PODCAST · fiction
Spooky Story Time
by Mercury
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, late‑night listening, and anyone who loves paranormal fiction and gothic atmosphere.Each short, intense episode is designed to be your perfect scary bedtime story (just don't listen with the lights off).Lock the doors, check under the bed, and wrap up tight. New episodes of Spooky Story Time drop twice a week.Join our community for free, or upgrade for ad free episodes and bonus content: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime.All epis
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Eleventh Hour
Deadlines are supposed to be stressful, not supernatural. In this suffocating, time‑bending spooky story, a freelance designer pulling an all‑nighter discovers that the minute before midnight can stretch into something far more sinister. Ten years ago, desperate to impress a global client, she works through the night in a drafty Portland apartment. As she grinds through the project, the digital clock on her desk freezes at 11:59 PM. Minutes pass. Hours pass. Entire sections of work are completed... but the clock never moves. Then the world goes silent. Doctors blame carbon monoxide poisoning. She tries to believe them. But every night since, when the clock hits 11:58 PM, she finds herself staring at the doorway, waiting to see if the world will freeze again… For listeners who love liminal time horror, cosmic bureaucracy, and stories where the mundane becomes metaphysical, this episode delivers a chilling reminder that some deadlines aren’t just professional — they’re existential. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Basement Tap
Silence isn’t empty - it’s a signal waiting to be decoded. In this deeply unsettling story of isolation, intrusion, and Morse‑code dread, a tenant in an old Victorian duplex discovers that the tapping in the pipes isn’t plumbing… it’s communication. At first, the sounds are just the usual quirks of an ageing house. But soon the taps become rhythmic, deliberate, and mobile, following them from room to room. For listeners who love domestic horror, voyeuristic dread, and haunted houses, this episode delivers a slow, claustrophobic terror that lingers long after the taps stop. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Computer Says Go
Numbers don’t lie... until they start predicting your disappearance. In this unnerving spooky story, an accountant who has built her life around the clean logic of spreadsheets discovers a hidden tab buried inside a document. A tab that shouldn’t exist. A tab that records the exact dates her colleagues ceased to exist — whether they resigned, vanished, or died. Every name has a date. Except hers. Now she finds herself checking her pulse, avoiding long‑term plans, and staring at her own reflection for signs of a “rounding error” in her life. For listeners who love corporate horror, digital hauntings, existential dread, and stories where the machine knows more than you do, this episode delivers a cold, procedural terror that lingers long after the spreadsheet closes. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Where's Barnaby Been?
Cats disappear. It’s what they do. But when Barnaby - a grumpy, soot‑coloured moggy with a decade of predictable habits - vanishes for exactly twenty‑four hours and returns bone‑dry in a storm, something about him is… different. In this unsettling spooky story, a beloved housecat comes back marked: a perfect white triangle bleached into his fur, too sharp and too precise to be natural. His eyes shift from murky green to bright, predatory gold. And his behaviour changes from aloof to observational — not affectionate, not curious, but analytical, as though studying the narrator rather than living with her. What begins as odd staring escalates into something far stranger. For listeners who love uncanny pet horror, slow‑burn domestic dread, and stories where the familiar becomes alien, this episode delivers a creeping, existential terror that lingers long after the final line. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Gaslight
Some hauntings don’t start with ghosts - they start with people. In this chilling psychological story, a woman escapes an emotionally manipulative partner, but no longer understand the broken reality she now has to inhabit. For listeners who love psychological horror, domestic dread, unreliable reality, and stories where trauma becomes a doorway, this episode blurs the line between haunting and manipulation in a way that lingers long after the final line. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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ScareBnB
A work trip becomes a waking nightmare in this claustrophobic, slow‑burn horror story about a Victorian rental, a locked blue door, and something inside that wants out. Twelve years ago, a medical sales rep books a last‑minute “Charming Victorian Suite” after the local hotels fill up. The host, Elias, is polite but unsettling. The deadbolt is industrial‑grade, the frame is warped, and the wood is scarred with deep gouges that look less like scratches… and more like claw marks. For listeners who love locked‑room horror, uncanny hosts, and stories where the danger is already inside the walls, this episode delivers a suffocating dread that lingers long after checkout. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Scariest... Tech & Gadgets
