Scary Ghost Stories

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Dare to peer into the shadows where reality twists and the unexplained lurks. Creepy Stories invites you to a daily rendezvous with the bizarre, the terrifying, and the truly strange. This is your portal to chilling tales, unsettling encounters, and disturbing true stories that defy explanation. From mysterious disappearances to ghostly apparitions and cryptic urban legends, Creepy Stories curates the most compelling and spine-tingling narratives from around the globe, ensuring every listen is a journey into the unknown. We delve into the dark corners of human experience and the supernatural, presenting each account with a focus on unsettling detail and atmospheric suspense. New episodes arrive every single day, Monday through Sunday, precisely at 4:00 AM. Start your day with a jolt as we explore everything from paranormal phenomena to unsolved mysteries and terrifying encounters. Each episode is designed to leave you questioning what you thought you knew about the world, offering a daily dose of genuine creepiness. This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the weird, the unsettling, and the things that go bump in the night. If you crave chilling true stories and enjoy exploring the fringes of reality, Creepy Stories is your essential listen. Subscribe now and unlock the doors to the truly strange.

  1. 55m ago

    The Kiosk, The Bag, and the Passenger Who Never Boarded

    The Kiosk, The Bag, and the Passenger Who Never Boarded A saturated leather carry-on turned up in a fishing slough three days after a canceled flight, its boarding pass belonging to D. Okafor who never appeared on Flight 881 - how did a printed pass slip through security only to vanish into the night? What chain of overlooked fixes and small errors let one bag expose five cascading failures? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the kiosk printout to the flooded drainage that carried the bag, laying out who reported problems, what stayed unrepaired, and the precise timing that made a voided boarding code print as valid - could one outdated kiosk and ignored maintenance really create this mystery? Person: D. Okafor Date: December 11, 2009 Location: Cutter's Slough / Verano Regional Airport Event: Boarding pass printed for Flight 881 that departed without passenger Status: Boarding pass printed from kiosk; passenger not on manifest - The carry-on was found by Laura Marshall at 6:15 AM after being submerged for three days in 31-degree water. - The kiosk firmware was 14 months out of date and printed a voided confirmation within an 18-minute vulnerability window. - A code for D. Okafor was voided at 11:43 PM and used at the kiosk at 11:58 PM, 15 minutes inside the exploitable window. - Patricia Weaver filed a report 14 months earlier about a cracked concrete footer and a September 2009 report about a fractured drainage valve, both unrepaired. - Two and a quarter inches of rain fell overnight on December 8, overwhelming the unrepaired basin and allowing water to carry the bag three-quarters of a mile into the slough. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  2. 1d ago

    The Jar on the Boundary Pin and the Signal That Shouldn't Exist

    The Jar on the Boundary Pin and the Signal That Shouldn't Exist A sealed mason jar propped against an iron boundary pin in eastern New Mexico held a typed sequence of numbers no one recognized, while an inexplicable narrow-band radio signal near 1.4 GHz-the protected hydrogen line-bled into an optical observatory’s photometric feed; how did a jar on a county desk link to a transmitter that should not have existed? What was sending a deliberate, repeating pattern from the Solano Flats, and why was the jar found eleven miles west of that direction days later? In this episode, we follow the timeline from a county surveyor finding a sealed jar beside a boundary stake to an observatory operator detecting structured interference in the hydrogen line and university staff triangulating its source, asking how those discoveries connected and what remained unexplained. Person: Paul Armstrong Person: Lauren Novak Person: Connor Marsh Date: November 4, 2011 Location: Solano Flats, eastern New Mexico - Paul Armstrong found a sealed mason jar standing upright beside an iron boundary pin on the morning of November 4, 2011. - Connor Marsh was running a photometric survey of 47 variable stars when he noticed a repeating narrow-band pattern around 1.4 GHz. - The interference appeared during a survey that started at 2:47 AM and was scheduled to run six hours. - Bernard Cho triangulated the signal west-northwest to the Solano Flats, about 11 miles east of the Cerro Caliente Observatory. - Lauren Novak found three circular tripod impressions in frost-hardened ground arranged in an equilateral triangle with sides of about 18 inches. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  3. 2d ago

