Creepy 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. 18h ago

    The Cake on the Meter: Eight Candles, No Owner, No Answer

    The Cake on the Meter: Eight Candles, No Owner, No Answer Heat, a nine-by-thirteen sheet cake, and eight unlit candles left on a gas meter in eighty-one-degree July - but no one claimed the celebration. Who placed a pristine "HAPPY 8TH, BUDDY" cake on the meter outside 41 Calder Street, and why did the mystery arrive with almost no trace? In this episode, we follow the morning a meter reader found the cake and the homeowner's search for answers. The episode covers the discovery, the homeowner's background and routines, and the neighborhood details that make a quiet act feel like an intrusion - but who had the keys, and who wanted to mark an unknown eighth birthday? Person: Gina Vogel Event: cake found on gas meter Date: Tuesday morning in July 2019 Location: 41 Calder Street, Garnett Hills Witness: Jason Fisher, meter reader - The meter reader found the cake at 8:45 AM on a Tuesday morning. - The cake was a nine-by-thirteen sheet with white buttercream and blue letters reading "HAPPY 8TH, BUDDY." - Eight unlit candles were arranged in a neat arc on top of the cake. - The homeowner, Gina Vogel, had moved into 41 Calder in late May 2019 and lived there six weeks before the cake appeared. - The previous owners, the Beltrans, handed over two keys and said those were the only two keys. 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.

    The Cake on the Meter: Eight Candles, No Owner, No Answer
  2. 1d ago

    Locked Mine, Fresh Cake: Who Celebrated Inside a Sealed Room?

    Locked Mine, Fresh Cake: Who Celebrated Inside a Sealed Room? The sight of a fresh birthday cake, white frosting and a single pink candle, inside a padlocked concrete mining shack immediately triggers a chilling certainty: someone was here when they should not have been. How did an eleven-inch cake fit through an eight-inch ventilation gap into a building that had been locked and seemingly untouched for five years, and who was it meant for? In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning a retired mine supervisor smelled something electrical to the arrival of county deputies and a local reporter, tracing the people, places, and evidence that surround the cake found inside a sealed dispatch shack. Why did a homemade cake matching a church baker’s recipe appear in that exact spot days after she served a birthday in the nearby fellowship hall? Person: Ronald Fleming Date: June 11, 2019 Location: Consolidated dispatch shack, Caldera Notch, Lander County, Nevada Item: Birthday cake with white frosting, pink sugar roses, single unburned pink candle Witness: Tammy Meyer, Nevada Rural Dispatch reporter - The ventilation louver opening measured roughly eight inches across while the cake base measured eleven inches in diameter. - The building had been padlocked since the mine closed in 2014 and showed no signs of entry in Lori Hicks’s February inspection. - The cake’s frosting was smooth and uncracked when first documented by Deputy Nate Coburn, indicating it had not been there long. - Joan Prewitt baked an eleven-inch cake with white frosting and pink sugar roses for a one-year-old’s party on June 8, three days before the cake was discovered. - Tammy Meyer contacted every bakery within ninety miles and found no record of an order that matched the discovered cake. 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.

    Locked Mine, Fresh Cake: Who Celebrated Inside a Sealed Room?
  3. 2d ago

    Key on a Knee: How a Stroke Delivered Someone Else's Secret

    Key on a Knee: How a Stroke Delivered Someone Else's Secret A hospital bed emptied at 4:40 a.m., a stroke patient found hypothermic on a trail, and an old metal car key balanced on his knee tied to a handwritten tag naming a man who had moved nine days earlier with no public record. How did a man with left-hemisphere stroke damage and fine-motor ability reduced to that of a young child come to be holding a key that pointed to a stranger's unrecorded address? In this episode, we follow the timeline from a May morning discovery through the medical assessments and neighborhood moves that tie two men together by an impossible object, asking how a fractured mind, an estate sale, and a pegboard spare key produced a connection neither man can explain. Person: Ellis Branford Date: May 3 (stroke); May 8 (found at 8:15 a.m.) Location: trail behind Birch Hollow Road Person: Troy Burns Event: key with tag bearing Troy Burns and Fenwick Lane found on Ellis Branford - At 8:15 a.m. a dog walker found a 61-year-old man in a hospital gown, hypothermic, sitting on a freshly graded trail behind Birch Hollow Road. - Ellis Branford suffered a severe ischemic stroke on May 3 with left-hemisphere damage and fine motor function assessed at the level of a 4-5 year old child. - A stamped metal key cut for a 1988 Chevrolet Caprice was balanced on Ellis Branford’s right knee when paramedics arrived. - The key was tied with white cotton string to a paper tag in blue ballpoint block capitals reading Troy Burns and a Fenwick Lane address; Troy had moved there nine days earlier with no public record. - At 4:40 a.m. on May 11 Ellis Branford’s hospital bed was found empty, triggering a missing-patient protocol; the east wing exterior door showed no card swipe for his room during that window. 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.