From baby monitors to security cameras, we rely on technology to keep us safe. But sometimes, our gadgets are the reason we're not safe, as this super spooky compilation proves. EchoLink(00:00) Remote User (09:24) The Elevator (18:28) The Baby Monitor (25:24) Ticking (33:16) Sometimes the biggest threat isn't from ourselves, but things we create. Sweet dreams! Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sasquatch
Some nights in the wilderness feel alive. Not with animals, but with attention. In this gripping story, a solo backpacker in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest learns that the deepest parts of the Cascades still belong to something older, heavier, and far more curious than any human. It’s 1994, and a young hiker determined to prove her independence sets up camp miles beyond the marked trails. The forest is unnaturally still, the air thick and watchful. She wakes to the unmistakable sound of something circling her tent. Years later, she still avoids the deep woods. She reads the tribal stories, the missing‑hiker reports, the accounts, and she knows what she heard that night wasn’t a bear, wasn’t a hallucination, and wasn’t alone. Some places in the Pacific Northwest don’t belong to us. Some things still walk there, curious and heavy, just outside the glow of a dying fire. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Frequencies
Some encounters don’t leave scars - they leave signals. In this unnerving long‑haul horror story, a former night‑shift lorry driver recounts the night the CB radio in his cab tuned into something that wasn’t human, wasn’t local, and wasn’t meant for earthly ears. It’s the late 1980s on a fog‑choked stretch of the M6. He's alone in his lorry, cycling through static to stay awake, when the noise begins - a rhythmic clicking pulse, like a Geiger counter finding something alive. Then comes the voice. What follows is a terrifying escalation. For listeners who love cosmic horror, roadside liminality, alien contact stories, and the terror of being noticed by something vast, this episode delivers a slow, existential dread that lingers long after the signal fades. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Garden Gate
Some doors are meant to stay closed, and some gates open themselves. In this creeping, woodland‑rooted horror story, a quiet cottage on the edge of Blackwood becomes the site of a slow, deliberate haunting. What begins as a simple nuisance , a garden gate swinging open every night, turns into a terrifying encounter with something that moves without shape, breathes without lungs, and knows exactly how to slide a steel bolt back in the dark. This isn’t a ghost story. It’s a tracking story - about something older than the woods, something that marks those who witness it, and something that doesn’t stop once it chooses you. For listeners who love folk horror, unseen entities, woodland dread, and stories where the predator is patient, this episode delivers a slow, suffocating terror that follows you long after the gate swings open. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I'm Still Here
What starts as a quiet evening becomes a slow, suffocating descent into dread when an African Grey parrot begins speaking in a voice no living person could produce. In this unnerving story, Apollo’s usual cheerful chatter is replaced by rasping whispers. Its behaviour shifts - pacing at night, staring down the hallway toward the perpetually cold guest room, warning not to look behind them. Every attempt at rationality fails: no carbon monoxide, no intruder, no tragic building history. Just a parrot who seems to be listening to something no one else can hear. And then, just as suddenly as it began, the voice stops. For listeners who love domestic horror, uncanny animal behaviour, and stories where the supernatural hides in the mundane, this episode delivers a creeping dread that settles under your skin and refuses to leave. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Old Well
Some wells don’t just hold water. In this chilling spooky story, a teenage girl spends a sweltering summer at her Great‑Aunt Martha’s isolated Valley home, where the air feels thick enough to drown in and the locals whisper about an ancient fieldstone well known only as The Sieve. Natalie is bored enough to ignore every instinct telling her to stay away from the ring of dead oaks behind the garden. When she slides the well’s rotting wooden lid open, the darkness inside feels alive. Dropping a quartz stone should have produced a splash. Instead, she unlocks something much darker. For listeners who love folklore‑rooted horror, rural dread, and stories where the earth itself feels sentient, this episode delivers a slow, suffocating terror that follows you long after you leave the woods. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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White Van Man