    Dead Man's Checkout: A Library Book Returned From Inside A Wall

    Dead Man's Checkout: A Library Book Returned From Inside A Wall A manila checkout card stamped November 14, 1971 named a borrower who had been dead since August 12, 1969 - and the book sat sealed inside a wall for thirty-two years. A 1958 Field Guide to North American Birds was recovered damp and swollen from a hidden cavity in the Bellard Public Library; one pencil circle on the ruby-throated hummingbird page matched Walter H. Freed's only mark. How did a book get checked out in a dead man's name and then vanish into a secret wall? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the circulation desk records to the accidental discovery during a drainage repair, laying out the surviving documents, the people who handled the book, and the unanswered discrepancy about the 1971 checkout. What does the evidence - the checkout card, overdue notices, obituary clipping, and the sealed void behind the east wall - actually add up to? Person: Walter H. Freed Date of death: August 12, 1969 Address: 14 Copley Drive, Bellard Book: A Field Guide to North American Birds (1958) Discovery event: Drainage repair by Mitchell Septic and Well Service, October 2003 - The checkout card inside the book shows a due date stamped November 14, 1971 in blue ballpoint. - Walter H. Freed registered for a library card in March 1963 and was a steady borrower through six years. - Three overdue notices for Freed's account survived in the library records and were presumably sent to 14 Copley Drive with no response. - The hidden cavity behind the library's east wall was roughly the size of a storage crate, sealed with plaster and lath and patched over invisibly. - The book was recovered during an October 2003 drainage repair by Sandra Mitchell's crew and brought to head librarian Patricia Holm, then handled by Amanda Snyder. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  4. 3d ago

    The Ghost Car on a Locked Spur: Heron, Ledger, and a Secret Key

    The Ghost Car on a Locked Spur: Heron, Ledger, and a Secret Key Fog, a retired bird photographer, and a cargo car that legally shouldn't exist: an unregistered Crestline freight car sat on a padlocked spur that had been "dead" for ten years, its hatch bearing a white envelope with blue ink visible through the lens - who put it there and why was a key involved? Could the answer lie with the executor who once held the liquidation key? In this episode, we follow the discovery at Dellwood freight yard and the chain of records, people, and a single undamaged padlock that reshape the question - did the estate executor place car 4-4-08 on the spur, or is there another explanation? Person: Christine Tucker Date: September 9, 2014 Location: Dellwood freight yard, central Ohio Case: Unregistered car 4-4-08 on decommissioned Crestline spur Event: Padlock undamaged; operational key had passed to liquidation estate - Christine Tucker took eleven photographs of the dark cargo car at 4:17 AM before driving home and uploading the images. - The Crestline Short-Run Line operated for sixteen years and was decommissioned in 2004. - Donald Fendrich acquired Crestline in 1988 and died March 2013 of cardiac failure at age seventy-nine. - Linda Ward was fifty-five at the time of the discovery and lived eight minutes from the Dellwood gate. - Pete Nguyen called Linda at 6:40 AM, 2 hours and 23 minutes after Christine's first photograph, and read the car number 4-4-08 to her. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  5. 4d ago

    The Smell From Room 14: How a Dormant Odor Hinted at Buried Secrets

    The Smell From Room 14: How a Dormant Odor Hinted at Buried Secrets A dissolved, chlorine-like scent that made a fifteen-year-old delivery boy tear up led back to a dorm room where a former student had felt warmth through a painted baseboard fourteen months earlier. What invisible source could heat an unpowered room and leave a scorched, chemical odor with no permit or confirmed cause? In this episode, we follow how a short newspaper item and a late-night phone call pulled together two identical unexplained smells, a crawlspace pipe, and a binder of records with a missing year - and ask whether those clues point to an accidental hazard, deliberate concealment, or something else. Person: Grant Lewis Person: Alice Larsen Person: Kathleen Hicks Location: Aldermoor School, Colter Road, Harwick, New Hampshire Date: August 2011 (smell reported), June 2009 (Alice's experience) - Grant Lewis was fifteen and delivering newspapers when he smelled the chemical odor in August 2011. - Alice Larsen pressed her palm to the baseboard in Room 14 around 2:00 AM in June 2009 and felt warmth. - Aldermoor School had been closed for four months and the power was disconnected by April 2011. - The pool annex was built in 1963 and its filtration bypass copper pipe ran beneath Room 14. - Kathleen Hicks first wrote a short item in the Harwick Courier-Register after the non-emergency fire marshal report and then returned after Alice called. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  6. 5d ago

    The Lobster Boat Returned Alone - Where Was Lisa Zeller?

    The Lobster Boat Returned Alone - Where Was Lisa Zeller? Fear that someone vanished in plain sight: a thirty-two-foot lobster boat returned to port with a rinsed coffee mug upside down and sixty dollars tucked beneath it, its owner nowhere to be found - and a satellite tracker that went silent fourteen nautical miles from home. Who heard nothing that night, and what did the fresh gouge on the bow hide? In this episode, we tell the timeline of Lisa Zeller’s last trip, the instruments and people who tracked the Maren B., and the small, concrete mysteries left behind that refuse to add up. How did a routine lobstering run turn into a disappearance with a perfect return and almost no physical explanation? Person: Lisa Zeller Age: 38 Vessel: Maren B. Date: July 16-19, 2011 Distance from home when SPOT went dark: 14 nautical miles - The SPOT satellite device transmitted normally until 23:47 on July 18, then stopped fourteen nautical miles northeast of Portsmith. - The Maren B. was found tied to the municipal float at 05:30 on July 19 with every light off and the wheelhouse locked. - A rinsed coffee mug was found upside down on the drainer with $60 in cash beneath it. - Fuel readings: full when the boat departed; a quarter tank when checked on return, consistent with the filed trip of ~120 nautical miles. - A fresh gouge on the port bow estimated to result from a strike at 12-15 knots, showing white-edged wood with no oxidation. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  7. 6d ago

