Podcast

scared with jess

Drama, Fiction

fictional horror stories for helping you sleep… or not. i’m jess ♥️ i create and tell scary stories for people where horror is their favorite kind of escape.

new videos every week.
♥️ good luck sleeping tonight 🪓
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Episodes
39
Releases
Twice a week
Typical length
18 min
On air since
2026
Latest episode
6 days ago

Episodes

39 episodes, newest first

  1. The Realtor Told Me to Run | 3 Scary Stories

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    A house showing that turns into a nightmare, a Halloween party with a girl who hasn't moved from the couch, and an online friend whose gifts become increasingly disturbing.

    Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess.

    Good luck sleeping tonight.

    22 min
  2. I Had To Pretend To Be Dead (3 STORIES)

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    I have three new disturbing stories for you this week, and each one gets worse the longer it goes.

    In the first, a woman finds a missing child poster with her own childhood photo on it.

    Then, someone whose best friend disappeared eighteen years ago finds a video online showing her tied to a chair.

    And in the last story, a girl grows up thinking it’s completely normal for her mom to make her practice looking dead.

    Three very different nightmares.

    Good luck sleeping tonight.

    15 min
  3. She Almost Drowned & Came Back Different

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    Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    20 min
  4. What Did His Family Have Planned? (5 STORIES)

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    Five fictional horror stories about impossible things, disturbing encounters, and the moment everything goes wrong.

    In this episode: someone who was supposed to be dead, a recording that shouldn’t exist, someone pretending to be asleep, a terrifying night involving clown makeup, and a stranger who followed someone home.

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    18 min
  5. He Brought Bloody Clothes (3 STORIES)

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    Tonight: a welfare check with an impossible witness, a man caught on a baby monitor looking for someone’s child, and an overnight laundromat encounter that doesn’t end when the shift does.

    Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

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    17 min
  6. I Never Forwarded the Chain Email (STORY)

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    A fictional horror story from Scared With Jess.

    A teenager gets one of those old chain emails warning her to forward it to thirteen people before midnight. She deletes it.

    Later that night, while she’s home alone, someone starts pounding on her bedroom door.

    After that, she starts seeing the same figure in her dreams, waking up freezing cold, and having thoughts that don’t always feel like her own.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess

    20 min
  7. She Did A Ritual To Prove They Were Real (STORY)

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    My best friend found an old paranormal forum and became obsessed with the rituals people were sharing there.

    At first, she thought she had finally found proof that spirits were real. Then she started hearing voices inside her head, losing time, and waking up to things she didn’t remember doing.

    The part that scared me most was when another voice started speaking underneath hers while she was still completely conscious.

    She kept saying she was going to stop.

    By the time she actually tried, I think something had already figured out how to use her.

    A fictional horror story from Scared With Jess.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess

    20 min
  8. Two Little Girls Wanted Me To Let Them In (STORY)

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    I was alone at a remote cabin when two little girls showed up at my door after midnight asking to be let inside. I never opened the door. I only spoke to them through the peephole, and at first they looked almost normal. Then the older sister showed me a handmade doll that looked exactly like me, down to the clothes I had changed into after I arrived. It was covered in pins, and somehow she could use it to make my body move. That was when I realized they weren’t lost, and they definitely hadn’t come there alone. Something they called Mother was waiting in the woods.

    A fictional horror story from Scared With Jess.

    Good luck sleeping tonight.

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    17 min
  9. What I Saw In The Hospital Morgue (STORY)

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    This one is about a night shift morgue worker who starts experiencing things she can’t explain, but the cameras keep showing absolutely nothing.

    At first it’s small stuff. Knocking. A gurney moving. Then she watches a body sit straight up, starts seeing a woman around the morgue, and realizes whatever is happening seems to know exactly when she’s looking at the security footage.

    I like this story because the scariest part isn’t just what she sees. It’s that she has no proof any of it is happening, and eventually she starts questioning herself too.

    If you’ve ever worked somewhere creepy at night, this one is probably going to get to you.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess

    18 min
  10. She Knew I Was Desperate For Friends (STORY)

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    I was so desperate to make friends my freshman year of college that when a girl from class invited me to a party, I didn’t think twice.

    Even when the address took me way outside town.

    Even when I pulled up to a dark trailer in the woods with no cars outside.

    I should have left.

    Instead, I went in.

    The people inside barely moved. Nobody was talking. Something about all of them felt off, and before long I realized my car was gone and the girl who invited me had no intention of letting me leave before I played their game.

    She knew exactly why I had come.

    She knew I wanted friends.

    And that was the whole reason she picked me.

    A horror story from Scared With Jess.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

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    18 min
  11. I Saw Her On The Ceiling (STORY)

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    When I was thirteen, I used to sleep at my best friend’s house almost every weekend.

    Then I started waking up in the middle of the night and seeing the same woman on the ceiling.

    She would crawl slowly above the bed, smile down at me, and hold one finger to her lips like she was telling me to stay quiet.

    Eventually, I started hearing her bare feet running across the hardwood floor.

    I never told anyone. I just stopped sleeping there. For years, I convinced myself it had all been a nightmare.

    Then I moved into my first apartment at eighteen. And she came back.

    Only this time, she wasn’t on the ceiling anymore.

    A horror story from Scared With Jess.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

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    14 min
  12. My Friend Tried To Sacrifice Me (STORY)

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    My best friend had been jealous of my life for years.

