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Spooky Story Time

Turn off the lights... if you dare. From paranormal horror to haunting ghost stories and creepy true crime, Beth"s Spooky Story Time is the scary podcast where your worst fears come alive. Perfect for adults looking for a terrifying wind-down, this is your new favourite horror fix. Host Beth reads original short tales of haunted houses, uncanny neighbors, and terrifyingly real moments, with immersive narration, subtle sound design, and twist endings that stick. Perfect for bedtime horror,

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12:14

The Tall Man

Spooky Story Time ·

2026/01/11

I thought sleep deprivation was making me see things... until my baby started smiling at something pacing in the nursery, and toys began coming back with fingerprints too big to be his.This is the story I’ve never said out loud. It started with a shadow on the baby monitor. I tried to explain it away - bad lighting, exhaustion, anything rational - but then Leo began giggling at things I couldn’t see, and offering his toys to someone who wasn’t there. Someone he calls The Tall Man. This is a

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12:07

The Empty Stall

Spooky Story Time ·

2026/01/07

I heard someone sobbing in the stall next to mine in the campus bathroom. When security opened the door, the stall was empty. Locked, silent, and impossible.I still feel the cold tile under my slippers and the echo of that hysterical wail. It was finals week, the library a fluorescent tomb, and the crying started soft and private before escalating into a raw, terrified sound that made my skin crawl. But there was nothing - no backpack, no jacket, no sign anyone had been inside. The memory has

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10:00

The Driver Who Knew Everything

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2026/01/04

I got into a ride‑share after my car broke down and the driver called me by my full name - my private middle name - and then told me he’d been waiting for this ride.I ran. I’m still running. I’m telling this because it happened to me and because I need other women to hear what can happen when a stranger knows more than they should. One ordinary Tuesday night my car died on the M2. A black Audi arrived, the driver said my name like he owned it, and then he started reciting details about my life

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12:29

My Last New Year: The Toast that Changed My Life

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2025/12/31

A stranger at a crowded bar raised a crystal flute and toasted me with three words... “to your last New Year,” then vanished. That toast has been the drumbeat of my life for a year. I’m telling this quietly because I don’t want to invite more attention, only to share what it’s like to live under a sentence. One midnight, a man in an impossibly sharp suit appeared beside my booth, offered a single, chilling toast, and left behind a heavy crystal flute. Since then I’ve quit drinking, lost my job,

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11:04

We Are Happy: My Uninvited Guest

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2025/12/28

I came home one evening to find my keys on the kitchen counter and my slippers arranged like a message. By the time I hid a camera, the footage showed someone who looked exactly like me, living my life, smoothing my comforter, and leaving a strand of dark hair on my shoes. I’m terrified, and I need you to hear this.For six months my apartment has been subtly rearranged. Small, intimate intrusions at first. A strand of hair that wasn’t mine. A hidden nanny cam that captured a version of me walking

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8:27

Belfry's Bell: The Salted Hand’s Toll

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2025/12/24

Windward is a coastal village where the sea keeps a terrible bargain. A single, monstrous bell toll at 3 a.m. names the next soul to be claimed by an ancient covenant, and this time, I became the unwilling successor to the Salted Hand. What begins as local folklore unfolds into a visceral, maritime horror: a belfry stained with brine, a dragging sound from the dark, and a cold, salt‑scented mark on the narrator’s hand that marks the passing of a burden no one can refuse. Listeners who enjoy

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11:39

The Man in the Red Suit: A Christmas Horror

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2025/12/21

Havenwood’s quaint December charm hides a ritual that chills the town to its bones.Each Christmas Eve, a reclusive resident dons an immaculate scarlet suit and walks the streets in silence. At first a local eccentric, his midnight rounds become something far darker when families begin to change, children fall ill, and a tiny carved token appears on a windowsill. But one year, Arthur stops outside my home. A perfectly carved wooden mouse is left at the window, etched with the initials A.F. and the

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8:43

The December Deliveries: Twelve Years of Christmas Cards

Spooky Story Time ·

2025/12/17

I never thought a greeting card could ruin my life, but for twelve Decembers it has. Every year a new card arrives—first a glittery Santa, then a photo taken through my window, then a strand of my own hair tucked behind a pressed flower—and each one escalates the terror. I moved, changed my locks, installed cameras, and even filed reports, but the cards keep coming, always beginning the first week of December and always getting closer. This episode is my story of escalation and resolve. I describe

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10:25

The Yellow House: Confronting a Nightmare

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2025/12/14

A twenty‑year nightmare becomes disturbingly real when I return to my childhood street to confront the source of decades of sleep‑paralysing dreams.What was meant to be a rational, daylight exorcism of memory turns into a confrontation with an impossible, decaying house that matches every architectural detail of the recurring dream. A brass key, a chipped ceramic fawn, and a black‑peepholed door built on a void forces them to face the terrifying possibility that the dream is not merely a product

