"... 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, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast “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, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast “'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, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast " She heard something make it to the door outside their room and then stop. And then she heard and saw the doorknob jiggle - like someone was just about to let themselves in, and she screamed... " A quote from today's second of two tales. Our first tale is the story of Popobawa, a cryptid that is reported to have had attacked several villagers on Zanzibar's Pemba Island several times since the 1970s. Our second story takes us to Haverfordwest, Wales, where a young couple gets the deal of a lifet...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast "...What if Sallie and that woman were the same thing? All part of the same evil inside that house..." A quote from today's second of two tales. Our first tale is the story of a single mother and her young son who have an unfortunate encounter with the Hat Man. Our second story takes us to Atchison Kansas's Sallie House - billed as the most haunted house in America. Is it? Listen and find out. As always - hope these stories leaving you feeling scared to death! Thank you for sending in your stori...
Nov 06, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast "...in order to keep being protected, they had to pay a Satanic toll of sacrificial blood and human souls..." A quote from today's second of two Satanic tales. Our first story is one of a young Wiccan who believes that four decades ago he followed his curiosity about the dark side of the occult straight into Hell itself. Our second story goes over some very spooky and real crime details revolving around a small group of Satanists who sacrificed at least three women to Lucifer in some haunted woo...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast "...late one night, laying in his bed, surrounded by that strange oppressive feeling... a new source of fear emerged from the darkness..." A quote from today's second tale. Our first story offers a further explanation of one of the items in our studio - a Dybbuk box. I'll explain the historical basis for this box and I’ll also share a modern tale involving this ancient monster trapper. Our second story involves a young boy who witnessed the terrible death of a stranger, and then appears to have ...
Oct 23, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast "T he face of the woman inched towards her own as if it would soon open its mouth and devour her. Beatrice closed her eyes and began to pray..." A quote from today's first tale - the exploration of the possibility that perhaps some apparitions are not the remnants of the once living, but the psychic projection of the still alive. Was a Cornish woman named Beatrice somehow presented with a vision of an evil encounter that had never happened but would years later? Our second story is the tale of K...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast " He awoke in the middle of the night to what he described as 'a man with big black eyes, a thin face with animal features and jagged teeth, pointed ears, horns, and hoofs' standing above him..." A quote from today's second tale - the "Devil Made Me Do It" demonic possession of both David Glatzel and Arne Johnson in 1981 that ended in another man's murder. Our first tale is "The Northfleet Horror," a story of an incredible amount of malevolent poltergeist activity that caused three separate fami...
Oct 09, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast " Meanwhile, Robbie continued to use his Ouija board, a board he now hid from his family, to talk to his aunt Harriet and her new “friends. " A quote from today's second tale - the exorcism of Robbie Mannheim aka Roland Doe (his real name remains hidden), the story that inspired the infamous 1973 horror film, "The Exorcist." A fourteen-year-old used his Ouija board to try and contact his deceased and beloved aunt after her death in 1949. And he did seem to contact "something." What was it? Our f...
Oct 02, 2019•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast "Each murder victim had been killed the same way, with a single and a powerful blow with the mattock to the head." A quote from today's second tale - the Hinterkaifeck Farm family mass-murder mystery of 1922. Did something or someone hide in the Hinterkaifeck family's attic for roughly six months before killing the five members of the Hinterkaifeck family living there and their new maid with a German pickaxe? Our first tale is the story of numerous active spirits that may haunt Madison, Mississi...
Sep 25, 2019•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast "Daddy, the basement monster is standing in the upstairs window...." A quote from today's first tale - the haunting of the LaChance family in the "Screaming House" of Union, Missouri. They would last less than a month in this aggressively haunted house. Our second tale is one man's account of a run-in with two black-eyed children. What are these entities and what do they want from you? We here in the studio found today's tales scarier than last weeks. Will you? Let us know! Please rate, review, ...
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast The alien abduction of Amy Ryland and the demonic possession of Michael Taylor for the first episode of Scared to Death! Where is Amy Ryland? She hasn't been seen since shortly after reportedly being abducted from Gundiah, Australia, in 2001. And where is Michael Taylor? He for sure brutally killed his wife in England in 1974. And then he was imprisoned in mental health facilities for just four years and released. Did demons trick him into murdering the mother of his children? Is he still posses...
Sep 18, 2019•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hello horror fans! Starting September 17th (at Midnight PST), Scared to Death will be releasing one episode a week, each episode featuring podcast host (Timesuck) Dan Cummins trying to scare his wife Lynze to death with two tales of alleged-to-be-true horror. Stories will include reports of demonic possession, poltergeists, alien abductions, unsolved murders, shadow people, cryptids, etc. Anything that is spooky, unexplained, and possibly paranormal is up for grabs. Follow us on social media, @s...
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