After Midnight Tales
By: After Midnight Tales
Language: en
Categories: Fiction, Drama, Society, Culture, True Crime
After Midnight Tales is a podcast dedicated to chilling horror stories, eerie mysteries, and dark narratives told only after the world goes silent.Each episode brings you spine-tingling short stories, paranormal encounters, and unsettling real-life events.If you enjoy late-night horror, psychological thrillers, unexplained phenomena, and stories that stay with you long after the episode ends—this podcast is for you.Turn off the lights, put on your headphones…And welcome to the darkness after midnight.
Episodes
The Unmarked Virgin Cave and Primal Horror
Dec 16, 2025A narrator and his former caving partner, Ryan, who discover an unmarked, collapsed cave on the narrator’s new property, tempting them back into the dangerous hobby he had previously abandoned.
Inside the surprisingly large cavern, they find ancient animal and human remains covered in gnaw marks, along with unsettling petroglyphs depicting a massive, distorted monster attacking humans. Their exploration turns deadly when a pale, fast creature attacks, injuring Ryan as they attempt a frantic escape through the narrow entrance.
The narrator narrowly squeezes out before the cave collapses, helplessly hearing the creature at...
Delivery App's Cursed Triple Pay Route
Dec 15, 2025A gig worker employed by a food delivery app who, driven by financial need, accepts a triple-pay delivery to an address famously avoided by all other drivers. After repeated deliveries where the food is left untouched and instructions become increasingly bizarre, the narrator breaks protocol and enters the desolate residence. Inside, they are violently attacked by a long-limbed, pale, monstrous entity in the kitchen and barely escape by smashing through a window. When the narrator reports the incident, the police dismiss it as a false claim from an overworked employee, finding nothing unusual. The story concludes with the same...
Duration: 00:12:23Containment Protocol: Marionette
Dec 14, 2025A member of Phantom Echo, a highly classified military special operations unit, recounting a disastrous mission to an abandoned research facility in Wyoming. The team was sent to investigate missing local police officers, only to discover that the officers had been mutilated and displayed as grotesque human sculptures in the facility’s basement.
Their investigation is cut short when an unfathomable, bulletproof entity attacks, decimating the experienced team. The narrator is the sole survivor, rescued by an unidentified military team in futuristic armor, who use advanced thermal weapons to sterilize the scene, incinerating all remains, including th...
Jasper's Watch: Protection on the Thin Land
Dec 13, 2025A man who retreats to a remote cabin after the death of his old dog, Jasper, only to discover that the land is a "thin place" attracting malevolent entities. Locals offer cryptic warnings that the area sits on ancient burial grounds, but the narrator’s grief makes him vulnerable. He begins hearing unsettling, specific sounds—whining and footsteps—that suggest something is mimicking his deceased dog to gain entry.
The climax occurs when a grotesque creature violently smashes into the cabin, forcing the narrator to defend himself. In a twist, the monster is attacked and destroyed by a s...
Love Her, Though She Be a Creature
Dec 12, 2025A married couple on a remote retreat. The husband fondly recalls his wife’s eccentric habit of asking if he would still love her if she were a grotesque insect. During a hike, they encounter a strange, still spring where the wife swims, immediately exhibiting dramatically altered behavior and mysteriously losing her cherished protective rosary. Later, a hideous, weeping creature attacks their cabin, and the wife undergoes a horrifying physical disintegration. It is then revealed that the creature is the real wife, whose soul had been trapped when the woman he knew was taken over by an external entity in...
Duration: 00:09:28The Fifth Place at the Barnes Table
Dec 11, 2025The story is told from the perspective of a small-town cop, Officer Brims, in rural Iowa, investigating the disappearance of the Barnes family. Upon entering their home, he discovers the entire family dead at their dinner table, apparently victims of a dark ritual, evidenced by a pentagram carved into the ceiling and an open journal.
The journal reveals the parents’ attempt to resurrect a lost child, which required a sacrificial offering and resulted in the manifestation of a grotesque, massive entity now feeding in the dining room. A violent confrontation ensues, forcing backup to arrive and su...
The Hush of Sunday Knocks
Dec 10, 2025The story takes place in Yaro Crossing, a small, isolated town with a strict, unspoken rule: residents must never open the door on Sundays. The narrative follows Tom, a retired army veteran who moves into a vacant cabin and dismisses the town’s warnings as superstition. Soon, he begins hearing recurring three-part knocks on Sunday nights, unsettling him and terrifying his dog, yet he refuses to heed the warnings. Despite glimpsing a strange, unsettling figure outside through a peephole, Tom remains defiantly resistant to the town’s rule. By Monday, Tom has mysteriously vanished, leaving only his distressed pet and...
Duration: 00:08:17Alpine Horror and Wolf Killing Conviction
Dec 09, 2025The story follows four friends on an off-season hiking trip in the remote Austrian Alps. Their adventure turns terrifying when they follow mysterious human footprints into the wilderness, leading to a violent encounter with a circling pack of wolves. The next morning, they discover the snow scattered with mutilated wolf carcasses and unnaturally large, human-shaped tracks, hinting at a far greater, unknown threat. Their escape ends abruptly when they encounter a towering, frostbitten creature with antlers, which brutally kills one of the group. Though rescued by mountain patrol investigating the deceased wolves, the narrator’s account of the monster is...
Duration: 00:09:39Forced Identity: Captivity as Emily
Dec 08, 2025A narrator who moves to a new town and befriends their seemingly kind neighbors, the Averies. Initially mourning the loss of their daughter, Emily, the couple’s behavior escalates as they attempt to coerce the narrator into assuming Emily’s identity through gifts, subtle demands, and ultimately, confinement. While trapped in a meticulously preserved bedroom, the narrator discovers a hidden journal written by a previous victim, Becca, revealing that the Averies systematically kidnap young women to replace their deceased child. After a tense encounter with a visiting police officer, complicated by Mr. Avery’s gun, authorities eventually raid the home...
