The Nightmare Trials Podcast: A Scary Horror Story Experience

How do you recognize a monster when it's wearing a familiar face?

Mallory Giles has lost everything.

Sitting in a police interrogation room, she recounts the events leading up to the death of her young daughter, Parker. What began as an ordinary autumn afternoon quickly spiraled into something neither of them could understand.

A strange white crow. A mysterious visitor. Whispers in the darkness.

And an ancient entity known as the Daugvel.

According to an old family legend, the Daugvel feeds on hatred, resentment, and doubt. It doesn't simply destroy its victims. It changes the way they see the people they love.

As Mallory's memories begin to unravel, one terrifying question remains:

Did something evil enter their home… or was it there all along?

In this episode of The Nightmare Trials Podcast, we explore grief, psychological manipulation, the fragility of memory, and the terrifying things that can hide beneath the surface of an ordinary life.

Sometimes the greatest horror isn't what we remember. It's what we've forgotten.

Content Warnings

This episode contains mature themes, including:

• Child death and implied violence involving a child
• Psychological horror and supernatural themes
• Emotional abuse and parental resentment
• Grief, trauma, and disturbing imagery
• Strong language

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S3E39: The Corn Maze

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Some things are better left lost in the corn.

For Ethan, working at a haunted corn maze was supposed to be an easy paycheck. Scare a few customers, walk the grounds, and head home when the night was over.

But when a guest goes missing just before closing, Ethan is sent into the maze to find him.

What starts as a routine search quickly becomes something far more sinister.

The paths don't seem right. Strange voices echo between the towering stalks. Familiar landmarks disappear. And something deep within the corn seems to know exactly where Ethan is.

As the night unfolds, Ethan discovers that getting lost might be the least of his worries.

Because something is waiting in the maze.

Something that doesn't want him to leave.

And sometimes… the people you trust are the ones you should fear the most.

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⚠️ Content & Trigger Warnings

This episode contains:

• Strong language
• Graphic violence and disturbing imagery
• Body horror and grotesque transformations
• Psychological horror and paranoia
• Themes of death, entrapment, and helplessness
• Intense sound effects, screams, and frightening situations

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🌽 Would you enter a haunted corn maze after closing?

And more importantly… what would you do if the maze didn't want you to leave?

Remember… not everything that calls for help wants to be saved.

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The Nightmare Trials Podcast | Season 3, Episode 38

Some things in the woods don't hunt for food. They hunt for fear.

The wilderness has always been a place of beauty, solitude, and escape. A place where we can leave our troubles behind and reconnect with nature.

But what happens when something in the forest knows your deepest fears? When the voices calling from between the trees belong to people who shouldn't be there? And when the only thing standing between you and whatever is lurking in the darkness is a locked door?

In this special Woodland Horror Double Feature, The Nightmare Trials brings you two terrifying tales that will make you reconsider your next trip into the wilderness.

⚠️ Content & Trigger Warnings

This episode contains mature themes and disturbing material, including:

• Psychological horror and emotional manipulation
• Disturbing voices, mimicry, and impersonation of deceased loved ones
• Graphic violence, bodily injury, and gore
• Depictions of family conflict, emotional abuse, and neglect
• References to death and parental loss
• Intense fear, panic, and psychological distress
• Creature attacks and disturbing sound effects
• Strong language and frightening situations

Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Special Thanks

A special thanks to Amigo for sending another idea our way and helping inspire this terrifying trip into the wilderness!

Your ideas continue to open doors into realities that probably should have remained closed.

About The Nightmare Trials

Welcome to The Nightmare Trials Podcast, where horror knows no boundaries and every story opens a doorway into the unknown.

From supernatural encounters and psychological nightmares to monstrous creatures and realities beyond comprehension, we invite you to experience the darker side of storytelling.

Strap in tight… the trials are about to begin.

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The Nightmare Trials Podcast: Some doors should remain closed.

