True Scary Stories

The Thing Wearing My Son's Face

On a Thursday night in late May, a figure resembling Paul Combs' son emerged from the darkness, moving with an unsettling gait and stopping to stare directly into streetlights. Paul, a widower still grieving his missing son, approached the figure only to hear a single, chilling word escape his lips: "Dad." What unspeakable horror had returned to Birchwood Lane?

In this episode, we delve into the terrifying events that unfolded when Paul Combs encountered a creature that had taken on the appearance of his long-lost son, Jake. Discover the unsettling details of the figure's arrival, Paul's desperate attempts to rationalize its strange behavior, and the tragic consequences that followed.

Person: Paul Combs
Location: Birchwood Lane, Hancock County, West Virginia
Event: Arrival of a mysterious figure
Status: Son's body found in Los Angeles
Object: Yellow velcro wallet

- The figure moved in lurching increments, stopping dead beneath each streetlight.
- Paul Combs, 52, had worked 30 years at Number Nine Coal Company.
- Jake Combs had been dead for weeks, possibly months, in a drainage culvert.
- Amy, Paul's wife, died two years prior from lung cancer.
- The Great Southern Brood of cicadas had emerged two weeks earlier on a 13-year cycle.

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OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

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The Dead Man's Confession: Nile, Ash, and the Impossible Tape

A recording exists that should not. It was made by a scientist, Dr. Samuel Russell, who was already dead according to all physical evidence, yet his calm voice describes something climbing from the dark by the Nile River. What impossible confession did he leave behind?

In this episode, we uncover the unsettling story of Dr. Samuel Russell, an archaeologist who stumbled upon a wooden crate with five layered shipping labels spanning 140 years and four continents. Inside, a defaced Predynastic Egyptian stone tablet led him to a secret tomb in the Sahara Desert, built not for treasure, but to hold something inside.

Person: Dr. Samuel Russell
Location: Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
Artifact: Predynastic Egyptian stone tablet
Origin: Sahara Desert
Previous Owner: Dr. Fitzsimmons

- Dr. Samuel Russell traveled from New York to Glasgow for a "routine favor" at the Kelvingrove Museum.
- He found a wooden crate with five shipping labels, having crossed four continents and six cities over a century.
- Inside the crate was a Predynastic Egyptian stone tablet, catalogued in 1883, with its inscription deliberately defaced.
- Russell secretly used modern imaging techniques to recover the inscription, which pointed to a tomb in the Sahara Desert.
- Dr. Fitzsimmons, who found the tablet in the Sahara, wrote a letter repeating "A thing of ash" before disappearing.

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OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

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The Tent Zipper Sealed. Then Came the Sound

Robert Francis, a practical and skeptical man, meticulously planned an eight-day solo cycling trip in Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. But his journey took a terrifying turn when he encountered an unmarked stone cairn and took a strange object, leading to a final sound heard not from the forest outside his tent, but from inside it, with the zipper sealed shut. What truly happened to Robert Francis in the Scottish wilderness?

In this episode, we delve into the unsettling disappearance of Robert Francis, exploring the strange sequence of events that began with an ancient stone and ended with an impossible sound. We examine the details of his trip, the peculiar forest he discovered, and the chilling circumstances of his last known moments.

Person: Robert Francis
Location: Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, Scotland
Object: Black bicycle frame with "R, O, B" painted in white
Event: Disappearance during a solo cycling trip
Status: Missing

- Robert Francis planned his eight-day solo cycling trip for eleven months.
- He found a dense cluster of trees surrounded by a precise ring of dead grass.
- Inside the forest, he discovered a stone cairn, roughly three feet wide, seven feet long, and two feet high.
- He removed a triangular, black, polished stone, about the size of a human hand, from the cairn.
- The last sound he heard came from inside his sealed tent after midnight.

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OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

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Down Here: The Cellar Door Was Open

A two-word whisper in the dark, a storm rolling in, and a friend's unlocked front door. David found the cellar door wide open, a single bare bulb swinging, and strange marks in the dust leading to an unexpected doorway. What happened in that cellar, and who whispered those words?

In this episode, we delve into a chilling account that begins with an urgent phone call and leads to a terrifying discovery in a familiar, yet suddenly alien, family home. Explore the unsettling details of a friendship fractured, a storm-swept night, and the inexplicable events that unfold when David answers a desperate plea.

Person: David
Person: Eric
Person: Aalia
Event: Urgent phone call
Location: Eric's family home

- David had not spoken to Aalia or Eric in two years.
- The phone call came on a Thursday night during a storm warning.
- The front door of Eric's house was unlocked.
- The cellar door was fully open, pushed against the wall.
- Eric had been seeing a "black haze" for three weeks, starting near King's Park station.

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OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

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Six People. Five Seats. One Killer

Six people drive into the Gila National Forest in a five-seat car, a detail no one mentions until it's too late. One of them will die, killed by the person writing this account, who still doesn't know if what he killed was ever human. What truly happened on that trip to the Gila Loop?

In this episode, we delve into Evan's chilling account of a backcountry trip that began with a simple miscount and spiraled into something far more sinister. Discover the unsettling events that unfolded in the quiet of the forest, where rational explanations break down and the number of people in the group keeps coming up wrong.

Person: Evan
Location: Gila National Forest, New Mexico
Date: August 2016
Event: Backcountry trip
Status: Unconfirmed account

- Six people drove in a five-seat Prius to the Gila National Forest.
- Evan, his brother Ian, Ian's girlfriend Yessica, Oliver, and Amy were the initial group.
- Evan, suffering from social anxiety, had not left his apartment for over a year before the trip.
- On the first night, Evan encountered a woman named Nadia who asked for a lighter; no one else in the group knew her.
- The West Fork Trail, their planned route, had been closed that summer due to flooding.

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OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories  a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.

Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales  true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.

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