    The Morning Fire: How a Dead-Camp Flame Came Back to Life

    The Morning Fire: How a Dead-Camp Flame Came Back to Life A nearly impossible campfire rekindled itself beneath a perfectly intact tent fly: a dinner-plate of orange coals, a thin ribbon of blue smoke, and two birch logs arranged in an X - despite the camper extinguishing the fire eight hours earlier and dead-calm weather all night. How did heat appear to rise from beneath a stone ring with no footprints, no wind, and dew left unbroken on the tent? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Lloyd Stewart’s careful extinguishing at 9:47 p.m. to Dawn Perry’s discovery at 6:22 a.m., and the eight months of reconstruction by journalist Angela Petersen that unearthed an unexpected physical explanation - and one question she could not fully answer: what burned under the ring? Person: Lloyd Stewart Person: Dawn Perry Person: Angela Petersen Date: June 14, 2019 Location: Site Seven-Charlie (Talbot Creek drainage, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest) - The campfire was extinguished at 9:47 p.m. and found burning again at 6:22 a.m., a span of eight hours and thirty-five minutes. - The fire measured approximately the size of a dinner plate with orange coals and a thin ribbon of blue smoke. - Lloyd pressed the back of his hand against the ash until satisfied no heat remained before zipping his tent. - The Twisp weather station recorded dead calm from 2:00 a.m. through 6:00 a.m. the night in question. - The campsite gravel had been re-graded in fall 2018 using vesicular basalt aggregate sourced from near Conconully. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  8. Sep 8

    The Handset Breathing at Room Eleven: 33 Seconds Unaccounted For

    The Handset Breathing at Room Eleven: 33 Seconds Unaccounted For Fear tightens in the throat when a dead phone inhales: a beige push-button receiver on gravel, its cord taut through broken glass, and a woman inside a motel room who says the handset breathed for thirty-three seconds though the line was inactive. What happened in Room Eleven between 1:00 a.m. and dawn that left a handset fourteen inches from the wall and a cord pulled back through a smashed window? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Erin Simmons’s late-night arrival at the Dusty Wheel Motel to the discovery by runner Jennifer Hamilton at 5:45 a.m., laying out the timeline, the physical evidence, and the technical details that make the case so baffling. Can an unconnected telephone produce deliberate breathing, or is there another explanation for the broken window and the cord pulled taut? Person: Erin Simmons Date: May 7, 2019 Location: Room Eleven, Dusty Wheel Motel, Sutter Flats, Nevada Event: Handset reportedly producing breathing while line inactive Distance: Handset found 14 inches from exterior wall - Erin Simmons checked into Room Eleven at 11:40 p.m. on May 6 and had been sitting in the dark since around 1:00 a.m. - The Dusty Wheel Motel is a single-story L-shape with 14 rooms; Room Eleven sits at the far end, furthest from the highway. - A regional wireless carrier repeater station 340 feet from the room had been upgraded in March 2019, six weeks before the incident. - The motel handset was a beige push-button telephone plugged into a wall jack that led to a junction box sealed in silicone caulk and documented as having no active connection. - At 5:45 a.m. on May 7, runner Jennifer Hamilton found the handset lying in the gravel 14 inches from the wall with its cord running back through the broken window and still taut. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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Dare to peer into the shadows where reality twists and the unexplained lurks. Creepy Stories invites you to a daily rendezvous with the bizarre, the terrifying, and the truly strange. This is your portal to chilling tales, unsettling encounters, and disturbing true stories that defy explanation. From mysterious disappearances to ghostly apparitions and cryptic urban legends, Creepy Stories curates the most compelling and spine-tingling narratives from around the globe, ensuring every listen is a journey into the unknown. We delve into the dark corners of human experience and the supernatural, presenting each account with a focus on unsettling detail and atmospheric suspense. New episodes arrive every single day, Monday through Sunday, precisely at 4:00 AM. Start your day with a jolt as we explore everything from paranormal phenomena to unsolved mysteries and terrifying encounters. Each episode is designed to leave you questioning what you thought you knew about the world, offering a daily dose of genuine creepiness. This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the weird, the unsettling, and the things that go bump in the night. If you crave chilling true stories and enjoy exploring the fringes of reality, Creepy Stories is your essential listen. Subscribe now and unlock the doors to the truly strange.