Scariest Stories

I don't have much time left. I'm hoping the blood will drain out of my wrists before they can get to me again, but I can't be certain. Oh god, it's so cold. I'm losing a lot of blood. But I have to finish. You have to read this. Maybe you can stop them....... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I was exhausted. I had just gotten home from another day of forced monotony that we call a job. I wanted nothing more than to kick back with a cold beer and watch the hockey game. I walked to the fridge and grabbed a beer before shambling to the entertainment room. Still warm. Damn. I sat down in my comfiest recliner. The footrest sprung up, and I pushed the back down far enough so I could just see the TV. I grabbed the remote and hit the power button. The TV flickered on, filling the room with the sound of hockey. It wasn't the same without the cold beer....... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's a cool, calm night. You worked hard that day, and you feel ready for a good night's sleep. You climb into your bed and turn off the light. You notice that, considering you live alone, it's unusually quiet tonight. Ever since the death of your next-door neighbor, the loud rap music woke you up in the middle of the night no more. The police were quite reliable in these parts, but you can't help but feel a little disturbed that, for all the blood that was spilled and mess that was caused, the investigators still don't seem to have a lead. You tell yourself not to worry, the community is on their toes, no sensible killer would go sneaking around this town.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I've locked myself in this room with my laptop. I don't know when they're coming, where they're coming from. Hell, I don't even know IF they're coming. But what I do know is that they're out there. They are right outside my door, in my backyard, hidden behind the trees just out of sight. All I have left is this laptop so I write this to whoever find it. In order for you to understand, you must hear my story. It's quite a tale. I recently moved into my house, bought and paid for, in a small town. The house itself was 3 floors, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, and it had a beautiful view of a forest in the backyard. It struck me as odd that it was as cheap as it was, being such a big house. Now I know why.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When I was fourteen, my mother and father were divorced, and I went to live with my mother and a man she supposedly fell in love with several years ago. We searched for a house for all three of us to live in, and eventually found the perfect house. A few months later, after finding out that my dad had cancer, my mom went, even while engaged to this man living with us, to the very hospital and stayed with my father for about a week, leaving me to fend for myself as I remained in the basement, wasting my time on the computer... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

My father was a military man. Retired back in '95 from the Navy after 20 years of proud service to our country. But before that, we moved often every 3-4 years or thereabouts we'd pack up and get shipped somewhere new. Early 1989, a wonderful opportunity arose and dad took it. A 16 hour flight later, and we were stationed at N.A.S Sigonella, Sicily. I guess I was about, ohhh 10 or 11 at the time. Those years were blurred save those pinpricks of memory that still haunt me. That still plague my dreams from time to time.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As a child, I was always quiet, and my conversations with others would always end up awkward. Because of that, I always preferred to be alone growing up. Which probably explains my strange obsession with toys, being as old as I am. They never talk. They just stare. I have to say though, being alone in an apartment full of figurines can be creepy sometimes.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

