Dan's first of two tales covers the lore and supposed paranormal encounters associated with Dublin, Ireland’s St. Michan’s Church and the dead bodies that reside in the crypts beneath it. Then, we’ll venture over Lake Pleasant, New York, and learn about some rumored murders associated with one of the town’s founding fathers and the hauntings associated with those deaths. Lynze offers us three different tales this week. Her first is sad and sweet, a tale of a life taken to soon but possibly still...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 29 min
In this thirty-second installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to Bristol County, Massachusetts, where struggling horror author Brad Collins's desperation for another hit book leads him to experiment with the occult. When he realizes that his words - if they even are his words - have tragic real life consequences, will he stop writing? Or will he still finishBurn the Witch? This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to ex...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 1 min
A man in his 40s has a recollection of a very strange incident from his childhood but only recalls it after his brother passes away. Listen as Dan unfolds this creepy childhood tale. Then we visit a poltergeist case from Columbus, Ohio that made national headlines back in 1984. The story of Tina Resch and the so-called Columbus Poltergeist. After Dan's stories, Lynze gives us a little bit lighter scares but are super fun and fascinating. First, the Hat Man and how one might manifest him. Then, s...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 7 min
We start this week in Brownwood, Texas where a murder tragic murder may have added additional paranormal energy to a property already rumored to be haunted. Then, is a spirit sending emails from the great beyond? A short and very strange confirmation-type tale that really makes you wonder what’s possible. Lastly, we head to Los Angeles to explore the reportedly haunted Sowden House, where some think Elizabeth Short, aka the Black Dahlia, may have been murdered. And that her killer may haunt this...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 18 min
In this thirty-first installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to Upstate New York's Woodhull Mountain, where Gabe and Hassan see a very strangely placed house on the side of the hill while out on a hike. When Gabe enters the house, he leaves behind our world, and enters a space outside of it - a dark and mysterious space dedicated mostly... to pain. This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect ...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Dan's first of two tales is a modern encounter story set in Sauk Centre, Minnesota’s Palmer Hotel. Lynze, of course, was excited when she heard "sock" center! The second story shares the haunted history of Kansas City, Missouri’s St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. Does the ghost of an early church leader still haunt its grounds? Then Lynze comes to us with three stories. Her first reminds us of how creepy kids toys can be. Then, an ongoing family situation with a family has one person asking what she ...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Supposedly true tales this week from Dan include a story about an elderly widow living alone in the early 1980s and her visitors. Then, we’ll bounce around the world to a number of so-called “phantom islands.” Can an island discovered by numerous explorers inexplicably just disappear? And, if so, what does that mean? Then, Lynze brings us three tales in a death sandwich of stories, if you will. Her first is sweet and sad and gives us hope for a connection to our deceased loved ones. Then, a home...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 4 min
In this thirtieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to the tropical jungle of Vietnam's Annamese mountains. On a dark, rainy night in January of 1968, PsyWar Detachment Six - a six-man team and part of the US military’s shadowy MACV-SOG Command - was conducting black operations meant to terrify and break the spirits of the Viet Cong. But in the end, no one will be scared more than the soldiers themselves... This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We ...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr
We are in a bit of a remote, wooded double feature today for Dan's tales. The first of two stories is composed out of what may have been a hermit’s final diary entries, as a man living alone in a remote cabin writes of something terrorizing him. Then we hear the legend of the Dungarvon Whooper, a folklore coming from an old logging camp in New Brunswick, Canada. Then Lynze gives us a life long but seemingly harmless attachment. Or is it? What's happening to this person? Lastly, what Dan says is ...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 18 min
We start with a very upsetting story of an imaginary friend in Council Bluffs, Iowa that Dan does an amazing job of bringing to life. Then, in his second tale of the week Dan takes us to Tujunga Canyon for a very bizarre UFO encounter. Lynze offers us a haunted house double feature this week with both of her tales providing spoopy encounters at home! LIVE EXPERIENCES: If you'd like to see us perform live this year, visit badmagicproductions.com for our annual summer camp or crimewaveatsea.com/sc...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 28 min
In this twenty-ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet Ryan Castillo, who, on a long late-night drive through the desert from Los Angeles, California to Tonopah, Nevada, hits one hitchhiker, and picks up another... This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy background noises! If you like this episode, please let us know wherever you rate and review podcasts. Thanks so...
