Horror Story: True Paranormal Mysteries and Hauntings

Horror Story: True Paranormal Mysteries and Hauntings

True paranormal mysteries, strange encounters, haunted places, and creepy legends. Horror Story brings you real-life horror stories, haunted places, ghost sightings, and paranormal mysteries that linger. Told in a cinematic, documentary-style format, each episode explores terrifying events. Whether it’s haunted houses, cursed objects, or unexplained phenomena, your host Edwin Covarrubias guides you through the darkest corners of folklore and the chilling experiences that people swear are 100% real. If you're a fan of true crime, creepy podcasts, and binge-worthy horror series, come on in. Subscribe now and uncover the stories that haunt our world.

Episodes

The Mystery of The Serbian Dancing Lady

July 24, 2025 • 21 mins
In 2019, a woman was spotted dancing on the street in Belgrade, Serbia. Rumors spread about her carrying a knife and chasing people, and bystanders were warned not to look her in the eye. Then in 2022, the video was shared on TikTok and it started an entire new type of digital lore, one that terrified those of us who believed we might encounter her out at night. She became known as The Serbian Dancing Lady, and I was surprised to f...
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The Most Terrifying Human Experiment Ever

July 19, 2025 • 27 mins
In the shadow of Cold War paranoia, a secret Soviet experiment aims to push the limits of human endurance by keeping test subjects awake for an extended period using a mysterious gas. As the days stretch on, the experiment spirals beyond scientific control, revealing unsettling truths about the human mind, the nature of sleep, and the darkness that lies within us all. This is The Russian Sleep Experiment, a creepypasta story that g...
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How Governments Disappear Humans

July 11, 2025 • 30 mins
There is a chilling pattern of how governments have systematically dehumanized, displaced, and exterminated entire groups of people throughout history using bureaucratic steps.
Drawing from real atrocities such as the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge regime, the Rwandan genocide, and the Armenian genocide, as well as injustices in U.S. history like the internment of Japanese Americans and the treatment of Native and African Americans, I t...
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The Haunted Girl of Princess Street

June 29, 2025 • 30 mins
In 1878, Esther Cox from Amherst, Nova Scotia started experiencing strange paranormal occurrences in her home. And it wasn't just her. Her own family, clergymen, and doctors also witnessed the bizarre events. But since all of these accounts come from a single source that came to be known as The Great Amherst Mystery, written by an actor who stayed with the family in order to monetize the story, how much of it should we believe?
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Buried in the Woods: Haunting Stories from Forgotten Places

June 20, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode of Horror Story, we journey into three hauntingly mysterious woodlands. 
First, we head to Athens, Texas, to uncover the layered legends of Fuller Memorial Park, a quiet burial site wrapped in rumors of escaped circus monkeys, occult rituals, and a vanished underground tunnel system. Then, we step into the heart of North Carolina to visit The Devil’s Tramping Ground, a barren circle where nothing grows and the Devil ...
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The Silent Mysteries of Antarctica

June 12, 2025 • 32 mins
In one of the most remote places on Earth, strange stories have surfaced quietly, rarely, and often without explanation. This episode follows what people claim to have seen, heard, and felt in Antarctica, and what those accounts reveal about isolation, perception, and the unknown.
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The Body in the Coal Yard: A Haunting Mystery

June 5, 2025 • 28 mins
Zigmund Adamski, a retired miner, leaves his home on a quiet afternoon in 1980 and vanishes. Days later, his body is discovered on a heap of coal. With no signs of violence, and no clear cause for what happened, this case has haunted investigators and skeptics alike for over four decades. 
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The House of Faces

May 29, 2025 • 25 mins
In the quiet Spanish village of Bélmez de la Moraleda , an ordinary home became the center of one of the strangest unexplained phenomena of the 20th century. María Gómez Cámara experienced what started as a mysterious mark on a kitchen floor that turned into a decades-long enigma that drew scientists, skeptics, and paranormal investigators from around the world. The events that unfolded inside that house leave behind a mystery that...
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The Real Witches of Romania