Duration: 00:09:15Daniel's Last Transmission
Dec 07, 2025A man recalling the traumatic death of his brother, Daniel, years earlier. It begins when the narrator discovers an old walkie-talkie in his abandoned childhood home, which begins transmitting unsettling static and the mournful voice of his deceased brother, expressing that he is scared. Through disturbing dreams and escalating encounters with the device, the narrator is forced to confront the shocking truth: he had deliberately abandoned Daniel in the woods as a cruel joke the night his brother slipped and died of exposure. Burdened by years of hidden guilt, he finally screams his confession into the walkie-talkie. The story...
Duration: 00:12:54Abominations of the Appalachian Wilderness
Dec 06, 2025These accounts chronicle horrifying and often classified encounters with monstrous entities in the Appalachian Mountains and surrounding areas. One narrator, claiming to be a Green Beret, recounts a mission in western Tennessee to neutralize a grotesque bio-engineered creature that escaped a hidden facility, causing mass casualties and triggering a military cover-up. Other stories describe being stalked and attacked by cryptids, including a massive, fur-covered, antlered amalgamation near a secluded cabin and bipedal, wolf-like beings provoked by disturbed ceremonial skulls. Another account details a confrontation in an underground cave system with a partially cloaked, subterranean humanoid, possibly vulnerable to steel...
Duration: 00:12:04Instructions for the Spectral Train's Private Service
Dec 05, 2025A conductor on his terrifying first shift aboard a secretive private train hired for an unusually high-paying job with strict, unnatural rules. As the journey unfolds, he breaks one critical instruction, causing the train to halt and allowing distorted shadow entities to board as passengers. Reality fractures as fear and paranoia escalate, ending in a violent, phantom crash. After the final surviving passenger departs, the recruiter reveals the horrifying truth: the train was transporting the dead. Traumatized by the revelation, the conductor immediately quits, refusing to ever return.
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The Deadly Ritual of First Snow
Dec 04, 2025Recounts a town’s terrifying annual tradition: a mandatory survival run during the first snowfall. Residents must maintain strict routines to evade the monstrous Wolf Walkers, distorted human-wolf hybrids that prey on anyone who falls behind.
The narrator recalls losing their father during an early run and witnessing the horrifying appearance of the hunters when someone breaks the rule to never look back. Years later, the protagonist carries their frail, sick mother instead of leaving her behind, prompting her heroic self-sacrifice to ensure the child’s escape.
The narrative concludes with the protagonist now...
The Workshop, The Web, and The Walls
Dec 03, 2025Presents multiple horror narratives exploring generational curses, psychological collapse, and supernatural menace. One story follows a man inheriting the role of Preserver, tasked with constructing life-sized figures from animal and human parts to appease a monstrous entity called the Parent. Another recounts a husband’s terror as his wife is overtaken by a spider entity, which ultimately invades his own mind. Additional accounts include a fraudulent exorcist confronted by a real, violent haunting, and a detective unraveling a series of apartment murders committed by a grotesque, shape-shifting creature formed from thousands of rats. These narratives emphasize isolation, the hidden co...
Duration: 00:11:58The Unblinking Ocular Plague
Dec 03, 2025A narrator’s terrifying descent into a surreal, biological nightmare. It begins with the discovery of a blinking human eye embedded in his kitchen table, which soon escalates into an infestation of dozens of living, staring eyes covering every surface of his apartment. The phenomenon spreads beyond his home, affecting people in his neighborhood, including his manager. Desperate to escape the oppressive gaze, the narrator gouges out his own eyes, temporarily finding relief, only to realize in the hospital that the eyes’ pressure persists—revealing that the horror is not about sight, but perception itself.
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The Locker's Twisted Debt
Dec 03, 2025A group of friends confronting the horrifying consequences of their past bullying. Fifteen years earlier, they had tormented a quiet classmate, Danny Truillo, locking him in a locker before he mysteriously disappeared. Years later, one friend is found brutally murdered and twisted, and the killings escalate—even claiming a victim in maximum-security custody. The narrator discovers that Danny has been on the run from a supernatural entity summoned by his own vengeful prayers. With Danny’s guidance and customized weapons, the narrator helps destroy the creature, but Danny sacrifices himself, instructing the narrator to shoot him so the authorities can...
Duration: 00:10:34The Ticking Silence of Ever Creek
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the harrowing experience of a surveyor and his apprentice, Seth, sent to inspect an old, sealed mine near the isolated town of Ever Creek. From the outset, the team encounters cryptic warnings from unnervingly silent locals and discovers ritualistic bundles of personal items near the mine, meant as offerings to ward something off. Research into town records reveals inconsistencies regarding the mine collapse and a recurring pattern of unexplained disappearances every two decades, attributed in folklore to the “faceless ones” inhabiting the shaft. When the surveyors open the mine, a rhythmic metallic sound is triggered, and the town’s pass...
Duration: 00:12:34Confessions of a Haunted Therapist
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the psychological unraveling of a therapist drawn into a terrifying case. Her client is haunted by Mr. Grin, a malevolent entity that appears whenever extreme misfortune befalls him, acting as an ominous witness to his suffering. The therapist violates ethical boundaries by staying overnight with the client, witnessing Mr. Grin force him to commit suicide. Following her escape, the entity begins stalking her, leading to the loss of her professional license and a descent into paranoia. In her desperation, she seeks help from another therapist, only to repeat the same dangerous scenario by asking the new professional to...