Routine is supposed to make life feel safe - the school run, the familiar streets, the predictable rhythm of weekday mornings. But for one exhausted young mother, routine becomes the perfect hunting ground for something that shouldn’t exist. In this unnerving spooky story, a white van begins appearing behind the her car every morning. Not close. Not threatening. Just there — two cars back, turning when she turns, idling when she idles. At first, she rationalizes it. Then she tests it. And when the van follows her through three pointless right turns, the fear becomes impossible to ignore. What follows is a slow, suffocating descent into obsession. Was it a stalker? A vehicle with a fake plate? Or something that slips through the blind spots of ordinary life, feeding on patterns, waiting to be noticed? For listeners who love slow‑burn paranoia, uncanny everyday horror, and stories where the mundane becomes monstrous, this episode lingers long after the engine goes quiet. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Organist
A tired veterinary intern seeks quiet in an old Norman church, and finds a presence that never stopped rehearsing when a late‑night visit to St. Jude’s turns from solace into dread when she sees a gaunt woman in the locked organ loft, her hands pantomiming frantic playing above the keys. The vicar reveals the church’s secret: Elspeth Vance. If you like: atmospheric church hauntings; slow‑burn supernatural encounters; first‑person confessional horror; stories about obsession and the things left behind when someone can’t let go - press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Return of the Tide
Some encounters don’t fade with time - they wait, like a tide pulling itself back toward shore. In this chilling spooky story, a former cannery worker recalls the night he crossed paths with something that should have been lost to the Atlantic decades earlier. It’s 1992 on a fog‑choked Maine wharf, long after closing time. With rain turning the roads to sludge, he takes a forbidden shortcut across a rotting pier. Under a flickering sodium lamp, he hears it first: a dragging, uneven gait. Then he sees the figure... Some things lost at sea don’t stay lost. For listeners who love maritime horror, ghostly returns, and stories where the past refuses to stay buried beneath the waves, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Claire
Some memories feel sacred, warm, and comforting. For me, it was the Summer at the lake house tucked deep in the pines, where a rickety dock creaked beneath my feet, and I played every day with my friend Claire. But the lake house never existed, and the truth is far darker. In this haunting story, a cherished childhood memory fractures under scrutiny, and the question that lingers is the one no one wants to ask: what really happened to Claire? And why was I the last person to see her? For listeners who love psychological horror, unreliable memory, and stories where the past refuses to stay buried, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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My Raggedy Ann
A childhood doll becomes the center of a decades‑long haunting in this unsettling first‑person story about memory, fear, and the things that follow us into adulthood. Annie is a second‑hand Raggedy Ann doll with a dark presence. As the years pass, things that begin as small, explainable incidents escalate into something far more disturbing. For listeners who love haunted‑object stories, childhood dread, and slow‑burn psychological horror, this episode explores the terror of growing up with something that watches—and the fear that it might still be watching. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Night the Lights Went Out
A childhood ritual becomes a lifelong fear when a summer blackout in a creaking Massachusetts Victorian reveals a staircase that shouldn’t exist. When the power cuts out during a violent thunderstorm, I leave my younger brother in the attic and begin counting the familiar fourteen steps down to the second floor. But in the pitch‑black silence, the house feels different - heavier, colder, wrong. The adults blame shadows and panic, but I know what I felt. For listeners who love atmospheric hauntings, childhood liminality, and stories where the familiar becomes terrifying, this episode explores the thin line between memory and the unknown... and the steps we’re too afraid to count. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Crayons
A quiet babysitting shift turns into a night of escalating dread when four‑year‑old Sam begins drawing a figure he calls the Tall Man - a faceless shape waiting “for the clicks.” As rain lashes the windows and the house settles into its cavernous nighttime silence, soft taps begin at the sliding doors. Then heavy knocks at the front door. And then the unmistakable sound of window latches being turned, one by one, from the outside. But the most disturbing detail isn’t the intruder’s tools or his escape into the woods. It’s Sam’s final drawing: the bedroom they hid in… For listeners who love grounded horror, home‑invasion dread, and stories where the real monster is human, this episode delivers a slow, suffocating terror that lingers long after the rain stops. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Scariest... Horror for Women
