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Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cumminswww.badmagicproductions.com
The paranormal comes to life as husband-wife duo Dan Cummins (acclaimed standup comedian and true horror fan) and Lynze Cummins (costume and wardrobe stylist for numerous film and television productions) share terrifying stories that will leave you sleeping with the lights on. Dan’s goal? To scare Lynze with creepy accounts of demonic possession, shadow people, and other eerie phenomena. And when he’s done, Lynze fights back with chilling fan-submitted tales of true horror. Together, they explore the darkest corners of the web, dusty old books, and even their own eerie surroundings—a studio filled with occult objects and located right next to a cemetery. Don’t forget to check out the mini-series Nightmare Fuel, airing on this feed the first and third Friday of every month, where Dan narrates a short piece of original horror fiction. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scared to Death ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.

Episodes

Sleep Paralysis?

"She began to laugh her raspy laugh and then she stepped forward and seemed to move into and then through him. He could feel her dark energy invade his..." A quote from today's first story, a tale about a man who moves to restart his life in Alaska and suffers from what he first believes is nothing more than sleep paralysis but then he soon begins to suspect something paranormal. The next tale takes us to 17th century for the Loudun possessions. Massive demonic manifestation or political persecu...

Jun 10, 20201 hr 15 minEp. 40

Demons of Dewitt Ranch

"Just as he grabbed it, he felt something right behind him. As he stood up he suddenly was nervous to shine the flashlight behind him. Was something standing in-between him and the door?" A quote from today's first story. We open on the tale of a young man given a house-sitting gig from Hell. Our second story is the curious account of the Pollock Twins. Are they reincarnations of their dead older sisters? And Lynze shares a couple of creepy listener tales. Thank you for sending in your stories, ...

Jun 03, 20201 hr 18 minEp. 39

"Go To Sleep."

“Shhh,” said Jeff. And then he pushed his knife deep into Lou’s stomach. “Go to sleep. Just go to sleep.” A quote from today's second story. Sharing two pretty well known tales today in addition to some MyStory fan tales of horror. The first is the haunted life of Jean Harlow - Hollywood's original "blonde bombshell." The second is the CreepyPasta tale of Jeff the Killer - one of the most commonly requested tales we're now telling. Thank you for sending in your stories, Creeps and Peepers! Pleas...

May 27, 20201 hr 14 minEp. 38

The Death Room

"After standing in the bathroom and dripping water on the floor for a few moments, Claire went to turn the door handle and peek into her room when a chill shot down her spine as she saw the edge of a shadow creep up under the door... someone was standing on the other side..." A quote from today's first of five different supposedly true horror tales. Our first story takes us to Louisiana where a young nurse unknowingly moves into a room of recent tragedy. Our second story covers a collection of e...

May 20, 20201 hr 17 minEp. 37

The Bell Witch

"A tap-tap-tap would sometimes be heard against a living room window. Something outside that couldn’t be seen out in the dark of the Tennessee wilderness was perhaps now looking in..." A quote from today's second of four stories - the tale of the Bell Witch. This early 19th century Tennessee story about a malicious, spiteful spirit rumored to have antagonized the Bell family and many others around them for several years is one of America's most famous paranormal horror accounts. The first story ...

May 13, 20201 hr 9 minEp. 36

Crescent Hotel Horrors

"...when they walked to the bathroom for a glass of water in the middle of the night, they saw two hands coming out of the bathroom mirror, grasping as though looking for something to pull them up. Hands that slipped back into the mirror and then disappeared..." A quote from today's first tale - the dark history of Eureka Springs, Arkansas's Crescent Hotel. A lot of bad things have definitely happened there - did its history lead to it being haunted? Our second story is about Virginia's Bunny Ma...