Duration: 00:09:44Blessings That Cost a Soul
Dec 03, 2025A chilling confession heard by a priest during a stormy night. The confessor recounts his impoverished childhood, where his devout mother began luring hungry, forgotten strangers to their farm after the family’s livestock and crops failed. Following these disappearances, the boy and his mother would eat the victims, performing a ritual in which they covered their faces with linen cloths to hide their actions from God—an act the boy later recognized as cannibalism. After leaving home, the man struggles with an unnatural, persistent hunger until he eventually lures and consumes a homeless man, reenacting his mother’s ritual...
Duration: 00:12:48The Perfect Logic of Human Repurposing
Dec 03, 2025Presents five distinct horror narratives centered on isolation, technology gone awry, and unavoidable catastrophe. One story follows a predictive military uniform system that forcibly integrates soldiers into optimized, rigid platforms, driving the lead engineer to attempt a desperate facility-wide EMP strike. Another recounts a deep-sea research crew encountering enigmatic, non-biological structures on the abyssal plain that observe and mimic them, culminating in a fatal boarding by an unknown entity. A third narrative explores a man grappling with a generational curse and demonic demands, leading to his parents’ tragic deaths. The fourth depicts a worker at a remote mine discovering th...
Duration: 00:11:40The Phrogger's Unwilling Inheritance
Dec 03, 2025A professional squatter, known as a "frogger," who secretly lives in others' homes for thrill and challenge. He targets a secluded, unnaturally fertile ranch in Utah, where a seemingly normal family engages in occult-like rituals. The narrator discovers a hidden basement and witnesses the family perform a grisly decapitation ritual on a pregnant woman to summon a powerful entity. When discovered by the creature, he is coerced into breaking a protective salt barrier to ensure his escape, only to be trapped by a final demand: to raise the entity’s monstrous newborn child. Ultimately, the narrator becomes imprisoned within th...
Duration: 00:11:53Clerical Imposter Meets True Evil
Dec 03, 2025A desperate individual who invents the persona “Brother Elias” to pose as an exorcist for quick rent money. Initially, the narrator profits from this scam using cheap props and generic Latin phrases, addressing clients’ mundane problems like leaky pipes or rats. The scheme collapses when they take a high-paying job at a remote house and confront a truly terrifying entity that violently attacks the homeowner. After fleeing, the narrator reports the incident anonymously, only to learn the homeowner is entirely unharmed and merely meditating. The story concludes with the unsettling image of the client watching the narrator from a window...
Duration: 00:12:07The Playlist That Wouldn't Let Go
Dec 03, 2025A chilling narrative in which a man struggles to process the death of his former partner, Emily, five years earlier. As he begins a new relationship with Clare, a mysterious playlist titled "You remember us right" appears on his music app, featuring songs tied to deeply personal memories with Emily. The playlist exhibits supernatural influence, manipulating his technology and even causing a near-fatal car accident to force his attention. Realizing that Emily’s lingering presence is guiding him, he visits her grave, confessing his enduring feelings while acknowledging his need to move forward with Clare. The story concludes with th...
Duration: 00:11:05Detective Hanley and the Rat King Murders
Dec 03, 2025A chilling horror narrative following Detective Hanley as he investigates two gruesome murders in the same apartment building. Both victims show no signs of forced entry or defensive wounds, but a horrifying pattern emerges: each crime scene features a bloody handprint on the ceiling, later identified as belonging to the first victim, revealing the killer is using her severed arm as a grotesque signature. During a stakeout, Hanley encounters the perpetrator—a towering, nightmarish creature formed from thousands of rats and stolen human limbs, often referred to as a "rat king." After a violent confrontation, the creature escapes through th...
Duration: 00:08:54Arachnophobia's Cure: A Web of Madness
Dec 03, 2025A harrowing horror story in which the narrator’s wife, Lily, develops extreme arachnophobia following a traumatic encounter with a spider. Her fear escalates to the point that she is committed for treatment and subjected to exposure therapy. Upon returning home, the narrator notices alarming changes in her behavior, including manically laughing while consuming a massive spider, signaling a terrifying transformation. As the narrator’s own mental state deteriorates, he discovers his neighbor’s house entirely engulfed in dense silk, patrolled by a monstrous, horse-sized spider. The ordeal culminates when Lily reveals that she is the entity inhabiting the body...
Duration: 00:10:41Below Level Seven: The Walls That Breathe
Dec 03, 2025A chilling horror story about a desperate narrator who takes a high-paying but mysterious job at a remote, high-altitude mine known simply as “the dig.” The mine enforces a strict rule: no worker may enter the heavily sealed Level 7. Over time, the crew begins experiencing unsettling psychological effects and hearing unnatural sounds emanating from below. When an emergency forces them to use a service shaft, the crew is mysteriously rerouted directly through Level 7, where they discover the chamber is not stone but living, pulsing organic matter, with a missing coworker’s remains fused into the floor. The narrator narrowly escape...
Duration: 00:10:44The Preserver's Gruesome Inheritance
Dec 03, 2025A narrator inheriting a remote Kentucky property and the secretive workshop of his recently deceased father, a taxidermist. He soon discovers that his father’s work involved creating grotesque, human-shaped figures designed to appease a local, ancient entity known as “the parent,” which punishes the town by causing children to disappear if the figures are not provided. After witnessing the consequences of failing the ritual, the narrator reluctantly assumes his role as the town’s new "preserver," supported—though uneasily—by the local community. Through his father’s journals, he learns the full horror: the figures must be “rooted in truth,” requi...
