - Cal discovered a stone-lined opening leading to a tunnel with smooth, membrane-covered walls.
    - A low, rhythmic sound, like an organ's lowest note, emanated from beneath the cabin floor.

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    OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
    Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

    Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

    Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation  real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on.

    © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network, who owns and is solely responsible for this content. All rights reserved. Reproduction or commercial use without the creator's written permission is prohibited. Business: [email protected].
    25 min

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Dare to listen? True Scary Stories brings you face-to-face with the chilling unknown, where every shadow holds a secret and every whisper could be real. Prepare for a daily dose of genuine terror as…