True Scary Story
True scary stories shared by those who experienced them. These are real-life horror stories about strange and unexplained paranormal encounters.
Episodes
October 8, 2025 • 32 mins
When a curious teenager dares to visit a haunted asylum in Illinois, she has no idea she’s opening a door that will never fully close. Over the years, unexplained events follow her across states, homes, and generations from a possessed family campsite to a haunted workplace in D.C. In this chilling true account, one woman wonders: what if something from that first night decided to stay with her?
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October 1, 2025 • 39 mins
In today's true scary story, Kay shares a lifetime of chilling encounters passed down through generations. Her experiences range from haunted childhood homes in rural Mexico to a terrifying series of events sparked by a forgotten Ouija board in California. Through faith, fear, and the unexplained, she tells her family’s most haunting memories.
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September 24, 2025 • 24 mins
In the mid-1990s, JD grew up in a Phoenix apartment where his “imaginary friends” weren’t the playful kind most kids have. He called them The Wallwalkers, strange figures that crawled out of the paint, whispered his name, and sometimes turned on him. Alongside terrifying night terrors and seizures, JD also witnessed cabinets opening on their own, maggots pouring from the carpet, and a pale figure that appeared behind a shower curta...
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September 17, 2025 • 41 mins
In these creepy stories, Alan and Vicente Lopez recount a lifetime of unsettling, firsthand paranormal experiences from childhood, mostly centered in a small trailer where strange sounds, objects moving, shadowy figures, and unexplained sightings became routine. They describe a vivid encounter with a translucent man in a suit at age nine, repeated glimpses of a woman in white, an apparition that resembled their sister, and other ee...
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September 10, 2025 • 21 mins
Two true scary stories where two storytellers share experiences that begin in the most ordinary of settings; a family dinner at home and a night shift in a hospital at the dawn of the pandemic. What follows in each story defies easy explanation. From unsettling events that left a father and son questioning their own eyes, to a nurse answering calls she could never quite account for, these encounters remind us how the line between t...
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September 3, 2025 • 38 mins
Some houses are keepers of the dead. Samantha's was one of them. Built in 1903 by a doctor who saw patients in the very room they used as their computer room, this house kept something. From phantom barks and unseen footsteps, to glowing lights in a powerless pool house, and an encounter with a screaming woman inches from her face, Samantha shares the real, unshakable experiences her family lived through.
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August 27, 2025 • 30 mins
It began with knocks and shadow figures in a military barracks, but it didn’t end there. From a grandmother who uncovered buried witchcraft, to children who see figures in the night, to generations plagued by footsteps, scratches, and red-eyed apparitions, this family seems forever bound to something dark. Was it passed down like an inheritance, or was it unleashed long ago?
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August 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Jade grew up in a small Mississippi town, but her childhood was anything but ordinary. From the time she was six years old, she was haunted: scratched by unseen claws, stalked by shadowy figures, and tormented by something with burning red eyes that followed her from childhood into adulthood. It started with whispers in the dark and a figure in the bathroom mirror, but it grew into years of terrifying sleep paralysis, violent encou...
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August 13, 2025 • 27 mins
In these true scary stories, we have two first-hand accounts of eerie encounters, one from a home filled with unseen presences, another from a quiet rural night where something unearthly appeared.
Thank you Olivia and William for sharing your stories with us.
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August 6, 2025 • 44 mins
In today's story, we hear from Richard who housed a foster child, strange drawings, and a haunting that defied belief. This is the extraordinary true story of a battle with something far darker than a ghost.
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July 30, 2025 • 22 mins
During a simple house repair, Eric encounters something that follows him into another home, connecting people and places through a series of strange and unsettling moments. This is a true story of eerie coincidences, unexplained presences, and a lingering sense that some houses remember who lived there.
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July 23, 2025 • 31 mins
In this emotional episode, we get a glimpse into Enrique’s life after death of a parent. From signals around the house that show us that they’re still with us, to a newfound appreciation for religion, we get to hear what helped his family when times got dark.
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July 16, 2025 • 23 mins
Something lurked around Reina's house, the figure of a woman, making brief appearances. Will they ever figure out who she was or what she wanted?
In our second story, Breanna tells us about the experiences that several people in the house went through, witnesses who they called "the boy upstairs."
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In our second story, Breanna tells us about the experiences that several people in the house went through, witnesses who they called "the boy upstairs."
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July 11, 2025 • 38 mins
A lifetime of eerie encounters unfolds through haunted homes, a motel with a chilling secret, and an unexpected faerie roommate. Kay recounts her brush with the unknown in through her experiences with supernatural attachments.
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July 2, 2025 • 27 mins
Todd takes us through his decades-long journey of chilling and unexplained experiences, from eerie hikes in haunted forests, watching a recorded summoning of a demon, to unsettling events in his own home.
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June 25, 2025 • 33 mins
In this unsettling account from childhood, the Alexis recalls her first chilling brush with the unknown inside her grandmother’s townhouse. A seemingly innocent porcelain clown doll perched on a swing becomes the centerpiece of an eerie, unexplained event. This story would be only the beginning of a lifelong connection to the paranormal and haunting experiences.
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June 18, 2025 • 28 mins
In the first true scary story from Paul, a family moves into a century-old farmhouse and begins experiencing unsettling, unexplained phenomena. As they learn more about the house’s past, the strange events take on deeper meaning.
Our second account from Jessica, while staying at her sister’s house, once home to a now-deceased man, she hears a chilling whisper that leaves her rattled. What she thought was her imagination would later ...
Our second account from Jessica, while staying at her sister’s house, once home to a now-deceased man, she hears a chilling whisper that leaves her rattled. What she thought was her imagination would later ...
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June 11, 2025 • 24 mins
Sarah shares an eerie retelling of two supernatural encounters experienced by her family in Indonesia, one from their father’s side and one from their mother’s. These bring us into Indonesia’s violent colonial past and the lingering spirits that may be trying to tell us something.
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June 4, 2025 • 36 mins
In 2018, while studying abroad at Humboldt University, Carmen moved into a Berlin apartment built over a bombed-out ruin, and immediately knew something was wrong. Dark shadows, unexplained scratches, and a choking presence haunted her nights. Was it anxiety… or something darker buried beneath the surface?
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May 28, 2025 • 20 mins
Haley moves into a newly renovated apartment at the edge of town, hoping to build independence and enjoy solitude with her cat. But strange noises, eerie dreams, and a growing sense of dread start to unravel. As her experiences get more bizarre, she begins questioning her sanity... until the terrifying truth starts to reveal itself.
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