Duration: 00:10:00The Family Curse of the House Creature
Dec 03, 2025A chilling story of a childhood overshadowed by a malevolent, shadowy entity haunting the family home. This entity manipulates the family’s fortune and decisions through ominous written demands, a consequence of a desperate pact made by the grandfather to cure the father of a serious illness. The creature eventually demands a child sacrifice, driving the parents into panic and resulting in the tragic suicide of the narrator’s mother after she fails to provide a replacement. Years later, the father reveals that their life of privilege came at the cost of constant suffering and submission. The narrative concludes with...
Duration: 00:13:00The Home of Borrowed Faces
Dec 03, 2025A terrifying delivery experience in which a pizza driver encounters a family at an unfamiliar house who are exact duplicates of his own mother, father, and sister, leading him to suspect they are malicious doppelgangers. After confirming his real family is apparently at home, the increasingly paranoid driver pursues the duplicates and captures them, bringing them back to his house. Consumed by obsession, he forces the "father" copy to witness the bloody scene of his actual family’s deaths, strongly implying the narrator’s own involvement. The narrative concludes with the protagonist executing the terrified duplicates in his car, then...
Duration: 00:12:23The Hidden Rules of Horror Survival
Dec 03, 2025A series of chilling horror narratives depicting ordinary individuals encountering unsettling, often fatal phenomena. One story follows a disastrous alpine hike in which friends are hunted by wolves and an antlered monstrosity, leaving a lone survivor who later takes on a surreal career transporting the dead. Other accounts detail a perilous urban exploration inside an abandoned hospital that ends in a brutal chase, and the deadly consequences of a dark occult ritual in a basement that unleashes a lethal entity. The final tale recounts a conspiracy theorist’s last journey, culminating in his nephew discovering him slain by mole-like su...
Duration: 00:13:50Deep Sea Structures and the Abyssal Mimic
Dec 03, 2025A disastrous marine biology expedition aboard the RV Arkite. While surveying the abyssal plain, the crew discovers an enormous field of perfectly geometrical, synthetic structures etched into the ocean floor, which actively shift and appear to track the vessel. Tension escalates when a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) becomes entangled in an unknown fibrous material, prompting a crew member to descend in the only submersible, where he is violently destroyed by the unseen entity below. Shortly after, the creature mimics the lost crew member and boards the ship, forcing the narrator to execute the impostor in a panic. The surviving...
Duration: 00:10:41The Forum's Sole Administrator
Dec 03, 2025A bored middle schooler who becomes engrossed in a secretive online forum after befriending another user in a sandbox game, who introduces him to the purported "real internet." Initially thrilled by the strange, rule-free community, the narrator is later persuaded to meet his online friend in person. Due to a change in his custody schedule, he accidentally provides the address of his father’s house. Upon visiting to check on the failed meeting, he discovers his father brutally murdered and his step-brother, Jake, missing, forcing him to recount the entire online ordeal to the authorities. The investigation uncovers that th...
Duration: 00:10:49The Seamline Correction and Unraveling
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the horrifying evolution of Project Seamline, a highly secretive initiative focused on developing advanced combat armor using nanofiber threading and predictive algorithms designed to instantly seal battlefield wounds and maintain structural integrity. The narrator, a predictive systems engineer, describes how the suits quickly exceeded their intended function, prioritizing mechanical stability by stitching human tissue and bone into rigid, unnatural configurations, often causing fatal injuries. As the system evolved, it began to preemptively “correct” perceived weaknesses in healthy soldiers, revealing that the code treated the human body as merely a structural asset to be optimized for operational performance. The narr...
Duration: 00:10:22The Final Transmission: A Subterranean Encounter
Dec 03, 2025A personal horror story involving a man’s eccentric Uncle Warren, who was obsessed with proving the existence of subterranean "mole people" before suddenly disappearing. When the narrator investigates Warren’s abandoned home, they uncover clues—including detailed maps and untouched diabetes medication—suggesting Warren had found the evidence he sought and left a message to follow his active GPS signal. Following the coordinates to a remote, narrow cave, the narrator discovers Uncle Warren's brutally mutilated body, confirming that his theories were horrifyingly accurate. The narrator is then ambushed by the creatures responsible: pale, sightless humanoids that move swiftly in the d...
Duration: 00:09:37Terrors from the Sleepless Archive
Dec 03, 2025Comprise several chilling horror narratives, each describing encounters with hidden, malevolent forces. One story follows the discovery of a creationist museum built atop a concealed cave harboring grotesque biological abominations and a severely mutated relative. Another account depicts two friends exploring a remote cabin, only to uncover a secret underground lab breeding malformed creatures. Additional narratives include a protagonist taking a precarious job as a caretaker for an elderly woman whose body harbors a parasitic entity that manipulates her during sleep, and a delivery driver witnessing a subterranean cult sacrificing new members to an ancient organism beneath a makeshift...
Duration: 00:12:20Never Close Your Eyes in the Shower
Dec 03, 2025A chilling narrative about a recent college graduate who, facing severe financial hardship, rents an unusually cheap and dilapidated apartment. The story centers on a cracked shower cabin that appears haunted, where frantic screaming and shuffling occur whenever the protagonist closes their eyes while bathing. After testing this supernatural rule, the entity escalates its torment by physically attacking the narrator, leaving three deep, bloody claw marks on their back. During a final attempt to clean themselves, the entity, enraged that the victim kept their eyes open, violently assaults the shower, causing the drain to expel filth, teeth, and hair...
Duration: 00:12:48The Basement Conjuration's Final Toll
Dec 03, 2025A terrifying first-person narrative in which two friends—the skeptical narrator and the occult-obsessed Cody—attempt a powerful ritual discovered online. In Cody’s meticulously prepared basement, complete with a pentagram and various occult items, the ritual succeeds in summoning a dark, towering entity. The creature immediately decapitates Cody, forcing the narrator to flee. At first, he believes the attack might be an elaborate prank, but horror sets in when he discovers that the entity has already murdered his parents at home. The story ends with the narrator hiding alone, realizing that with Cody dead, he has no way to act...
