Scary Story Podcast

Scary Story Podcast

Scary Story Podcast features scary stories about darkness, unexplained phenomena, ghosts, and the paranormal. A collection of short original horror tales written by Edwin Covarrubias.

Episodes

Rerouting: The Pale Man of Highway 152

January 18, 2026 • 25 mins
A man takes a late-night drive home for the holidays, ignoring his father’s lifelong warning about a stretch of highway known for strange sightings and disappearances. What begins as a routine trip slowly unravels into something far more disturbing, one that mirrors a decades-old story his father never stopped believing. As past and present collide on a dark road, he realizes some places don’t let you pass through unnoticed. And so...
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Those Nights in January [Plus Commentary]

January 11, 2026 • 34 mins
A horror story about a man who lives in a large, empty house where he is haunted by the sounds and voices of the past. It all starts one night when he hears the creaky old swing in the yard make a sound by itself. He refuses to accept (or do anything about) what is lurking in the house. What would you do in his situation?
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Soup Mondays

December 16, 2025 • 21 mins
Two creepy horror stories around our dark winter theme. In the first, Soup Mondays, a family had a strange Christmas tradition that involved spending time with loved ones in a bizarre way.
Our second story, Night at the Mall, is about two security guards who are bored out of their minds patrolling an old mall that nobody likes to visit. It all changes one night when they witness a sighting that they still, to this day, cannot explai...
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Door Wide Open: Two Short Creepy Stories

November 25, 2025 • 16 mins
In these scary stories, a roommate has a strange habit of keeping the door wide open even while she sleeps. Is it to keep invite something in, or to let something out? In our second creepy story, "Veronica", a writer talks about a gift, a lonely doll that sits on his bookshelf. An object, he says, that may hold a type of power that he's only beginning to discover.
Written and produced by Edwin Covarrubias for Scary FM
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A Call For Silvia (And Four More Creepy Short Stories)

October 14, 2025 • 20 mins
Scary stories about our childhood memories in a short chilling collection of campfire-style tales, from a Halloween gone wrong and a phone call from beyond, to a haunted room, a cursed computer screen, and the tree no one dares approach. Some of you asked for shorter scary stories for spooky season, so here we go! Turn down the lights, and get ready to get scared.
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Labyrinths: A Horror Story of Greed, Guilt, and the Afterlife

September 23, 2025 • 24 mins
In the silence of an unfamiliar building, a man follows instructions that lead him deeper into a place that feels more alive than abandoned. Shadows echo, voices blur, and the path forward begins to twist into something he cannot explain. Labyrinths is a story about disorientation, memory, and the chilling spaces we enter when we can no longer trust what we see.
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A Creepy Story from Childhood: Don’t Open the Door, Kid

September 9, 2025 • 26 mins
A scary story about when you’re a kid, and the nights feel endless. The nights when you're counting the hours until your mom returns from her midnight shift. The rules were always the same: don’t open the door, don’t answer the phone. Simple enough, until the silence of the trailer park stretched too long, and the shadows outside seemed to move on their own.
The only comfort came from a red light shining through the window, a glow t...
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Carried Debt

July 29, 2025 • 18 mins
In this scary story, after a seemingly ordinary day takes a strange turn, our main character finds himself retracing his steps in search of something more than just a stolen wallet. It slowly unravels into a chilling reflection on fate, consequences, and the unseen weight we sometimes carry. 
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The Boy Who Came From Nowhere

July 24, 2025 • 23 mins
Grandpa used to know a scary story that he told us not long before he passed away, one that explained many things for us. Not just the hauntings, no. About him, our family, and life.
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Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
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Three Empty Hooks and Other Haunting Tales

July 18, 2025 • 30 mins
A group of friends sets out for a casual evening on the water aboard a boat they fixed up together over the summer. As the sun sets and the sea swallows the horizon, strange events begin to unravel, testing friendships, memory, and reality itself. 
Also in this episode: "About a Ghost", a demon in marriage. And "There's An Old Lady Who Visits My Dreams", a short haunting story of another world while we dream.
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Haunting Stories in the Trees

July 1, 2025 • 23 mins
A scary story about a group of friends that go on a camping trip in the wrong place. No wonder the guide kept trying to sway them away from there. What did they see? And what did it mean? This story brings up a haunting and important point about how the places we visit carry much more than we know.
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Horrors of Working Late

June 24, 2025 • 19 mins
Short scary stories about the horrors of those that work the late shift. We get stories about the dark story of bathroom in an office floor, a small crew working the drive-thru late at night, a delivery driver who now believes in ghosts, and a taxi driver who has gotten used to the strange encounters of the night.

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Broken Places

June 17, 2025 • 22 mins
A scary story about a haunting past that presents itself during a stay at an infamous motel on the side of the road. It shows us the struggles of a rough past, and what it means to carry on.
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The Lady on the Porch

June 10, 2025 • 23 mins
A scary story about an old woman who sat on her porch all day, with many stories hidden behind that silence. A group of people decide to tell her story, despite not knowing exactly what it was. Perhaps they got it right.
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The Mystery Man of the Theater

June 3, 2025 • 28 mins
Years after a beloved small-town movie theater is renovated and reopened, a man returns to find that something strange still lingers inside. As he reconnects with old memories and half-forgotten stories, he begins to suspect the past never really left... and something else never did either.
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Toys on the Sidewalk

May 27, 2025 • 23 mins
Two siblings find a box of toys on the sidewalk and decide to keep it a secret. They oversee a stack of apology letters in the box, something that seems like a necessary thing to do in order to keep the toys coming. What does it all mean?
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A Friend of a Friend in Los Angeles

May 13, 2025 • 26 mins
Scary stories about people experiencing terror in everyday situations. in the first story, a woman witnesses a strange child by the factory where she works. In the second, a food delivery driver experiences a glitch in the app that makes him feel uneasy.

The third story is about a dispatcher from a plumbing company that responds to a call, encountering the strangest creature behind a house. Our episode ends with a story about a clos...
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Tales from the Mexican Desert

May 6, 2025 • 24 mins
Three eerie tales from the deserts and coasts of Mexico reveal whispers in the dark, ghostly apparitions by the sea, and a buried curse that refuses to stay buried.
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Be Careful Where You Visit

April 29, 2025 • 24 mins
After exploring a supposedly haunted house, a boy’s life begins to unravel in horrifying ways. As strange changes take hold of his body and mind, he struggles to keep the darkness at bay — but some things, once invited in, never leave.
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The Woman of the Lake

April 23, 2025 • 23 mins
The quiet routines of graveyard-shift cab driving are interrupted by something—or someone—unexplainable. What starts as a shared joke over the radio becomes a haunting mystery, echoing through empty streets and unfinished conversations.
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