May 06, 20201 hr 20 minEp. 35

Stalker

"...he saw the back of a figure standing at the bed, bent over the sleeping little boy. He thought it was his wife Jessica and said, 'What are you doing in here with the light off? ” The dark figure didn’t answer. It didn’t turn around. It wasn’t Jessica..." A quote from today's second story. Our first tale is the Kuykendall Family Phone-Stalker Mystery. Who or what texted and called various members and friends of the Kuykendall family with information they shouldn't of known and where did they ...

Apr 29, 20201 hr 35 minEp. 34

The Murder Mansion

"And then he took his hammer, his wife’s blood dropping from it and leaving a trail, and he walked down the hallway towards his daughter Judy’s room..." A quote from today's second tale. The first is the story of a Florida teacher who in 2012, became convinced that some of her teenage students were possessed by demons, so she took them on a very ill-advised and highly illegal field trip. The second story is that of Los Feliz’s supposedly haunted murder mansion where on the night of December 6th,...

Apr 22, 20201 hr 11 minEp. 33

The Pascagoula Abductions

" They floated through the door of the ship, escorted by creatures Calvin later thought might not even be living beings..." A quote from today's first tale. In October of 1973, two men claimed to have been abducted by aliens while fishing in Mississippi. Is their tale one of the most credible abduction stories ever? Our second story is the legend of the Greenbrier Ghost. Did the ghost of a murder victim come back to help put her murderer in prison in West Virginia in 1897? Plus, creepy listener ...

Apr 15, 20201 hr 21 minEp. 32

She Likes You

"My grandpa was almost shouting now. 'Where was she standing!?! When did this happen!?! What did you do!?! Did she see you???'" A quote from our second story. Today's first tale is the story of Bavaria's Wolfsegg Castle. Who is the White Lady and what does she want? the second story is the Japanese urban legend of "the Eight Foot Tall Woman." "Po...po...po..." You'll know what that quote means after you listen. So creepy! Lynze finishes things off with two super creepy listener-submitted tales. ...

Apr 08, 20201 hr 8 minEp. 31

Don't Let Them In

"Stop, you whores!” it said to the nuns who were bent over the priest. “Stop, or you sluts will be sorry.” A quote from today's second tale. In our first story, an elderly couple makes the mistake of letting in two strange "children" who show up on their remote doorstep one cold winter's night. In our second story, we examine the "exorcism of Julia," a somewhat well-known exorcism that was witnessed by Dr. Richard Gallagher, an Ivy League-educated psychiatrist who can no longer call himself a sk...

Apr 01, 20201 hr 13 minEp. 30

Room 305

"His mouth opened and once more a dark blackness poured forth like a snake..." A quote from today's first tale. An old man had planned to die in a house his family sells and he shows back up in a terrifying way after cursing the home's new owner. In the second story, we visit Flagstaff, Arizona's Hotel Monte Vista, rumored to be one of America's most haunted hotels. Strange sightings and the hotel's sordid history provide lots of interesting scares. And then Lynze shares several of her own distu...

Mar 25, 20201 hr 23 minEp. 29

Satanic Carnival

" He lifted the knife and carved an upside-down cross into the unconscious man’s forehead. The man’s eyes then flipped open and he started to scream." A quote from the first of today's initial two tales. The first story involves something that sounds like an urban legend but really happened - a group of traveling carnival workers sacrifice at least one soul to Satan. Our second story is an urban legend: the Japanese legend of Teke Teke. The story of a young girl horribly disfigured who comes aft...

Mar 18, 20201 hr 7 minEp. 28

Skinwalkers

"But the really awful thing—the hideous, horrible thing was that the dead guy was missing his skin..." A quote from today's second of two tales. The first story in today's episode is the 2008 mysterious disappearance of Minnesotan Brandon Swanson. Did he vanish without a trace due to an extraterrestrial encounter? Our second story is really two tales both revolving around the Navajo legend of the skinwalker. Evil medicine men that some still believe to exist in the American West. And then Lynze ...