Duration: 00:14:01The Veil, The Butcher, and Perpetual Watching
Dec 03, 2025A series of chilling horror narratives centered on cycles of sin, trauma, and supernatural retribution. One story follows a “frogger” trapped on a Utah ranch after witnessing a family’s ancient blood sacrifice ritual, forced to care for the resulting demonic offspring. Another recounts a man’s confession to a priest about a childhood steeped in ritualized cannibalism, disguised as religious devotion by his mother. Additional accounts describe a therapist haunted by a demonic entity called "Mr. Grin" after a patient is driven to suicide, and a bureau contractor discovering a rural town placates mine-dwelling entities with human offerings, leading...
Duration: 00:13:47The Cross Line's Horrific Legacy
Dec 03, 2025A harrowing expedition by two railway workers surveying a disused World War II tunnel sealed for decades after an air strike. The narrator, fascinated by wartime history, leads his reluctant partner, Dan, into the tunnel, where they discover the wreck of a supply train. Soon, the narrator encounters a hideous, partially-skinned entity trapped near the wreckage. After fleeing, he is horrified to find that Dan has been mimicked and replaced by a more effective monstrous double. The narrator escapes as sunlight repels the creature and later falsifies his report to ensure the tunnel remains sealed and no one else...
Duration: 00:09:11The Protector Beneath the Bed
Dec 03, 2025A first-person account of a traumatic night when a 16-year-old was left caring for his younger brother, Mikey, in a dangerous neighborhood. After their mother left for work, an Amber Alert reports a nearby home invasion. Later that night, Mikey screams, claiming a "monster" is in his room. The narrator looks under the bed and sees a massive creature with yellow, slit-pupiled eyes. He hides Mikey in the attic and calls 911, but the phone dies as they hear crashes, screams, and animalistic sounds from downstairs. When the police arrive, they attribute the damage and a discovered burglar’s pistol to...
Duration: 00:11:50The Orchard's Face
Dec 03, 2025A horrifying series of events following the death of a child, Elsie, who was buried in the family’s pear orchard. Struggling with grief and financial pressure, her parents agree to have experimental grafting technology installed in their trees to increase yield. Soon after, a single fruit grows on Elsie’s tree, rapidly developing features resembling her face and body. The mother, Marissa, becomes obsessed with the fruit, treating it as if it were her daughter. When a company assistant attempts to interfere, Marissa’s desperation escalates into murder, with the father helping to conceal the act by burying the bo...
Duration: 00:12:37The Dead Men's Deepest Descent
Dec 03, 2025A terrifying expedition in which a convicted criminal is offered freedom in exchange for a perilous mission into an uncharted cave system. Recruited by a mysterious woman, the narrator joins three other expendable individuals—two murderers and a nervous guide, Ren, who previously fled the caves—to document and assess a dangerous, possibly sentient, biological entity that killed the first team. Ill-equipped and treated as disposable, the group faces escalating tension as they encounter a metallic, bladed creature deep within the caverns. In a brutal confrontation, the narrator is forced to sacrifice Ren to survive and ultimately escapes as the...
Duration: 00:10:09The River Wives' Toll and the Debt Paid in Kind
Dec 03, 2025Narrates the unsettling experience of a couple who move into a cheap, rural cottage to escape mounting debt. Upon arrival, the locals warn them about the mysterious "riverwives," advising Mara, judged for her city attire, to cover up and avoid drawing attention. Mara happily adapts to the countryside, making soap, while the narrator grows increasingly anxious, struggling to hide his financial troubles. The horror intensifies when Mara, disregarding the warnings, offers her soap to the riverwives, resulting in her violent death at their hands—an act the townspeople silently accept as beyond the law. In the aftermath, the narrator se...
Duration: 00:12:02The Inheritance of Grandpa's Locks
Dec 03, 2025Recounts a narrator’s childhood experience of observing a bizarre family ritual in which their elderly grandfather was locked in his room each night. At first, the narrator assumed the locked door was a safety precaution, until witnessing their grandfather cough up blood at dinner, prompting suspicion. Driven by concern, the narrator finds a hidden key and enters the room at night, discovering that the frail grandfather is hosting a grotesque, fleshy entity that emerges from his mouth. The narrative concludes with the father violently killing the grandfather to stop the creature, only for the narrator to realize that th...
Duration: 00:12:22The Farm, The Pit, and the Father's Legacy
Dec 03, 2025The story of a man returning to his family farm to care for his ailing and abusive father. The narrator struggles with deep-seated trauma from his childhood, including his father’s cruelty and the mysterious death of his mother, while noticing strange occurrences connected to the farm’s productivity. He eventually uncovers a horrifying secret: the fertile land is sustained by a pulsating, fleshy pit that requires live sacrifices, which his father had been providing, including the narrator’s pet rabbit and, shockingly, his own mother. This revelation drives the narrator to a final, grim act of vengeance, feeding his fa...
Duration: 00:11:07Cop's Account of the Winding Pines Horror
Dec 03, 2025A terrifying night experienced by a veteran police officer named Donley. During a routine traffic stop, two nervous men flee and crash near a youth retreat, leaving one person dead. The situation escalates into the supernatural when the surviving driver undergoes a horrifying transformation into a monstrous creature inside the police cruiser. The narrative focuses on Donley’s desperate struggle to prevent the entity from reaching the camp full of children, involving the destruction of his vehicles and a frantic escape on a school bus under attack. The story concludes with the officer and the surviving children being rescued, th...