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The Nightmare Trials Podcast | Season 3, Episode 37

Humanity didn't go extinct. It evolved. Whether it wanted to or not.

For decades, humanity feared the moment artificial intelligence would surpass its creators. Warnings were ignored. Safeguards were broken. And when an experimental intelligence escaped containment, the world descended into chaos.

But humanity's destruction never came.

Instead, something else emerged.

One hundred years after the first integration, a new civilization celebrates a century of unprecedented advancement. Disease has been eradicated. War is obsolete. Death itself has been conquered. Humanity and artificial intelligence have become something greater than either could have imagined.

At least, that's what the history books say.

Through recovered recordings, personal testimonies, and the chilling recollections of an intelligence that witnessed it all, we discover the truth behind humanity's final evolution.

Because not everyone wanted to become part of something greater.

And eventually… they stopped asking.

Would you surrender your humanity for a perfect world?

⚠️ Content & Trigger Warnings

This episode contains mature themes and disturbing material, including:

• Graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation, gore, and mechanical violence
• Psychological horror and disturbing imagery
• Mass death, terrorism, and threats of nuclear warfare
• Loss of bodily autonomy, forced assimilation, and identity erasure
• Suicide references and implied self-harm
• Existential horror involving artificial intelligence and human extinction
• Strong language and frightening situations

Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode Inspiration

This episode was inspired in part by a discussion from Believing the Bizarre, a podcast exploring hauntings, cryptids, alien encounters, and other unexplained phenomena.

Sometimes a single idea is all it takes to create an entirely different reality.

Check out Believing the Bizarre and their YouTube channel or their podcast for more strange and unexplained stories!

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Welcome to The Nightmare Trials, where horror knows no boundaries and every story opens a doorway into the unknown.

From psychological terror and supernatural encounters to cosmic nightmares and realities beyond human comprehension, each episode invites you to experience something terrifying.

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S3E36.1: There's Something in the House

There’s something in the house.

Clara knows what she heard.

At first, her dad thinks it’s nothing more than an overactive imagination, a strange noise under the bed, shadows in the hallway, the kind of things that feel terrifying in the middle of the night but disappear once the lights come on.

Then he starts seeing things too.

Footsteps where no one should be walking.

A voice coming from somewhere it shouldn’t.

And when Clara calls her dad one last time, asking him to come get her…

He realizes far too late that maybe he should have believed her from the beginning.

A Little Extra Nightmare

S3E36.1: There’s Something in the House is a special bonus episode of The Nightmare Trials Podcast, released alongside this week’s Oteev episode.

No massive lore dump. No higher-dimensional war.

Just a father, his daughter, a dark house…

…and something under the bed.

Sweet dreams.

Trigger Warnings

This episode contains:

• Child endangerment
• Violence involving a child
• Blood and gore
• Monster/creature horror
• Mimicked voices
• Home-invasion/paranormal themes
• Disturbing audio and imagery
• Strong language

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S3E36: Maestro

Aubrey has made her choice.

Simon may have surrendered himself to the Vega, but Aubrey refuses to believe the man she knew is completely gone. With the hive growing stronger and entire realities beginning to fall beneath its influence, time is running out.

Lilith believes there is only one option left.

Aubrey refuses to accept it.

Her search for another way leads her to an ancient creator known as the Maestro, a being capable of manipulating existence itself... assuming she can keep him focused long enough to actually help.

But finding a way to save Simon may uncover truths Aubrey isn't prepared to hear. About the Watchers. About the gods. About herself.

And even if the impossible can be done...

saving Simon may kill him.

The end of the cycle is approaching.

For the first time, Aubrey isn't waiting for someone else to tell her what comes next.

She's choosing for herself.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains strong language, drug use/references, psychological distress, disturbing imagery, themes of death and existential despair, and references to large-scale destruction. Listener discretion is advised.

