Spooky Reddit Podcast

A lost dog flyer appears on Nora Bell's street — with a photograph of her own dog asleep on her own couch, though Biscuit has never run off. Tonight's tale follows Nora across four days of fresh white sheets: a porch photographed at night behind an open gate, a reward line that reads two words, staples sitting under older notices, a flyer slipped beneath a locked door, and a phone number turning o...

Marcus Webb audits the night shift at the Kingsley Hotel off Harbor Street, where the register shows five floors and the ice machine on the sealed sixth floor runs all night. Last Friday, alone behind the desk at ten minutes past three, he watched the register grow a floor that does not exist. Then the desk phone rang, calling itself. Then the elevator opened with a full ice bucket inside, still f...

Dana Whitfield works the closing shift at a fast food restaurant off Mill Road, where a birthday banner for a boy named Danny has hung over the Play Barn for six years without ever coming down. Last Tuesday night, alone in the dining room with the doors locked since nine, she heard the tunnel slide echo the way it only echoes when a body comes down it. Then the balls shifted in the pit. Then a sma...

Tess Calloway has not seen a dentist in six years, so she knows something is wrong when a reminder text arrives for a cleaning she never scheduled. The office across town has her full file anyway, her childhood records, and an X ray showing one tooth too many. The hygienist knows her name before she checks in, and the waiting room holds one chair too many. Inside: she knew my name; the appointment...

June Holloway rides the last Route Nine bus home from her closing shift at the Starlite Diner, so she knows something is wrong when it sails past her stop twice in one week with the driver looking right at her. Both times every passenger in every window turns to stare, and nobody blinks. On Friday night the bus finally stops for her, and the doors sigh open. Inside: the look through the glass; the...

Lena Marsh works the night shift from home, so she knows something is wrong when her phone lights up at three in the morning with a voicemail nobody called in. No missed call. No number. Just six seconds of audio in the one voice she knows better than any other — her own. Do not take the elevator tomorrow. Inside: the message nobody left; a quiet job with loud nights; the elevator that dropped fou...

New night auditor Nathan Cho finds the logbook already open to tonight's date — with entries predicting everything that will happen, in handwriting no living hand produces. A phantom phone rings seven times, a boy calls for his mother in the east stairwell, and one rule is underlined three times: do not answer room twenty-six. A story about the hotel's true register, the auditor who vanished mid-s...

Night guard Marcus Webb is told never to listen to channel four — but the dead channel finds him anyway, with a calm woman's voice calling floors that don't exist. Then she calls his name. A story about a sealed mezzanine, an elevator operator who never stopped her rounds, the gray door with no handle, and the last run that finally let her rest... and the new voice that picked up the microphone th...

The new campground host inherits a binder with a page for a site that doesn't exist — reserved in handwriting he doesn't recognize until he wakes with ink on his own fingers. The back page holds rules: greet every camper, keep the lantern lit, collect every fee, and if the lantern goes out, relight it before dark. A story about the twenty-third site, the vanished host before him, the thing the fee...

A five-dollar baby monitor from a yard sale says the baby's name on the first night — though nobody ever spoke it near the thing. Then channel two carries a different nursery from somewhere else, where something answers whenever the baby cries. A story about crossed signals, an empty house that still broadcasts, and the grieving echo that wants company... and what company means when it wants to ke...

The inspection notice in the Harrow Building elevator rewrites its own dates every morning — and nobody else can see it change. Then the car starts stopping at a floor that doesn't exist, where the hallway lights burn all night and a girl with a heavy grocery bag asks to be walked home. A story about sealed floors, forgotten tenants, an inspector who kept his rounds for forty years, and the promis...

At half past two in the morning, the washhouse on Mercer Street belongs to one night owl — and one dryer that won't stop tumbling though nobody owns it. Then machines he never touched start by themselves, each full of clothes that don't belong to him, and the corkboard by the door explains why: every abandoned load belonged to someone who never came back. A story about waiting, grief, and the kind...

A substitute driver takes the owl run on a drizzly autumn night — and past the river, the radio goes silent. The manifest lists stops that don't exist, gray passengers from another decade board without a word, and an old handwritten card in the visor says: call every stop, even the empty ones. A story about the driver who kept faith with forgotten riders, and the last route that finally brought th...

