Scared To Death

Scared To Death

The paranormal comes to life as husband-wife duo Dan Cummins (acclaimed standup comedian and true horror fan) and Lynze Cummins (costume and wardrobe stylist for numerous film and television productions) share terrifying stories that will leave you sleeping with the lights on. Dan’s goal? To scare Lynze with creepy accounts of demonic possession, shadow people, and other eerie phenomena. And when he’s done, Lynze fights back with chilling fan-submitted tales of true horror. Together, they explore the darkest corners of the web, dusty old books, and even their own eerie surroundings—a studio filled with occult objects and located right next to a cemetery. Don’t forget to check out the mini-series Nightmare Fuel, airing on this feed the first and third Friday of every month, where Dan narrates a short piece of original horror fiction. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scared to Death ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.

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September 4, 2026 106 mins

In this sixty-fourth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, Maggie and Ray are trapped inside Peterson's together after midnight. Will one of them survive being ran through the levels of Evan's cruel experiment? Will both of them? Will Wes's plan to shut down the lab beneath the store work? And who is Wes, really? All will be revealed in this action-packed finale. 

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A young couple who move into a beautiful old house in upstate New York,  discover that something inside seems capable of doing far more than simply frightening its occupants, in Dan's first story. As the years pass, unexplained footsteps, violent disturbances, apparitions, accidents, and disturbing changes in the people who live there leave them wondering whether or not the house itself is slowly destroying everyone who stays ...

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August 26, 2026 78 mins

WE ARE DOING A LIMITED RUN OF 1,500 AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS- SAME AS LAST FEW YEARS! WE HAVE TWO DATES FOR ON-SALE. 500 BOOKS WILL GO ON SALE JUST FOR ANNABELLE’S ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 25TH AT 12 NOON PT/3 PM ET. THEN, THE NEXT DAY ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26TH, THE REMAINING 1,000 BOOKS WILL GO ON SALE FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS ONE AT 12 NOON PT/3 PM ET. ALL BOOKS ARE PRE SALE AND WILL BE SHIPPED OUT TO YOU AS SOON AS THEY ARE READY. THEY WIL...

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In this sixty-third installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, Maggie and Ray have finally learned enough about Peterson’s Grocery to understand just how badly they need to get away—but the mysterious Wes Calder believes he knows how to end the nightmare for good. As another experiment approaches, everyone is drawn back toward Peterson’s for a night that could determine not only who survi...

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August 19, 2026 77 mins

WE ARE DOING A LIMITED RUN OF 1,500 AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS- SAME AS LAST FEW YEARS! WE HAVE TWO DATES FOR ON-SALE. 500 BOOKS WILL GO ON SALE JUST FOR ANNABELLE’S ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 25TH AT 12 NOON PT/3 PM ET. THEN, THE NEXT DAY ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26TH, THE REMAINING 1,000 BOOKS WILL GO ON SALE FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS ONE AT 12 NOON PT/3 PM ET. ALL BOOKS ARE PRE SALE AND WILL BE SHIPPED OUT TO YOU AS SOON AS THEY ARE READY. THEY WIL...

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August 12, 2026 80 mins

Dan's  one and only - but much bigger than normal story - we visit an abandoned mining town in Chile's unforgiving Atacama Desert. Locals claim that on rare nights, a bell rings through the ruins and the dead quietly return to finish a day that may have never truly ended. Lynze brings us four tales this week! Peggy The Doll seems to be having long term affects on one listener who didn't properly say good-bye, as the rules go. ...

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In this sixty-second installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, you will learn so much about what the Hell is going on with Peterson's Grocery in St. Jerome. What kind of experiment is being run and how might Wes be able to stop it?  But also, new parts of the mystery deepen as Maggie and Ray begin to fear more for their lives.  

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August 5, 2026 84 mins

For decades, motorists traveling near the town of Uniondale have reported picking up a young woman standing alone beside the highway—only to discover she has vanished from their vehicle without explanation. Behind the famous ghost story lies the tragedy of a real woman whose final journey may still be repeating itself along a lonely stretch of road. Generations of South African children have warned one another never to enter ...