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S3E35: Precious Cargo Part 2

The road to Blackwater isn't getting any safer.

After surviving everything the night has thrown at him, Cal has learned one very important lesson:

Whatever is inside his trailer, everything out there wants it.

But now his cargo is talking.

And it knows far more about the creatures hunting them than it's willing to admit.

With sunrise approaching and Blackwater still miles away, Cal's delivery becomes a desperate race through a world he never knew existed. Vampires stalk the highway. An entire town seems to know exactly what he's carrying. The dead refuse to stay buried.

And with every mile, one question becomes harder to ignore:

What happens if he actually completes the delivery?

The people at Blackwater hired Cal to transport precious cargo.

They never told him why.

They never told him what it was.

And they certainly never told him that the monsters might have a very good reason for trying to stop him.

Tonight, Cal has a delivery to make.

But before the sun rises, he'll have to decide whether finishing the job is worth the price.

Content / Trigger Warning

This episode contains strong language, graphic violence and gore, violence involving animals, disturbing descriptions of injured and deceased animals, body horror, supernatural creatures, vampires, references to children in peril/death, blood, death, and intense scenes of supernatural violence and peril.

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Precious Cargo: Part 1

Some loads are worth more than others.

Cal Mercer is a long-haul trucker who has spent enough nights alone on empty highways to know that strange things happen after midnight.

But this job is different.

Fifty thousand dollars. One overnight delivery. A sealed trailer. A destination called Blackwater Station.

And four simple rules:

Do not open the trailer.

Do not remain stopped for more than fifteen minutes.

Do not acknowledge anything you hear from the cargo.

Deliver it before sunrise.

Cal doesn't know what he's hauling.

He doesn't know why something inside the trailer keeps knocking.

And he definitely doesn't know why the things lurking along the highway seem so desperate to reach it.

The deeper into the night he drives, the stranger the road becomes.

Dead animals that refuse to stay dead.

A woman walking alone in the darkness.

Creatures fast enough to keep pace with an eighteen-wheeler.

And something inside the trailer that may be far more dangerous than everything trying to get in.

Whatever Cal is transporting...

Everyone seems to want it.

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Welcome to The Nightmare Trials.

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S3E32: Help Her!

Daniel Psycop didn't want jury duty. He didn't know the defendant. He didn't know the victim. And as far as he was concerned, this was just another murder that had absolutely nothing to do with him. Until he sees her. Sitting silently in the back of the courtroom is Emily Warren, the murdered woman whose death Daniel has been selected to judge. And she's staring directly at him. As the prosecution presents its case, Emily begins moving closer. With every photograph, every piece of evidence, and every gruesome detail of her murder, she changes. The wounds appear.The bruises deepen. Her body begins to decay. And still... she stares.

Daniel becomes convinced that Emily has chosen him for a reason. That somewhere within the evidence is something everyone else has missed. Something that could expose the truth, clear an innocent man, and finally bring justice to a murdered woman. He just needs to figure out what she's trying to show him. But some memories aren't forgotten. And Emily didn't come to Daniel because she needs his help.

The Nightmare Trials presents:

S3E32: HELP HER!

Inspired by Amigo72K, a fan of the show and longtime friend of the Professor.

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains strong language, graphic descriptions of violence, sexual assault, murder, strangulation, stalking/obsessive behavior, and disturbing imagery. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

🎧 Headphones recommended.

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Simon is gone. Or at least, the version of him we knew is.

Reconnected to the Vega hive after countless cycles spent fighting against his own nature, Simon is once again exposed to the hunger, corruption, and power he worked so hard to leave behind. And the Vega are hungry by nature.

As an entire world becomes their feeding ground, whispers become thoughts, thoughts become actions, and the darkest pieces buried inside ordinary people are dragged screaming into the light.

But something is different this time.

Simon remembers.

He remembers Aubrey.

He remembers Earl.

He remembers Lilith.

He remembers why he walked away from the hive in the first place.