If you are reading this, then I am dead, and you are standing aboard a derelict Cyclone class patrol ship, the USS Mistral, with her engines dead and her electrical systems nonfunctional. I am, was, the XO of this vessel, Lieutenant Commander Ryan Simmons. Please read this carefully. If you are an officer or enlisted man in the United States Navy, this is an order: Scuttle this vessel, immediately. Do not finish this letter. Get off the Mistral at once, and send her down. Consider this a quarantine scenario; all hands are likely dead. God help you if they are not...... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I was fifteen when it happened. My sister was five. It started on her fifth birthday, when she received one of those dolls that's supposed to look like the owner. It was a standard doll, the same height as my sister, red hair, freckles; it even came with an outfit matching its own for my sister. The only out of the ordinary part were its eyes. My sister had very strange eyes, blue with flecks of brown near the pupil. I used to tease her they looked like toilet bowls with poop floating in them. I'd never seen another person with eyes like this, but the dolls matched them perfectly. I don't recall who gave her the doll, but I thought whoever it was had taken the time to repaint the eyes as a special touch..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I'm doing this for you. And for Mike, too, I guess, though I don't think there's much I can do to help him at this point. I suppose I should provide some background information first. I'm a sophomore in a fairly good university in Boston no, not MIT or Harvard, but still one that's a bit of a chore to get into. My freshman year, I had the option to live in honors housing and decided to roll with it; after all, at least the people would be interesting. Whatever arcane algorithm they use to process roommate requests took in my preferences and spat out the name of my future roommate: Mike, just another random honors kid from St. Louis. The two of us got along fine for most of freshman year © my enjoyment of Miley Cyrus notwithstanding-and so we decided to room together sophomore year as well.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A young girl suffered from insomnia, and throughout the night she'd often wake up for no reason. One night she awoke, and in the daze of half-sleep, she blinked in the darkness. Just for a second, she thought she saw a pair of reptilian eyes, gazing at her and glowing red. She sat up and stared at them, quickly realizing that it was only her clock. It was 11:11. She sighed and tried to go back to sleep..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The clock stared at me with its red eyes, shouting to me that he would arrive soon. He always comes at the witching hour. Of course I didn't know that the witching hour was three in the morning till I told my friend about my night time wanderer. The witching hour is the time of night when God is at his weakest and all the imps and minions come out. This man was obviously not a three horned demon, nor was he an evil servant of the devil. He looked old, and lonely. I felt bad for him. He was probably homeless with no family or friends to speak of.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In November 1930, Joe Labelle, a Canadian fur trapper, snowshoed into a thriving Eskimo fishing village situated on the shores of Lake Anjikuni in Canada. Labelle was greeted with an eerie silence. He thought this was very strange because the fishing village was a noisy settlement with 2,000 Eskimos milling back and forth to their kayaks. But there wasn't a soul about. Labelle visited each of the Eskimo huts and fish storehouses but none of the villagers was anywhere to be seen. Labelle saw a flickering fire in the distance and approached it gingerly, sensing something evil was afoot on this moonlit night. Upon the fire was a smoldering pot of blackened stew. To make matters more mysterious, Labelle saw that not a single human track had left the settlement..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Dyatlov Pass Accident refers to an incident that resulted in the death of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains. The incident happened on the night of February 2, 1959 on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl(a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the accident occurred has been named Dyatlov Pass after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I've always had a terrible fear of being submerged completely in water. Not that I can't swim or anything. My dad made me learn; he said I almost drowned when I was really young..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I never saw the ocean till I was nineteen, and if I ever see it again it will be too goddamn soon. I was a child, coming out of the train, fresh from Amarillo, into San Diego and all her glory. The sight of it, all that water and the blind crushing power of the surf, filled me with dread. I'd seen water before, lakes, plenty big, but that was nothing like this. I don't think I can describe what it was like that first time, and further more, I'm not sure I care too. You can imagine the state I was in when a few weeks later they gave me a rifle and put me on a boat. When I stopped vomiting up everything that I ate, I decided that I might not kill myself after all. Not being able to see the land, and that ceaseless chaotic, rocking of the waves; I remember thinking that the war had to be a step up from this. Kids can be so fucking stupid...... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I had a dream last night. It was the kind that seems real right up to the point where you wake up. Some things were strange about it certain things were really strange about it, but it never occurred to me that it might not actually be happening. I'm still not prepared to say that it didn't happen. I'm not spiritual and I don't really understand stuff like that. I just feel like I've been somewhere and now I'm back, and I know something really happened when I woke up...... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There is a chance that while on a railway journey across country you will pass a darkened station, the platform will look as if it has been deserted for years. The train will have to slow down due to the condition of the tracks but it will not stop. There are some conductors who will to go much faster than they should just get past the station causing the train to feel as if it will shake apart. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One day, a kid got what he thought was a genius idea. He'd find a way to stay overnight in his school. Just to be able to say he did it, the idea of the story that it would make thrilled him. He had no idea how right he was. The major problem of the plan was getting a key. He couldn't just hide in corners the whole night, he wanted to explore. He also wanted to scope out the best places in the school for some after school activities with any girls interested. He began to think of himself as the king of the brick castle that he spent most of his time in. He just needed that key..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Finally, I'm home. After working a late night, I finally finished a project that my boss pushed on me. It was all worth it though, because I had a great day ahead of me. The part I was most excited for though, was seeing my son.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A few years ago, a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. They called their most trusted babysitter..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