    Key on a Knee: How a Stroke Delivered Someone Else's Secret
  4. 3d ago

    The Ice Disc and the Glove No One Could Explain

    The Ice Disc and the Glove No One Could Explain Cold dread: a perfect four-foot ice disc floated in a sheltered cove of Callum Lake in early April, and a single work glove lay palm-up frozen inside it - yet the lake had not frozen in April in living memory. How did solid ice form there, trap a glove, and what does the temperature record reveal about that night? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Dean Osborne found the disc to the local unraveling that followed, following the people, places, and small details that refuse to add up. What exactly happened on the night of April seventh into the morning of April ninth? Person: Dean Osborne Person: Larry Cox Person: Bernard Fitch Date: April 7-9, 2014 Location: Callum Lake, north shore - A disc of ice roughly four feet across floated about thirty feet from the dock on April 9, 2014. - Dean Osborne drifted six feet backward in his boat after seeing the glove and photographed the disc before calling the sheriff. - Larry Cox found the same disc the afternoon of April 8, stepped onto it with a three-foot pine branch test, and his left glove stayed behind when he stood. - Larry had visited Bernard Fitch the night of April 7, stayed past midnight because Bernard was feverish, and returned in the dark with one boot soaked from a rotted dock board. - A trotline float was visible frozen into a thicker section of ice about twenty feet along from the disc. 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.

    The Ice Disc and the Glove No One Could Explain
  5. 4d ago

    The Tape That Walked: Sleepwalking Broadcast and a Field's Whisper

    The Tape That Walked: Sleepwalking Broadcast and a Field's Whisper A cassette tape was found standing upright in a frozen Nebraska field, label facing east and dated two days into the future, containing 91 seconds of a woman reciting compass bearings and one precise instruction: the northeast corner of the Peltier east parcel, eighty feet from the irrigation standpipe. Who recorded a live broadcast that interrupted a rural FM signal at 1:58 a.m., yet had no memory of speaking? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the tape’s discovery to the on-air interruption and the town’s reaction, following the people involved and the unexplained details that remain. How did a local overnight broadcast air that 91-second message, and why was the cassette later found standing in a field dated March 11 when it was discovered around March 9? Person: Laura Christensen Location: Dunbar, Nebraska Date: March 2013 Event: 91-second broadcast interruption Status: Tape found upright in field, voice identified - The tape was found upright in soil roughly two miles east of Dunbar by Raymond Richardson on a Tuesday morning in early March 2013. - The cassette label was handwritten in blue ballpoint ink reading "March eleventh," while Richardson found it around March ninth. - The audio contains ninety-one seconds of a woman reciting compass bearings and distances and the phrase "the northeast corner of the Peltier east parcel, eighty feet from the irrigation standpipe." - WKDT 91.3 FM, run solo by Laura Christensen, broadcast overnight with a signal reaching about eighteen miles on a clear night. - Approximately at 1:58 a.m. on March 9, multiple listeners including a farmer in Lincoln reported hearing the unexplained ninety-one-second interruption on WKDT. 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.