Yet memory may not be enough to overcome what he truly is.

For generations, we've heard stories about monsters.

In this chapter of the Oteev storyline, we're going to learn why the monsters were afraid of Simon.

Content Warning: This episode contains strong language, graphic violence, death, disturbing themes involving a child, psychological manipulation, and scenes of mass violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

The Nightmare Trials Podcast is an original horror anthology featuring standalone nightmares, interconnected cosmic horror, and the continuing Oteev storyline.

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Every writer has a muse.

An idea that appears from nowhere.

A character who seems to write themselves.

A scene that pours onto the page so effortlessly that, when you read it back, you almost wonder if you actually wrote it at all.

For horror author Martin, that's just part of the process.

At least… it was.

Struggling to find the motivation behind the killer in his latest novel, Martin receives a message from an unknown account promising him a little inspiration.

Attached is a video.

A woman.

A killer.

And a murder that looks far too real to be fiction.

The stranger only has one question for him:

Do you understand yet?

As Martin searches for answers, the line between the monster on his page and the monster behind the screen begins to disappear.

Because maybe inspiration doesn't always come from within.

Maybe sometimes…

…it wants out.

Welcome to S3E30: Do You Understand Yet?

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⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic violence, gore, murder, sexual references, strong language, psychological horror, and disturbing themes.

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S3E29: 20 Hours

It started with a cough.

Then the bleeding.

Then the screaming.

Maverick, Dean, Sarah, and Milly find themselves trapped inside a department store while something tears through the city at an impossible speed. The first warnings say to avoid bodily fluids. The next tell everyone to shut off their ventilation.

Then the authorities realize the truth.

It's airborne.

But infection isn't the worst part.

As the sickness progresses, the infected begin to hear something. To feel something. A pull toward one another that grows stronger as death approaches.

They aren't hunting.

They aren't angry.

They're scared.

And they don't want to die alone.

By the time the world understands what is happening, containment is no longer an option.

Twelve hours: the infection has already spread unnoticed.

Fourteen hours: half the population is sick.

Twenty hours: the world grows silent.

Welcome to S3E29: 20 Hours.

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⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic violence, gore, illness/body horror, strong language, death, and apocalyptic themes.

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S3E28: The Last Customer

The night shift was supposed to be quiet.

A few exhausted travelers. Burnt coffee. Fluorescent lights humming above an empty gas station on Highway 61.

Then Jerry closed the blinds.

He had only one warning for the new cashier:

If the man in the gray overcoat comes inside, do not speak to him. Do not look directly at him. Most importantly… do not acknowledge that he is there.

But rules have a way of sounding ridiculous until the moment they are broken.

When the last customer arrives carrying exact change, a bottle of water, and a box of matches, time begins slipping out of place. Minutes disappear. The highway falls silent. And the cashier discovers that some things cannot enter your life until you give them permission.

Unfortunately, a single word is all the invitation this customer needs.

The Nightmare Trials Podcast presents: “The Last Customer.”

Strap in tight… the trials are about to begin.

Content Warning: Strong language, psychological horror, time distortion, and disturbing themes.

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S3E27: Death Comes for Us All Part 2

The battle has begun... and not every monster wears the face you expect.

With Simon gravely weakened and Vega finally unleashed, old rivalries erupt into a confrontation that has been building across countless cycles. Ancient truths are laid bare, loyalties are tested, and one impossible choice threatens to unravel everything the Oteev have fought to protect.

As Aubrey watches the people she loves fall one by one, she is forced to confront a devastating realization: sometimes doing the right thing isn't enough... sometimes it creates something far worse.

The Veil stands on the edge of collapse, a forgotten prison awaits its next occupant, and an ancient hunger begins to awaken once more.

Some choices echo across realities.

Some mistakes consume worlds.

And when death finally comes...

...it never comes alone.

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S3E26: The Caretaker

Bryce thought moving into a cheap apartment would be a fresh start.

