True Scary Stories
Creator at Obomedia
131 episodes
Dare to listen? True Scary Stories brings you face-to-face with the chilling unknown, where every shadow holds a secret and every whisper could be real. Prepare for a daily dose of genuine terror as we delve into bone-chilling tales of the supernatural, unexplained phenomena, and terrifying encounters that defy logic. This is your ultimate destination for authentic horror stories and paranormal experiences shared by those who lived them. True Scary Stories delivers fresh episodes every single day, Monday through Sunday, dropping precisely at 4:00 AM. You’ll find new, terrifying accounts waiting for you to start your day with a jolt. Perfect for anyone fascinated by ghost stories, cryptids, UFO sightings, and creepy pasta, or those who simply crave a good scare. If you love to explore the darker side of reality and ponder what truly lurks beyond our understanding, you’ve found your next obsession. Tune in and let the fear take hold.
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The Nursery: Why I Shot Her
The Nursery: Why I Shot Her A combat veteran records a message from beyond Jupiter, calling himself lucky despite the horrors of an alien slave ship. What unspeakable act did Jamie Wallace commit with a gun, and who…
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Sunset Valley: The Town That Became A Throne
Sunset Valley: The Town That Became A Throne For twenty years, Jack woke up crying, haunted by the image of a sky splitting open and dozens of hands rising from where Sunset Valley once stood. He drove back to Ohio,…
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The Iceberg That Won't Let You Die
The Iceberg That Won't Let You Die Nicholas vanished on Monte Rosa, only to reappear on an iceberg in a dark ocean, where a survival structure descends 400 feet into the ice. He found others there, including Eleanor,…
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Hope Street: The Headless Driver and the Vanishing Car
Hope Street: The Headless Driver and the Vanishing Car Three months after his disappearance, a delivery driver's remains were found on Hope Street, but the medical examiner noted a chilling detail: his head was gone.…
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The Building That Erased Itself: Rochester Heights
The Building That Erased Itself: Rochester Heights In this episode, we explore the unsettling disappearance of Rochester Heights, a high-rise building in East Oakland, and the strange events surrounding its last known…
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Paul Young 217: The Cycle of Blank IDs
Paul Young 217: The Cycle of Blank IDs In this episode, we delve into the chilling account of Paul Young, an ordinary office worker whose life takes an extraordinary turn when he encounters a doppelganger. Explore the…
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Santa's Sleigh: The Abduction No One Believed
Santa's Sleigh: The Abduction No One Believed A sixteen-year-old boy boards a sleigh on Christmas Eve, bound for a place called the North Pole, but this is no fairy tale. Seth recounts the worst Christmas of his life,…
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She Wrote From the Grave. Then He Vanished
She Wrote From the Grave. Then He Vanished A letter arrived from a woman six days dead, her familiar handwriting asking Peter Thorne to return to Greyfork. He almost ignored it, until he learned five other people…
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The Museum of Humanity's Final War
The Museum of Humanity's Final War In this episode, we delve into an anonymous account from an online forum about a military history enthusiast's encounter with a mysterious curator and a subterranean museum. The story…
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The Root That Claimed Her Soul
The Root That Claimed Her Soul In this episode, we delve into the unsettling discovery of a sealed room in a basement, revealing an iron bed frame, a rotted mattress, and a leather diary. The narrative explores the…
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The Moon Rock That Took Her Sister
The Moon Rock That Took Her Sister An eight-year-old girl touches a pulsing orange rock, screams for four seconds, and vanishes into an unmarked ambulance. Twenty years later, a man with a dark mark on his wrist signs…
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Stars Carried Her: Then The Line Went Dead
Stars Carried Her: Then The Line Went Dead An ankle monitor reported Lou was "nowhere" on September 29, 2020, after her last call to her therapist ended with a chilling question about the stars. Lou had vanished…
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The Thing Wearing My Son's Face
The Thing Wearing My Son's Face On a Thursday night in late May, a figure resembling Paul Combs' son emerged from the darkness, moving with an unsettling gait and stopping to stare directly into streetlights. Paul, a…
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The Dead Man's Confession: Nile, Ash, and the Impossible Tape
The Dead Man's Confession: Nile, Ash, and the Impossible Tape A recording exists that should not. It was made by a scientist, Dr. Samuel Russell, who was already dead according to all physical evidence, yet his calm…
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The Tent Zipper Sealed. Then Came the Sound
The Tent Zipper Sealed. Then Came the Sound Robert Francis, a practical and skeptical man, meticulously planned an eight-day solo cycling trip in Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. But his journey took a terrifying turn when…
