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
January 24, 2026 • 8 mins
I was fifteen when something in the attic above my bed started dragging itself toward me every night, and by the time I found the carvings in the beams, it already knew my name.
I’m telling this because this is the one story from my childhood I still can’t shake. My parents bought a tall, narrow Victorian, all charm and “original features,” but my attic bedroom felt wrong from the first night. The sound that started in the far co...
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January 20, 2026 • 9 mins
I signed up for a paid sleep study because I was exhausted and broke. By the seventh night, the researchers weren’t asking if I saw the man in the corner... they were asking what he was doing.
I’m telling you this because I need people to understand what the Miller‑Vaine Institute was really studying. I thought I was just being monitored while I slept. Instead, every morning the lead researcher asked me about a figure I’d never se...
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January 17, 2026 • 10 mins
I was driving home on a foggy Sunday night when a formation of orange‑red lights began pacing my car along the A303. Silent, precise, and moving in ways nothing man‑made should.
I still don’t know what I saw. One moment it was just drizzle, darkness, and a sleepy podcast. The next, five or six glowing orbs were hovering above the tree line, drifting, then darting across each other with impossible speed. No sound, no aircraft shape...
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January 13, 2026 • 11 mins
I thought I knew every inch of Black Peak, until a lantern‑bright glow appeared in the fog and began moving toward me, like it had been waiting.
This is the one hike I can’t explain away. I’d spent years on those mountains, confident, experienced, unshakeable. But the day the fog rolled in, I saw a warm, amber light drifting through the trees, too steady to be a reflection, and too old‑fashioned to be a headlamp.
I followed it a...
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January 10, 2026 • 12 mins
I thought sleep deprivation was making me see things... until my baby started smiling at something pacing in the nursery, and toys began coming back with fingerprints too big to be his.
This is the story I’ve never said out loud. It started with a shadow on the baby monitor. I tried to explain it away - bad lighting, exhaustion, anything rational - but then Leo began giggling at things I couldn’t see, and offering his toys to some...
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January 6, 2026 • 12 mins
I heard someone sobbing in the stall next to mine in the campus bathroom. When security opened the door, the stall was empty. Locked, silent, and impossible.
I still feel the cold tile under my slippers and the echo of that hysterical wail. It was finals week, the library a fluorescent tomb, and the crying started soft and private before escalating into a raw, terrified sound that made my skin crawl. But there was nothing - no bac...
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January 3, 2026 • 10 mins
I got into a ride‑share after my car broke down and the driver called me by my full name - my private middle name - and then told me he’d been waiting for this ride.
I ran.
I’m still running.
I’m telling this because it happened to me and because I need other women to hear what can happen when a stranger knows more than they should.
One ordinary Tuesday night my car died on the M2. A black Audi arrived, the driver said my name ...
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December 30, 2025 • 12 mins
A stranger at a crowded bar raised a crystal flute and toasted me with three words... “to your last New Year,” then vanished.
That toast has been the drumbeat of my life for a year.
I’m telling this quietly because I don’t want to invite more attention, only to share what it’s like to live under a sentence.
One midnight, a man in an impossibly sharp suit appeared beside my booth, offered a single, chilling toast, and left behind...
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December 27, 2025 • 11 mins
I came home one evening to find my keys on the kitchen counter and my slippers arranged like a message. By the time I hid a camera, the footage showed someone who looked exactly like me, living my life, smoothing my comforter, and leaving a strand of dark hair on my shoes. I’m terrified, and I need you to hear this.
For six months my apartment has been subtly rearranged. Small, intimate intrusions at first. A strand of hair that w...
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December 23, 2025 • 8 mins
Windward is a coastal village where the sea keeps a terrible bargain.
A single, monstrous bell toll at 3 a.m. names the next soul to be claimed by an ancient covenant, and this time, I became the unwilling successor to the Salted Hand.
What begins as local folklore unfolds into a visceral, maritime horror: a belfry stained with brine, a dragging sound from the dark, and a cold, salt‑scented mark on the narrator’s hand that marks ...