The stairwell smells like a coming storm, though the sky has been hard and blue for weeks. Small wet footprints climb the dry concrete and stop mid-landing, a lost yellow raincoat weeps water onto the steps, and something hums three patient notes through the wall at midnight. A new tenant follows the damp trail to a story the building has kept for decades — about a boy who waited out one storm too...

The flies arrived during the hottest week of July, and at first everyone complained. But then something shifted. People stopped swatting. Started watching. Started welcoming them. One man notices the change before anyone else, and what he discovers about the swarm will make you reconsider every fly you have ever ignored. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 0:09 - The Flies Arrive 1:30 - The First Signs 3:00 -...

A cowboy takes a mysterious eight-thousand-dollar job on a remote cattle drive. Two cows. Six riders. And a priest in a black suit who doesn't know how to ride. As they cross into forbidden mountain territory, something ancient awakens — and it doesn't want them there. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 0:09 - The Job 1:30 - The Trail 3:00 - Crossing the Line 5:30 - The Voice in the Dark 8:00 - Father Martin'...

A man who just wanted to install a beer cooler in his backyard discovers a concrete slab with a handle hidden under his lawn. What lies beneath is a pitch-black tunnel maze stretching far beyond his property line. When his flashlight dies and something with too many legs starts chasing him through passages that keep narrowing, he realizes this maze has a mind of its own. CHAPTERS: 0:08 - Intro / T...

He took a remote job clicking through a private street view map for a company called Aegis Geographic Solutions. The pay was good, the work was boring, and the rules were weird. But when the anomalies started appearing - a man frozen mid-step with his mouth stretched open, a mirror showing a room that looked exactly like his living room - he realized the map was not just recording streets. It was...

A teenager in a remote Michigan town notices a sheep circling his house at night. His father's reaction is not what he expects — terror, not confusion. When the boy finally confronts the animal, he discovers that what wears the sheep's skin is something far older, far taller, and far hungrier than any creature that belongs in this world. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro Hook 2:03 - Welcome 4:02 - Story Setu...

There's a video. Grainy, old, from a pool surveillance camera. In it, a twelve-year-old boy sinks to the bottom of the deep end and doesn't move for fifteen minutes. The world record is eleven minutes and thirty-five seconds. This kid beat it by almost four minutes. And nobody talks about what happened in the chambers beneath the water. Tonight's story comes from r/nosleep by u/PierogiThe3rd. A Da...

A father works late nights in investment banking. His seven-year-old daughter Zelda leaves him voice messages on a cheap yellow M&M recorder every night. But one Tuesday, the toy keeps running after the message ends. A whisper: "Don't play it again." Then the messages start changing. The voice grows older. And it says things a seven-year-old should not know. Source: r/nosleep by u/Different_Record...

A mysterious public safety alert warns residents about numbness and involuntary limb movement. What starts as a joke between a family becomes a nightmare when the narrator discovers the infection has been hiding inside them all along. CHAPTERS: 0:08 - Intro 1:51 - The Story 12:58 - The Infection Spreads 23:37 - Reflection 25:38 - Outro Source: r/nosleep by u/ZH0901 This podcast uses AI-generated v...

At exactly 2:17 a.m., Daniel's phone rings. The number on the screen is his own. When he listens to the voicemail, he hears his own voice warning him not to open the front door. What follows is a terrifying night of doppelgangers, dead relatives, and a confession that has waited eleven years to be spoken aloud. A gripping nosleep story about guilt, sacrifice, and the voices that know us better tha...

A new employee at a horror-themed escape room built inside an abandoned underground station learns why his coworkers keep saying strange things. "Don't go into The Shelter after eleven." "If the windows close on their own, ignore it." "Keep your keys on you." On his first solo closing shift, the cameras catch movement in an empty room. Customers report a crying woman who doesn't exist. And then th...

Something is living in my apartment. A second toothbrush appeared in my holder. Boots by the door I never bought. Trail mix in my cart I never chose. And behind my bedroom door, someone is breathing. A woman begins to notice impossible signs that another person is sharing her life without her knowledge or consent. Each discovery is more disturbing than the last, and the truth may be worse than any...