any city, in any country, go to any mental institution you can get yourself to. When you reach the front desk, close your eyes and ask to visit someone who calls himself "The Holder of Light†. You will be guided to a single door leading to a long winding hallway. You will be told to open your eyes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In Edmonton, Alberta, there is a hotel called the Canterra, off of Jasper Avenue and 109th Street. During the night, go here and ring the doorbell. Should you be let in, look to see who the guard on shift is. If the man looks in his mid twenties, yet the hair on his head and face both are white as snow, take a seat beside the security desk. If it is any other guard on shift, leave and return in a week's time....... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When you are admitted to a hospital, they place on your wrist a white wristband with your name on it. But there are other different colored wristbands which symbolizes other things. The red wristbands are placed on dead people. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A mother and father decided they needed a break, not having much alone time in the almost a year since their young son, Toby, was born. They wanted to have a night out, dinner, maybe a movie, and the honeymoon suite at a local hotel to possibly give Toby a little brother or sister. They called their most trusted babysitter, who unfortunately was already engaged for the evening. But she did refer a good friend of hers, Opal, who she swore could be trusted. They spoke with the new babysitter and agreed to have her arrive no later than 6:30 so the parents could get an early start.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This all started one very normal night. No clouds in sight and stars as far as the eye could see. Some of my friends and I enjoy being scared, so much so that we actively seek out terrifying thrills. This night was no different We had spent several nights "investigating" different places of alleged high paranormal activity. Investigating probably isn't the right word to describe what several young adults are doing trying their kicks from getting their pants scared off but that's a little beside the point. The place we were on our way home from was purportedly one of the worst. Even so we had no strange encounters outside of the common creaks, moans, and bangs afforded to old buildings long past their life expectancy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Indian officials ventured into a deep jungle, investigating several missing persons reports from a nearby city. What they found was a "Tower of Silence," or dakhma. Zoroastrians use these sites to dispose of bodies in the open air..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

My grandfather served in the European Theater of Operations during WWII, an experience he rarely talks much about. I've only managed to coax one story out of him...... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

