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Published by Chilling Entertainment
Scary Stories Told in the Dark is a horror fiction podcast, spun off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show stars voice actor Malcolm Blackwood as both host and narrator, and features the hand-picked work of hundreds of talented authors. Sleep well, listeners… if you can.
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After losing his career, his marriage, and nearly everything he had saved, Caleb returns to his quiet Midwestern hometown hoping to begin again. Instead, he encounters a warning that has circulated through the community for generations: never travel Briar’s Bend after dark. The isolated road has been the site of countless unexplained accidents. Drivers report losing control on clear nights, their vehicles suddenly pulled toward the trees by a force they cannot see. Older residents claim the cause is something known only as the Hairy Hands. Caleb has no patience for ghost stories—until an invisible grip seizes his steering wheel. Drawn into the road’s disturbing history, Caleb discovers decades of crashes, frightened survivors, and accounts that conventional explanations cannot resolve. The closer he comes to understanding Briar’s Bend, the more dangerously personal its legend becomes. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
Richard Prasse has had strange neighbors before. None of them were anything like Eliza Munoz. Beautiful, mysterious, and surrounded by a seemingly endless procession of late-night visitors, Eliza quickly becomes an irresistible distraction for the lonely medical resident living next door. But when curiosity draws Richard across the hallway at exactly the wrong moment, he discovers that the sounds coming from Eliza's apartment aren't evidence of an unusually active love life. They're evidence of something hungry. Soon Richard finds himself trapped between attraction and terror as the woman he can't stop thinking about reveals a side of herself no human being was ever meant to see. And when another dangerous figure from Eliza's past appears, Richard realizes that his neighbor may not be the only monster in the building. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
Eight-year-old Terrance is supposed to be asleep. Instead, he's listening to something scratch against his second-story bedroom window. At first, it sounds like a branch brushing the glass. Then it comes again—slower, sharper, deliberate. And when Terrance finally gathers the courage to look outside, he finds a pale face staring back at him from a place no one should be able to stand. Within moments, an ordinary night in a quiet suburban home becomes a desperate fight for survival as Terrance and his family discover they aren't dealing with a prowler—or anything else that should exist. Pale figures are gathering outside. They are impossibly fast, terrifyingly persistent, and very, very hungry. And once they've chosen a home, locked doors may not be enough to keep them out. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
This week, Scary Stories Told in the Dark presents an unforgettable tale of obsession, grief, and the lingering footprints left behind by monsters who hide behind friendly smiles and impeccable reputations. In it, we meet a father, whose decades-long search for answers leads him into the forgotten mountains of Appalachia, every mile bringing him closer to a truth more horrifying than he ever imagined. The man he's hunting is already dead, but as we'll soon discover, evil doesn't always perish with the body that carried it. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
Death is supposed to be the end. At least... that's what we've always believed. But deep in the forgotten corners of America, hidden beyond the maps and untouched by time, there are places where decay is worshipped, where the dead are welcomed home, and where the greatest horror isn't dying... It's being invited to become part of something eternal. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
There are places we instinctively know not to go. The woods beyond the old fence. The forgotten chamber sealed beneath centuries of dust. The distant glow that beckons from the darkness, promising wonder while concealing something far older—and infinitely more patient. In this unsettling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, childhood curiosity collides with unspeakable terror, while a brilliant scholar uncovers a mystery so profound it threatens to erase him from history itself. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, Malcolm Blackwood invites listeners into a night of psychological horror where the most terrifying things are not monsters lurking in the dark, but the choices people make when grief, rage, and temptation press in from all sides. Featuring Mak Ralston’s “All Hands Are Red,” this episode descends into a world of contradiction, private pain, and quiet moral collapse, where justice and vengeance begin to resemble one another in all the worst ways. Darkly intimate, unnerving, and steeped in dread, this is a tale for anyone who’s ever wondered what it really takes to push an ordinary person past the point of no return. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into a tale where love refuses to accept loss… and where a single miscalculation could mean the difference between reunion and ruin. When tragedy strikes, one desperate soul begins searching for answers beyond the limits of science—and discovers that some doors don’t simply open. They require instructions. Precision. Timing. And the willingness to follow through, no matter the cost. If you were given the chance to undo the unthinkable to bring back someone or something you loved… would you be able to resist? To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A new season begins… and this time, the danger doesn’t hide in graveyards or abandoned houses. It waits in fluorescent hallways. In tidy institutions. In the quiet rules no one questions. In our latest episode, we open with a story that lingers long after the lights go out: a tale of silence, survival, and the subtle cruelty that can pass for harmless play. When being unnoticed becomes a defense mechanism, and obedience becomes a habit, something begins to learn from it. Something patient. Something practiced. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing you can be… is easy to forget. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The harvest season is nearly over. The lanterns are lit. And some visitors don’t wait for October to knock. On a quiet farmhouse porch, beneath the fading glow of autumn skies, grief lingers longer than the falling leaves. The crops have withered. The land is tired. And a man left alone with his memories begins to wonder whether the dark holds answers… or something far worse. This week, Scary Stories Told in the Dark closes Season 18 with a story that proves the most dangerous horrors aren’t the ones that chase you in the night. They’re the ones that convince you to open the door. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Curiosity has always been humanity’s sharpest tool. And its most dangerous. In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites listeners to explore the fragile boundary between affection and obsession… between improvement and interference. What begins as admiration for something small and familiar gradually becomes something far more unsettling—an experiment not born of cruelty, but of conviction. Tonight’s tale examines the quiet confidence of a mind certain it knows better than nature. It asks what happens when science moves faster than wisdom, when devotion clouds judgment, and when progress begins to reshape what was never meant to be redesigned. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, familiar pleasures become dangerous invitations—and the line between reward and punishment quietly dissolves. What begins as routine drifts into something far more unsettling, where reassurance masks intent and kindness hides its teeth. This is a story about offers that come too easily, about places that feel safe until they aren’t, and about the terrible cost of noticing what you were never meant to see. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, the past beckons with the promise of closure and the comfort of familiarity. A return to somewhere once called home feels like a chance to finally understand what was lost, what was forgotten, and what might still be waiting. Tonight’s story explores the quiet terror of buried memories, sealed spaces, and the unsettling realization that some structures are designed not for living—but for containment. When reassurance replaces warning, and nostalgia dulls suspicion, the most dangerous truths can feel almost welcoming. Because the most effective prisons don’t look like cages. They look like answers. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, familiar faces begin to fracture, and the comfort of home becomes a dangerous illusion. What starts as an act of love—returning to be with family in a time of loss—slowly twists into something far more unsettling, as subtle wrongness gives way to quiet dread. Tonight’s story explores the fragile boundary between trust and survival, asking how well we truly know the people we believe we’re safest with. Sometimes the most terrifying moment comes... after the mask slips. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, horror doesn’t announce itself with screams or shadows. It hums quietly beneath fluorescent lights. It hides behind counters, inside policies, and within systems that promise order and safety—while quietly demanding a price. Our latest edition explores what happens when violence becomes procedural and morality is reduced to numbers. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What if happiness wasn’t something you had to earn? What if it found you instead? In the quiet shadow of the Colorado mountains, a chance encounter offers something too tempting to ignore — a path away from regret, away from loneliness, away from the weight you’ve been carrying longer than you realize. No struggle. No sacrifice. Just relief. But some invitations don’t demand anything upfront. They simply wait for you to want them badly enough. In this unsettling episode written by father and son duo Jonah Groshek and Craig Groshek, host Malcolm Blackwood guides listeners into a landscape where comfort masks something ancient, and the promise of salvation hums just beneath the surface — patient, persuasive, and impossibly hard to refuse. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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