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Down Here: The Cellar Door Was Open
Down Here: The Cellar Door Was Open A two-word whisper in the dark, a storm rolling in, and a friend's unlocked front door. David found the cellar door wide open, a single bare bulb swinging, and strange marks in the…
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Six People. Five Seats. One Killer
Six People. Five Seats. One Killer Six people drive into the Gila National Forest in a five-seat car, a detail no one mentions until it's too late. One of them will die, killed by the person writing this account, who…
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The Ozarks: Where Missing Girls Carve Their Own Names
The Ozarks: Where Missing Girls Carve Their Own Names In this episode, we delve into the unsettling disappearances in Drisking, Missouri, a town nestled deep in the Ozark hills where a mysterious sound echoes from the…
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The Valentine She Never Received, Then Waved
The Valentine She Never Received, Then Waved A physics graduate, a man of logic, finds himself drawn to a white headstone in an old Edinburgh cemetery. He places his hand on it, then reads the name: Lisa Maine, a girl…
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Dagon's Mirror: What Jamie Saw Before He Changed
Dagon's Mirror: What Jamie Saw Before He Changed A boy walked into Gunner's Clough on Halloween and returned hours later, never to speak again. He died by suicide exactly thirteen years to the day after his return,…
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The Tape, The Ranger, The Suicide: National Park Disappearance
The Tape, The Ranger, The Suicide: National Park Disappearance A veteran fire lookout witnessed an unidentified object descend into a national park, prompting three trained personnel to investigate. Days later, search…
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The Husband Who Became a Baby: A True Story
The Husband Who Became a Baby: A True Story A woman watched her house burn, calmly telling firefighters her husband was inside. They found a delivery man's body, but her husband was gone. What happened to the man who…
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The Zoo: Why He Never Came Home
The Zoo: Why He Never Came Home A human voice transmits from the other side of the galaxy, claiming to be nine years old the last summer it stood on Earth. This voice, from a distance light takes thousands of years to…
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No Footprints in the Snow: Chestnut Street's Last Stand
No Footprints in the Snow: Chestnut Street's Last Stand A seven-year-old girl stands barefoot in flannel pajamas on a porch at twenty below zero, yet she doesn't shiver, doesn't move like a child, and the voice that…
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I Opened the Hatch. It's Heading for Earth's Core
I Opened the Hatch. It's Heading for Earth's Core A man named Owen stumbled upon a pond where nothing grows, the surrounding trees singed, and the air thick with ash. Buried beneath its murky surface for 54 years, 7…
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The Drowned Man in My Trunk Was Still Alive
The Drowned Man in My Trunk Was Still Alive Imagine waking up in an endless dark, standing between two lines of cold white light, surrounded by hundreds of silent, motionless people. This is the reality for Joshua, who…
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The Astronaut Who Predicted His Own Death
The Astronaut Who Predicted His Own Death In this episode, we delve into the chilling case of Ben Waitley, an astronaut whose journal contained an exact timestamp of his own demise before it occurred. We explore the…
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The Island That Only Appears at Night
The Island That Only Appears at Night An island that only exists at night, rising from a flat, silent ocean, and the men who found it almost never returned. What chilling secret did the darkness hide, and what did the…
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emocional que espeja el final
emocional que espeja el final Thirty years ago, Matt Pritchard watched his father disappear into a red limousine with tinted windows. No explanation, no call, just gone. Now, Matt drives a luxury car, taking on a…
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Hell's War Room: The Decision That Almost Ended Everything
Hell's War Room: The Decision That Almost Ended Everything In this episode, we delve into an eyewitness account from the Ninth Circle of Hell, where a war room beneath Lucifer's Palace hosted a gathering of demonic and…
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The Woman in White: He Dreamed Her Before She Existed
The Woman in White: He Dreamed Her Before She Existed When firefighters arrived at Duu Manor, it was gone-not damaged, but vanished down to its stone foundation, with no bodies and no fire. The rental car of the man…
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The Dream Photo: Luke Vanished, Hand Writes Alone
The Dream Photo: Luke Vanished, Hand Writes Alone In this episode, we delve into the unsettling account of a man whose reality unravels after receiving a cryptic message, leading to the inexplicable disappearance of…
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The Machine: Still Inside?