October evenings usually seem bleak and desolate by themselves. However, this one seems a bit greyer than usual. The outside world is a step beyond hopeless and I'm afraid I might know why. The last few days have been ominous. The dark, grey presence has gotten to me and I've become jumpy and anxious. I've locked myself indoors and watched children's cartoons for hours sometimes. Their sprightly behaviour greatly contrasts the real world I live in. This seems to help. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In rural southern Illinois a toy company began selling "realistic" baby dolls to expectant mothers...... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Credited to mngamojemo. My damnation came in the form of a bottle No, not like that When I was a child my best friend lived next to a little junkyard. Great place for a kid to hang out, a junkyard. Full of mystery and exciting discoveries. and if you find anything nice nobody minds if you take it, except your parents. obviously. Well, not my friend's mom. Most of their bowls and plates came from that junkyard. But anyway. One day a bunch of us were hanging out. dismantling a car....... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There was this woman whose husband was acting very strange one day, very paranoid, she asked him why and this is what he told her: "Twelve years ago to this day a whole bunch of my friends and I went to an old haunted house downtown to stay the night because we thought it would be fun......" --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In almost every building, there is one corner, one small enclosure that no one ever looks at. It's the corner in the basement that has been blocked by a disused sofa for years, the thin space in the attic between the wall and the stacks and stacks of crates full of junk you never use..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The native villagers around these parts say that there's a stretch of tundra just north of here that is occupied by benevolent spirits These spirits grant insight and warning to whoever visits them anat once the sun has disappeared entirely and let the world In jet darkness.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In rural Wisconsin, there is an old abandoned park. Built in the 1920s, it served as the town's gathering place for everyone. That is, until a newly developed Train and Tunnel for Tots ride was installed in 1932. It was an innocent looking childish train..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There it goes again. Something definitely moved this time. It was very brief, but out of the corner of your eye, you saw some thing. But wait. All the doors are locked, no pets, and your parents won't get home until 10. So there's no way something moved..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As I walked into my local library, I felt at peace. Some people are addicted to heroin; I am addicted to literature. I love the way libraries are so organized, not only are books separated by genre but are also placed in alphabetical order. Beyond the placements of books the library is a place of poetry, a place of silence. I like the quiet atmosphere. Some find this insipid, but they are mad. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One afternoon, a couple was traveling on by car when at a far distance they saw a woman in the middle of the road, waving frantically. The wife told her husband to keep on driving because it might be too dangerous...... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One day, there was this girl, let's call her Anha. In her hands, Anna held a handful of all kinds of pills. As she stared at them, she was thinking about all of the pain and suffering she has endured throughout her 17 years of life...... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We've all experienced it, right? That sudden feeling like someone is looking you. A chill runs up your spine, and you are convinced that you have to find the source of the sensation. You look around and see someone just randomly staring at you. At gives you even more of a spook, but, after a few seconds of awkwardness, it subsides. You and the person go your separate ways, never to see one another ever again, or are you? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It was the middle of the night and I was in the bedroom, trying to relax. I changed the channel on the TV and saw that the local news was on. At the bottom of the screen, there was a breaking news alert. "Murderer on the loose......" --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On the morning of her birthday, Lucy's mother woke her up and told her a package had arrived in the mail and it was addressed to her. The girl hurriedly unwrapped the gift and was horrified at what she found inside. It was the most disgusting old doll she had ever seen. It was completely bald and it's skin was cracked and caked in dirt. The worst thing of all was it's teeth. They were long, pointy, sharp and beastly. They looked like an animal's fangs..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When Ryoko went to university, she moved into a dorm on campus. That was how she met Yukie, a 20-year old woman who she was sharing the room with. Yukie was a very strange person, kind of like a shadow. She didn't speak very much, never smiled and always kept to herself. There was a rumor going around that she had lost her boyfriend a few years before. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

After the murders, the house had lain empty for two whole years. The newspapers were full of sickening details about the brutal crime and whenever prospective buyers heard what had happened behind those grey concrete walls, they stayed well away..... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Little Lucas was only seven years old, but he had a very active imagination. He was a skinny child with pale skin and dark circles under his eyes. Having no other boys his age to play with, he spent most of his time alone.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There was a prince named Prospero who lived in a huge castle in the mountains. His servants and courtiers attended to his every whim. The castle had high stone walls and was surrounded by a deep moat. At the entrance, there were were giant iron gates and an enormous portcullis over the door. The prince heard rumors that there was a terrible plague sweeping across the land. They called it the Red Death. The disease was highly contagious and whole towns had been wiped out in a single night.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I shouldn't have been there. My friend was supposed to be alone. Three years have passed since that night, but i'll try to tell you what happened, as far as I know.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I am only 13 years old, but this has been happening since I was 7. When I was little, I would walk up to my mom and say, "Mommy, the little girl is here," even though she saw no one...... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Three teenage boys were looking for a summer job. They were hired by a company and given the task of cleaning out an old warehouse. While they were working, one of the boys found an old, red wooden box among the piles of rubbish. The teenagers gathered around the box, curious to see what was inside. When they opened it, they were disappointed. All they found inside the box was a clown mask.... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app