From pregnancy and childbirth to stalkers and scary real life situations, women have a lot of things to be scared about. All. The. Time. Women: we feel your pain. Men: take note. What's Left Behind (00:00) My Stalker (09:06) The Birth (19:06) The Baby Monitor (26:46) The Driver Who Knew Everything (34:38) The Waltz of the Forgotten Hearts (42:33) These are not just scary stories, but reality for so many women out there. Let this terrifying compilation be a wake up call. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Scariest... Spooky Stories About Kids
From creepy dolls to haunted houses, this extra spooky compilation brings you some of our best horror stories about kids and children. The Music Box (00:00) The Things Tommy Sees (08:20) A Miniature Haunting (14:48) St. Ainsley's (23:44) The China Dolls (34:11) Black-Eyed Children (42:31) Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Shopping Mall Lock-In
Most people think getting locked in a mall overnight would be inconvenient, maybe even funny. But when the lights die section by section, the escalators fall silent, and the mannequins start to move, the empty mall becomes something else entirely. Some places don't close... they just wait. If you love liminal‑space horror, uncanny retail settings, or stories where the familiar becomes deeply, disturbingly wrong, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Guest of the Cold
On the first night of winter in Oakhaven, you’re supposed to bolt the door, draw the blinds, and ignore every sound that comes from outside. It’s an old superstition - a warning about the Guest of the Cold, a presence said to descend from the mountains when the first frost hits. Eli never believed any of it… until last November, when the temperature dropped twenty degrees in three hours and something began knocking on his door. What began as a harmless local legend quickly turned into a suffocating encounter with something ancient - something that knew his name - and Eli realized the rule wasn’t about locks at all. It was about attention. Acknowledgment. Fear. If you love folklore‑driven horror, winter hauntings, or scary stories where the cold itself feels alive, press play. Some guests don’t need an invitation. They only need you to listen. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Echoes of Windrush
I joined a simple heritage walk to learn more about my neighborhood. Then the street shifted beneath my feet, the air changed, and I found myself walking through Brixton as it was in the 1950s... with someone limping steadily behind me. One moment I was photographing a mural, and the next, the world around me had slipped decades backward. The gastropubs were gone. The streetlights were dim and yellow. The smell of coal smoke and fried fish hung in the air. And a tall man in a trilby hat began following me. When I came back, a rusted Windrush badge clutched in my hand that hadn’t been there before. If you’re drawn to time‑slip hauntings, cultural echoes, or stories where history refuses to stay quiet, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Black-Eyed Children
I used to think the Black‑Eyed Children were just an old internet myth, until two kids knocked on my basement door at 2:14 AM and asked to be invited inside. This is the one encounter I still can’t explain. I was twenty‑four, living in a basement suite with a ground‑level window and a bad habit of working until dawn. The knock wasn’t normal, and when I looked through the peephole, two kids stood shoulder‑to‑shoulder, asking to come in and use my phone. Their voices were monotone, too calm, and too adult. And when one leaned toward the peephole, I saw their eyes... Some knocks aren’t meant to be answered. If you’re drawn to modern folklore, uncanny encounters, or stories where the old rules of invitation still apply, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Waltz of the Forgotten Hearts
My grandmother always said the Winter Gardens weren’t haunted - they were remembered. And the day she told me about the waltz she danced with someone who wasn’t there, I stopped believing ghosts were meant to be frightening. This story has shaped the way I understand the unseen. My Grandma Rose was elegant, dramatic, and full of stories, but none stayed with me like the one about the abandoned Victorian Winter Gardens she and her friend Agnes snuck in as teenagers, expecting dust and silence. This isn’t a tale of terror, but a reminder that some memories refuse to fade, and some hearts never stop waltzing. If you’re drawn to gentle hauntings, bittersweet echoes of the past, or stories where love lingers long after the dancers are gone, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Starlings
I used to think I was just anxious, until the shelving unit collapsed. Since then, I’ve been remembering things that haven’t happened yet. I’m telling this because tonight feels different. For six months I’ve been living with these “glitches” - memories of futures that haven’t arrived, flashes of grief for strangers I’ve never met, the bone‑deep certainty of disasters that sometimes happen and sometimes don’t. My wife thinks I’m spiralling. The doctor thinks I’m delusional. But the copper smell is back, the power is out across the block, and the air feels heavy, like the world is holding its breath. If the world is unchanged by morning, then I’m just another man who lost himself in the dark. But if it isn’t… you’ll understand why I had to tell this. If you’re drawn to apocalyptic dread, psychic‑glitch horror, or stories where the future presses in from the edges of the present, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Doppelgänger: The Other Me
