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Actually Scary Stories — real horror stories and paranormal encounters. A scary story podcast by OBOMEDIA for the late night hours. Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies. Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales — true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news. Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation — real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on. New episodes every week. Listen ad-free and unlock premium episodes: 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved.
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Snowmass Stalker: He Knew She Was Alone A door handle turning from the outside, footsteps on wooden floors in the dead of night, and a stranger on a ski slope who knew too much. What connects a daytime encounter to a ter
The Marketplace Bin: You'll Never Know What Was Inside A woman found a twenty-dollar bin of autumn decorations on Facebook Marketplace, a simple purchase for her new home. But the seller's instant message, the empty driv
The Man at My Window: He Left Footprints A child's vivid dreams of a man at his window, a digital clock counting backward, and crayon drawings he never made. What if these weren't just nightmares, but something far more
The Sealed Mirror: What Tapped From Inside? An 8-year-old boy stood in a dark hallway, eyes wide open, completely asleep, tapping a wall in a methodical rhythm. Years later, his younger brother, with no knowledge of the
The Woman in White: She Never Left A clear, feminine voice called for help from beneath a teenager's window during a severe thunderstorm, asking, "Can you help me? I'm cold." But what he found was not someone who needed
The Neighbor Who Never Left A handwritten note with seven chilling words was found in a mailbox the morning she moved out, revealing a terrifying truth: her new townhouse was never truly hers. What kind of stalker leaves
The Lagoon Silhouettes: They Knew Where You Hid the Key Four motionless silhouettes stood on a dock, watching a house full of teenagers on Long Beach Island whose family was away. Years later, on another island, a young
The Man Who Knew Your Real Name A stranger walks into a restaurant, says your name, and offers to take you to a first date that was never a first date. What happens when a carefully planned encounter turns into a chillin
The Hands on the Doorframe: They Left Prints A nineteen-year-old alone in his apartment saw two hands gripping his bedroom doorframe at 2 AM. They vanished, but the next morning, fingerprints remained-photographed eviden
The Lake Woman: Three Minutes Underwater Two brothers fishing in an isolated lake witness something rise from the water, then disappear for nearly three minutes. When it resurfaces, it's five times closer, having crossed
Montauk's Dry Boy and the Siren's Regret A fifteen-year-old boy is pulled unconscious from the Atlantic, coughing up seawater, yet his clothes are completely dry. His parents blame a single beer, but the boy carries a se
The Butterfly Necklace: She Sent a Child to Find It A six-year-old boy, freezing under a porch on a 40-degree night, was saved by an impossible warmth and a voice that knew his name. What drove him there, and who was the
The Cockatoo's Bloody Secret Witness On Christmas Eve, Kevin Butler was found brutally murdered in his home, bound and stabbed, with no signs of forced entry. But the most chilling detail was his pet cockatoo, Bird, foun
Her Eyes Were White. Then She Barked A five-year-old girl, whose sleep had always been clean and quiet, suddenly wakes up crying, whispering about "the tall dog." Days later, her eyes turn white, and she bites three chil
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