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9:57

The Outside Lock: A Flat Share Mystery

Spooky Story Time ·

2025/12/10

Turn off the lights for tonight's chilling tale of shared living gone impossibly wrong. In The Outside Lock, a new tenant moves into a perfect Victorian flat and meets their roommate Chloe only once - a brief glimpse through a cracked door. For three months, Chloe exists only as notes on creamy cardstock, the scent of rosewater, and precise morning sounds. But when she discovers Chloe's door is bolted from the outside and uses the spare key to investigate, they find an empty room with only a

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11:09

EchoLink: A Conversation with the Dead

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2025/12/07

On this episode, a grieving sibling downloads a viral app as a desperate distraction and receives a reply that should be impossible.What begins as cynical curiosity turns into a bone‑deep shock when the app answers with private memories only the narrator and their late sister shared. A hidden locket, a childhood secret about a botched haircut, and a napkin note no one else knew about arrive as text messages from beyond - or from a disturbingly clever scam. This episode explores themes of loss,

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11:23

The Last Train Home: A Midnight Journey Into the Unknown

Spooky Story Time ·

2025/12/03

On this chilling episode of Spooky Story Time, you are invited aboard a late‑night train where routine commutes dissolve into something far more sinister. An exhausted passenger awakens to find themselves surrounded by eerily silent travelers, a conductor who speaks in robotic monotone, and a landscape outside the window that feels less like Kent and more like a void. What begins as a missed stop spirals into a surreal nightmare of flickering lights, distorted station signs, and a carriage full of

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10:05

The Music Box: The Melody That Played Itself

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2025/11/30

Turn off the lights for tonight's unsettling tale of childhood terror in an old house. In The Music Box, a ten-year-old moves into a house where their grandmother's antique music box sits gathering dust.The seven-note melody is eerie enough, but when the box begins playing on its own with the key wound down, things take a darker turn. Incomplete phrases, random sequences, and then one October night, the music box appears at the foot of the bed, playing single notes that grow closer and closer. By

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10:51

Nana Jo's Thanksgiving : The Guest Who Never Leaves

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2025/11/26

Turn off the lights for tonight's chilling tale of holiday horror.A college student accepts an invitation to spend the holiday with a friend's family. But the dining room holds something wrong: Nana Jo sits motionless at the head of the table hours before dinner, staring at an empty seat with food that looks days old on her plate. They soon realise this family's Thanksgiving has a permanent, unexpected guest. A haunting story about the anchors that hold the dead in place and the families who

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10:50

Last Vacancy: The Motel Room Stuck in 1621

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2025/11/23

Turn off the lights for tonight's unsettling tale of roadside horror.In Last Vacancy, a desperate traveler caught in a blizzard takes the last available room at the Sunset Motel. But Room 7 is not all it seems, and most terrifying of all - a voice from Room 8 that sounds exactly like the traveler's mother, humming childhood lullabies and speaking to someone who isn't there. A chilling story about motels that exist outside of time, the smell of failed purification rituals, and the horror of

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9:57

The Baby Monitor: Whispers from the Bedroom

Spooky Story Time ·

2025/11/19

An exhausted new mother hears strange sounds through her baby monitor - first an off-key lullaby, then whispers that know her name. But when the voice reveals a childhood secret that no one else knows, the horror gets dangerously real. A chilling story about the technology we trust, the guilt we bury, and the voices that know us better than we know ourselves. Perfect for grown-ups who understand that some secrets never stay buried. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's

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11:46

My Mirror Image: A Haunted Inheritance

Spooky Story Time ·

2025/11/16

I move into my late aunt's isolated Sussex cottage and discovers a massive antique mirror in the guest room. At first, the reflection shows only subtle differences, but during a power outage, the reflection stops following.A haunting story about mirrors that trap more than light and the question of what happens when your reflection decides it no longer wants to be you. Perfect for grown-ups who avoid looking at mirrors in the dark. Not for kids - listener discretion

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10:59

2.17am: The Man on the Driveway

Spooky Story Time ·

2025/11/12

A homeowner living on an isolated property discovers a tall figure standing at the end of their driveway - appearing at exactly 2:17 every single night, without fail.Security cameras capture his instant arrival but never his approach. Motion sensors fail to detect him. Police find no evidence. With a desperate attempt to confront him up close, the true horror becomes clear: this isn't random trespass. It's calculated, repetitive, and impossibly patient. A chilling story about the watchers who

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12:11

His Last Watch: The Lighthouse Keeper's Journal

Spooky Story Time ·

2025/11/09

A Grandfather's death leads to the discovery of his keeper's log from Point Obsidian lighthouse. But what begins as routine weather reports slowly deteriorates into frantic accounts of something massive in the fog - something that waits for the light's rhythm and scrapes along the catwalk two hundred feet up.When they visit the decommissioned lighthouse to understand what broke their Grandfather, they hear it too. But the true terror lies in the journal's final page... A chilling story about the

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11:09

Remote User: The Smart Lock That Didn't Listen

Spooky Story Time ·

2025/11/05

A homeowner three hours away in a conference room receives a notification that their smart lock has been disengaged - but they're the only one with access.What follows is a terrifying digital game of lock and unlock, repeated over and over, until security camera footage reveals something impossible standing in the living room. A tall, indistinct shadow that doesn't walk but flows, reaching toward the camera and waiting for the door to finally stay open. A haunting story about modern security

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