    The Tape That Walked: Sleepwalking Broadcast and a Field's Whisper
  6. 5d ago

    The Watch That Came Back: Missing for Years, Tick Found in Snow

    The Watch That Came Back: Missing for Years, Tick Found in Snow A running silver wristwatch, found face-up and spotless on a concrete pad after eight inches of undisturbed snow - but its owner had reported it missing fourteen months earlier. Why was a watch engraved "For Janet - every Thursday - Love, Paul" left alone at a shuttered Iowa rest area with no footprints around it, and who returned it? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that connects a decades-long routine, a disappearing watch, a move across states, and a solitary drop-off in winter - ending with the question of motive and timing that no one has fully explained. Person: Janet Morris Person: Paul Morris Person: Ted Bauer Person: Person who found item: Eugene Hughes Date found: February 9, 2011 - The watch was found at 6:40 AM on February 9, 2011 at the Clover Creek rest area in Calhoun County, Iowa. - The engraving on the case back read "For Janet - every Thursday - Love, Paul," given around 2006. - Janet Morris was 62 years old, a lifelong Albuquerque resident and a medical transcriptionist of 31 years. - Ted Bauer moved from Santa Fe to Des Moines in January 2010 and kept the watch on his kitchen counter for 14 months. - Eugene Hughes had serviced the rest area for 17 years and noted the watch was accurate to within two minutes despite four days of sub-freezing temperatures. 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.

    The Watch That Came Back: Missing for Years, Tick Found in Snow
  7. 6d ago

    The Chair in the Field: No Tracks, No Answer, Below the House

    The Chair in the Field: No Tracks, No Answer, Below the House A wooden kitchen chair stood alone in a frozen field on January 9, 2011, forty yards from Flat Creek Road with no footprints leading to or away from it - and Wendy Porter photographed it sixteen times before sunrise. Weeks later, a knocking between ten p.m. and two a.m., a bent ventilation screen and pooling water in a crawl space revealed that something had been living beneath a farmhouse; how did a chair end up in the field and what was hiding under the house? In this episode, we follow the chronology from Wendy Porter’s roadside discovery to the months of quiet accumulation around the Murphy farmhouse, laying out the noises, inspections, and small details that kept pointing to one unresolved question: what lived beneath Flat Creek Road? Date: January 9, 2011 Person: Wendy Porter Person: Amy Murphy Person: Joe Wilder Event: Chair photographed sixteen times - The chair was located forty yards from Flat Creek Road in a twelve-mile-per-hour northwest wind. - Wendy Porter photographed the chair sixteen times before sunrise using a field notebook as a scale marker. - Amy Murphy heard three or four knocking beats between ten p.m. and two a.m., occurring intermittently starting in November 2010. - Pest-control worker Joe Wilder inspected the crawl space, noted disturbed insulation and a bent section of vent mesh, wrote “raccoon” on his report, and charged $60. - By the third week of October 2010 something had been living in the crawl space beneath the farmhouse while inspections and routine departures occurred. 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.

    The Chair in the Field: No Tracks, No Answer, Below the House
  8. Jul 29

    The Impossible Boarding Pass That Blew a Quiet Texas Town Apart

    The Impossible Boarding Pass That Blew a Quiet Texas Town Apart A single boarding pass printed at 11:47 PM for a flight that had been cancelled that morning turned a quiet West Texas morning into a two-year question about how an "operationally impossible" document ended up fluttering on a fence. The paper bore a real barcode, a real seat - and a name tied to a local woman who had meticulously prepared for a December trip; who printed that pass, and why, remains unanswered. In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment a teenager found the thermal slip on a chain-link fence through the paperwork trail, employee keycard logs, and interviews that followed, leading to the central unresolved question: how was a cancelled flight’s boarding pass issued late at night in a closed terminal? Person: Russell Whitfield Person: Susan Barnes Person: Kevin Draper Flight: 408 Date printed: 11:47 PM, December 3, 2011 - A 15-year-old found the boarding pass at 5:40 AM on a Tuesday in December 2011 along Route 170 east of Presidio Municipal Airport. - The boarding pass was creased once and printed on thermal paper with name Susan Barnes, seat 4A, and decoded to a valid Horizon passenger record number. - FAA received maintenance notification for the Beechcraft 1900D on December 2, and Horizon finalized cancellation of Flight 408 at approximately 9:15 AM on December 3. - Kevin Draper clocked out at 7:55 PM on December 3 and then recorded a south-side employee entrance swipe at 11:31 PM the same night. - A boarding pass printed from the terminal’s printer at 11:47 PM on December 3 for a flight officially cancelled that morning, a detail later described by an FAA examiner as "operationally impossible." 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.

    The Impossible Boarding Pass That Blew a Quiet Texas Town Apart

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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.