The Nightmare Trials Podcast: A Scary Horror Story Experience

Thank you to everyone who made Season 2 an amazing event! There is more to come but I will be taking a few months off to write and record. Stay spooky, stay cool, and Love Y'all! ⚠️ Warning: This episode contains intense horror themes, emotional distress, violence, and high-stakes psychological tension. Listener discretion is advised. 🎧 Listen to more episodes, Bonus Content, and Additional Story...

S2E62: Existentialism Season 2 Finale Description: Everything has led to this. The final moves are set in motion as Merrick completes the last step of his three-part ascent, securing another god and pushing himself beyond the threshold of return. Power stacks upon power, but identity fractures under the weight of divinity. Aubrey and Simon stand in opposition, not as saviors, but as witnesses to w...

🩸 S2E61: The Hole — by C.P. Bearden About This Episode: The Hole is a tightly wound psychological horror short written by C.P. Bearden, exploring fixation, dread, and the quiet terror of inevitability. Minimalist and unsettling, this episode lingers long after it ends, like the feeling that something unseen is still watching. If you’re drawn to stories that burrow under your skin and refuse to le...

🎄🩸 A Holiday Horror Special All cheer. No mercy. Description: This holiday season, Merrick returns. What were once four separate Christmas nightmares have been stitched together into a single, uninterrupted descent into festive horror. Bells ring. Snow falls. And Merrick reminds the world that not all traditions are meant to bring comfort. From twisted acts of “generosity” to cruel lessons wrapp...

🩸 S2E60: A Tussle With Vanity Power demands admiration. Gods demand worship. Description: The endgame continues. In the wake of To Capture a God, the fractures widen. Merrick pushes forward with his next objective, Vanity. But capturing a god obsessed with self-perception is not a battle of strength… it’s a battle of reflection, deception, and control. Every step closer risks losing what little o...

🩸 S2E59: To Capture a God The beginning of the end. Description: The pieces are finally moving into place. As Season 2 reaches its breaking point, five paths converge, each one vital, each one dangerous. Merrick grapples with the growing presence of the god Fame, a celestial force gnawing at his identity from the inside. Control is slipping, and something divine is learning how to wear human skin...

❄️ S2E58: The Changing When the world freezes, survival isn’t measured in miles... only minutes. Description: The world didn’t end in fire. It ended in cold. In this post-apocalyptic chillscape, a creeping sheet of sentient ice, known only as The Changing, has consumed the West and is slowly devouring its way across the United States. Entire towns vanish overnight. Highways turn to frozen tombs. A...

🩸 S2E57: Necro When the dead want revenge, they don’t always come for your body... sometimes, they come for your mind. Description: Roger has always been in control. A meticulous predator. A monster who believed no one could touch him. But after taking something he should have left, Roger finds himself stalked by an entity older, darker, and far more sadistic than he is. It doesn’t want justice....

🩸 S2E56: Going Live – Part II An escalating Oteev nightmare, where the livestream becomes a ritual. Description: The moment Dare hit “Go Live,” something ancient was watching. Now Merrick stands before him... amused, violent, and ready to use Dare as fuel for his newest obsession. His goal? To summon and merge with a celestial demon known only as Fame, a creature born from worship, attention, and...

🩸 S2E55: Going Live – Part 1 An Oteev storyline tie-in following the aftermath of The Void. Description: After the collapse of the Void, cracks in reality still remain and something hungry presses against the edges. When a reckless YouTuber known as Dare accepts a challenge to explore the home of The Chylds , he unknowingly steps into a dimensional fault line that should have stayed sealed foreve...

🩸 S2E54: We Apologize for the Delay - by Viggy Parr Hampton ✈️🔥 From the author of The Rotting Room , A Cold Night for Alligators , and Much Too Vulgar Description: Tammy comes to consciousness standing in line to board a plan. Odd as that may seem, things just keep getting stranger. She is hounded by ghosts from her past, the familiar faces she hoped to never see again. Caught in an endless loo...

S2E53: DaVinci 🕵️‍♂️🩸 When a string of brutal murders shocks the city, Detective Wright is assigned to the case that has left even seasoned investigators shaken. The evidence is haunting. The details, impossible. With nowhere else to turn, Wright begins to review a series of interrogation tapes—hours of questioning with the prime suspect, a man named Jim. But as he listens deeper into the recordi...

S2E52: Hide and Seek — Part 2 🌲🩸 The hunt continues. After the horrors that unfolded at the secluded hunting lodge, Rich finds himself alone and on the run. His partner Steve is gone, or rather, changed, transformed into something inhuman… something ancient. Now, deep in the dark woods, Rich prepares for the ultimate nightmare: to be hunted by an old vampire whose hunger knows no mercy. As dawn...

