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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.

Episodes

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

"Just then on the opposite side of my room, I watched this dark, smoky, human-like form crawl up my wall, each step it took made a tsssss (like water on a frying pan sound) and smoke was coming from each hand and foot connection with my wall." This week Dan takes from England to Malaysia, such a fun show! To kick off the show, Dan shares an old but interesting tale from Raynham Hall. Did a pair of photographers catch The Brown Lady (it's a reference to her dress!) ascending the stairs? Can it re...

Nov 11, 20201 hr 20 min

The Nightmare Man

"They continued to hear the sounds of footsteps behind them. Getting louder. Gaining on them. Their only source of hope was the soft breeze constantly flowing through from the opposite end. The cool, dry air. Finally - they reached a t-shaped intersection. Which way to turn?" In another fun week of spoopy fun, Dan shares two incredible stories. Our first story takes us to Oregon, just outside of Portland. Two friends take an adventure into a supposedly haunted mental hospital that is home to tun...

Nov 04, 20201 hr 17 min

Poveglia Island Haunting

"She tried to turn to follow him but she couldn’t. She was tied down. She couldn’t move. She could see the dark layout of the tent and cast her eyes around for the unseen presence. Then she heard it. Coming from right above her left ear, a sound like a drill." A quote from the first of Dan's two stories this week. A supposedly haunted island off the coast of Italy, Poveglia takes us on a journey that makes us question, what CAN a spirit, a doctor no less, do to us, from the other side. A few fri...

Oct 28, 20201 hr 16 min

Slit-Mouthed Woman

"He ended up taking his sword to her face. He sliced open her cheeks from the corners of her mouth to her ears, and then he asked her, “Who will think you’re beautiful now?” A quote from the first of Dan's two stories this week. This first tale takes us to Japan for a haunting story about the Slit-Mouthed Woman. Once you see her, you are almost guaranteed to die. Or are you? Is there a way to avoid being drawn in by this mysterious woman and losing your life to her? The second story takes us bac...

Oct 21, 20201 hr 8 min

“Join Us.”

" He was in Scarlett’s room in seconds, flinging his door open before bounding down the hall and quickly popping into his daughter’s room where she was sitting up in her bed. And he immediately saw that something was sitting with her..." A quote from our first story. We head to Idaho for both tales today. First, we share some encounters a woman claims she and her family experienced shortly after moving into a Pocatello apartment. Then, we head to Pocatello High School, were security camera foota...

Oct 14, 20201 hr 7 min

Pulled Under

"He thrashed against whatever was holding him, desperately trying to kick himself free. The woman in blue smiled and he then heard what he knew was her voice inside his head. 'Stay…. stay…'” A quote from our second story. For our first tale today, we explore the Cajun legend of the Cauchemar, a specific, demonic spiritual presence believed by some living in and around certain parts of Louisiana to harm them after it invades their dreams. And for the second story, we head to Georgia for tales to ...

Oct 07, 20201 hr 11 min

Footsteps in the Dust

“Just stay upstairs,” he thought to himself. “Whatever you are, just please stay upstairs...” A quote from today's second of two opening tales! Today's first story is another black-eyed kid encounter story. Kind of. A woman in New Hampshire has claimed to have witnessed two different black-eyed entities on two different occasions. In the next story, we explore the many ghosts of Amherstburg, Ontario. The Canadian town is full of all kinds of alleged paranormal activity and we share several sight...

Sep 30, 20201 hr 6 min

The Black Door

" Chase began to walk down the hallway. His legs were heavy. He was afraid of what was behind the last door. The black door..." A quote from today's second of two opening tales! Had a great time recording the first episode of the second year of the show. We start with the mysterious disappearances of Charlie Ashmore and Ambrose Bierce. Then, we explore the dark side of hypnosis. What if you were hypnotized by someone who did not have your best interests in mind? A strange, unnerving hypnosis-rel...

Sep 23, 20201 hr 14 min

Shadows, Specters, and Strigoi: the One Year Anniversary Episode!

"People who’d known Arnold in life testified over and over that they had seen him walking through the village in the weeks following his documented death..." A quote from today's second of three opening tales! We have a big episode for you today as this week marks the one-year anniversary of the show. Thank you for making this show a success! Our first story covers the legend of Missouri's Zombie Road and includes a few alleged encounters with something terrible. Then we head to Romania and Serb...

Sep 16, 20201 hr 33 min

Introducing INCREDIBLE FEATS with Dan Cummins!

Hi Creeps and Peepers! I (Dan) am hosting a brand​ new​ podcast on the Parcast Network called ​INCREDIBLE FEATS. Every weekday on ​INCREDIBLE FEATS,​ I profile amazing achievements made by people from all over the world, diving behind the scenes to see how exactly they turned the impossible into the incredible. The episodes are totally family friendly and also snack-sized - typically coming in at around 5-6 minutes. Episodes feature everything from death-defying stunts, to unbelievable accounts ...

Sep 14, 20205 min

Ghost Ship

"Then, he felt the air around him get heavier and heavier until it no longer felt like air at all. It felt like water. It felt like he was drowning." A quote from today's first tale. Our first story centers on the haunted history of the RMS Queen Mary - supposedly the world's most haunted ship, currently operating as a hotel in Long Beach, California. How many spirits from its days as a transatlantic liner still haunt its labyrinth of cabins, hallways, and various decks? Our second story is all ...

