Scared To Death

Scared To Death

True horror fan Dan Cummins attempts to terrify his wife Lynze with two new alleged-to-be-true tales each week. Demonic possession, poltergeists, shadow people, and more! Subscribe and listen in the dark to your new weekly nightmare.

Episodes

July 24, 2024 63 mins

Dan shares two stories. The first one is a big one. We’ll visit the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. Did an infamous murder committed there in 1965 lead to the hotel gaining a reputation for being particularly haunted?  The history at the top of this tale is awesome!  Then, we’ll travel across the pond to Leeds, England and look into a claim that either a monster or someone who was just monstrous moved into a row house right aft...

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In this twelfth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet Duane Spickelmire. Maybe not the coolest guy you'll ever meet, but, certainly not someone who deserves the terrible brand of at-home care Nurse Lucy is giving him... 

This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy background noises!  If you like this episode, ...

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July 17, 2024 67 mins

Dan had two killer tales to share this week! He starts with a supposed encounter with what might be the creepiest kind of man: a paranormal pedophile. Then, in his second story, Dan really gets Lynze worked up when he shares the story of the Jamison Family Disappearance.  Lynze shares three strange tales. Her first is a classic ouija board tale. Then she shares the story of two brothers who piss off a recently deceased man. Lastly,...

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July 10, 2024 74 mins

Dan has one big tale for us this week. A story based in fictional internet horror lore, but the person who posted it CLAIMS that this lore has come to life somehow. The strange liminal world of the Backrooms. We’ve talked about the concept of the multiverse and/or parallel dimensions several times. Could the creepy world of the Backrooms be next to ours? Can you end up there? Can you end up stuck there? Then Lynze has two spoopy ta...

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In this eleventh installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we check back in with Saymun, the monstrous, killer doll, and Jack Stevenson. Will Jack's new friend, Lizzie Chavez, be able to close this horrific chapter in the young boy's life and put an end to Saymun's destructive madness? 

This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all th...

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July 3, 2024 81 mins

Dan brings us a creepy doll double feature today!  The first  tale, is a story of a little brother terrorized by his older sister’s doll, first by her pranking him with it, and then later, the doll seems to take the pranking  on as its own. The next doll revolves around the creepy Swiss legend of the Sennentuntschi. Can a carved wooden doll come to life? Can it get jealous? And - most disturbingly - can it skin you alive? Lynze sta...

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June 26, 2024 84 mins

Dan comes with his usual two stories this week. One bigger one, and then a little one. We’ve done a fair amount of haunted asylum stories here over the years, but few with as detailed of a backstory as today’s. We will start by learning about Henry Cotton - a truly mad doctor who worked at the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton, now The Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. The we will explore if his ghost  now haunts the abandoned porti...

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In this tenth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... it's time for a bedtime story. The monster in Lily's closet is all too real. Will her grandfather or mother save her from it before it's too late? 

This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy background noises!  If you like this episode, please let us know wherever y...

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June 19, 2024 75 mins

Dan takes us to Ireland to explore the strange and sad lore of the Celtic Púca followed by a story from the US about Octagn Lynze has three tales this week! Her first one touches on Nordic folklore, a place we don't often explore here but when we do, we love it. Then, in her second story, she has a bizarre story that will leave all parents feeling a bit rattled. She wraps up the show with her third and final tale, about a  possible...

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June 12, 2024 80 mins

Dan shares a most wild story of creepy Adobe Flash curse being passed around the internet. Then, Dan shares what is possibly a more disturbing tale from Bergen Norway of a Death Valley that holds much lore. Lynze has her standard two tales this week. Her first one is not that scary as you listen but then you see the picture take by the folks exploring this abandoned building and you will freak out. Then, in her last tale of the sho...

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In this ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we pick up where episode eight left off for our first sequel. In this episode, Tom travels to Vermont in an attempt to locate and save his daughter Katie from the demon he helped bring into the world...

This episode is scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy background noises!  If y...

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June 5, 2024 82 mins

Dan gives us three awesome stories this week! We explore tales from a current day exorcist! It's fascinating! Then we travel to Georgia to hear about a cursed object. Lastly, Dan shares the tale of Majorie Kemp, a woman who was either possessed or suffering with severe mental health. Lynze has a great first home haunting tale that has a surprise twist at the end. And finally, she shares a very, very creepy dopplegänger story! 

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May 29, 2024 78 mins

Dan's first story is a modern encounter story that fits into the Rules of Appalachia Lore. There are a bunch of stories that floated around on TikTok and Reddit the last few years regarding what kinds of strange creatures might be in the woods of Appalachia. His  second has to do with aa Baltimore, Maryland legend. Today’s story  it that of a teenage girl who met some sort of tragic end, and whose ghost now seems to be seeking reve...

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May 22, 2024 78 mins

Dan gives us two incredible tales this week. His first brings to life one of Dan's biggest fears: Clowns. Could you handle a night in a haunted, clown themed motel? Then, we are off to Washington DC for a throwback sighting of a dueling ghost.  Then, Lynze wonder if this podcast the problem for one home that seems to be experiencing some kind of haunting? Did we do this?! Then, for Lynze's final story, a person has a scary moment w...

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In this eighth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we travel to the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, where a successful writer begins to be tormented by something terrible he accidentally stumbled upon on-line... 

This episode is scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy background noises!  If you like this ...

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May 15, 2024 80 mins

Today, Dan will take you to a haunted little lighthouse island in Maine to explore sightings of spirits and the tragedies that might have led to them. Then, we’ll go to Mineral Wells, Texas where we’ll explore two haunted buildings - an old hotel, and an old bordello. And THEN, we’ll keep heading West, and land in Tombstone, Arizona. A town famous for it’s Wild West days, and a town full of several haunted locations that have repor...

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May 8, 2024 71 mins

Dan's first story  first revolves around Black Aggie - the name of a statue that sat for years in a Maryland cemetery and attracted a number of paranormal claims, many of which were featured in various articles in the Baltimore press. Then we explore some Cherokee Folklore. The story of the Yunwi Tsunsdi  aka…. the “Little People.” Most of the stories come from the area of Hickory Nut Gorge, North Carolina. A haunted house trifecta...

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May 3, 2024 50 mins

In this seventh installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we travel to Savannah, Georgia, where a young couple on vacation check into a very unusual hotel, The 1780. Will they ever check out?  

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May 1, 2024 70 mins

Dan has two excellent scares this week. The first comes from friend of one of our staff. It is CREEPY. What starts off looking like a bad case of sleep paralysis  or nightmares ends up  being a very real case of an encounter with a pair of disturbing entities. Then we have a ghost story from the American Civil War era. Despite taking place over 150 years ago, it was well documented by some local newspapers. It’s a very odd story th...

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April 24, 2024 83 mins

Dan shares the story of the disappearance of the Grimes sisters. What makes this story suitable to be told here are a bunch of witnesses seeing these girls, after they vanished, in places they just could not be. Then we go to the Anderson Municipal Business Center in 2009. We hear details of what was supposedly seen and heard, plus an anonymous encounter story. 
Lynze has a more traditional haunted house story to start her half of t...

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