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Spooky Story Time
Turn off the lights... if you dare. From paranormal horror to haunting ghost stories and creepy true crime, Beth's Spooky Story Time is the scary podcast where your worst fears come alive. Perfect for adults looking for a terrifying wind-down, this is your new favourite horror fix. Host Beth reads original short tales of haunted houses, uncanny neighbors, and terrifyingly real moments, with immersive narration, subtle sound design, and twist endings that stick. Perfect for bedtime horror, late‑night listening, and anyone who loves paranormal fiction and gothic atmosphere. Each short, intense e...
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Episodes
The Spookiest... Haunted Houses 10.06.2026 45:12
From creepy attics to real life experiences, brace yourself for a collection of the spookiest stories about haunted houses. 00:18 - Goodnight, Mr. Langley 08:10 - The House I Grew Up In 15:20 - Lily's House 23:06 - The Attic 29:49 - My Parents' House: Chapter I Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone...
The Spookiest Stories So Far 03.06.2026 51:12
In this super spooky compilation, we're tied together your five most listened to Spooky Stories from our first 100 episodes. 00:18 - St. Ainsley's 10:19 - What's Left Behind 18:40 - 3.33 27:01 - The Face in the Glass 35:28 - His Last Watch Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All...
The Estate 31.05.2026 10:27
Some houses collect dust. Others collect you. In this claustrophobic, antiquarian horror story, an estate liquidator is hired to catalogue the belongings of a reclusive hoarder, only to discover that the house has already begun cataloguing him. For listeners who love antique horror, cursed objects, haunted houses, and stories where the past refuses to stay boxed up, this episode delivers a suffoca...
Take Out 27.05.2026 10:58
Some deliveries nourish you. Others claim you. In this creeping suburban horror story, a couple’s new home becomes the drop‑off point for groceries they never ordered, tailored with unnerving precision to their cravings, their memories, and eventually, their future. As the deliveries escalate, the couple spirals into a debate - stalker or ghost? Surveillance or haunting? But the truth feels like s...
The Guest in the Margin 17.05.2026 11:40
A quiet cottage on the edge of town should be a sanctuary, but in this slow‑creeping, water‑logged haunting, the guest room becomes a place where something unseen lies down to sleep. She lives alone in a spacious old cottage, the kind with heavy oak furniture and a guest room no one ever uses. But one morning, the perfectly made bed bears a deep, unmistakable indentation. She smooths it out. Locks...
Eleventh Hour 12.05.2026 8:12
Deadlines are supposed to be stressful, not supernatural. In this suffocating, time‑bending spooky story, a freelance designer pulling an all‑nighter discovers that the minute before midnight can stretch into something far more sinister. Ten years ago, desperate to impress a global client, she works through the night in a drafty Portland apartment. As she grinds through the project, the digital cl...
The Basement Tap 10.05.2026 11:41
Silence isn’t empty - it’s a signal waiting to be decoded. In this deeply unsettling story of isolation, intrusion, and Morse‑code dread, a tenant in an old Victorian duplex discovers that the tapping in the pipes isn’t plumbing… it’s communication. At first, the sounds are just the usual quirks of an ageing house. But soon the taps become rhythmic, deliberate, and mobile, following them from room...
Computer Says Go 06.05.2026 9:16
Numbers don’t lie... until they start predicting your disappearance. In this unnerving spooky story, an accountant who has built her life around the clean logic of spreadsheets discovers a hidden tab buried inside a document. A tab that shouldn’t exist. A tab that records the exact dates her colleagues ceased to exist — whether they resigned, vanished, or died. Every name has a date. Except hers....
Where's Barnaby Been? 03.05.2026 11:56
Cats disappear. It’s what they do. But when Barnaby - a grumpy, soot‑coloured moggy with a decade of predictable habits - vanishes for exactly twenty‑four hours and returns bone‑dry in a storm, something about him is… different. In this unsettling spooky story, a beloved housecat comes back marked: a perfect white triangle bleached into his fur, too sharp and too precise to be natural. His eyes sh...
Gaslight 29.04.2026 9:02
Some hauntings don’t start with ghosts - they start with people. In this chilling psychological story, a woman escapes an emotionally manipulative partner, but no longer understand the broken reality she now has to inhabit. For listeners who love psychological horror, domestic dread, unreliable reality, and stories where trauma becomes a doorway, this episode blurs the line between haunting and ma...
ScareBnB 26.04.2026 11:40
A work trip becomes a waking nightmare in this claustrophobic, slow‑burn horror story about a Victorian rental, a locked blue door, and something inside that wants out. Twelve years ago, a medical sales rep books a last‑minute “Charming Victorian Suite” after the local hotels fill up. The host, Elias, is polite but unsettling. The deadbolt is industrial‑grade, the frame is warped, and the wood is...
The Scariest... Tech & Gadgets 22.04.2026 46:41
From baby monitors to security cameras, we rely on technology to keep us safe. But sometimes, our gadgets are the reason we're not safe, as this super spooky compilation proves. EchoLink(00:00) Remote User (09:24) The Elevator (18:28) The Baby Monitor (25:24) Ticking (33:16) Sometimes the biggest threat isn't from ourselves, but things we create. Sweet dreams! Not for kids - listener discretion ad...