    Then she invited me to spend a weekend at her family’s remote cabin.

    At first, everything felt normal. But during a hike into the woods, I realized she had been taking pieces of me, my hair, a missing earring, even my full name written down, and bringing them to something she believed lived in the forest.

    She told me it could “balance” our lives.

    Then I saw the thing waiting for us in the clearing.

    And I realized she hadn’t brought me there for a girls’ weekend.

    She had brought me there as an offering.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

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    21 min
  13. She Was Still Inside the Mine (STORY)

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    When I was sixteen, my friends and I snuck into an abandoned mine that had been closed for decades.

    We didn’t make it far before we heard a woman laughing somewhere deeper underground. Then she called me by name.

    The entrance disappeared. Something inside started copying our voices. And the farther we went trying to find a way out, the more we realized other people had been there before us.

    Years later, I finally learned the story people in my hometown told about the woman in the mine:

    If you answer her, she learns your voice.

    And then she uses it to call someone else inside.

    A horror story from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

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    19 min
  14. The Dead Never Left These Mines - 3 Appalachian Ghost Stories (RABBIT HOLE)

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    (RABBIT HOLE) Three disturbing stories from the coal mines of West Virginia.

    A miner riding alone into the mine realizes someone else is standing inside the cage with him — a dead man carrying his own severed head.

    Another worker stops for two miners waiting beside the tracks, only to find the car empty except for the lanterns they were carrying.

    And a young miner follows a strange blue flame deeper underground, where he hears the voice of his dead father calling his name.

    These stories come from old Appalachian mining folklore collected from the communities that worked beneath those mountains.

    Featuring Big John, Section South Main, and The Blue Flame.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    14 min
  15. The Woman in the Mirror (STORY)

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    I bought a 172-year-old house with an antique mirror built into the upstairs hallway. Within weeks, I started hearing a woman whispering from it at night.

    Then things in the house began moving. My cats refused to go upstairs. And every time I slept, I found myself trapped behind the glass, watching a dark woman move slowly through my home.

    I stayed for three years before I finally sold the house for a loss.

    A horror story from Scared With Jess.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess

    15 min
  16. 3 People Who Realized the Stranger Wasn’t Human - RABBIT HOLE

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    Three people meet seemingly normal strangers, until they notice something that makes the entire encounter terrifying.

    First, a doctor invites a mysterious man into his home and slowly realizes almost nothing about his appearance seems natural.

    Then, a salesman is stopped on a dark highway by a smiling stranger who can somehow speak without moving his mouth.

    And finally, two children approach a man sitting alone in his car and politely ask to be let inside. Then he sees their eyes.

    The Herbert Hopkins encounter, Indrid Cold, and the Black-Eyed Children.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    13 min
  17. 3 Disturbing Paranormal Stories From Deep in Appalachia - RABBIT HOLE

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    We’re going deep into Appalachia for three disturbing paranormal stories.

    First, a West Virginia family is terrorized by something they can’t see, something that seems to move through the house cutting clothes, blankets, and eventually living things.

    Then, a man walking alone through the woods claims a seven-foot creature grabs his arm and uses needle-like fingers to take his blood.

    And finally, a dead woman allegedly appears to her mother after burial and tells her exactly how she was murdered.

    The stories are The Wizard Clip, The Vegetable Man, and The Greenbrier Ghost.

    Three very different Appalachian nightmares.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    13 min
  18. Something Dragged Her Up the Stairs - RABBIT HOLE

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    In the 1960s, a family living at 30 East Drive in Pontefract, England began reporting increasingly violent activity inside their home.

    Objects moved. Furniture was thrown. Strange banging filled the house.

    Then their teenage daughter Diane became the target.

    According to her family, an unseen force grabbed her and began dragging her up the staircase while they fought to pull her back.

    Later, multiple people claimed to see a tall hooded figure inside the house , the entity that would eventually become known as the Black Monk of Pontefract.

    But the deeper you go into this case, the stranger it gets. Some incidents may have been exaggerated or faked, and the historical story supposedly explaining who the Black Monk was appears to have serious holes.

    So if the figure people claimed to see wasn’t actually the monk from the legend…what were they seeing?

    Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    19 min
  19. Demon House Case (RABBIT HOLE)

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    In 2012, a family in Gary, Indiana claimed something evil had taken over their home.

    They reported footsteps, shadows, strange voices, violent behavior, and children acting as if they were possessed. Then the case reached a hospital — where a DCS caseworker documented something almost impossible.

    According to her report, a nine-year-old boy walked backward up a wall toward the ceiling.

    Police, doctors, child services, and a Catholic priest all became involved, and multiple exorcisms followed.

    In this episode, I’m breaking down what was actually documented, what the family claimed happened, and the explanations that make this case even stranger.

    Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    25 min
  20. The Enfield Poltergeist (RABBIT HOLE)

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    In 1977, a family in Enfield, England claimed something had taken over their home.

    Furniture moved. Knocking came from inside the walls. An 11-year-old girl began speaking in a deep male voice. And at one point, a police officer reported seeing a chair move several feet without anyone touching it.

    Some incidents were later exposed as hoaxes. Others remain much harder to explain.

    In this episode, I’m breaking down the Enfield Poltergeist case, what witnesses actually reported, what was faked, and the details that still make this one of the most infamous alleged hauntings ever investigated.

    ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓

    20 min

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