Scared To Death

In this fifty-sixth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we meet young Sophie Bennet, who has been hired by a couple  to baby sit their two children, Callum and Eilidh, for a few hours on a Wednesday night. They live outside of a small Scottish town in a home called the Blackthorn House. Behind their home is the Hollow Hill. And inside their home, things quickly spiral out of control. 

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We spend all of our time with Dan in Hawaii this week! We head to the Big Island today for five stories.  Dan's first story is about something creepy that happened in Hilo in 1902 and 1903 primarily. It revolves around the ghost of a murdered man. Then his second is really a collection of four tales known to many who have taken ghost tours in Hilo. Lynze's tales amp up as she goes. She begins with a milder story about Stowe Bridge ...

Five new tales of horror this week!! The first four are definitely creepy while the last one is a great confirmation tale. We begin with a story that revolves around a young boy getting the biggest basement bedroom in his family’s new house. He's excited about it until he's not. Then comes the story of a child seeing something under her bed that terrifies her. Was it just in her imagination? If so, then why decades later, did somet...

In this fifty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we reach the Children of Abraham's day of resurrection. When Abraham is to take the body of his son, return to the land of the living, and kick off a Biblical apocalypse. Will any of those currently trapped in Belial's underground chapel survive? 

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Dan has some older tales for us this week. We start our journey of horror at the Ferry Plantation House where not just one but many ghosts seem to be hanging around, especially one accused witch, Grace. Then we go explore seances with Daniel Dunglas Home- was he a fraudster or were his seances real, you tell us! Lynze has four different ghosty tales this week. From catching something creepy on a sleep app to a spirit caught in a co...

Dan considers a creepy question in his first story this week.  We’ll explore the strange phenomenon of some people seeming to have known in advance exactly when they were going to die. Is that something you want to know if you had the chance?  Then, we’ll head to Nigeria to look at the disturbing claims that came from a forested area just outside the big city of Ibadan. Are people still being sacrifice to something ? Lynze has two ...

In this fifty-fourth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, the walls are closing in on Zander as the clock ticks closer to December 6th, 1999.  More of our characters storylines converge in this penultimate episode, and one of them is severely punished by the Children of Abraham in such a brutal and humiliating way...

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Dan starts with the story of a man, who has gotten sober in the last year, wondering if he's seeing things due to his drug use or something else. Next, we travel to Spain to learn about the Belmez Faces. Then, Lynze has two truly incredible tales to share. The first takes some attention- get your white board ready. A family curse that goes on for years takes stage in this tale. Lastly, someone is eating the leftovers, but who? You ...

A ton of stories this week! Dan has six tales from all across the globe! A faceless man in Dublin, a possession in Mexico and more! Lynze also takes us away from the US to Japan! Enjoy this weeks smattering of tales! 

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In this fifty-third installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we return to Jonesberg, Idaho. Sammy Alvarez is wrestling with his response to what he saw in the underground chapel. Joey Sherman gets a surprise late night visitor. And Zander asks Tissie some long-awaited questions before having one seriously f*cked up dream...

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What if some demons aren’t repelled by scripture but are attracted to it?  After a minor car accident, a husband in suburban Iowa becomes more devout than ever. At first, it feels like some sort of spiritual awakening. But  what if he opened a door that something stepped through. Then,  we head to a small English parish in 2006, when a devoted family allegedly watched their son grow closer to God after a youth retreat. But when he ...

First, we’ll go to Malaysia to hear about the Toyol this week.  When cash starts vanishing, a young family assumes stress, forgetfulness or maybe even betrayal are at the root. Then their six-year-old points to the ceiling and whispers about “the little boy” who comes at night and whole new series of possibilities unfolds.  Then we travel to Japan to learn about the Nure-Onna. An American couple follows the sound of cries to find a...

In this fifty-second installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we continue with a story about Jonesberg, Idaho's Cult of Abraham. The cult comes for Sammy Alvarez now, trying to silence him before his big, revealing broadcast. Will they be successful? Also, Joey Sherman returns to try and convince Tissie that she's not trapped in the life she's been brought up in, and Zander continues to try and figure ou...

This week, Dan tries a new way of telling stories, which was so fun! He gives us SIX small stories, all of them uniquely creepy, although one might be comforting. A mirror story, a ghost claim, a very disturbing voicemail,  a story problematic door,  another voicemail, and  a final story about a chair that won’t stay put. Then Lynze has really different approach to her tales this week with some personal experience and set up about ...

We start this week in New Zealand where a man goes ghost hunting in the supposedly very haunted former Napier Prison. Did he have an intense encounter with building’s most infamous spirit?  Then, Dan shares three smaller tales:  first involves two people hanging out alone in a park at night,  having a very strange, dangerous, and disturbing encounter.  Then we get a creepy baby monitor story. And the lastly,  a series of confusing ...

In this fifty-first installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we return to the fictional town of Jonesberg, Idaho where a mystery that Zander Reid seems to be in the center of deepens. A fresh murder reveals what the Children of Abraham are capable of. The source of Tissie's evasiveness is revealed. And a mysterious woman's appearance gives Sammy the clue to connect dots he's been staring at for years.

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A quiet housesitting job in the Danish countryside is nothing but peace and silence until two strange visitors ringed the doorbell in Dan's first story of the week. Then, we travel to the small town of Fouke, Arkansas. Is the Fouke Monster just folklore… or something very real that’s still around?A call to a pest company regarding some flies leads to a very creepy realization in Lynze's first story this week. Then she takes us to a...

We head to the Arizona desert,  just a few miles outside of Tombstone, where there sits a small adobe ruin with a body count that defies belief. More than twenty men are thought to have been murdered on this small, dusty patch of land - and according to decades of witnesses, some of them have never stopped killing each other. This is the story of Brunckow Cabin. Then we head to South Carolina - to the Embassy Suites Greenville Golf...

In this fiftieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins (how are we already at fifty episodes!?), we travel to the fictional town of Jonesberg, Idaho.  A town full of secrets, disappearances, and mysteries, where a series of strange events in the mid-1970s set a plan in motion that is still mysteriously in place in 1999. 

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