True Scary Story

For this family, the story began with a curse.
In 1999, a woman in Charlotte, North Carolina, became so sick that her family feared she might die. During the ordeal, she saw her deceased father and believed he was calling her to follow him. And now, more than twenty years later, another terrifying episode started bringing strange visions, shadows, unexplained sounds, and an experience her daughter says changed everything she believed about the supernatural.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

In these true scary stories, we hear from Jasmine and a strange scene that was later proven to be true after a series of strange coincidences. In the second scary story, Amanda tells us about the paranormal happenings in her life, things like premonitions, visions, and even physical objects moving. The third comes in from Juan, who tells us about a song (Tiptoe Through the Tulips) that seems to keep finding it's way back to scare a group of cousins.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

When she was eleven years old, she traveled to Georgia with her family to visit her great uncle, who was dying from advanced dementia. During a family prayer at his bedside, she opened her eyes and saw something she still can't explain: a massive, dark figure leaning over him.
The figure seemed to notice her.
What happened next stayed with her for years, especially after her great uncle died shortly after the family returned home. Was it a shadow person, a spiritual presence, something connected to death, or simply something her young mind couldn't understand?
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

After losing her older brother in a tragic car accident, a young woman struggled with overwhelming guilt and grief for years. Then one unforgettable dream finally gave her the peace she'd been searching for. Nearly two decades later, as her mother battled terminal cancer, she experienced another unexplained visitation that seemed to warn her of what was coming. Were these simply dreams born from grief, or messages from loved ones? This is a deeply emotional true story of loss, family, hope, and the mysteries that continue long after death.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Edwin Covarrubias
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

A quiet afternoon of homework turns unsettling when a towering human figure appears behind a sheet separating a dining room from the hallway. Gabrielle assumes it's a family member playing a prank, but the figure disappears without footsteps, doors opening, or any obvious explanation. Then, years later, a four-year-old begins screaming at something invisible in the kitchen and describes it as being the same height as the doorway.
After two family members passed away inside a home in Edinburg, Texas, one family began experiencing strange events they still can't explain. It included night terrors and a child screaming at something invisible in a dark hallway. But that wasn't all. There was a possible doppelgänger and an unsettling shadow figure. This true scary story explores the memories that have followed Anna into adulthood.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

Entities that you thought were watching out for you might not be what they seem.
In this scary story, Corey updates us from our last episode called Checking Up On Me (https://truescarystory.com/episode/checking-up-on-me) with a terrifying realization: something appears to be following him. A series of unfortunate events, some of them tragic, seem to be tied to something that he cannot explain. The events are continuing to this day.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

A mysterious beam of white light appears in broad daylight when a seven-year-old child is home alone. Years later, that unexplained moment becomes only the first chapter in a lifetime filled with shadow figures, haunted homes, disappearing objects, electronic voice phenomena, and a terrifying experience involving an abandoned doll that led to a desperate attempt at an exorcism. Could these events all be connected, or is it simply a lifetime of impossible coincidences?

You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.

You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov

Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound

Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

Many people believe Ouija boards can open doors to something unseen. But what if simply bringing home an image of one was enough? Tonight's true paranormal encounter follows a listener whose already haunted home erupted with frightening activity after one strange purchase at a local market.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Edwin Covarrubias
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

Some families inherit eye color or personality traits. Others believe they inherit something far more mysterious.
In this true story, a listener recounts decades of unexplained experiences beginning in southern Italy and continuing after moving to the United States. We start off with footsteps in an empty house and dreams that seemed to predict death, moving to the story of a daughter who claims to see spirits and encounters with an unsettling shadow figure, this is a deeply personal account of a family convinced the paranormal runs in their bloodline.
Story by Lucia and Aradia.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

What if paranormal activity followed you everywhere you went?
In this true scary story, a woman shares a lifetime of ghost encounters that began in childhood after losing her twin before birth. Experiences involving shadowy figures and unexplained voices to haunted houses, prophetic dreams, and objects moving on their own actually spanned decades and followed through multiple homes. Whether you believe in spirits or not, this unsettling account will leave you questioning what may exist just beyond our understanding.
Let me know what you think of this story in the comments.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

An abandoned house, a historic morgue, and footsteps coming from inside a building that appeared completely sealed. Today, we'll hear about a group of friends that explore a forgotten property in Rancho Cucamonga, California, only to encounter strange noises, violent banging from within the house, and an eerie feeling that followed them long after they left. Was it a trespasser, an animal, or something far darker?
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

Could paranormal activity follow someone from place to place? In this chilling listener submission, years of unexplained events unfold across childhood homes, rural properties, and an unsettling brick house with a disturbing history involving séances and mysterious symbols.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

This unsettling true story follows Chris, whose move to Los Angeles spiraled into years of confusion, hospital visits, harassment, and bizarre episodes of lost control after meeting roommates connected to a local tragedy. Is the explanation within in psychology, coincidence, or something beyond understanding?
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

In rural New Mexico, during a quiet walk beneath a full moon, both the storyteller and her husband witnessed something impossible: shadowy figures, an overwhelming sense of dread, and a pale creature unlike anything either had ever seen. Was it folklore brought to life, a demonic presence, or something science has yet to explain?
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

A late-night visit to the isolated Dode Church in Kent was supposed to be nothing more than a family adventure. Instead, it was the start of years filled with strange sightings, recurring dreams, unexplained noises, and eerie events witnessed by multiple members of the same family. Did something follow them home? Listen to it and then tell me what you think.
In our second story, Maxine tells us about when her family rented an old Ontario farmhouse where the previous owner had died, but they never expected years of unexplained activity. Stuff like footsteps echoing through empty hallways, whispered sounds beside the bed, and curtains moving on their own.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

From the age of seven, one listener began waking to strangers standing beside the bed, desperately trying to communicate. It all began at a small Kansas apartment, but they eventually ended up in an 1880 home filled with unexplained footsteps, terrifying encounters, paranormal investigations, and a spirit that may have tried to protect the family from something much darker. The hauntings haven't stopped.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

In this true scary story, Mariah, a listener from Utah, recounts decades of chilling paranormal encounters experienced by multiple generations of one family. We'll hear about a mysterious presence in a nursery that coincided with a tragic death as well as transparent figures, impossible handprints, and something crawling across a bed in the dead of night. Can a family's history can become permanently tied to the unexplained?
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

Shadow people. Hollow white eyes. Sudden paralysis. A listener recounts years of recurring nighttime encounters that blur the line between medical phenomenon and paranormal attack. As the experiences grow darker and more physical, one question remains: was this only sleep paralysis… or something far worse waiting beside his bed?
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

In this scary story, Zack tells us about paranormal activity began following him everywhere he went. It started as small disturbances, but eventually became impossible to ignore: floating objects, shaking doorknobs, unexplained scratches, shadow figures, and encounters with voices mimicking dead relatives. But one terrifying night changed everything when something inhuman crawled into his bedroom pretending to be his grandparents. This is a deeply unsettling true story of spiritual attachment and years of unexplained paranormal encounters.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Edwin Covarrubias and the Scary FM team.
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com

In the late 2000s, a family living in a newly built Texas neighborhood became close with the neighbors next door. Everything felt normal until a Ouija board entered the picture. Chris was just being curious, but it caused unexplained phenomena that affected multiple homes and didn't really end.
You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
Get in touch to share your story through TrueScaryStory.com