I was on my usual Tuesday commute when a woman slipped through the closing tube doors—wearing my coat, my ring, my face. She didn’t look surprised to see me. She looked expectant. I’m telling this because what happened on the Northern Line that morning has been bleeding into my life ever since. She sat directly opposite me, mirroring every detail of my appearance down to the childhood scar on my nose and the frayed cuff I’d been meaning to fix. I ran at Bank, convinced it was a hallucination brought on by exhaustion. But over the next four months, people kept insisting they’d seen me in places I’d never been - on buses, in cafés, settling my bills, picking up my dry cleaning, even waving at my sister from a window I wasn’t near. I’m still listening for the hiss of tube doors outside my flat, wondering when she’ll decide it’s time to step out of the periphery again. If you’re drawn to uncanny doubles, identity horror, or stories where someone else begins to live your life better than you do, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Surgery: The Man Who Finished the Job
I woke up from what was supposed to be routine gallbladder surgery and saw a tall figure sitting in the visitor’s chair; too still, too silent, and too close to the ceiling. When it touched my wrist, everything went black. I’m telling this because twelve years later, I still don’t understand what happened in that recovery room. The lights were dim, the monitor was silent, and a man-shaped shadow in a charcoal suit sat watching me. When he stood, he didn’t make a sound. When he pressed his long, grey hand to my wrist, I felt a static charge that went straight through my bones. If you’re drawn to medical horror, post‑op nightmares, or stories where something uses a moment of vulnerability to make a permanent change, press play. I don’t think I was haunted. I think I was altered. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Elevator: The Voice That Knew Too Much
I stepped into an old mall elevator for a quick ride to the third floor. Five minutes later, the lights died, the emergency phone crackled to life, and a voice started reciting my secrets back to me. I’m telling this because I still don’t understand how it knew so much. One moment I was exhausted, leaning against the wall, waiting for the doors to open. The next, the elevator shuddered, the lights flickered out, and the emergency ballast bathed everything in a sickly red glow. If you like claustrophobic horror, uncanny encounters, or stories where something uses your own past against you, press play. I take the stairs now. Always. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Attic: The Thing That Learned My Name
I was fifteen when something in the attic above my bed started dragging itself toward me every night, and by the time I found the carvings in the beams, it already knew my name. I’m telling this because this is the one story from my childhood I still can’t shake. My parents bought a tall, narrow Victorian, all charm and “original features,” but my attic bedroom felt wrong from the first night. The sound that started in the far corner wasn’t an animal, but every time I mentioned it, my parents dismissed it as nightmares or hormones. But the sound wasn’t a dream. It paused when I pounded on the ceiling. It waited for my heartbeat to settle before moving again... If you like slow‑burn hauntings, childhood terrors, and stories where the house itself feels hungry, press play. I still don’t sleep in rooms with crawlspaces. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sweet Dreams: The Man in the Corner
I signed up for a paid sleep study because I was exhausted and broke. By the seventh night, the researchers weren’t asking if I saw the man in the corner... they were asking what he was doing. I’m telling you this because I need people to understand what the Miller‑Vaine Institute was really studying. I thought I was just being monitored while I slept. Instead, every morning the lead researcher asked me about a figure I’d never seen, until the night the corner of the room began to deepen, stretch, and reach toward my bed. When they showed me footage of myself reaching out to something invisible, whispering like I was praying, I ran. I didn’t even stop to put on my shoes. I’m still filling every corner of my house with lamps and bookshelves, because once you see him, he doesn’t stay in the corner anymore. If you’re drawn to psychological horror, sleep‑study nightmares, or stories where something in the dark becomes real the moment you acknowledge it, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Lights in the Sky: The Night the Road Went Silent
