Spooky Story Time

Spooky Story Time

Turn off the lights... if you dare. From paranormal horror to haunting ghost stories and creepy true crime, Beth's Spooky Story Time is the scary podcast where your worst fears come alive. Perfect for adults looking for a terrifying wind-down, this is your new favourite horror fix. Host Beth reads original short tales of haunted houses, uncanny neighbors, and terrifyingly real moments, with immersive narration, subtle sound design, and twist endings that stick. Perfect for bedtime horror, late‑night listening, and anyone who loves paranormal fiction and gothic atmosphere. Each short, intense episode is designed to be your perfect scary bedtime story (just don't listen with the lights off). Lock the doors, check under the bed, and wrap up tight. New episodes of Spooky Story Time drop twice a week. Join our community for free, or upgrade for ad free episodes and bonus content: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime . All episodes have been submitted or suggested by listeners. Content has been dramatised for effect, and any likeness to real events or individuals is purely coincidental. DISCLAIMER: you may find this podcast distressing or triggering. Listener discretion is advised. . We have partnered with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership card unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants across the UK & Ireland AND your first 2 months are free if you use code SST at checkout. Sign up today: https://neotaste.com/gb?code=SST&a=2

Episodes

The Spookiest... Haunted Houses

June 9, 2026 • 45 mins
From creepy attics to real life experiences, brace yourself for a collection of the spookiest stories about haunted houses. 00:18 - Goodnight, Mr. Langley 08:10 - The House I Grew Up In 15:20 - Lily's House 23:06 - The Attic 29:49 - My Parents' House: Chapter I Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stori...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Spookiest Stories So Far

June 2, 2026 • 51 mins
In this super spooky compilation, we're tied together your five most listened to Spooky Stories from our first 100 episodes. 00:18 - St. Ainsley's 10:19 - What's Left Behind 18:40 - 3.33 27:01 - The Face in the Glass 35:28 - His Last Watch Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or su...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Estate

May 30, 2026 • 10 mins
Some houses collect dust. Others collect you. In this claustrophobic, antiquarian horror story, an estate liquidator is hired to catalogue the belongings of a reclusive hoarder, only to discover that the house has already begun cataloguing him. For listeners who love antique horror, cursed objects, haunted houses, and stories where the past refuses to stay boxed up, this episode delivers a suffocating, object‑driven dread that li...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Take Out

May 26, 2026 • 10 mins
Some deliveries nourish you. Others claim you. In this creeping suburban horror story, a couple’s new home becomes the drop‑off point for groceries they never ordered, tailored with unnerving precision to their cravings, their memories, and eventually, their future. As the deliveries escalate, the couple spirals into a debate - stalker or ghost? Surveillance or haunting? But the truth feels like something in between: a prese...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Guest in the Margin

May 16, 2026 • 11 mins
A quiet cottage on the edge of town should be a sanctuary, but in this slow‑creeping, water‑logged haunting, the guest room becomes a place where something unseen lies down to sleep. She lives alone in a spacious old cottage, the kind with heavy oak furniture and a guest room no one ever uses. But one morning, the perfectly made bed bears a deep, unmistakable indentation. She smooths it out. Locks the door. Vacuums the carpet into...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Eleventh Hour

May 12, 2026 • 8 mins
Deadlines are supposed to be stressful, not supernatural. In this suffocating, time‑bending spooky story, a freelance designer pulling an all‑nighter discovers that the minute before midnight can stretch into something far more sinister. Ten years ago, desperate to impress a global client, she works through the night in a drafty Portland apartment. As she grinds through the project, the digital clock on her desk freezes at 11:59 P...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Basement Tap

May 9, 2026 • 11 mins
Silence isn’t empty - it’s a signal waiting to be decoded. In this deeply unsettling story of isolation, intrusion, and Morse‑code dread, a tenant in an old Victorian duplex discovers that the tapping in the pipes isn’t plumbing… it’s communication. At first, the sounds are just the usual quirks of an ageing house. But soon the taps become rhythmic, deliberate, and mobile, following them from room to...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Computer Says Go

May 5, 2026 • 9 mins
Numbers don’t lie... until they start predicting your disappearance. In this unnerving spooky story, an accountant who has built her life around the clean logic of spreadsheets discovers a hidden tab buried inside a document. A tab that shouldn’t exist. A tab that records the exact dates her colleagues ceased to exist — whether they resigned, vanished, or died. Every name has a date. Except hers. Now she finds ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Where's Barnaby Been?

May 2, 2026 • 11 mins
Cats disappear. It’s what they do. But when Barnaby - a grumpy, soot‑coloured moggy with a decade of predictable habits - vanishes for exactly twenty‑four hours and returns bone‑dry in a storm, something about him is… different. In this unsettling spooky story, a beloved housecat comes back marked: a perfect white triangle bleached into his fur, too sharp and too precise to be natural. His eyes shift from murky green ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Gaslight

April 28, 2026 • 9 mins
Some hauntings don’t start with ghosts - they start with people. In this chilling psychological story, a woman escapes an emotionally manipulative partner, but no longer understand the broken reality she now has to inhabit. For listeners who love psychological horror, domestic dread, unreliable reality, and stories where trauma becomes a doorway, this episode blurs the line between haunting and manipulation in a way that li...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