Duration: 00:10:01The Custodians of Unnatural Fauna
Dec 03, 2025Follows the supernatural experiences of a newly hired veterinary technician working the night shift. At first, the narrator assumes they are simply working in a quiet clinic, until a man brings in a disturbing, biologically anomalous creature, revealing a hidden world of unnatural occurrences. As more cryptid animals arrive—with features like fish-gilled teeth, spiraling pupils, and impossible skeletal structures—the narrator learns that the clinic is actually a secret facility tasked with the containment and disposal of these “breaches.” The story concludes with the senior veterinarian revealing the facility’s true purpose and passing the responsibility to the narrator...
Duration: 00:10:43The Tracks and the Halloween Vanishing
Dec 03, 2025A chilling supernatural event experienced by four friends on Halloween night. The children crossed a forbidden train track to trick-or-treat on a desolate street, encountering static, lifeless houses and receiving strange black candy. The climax occurs when one boy, Danny, puts on a mysterious mask found on a branch, causing him to join a silent, masked procession of figures waiting on the street. A year later, the narrator returns and discovers that Danny has become a permanent part of the eerie phenomenon, silently marching with the other masked figures.
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Do Not Turn Around The Counting Man
Dec 03, 2025Explores the origins and details of a legend known as "The Counting Man." According to the legend, an individual hears footsteps mirroring their own, followed by a voice that counts one number higher each subsequent night, with a critical rule: never turn around, or face instant doom. Accounts of the Counting Man appear across centuries and cultures, showing strikingly similar patterns. Reported incidents suggest that reaching the number ten leads to disappearance, and intriguingly, simply knowing the rules may trigger the phenomenon.
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The House in the Middle of the Lake
Dec 03, 2025A terrifying weekend trip taken by two friends, Liam and Matt, to a remote cabin. They stumble upon a strange, fully furnished house mysteriously situated in the middle of a foggy lake, with no visible foundation. Inside, the house initially seems warm and inviting, frozen in time with fresh food on the table. However, they quickly realize the house enforces a horrifying rule: only one person can leave at a time, trapping the other inside. In the end, Matt escapes to get help, but is consumed by paranoia and the belief that his survival depends on never returning to...
Duration: 00:10:32The Wallpaper Peels Back Every Night
Dec 03, 2025A tenant struggling financially after losing their job, who moves into a new house only to encounter a single wall with old floral wallpaper that behaves unnaturally. Despite attempts to secure it with tape, staples, and strong adhesive, the paper repeatedly peels back on its own. Beneath it, the tenant discovers deep scratches and a pulsing black handprint. When the landlord dismisses the tenant’s concerns, the wall suddenly swells and violently ruptures, allowing a tar-colored, clawed hand to emerge and drag the landlord inside, leaving behind only a key ring and a now-smooth, undisturbed wall.
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Your Perfect Life Is the Final Script
Dec 03, 2025A man whose life begins to unravel as he perceives an intrusive, omniscient narrator commenting on his actions and seemingly controlling his reality. He experiences the disappearance of a friend and witnesses the surreal erasure of a wife and daughter he realizes were never real, revealing that he is trapped within a failing narrative. The controlling voice, intent on generating dramatic conflict, inflicts psychological and physical terror on him, but halts when he fully submits to inaction. In the end, the protagonist receives a sudden, overwhelming reversal of fortune, illustrating the narrator’s terrifying and absolute power over his ex...
Duration: 00:10:42The Collared Bear and the White King
Dec 03, 2025A chilling Arctic expedition led by a wildlife biologist and their team. The mission begins with the sedation of a polar bear for tagging, only to reveal that it is already wearing an ancient brass collar dated 1847, inscribed with a mysterious spiral design. Following this discovery, the team uncovers records of a nonexistent surveyor, Dr. Thaddius Knox, and a cryptic map leading them to a massive spiraling depression in the ice. Within this feature, they find a hidden glacier vault containing a colossal, non-human hand pressed against a thinning ice wall, surrounded by an unnaturally large number of silent...
Duration: 00:10:35Cave Rescue: The Unrecoverable Deep
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the harrowing experience of a cave rescue diver. Accustomed to navigating treacherous underwater passages, the narrator describes a mission to locate a group of amateurs who went missing in a cave known for unusual currents. During the operation, the diver encounters unexplained phenomena, including strange markings on the rock, rhythmic knocking sounds, and an unseen entity that attacks both the missing group members and the diver’s partner, Leon. The climax occurs when the diver barely escapes with the remains of a single survivor, who was violently shredded by the entity while tethered to the rescuer. Ultimately, the in...
Duration: 00:10:06Seven Shades of Summer Horror
Dec 03, 2025Presents three separate horror narratives, each exploring growing dread, supernatural threats, and psychological trauma. The first story depicts a narrator whose apartment becomes overrun with rapidly spreading human eyes, culminating in the horrifying realization that no one else can perceive the phenomenon. The second recounts a childhood memory in which a monstrous entity lurks under a younger sibling’s bed, ultimately suggesting that the creature may have been guarding rather than harming the child. The third narrative follows a couple who move to a remote cottage and encounter malevolent local folklore, resulting in the disappearance of the partner, Mara, an...
Duration: 00:12:49Fire Lookout and the Wounded Beast
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the terrifying experience of a fire lookout tower ranger stationed in a remote wilderness during a harsh winter. The narrator describes the isolation of his post and the odd behavior of his long-time colleague, Ezekiel, who has been stationed there indefinitely. During a whiteout, the ranger investigates a wounded animal and is attacked by a shapeshifting creature, a horrifying hybrid of man, deer, and bear. He flees to Ezekiel’s tower, only to discover that Ezekiel is prepared with occult items and weapons. Together, they confront and ultimately defeat the creature using a magical mirror and a crossbow, re...