I was driving home on a foggy Sunday night when a formation of orange‑red lights began pacing my car along the A303. Silent, precise, and moving in ways nothing man‑made should. I still don’t know what I saw. One moment it was just drizzle, darkness, and a sleepy podcast. The next, five or six glowing orbs were hovering above the tree line, drifting, then darting across each other with impossible speed. No sound, no aircraft shape, no logic. Just pure, unblinking light moving like it was alive. I’m not saying it was extraterrestrial, but I know it wasn’t normal. If you’re drawn to eerie road encounters, UFO‑style sightings, or stories where the night sky suddenly feels too close, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. A special thanks to PastMaster for being the podcast you can hear - do listen and follow their show, it's really great. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Perpetual Glow
I thought I knew every inch of Black Peak, until a lantern‑bright glow appeared in the fog and began moving toward me, like it had been waiting. This is the one hike I can’t explain away. I’d spent years on those mountains, confident, experienced, unshakeable. But the day the fog rolled in, I saw a warm, amber light drifting through the trees, too steady to be a reflection, and too old‑fashioned to be a headlamp. I followed it at first, thinking it was another hiker. Then it stopped responding to my calls. Then it circled me. Silently. Perfectly. Like it wasn’t being carried at all. This is the closest I’ve ever come to believing the mountains hold something older than us. If you love eerie wilderness encounters, ghost‑light legends, or stories where nature feels alive and watching, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Tall Man
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 quiet, unsettling account of early motherhood, sleep deprivation, and the creeping dread of something unseen taking an interest in your child. If you’re drawn to domestic hauntings, eerie nursery stories, or the uncanny presence of imaginary friends who feel a little too real, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Empty Stall
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 followed me ever since: the sudden, aggressive absence where a person had just been, and the way the room went from frantic noise to impossible quiet in a heartbeat. I’m still not sure what I heard - an actual person, a sound carried through pipes, or something else. If you’re drawn to campus hauntings, press play and listen close. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Driver Who Knew Everything
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 that no app should know. When I tried to get out, the door was locked. I escaped by throwing myself from the car and running across gravel. The police found the car abandoned; the driver vanished. This episode is a tight, urgent account of that ride: the small, chilling moments that made my skin crawl, the instant I realized this wasn’t a routine pickup, and the raw panic of getting out alive. If you listen to safety stories, true‑crime warnings, or tense personal horror, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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My Last New Year: The Toast that Changed My Life
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, and turned every day into a ritual to avoid whatever he meant. I’ve had tests, scoured forums, and catalogued every near‑miss as if it were a clue. The calendar has become a cliff. This episode is an account of paranoia and prophecy: the night itself, the months that followed, and the small, obsessive measures I’ve taken to survive. If you’re drawn to tense, psychological horror - prophecies, ominous strangers, and the slow erosion of normal life - press play and listen close. I’m counting down the days, and I need you to hear this. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We Are Happy: My Uninvited Guest
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 in and acting like she belongs. I’m not sure whether I’m being gaslit, stalked, or haunted, but I’m done staying silent. This is a story about identity, invasion, and the uncanny terror of being replaced in your own life. If you like tense, intimate horror that blends psychological dread with uncanny phenomena, doppelgängers, domestic hauntings, and the slow erosion of safety, press play. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Belfry's Bell: The Salted Hand’s Toll
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 coastal folklore, ritualistic hauntings, and stories where place itself demands sacrifice will find this episode haunting and unforgettable. Press play to feel the bell’s resonance and follow a tale about covenants, the weight of inherited duty, and the way the sea keeps its promises. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Man in the Red Suit: A Christmas Horror
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 single word NICE. That small object becomes a terrifying guarantee and a parent’s ultimatum: keep their child on the right side of Arthur’s inscrutable tally or face consequences no one can explain. This episode blends folklore and domestic horror, exploring how a silent figure in a red suit can become an arbiter of fate. Is Arthur Finch is a protector, a judge, or something far worse? Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The December Deliveries: Twelve Years of Christmas Cards