Apr 04, 2025•59 min
For the first of two tales, Dan takes us to the old mining city of Ballarat , Australia, to explore reports of hauntings from the 19th century, and some even stranger reports of some ghost hoaxers. Such an entertaining story! Then, a supposedly true modern encounter tale of someone who might give you something new to worry about. When you think of deceased relatives and other spirits always being near and watching over you, do you ever wonder how much of your life they actually see? Lynze offers...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Dan starts this week with a very bizarre story. It's hard to even explain but we are off to Finland to review a tale about a sculpture garden. Then we head to Saudi Arabia to explore the lore around Bride of the Red Sea. Lynze really goes for it this week with five stories! They are short and quite varied. Her first two deal with family members sticking around after their deaths in very small, kind but still eery ways. Then, because it's March, she offers us a little Leprechaun tale. Then, we he...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 28 min
In this twenty-eighth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to 1989 and explore, along with the pawn shop owner who bought the camera that contained it, a tape of some chilling home video footage of two film students investigating an urban legend set inside a local abandoned insane asylum. This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy background noises! If you like this epis...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Dan offers three stories this week. The first is of Scotland’s Redcap, a monstrous and murderous little goblin of a creature with lore going back to the 14th century. Next, we’ll head to Serbia and talk about the horror lore behind the strange rock formations of Devil's Town. And finally, we’ll explore the lore surrounding what might be early America’s most famous haunting, the Wizard Clip. Lynze also has three stories this week, so fun! She starts with a story from Louisiana, exploring the spac...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Dan's first of two stories takes us to India. He relays the story of a man who shares the story of his grandmother's paranormal affliction. Then, Dan shares almost 250 years of history and the haunted lore that surrounds Lompoc California’s La Purísima Spanish Mission. Lynze brings us two tales, both of which have elements we have yet to hear about before! We go to Florida, to The Devil's Armchair in her first story. A new creature, an ashy-white-burnt-skin-golden-eyed thing... is the subject of...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 17 min
In this twenty-seventh installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to 1988 once more, and to the town of Deacon's Point, to find out if local high school student Chance Watkins and homicide detective Rob Shoemaker are able to stop a satanic cult from killing more teen girls and bringing a powerful demon into the world that could possibly kill millions. This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effec...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Dan's first of two stories is centered around a school nurse who claims her encounter literally ended her career. It’s very intense, and not fun to think that what she claims to have witnessed could be real. For his second story, Dan will share the haunted lore of South Carolina’s Oakwood Cemetery, and an encounter that took place there. Lynze gives us two spoopy tales and one heart-warming story of confirmation. Her first story takes out to the woods where a bunch of kids party with the unknown...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 19 min
The first tale this week is the disturbing story of an exorcism that took place in a small town in Australia in 1993. It is upsetting on so many levels. Then Dan shares the lore and modern encounters surrounding the abandoned Manteno State Hospital south of Chicago. Real life horror, and paranormal horror. Lynze shares one of the best and strangest ouija board fan tales ever! Then she wraps up the episode with what she calls her favorite UFO story to date! Monthly Donation: As animal lovers, we ...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 30 min
In this twenty-sixth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head back to 1988 and to the town of Deacon's Point, where two teenage boys, Chance Watkins and Lincoln Clay, rent an underground horror movie called Moloch's Pact from their local video store, and it changes their lives forever... This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy background noises! If you like this episode, ...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Dan's first story today is the retelling of the moments that led to one young woman becoming a firm believer in the paranormal. She sees something… experiences something… that she just can’t deny. Then, we’ll explore the lore behind a curse associated with New Hampshire and Maine’s Saco River. Lynze brings three fan stories. The first is an intense reminder to steer clear of ouija boards. Then, a creepy but not too creepy telling of ghost that has seemed to linger in the same machine shop for th...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Hi Creeps and Peepers! Today we wanted to share a bonus episode with you from the RUN, FOOL! Podcast from our friends at Ballen Studios. We hope you love it! Every week on RUN, FOOL!, you’ll hear a terrifying tale from the mind of Rodney Barnes. If you love monsters, demons, vampires, and the occult (which we know you do), you’re going to love how these stories make you question what’s real. In this episode, two college roommates explore a cursed chapel rumored to house a stairway to hell, only ...