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July 29, 2026 84 mins

So many stories from Dan this week!We start with an Air Force officer who returns home from what was supposed to be a surprise visit... only to discover someone may have beat him to the punch. Someone impersonating him over the phone. Is it an alien? Then, after one of America's deadliest train disasters, a grieving family desperately waits for news from a loved one believed to be trapped somewhere in the wreckage. Then their phone...

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July 22, 2026 75 mins

Dan's first of two tales is a really in-depth and unsettling modern encounter claim revolving around a doll. As a little girl, Caroline quickly realized something was wrong with the doll in the blue dress. And the longer she had it, the more wrong it became. Then we head back almost a century to unearth an old, documented paranormal legend.  During one terrifying winter in 1939, something with a scream "like a banshee" sent an...

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In this sixty-first installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we return once again to St. Jerome, where Maggie Sambor gets enough evidence to accept that something terrible is truly happening inside of Peterson's Grocery. We also begin to understand why what is happening inside Peterson's is happening, while at the same time,  the mystery around it all deepens.  

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Dan has one really big story this week!  We’re going to head to Austria’s Moosham Castle, a place with an exceptionally dark legacy, even for a castle.  The darkest part of this legacy was forged during one of Europe's most horrifying witch hunts, when 139 innocent people, many of them orphaned and sometimes also disabled children, were tortured and executed in the shadow of a legend known as Wizard Jackl. We ...

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July 8, 2026 80 mins

We explore Argentina this week with Dan! First, a police officer investigating strange lights on a lonely dirt road who suddenly vanishes without a trace. Eighteen hours later he was found miles away, injured, confused, and claiming that something with glowing red eyes had taken control of his mind. Then, for years before his death, legendary Argentinian musician Luca Prodan nsisted his old San Telmo home was haunted by the sounds ...

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In this sixtieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we return to Peterson's Grocery in St. Jerome, where the mystery of what is happening to the local homeless population is deepening. A mystery Maggie Sambor is now finding impossible to ignore. 

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July 1, 2026 69 mins

For the first of two tales from Dan, we head south. In the middle of Mexico City sits a massive abandoned hotel that was supposed to become the most luxurious destination in Latin America. Instead, it became the site of an infamous suicide, decades of dark rumors, and a mysterious shrine built for the spirit of a little girl. Then, we’ll head to Chesapeake and Virginia Beach where locals have whispered about a stretch of road...

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June 24, 2026 73 mins

After spending some time in Germany, Dan is inspired to tell us two creepy tales from there! We begin in the Black Forest and find out what happens when we don't listen to the rules of our wiser elders. Then we arrive at Schlosshotel, a very creepy and very haunted abandoned hotel. Then Lulu Marie brings us haunted house sandwich with a ouija board tale for the meat! It's a fun combo of things and very classic scares! 

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In this fifty-ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we head to a new town, St. Jerome, that has a very, very strange grocery store, Peterson's, where something very, very awful is happening to some of the customers. 

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June 17, 2026 80 mins

Dan gives us seven stories this week! Six of them come from Fate Magazine and one comes from Reader's Digest. It's a really fun new mix of tales! On the back half of the show, Lynze gives us three back to back to back spoopy tales! Her first has a full circle moment when a child hood entity shows itself again to a grown adult. Then, a ghostly visitor searches for his friend from the great beyond. Lastly, in an abandon house with no...

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June 10, 2026 84 mins

For over six hundred years, scholars, codebreakers, and cryptographers have tried to decipher the mysterious Voynich Manuscript— a real medieval book written in a language no one on Earth has been able to translate. According to one allegedly true account, the real danger may not come from trying to translate the manuscript… but from giving it enough attention for it to try and teach your mind how to read it. Then, the...

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In this fifty-eighth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we return to Bluewater Falls as Kate Boyko continues to be haunted by what is looking more and more like the ghost of a woman her great-grandfather murdered, who has been exacting revenge on  pregnant women in her family for nearly a century. 

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