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The Family Business Carman’s Crypt | Original Horror Fiction What if the people who raised you… trained you? When seventeen-year-old David returns home after college, he expects familiarity. A quiet house at the end of a gravel road. Parents who built a modest cleaning and restoration business through hard work and sacrifice. A family that never missed a school play or a birthday. What he doesn’t...

Welcome back to another chilling tale from Carman's Crypt! As we approach the holiday season, I've got a Christmas story that might make you think twice about that perfect tree lot down the winding country road. In "The Christmas Tree Farm," Shay Middleton just wants to give her daughter Ellie an authentic Christmas experience in their new North Carolina home. A helpful neighbor's recommendation l...

Send us a text Tonight's tale hits dangerously close to home, my lovely Cryptkeepers. " The Echo That Learned My Name - A Psychological Horror Story About Creative Burnout" follows a podcaster pushed to her breaking point by the relentless demands of content creation. Working four shows, juggling deadlines, and sacrificing sleep for success, she begins hearing strange sounds in her...

Send us a text When 16-year-old Laney is forced to use a cheerful-looking babysitter app, she expects a boring weekend stuck with an overqualified stranger—not a living nightmare. Her assigned sitter, the flawless and unsettlingly perfect “Sarah,” quickly reveals behavior too precise, too controlled, and too inhuman to ignore. What begins as an awkward babysitting arrangement spirals into a covert...

Send us a text When Jonah moves into a cheap little bungalow on Birch Street, he expects creaking floors, old pipes, and maybe the occasional mouse. What he gets instead is a nightmare burrowed beneath his home—a bone-hungry ghoul that thins the floorboards, listens to him breathe, and waits for the perfect moment to feed. In this terrifying tale of creeping dread, you’ll follow Jonah’s descent fr...

Send us a text Season 3, Episode 56 "The Stick Man Who Knows Your Name" When Jayme Hollis lost her first tooth at five years old, she woke not to the Tooth Fairy, but to blood on her pillow… and something tall and wrong standing in the corner of her room. Everyone told her it was a nightmare, a trick of the dark, a frightened child’s imagination. But the scratching at her window returned...

Send us a text Season 3, Episode 1: When Madison hears her family's darkest secret whispered from the windows of the abandoned Hartwell house, she convinces her three best friends to investigate. What starts as teenage curiosity becomes a nightmare when the house reveals it's not just haunted—it's hungry.  The entity inside feeds on lies and secrets, and it's been waiting decad...

Send us a text Welcome back to Carman's Crypt, where nightmares are born and terror knows no bounds. As we prepare to unlock the doors to an even more sinister Season 3, your host Carman Carrion is taking a moment to revisit the darkest corners of our recent journey through the second season of original horror. Tonight, I'm personally selecting the five stories from Season 2 that haunted...

Send us a text Tonight, we have a very special Halloween tale for you. A story about traditions, about consequences, and about what happens when you refuse to honor the spirits that walk on All Hallows' Eve.  You see, Halloween isn't just about costumes and candy. It's an ancient night, a night when the veil between the living and the dead grows thin. A night when the departed can w...

Send us a text A teenage dare in a quiet Oregon neighborhood revives a long-buried legend — one that's more than just a story whispered at sleepovers. When Kara agrees to ring the bell of an abandoned house and say the cursed words, she thinks it'll earn her bragging rights. But as the echoes of her prank follow her home, she learns some doors never stop ringing once they've been op...

Send us a text Season 2, Episode 50: "The Pumpkin Patch" (This story is a fun one that is safe for the kiddos) Welcome back to another terrifying tale from Carman's Crypt, creeps and ghouls! This week, we're heading to Holloway's Pumpkin Patch—where the pumpkins are plump, the prices are unbeatable, and the fertilizer is...suspiciously fresh. When Cody and Mindy Chen ventu...

Send us a text Season 2, Episode 49: "Where She Lies" In this bone-chilling episode of Carman's Crypt, we follow Lucy as she takes what should be a simple autumn hike through Snowbird Forest—the woods she's known since childhood. But when she discovers a trail of shoes leading deep into the trees, she stumbles upon a horror that has been hidden for fifteen years: the unmarked g...

