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Harrowing Tales Horror Stories
by Harrowing Tales
Original horror fiction, told in the first person. Each week, Harrowing Tales brings you new scary stories about night shifts that go wrong, lonely roads after dark, strange encounters, and things that were never explained. This is quiet horror. It’s slow-burn, atmospheric, and unsettling, with no gore, no jump scares, and no screaming. Every story is original, written for Harrowing Tales. They’re creepy stories for late nights and long drives, and quiet enough to fall asleep to, if you can. All stories are original fiction. New episodes every week. Read the Harrowing Tales books on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/author/harrowingtales
Episodes
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Flag Fourteen: A Corn Maze Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The night corn maze had one rule, painted on a board at the gate: if you get lost, raise your flag and stay put, and a guide will come to you. In October 1994, a father and his eight-year-old...
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The Popcorn Ball: A Halloween Candy Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! For forty-one Halloweens, the retired mailman across the street gave out the most famous popcorn balls on Wheeler Avenue. In 1997, from his hospital bed, he asked his neighbor for one last...
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John Doe: A Haunted House Attraction Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 2003, she took a job playing a corpse in a small-town haunted house: lying under a sheet on a gurney in a room called the Morgue, Fridays and Saturdays, six to one. The girl who had the job...
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Bring Whoever: A Halloween Party Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! He invited twenty-two people to his first-ever Halloween party. Twenty-three are in the shared photo album, and the twenty-third doesn’t show his face in any of the forty pictures he’s in. In...
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The Night Drop: A Halloween Costume Shop Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Her mother ran the costume rental shop for thirty-one years, and three different Novembers she burned a costume in a trash can out back without ever saying why. In 1987, the shop became hers.…
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On Maple: A Halloween Night Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! It’s Halloween night, and his eleven-year-old son is out trick-or-treating with friends for the first time. The boy’s only rule: Dad can track him on the location app and text all he wants…
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Phone in the Box: A Digital Detox Cabin Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! For her birthday, her best friend booked her a weekend alone in a cabin with no cell signal, and bet her eleven hundred dollars she couldn't last forty-eight hours without her phone. The phone...
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Count Off: A Summer Camp Canoe Trip Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Every night at ten on the canoe trip, the scout leader shouted "Count off!" and nine boys answered from their tents, one through nine. On the first night, after Nine, someone out past the…
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Lantern Out: A Fire Lookout Tower Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Someone had written a rule in grease pencil on the rim of the fire lookout's map table: LANTERN OUT BY DARK. She'd been afraid of the dark since she was four, so she broke it on her first…
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The Water Stays On: A Cranberry Marsh Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! His father left him one rule for frost nights on the cranberry marsh: once the water is on, it stays on until the sun comes up. "That's not advice," he said. In this original horror story, a…
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Cover the Mirrors: A Mourning Superstition Folk Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Three weeks before she died, his grandmother made him promise one thing: when she was gone, cover every mirror in the house for seven days, even the little ones. When he asked why, she said…
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Sleep Theatre: A Sleep Talking Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Her boyfriend recorded her talking in her sleep: two hundred and eleven clips over one winter. Every Sunday at breakfast he played them back, kept a leaderboard on the fridge, and called it...
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Doubles: A Haunted Film Photography Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1986, he owns the only one-hour photo lab in a small town, so he sees every photo anyone there takes. One September night, in the middle of a stranger's roll of birthday pictures, there's a...
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Leave It: A Search and Rescue Cadaver Dog Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! His cadaver dog's trainer had one rule: every time the dog sits, you reward her. You don't get to decide she's wrong. Everywhere else, he followed that rule. At home, he broke it. In this...
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The Sleeper: A Long-Haul Trucker Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1991, a husband and wife drive a truck as a team. One drives while the other sleeps in the bunk behind a curtain, and the truck never stops. For six years, everything she's said through…
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Porch Light: A Roommate House Rules Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Rent in the shared house is four hundred a month, utilities included, and it comes with one rule: if the porch light is on when you get home, don't go in. Go somewhere for an hour, then come...
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The Sitting Room: A Hospice Night Nurse Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! He worked eleven years as a night nurse on a fourteen-bed hospice ward, and somewhere along the way he started knowing, days ahead, which patients were about to die. He couldn't explain it…
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Do Not Service: A Night Shift Vending Machine Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! She runs a vending route on the overnight shift: eleven buildings between midnight and eight, hospitals and office parks and a courthouse annex. One machine in a hospital basement has been...
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The Mile Marker: A Rural Road Crew Folk Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! For generations, the county road crew passed down just one rule, always in the same words and never with a reason: you do not clear the culvert at mile marker nine. Nobody who repeated it knew...
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Do Not Speak: A Security Camera Night Shift Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! She works the overnight shift watching forty security camera feeds, from businesses she'll never see in cities she's never been to. There's one rule they teach you before anything else: never...