Feb 15, 2025•34 min
Dan shares a tale around a young man thinking he’s being haunted by something in his phone. It's a sad tale, it's a creepy tale. Then, his second story covers some of the lore that surrounds California’s Lost Lake. What spirits and also creatures might be hiding in and around its water? Lynze shares three fan submissions this week. The first two come from one fan and potentially show what we can access if we are open. Then, in her final story, a very peculiar story that might be an alien story a...
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 16 min
In this twenty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bodie, California! Twenty-seven years after confronting the Beast of Bodie, former sheriff Ezra Calhoun has a new monster to fight. The Dark Watcher. A strange and ferocious man-like entity appearing on the ridge of one of the hills above town, and butchering locals. This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Dan's first of two stories today is not sexy, despite being about a succubus. It's strange and upsetting. His second story was once featured on the original Unsolved Mysteries. It’s the tale of a young woman, Grace Brown, putting her trust in the wrong man over a century ago. And it seems, in death, she still hasn’t been able to move past how her life so tragically and abruptly ended. Then, Lynze takes us to Australia! It's real, we promise. What kind of horrors and creatures are hiding in the b...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Dan's first of two stories takes us to London where two flatmates hung up a free mirror and very quickly regretted it. Then a heavily documented poltergeist story, coming from Indianapolis, Indiana back in 1962. Lynze brings us a tale from a patient in the ICU and her brush with something paranormal. And then we head to El Salvador, maybe for the first time on this show, to explore that culture and their beliefs about skinwalkers. Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peep...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 29 min
The first story today is an anonymous modern encounter centering around a college freshmen having a problem with her roommate, a problem that really escalates. Then, the second story is all about Georgia’s St. Simons Island and an alleged encounter with the island’s most infamous ghost. Then we have another college dorm story with a different twist. Lastly, a creepy shared experience between two sisters with an entity who lives in the deep end of the pool. Thank you for continuing to send in you...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 12 min
n this twenty-fourth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we explore the tale of a man who has recently gotten into a car accident with his wife and two daughters. And now he can't accept that they seem to have all survived. Is he merely losing his mind as he starts to question whether or not his wife and daughters are truly still alive? Or is something else, something supernatural, at play here? This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening wi...
Jan 17, 2025•51 min
This week begins with the anonymous claim of a man who believes he encountered something evil … something not human… while out delivering pizzas late on a Friday night. Did something order a meal to be delivered to them, and was that meal supposed to have been the person bringing the pizza instead of the pizza? Then, Dan covers the infamous Moberly-Jourdain Incident. Back in 1901, did two noted academics, Charlotte Ann Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, slip over a hundred years out of their own time...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2025! Dan starts us with a very, very strange story set in Brazil in 1966 that sure reeks of an alien abduction. Then, we explore what seems to be an intensely haunted inn in Ashland, Massachusetts’: Stone’s Public House. Lynze brings us a classic-ish Hat Man tale followed up by a very peculiar hitchhiker story! Enjoy this start to 2025, friends! Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peepers! Please keep doing so!! Send them to mystory@scaredtode...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 12 min