Mar 11, 20201 hr 21 minEp. 27

The Possession of Clara Germana Cele

"His face turned red, then blue, and then he sank to his knees. And Clara threw her head back and laughed..." A quote from today's second of two tales from the web. Our first account is a story about a college girl who had a very strange, creepy visitor show up at her door one night. For our second story, we head to South Africa to look at the possession and exorcisms of Clara Germana Cele. And then Lynze shares another two chill-inducing listener tales of terror! Thank you for sending in your s...

Mar 04, 20201 hr 11 minEp. 26

Winchester Mystery House

" The poltergeist began to attack little Maria Jose again. She was slapped by unseen hands across the face hard enough to leave bruises..." A quote from today's first of two tales. Our first story comes from Brazil - the Jaboticabal poltergeist. What tormented an eleven-year-old girl and her family in Brazil in the mid-1960s? Or second story covers the history of one of the most famous haunted houses in America - the Winchester Mystery House. Why did Sarah continue to work on her giant San Jose ...

Feb 26, 20201 hr 26 minEp. 25

The Enfield Poltergeist

“Now!” he cried. 'Can you see me?' Annie screamed. 'Go away!' She bared her teeth and started to laugh, her chest spasming as she heaved." A quote from today's first story. Our first tale is the infamous Enfield Poltergeist. The basis for the horror blockbuster, the Conjuring 2. From 1977 to 1979, some of the most intense poltergeist activity ever witnessed by multiple people was targeted at one family living in Enfield, a northern borough of London. Our second story is a tale of one boy's repea...

Feb 19, 20201 hr 21 minEp. 24

The Lemp Family Haunting

"...this family would find strange mounds of rocks and sand meticulously piled directly underneath the window of their infant son’s room..." A quote from today's first story. Our first tale is about the demons that haunt the Muslim world - the jinn. Specifically, the jinn of Bahla, Oman, a city listed as one of the top ten most haunted cities in the world. Our second story is the infamous tale of St Louis's Lemp family and the haunted Lemp mansion. Was the family cursed? Who still haunts their m...

Feb 12, 20201 hr 30 minEp. 23

Evil Shadows

"And for the first time in Spanish history, the police witnessed paranormal activity and documented it in an official police report..." A quote from today's second story. Our first tale is the strangest possible UFO-related disappearance we've looked into thus far - the 1980 disappearance of extraterrestrial-obsessed Canadian Granger Taylor. Our second account is the supposedly true story behind the 2017 Spanish horror film, "Veronica." Did playing with a ouija board in attempt to make contact w...

Feb 05, 20201 hr 16 minEp. 22

We Made a Deal

"Philip walked back downstairs and crawled back into his bed. And then he heard someone saying his name again. Chanting it over and over. 'Philip… Philip… Philip…'" A quote from today's second tale. Our first story starts off in Beruit and ends in Washington D.C.... kind of. It takes place over thirty years that includes over ten years of the strangest phone calls I've ever heard of. Who was calling Bashir Kouchacji? Our second story is the basis for the 2009 horror movie, The Haunting in Connec...

Jan 29, 20201 hr 27 minEp. 21

3 A.M.

" Carolyn woke up with a start to see a very tall woman in an old gray dress with her head hanging off to the side. This woman was hovering above Carolyn." A quote from today's second tale. Our first story comes from Hawaii. A disturbing 3 A.M. encounter with a woman-like entity that you will not want to remember when you're driving anywhere alone at night. Our second story is the allegedly true haunting that inspired The Conjuring. And then Lynze tells what might be our scariest fan submission ...

Jan 22, 20201 hr 24 minEp. 20

Cover the Mirrors

"In the bedroom, another investigator saw what appeared to be tiny pale fingers reach out from the inside of the closet door..." A quote from the second of today's horror tales. Our first story is another Hat Man encounter. A young girl sees the Hat Man in her grandparent's home and finds out years later she wasn't the only one to see him. Our second story is the tale of the infamous Villisca Axe Murders. Eight people were murdered with an axe in a small Iowa town, all in one night, all in the s...