Send us a text Season 2, Episode 48 Welcome to another chilling episode of Carman's Crypt. Tonight, we share a listener submission from Dan Matthews of Lakewood, Ohio, who reached out to us with a story that will make you question everything you thought you knew about grief, memorials, and what might linger after death. Dan's best friend Mike lost his wife and daughter in a tragic car ac...

Send us a text Season 2, Episode 47: "The Screen-Eater" Welcome back to the Crypt, dear listeners. Tonight's tale comes to us from the year 2525, a cautionary folktale about a young man named Kai who lives in a world of endless screens and glowing windows. When Kai becomes so entranced by his digital devices that he can no longer see the real world around him, he attracts the attent...

Send us a text   Episode Title: "The Last Ward" In this chilling episode of Carman's Crypt, we follow Zayne Thibodaux, a desperate security guard who takes a night shift at an abandoned New Orleans hospital with a dark secret. What starts as easy money quickly becomes a supernatural nightmare when Zayne discovers he's not alone on the seventh floor. The building holds the angry...

Send us a text Carman's Crypt Season 2 Episode 45: "The Dark Hours"   This week in the Crypt, we follow Katherine "Kat" Hightower, a 28-year-old graphic designer whose crippling fear of darkness has ruled her life since childhood. Armed with enough lights to power a small city and a carefully constructed routine designed to keep the shadows at bay, Sarah has managed to bui...

Send us a text Carman's Crypt Season 2 Episode 44: "They Come When It Rains" This week in the Crypt, we follow seventeen-year-old Nate who spent his entire summer working at Buster's Burgers to earn his first car - a jacked-up Toyota Tacoma that represents everything he's worked for. When his boss gives him the last weekend of summer off, Nate finally gets to join his frie...

Send us a text Season 2, Episode 43: "Until Death Do Us Part"  Welcome back to Carman's Crypt, where chrome meets the paranormal and horsepower haunts the highway. Tonight's tale takes us into the digital age of automotive terror, where our smartphones sync with more than just our calendars. Marcus thought his uncle's final gift—a pristine BMW 7 Series—would be a blessing....

Send us a text Carman's Crypt: Season 2, Episode 42 - "Small Hands, Hollow Eyes"   After years of fertility struggles, Jess's family finally gets the baby they've been dreaming of through adoption. Six-month-old Elliot seems perfect - too perfect. With his mesmerizing violet eyes and unnaturally calm demeanor, he's everything they could have hoped for. But when Elliot...

Send us a text CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions of body horror and transformation, including detailed accounts of human mutation and physical metamorphosis. The story features disturbing imagery of mutilated animal carcasses, missing body parts, and creatures with inhuman anatomy. Contains themes of psychological horror, family trauma, and loss of humanity. Includes depi...

Send us a text When best friends Gabby and Bellamy hit the mall for their usual shopping trip, what starts as a typical teenage outing takes a dark turn. Bellamy has been chatting with someone online—a charming college guy who seems too good to be true. Despite Gabby's growing concerns and every red flag imaginable, Bellamy is determined to meet her mysterious admirer in person. Loyalty force...

Send us a text Bev has always been the person everyone can count on—the helpful church lady who never says no to a favor. But decades of suppressed bitterness have awakened something dark inside her, something that tastes sweetly of revenge. When her past failures as a foster mother return to haunt her, Bev discovers that the child she couldn't love has been watching her all along. In this ch...

Send us a text In this chilling episode of Carman's Crypt, we explore the dark boundaries of medical ethics and family love through "The Donor" - a story that asks how far parents will go to save one child, even if it means sacrificing another.  Seventeen-year-old Clover has spent her entire life in the shadow of her chronically ill sister Rose, believing her purpose was simply to c...

Send us a text Welcome back to another spine-chilling episode of Carman's Crypt! Tonight, we're venturing deep into the Pennsylvania wilderness with five college friends who stumble upon something that should have stayed buried. When Merit, Sasha, Jay, Brandi, and Tyler discover the long-abandoned Camp Whispering Wind during what was supposed to be a routine hiking trip, they uncover a d...

Send us a text Nine-year-old Tay has grown accustomed to the silence of an empty house—until a violent storm brings an unexpected visitor to her door. When mysterious wet footprints appear in her kitchen and lead straight to her bedroom, Tay discovers that some forms of loneliness attract more than just sympathy. A chilling tale about the dangerous allure of promises that seem too good to be true,...