The Machine: Still Inside? In this episode, we explore the unsettling story of a man who entered a unique machine designed to eliminate all sensory input. Discover the extreme selection criteria, the machine's bizarre…
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Parents' Message Found in Cistern, 20 Years Later
Parents' Message Found in Cistern, 20 Years Later A chilling message, repeated in chalk and something darker, covered every square inch of a flooded basement wall, addressed by name to a specific person. It was signed…
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The Drowning That Never Ends
The Drowning That Never Ends In this episode, we delve into the chilling story of Joshua, who finds himself in a dark sedan at the bottom of a lightless lake, unable to open the doors or even die. We explore the events…
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He Woke Up Screaming With No Wound
He Woke Up Screaming With No Wound Saul Jackson woke up screaming, haunted by memories of a war that wasn't his, fed directly from the neural archive of a man abducted and enslaved. Now, he's on a diplomatic mission to…
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The Book That Comes Back: Children Mapped It First
The Book That Comes Back: Children Mapped It First A man finds a journal in a dead kitchen, every light bulb broken, knowing its words are wrong. Weeks before any adult, children discovered a portal in Virginia…
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Mars Colony: The Murderer Asked, Can I Go Home Now?
Mars Colony: The Murderer Asked, Can I Go Home Now? A man stands on Mars, twenty years into a permanent mission, asking a question with no answer after committing a murder. What drove a founder of humanity's most…
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She Plays Dice With Your Five-Year-Old Daughter
She Plays Dice With Your Five-Year-Old Daughter Jake Reynolds, a broke law school dropout, thought he understood patterns and systems-until a mysterious woman appeared at his blackjack table. She played by no rules,…
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The Whistlers: She Shot Her Husband, But He Was Already Gone
The Whistlers: She Shot Her Husband, But He Was Already Gone A folklorist ventured into the wilderness to study a legend, but instead documented a different horror. Her diary, found in a backpack, details a series of…
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The House That Refuses To Burn
The House That Refuses To Burn A man in Wales has tried to burn down his house fourteen times, but the fire never catches. Something stops it, not wind or damp stone, but an unseen force. What compels Daniel Whitmore…
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She Knew: The Bridge, The Note, The Cost
She Knew: The Bridge, The Note, The Cost In this episode, we explore the story of Jasper Lambert, an ordinary man who made extraordinary choices to save his wife, Amelia, from a terminal illness. We uncover the…
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My Daughter, Fused to Stone: Corona's Vanished City
My Daughter, Fused to Stone: Corona's Vanished City A police officer finds his daughter's upper body emerging from a glacial boulder in a Swedish forest, her lower half inexplicably fused with the stone. DNA confirms…
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Close Your Eyes: The Basement Rule
Close Your Eyes: The Basement Rule He found a rule in a pitch-black basement, surrounded by machetes and bear traps, with something dead three feet away. The rule: keep your eyes open and you'll see nothing; close…
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The Four Seconds Nobody Saw
The Four Seconds Nobody Saw A security camera captured a man standing behind Terry Schultz for exactly four seconds before a door opened, a man who should not have been there. Nobody was watching the monitor that…
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They Drank From The Well. Only One Child Returned
They Drank From The Well. Only One Child Returned A wedding videographer, trained to observe and stay behind the camera, receives an email offering $8,000 to document a secluded religious community. His son was born…
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The Buried Roller Coaster with Four Ways to Die
The Buried Roller Coaster with Four Ways to Die Five people went underground inside an abandoned amusement park and never came back up. The one who survived has spent years being told to say nothing about the roller…
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The Challenger Deep: They Heard a Voice
The Challenger Deep: They Heard a Voice A U.S. government recording, never acknowledged, captures a calm, feminine voice speaking perfect English from the deepest Atlantic. It gave coordinates, a date, and then said in…
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The Grins: My Friend Returned, Unaged, Glazed White
The Grins: My Friend Returned, Unaged, Glazed White A child found wandering a highway, bald and coated in a white glaze, spoke only one name: Trevor. Twenty years earlier, Trevor had vanished at age seven, yet the boy…
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The Attic's Thirteenth: It Left Notes
The Attic's Thirteenth: It Left Notes An old man spent his life destroying every trace of two months he spent at Byron House, a building that had burned down sixty years before he wrote a final warning letter. This…
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