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PODCAST

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

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

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01:28:06

A Door That Can't Be Closed

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2023/04/05

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first of two stories is based on around something we haven't really explored before. Astral projection. If you could train your mind to actually be able to take your consciousness OUT of your body… leave it behind as a sort of empty vessel - could something else enter in its place? After that, off to Hawaii for a little bite-sized bit of horror. Some paranormal encounters alleged to have taken place at the Honolulu

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01:09:47

The Dover Demon

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2023/03/29

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. The first story this week is brutal. It deals with some real-life heavy topics of child and spousal abuse. A spirit that seems to feed off all of this torment and make it worse seems to be attacking a family. Then the infamous legend of the Dover Demon. Cryptid? Alien? Hoax? Did four teenagers really seem some sort of monster in a Massachusetts town just outside of Boston in the Spring of 1977? Then in the back half, Lynze

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01:20:49

A Haunting In The Hills

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2023/03/22

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story takes us to Maine - set in a remote farm somewhere near the 100 mile wilderness area of the Appalachian Trail. Rural isolation adding to the horror for one very unlucky family. Then, the short story of the the Delhi Purple Sapphire, also known as the Cursed Amethyst - an allegedly haunted object. Lynze tells us three tales. The first two are real head scratcher's and will leave you with questions. The

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01:14:48

You Will Suffer

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2023/03/15

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan is sharing his usual two tales! The first one, a man’s brother dies, a brother who was NOT fond him during the final years of his life. And now his spirit seems to be dedicated to tormenting his brother. The second one is the tale of the ghost of Lavinia Fisher - the first woman to be executed in the State of South Carolina. This week, Lynze has just one, big tale coming to you from the Jefferson Davis Hospital! New

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01:18:08

The Hitchhiker

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2023/03/08

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story is set in the little ski town of Crested Butte, Colorado. It's a modern encounter story of a man who claims to have picked up and given a ride to one of the area’s most infamous spirits. And then to the UK - to the rolling green hills of Gloucestershire , England, to visit the strange and haunted unfinished Woodchester Mansion. Lynze's first story brings to life everyone's fear of something chasing you up

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01:12:35

The Ruins

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2023/03/01

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first of two stories takes place in sunny Costa Rica. A college student explores the supposedly very haunted The Ruins - the remnants of old and massive church - and claims to come face to face with its infamous ghost. Then, for the next story, we head to Connecticut to go over the legend of Hanna Cranna aka The Wicked Witch of Monroe. Lynze has two tales that are thematic around driving and lost time. Her first

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01:22:13

A Spirit Without A Face

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2023/02/22

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story comes from South Korea. He shares the legend of their “egg ghosts.” Sound harmless but it's definitely NOT harmless. Then he will share a smaller story that comes from Salem, Massachusetts - lore and a modern encounter centered around the reportedly haunted and very old for America House of Seven Gables. Lynze will tell us a tale about the possible sighting of a werewolf. What do you think about

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01:17:14

Take Me With You

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2023/02/15

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan has an abandoned and haunted hospital double feature! First, to New Zealand for some history, paranormal lore and a creepy modern encounter inside the former Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital. Then, we’ll head to Texas and explore various ghostly encounters that have all taken place at the former Yorktown Memorial Hospital.Lynze has a lengthy tale about how one women went from being a host for something to kicking it out

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01:11:48

House Of Death

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2023/02/08

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first of two stories is a haunted house story set in Manhattan. A home with just about the scariest title you could have. The brownstone that sits at 14 West 10th Street is known to some as The House of Death. Supposedly a LOT of people have died there over the years, and now it’s one of the most haunted homes in America. Then it's the tale of Jackson County, Florida’s Bellamy Bridge. Has the ghost of a young bride

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01:16:24

The Murder In The Mirror

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2023/02/01

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan has two collections of tales. The first story will focus primarily on one encounter tale. For that first story, we had to Canada, to the beautiful and reportedly very haunted Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, located in the incredibly scenic Banff National Park, in Alberta, Canada. And then, we are off to York, England’s historic Treasurer’s House. Numerous spirits - including a lot of Roman Soldier apparitions - have been

