Waking Nightmare: Horror Stories & Creepypastas

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Waking Nightmare: Horror Stories & Creepypastas is a fiction podcast hosted by Waking Nightmare / Eternal Nightmare, with 45 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Waking Nightmare / Eternal Nightmare hosts Waking Nightmare: Horror Stories & Creepypastas, a fiction show with 45 episodes published.

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  Waking Nightmare: Horror Stories & Creepypastas

  I Monitor Radiation Levels for the Government. One Reading Has HAUNTED Me Ever Since.

  Sep 23, 202633 min

  A Hanford environmental monitor detects a brief radiation spike and discovers a warm, precisely compressed oval in the Columbia River sediment.When he investigates further, he finds evidence of something biological beneath the soil that appears to pulse and respond deliberately.His supervisors conceal the anomaly and transfer him to the Savannah River Site, making it clear that they value secrecy over investigation.Weeks later, a former colleague reveals that the anomaly is growing, while officials continue monitoring it because they have no real solution.✍️ Story Author:This is an original story written by me from scratch NOT pulled from Reddit, creepypasta.com, or anywhere else online. All mine.⚠️ Disclaimer:This story is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and locations are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. AI used for assistance with some aspects as I am a solo content creator. New videos every week (or atleast I try to) ! Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0k1SBC7eOYG9vXnC56CBDQ Creepypasta:0:00 Background Ambience:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAO3x-Uhfoo Don’t Forget to Subscribe!

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  My Brother Left Behind 37 Unlabeled Cassettes. I've Started Playing Them.

  Sep 20, 202634 min

  A vintage audio restorer inherits 37 mysterious microcassettes from his deceased brother, each documenting strange encounters with an unexplained entity across the Southeast.A final recording reveals that his brother believed the tapes were containing the entity through the act of documenting and recording its existence.After discovering evidence of the entity beneath his brother’s Macon property, the protagonist realizes that his brother’s work and responsibility have been passed to him.He begins documenting everything obsessively, but when unexplained footprints start appearing in his workshop, he understands that whatever he is containing is getting closer.✍️ Story Author:This is an original story written by me from scratch NOT pulled from Reddit, creepypasta.com, or anywhere else online. All mine.⚠️ Disclaimer:This story is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and locations are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. AI used for assistance with some aspects as I am a solo content creator. New videos every week (or atleast I try to) ! Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0k1SBC7eOYG9vXnC56CBDQ Creepypasta:0:00 Background Ambience:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAO3x-Uhfoo Don’t Forget to Subscribe!

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  I Work the Overnight Docks. If the Fog Comes Off the River DON'T GO OUTSIDE.

  Sep 17, 20261h 23m

  An overnight security guard at the Port of New Orleans witnesses seventeen dock workers vanish into a supernatural fog during a routine shift. Three years later, a marine salvage diver discovers a perfectly rectangular structure buried beneath the Mississippi riverbed containing seventeen faint heat signatures matching the missing men, despite there being no geological evidence that anything ever entered the sediment. As the protagonist investigates, authorities suppress the discovery, the diver loses his license, and a mysterious caller warns the protagonist to stop because they know what he heard before the fog appeared. He secretly documents everything and sends copies to a journalist, only to discover that the geology professor who helped him has abruptly disappeared from public records. He continues working the port, haunted by the possibility that seventeen men are still alive beneath the river and that whatever took them may know he remembers what happened.✍️ Story Author:This is an original story written by me from scratch NOT pulled from Reddit, creepypasta.com, or anywhere else online. All mine.⚠️ Disclaimer:This story is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and locations are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. AI used for assistance with some aspects as I am a solo content creator. New videos every week (or atleast I try to) ! Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0k1SBC7eOYG9vXnC56CBDQ Creepypasta:0:00 Background Ambience:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAO3x-Uhfoo Don’t Forget to Subscribe!

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  I Work at a NUCLEAR FACILITY. Something Crossed the Perimeter That Shouldn't Exist.

  Sep 14, 202654 min

  A health physics technician at the Savannah River Site encounters a bizarre security breach in the long-decommissioned D-Area reactor, where perimeter sensors trigger simultaneously despite no visible intruder. Inside the sealed facility, he and two colleagues discover strange compression marks, an inexplicable radiation reading, and a tall, animal-like creature that disappears after security officers fire at it. A contractor later finds unidentified biological material in the reactor building, but federal authorities suppress the finding, force the protagonist to sign an NDA, and officially dismiss the incident as equipment malfunction and deteriorating seals. In the months that follow, everyone who investigated the creature is quietly removed from the site, transferred, or disappears from contact. The protagonist remains on the graveyard shift but avoids D-Area entirely, especially when the fog settles over the surrounding scrubland, because he suspects whatever entered the reactor building never truly left.✍️ Story Author:This is an original story written by me from scratch NOT pulled from Reddit, creepypasta.com, or anywhere else online. All mine.⚠️ Disclaimer:This story is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and locations are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. AI used for assistance with some aspects as I am a solo content creator. New videos every week (or atleast I try to) ! Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0k1SBC7eOYG9vXnC56CBDQ Creepypasta:0:00 Background Ambience:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAO3x-Uhfoo Don’t Forget to Subscribe!

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  I Found Two Abandoned Kayaks on Knife Lake. I Should Have Left Before Dark.

  Sep 11, 202653 min

  An eleven-year wilderness EMT in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters responds to a routine call involving two overdue kayakers near Knife Lake. He finds their abandoned kayaks and later discovers them alive but completely unresponsive, as though their minds became permanently trapped in the moment they witnessed something in the lake. A strange, unnaturally calm man explains that an ancient entity beneath Knife Lake periodically surfaces and that anyone who truly sees it loses the ability to remember, think, or recognize others. The EMT realizes he has already crossed the same threshold after seeing a massive shape circling his campsite beneath the water, but he carries the kayakers to safety before disappearing evidence of the strange encounter. He continues working in the Boundary Waters, but slowly realizes the price of seeing the creature: he can no longer remember his wife's face, only the enormous shape moving patiently beneath the dark water.✍️ Story Author:This is an original story written by me from scratch NOT pulled from Reddit, creepypasta.com, or anywhere else online. All mine.⚠️ Disclaimer:This story is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and locations are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. AI used for assistance with some aspects as I am a solo content creator. New videos every week (or atleast I try to) ! Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0k1SBC7eOYG9vXnC56CBDQ Creepypasta:0:00 Background Ambience:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAO3x-Uhfoo Don’t Forget to Subscribe!

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