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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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01:25:50

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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01:31:36

A Haunting At Kaimuki House

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2022/11/16

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan jumps off the episode with a giant, weird tale. It's something new and fun to talk about in the world of “what if?” WHAT IF you were being “haunted”… not by a ghost, but by someone living in the same space as you, but living in a different time? Like a parallel dimension that someone also intersects with this dimension historical timeline wise. Someone living in the past, but also, living at the same time you live in

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01:26:46

The Ghosts Of Murder Farm

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2022/11/09

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan has his standard two stories, both have quite a bit of history attached to them!We’ll explore numerous claims of encounters with the paranormal that all revolve around recently deceased country music legend, Loretta Lynn. Loretta was a firm believer in ghosts, precognitive dreams, and other paranormal phenomena. Then we’ll cover hauntings related to a former subject of Dan’s Timesuck podcast. Belle Gunness. Mrs. Hoingy

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01:19:59

Ghosts Of A Wayside Inn

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2022/11/02

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's stories today are set in America and both in historically significant settings. Massachusetts’ Longfellow’s Wayside Inn and the ghost of a former employee - perhaps succubus of sorts that’s been haunting the place for over a century-and-a-half is the show opener. Then we’ll head south a bit to Maryland, and look into various claims of spirits that may haunt historic Fort McHenry the site of a battle that inspired the

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01:32:15

The Curse Of La Patasola

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2022/10/26

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan has a longer amount of story content this week, getting us ready for Halloween! A murderous monster from South America and a disturbing disappearance from North America. We don’t want to give too much away about either. The first, if anyone is familiar, revolves around La Patasola, a vampiric entity that allegedly dwells in the forests of Columbia. And the second story is the 1981 disappearance of an Ohio woman named

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01:24:43

The Halloween Cult

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2022/10/19

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan has one story that involves a young man from Ohio getting tangled up with appears to be some real creepy occultists on an October night over four decades ago. Next up, he shares a story about a really spooky haunted doll that may still be out there somewhere today.Lynze crushes it with three tales this week: a haunted house, a creepy closet dweller and dogman sighting. Scared to Death Live Haunted Halloween - True Tales

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01:33:45

Haunted Hotel Monteleone

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2022/10/12

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. We are deaded to the historic Hotel Monteleone to go over one helluva unsettling modern encounter tale. Then, we’re off to Connecticut for the story of a boy plagued by visits from the dead - a story that made int into the local newspaper in Hartford several different times and even became featured on an old episode of Unsolved Mysteries. Next up, our book editor Drew and his wife, Krista, wow us with the tale of their own

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01:15:36

The Beat Of The Drum

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2022/10/05

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. The setting for Dan's first story is about a ghost said to roam the grounds of Alabama’s Haines Island Park. The second involves a trifecta of UFO sightings in Canada from 1967 that for many, are still the most concrete proof for UFOs that Canada has ever produced. Holy hell! Lynze's second story is a doozy! But first, she shares with us a slightly different tale where a fan submits a funny version of being a Darren. It's a

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01:04:52

The Whistler

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2022/09/28

Dan has a story about a young boy named Cody and his imaginary “friend” who is NOT friendly and not imaginary. Then a collection of paranormal sightings in Plainfield, Wisconsin, that all revolve around the ghosts of either murderer Ed Gein - his mother, or his victims. Lynze has the most terrifying tale of the week with the folklore of The Whistler. YIKES! SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. The setting for Dan's first story is a Murder Mystery party. The

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01:16:32

What's Hiding In The Basement

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2022/09/21

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. The setting for Dan's first story is a Murder Mystery party. The premiss: since everyone is in costume, what if someone there is someone you don’t know. Someone… not alive. In his second story Dan shares the short tale of man haunted by a few weeks of terrible nights from his childhood. Lynze taps into two fears we can all relate to: dark and lonely rest stops and dark and scary basements! Enjoy! Scared to Death Live

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01:17:06

The Legend of Goatman's Bridge

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2022/09/14

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story is about one of the subjects that creeps people out the most and, like with the doll story last week, it’s something we haven’t talked about much recently: Dopplegangers. A young man has been haunted by SOMETHING at his family’s Montana lake cabin for many years. The second story is the Legend of Goatman’s Bridge. Who or what is the Goatman and how did he - or it - come to haunt a little rural area of

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01:15:12

The Shadow and The Doll

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2022/09/07

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan has his usual two tales! The first REALLY gives goosebumps. This is the most wicked haunted or cursed or possessed doll we’ve come across so far! Next, we’ll head to the Appalachian Trail and look at a couple examples of uncomfortable and frightening encounters with dark figures that not only have been reported to watch hikers, but also to kidnap and attack them. If you believe these reports to be true, this story is

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01:19:46

Right Ghost, Wrong Man

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2022/08/31

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan had two really fun haunted house types of tales this week. He kicks it off with a haunting at The Moana Surfrider hotel in Waikiki. It would appear that a death that took places many, many years prior has resulted in a female ghost hanging around. When a male visitor stays at the hotel, it would seem she thinks he is someone else. Mistaken identity gone wrong! Then in his second tale, we encounter a new set of Darren's

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01:14:05

The Elevator Game

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2022/08/24

SCARED TO DEATH IS EXPLICIT IN EVERY WAY. PLEASE TAKE CARE WHILE LISTENING. Dan's first story is about South Korea’s The Elevator Game. Is this nothing more than an urban legend? Or could this modern encounter story I’ll be sharing possibly be true? Could performing this elevator-based ritual somehow allow you to enter what sounds like Hell? The next story is the legend of The Curse of Ca’Dario. A Venetian mansion, built in the late 15th century, that might actually be cursed or at least extremely

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