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 the creeping dread of being watched, the small, personal details the sender somehow knows, and the moment this year’s card arrived with a jagged hole and a message that felt like a final warning. I tell you why I’m done waiting for the police to catch whoever is doing this, why I’m going back to the place it started, and how I’m preparing to confront the person—or thing—behind the annual harassment. If you like tense, personal horror that blends true‑crime dread with domestic invasion terror, press play. This is for listeners who want a chilling, first‑person account of obsession, surveillance, and the holiday season turned into a countdown. I’ll be honest, raw, and unflinching—this is my plan, my fear, and my last chance to stop the December deliveries. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Yellow House: Confronting a Nightmare
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 of the mind but a place that can appear, and disappear, at will. This story blends psychological horror with uncanny architecture and the sensation that some places are alive with intent. For fans of suburban hauntings, dream‑logic horror, and stories where the boundary between waking life and nightmare collapses. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Outside Lock: A Flat Share Mystery
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 farewell note thanking them "for never asking." Yet every morning at 7:30, the clink still sounds from the vacant, locked room. A haunting story about the tenants who were never quite alive and the keys that open doors to nothing. Perfect for grown-ups who've lived with strange roommates. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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EchoLink: A Conversation with the Dead
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, longing, and the dangerous comfort of technology that promises to bridge the final silence. Listeners who enjoy modern ghost stories, tech‑tinged hauntings, and emotionally charged twists will find this tale both unsettling and heartbreakingly human. Tune in to decide for yourself whether EchoLink was a cruel trick or a last, impossible message from someone who won’t let go. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Last Train Home: A Midnight Journey Into the Unknown
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 passengers who seem more statue than human. Was it simply the fever dream of an overtired commuter - or did the train make a stop that isn’t on any timetable? This haunting tale of The Last Train Home will leave listeners questioning the boundary between dream and reality, and whether some journeys are destined to run “on schedule” forever. Perfect for fans of ghost stories, urban legends, and uncanny encounters, this episode captures the unsettling atmosphere of everyday life slipping into the paranormal. Press play, and step aboard a train ride you’ll never forget. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Music Box: The Melody That Played Itself
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 morning, it's back on the mantel - with the key fully wound. A chilling story about heirloom objects that listen, melodies that break their own rules, and the terror of knowing something is playing its own game. Perfect for grown-ups who remember childhood objects that felt wrong. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nana Jo's Thanksgiving : The Guest Who Never Leaves
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 silently accept their presence year after year. Perfect for grown-ups who dread holiday gatherings for reasons they can't explain. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Last Vacancy: The Motel Room Stuck in 1621
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 hearing a familiar voice in an impossible place. Perfect for grown-ups who've stayed in strange roadside motels. Not for kids - listener discretion advised. ------------ Beth's Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Baby Monitor: Whispers from the Bedroom
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 Spooky Story Time is your new favourite horror podcast, best enjoyed alone with headphones. All stories are suggested or submitted by listeners. Have you had a spooky experience? Email your story to [email protected] now. For ad-free content, Spooky Chat Time, and extra perks, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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, late‑night listening, and anyone who loves paranormal fiction and gothic atmosphere.Each short, intense episode is designed to be your perfect scary bedtime story (just don't listen with the lights off).Lock the doors, check under the bed, and wrap up tight. New episodes of Spooky Story Time drop twice a week.Join our community for free, or upgrade for ad free episodes and bonus content: patreon.com/bethsspookystorytime.All epis
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