Feral by Night

The Festival of Empty Chairs is a narrated scary story about a traveler who stops in a small town during an annual festival where every family sets an empty chair outside. At first, the custom seems like a quiet way to honor the dead, but as night falls, she notices that some of the chairs may not be empty at all.

As the story unfolds, the celebration begins to feel less like a festival and more like an invitation. What begins as a ...

The Museum Case Fogged from Inside is a narrated scary story about a night security guard at a small county museum who notices an empty display case fogging from the inside. The artifact it once held is gone, but something still seems trapped behind the glass, leaving breath marks, finger-drawn messages, and signs that the exhibit was never only a display.

As the story unfolds, the guard learns that the missing bottle may have been ...

The Cradle in the Attic is a narrated scary story about an expecting couple who finds an old baby cradle hidden in the attic of their inherited house. At first, it seems like a forgotten family keepsake, but when the cradle begins rocking by itself at night, an old secret about a missing infant starts coming back into the house.

As the story unfolds, Carol and Lyle discover that the cradle may be tied to birth omens, old protective ...

The Staircase Under the Shed is a narrated scary story about a man who tears down an old backyard shed and discovers a hidden staircase leading underground. At the bottom is a room set up like someone has been living there, with a cot, a lamp, old supplies, and signs that the space may not be as abandoned as it should be.

As the story unfolds, the hidden room begins reaching back into the house above it, and every attempt to seal it...

The Salt Line in the Hallway is a narrated scary story about a teenager who sweeps away a line of salt in her aunt’s old house and realizes too late that it wasn’t there for decoration. What looked like a strange household rule was actually the only thing keeping something crowded, silent, and waiting on the other side of the hallway.

As the story unfolds, every mirror in the house begins showing a version of the hallway...

The Houseplant Grew Keys is a narrated scary story about a neglected houseplant that begins growing small brass keys instead of leaves. Each key opens something private, hidden, or locked away inside an old house, and the woman who lives there slowly realizes the plant knows more about her home than she does.

What begins as a strange discovery in a bedroom becomes a quiet supernatural horror story about locked drawers, sealed rooms,...

The Woman in the Parlor Portrait is a narrated scary story about a couple touring a historic New Orleans house when the wife sees her own face in an old painting above the parlor fireplace. What should be a quiet anniversary trip turns into a supernatural horror story about a portrait, a mirror, and a house that seems to remember people who were never supposed to belong to it.

What begins as a strange resemblance becomes something m...

The Station Between Stations is a narrated scary story about a man driving home late at night when his truck radio starts picking up sounds before they happen. What begins as static on a lonely back road turns into a disturbing supernatural horror story about a dead frequency, an old family warning, and something waiting in the dark between stations.

As the story unfolds, Peter realizes the radio isn’t just receiving music or ...

Never Sweep After Dark or You’ll Invite Evil In is a narrated scary story about a woman cleaning out her late mother’s old house, only to discover that one family superstition may have been protecting her from something buried beneath it. The rule was simple: once daylight was gone, the broom stayed in the pantry.

As the story unfolds, a line of black dirt keeps returning to the kitchen floor, a burned broom finds its wa...

The Man Who Waved From the Cornfield is a narrated scary story about a woman driving home through farm country who sees the same man standing at the edge of a cornfield every evening. At first, his wave seems harmless, but the longer she ignores him, the closer the field seems to get.

As the story unfolds, an old rural warning, a lonely back road, and a dark cornfield turn into something much more unsettling than a strange man by th...

The Face in the Garden Statue is a narrated scary story about a man who moves into a cheap old house and begins to notice something wrong with the weathered statue in the overgrown garden. At first, its face is blank. Then, little by little, features begin to appear where there shouldn’t be any.

As the story unfolds, the kitchen window becomes harder to avoid, old photographs reveal that the statue has changed before, and a wa...

Beware of the Love Spell is a narrated scary story about a woman who asks two rumored witches for a love spell to win a married man, only to learn that wanting someone can become dangerous once the spell starts working. Set in a small New England town, this folk horror story blends witchcraft, obsession, an elegant old Victorian house, and the kind of back-door magic people whisper about but still seek out after dark.

What begins as...

The Lady on the Porch is a Haunted house story narrated by Papa Gee. Every afternoon, Caleb walked the long gravel driveway from the school bus stop to his grandfather’s house. Across the field stood an old abandoned farmhouse with a leaning porch, broken windows, and weeds grown up around the steps.

Then one October afternoon, Caleb saw an old woman sitting on that porch.

She wore a faded blue dress. Her white ...

The Doll in the Chimney is a narrated scary story about a couple restoring an old house who discover a handmade doll sealed inside the kitchen chimney behind a loose brick. What seems at first like an eerie old superstition turns into something far more disturbing when small soot handprints begin appearing throughout the house, and the doll refuses to stay gone.

What begins as a strange find during renovations becomes a slow-buildin...

The Neighbor Who Never Cast a Shadow is a narrated scary story about a woman who realizes the strange man next door never seems to cast a shadow, even in the brightest daylight. What first looks like a trick of the sun becomes harder to ignore when she starts watching him more closely and notices that everything around him leaves a mark on the ground except him.

What begins as suspicion turns into supernatural horror when her own sh...

The Broom Turned Bristles Up is a narrated scary story about a man who mocks his grandmother’s old broom rule, only to wake up to a town full of brooms pointing toward his house. What starts as an ordinary household superstition turns into something much stranger when every broom, from shop floors to church closets, begins acting like a warning.

What begins as a joke about old folk magic becomes a slow-building horror story ab...

The Spoon Buried in the Garden is a narrated scary story about a gardener who digs up an old silver spoon buried in the soil behind her house. At first, it seems like a strange forgotten object from the past, but once the spoon is brought inside, every meal touched by it begins to taste like dirt.

What begins as an odd discovery in the garden turns into a disturbing cursed object story as the spoon keeps returning, the soil refuses ...

The Witch Bottle Under the Porch is a narrated scary story about a family who finds a dark glass bottle buried beneath the porch of an old rural house. Packed with rusted nails, red thread, yellowed paper, and human hair, the bottle looks like something hidden there for a reason. When it breaks, the house begins to change, and every door starts opening inward, even the ones that had been locked.

What begins as a strange discovery du...

The Photo Knew Who Died Next is a narrated scary story about haunted family photos, old home movies, grief, and the terrifying idea that some pictures can show death before it arrives. After her grandmother Alma dies, Tessa Drayton begins clearing out the family house and finds every framed photograph turned face-down. At first, it seems like one of Alma’s strange final habits, the kind of thing the family blamed on age, grie...