Scared To Death

"A few days later, after not seeing anyone enter or leave the house since the murders, a friend and neighbor of the Congeliers entered the home through a back door after knocking and getting no answer in the front. And he encountered the terrible smell of flesh beginning to rot. And he found Lyda sitting in a rocking chair… covered in blood… holding the severed heads of both Charles and Essie… sin...

"His face was just… blank. He didn’t have a face! How he could he not have a face? I turned around and tried to get away from him. I tried to climb back down and I fell. I could hear him coming after me. He kept letting out these muffled screams. ” We are off to Australia, if you believe it's real, for the story of a very famous haunted cave, the Jenolan Caves. Many of us go on tours while we are...

"The girl then wiped her hair from out of her face and revealed those two pitch-black spots where her eyes should’ve been. She smiled a large open-mouth smiled and revealed teeth that looked predatory - too sharp to be human. Not fangs, exactly, but close. She started to walk towards Nitara and Fatima. Too quickly. “Will you let me in?” she asked, “I need to come inside. To play with you.” Why doe...

"Some believe a less-than five mile stretch of this road either is - or has become - some kind of a paranormal corridor or conduit. An area where, for whatever reason, it’s easier for spirits to access or stay." What is going on on Dice Road, in Michigan? Dan takes us all on a terrifying journey, telling us three tales that all take place on Dice Road. There is the tale of the Pommeraning Family,...

"Now he saw it again. And this time he got a better look. A blurry black figure climbing down from Alex’s bed." Two really intense episode full of so many spoops! For our first story, Dan tells the tale of a very recent haunted doll. And not just any doll, a little girls Elsa doll is the source of some crazy activity. If your kid had a toy that was potentially haunted, you got rid of it and it sho...

"Know that - this is a dangerous ritual. To go inside the box is to risk bringing something back with you when you leave. Something that may change you forever. Going into the box may prove to you that there are absolutely worlds beyond this one - but it may also - supposedly - destroy you." Have you ever heard of The Devil's Toy Box? A truly intense and terrifying way to contact the other is the...

"Recognizing that something abnormal was happening, Steven grabbed his tablet and began filming his wife. Several priests would later watch this video and described what they witnessed as follows: “You humans have your own sense of time,” Louisa told Steven at one point in the video. “I have plenty of time. I have all the time in the world." She then shifted into a staccato whisper. “It’s your wif...

"And Jackson said, "I woke up one morning and there was a figure in the room… she was very scary…. she had a screaming face, very accusatory, she was a lady about 50 years old.” Then he added, "It was terrifying actually, a very scary image and she was at the end of the bed and she glided across the room… and disappeared into the wall. I sat in bed and thought, have I really seen that?” Dan takes...

“Excuse me, Omar,” she said. “Did you just drop off that other woman?” “What other woman?” said Omar. Kathy thought he was joking for a moment and then realized he was 100 % serious. She was so confused. She had CLEARLY seen another woman in the backseat with her. She’d looked at several times. She was only two feet away sitting there plain as day. “The woman who was sitting right beside me just a...

"The feeling of being watched returned. It wasn’t an unusual feeling to get, out in a country road. Animals were often watching from the bushes, deer or sometimes even mountain cats… but this was different. The thing that watching him felt…. smart. Dave couldn’t explain how. It just did. Then, from inside the house, he heard a crash rang out. And then he heard something else that make his skin cra...

TW: This first story is graphic in every way. "But this was different. She didn’t know who or what was responsible for these new noises that always came with a feeling of dread. Those noises weren’t the ones she was hearing now…. She’d hear what sounded like someone walking… kind of. The gait wouldn’t sound quite right for a person. She’d heard an ominous, menacing, slow shuffle. And it would be a...

"Just then on the opposite side of my room, I watched this dark, smoky, human-like form crawl up my wall, each step it took made a tsssss (like water on a frying pan sound) and smoke was coming from each hand and foot connection with my wall." This week Dan takes from England to Malaysia, such a fun show! To kick off the show, Dan shares an old but interesting tale from Raynham Hall. Did a pair of...

