Scared To Death

“Now!” he cried. 'Can you see me?' Annie screamed. 'Go away!' She bared her teeth and started to laugh, her chest spasming as she heaved." A quote from today's first story. Our first tale is the infamous Enfield Poltergeist. The basis for the horror blockbuster, the Conjuring 2. From 1977 to 1979, some of the most intense poltergeist activity ever witnessed by multiple people was targeted at one f...

"...this family would find strange mounds of rocks and sand meticulously piled directly underneath the window of their infant son’s room..." A quote from today's first story. Our first tale is about the demons that haunt the Muslim world - the jinn. Specifically, the jinn of Bahla, Oman, a city listed as one of the top ten most haunted cities in the world. Our second story is the infamous tale of...

"And for the first time in Spanish history, the police witnessed paranormal activity and documented it in an official police report..." A quote from today's second story. Our first tale is the strangest possible UFO-related disappearance we've looked into thus far - the 1980 disappearance of extraterrestrial-obsessed Canadian Granger Taylor. Our second account is the supposedly true story behind t...

"Philip walked back downstairs and crawled back into his bed. And then he heard someone saying his name again. Chanting it over and over. 'Philip… Philip… Philip…'" A quote from today's second tale. Our first story starts off in Beruit and ends in Washington D.C.... kind of. It takes place over thirty years that includes over ten years of the strangest phone calls I've ever heard of. Who was calli...

" Carolyn woke up with a start to see a very tall woman in an old gray dress with her head hanging off to the side. This woman was hovering above Carolyn." A quote from today's second tale. Our first story comes from Hawaii. A disturbing 3 A.M. encounter with a woman-like entity that you will not want to remember when you're driving anywhere alone at night. Our second story is the allegedly true h...

"In the bedroom, another investigator saw what appeared to be tiny pale fingers reach out from the inside of the closet door..." A quote from the second of today's horror tales. Our first story is another Hat Man encounter. A young girl sees the Hat Man in her grandparent's home and finds out years later she wasn't the only one to see him. Our second story is the tale of the infamous Villisca Axe...

"When he grabbed his knife, he suddenly heard a sinister female voice hiss at him from nowhere in particular: 'You are a cruel man!'" A quote from the first of today's two tales. Our first story is about years of continual poltergeist activity witnessed in the now demolished Langenhoe Chapel, an old English church with a very bloody history. Our second story is about Zozo. A demon that has alleged...

"... she woke up to find James’s sister sitting up in her bed, totally asleep, but talking to the darkest corner of the room. She heard her whisper, “We won’t change anything, I promise...” A quote from the first of today's two tales. Story one revolves around the possible spirit of an angry woman who has no interest in leaving her earthly home. Story two is "the Amherst Mystery," one of Canada's...

"The sounds of bells once again was coming from inside the wall. Only now, it wasn’t just the one wall. It was coming from all the walls." A quote from the second of today's two Christmastime-based tales. Our first story is a classic of early 20th century British ghost story literature, the tale of "Smee." Our second story involves a family haunted by the sounds of bells jingling inside the walls...

“One day I’m gonna die - and I’m gonna take the whole town with me.” A quote from today's first story. Our first tale is the legend of Louisiana voodoo priestess Julia Brown's curse in 1915. Did she take a whole town with her when she died? And does her ghost still haunt the Manchac swamp? Our second story revolves around the Hmong culture's belief in - and fear of - the tsog tsuam, "the evil spir...

"Opening my eyes, I saw the same man, this time wearing a strange grin. His teeth were white enough to see in the dark... I started shaking." A quote from today's first story. Our first tale - a collection of supposed sightings - is about a creature known as “The Grinning Man.” What is it and what does it want? Our second story is about an entity known mostly as “The Elemental.” Some believe it ha...

"Becca was running down the hall as fast as she could. She felt the powerful malevolent energy behind her. What would happen if it caught her?" A quote from today's second story. In our first account, we go over the disappearance of Frederick Valentich from Australia in 1978. The last thing he communicated to air traffic control from the cockpit of his Cessna was a UFO harassing his plane. And the...