ScareBnB

April 25, 2026 • 11 mins
A work trip becomes a waking nightmare in this claustrophobic, slow‑burn horror story about a Victorian rental, a locked blue door, and something inside that wants out. Twelve years ago, a medical sales rep books a last‑minute “Charming Victorian Suite” after the local hotels fill up. The host, Elias, is polite but unsettling. The deadbolt is industrial‑grade, the frame is warped, and the wood is scarred with deep goug...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Scariest... Tech & Gadgets

April 21, 2026 • 46 mins
From baby monitors to security cameras, we rely on technology to keep us safe. But sometimes, our gadgets are the reason we're not safe, as this super spooky compilation proves. EchoLink(00:00) Remote User (09:24) The Elevator (18:28) The Baby Monitor (25:24) Ticking (33:16) Sometimes the biggest threat isn't from ourselves, but things we create. Sweet dreams! Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Sasquatch

April 14, 2026 • 11 mins
Some nights in the wilderness feel alive. Not with animals, but with attention. In this gripping story, a solo backpacker in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest learns that the deepest parts of the Cascades still belong to something older, heavier, and far more curious than any human. It’s 1994, and a young hiker determined to prove her independence sets up camp miles beyond the marked trails. The forest is unnaturally still...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Frequencies

April 11, 2026 • 11 mins
Some encounters don’t leave scars - they leave signals. In this unnerving long‑haul horror story, a former night‑shift lorry driver recounts the night the CB radio in his cab tuned into something that wasn’t human, wasn’t local, and wasn’t meant for earthly ears. It’s the late 1980s on a fog‑choked stretch of the M6. He's alone in his lorry, cycling through static to stay awake, when the noise begins...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Garden Gate

April 7, 2026 • 10 mins
Some doors are meant to stay closed, and some gates open themselves. In this creeping, woodland‑rooted horror story, a quiet cottage on the edge of Blackwood becomes the site of a slow, deliberate haunting. What begins as a simple nuisance , a garden gate swinging open every night, turns into a terrifying encounter with something that moves without shape, breathes without lungs, and knows exactly how to slide a steel bolt back in ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

I'm Still Here

April 4, 2026 • 8 mins
What starts as a quiet evening becomes a slow, suffocating descent into dread when an African Grey parrot begins speaking in a voice no living person could produce. In this unnerving story, Apollo’s usual cheerful chatter is replaced by rasping whispers. Its behaviour shifts - pacing at night, staring down the hallway toward the perpetually cold guest room, warning not to look behind them. Every attempt at rationality fails...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Old Well

March 31, 2026 • 12 mins
Some wells don’t just hold water. In this chilling spooky story, a teenage girl spends a sweltering summer at her Great‑Aunt Martha’s isolated Valley home, where the air feels thick enough to drown in and the locals whisper about an ancient fieldstone well known only as The Sieve. Natalie is bored enough to ignore every instinct telling her to stay away from the ring of dead oaks behind the garden. When she slides the...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

White Van Man

March 28, 2026 • 11 mins
Routine is supposed to make life feel safe - the school run, the familiar streets, the predictable rhythm of weekday mornings. But for one exhausted young mother, routine becomes the perfect hunting ground for something that shouldn’t exist. In this unnerving spooky story, a white van begins appearing behind the her car every morning. Not close. Not threatening. Just there — two cars back, turning when she turns, idlin...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Organist

March 24, 2026 • 13 mins
A tired veterinary intern seeks quiet in an old Norman church, and finds a presence that never stopped rehearsing when a late‑night visit to St. Jude’s turns from solace into dread when she sees a gaunt woman in the locked organ loft, her hands pantomiming frantic playing above the keys. The vicar reveals the church’s secret: Elspeth Vance. If you like: atmospheric church hauntings; slow‑burn supernatural encounters; ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

The Return of the Tide

March 21, 2026 • 9 mins
Some encounters don’t fade with time - they wait, like a tide pulling itself back toward shore. In this chilling spooky story, a former cannery worker recalls the night he crossed paths with something that should have been lost to the Atlantic decades earlier. It’s 1992 on a fog‑choked Maine wharf, long after closing time. With rain turning the roads to sludge, he takes a forbidden shortcut across a rotting pier. Under...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb

    Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb

    Joy is essential. And it's also elusive. You can't order it, borrow it, or simply hope it into life. But now, there's a new and exciting way to start your journey toward a more joyful existence: The Joy 101 Podcast with Hoda! Best known for her Emmy-winning work and co-anchoring Today, Hoda Kotb infuses her authenticity, curiosity, and warmth into conversations with the world’s most fascinating people. Entertainment legends, sport icons, wellness experts, and everyday folks will share how they find, allow, and experience joy. Hoda will offer her own tips and takes on seeking a more balanced, harmonious life. If you're craving inspiration, support, and useful tools to maximize your joy, tune in to these candid, uplifting, and moving on-air chats. Joy after a breakup, joy as an empty-nester, joy after loss, joy as a caretaker — Hoda's new podcast will speak to you. Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb, an iHeartPodcast.

    Stuff You Should Know

    Stuff You Should Know

    If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

    Dateline NBC

    Dateline NBC

    Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

    Hey Jonas!

    Hey Jonas!

    Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.

    Betrayal Weekly

    Betrayal Weekly

    Betrayal Weekly is back for a new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at betrayalpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

Explore

iHeart

Live Radio

Podcasts

Artist Radio

Exclusives

News

Features

Events

Contests

Photos

Information

About

Advertise

Blog

Brand Guidelines

Contest Guidelines

Subscription Offers

Jobs

Get the App

Automotive

Home

Wearables

© 2026 iHeartMedia, Inc.

  • Help
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • AdChoicesAd Choices