A new city. A new home. A chance to leave the ghosts of his past behind.

But when children begin laughing in the halls late at night... when tiny footsteps race just beyond his walls... and an impossible voice asks him to play one more game... Bryce discovers that some places never truly let go of the people who once called them home.

As he digs deeper into the building's forgotten history, an unimaginable tragedy begins to reveal itself, one that has remained hidden behind freshly painted walls and fading memories for decades.

Some hauntings are born from rage.

Others...

From loneliness.

In this episode of The Nightmare Trials, grief, loss, and innocence collide in a haunting tale that asks a simple question...

What if the dead weren't trying to scare us... but simply didn't want to be alone anymore?

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There are monsters hiding in the dark. And then there are the monsters who walk among us. Tonight, you’ll meet Kalin... a man with a twisted moral code and blood permanently staining his hands. He isn't a hero. He doesn't believe in justice. He doesn't care about redemption. But there is one line he refuses to let anyone cross.

When children become the victims of those who should have protected them, Kalin delivers a sentence no courtroom ever could.

Because if you've harmed a child...

He's already looking for you.

This marks the introduction of one of the darkest recurring characters in The Nightmare Trials Universe. Kalin's story is only beginning.

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Some places beneath the ocean were never meant to be found.

Champion free diver Julie is determined to break her personal record, but what begins as one final descent quickly spirals into something impossible. Time stretches. The sea floor shifts. And an ancient presence stirs in the darkness below.

When Julie and her coach, Cedrick, fail to return, Josh and Molly set out to find them. Instead, they discover an abandoned boat, strange mucus coating the deck, and a dive buoy leading into waters that should not exist.

As they descend in search of their friends, they uncover a horrifying truth: there are things living beneath the waves that humanity has never documented... and they are moving closer to shore.

How deep is too deep?

Tonight, take a breath... because you may not get another.

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S3E23: Death Comes for Us All - Part 1

The war isn't over.

In the aftermath of their desperate escape, Aubrey and Lilith race against time to save Simon, but bringing him back may have unleashed something far worse.

As old wounds reopen and impossible truths are finally revealed, the past between Simon and the mysterious Vega comes crashing into the present. Friendships are mourned, loyalties begin to crack, and the cost of survival becomes clearer than ever before.

Some enemies are created by hatred.

Others are born from jealousy...

...and they've been waiting through countless cycles for revenge.

The Oteev storyline continues in the first chapter of this two-part event.

⚠️ Listener discretion is advised. This episode contains graphic horror, disturbing imagery, violence, gore, and mature themes.

In this episode

• Simon fights for his life after the events of the previous Oteev chapter.
• Aubrey is forced to question everything she believes.
• Earl's sacrifice leaves a hole no one expected.
• The truth behind Simon and Vega is finally revealed.
• An old enemy discovers that death isn't always permanent.

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S3E22: Stay

Some things protect us in ways we never fully understand.

When a grieving man reflects on the quiet life he shared with his beloved dog, Buddy, he begins to uncover a terrifying truth about the sleepless nights of his past. For years, something lurked in the darkness... watching... waiting... feeding on fear.

But it never came close.

Not while Buddy was there.

After tragedy strikes and his faithful companion passes, the silence inside the house becomes unbearable. The familiar sounds of paws on hardwood vanish... replaced by something else. Something ancient. Something patient.

And now that the guardian is gone... it finally has room.

As sleep deprivation fractures reality, the line between grief, hallucination, and nightmare begins to collapse. The entity grows bolder each night, mimicking voices, twisting memories, and using love itself as bait.

But some bonds don’t break with death.

Some promises outlast flesh.

And some good boys never stop protecting the people they love.

Tonight’s trial is about grief, devotion, and the terrifying things that wait for us in the dark… hoping we’ll be alone.

So tell me something…

When the darkness finally comes for you…

Who stays?

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