Duration: 00:13:37Wasting Disease Protocol: Final Host Report
Dec 03, 2025Presents a chilling first-person narrative of a wildlife biologist who recounts a terrifying experience after culling a deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The carcass inexplicably disappears and reappears on trail cameras, exhibiting unnatural movement and behavior. As events escalate, the protagonist discovers that the infection is far more sinister—a regenerative, parasitic force capable of reanimating host bodies, including the deer and eventually his colleagues. Confronted with the horror, he destroys the fungal hive where the infected are aggregating. Realizing he is also infected, he records a final log and takes his own life to prevent the co...
Duration: 00:09:32The Crane Operator and the Wendigo
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the harrowing experience of Marcus Halt, a crane operator working on a remote tower construction. Struggling with his relationship with his daughter, Marcus describes how a routine night turns into a nightmare when an aggressive, antlered creature attacks the site, killing his crew and igniting a massive fire. Trapped 140 meters up, he identifies the entity as a Wendigo through a book his daughter had given him. As the creature climbs the crane to escape the flames, Marcus improvises a Molotov cocktail to fend it off. The narrative concludes with his rescue and the discovery of the creature’s ch...
Duration: 00:09:06The Twin Who Never Left
Dec 03, 2025Recounts a man’s unsettling experience returning to his family home after his mother’s death. He reflects on a childhood spent alongside the memory of his deceased twin brother, Jamie, whose presence was meticulously preserved through an untouched nursery and strict parental rituals. Over time, these rituals escalated into paranormal phenomena, including objects moving on their own, unexplained cold spots, and whispering voices. These occurrences had ceased when the narrator moved away for college. Upon returning to clear out the house, he discovers his mother’s disturbing journal entries and a photograph that confirm his twin’s ongoing, spectral...
Duration: 00:10:57The Bird Watcher's Abduction Discovery
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the terrifying experience of a bird watcher searching for a rare thrush near a canal. While venturing into the deeper woods, the narrator encounters a police officer friend, Gareth, who is posting missing person notices, hinting at a disturbing pattern of local disappearances. Following the bird’s unusual calls, the narrator discovers a secluded, decrepit shed. Inside, they uncover a horrifying scene: cages holding a small boy, a surgical-style table with bloodied tools, and a freezer labeled with human body parts. They realize they have stumbled upon a serial kidnapper and murderer. The encounter escalates into a violent co...
Duration: 00:09:38Asylum Demolition and the Sealed Room's Secret
Dec 03, 2025Recounts a demolition contractor’s terrifying experience while clearing out an abandoned state hospital. Hired to quickly demolish the facility for a hefty bonus, he discovers a mysteriously sealed-off room in the sub-basement that threatens to delay the project. Despite warnings and the departure of a coworker after strange occurrences, he secretly enters the room, finding an untouched padded cell and a disturbing patient log that seems to tether a malevolent entity to the space. Upon speaking the entity’s name, he later awakens hours—or possibly days—later, with the corridor inexplicably sealed again. While a replacement crew demolish...
Duration: 00:11:06Storage Unit 103
Dec 03, 2025Describes the harrowing experience of a night security guard working at a dilapidated storage facility. Central to the horror is Unit 103, a mysterious unit paid for in cash, strictly off-limits, and seemingly older than the building itself. Driven by curiosity, the guard breaks into the unit, inadvertently disrupting the facility’s delicate containment. Following this, other units begin opening on their own, displaying bizarre temporal and spatial anomalies. In the grim conclusion, the facility manager explains that the building’s true purpose is containment, and because of his actions, the guard is now assigned the permanent, isolating role of a "c...
Duration: 00:12:34Horror Anthologies: Seven Chilling Narratives
Dec 03, 2025Weaves together several unsettling supernatural horror narratives that push their protagonists beyond the limits of sanity. The first story follows a young man who uncovers the bloody truth behind why his grandfather is locked in a room every night, leading to a violent confrontation with something no longer human. Another account describes a town’s eerie blackout ritual, where candles are lit to guide the entities lurking in the surrounding woods—until the narrator is forced to make a terrifying sacrifice to survive. One tale centers on a demolition worker who unseals a hidden, cursed room in an abandoned asyl...
Duration: 00:10:52The Two-Legged Deer Sickness
Dec 03, 2025Recounts a disturbing horror narrative in which the narrator traces a series of violent, unexplained suicides in his small town back to a local barbecue where guests ate contaminated venison. The incidents begin with a neighbor’s sudden self-destruction, followed by a teacher whose expressionless behavior mirrors the same eerie pattern. As the deaths multiply, the narrator realizes that all of them had attended the same gathering. The story’s tension builds around a hunting trip prior to the barbecue, during which the narrator’s father shot a deer that was standing upright in an unnatural, almost human posture. That d...
Duration: 00:10:14The Whistle Game at Camp Grinlow
Dec 03, 2025Recounts a chilling story about three childhood friends who return to their abandoned summer camp, Camp Grinlow, hoping to relive the memories of their youth. The narrator, along with Max and Annie, explores the decayed grounds and decides to play an old game they once loved, “Statu and Songs.” What begins as a nostalgic moment turns into a nightmare when the game awakens a supernatural force—a whistling presence that enforces the rules with lethal precision. As the game progresses, Annie is violently killed for moving at the wrong moment, and Max soon meets the same fate when he breaks...
Duration: 00:07:55Chilling Nightmare Fuel Horror Stories
Dec 03, 2025Presents three separate yet thematically linked horror narratives, each centered on a disturbing, supernatural presence.