Sep 09, 20201 hr 19 min

The Demon House

"She claimed to witness the boy walked backwards up a wall all the way to the ceiling…before flipping over and landing on his feet." A quote from today's second tale. Our first story is an exposition of the ritualistic murder of LeRoy Carter, Jr. in San Francisco, California, in 1981. What dark god may he have been sacrificed to? Our second story is a modern haunting classic - the Ammons house aka the House of 200 demons made infamous by Zak Bagans. Hope you like the way I tell this tale. And th...

Sep 02, 20201 hr 15 min

Haunted Asylum

"...the steam soon revealed a message. She could just make out the finger-scrawled words… “Why did you hurt us?” A quote from today's first tale. Today we open up with two asylum-related paranormal tales. The first comes from Salem, Oregon - the long, haunted history of the facility once called “ The Oregon State Hospital for the Insane,” and a recent encounter. Our second story is the urban legend of the Melon Heads. Disturbing folklore coming primarily from Ohio and Michigan. And then Lynze sh...

Aug 26, 20201 hr 3 min

The Amityville Horror

" Kathy wakes up with red welts that have formed a trail from just above her pubic hair to just under her breast. They feel hot to the touch. It was like something had slashed and burned her..." A quote from today's second story. Our first tale is about the Shadow Man - one man's tale of a series of intense encounters that lasted for several years of his childhood. Our second story is one of my favorite paranormal events ever - the basis for the book and movie, The Amityville Horror. The story o...

Aug 19, 20201 hr 13 min

The Attic Family

"How many more steps until it was directly behind her? Ten? Twelve? She could now see a shadow emerging on the cracked white walls above her..." A quote from today's second story. Our first tale today is the story of former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal claiming to witness a case of demonic possession while studying at Oxford University in 1994. Our second account is of one woman's encounter with paranormal entities in the attic of her grandmother's home during her final visit to the house aft...

Aug 12, 20201 hr 6 min

Mirrors & Monsters

"...a s Angie and Jamal both screamed, their mirror images turned and walked back towards, and then into, their room..." A quote from today's second story. Both of today's tales involve mirrors. The first story is all about the Mirror Man of the Midnight Mirror Ritual. If you want to perform this ritual, you're braver than we are. The second story is about a young couple bringing home what appears to be an intensely haunted antique. And then Lynze closes out the show with two listener stories, o...

Aug 05, 20201 hr 1 min

The Haunted Villa Montezuma

"She eventually found herself looking at a set of stairs... down to the basement, she presumed. Then she heard a voice say in her ear, “I wouldn’t go down there, if I were you.” A quote from today's second story. Both of today's tales take place in San Diego, California. The first involves the mysterious death of of Michelle von Emster. Why can't anyone definitively determine how she died? How does one's femur bone end up "whittled?" The next story takes us to San Diego's haunted Villa Montezuma...

Jul 29, 202059 min

Missing Time

" She quickly realized…. something was circling her and Crina. Something that moved through the woods way faster than a human could..." A quote from today's first tale. We start with a look into Hoia Baciu - Romania's most haunted forest. So many tales of strange disappearances, UFO sightings, paranormal encounters, strange episodes of missing time, and more have been so frequently reported, the forest has acquired the nickname, " The Bermuda Triangle of Romania.” For our second story, we look i...

Jul 22, 20201 hr 8 min

Poltergeist

" Barbara said it all began with a series of scratching noises and knocking heard coming from inside the walls. " A quote from today's first tale. We start with two heavily witnessed and documented stories about poltergeist activity. The first occurred in St. Catherine's Canada in 1970. The second occurred in Seaford, New York in 1958. Two homes plagued with paranormal events that numerous people witnessed, including police officers and members of the press. Two manifestations of... something......

Jul 15, 20201 hr 25 min

Evil Doppelgängers

" I whipped around and saw that my mother - my REAL mother - had just walked in the house. When I turned around, the creature at the end of the hall was gone..." A quote from today's second tale. Our first story deals with numerous sightings of a black-eyed girl in the a small wooded area of England known as Cannock Chase, and the terrible true crime backstory that may be behind them. Our second group of stories all deal with doppelgängers. We touch on the mythology of the notion of a dark twin,...

Jul 08, 20201 hr 15 min

The Rake

"I was about to cry out in pain when I saw it. At the foot of the bed, sitting and facing away from us, was what looked like a naked man, or a large, hairless dog..." A quote from today's first tale, the story of “The Rake.” The Rake seems to be some type of cryptid allegedly lurking primarily in the Northeastern US. After going over several supposed encounters, we head to a creepy little patch of forest just southwest of Birmingham, England known as the Hagley Wood to look at an encounter two y...

Jul 01, 20201 hr 2 min

Demoniac

"And then Jessica heard what sounded like little foot steps move across the floor heading to the corner. Even worse - she swore later she could SEE the shadowy outline of the doll, moving in the dark..." A quote from today's first story. We head to Ohio in the early 80s to tell the tale of a possibly very possessed little girl’s doll. For our next tale, we had way back to the late 18th century, just outside of Bristol England, to tell the story of the demonic possession of George Lukins aka “the...

Jun 24, 20201 hr 13 min

"I'm Supposed to Be Here."

"S he watched him continue to tap against her window with a dirty fingernail. Tap… tap… tap... " A quote from today's first horror tale. A young girl, her brothers, and mother are tormented by poltergeist activity that disappears as mysteriously as it began. In the second story, we tour the haunted past and present of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary. And then Lynze shares some spooky listener submissions! Thank you for sending in your stories, Creeps and Peepers! Please keep doing so. ...

Jun 17, 20201 hr 10 min

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 min

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 min

"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 min

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 min

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 min

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 min

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 min
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