Witnessing something strange during the drive down the dark roads of Arizona. There’s something about Arizona that creeps me out. I’m not sure if it’s the sand, the heat, or the lack of life in the place, but driving through long stretches of road with no lights around gets my mind to wander to some […]
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The Smell of Roses
An entity in the house brings along the haunting smell of life and death. : I started to notice that when I’m alone in the house, objects move in the kitchen or in the laundry room. They used to scare me at first. I remember nearly jumping out of my seat when I heard plates […]
My Childhood Friend Disappeared
Back in the day, we used to see these very sad photos on the sides of milk cartons with the word MISSING in capital letters. The black and white photos never really meant anything to me. That all changed when I saw my friend’s face on there. The long messy hair, his crooked smile, and […]
The Ritual: Everything Has a Price
(Thank you!) Join us by subscribing on scarypod.com/join It was dark. I typically sleep under two blankets, but on this particular night I remember feeling ice cold. I felt someone tug on my arm as they yelled in a language that I didn’t understand, but I still couldn’t see the man who squeezed my right […]
A Car Seat for My Baby
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Death Song
There was a house I used to walk by when I was a kid. We lived in a suburban neighborhood, so many of the houses shared yards and everyone kept their houses neatly painted with white and blue paint, with the occasional yellow house. Every house, except one of them, that is. That’s what this […]
The Woman From the Shadows
One of the houses across the street from our house was recently broken into. The woman who lives there came knocking on everyone’s door telling us that we are bad neighbors and that the neighborhood watch signs should actually mean something. I actually recently Googled it and found out what the neighborhood watch thing actually […]
The Laughing Man
There was a piano in the living room of this house I used to live in. I rented a small bedroom in the basement of a house in a town called Broomfield, and honestly, this was the first time I had actually been in a basement. I’ve lived in California all of my life and […]
A Small Curvy Road
There’s a small section of a curvy road, that’s well-paved by the way, that takes me through the hills and to my university. I live in Oregon and the mornings are usually humid and foggy, so driving around in early hours can be especially dangerous with wet roads and low visibility. It’s about a ten […]
Emotional Children
Have you ever experienced something too weird to tell anybody about? Like when you feel like you’ll be laughed out of the room if you tell someone? Don’t use my name, please. Here it goes. There was another boy in my class named Diego. We were both in the 3rd grade and he was somewhat […]
People Pass Through Here
I don’t take the train very often, so I always have to look up the maps and schedules ahead of time so that I don’t end up waiting for 45 minutes for a train to arrive. I was visiting my parents this time. They had traveled up to visit my uncle and it was a […]
Helenke
My mom sent me a doll as a joke. She knows I’m terrified of those realistic porcelain faces and gets a good laugh out of it. I live in Ohio, but my parents live in New York, so my mom had to send me the doll through Fedex. The doll had red hair, pale skin, […]
The Last Airbnb I Ever Visited
I’m trying to be as respectful as possible in sharing this story with you, but I need to tell the world about it or I will go insane. For those of you who don’t know, Airbnb is a service that allows homeowners to rent out their houses for a few nights or for longer stays […]
The Blinds
I don’t like looking outside. My room when I was growing up had those irritating horizontal white blinds on my windows. You know the type, the ones that come up easily but take some special maneuvering to come back down. My room faced the west side of the house, so I got to see the […]
The Apparition In My Dorm Room
I was at a concert for the new freshmen at my college in California. I had met a girl during orientation that seemed to be into me. At the time, I was only looking to make friends, since none of my friends from high school had transferred over to my new university. But I’m a […]
The Woman In The Middle Of The Road
I used to drive big rigs for a large company you may have heard of, Coca Cola. My job was to take the bottles from the bottling center and into the distribution center some fifty miles into the desert just north of the border in Arizona. Now, I used to do this route by myself […]
Emily
Have you ever heard a little kid talk to herself? They talk about games, toys, colors, and even have conversations that really have nothing to do with anything. We learn to ignore them, they’re just playing around. Right? This is the story about the little boy I used to tutor back when I was in […]
The Legend of the Fisherman
There’s an old legend here in my town. We don’t have a lot of people now, since most of the younger folk decided to go into the city to get office or factory jobs. The fishing seasons aren’t what they used to be. I’m one of those stubborn old women who, like some of my […]
Billy’s, The Abandoned Grocery Store
There’s an abandoned building in my town, it used to be an old grocery store. It has been abandoned for as long as I can remember. It was abandoned even before my mom brought us here. Back in junior high, me and a couple of friends bullied a kid into going into the building by […]
The Ice Cream Man
Most of my friends laughed when one time after school in 3rd grade, I casually mentioned that I wanted to be an ice cream man. I felt embarrassed, but I thought their job was the best. They would drive around the streets handing delicious treats to the neighborhood kids. But then, my whole life changed. […]