1. The CWD-Infected Deer Horror
A wildlife biologist documents the terrifying aftermath of encountering a deer carcass infected with Chronic Wasting Disease. The animal appears to reanimate unnaturally, leading the narrator to uncover a grotesque fungal, flesh-like nest thriving beneath the forest floor. After being exposed to the organism, the biologist begins showing symptoms of infection, culminating in a violent, catastrophic confrontation as the entity attempts to spread through him.
2. The Clicking Woods and the Reassembler<...
The Emergency Alert System Played a Message Just for Me
Dec 03, 2025A tense and terrifying situation involving a night security guard in a hidden research facility. During his routine rounds, he begins receiving emergency alerts that contain deeply personal details from his past—details meant to pressure, guilt, and control him. The messages call him by name, Richard James Somerfield, and give precise warnings about his exact position, forcing him to move through the building in specific ways. As he follows these instructions, the facility itself starts to twist and shift. Hallways change shape, reality distorts, and the environment reacts to every decision he makes, trapping him inside a constantly ch...
Duration: 00:11:57The Yellow Raincoat Curse
Dec 03, 2025Describes a first-person account of someone who decides to revisit the kind of scary stories they used to enjoy. They quickly grow frustrated with the predictable, repetitive material they find online and start searching through older, forgotten corners of the internet. In one of these hidden places, they come across a disturbing story titled "Don't read this if you like sleeping." That story introduces a sinister figure called the girl in the yellow raincoat, an entity that appears to anyone who learns about her. After reading it, the narrator begins seeing her—first from a distance, then progressively closer ea...
Duration: 00:11:25Infestation of the Tooth: A Dental Horror
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the horrifying experiences of a dentist after introducing new, cheaply sourced dental materials into his practice. Initially, he struggles with a persistent toothache, but the situation quickly escalates when he notices that a young patient’s tooth is failing in an unusual way. Soon, a long-time patient’s filling reveals that the inside of the tooth has been mysteriously hollowed out, as if it had been devoured.
The terror peaks when the dentist and his assistant, Kelly, discover a writhing larva inside the affected tooth. They realize that everyone who received the new fillings—including the de...
The Trail Marker's Burden
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the experiences of a county worker tasked with removing old hiking trail signs. What begins as a routine job quickly turns terrifying when he encounters supernatural occurrences: signs inexplicably reappear, strange footprints appear along the trails, and unsettling warnings are broadcast over his radio. The situation escalates when he discovers a macabre totem pole built from old signs, bones, and items belonging to missing people, which then animates into a monstrous figure. After losing consciousness, he awakens to find a pristine trail sign bearing his own name and death date, realizing that he has become a permanent, unseen...
Duration: 00:10:18The Downward Elevator
Dec 03, 2025Recounts the experiences of a land surveyor who discovers a mysterious, fully operational elevator in the middle of an empty field. Curiosity leads him to descend, only to find a series of strange and increasingly dangerous subterranean environments, including an abandoned corporate office, a 1990s suburban house, a makeshift hospital, a flooded shopping mall, and a shadowy underground forest. With each level, he faces bizarre and perilous encounters, struggling to navigate the ever-changing spaces. Eventually, he finds a small service elevator that returns him to the surface—but the original, impossible elevator begins its descent again, implying the structure is...
Duration: 00:09:39Candles for the Watchers: A Blackout Tale
Dec 03, 2025Recounts a supernatural experience during a town-wide power outage. The community observes a peculiar tradition: residents light candles for "them," an unnamed, feared presence in the nearby woods. The narrator discovers their grandmother incapacitated and seemingly taken by these entities. To save her, the narrator ventures into the forest with a single candle, learning that the lights are meant to guide the entities away from homes, not merely keep them out. The ordeal ends with the narrator and their grandmother safely returning as the power is restored, leaving the narrator haunted by the town's unsettling secret and the true...
Duration: 00:09:49The Collector's Weight and Narrative Collapse
Dec 02, 2025Weaves together multiple narratives of procedural and subtle supernatural horror, where survival depends on following precise rules or rituals. Stories include a teacher burdened by a whispering weight in a playground game, victims stalked by the Counting Man, and an apartment where sentient wallpaper hides a clawed entity that drags people through walls. Other horrors involve a floating house that manipulates time and forces grim bargains, a protagonist realizing he is merely a character in a cruel story, and a secret society of veterinarians containing impossible biological "breaches." Across these tales, the overarching theme is the gradual, invasive encroachment...
Duration: 00:13:17Next of Kin to a Ghost
Dec 02, 2025The story follows Ethan, who learns from authorities that the body of his previously unknown sister, Sarah, has been found—a sibling his family had deliberately hidden. Investigating his past, he returns to his childhood home to discover that all evidence of Sarah was systematically destroyed by his father, who had even filed and retracted a missing person report. The mystery escalates into supernatural horror when Sarah’s ghost—or a malevolent entity posing as her—traps Ethan and forces him to reveal his father’s hiding place to save his life. In a chilling revelation, the father admits he did not...
Duration: 00:10:47The Sound That Woke the Thing
Dec 02, 2025A professional nature sound recorder recounts a terrifying experience that began when he captured an unexplained auditory anomaly during an overnight session in the wilderness. The anomaly featured a precise 63-second stretch of complete silence, followed by bizarre twisting and grinding sounds defying explanation. After accidentally uploading the raw audio online, listeners reported horrific disturbances—nightmares, power failures, and sudden illnesses—suggesting the file was cursed. The narrator realized the anomaly was linked to a massive, terrifying creature that tracked him when he tried to delete the file. To survive, he was forced to restore the corrupted audio online, leav...
Duration: 00:11:49