"They continued to hear the sounds of footsteps behind them. Getting louder. Gaining on them. Their only source of hope was the soft breeze constantly flowing through from the opposite end. The cool, dry air. Finally - they reached a t-shaped intersection. Which way to turn?" In another fun week of spoopy fun, Dan shares two incredible stories. Our first story takes us to Oregon, just outside of P...

"She tried to turn to follow him but she couldn’t. She was tied down. She couldn’t move. She could see the dark layout of the tent and cast her eyes around for the unseen presence. 

Then she heard it. 

Coming from right above her left ear, a sound like a drill." A quote from the first of Dan's two stories this week. A supposedly haunted island off the coast of Italy, Poveglia takes us on a journ...

"He ended up taking his sword to her face. He sliced open her cheeks from the corners of her mouth to her ears, and then he asked her, “Who will think you’re beautiful now?” A quote from the first of Dan's two stories this week. This first tale takes us to Japan for a haunting story about the Slit-Mouthed Woman. Once you see her, you are almost guaranteed to die. Or are you? Is there a way to avoi...

" He was in Scarlett’s room in seconds, flinging his door open before bounding down the hall and quickly popping into his daughter’s room where she was sitting up in her bed. And he immediately saw that something was sitting with her..." A quote from our first story. We head to Idaho for both tales today. First, we share some encounters a woman claims she and her family experienced shortly after m...

"He thrashed against whatever was holding him, desperately trying to kick himself free. The woman in blue smiled and he then heard what he knew was her voice inside his head. 'Stay…. stay…'” A quote from our second story. For our first tale today, we explore the Cajun legend of the Cauchemar, a specific, demonic spiritual presence believed by some living in and around certain parts of Louisiana to...

“Just stay upstairs,” he thought to himself. “Whatever you are, just please stay upstairs...” A quote from today's second of two opening tales! Today's first story is another black-eyed kid encounter story. Kind of. A woman in New Hampshire has claimed to have witnessed two different black-eyed entities on two different occasions. In the next story, we explore the many ghosts of Amherstburg, Ontar...

" Chase began to walk down the hallway. His legs were heavy. He was afraid of what was behind the last door. The black door..." A quote from today's second of two opening tales! Had a great time recording the first episode of the second year of the show. We start with the mysterious disappearances of Charlie Ashmore and Ambrose Bierce. Then, we explore the dark side of hypnosis. What if you were h...

"People who’d known Arnold in life testified over and over that they had seen him walking through the village in the weeks following his documented death..." A quote from today's second of three opening tales! We have a big episode for you today as this week marks the one-year anniversary of the show. Thank you for making this show a success! Our first story covers the legend of Missouri's Zombie...

Hi Creeps and Peepers! I (Dan) am hosting a brand​ new​ podcast on the Parcast Network called ​INCREDIBLE FEATS. Every weekday on ​INCREDIBLE FEATS,​ I profile amazing achievements made by people from all over the world, diving behind the scenes to see how exactly they turned the impossible into the incredible. The episodes are totally family friendly and also snack-sized - typically coming in at...

"Then, he felt the air around him get heavier and heavier until it no longer felt like air at all. It felt like water. It felt like he was drowning." A quote from today's first tale. Our first story centers on the haunted history of the RMS Queen Mary - supposedly the world's most haunted ship, currently operating as a hotel in Long Beach, California. How many spirits from its days as a transatlan...

"She claimed to witness the boy walked backwards up a wall all the way to the ceiling…before flipping over and landing on his feet." A quote from today's second tale. Our first story is an exposition of the ritualistic murder of LeRoy Carter, Jr. in San Francisco, California, in 1981. What dark god may he have been sacrificed to? Our second story is a modern haunting classic - the Ammons house aka...

"...the steam soon revealed a message. She could just make out the finger-scrawled words… “Why did you hurt us?” A quote from today's first tale. Today we open up with two asylum-related paranormal tales. The first comes from Salem, Oregon - the long, haunted history of the facility once called “ The Oregon State Hospital for the Insane,” and a recent encounter. Our second story is the urban legen...

" Kathy wakes up with red welts that have formed a trail from just above her pubic hair to just under her breast. They feel hot to the touch. It was like something had slashed and burned her..." A quote from today's second story. Our first tale is about the Shadow Man - one man's tale of a series of intense encounters that lasted for several years of his childhood. Our second story is one of my fa...