May 15, 2025 • 27 mins
Witches paying taxes. Curses that make headlines. Haunted mountains and rituals that still shape lives in 2025. In this episode, we journey deep into Romania’s Carpathian Mountains—a place where folklore, fear, and real-world consequences collide. These aren’t fairy tales. This is modern witchcraft, spiritual warfare, and a haunting cultural history that refuses to die.
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Dreams Of The Falling Airplane

May 9, 2025 • 21 mins
In 1979, an ordinary man began having the same nightmare—night after night, always the same. A plane, a runway, a fiery crash. He told someone. He tried to warn them. This is the story of David Booth's terrifying premonition.
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The Exorcist of the Vatican

May 1, 2025 • 32 mins
The true story of Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican’s chief exorcist, who claimed to have fought real demons for over 60 years. From wartime Italy to secret Vatican chambers, this chilling story follows the cases that defined his career—and the evil he believed was hiding (and still hides) in plain sight.
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The Ghost Who Typed Back: A Digital Mystery

April 24, 2025 • 33 mins
In the mid-1980s, a teacher living in a quiet English village began receiving impossible messages—left on a borrowed computer, in a house that held strange energy. Known as The Dodleston Messages, this mystery involves a person communicates claiming to be living there, at that same place, but in the year 1541.
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The Woman Who Came from Nowhere

April 17, 2025 • 23 mins
In 1970, a woman was found dead in Bergen, Norway’s remote Ice Valley — burned, unidentified, and surrounded by a trail of strange clues. Decades later, no one knows who she was, why she came, or what really happened in those final hours. Today, we only refer to her as The Isdal Woman.
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The Village That Disappeared Overnight

April 10, 2025 • 26 mins
In the heart of India’s Thar Desert lies Kuldhara, an abandoned village shrouded in mystery. Once a thriving community, it now stands as a haunting relic of the past, with stories of strange whispers, eerie footsteps, and a chilling presence that lingers in the ruins. In this episode, we explore the history, legends, and unsettling experiences that continue to surround this enigmatic place.
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Death by Exorcism

April 3, 2025 • 25 mins
What happens when an exorcism goes too far? In this episode of Horror Story, we explore real cases from Romania, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and beyond—where belief in possession led to fatal rituals. These are not tales from horror films, but real events where faith, fear, and fanaticism collided.
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The Valley of Headless Men

March 27, 2025 • 23 mins
A chilling dive into the eerie legend of Canada’s Nahanni Valley, where natural beauty masks centuries of terror. From Indigenous warnings to modern disappearances, the story unfolds like a haunting puzzle. With explorers going missing, decapitated bodies, and strange forces at play, this episode ventures into one of the world’s most mysterious and terrifying places.
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The Most Chilling Call in Radio History

March 20, 2025 • 23 mins
La Mano Peluda was a popular Mexican radio show where people called in with their paranormal encounters, sharing them live. But during one of these transmissions, Josué Velázquez shares how he is accompanied by a demon and confesses to performing horrible acts, live on air.
What happened after, was a series of strange occurrences at the recording studio, eventually ending to the death of the show's beloved host, Juan Ramón Sáenz.
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Beware of the Water Babies

March 13, 2025 • 20 mins
Pyramid Lake and Lake Tahoe have been surrounded by dark mysteries since the beginning. Tales of entities that surround the bodies of water and are the ones responsible for the many disappearances in the water. We explore some first-hand accounts, along with some of the legends from the Washo and Paiute people that add to the significance of these eerie lakes.

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A Jewel Worth Dying For

March 6, 2025 • 23 mins
The Hope Diamond is one of the most famous jewels in the world, but its beauty hides a chilling past. From its origins in India to its journey through the hands of kings, queens, and the wealthy elite, this mysterious blue gem has been followed by a legacy of misfortune. Some say it’s cursed—bringing ruin to those who possess it. But is it just bad luck, or is there something truly sinister about this diamond? In this episode, we u...
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Real Horror Behind the Smiles

February 27, 2025 • 21 mins
For decades, people around the world have reported eerie clown sightings—clowns appearing in places they shouldn’t be, watching from the shadows, lurking in the woods, and even knocking on doors in the dead of night. But in 2016, something strange happened. A wave of clown sightings spread across the United States, leaving behind fear, unanswered questions, and a chilling pattern that seems to repeat every few decades.

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