Jan 15, 20201 hr 15 minEp. 19

Reaching Out

"When he grabbed his knife, he suddenly heard a sinister female voice hiss at him from nowhere in particular: 'You are a cruel man!'" A quote from the first of today's two tales. Our first story is about years of continual poltergeist activity witnessed in the now demolished Langenhoe Chapel, an old English church with a very bloody history. Our second story is about Zozo. A demon that has allegedly been contacted by many. A demon strongly associated with using an Ouija board. And then Lynze tel...

Jan 08, 20201 hr 21 minEp. 18

The Amherst Mystery

"... she woke up to find James’s sister sitting up in her bed, totally asleep, but talking to the darkest corner of the room. She heard her whisper, “We won’t change anything, I promise...” A quote from the first of today's two tales. Story one revolves around the possible spirit of an angry woman who has no interest in leaving her earthly home. Story two is "the Amherst Mystery," one of Canada's most heavily documented ghost-related paranormal experiences. And then Lynze tells two listener subm...

Jan 01, 20201 hr 26 minEp. 17

In The Walls

"The sounds of bells once again was coming from inside the wall. Only now, it wasn’t just the one wall. It was coming from all the walls." A quote from the second of today's two Christmastime-based tales. Our first story is a classic of early 20th century British ghost story literature, the tale of "Smee." Our second story involves a family haunted by the sounds of bells jingling inside the walls of their home around the holidays. Who or what is ringing them? Finally, Lynze tells two horror stor...

Dec 25, 20191 hr 17 minEp. 16

Voodoo Nightmare

“One day I’m gonna die - and I’m gonna take the whole town with me.” A quote from today's first story. Our first tale is the legend of Louisiana voodoo priestess Julia Brown's curse in 1915. Did she take a whole town with her when she died? And does her ghost still haunt the Manchac swamp? Our second story revolves around the Hmong culture's belief in - and fear of - the tsog tsuam, "the evil spirit who smothers." Can this creature quite literally scare you to death? Can a nightmare kill you? Th...

Dec 18, 20191 hr 22 minEp. 15

The Unknown

"Opening my eyes, I saw the same man, this time wearing a strange grin. His teeth were white enough to see in the dark... I started shaking." A quote from today's first story. Our first tale - a collection of supposed sightings - is about a creature known as “The Grinning Man.” What is it and what does it want? Our second story is about an entity known mostly as “The Elemental.” Some believe it haunts the grounds of Ireland’s “Leap Castle”, and may be tied somehow to this old castle’s very blood...

Dec 11, 20191 hr 17 minEp. 14

"Let Them Sleep."

"Becca was running down the hall as fast as she could. She felt the powerful malevolent energy behind her. What would happen if it caught her?" A quote from today's second story. In our first account, we go over the disappearance of Frederick Valentich from Australia in 1978. The last thing he communicated to air traffic control from the cockpit of his Cessna was a UFO harassing his plane. And then he disappeared forever. Our second tale takes us to Kentucky where a ten year-old girl and her sin...

Dec 04, 20191 hr 15 minEp. 13

They Won't Leave

“'Are you living or dead?' asked Father Theo. ' I am dead,' said the voice." A quote from the second of today's two tales. Our first story is our second black-eyed children encounter report. Why is a married couple still haunted by briefly meeting two black-eyed children over thirty years ago? Our second story is a summary of the most heavily documented Catholic exorcism in US history - the early 20th century exorcisms of Wisconsin's Emma Schmidt. Was a woman's soul antagonized by demons and eve...

Nov 27, 20191 hr 11 minEp. 12

Cursed

"If the witnesses were correct, Tedford would have disappeared from his seat as the bus was traveling down Route 7, while it was driving through the Bennington Triangle..." A quote from the first of today's two tales. Our first story is about a string of disappearances and other unsettling occurrences that have taken place over the years in Vermont's Bennington Triangle. What is happening in those woods? Our second story revolves around Harold the doll. A seemingly cursed and haunted object that...

Nov 20, 20191 hr 9 minEp. 11
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