“'Are you living or dead?' asked Father Theo. ' I am dead,' said the voice." A quote from the second of today's two tales. Our first story is our second black-eyed children encounter report. Why is a married couple still haunted by briefly meeting two black-eyed children over thirty years ago? Our second story is a summary of the most heavily documented Catholic exorcism in US history - the early...

"If the witnesses were correct, Tedford would have disappeared from his seat as the bus was traveling down Route 7, while it was driving through the Bennington Triangle..." A quote from the first of today's two tales. Our first story is about a string of disappearances and other unsettling occurrences that have taken place over the years in Vermont's Bennington Triangle. What is happening in those...

" She heard something make it to the door outside their room and then stop. And then she heard and saw the doorknob jiggle - like someone was just about to let themselves in, and she screamed... " A quote from today's second of two tales. Our first tale is the story of Popobawa, a cryptid that is reported to have had attacked several villagers on Zanzibar's Pemba Island several times since the 197...

"...What if Sallie and that woman were the same thing? All part of the same evil inside that house..." A quote from today's second of two tales. Our first tale is the story of a single mother and her young son who have an unfortunate encounter with the Hat Man. Our second story takes us to Atchison Kansas's Sallie House - billed as the most haunted house in America. Is it? Listen and find out. As...

"...in order to keep being protected, they had to pay a Satanic toll of sacrificial blood and human souls..." A quote from today's second of two Satanic tales. Our first story is one of a young Wiccan who believes that four decades ago he followed his curiosity about the dark side of the occult straight into Hell itself. Our second story goes over some very spooky and real crime details revolving...

"...late one night, laying in his bed, surrounded by that strange oppressive feeling... a new source of fear emerged from the darkness..." A quote from today's second tale. Our first story offers a further explanation of one of the items in our studio - a Dybbuk box. I'll explain the historical basis for this box and I’ll also share a modern tale involving this ancient monster trapper. Our second...

"T he face of the woman inched towards her own as if it would soon open its mouth and devour her. Beatrice closed her eyes and began to pray..." A quote from today's first tale - the exploration of the possibility that perhaps some apparitions are not the remnants of the once living, but the psychic projection of the still alive. Was a Cornish woman named Beatrice somehow presented with a vision o...

" He awoke in the middle of the night to what he described as 'a man with big black eyes, a thin face with animal features and jagged teeth, pointed ears, horns, and hoofs' standing above him..." A quote from today's second tale - the "Devil Made Me Do It" demonic possession of both David Glatzel and Arne Johnson in 1981 that ended in another man's murder. Our first tale is "The Northfleet Horror,...

" Meanwhile, Robbie continued to use his Ouija board, a board he now hid from his family, to talk to his aunt Harriet and her new “friends. " A quote from today's second tale - the exorcism of Robbie Mannheim aka Roland Doe (his real name remains hidden), the story that inspired the infamous 1973 horror film, "The Exorcist." A fourteen-year-old used his Ouija board to try and contact his deceased...

"Each murder victim had been killed the same way, with a single and a powerful blow with the mattock to the head." A quote from today's second tale - the Hinterkaifeck Farm family mass-murder mystery of 1922. Did something or someone hide in the Hinterkaifeck family's attic for roughly six months before killing the five members of the Hinterkaifeck family living there and their new maid with a Ger...

"Daddy, the basement monster is standing in the upstairs window...." A quote from today's first tale - the haunting of the LaChance family in the "Screaming House" of Union, Missouri. They would last less than a month in this aggressively haunted house. Our second tale is one man's account of a run-in with two black-eyed children. What are these entities and what do they want from you? We here in...

The alien abduction of Amy Ryland and the demonic possession of Michael Taylor for the first episode of Scared to Death! Where is Amy Ryland? She hasn't been seen since shortly after reportedly being abducted from Gundiah, Australia, in 2001. And where is Michael Taylor? He for sure brutally killed his wife in England in 1974. And then he was imprisoned in mental health facilities for just four ye...

Hello horror fans! Starting September 17th (at Midnight PST), Scared to Death will be releasing one episode a week, each episode featuring podcast host (Timesuck) Dan Cummins trying to scare his wife Lynze to death with two tales of alleged-to-be-true horror. Stories will include reports of demonic possession, poltergeists, alien abductions, unsolved murders, shadow people, cryptids, etc. Anything...