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Nightmares

Hosted by Sword and Scale · society · EN

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About this Podcast:

Welcome to Nightmares. True-Crime for Bedtime. Your nightmare begins now…

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26%

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Selective

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Questions about Nightmares

Who hosts Nightmares?

Nightmares is hosted by Sword and Scale. The show has published 71 episodes to date.

What has Nightmares covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Wrong Turn" (30 October 2026, 24 minutes), "Understood" (26 October 2026, 22 minutes), and "Trust" (22 October 2026, 28 minutes).

How often does Nightmares publish?

Nightmares publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 71 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Nightmares?

Booking probability for Nightmares is 26%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Nightmares requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Nightmares's contact route on record: verified email.

About the host

Sword and Scale hosts Nightmares, a society podcast with 71 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #75

    Wrong Turn

    Oct 30, 202624 minS3

    On a dark April night in rural Hebron, New York, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis and her friends are searching for a party when they turn down the wrong driveway. At first, it seems like an awkward mistake, the kind anyone...

  • Episode #74

    Understood

    Oct 26, 202622 minS3

    A day of drinking for Aaron Vargas ends in a night of revelation for an entire California town. For twenty years, he kept another man’s secret. But on a cold February night in 2009, that secret comes out, and the...

  • Episode #73

    Trust

    Oct 22, 202628 minS3

    Kimberly Neptune spent her life helping others in the close-knit community of Sipayik. Then, one spring night, a trusted visitor came knocking. The investigation that followed would uncover hidden betrayals, conflicting...

  • Episode #72

    Grandeur

    Oct 19, 202625 minS3

    On August 4th, 2022, a quiet street in Laurel, Nebraska wakes to fire, smoke, and a woman dead inside her burning home. As the neighborhood becomes a crime scene, police begin unraveling the private world of paranoia...

  • Nightmares

    Swindled

    Oct 12, 202632 min

    When friends of Jaime Feden called for a welfare check, they feared something terrible had happened to her. What police uncovered instead was a web of lies, manipulation, and a sinister plot that ended in the Nevada...

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  • Episode #70

    Semper Fi

    Sep 27, 202621 minS3

    February 24, 2016, in Kingston, Laura Buckingham had built what seemed like a picture-perfect life, until a bitter custody battle began to unravel it. Behind the façade, a plan took shape, one that involved a disgraced...

  • Episode #69

    Closeted

    Jul 14, 202628 minS3

    A man named Jeffrey Freeman was found dead in his own home. The most disturbing aspect of this case isn't just the manner of his death; it's what was occurring inside the house before anyone was aware of it. There was a...

  • Episode #68

    Slicer

    Jun 30, 202627 minS3

    On September 25, 2014, an ordinary shift at Vaughn Foods in Moore, Oklahoma exploded into chaos after a workplace dispute took a horrifying turn. As panic spread through the factory and terrified employees fled for...

  • Episode #67

    Choices

    Jun 22, 202624 minS3

    A fugitive on the run takes a woman hostage. Ashley Smith is not only fighting for her life, but also trying to take back control of it. To make it through, she must force a killer to face what he has done and finally...

  • Episode #66

    Gamer

    Jun 14, 202624 minS3

    On a quiet evening in Wichita, Kansas, flashing police lights suddenly flood a residential street. When 28-year-old Andrew Finch steps onto his front porch to see what’s happening, he’s shot by police responding to a...

  • Episode #65

    Visitor

    May 26, 202627 minS3

    On April 18, 2019, 57-year-old Wilfred Guzman was at home when a familiar visit turned into a savage fight for survival. By the time police forced their way inside Apartment 16, they found blood in every room and signs...

  • Episode #64

    Barren

    May 23, 202625 minS3

    A plot to find a million dollars in buried fortune ends in unthinkable violence. Mary was caught in the middle of it all. She shouldn’t have survived the desert, but when she did, she led the authorities to a scene of...

  • Episode #63

    Lovers

    May 20, 202631 minS3

    In November 2012, freshly divorced auto shop manager Dave Kroupa thought he was navigating the casual dating scene in Omaha, Nebraska until one short relationship ended and the stalking began. For the next three years...

  • Episode #62

    Sanctuary

    Apr 1, 202630 minS3

    On a quiet January morning in rural Pennsylvania, Rhonda Smith went to work at her church and never came home. What started as a shocking act of violence inside a place of worship slowly unraveled into something far...

  • Episode #61

    Bad Friends

    Mar 25, 202626 minS3

    On March 12, 2000, in Spearfish, South Dakota, nineteen-year-old Chester Allan Poage agrees to a night that seems harmless… until it isn’t. In a secluded pocket of the Black Hills, it’s hard for a trusting kid like...

  • Episode #60

    Survival

    Mar 11, 202623 minS3

    In October 2013, fourteen-year-old Abby Hernandez vanished on her walk home from school in rural New Hampshire. Months passed, searches faded, and a letter arrived that changed how the public understood her...

  • Episode #59

    Echo Chamber

    Mar 4, 202625 minS3

    When an 83-year-old woman is found dead inside her quiet Old Greenwich home, investigators start piecing together the final months of her life, and the unraveling of her son, Erik Soelberg. What first appears to be a...

  • Episode #58

    Hollywood

    Feb 24, 202629 minS3

    It's March 2006 in Villa Park Illinois and nineteen-year-old Rose thinks she’s found an escape, until a woman vanishes and the search starts pointing somewhere darker. As detectives close in, Rose is forced to replay...

  • Episode #57

    Snap

    Feb 18, 202629 minS3

    Thirteen-year-old Thad Phillips fell asleep on his couch—and woke up in a nightmare. Trapped in a decaying house with a smiling teen and sinister intentions, he would spend two harrowing days fighting to survive when...

  • Episode #56

    Party

    Feb 4, 202630 minS3

    James Rackover looked like someone who had it all. He had style, status, and a last name that carried weight. But the truth behind the image was darker. When a man goes missing after a night in Manhattan, investigators...

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