S2E51: Hide and Seek — Part 1 🪜🕯️ For Rich and Steve, it was supposed to be just another day on the job. Two gutter cleaners heading out to a secluded hunting lodge deep in the woods. But when they arrive, something feels wrong. The roof is littered with dead animals, the air hums with flies, and the silence that follows feels far too heavy to ignore. What started as a routine cleanup becomes a d...

S2E50: The Zyper Tapes 🎙️🕰️ When Dr. Richard Atwell sits down to interview Sebastian Zyper a patient whose crimes defy logic and whose words fracture reality, the line between science and the supernatural begins to blur. What starts as a simple psychological evaluation descends into a nightmare of existential horror, and something far older than madness itself. The Zyper Tapes is a descent into th...

S2E49: Health Risk 🚂🩺 A long night. A packed train. A doctor just trying to get home. But when passengers begin falling ill with a mysterious sickness, the journey quickly turns into a nightmare. Panic spreads faster than the infection itself, and survival becomes a race against time. As the train barrels through the darkness, questions arise that no science can answer. What started as a routine...

S2E48: Bones 🦴🌑 For most, bones are silent remains of the past. But for her, they whisper secrets only she can hear. Gifted with otherworldly insight, a forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a chilling case where the dead refuse to stay silent. Every fragment, every fracture, tells a story. As she pieces together the truth, shadows lengthen, and the line between her gift and her curse...

S2E47: Rideshare 🚗🌒 Charlie thought driving for a ride share app would be an easy way to make extra cash. But from the moment he picks up his first passenger, the night takes a strange turn. Each ride brings unsettling encounters cryptic conversations, shifting shadows, and an unease that grows with every mile. As the clock ticks toward dawn, reality blurs and the road ahead twists into somethin...

S2E46: The Sleep Trial App 💤📱 When restless nights stretch into weeks, desperation makes even the strangest solutions seem tempting. In this chilling episode, an exhausted insomniac discovers a mysterious new download, The Sleep Trial App, promising the first full night of rest she’s had in years. At first, it works. Dreams come easily. But with each “successful” night, reality frays. ⏳🕳️ Time...

S2E46: How I Met Your Monster This week is a little different, listeners. Instead of an original tale from The Nightmare Trials , I’m bringing you something special, an episode from a podcast I personally listen to and recommend: How I Met Your Monster Podcast. Each episode of How I Met Your Monster dives into the terrifying, bizarre, and often deeply human stories behind the creatures that haunt...

📱 The Nightmare Trials Podcast – Show Notes 📱 Episode Title: S2E44 – Deadlines Some apps track your steps. Others… track your soul. In this disturbing episode of The Nightmare Trials Podcast , we meet Tyler, a man whose night takes a dark turn when his car breaks down on a lonely stretch of road. Searching for help, he discovers a phone lying in the dirt its screen cracked, its battery nearly dr...

⚠️ Warning: This episode contains intense horror themes, emotional distress, violence, and high-stakes psychological tension. Listener discretion is advised. 🎧 Listen to more episodes, Bonus Content, and Additional Storylines of The Nightmare Trials Universe: Patreon (Exclusive Content): https://www.patreon.com/thenightmaretrails 📖 Check out C.P. Bearden’s new book: The Soil is Calling A dark an...

⚖️ The Nightmare Trials Podcast – Show Notes ⚖️ Episode Title: S2E43 – No Struggle When the fight is gone, control is absolute. This marks the third and final chapter in the chilling trilogy that began with No Waste and No Hunger. In S2E43 – No Struggle , the story expands beyond the cells and shadows of a broken utopia and into the presidency of Merrick himself. Now in total control, Merrick prom...

⚠️ Warning: This episode contains intense horror themes, emotional distress, violence, and high-stakes psychological tension. Listener discretion is advised. 🎧 Listen to more episodes, Bonus Content, and Additional Storylines of The Nightmare Trials Universe: Patreon (Exclusive Content): https://www.patreon.com/thenightmaretrails 📖 Check out C.P. Bearden’s new book: The Soil is Calling A dark an...

🍽️ The Nightmare Trials Podcast – Show Notes 🍽️ Episode Title: S2E42 – No Hunger A perfect society doesn’t let anyone starve… but the menu isn’t what you think. In this unnerving follow-up to S2E40 – No Waste , we return to the so-called utopia, only this time, through the eyes of Derrick, recently captured and labeled homeless. He awakens in a sterile, windowless cell, stripped of answers… and no...