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The Reading Room: An Abandoned School Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1989, a young teacher runs an adult literacy program two evenings a week in a school that has been closed since 1976. There's power in only one corridor, the building sits empty, and her...
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Second Prints: A 1980s Photo Lab Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1985, a young woman runs the one-hour photo counter at the back of a drugstore. She reads every roll of film on the light table, frame by frame, and she's proud that she forgets every one…
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Locked Out: A Night Locksmith Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1994, a small-town locksmith takes every after-hours callout he's offered. He's fast, twenty minutes door to door, he's proud of it, and in six years he has never misjudged a house or a...
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Exact Change: A Highway Toll Booth Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1979, a young father works the graveyard shift alone in a highway toll booth: four hundred cars a night, a quarter, and four words, "Thank you, drive careful." He's so good at being...
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The Other Pedal: A Driving Instructor Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1990, a driving instructor with his own dual-control car takes private students off a card pinned to the hardware store corkboard. The second brake pedal on the passenger side is the one...
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Dead Air: A Late-Night Radio DJ Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1981, a young man runs the overnight shift alone at his father's small-town radio station, midnight to six, six nights a week. Twice an hour, the law requires him to say on air where he is...
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The North Side: A Morel Mushroom Hunting Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! For ninety years, one rule held in her family: nobody goes on the north side of the creek. Nobody could ever explain why. Every April, she picked morels in the woods below her grandmother's...
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The Back Row: A 1980s Drive-In Theater Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! For eleven seasons, a drive-in owner walked the rows with a flashlight after the last car had left. In the fall of 1983, his final season, he kept finding one speaker missing from the back…
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The Overflow Line: A 1990s Phone Operator Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1998, a young mother on a quiet rural route takes catalog orders from her kitchen table. The rule is always the same: take the address, then read it back slowly, so the caller can stop you…
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The Window Fan: A 1980s Summer Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The summer she was twelve, in 1987, a heat wave came, her mother bought a box fan, and she ran it in her bedroom window every night. It was the best sleep she ever had. In this original horror...
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The Night Deposit: A Small-Town 1970s Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! For nine years, a restaurant's closing manager carried the night's takings to the bank. It was the same four blocks every night at ten minutes to midnight, and the same route, even though he'd...
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Second Set of Keys: A Storage Unit Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1997, a newly divorced man takes a job managing a self-storage facility on a lonely state route. It pays next to nothing, but it comes with a trailer inside the fence, and that means no…
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Open House: A 1989 Home Selling Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1989, a laid-off father has one chance to save his family from foreclosure: sell the house before the bank's deadline. Every Saturday, he lets strangers walk through it. In this original...
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What She Drew: A Farmhouse Imaginary Friend Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The summer she was four, a little girl drew the same picture every night: the family farmhouse, the dog, the sun in the corner, and a tall gray friend with no face. Her mother kept every...
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The Ride Home: A 1980s Babysitting Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Every Friday night in 1985, a fourteen-year-old babysat for a family four blocks down, and every Friday the kids' father came home around eleven and drove her home. He was polite and quiet…
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Nineteen Below: An Ice Storm Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The night an ice storm knocked out the power, two brothers were home alone at the top of a dead-end hill. Then a light started blinking in the treeline below the house. In this original horror...
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Small Door: An Attic Crawlspace Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! When he was eleven, there was a small door in his bedroom wall that led into the crawlspace behind it, and it would not stay shut. Nobody in the family had opened it. So one night, he left it...
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Off Season: A Coastal Campground Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Seven friends rent a cabin in a beach town that has shut down for the winter. There's no one on the streets and nothing moving on the roads, just a single sheriff's patrol car parked at the...
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Night Shift: A Hotel Graveyard Shift Horror Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A hotel night clerk writes a lie to get out of the last two hours of his shift. By morning, the lie has come true, and something knew about it before he did. In this original horror story, a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Original horror fiction, told in the first person. Each week, Harrowing Tales brings you new scary stories about night shifts that go wrong, lonely roads after dark, strange encounters, and things that were never explained.
This is quiet horror. It’s slow-burn, atmospheric, and unsettling, with no gore, no jump scares, and no screaming. Every story is original, written for Harrowing Tales. They’re creepy stories for late nights and long drives, and quiet enough to fall asleep to, if you can.
All stories are original fiction. New episodes every week.
Read the Harrowing Tales books on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/author/harrowingtales
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What is Harrowing Tales Horror Stories about?
Original horror fiction, told in the first person. Each week, Harrowing Tales brings you new scary stories about night shifts that go wrong, lonely roads after dark, strange encounters, and things that were never explained. This is quiet horror. It’s slow-burn, atmospheric, and unsettling, with no...
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