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December 20, 2025 • 11 mins
Havenwood’s quaint December charm hides a ritual that chills the town to its bones.
Each Christmas Eve, a reclusive resident dons an immaculate scarlet suit and walks the streets in silence. At first a local eccentric, his midnight rounds become something far darker when families begin to change, children fall ill, and a tiny carved token appears on a windowsill.
But one year, Arthur stops outside my home. A perfectly carved wood...
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December 16, 2025 • 8 mins
I never thought a greeting card could ruin my life, but for twelve Decembers it has. Every year a new card arrives—first a glittery Santa, then a photo taken through my window, then a strand of my own hair tucked behind a pressed flower—and each one escalates the terror. I moved, changed my locks, installed cameras, and even filed reports, but the cards keep coming, always beginning the first week of December and always getting clo...
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December 13, 2025 • 10 mins
A twenty‑year nightmare becomes disturbingly real when I return to my childhood street to confront the source of decades of sleep‑paralysing dreams.
What was meant to be a rational, daylight exorcism of memory turns into a confrontation with an impossible, decaying house that matches every architectural detail of the recurring dream.
A brass key, a chipped ceramic fawn, and a black‑peepholed door built on a void forces them to fa...
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December 9, 2025 • 9 mins
Turn off the lights for tonight's chilling tale of shared living gone impossibly wrong. In The Outside Lock, a new tenant moves into a perfect Victorian flat and meets their roommate Chloe only once - a brief glimpse through a cracked door.
For three months, Chloe exists only as notes on creamy cardstock, the scent of rosewater, and precise morning sounds. But when she discovers Chloe's door is bolted from the outside and uses the...
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December 6, 2025 • 11 mins
On this episode, a grieving sibling downloads a viral app as a desperate distraction and receives a reply that should be impossible.
What begins as cynical curiosity turns into a bone‑deep shock when the app answers with private memories only the narrator and their late sister shared. A hidden locket, a childhood secret about a botched haircut, and a napkin note no one else knew about arrive as text messages from beyond - or from ...
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December 2, 2025 • 11 mins
On this chilling episode of Spooky Story Time, you are invited aboard a late‑night train where routine commutes dissolve into something far more sinister. An exhausted passenger awakens to find themselves surrounded by eerily silent travelers, a conductor who speaks in robotic monotone, and a landscape outside the window that feels less like Kent and more like a void.
What begins as a missed stop spirals into a surreal nightmare o...
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November 29, 2025 • 10 mins
Turn off the lights for tonight's unsettling tale of childhood terror in an old house. In The Music Box, a ten-year-old moves into a house where their grandmother's antique music box sits gathering dust.
The seven-note melody is eerie enough, but when the box begins playing on its own with the key wound down, things take a darker turn.
Incomplete phrases, random sequences, and then one October night, the music box appears at the ...
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November 25, 2025 • 10 mins
Turn off the lights for tonight's chilling tale of holiday horror.
A college student accepts an invitation to spend the holiday with a friend's family. But the dining room holds something wrong: Nana Jo sits motionless at the head of the table hours before dinner, staring at an empty seat with food that looks days old on her plate. They soon realise this family's Thanksgiving has a permanent, unexpected guest.
A haunting story ab...
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November 22, 2025 • 10 mins
Turn off the lights for tonight's unsettling tale of roadside horror.
In Last Vacancy, a desperate traveler caught in a blizzard takes the last available room at the Sunset Motel. But Room 7 is not all it seems, and most terrifying of all - a voice from Room 8 that sounds exactly like the traveler's mother, humming childhood lullabies and speaking to someone who isn't there.
A chilling story about motels that exist outside of tim...
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November 18, 2025 • 9 mins
An exhausted new mother hears strange sounds through her baby monitor - first an off-key lullaby, then whispers that know her name. But when the voice reveals a childhood secret that no one else knows, the horror gets dangerously real.
A chilling story about the technology we trust, the guilt we bury, and the voices that know us better than we know ourselves.
Perfect for grown-ups who understand that some secrets never stay burie...
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