Sasquatch 15.04.2026 11:38
Some nights in the wilderness feel alive. Not with animals, but with attention. In this gripping story, a solo backpacker in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest learns that the deepest parts of the Cascades still belong to something older, heavier, and far more curious than any human. It’s 1994, and a young hiker determined to prove her independence sets up camp miles beyond the marked trails. The...
Frequencies 12.04.2026 11:25
Some encounters don’t leave scars - they leave signals. In this unnerving long‑haul horror story, a former night‑shift lorry driver recounts the night the CB radio in his cab tuned into something that wasn’t human, wasn’t local, and wasn’t meant for earthly ears. It’s the late 1980s on a fog‑choked stretch of the M6. He's alone in his lorry, cycling through static to stay awake, when the noise beg...
The Garden Gate 08.04.2026 10:40
Some doors are meant to stay closed, and some gates open themselves. In this creeping, woodland‑rooted horror story, a quiet cottage on the edge of Blackwood becomes the site of a slow, deliberate haunting. What begins as a simple nuisance , a garden gate swinging open every night, turns into a terrifying encounter with something that moves without shape, breathes without lungs, and knows exactly...
I'm Still Here 05.04.2026 8:07
What starts as a quiet evening becomes a slow, suffocating descent into dread when an African Grey parrot begins speaking in a voice no living person could produce. In this unnerving story, Apollo’s usual cheerful chatter is replaced by rasping whispers. Its behaviour shifts - pacing at night, staring down the hallway toward the perpetually cold guest room, warning not to look behind them. Every a...
The Old Well 01.04.2026 12:39
Some wells don’t just hold water. In this chilling spooky story, a teenage girl spends a sweltering summer at her Great‑Aunt Martha’s isolated Valley home, where the air feels thick enough to drown in and the locals whisper about an ancient fieldstone well known only as The Sieve. Natalie is bored enough to ignore every instinct telling her to stay away from the ring of dead oaks behind the garden...
White Van Man 29.03.2026 11:16
Routine is supposed to make life feel safe - the school run, the familiar streets, the predictable rhythm of weekday mornings. But for one exhausted young mother, routine becomes the perfect hunting ground for something that shouldn’t exist. In this unnerving spooky story, a white van begins appearing behind the her car every morning. Not close. Not threatening. Just there — two cars back, turning...
The Organist 25.03.2026 13:21
A tired veterinary intern seeks quiet in an old Norman church, and finds a presence that never stopped rehearsing when a late‑night visit to St. Jude’s turns from solace into dread when she sees a gaunt woman in the locked organ loft, her hands pantomiming frantic playing above the keys. The vicar reveals the church’s secret: Elspeth Vance. If you like: atmospheric church hauntings; slow‑burn supe...
The Return of the Tide 22.03.2026 9:07
Some encounters don’t fade with time - they wait, like a tide pulling itself back toward shore. In this chilling spooky story, a former cannery worker recalls the night he crossed paths with something that should have been lost to the Atlantic decades earlier. It’s 1992 on a fog‑choked Maine wharf, long after closing time. With rain turning the roads to sludge, he takes a forbidden shortcut across...
Claire 18.03.2026 9:14
Some memories feel sacred, warm, and comforting. For me, it was the Summer at the lake house tucked deep in the pines, where a rickety dock creaked beneath my feet, and I played every day with my friend Claire. But the lake house never existed, and the truth is far darker. In this haunting story, a cherished childhood memory fractures under scrutiny, and the question that lingers is the one no one...
My Raggedy Ann 15.03.2026 12:47
A childhood doll becomes the center of a decades‑long haunting in this unsettling first‑person story about memory, fear, and the things that follow us into adulthood. Annie is a second‑hand Raggedy Ann doll with a dark presence. As the years pass, things that begin as small, explainable incidents escalate into something far more disturbing. For listeners who love haunted‑object stories, childhood...
The Night the Lights Went Out 11.03.2026 9:24
A childhood ritual becomes a lifelong fear when a summer blackout in a creaking Massachusetts Victorian reveals a staircase that shouldn’t exist. When the power cuts out during a violent thunderstorm, I leave my younger brother in the attic and begin counting the familiar fourteen steps down to the second floor. But in the pitch‑black silence, the house feels different - heavier, colder, wrong. Th...
Crayons 08.03.2026 13:40
A quiet babysitting shift turns into a night of escalating dread when four‑year‑old Sam begins drawing a figure he calls the Tall Man - a faceless shape waiting “for the clicks.” As rain lashes the windows and the house settles into its cavernous nighttime silence, soft taps begin at the sliding doors. Then heavy knocks at the front door. And then the unmistakable sound of window latches being tur...
The Scariest... Horror for Women 04.03.2026 57:34
From pregnancy and childbirth to stalkers and scary real life situations, women have a lot of things to be scared about. All. The. Time. Women: we feel your pain. Men: take note. What's Left Behind (00:00) My Stalker (09:06) The Birth (19:06) The Baby Monitor (26:46) The Driver Who Knew Everything (34:38) The Waltz of the Forgotten Hearts (42:33) These are not just scary stories, but reality for s...
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