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01:23:28

The Ghost of Emily Keseg

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2023/01/25

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story is based in some true crime - the 1969 unsolved murder of 18-year-old college student Emily Keseg in Cicero, Illinois. Has her ghost haunted the campus of Morton College ever since? Then, to the Santa Fe National Forest. What could explain a collection of sightings and strange disappearances around the three locations of the Holy Ghost Campground, El Camino del Diablo, and the Pecos Wilderness? Is there a

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01:25:47

City Of The Dead

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2023/01/18

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan kicks off with two big stories today. Heading to Japan for the first one, to visit a Ghost Island. A very unique place. This one had us all twitchy! And then, we stay in Asia but travel all the way to Afghanistan to cover a collection of supposed sightings from some US Marines. Some really INTENSE sightings at a place once known as Observation Post Rock. Lynze presents us with a new horror character we have yet to meet,

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01:11:53

The Howling Village

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2023/01/11

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. The first story Dan will be sharing takes us to the Fukuoka Prefecture of Japan to explore lore around the urban legend of the Howling Village. And then we’ll explore the legend of the Basano vase! Did these supposedly cursed object bring death to one owner after another for two separate cycles of tragedy separated by centuries? Is it made up? Or does it lie underground again, waiting for a new owner to find it, and to

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01:25:50

A Mother's Love

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2023/01/04

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story is set in Portland, Oregon, centered around Portland’s underground “shanghai tunnels.” There are miles of tunnels underneath Portland that connect it to the Willamette River - once used to transport goods in and out of the city and to ocean going ships. These tunnels also, SUPPOSEDLY, were used for human trafficking. Sailors getting “Shanghai’d” - kidnapped and forced to work at sea. Women getting forced

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01:16:40

Pray For Us

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2022/12/28

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Wrapping up 2022! Thanks for being with us all year long, we look forward to so many wild, cool and interesting tales in 2023! Dan kicks off with a tale out of Chicago, about St. Rita's parish and very strange and terrifying encounter the entire congregation has on one All Saints Day. Then we go down south to Abbeyville, AL for the legend of Huggin Molly. Such fun tale of local lore. Lynze finishes 2022 with a story about

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01:16:13

The Monkey's Paw

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2022/12/21

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan is bringing back our annual Holiday Horror tradition. For Victorian England, December was the spooky spooky season - not October - and this is where our Western tradition of telling ghost stories to scare one another comes from. Friends and family gathered around the fire after a nice holiday meal to hear some horror. And in honor of that tradition, for the fourth year in a row, Dan shares the tale, The Monkey's Paw

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01:15:30

The Key Of Solomon

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2022/12/14

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan has a story about a couple teens who grab hold of an old book of occult summoning spells to start the show. They seemed to have opened a door that should’ve stayed closed. Then he shares with us another story featuring some true crime basis. Convicted killer, Gary Mark Gilmore, was sent to death row for a murder he never even tried to hid. Could it be because his mother brought something dark into her life, and then

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01:08:18

Annabelle The Doll

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2022/12/07

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan kicks off this week with a the tale of a haunted jail cell. Is a former, deceased inmates ghost to blame for the haunting and death of new inmate? And then, Dan tells the origin tale of Annabelle the Doll! of Lynze's tale this week are just enough to mess with you. Her first story will take us on a hike with an avid hiker who looses time and direction for far to long with no explanation. Then, in her second and truly

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01:09:03

The Chop Chop House

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2022/11/30

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan has a bigger story set in Boise, Idaho. Boise’s Murder House aka the Chop Chop house. This is a somewhat recent true crime story that leads to numerous reported paranormal encounters. Very creepy story. Then, a bit of tragic lore revolving around rural Colorado’s Third Bridge aka Ghost Bridge - and some reports of modern encounters there as well. Lynze switches it up this week with one, big, fat juicy tale. A woman is

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01:29:38

The San Pedro Haunting

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2022/11/23

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story, the San Pedro Haunting is intense! A very active entity terrorizes a young mother, her two kids, and anyone else who shows up to help them. The next story is about the mysterious disappearance of a MASSIVE ship during WW1 - the USS Cyclops. Where the Hell did it go? We head to the Bermuda Triangle to examine this mystery. Lynze then shares two back to back haunted house tales!! One haunted apartment with

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