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Scary Horror Stories

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What if the sound you heard in the dark wasn’t the house settling? Scary Horror Stories takes you into unsettling encounters where familiar places turn hostile, strange noises become impossible to ignore, and ordinary nights begin hiding something far more disturbing. Every story starts with a small

New episodes: Daily
Typical length: 19 min
Latest: 14 Oct 2026
Language: English

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14 Oct 2026 · 19 minNew

She Came Back Wearing Her Own Vest - With No Memory Why

She Came Back Wearing Her Own Vest - With No Memory Why Her GPS was manually paused at 9:51 AM, her name was written on the clean orange hunting vest hanging from a broken pine branch four and a half miles from the trailhead, and she returned with no memory of the four days in between-what happened in the Vanek drainage that could erase an experienced hunter's memory? In this episode, we follow the timeline and physical evidence left on the landscape: the paused GPS, the scent that ends at a stream, and the vest found at shoulder height in terrain that required rope to reach. Can the…

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Earlier episodes 29 most recent

13 Oct 2026 · 18 minNew
The GPS Blinked Alone: Who Moved Julie Callahan's Device?
The GPS Blinked Alone: Who Moved Julie Callahan's Device? The moment a satellite icon blinked on a powered GPS left alone on a pump-house cap, a sixty-mile search became a puzzle of deliberate survival and unexplained movement. A fifty-six-year-old hiker who climbed 300 vertical feet of basalt and left a powered Garmin behind vanished into the Lassiter Breaks - who moved the device, and why was it eleven road miles from the nearest trailhead? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Julie Callahan’s ritual permits and ultralight gear to the calm choices she made on a 60-70 degree face…
12 Oct 2026 · 18 minNew
They Found Her Logbook First - Nine Miles Crawling, Unexplained Tracks
They Found Her Logbook First - Nine Miles Crawling, Unexplained Tracks A weathered logbook found inside a remote Forest Service station contained an entry dated August 14 describing a young woman in a red rain shell heading toward Sentinel Notch-an entry read aloud by a volunteer on August 22 that matched the missing hiker the team had been searching for four days. How did that logbook sit unread at a station while a woman crawled nine miles through rugged terrain with a fractured fibula and severe dehydration, and why did tracking dogs stop inexplicably at a granite ford? In this episode,…
11 Oct 2026 · 18 min
She Walked Toward the Sound - Found 640 Feet Below
She Walked Toward the Sound - Found 640 Feet Below A woman who packed five days of food, rigged her tent with practiced care, and arranged insulin for her diabetic cat walked away from a perfectly set campsite - leaving boots, a sleeping bag still slept in, and a pot of dry pasta with two whole bouillon cubes. The search teams later spotted a figure 640 feet below the canyon rim; what did Brenda Johnson hear in the trees that made her climb toward the sound and not return for forty-one hours? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Brenda Johnson's July 11 arrival at the Hollins…
10 Oct 2026 · 19 min
She Left Her Journal Open: The Boot on Sablo River Rim
She Left Her Journal Open: The Boot on Sablo River Rim A single size seven women's hiking boot, a folded sock, and a laminated card with eleven words were all that stood between a woman’s meticulous record-keeping and a canyon that swallowed her trace; who leaves a field journal open on a car seat and never returns? This episode follows the oddest clues: a boot snagged in cottonwood roots, a stopped sentence in a dated journal entry, and a river that rose sixteen percent with no rain - what happened on the Sablo River rim? In this episode, we walk through the sequence of discoveries from the…
9 Oct 2026 · 21 min
Found Alive: How Pelham Creek Swallowed Tammy for Eleven Days
Found Alive: How Pelham Creek Swallowed Tammy for Eleven Days The forest turned a routine four-mile hike into an eleven-day disappearance, with a clear day, a signed trail register, and a woman found alive 3.2 miles from the trailhead in a direction she had never planned to go - so how did the map stop matching reality? Search-and-rescue notes, a lone yellow surveying rod, and two tracking dogs that abruptly went silent at a creek crossing make this a disorienting wilderness mystery that refuses easy answers. In this episode, we lay out the documented timeline, the people involved, and the…
8 Oct 2026 · 17 min
The Meadow With a Boot and No Footprints: Lost at 9,400
The Meadow With a Boot and No Footprints: Lost at 9,400 A single hiking boot stood upright, unlaced and dry inside, in the center of a frozen meadow pool with no tracks in the mud from any direction-yet that boot was the first sign anyone had that Jessica Keller was missing. How did a right boot end up alone on ice while the person who wore it vanished into wind, temperature drops and unexplained scent termini? In this episode, we follow the four-day search above the Caldera Creek corridor and the odd clues that kept pointing the wrong way, from surveillance of Jessica's Subaru to canine…
7 Oct 2026 · 19 min
She Took Off Her Boots. Someone Laced Them Back. Why?
She Took Off Her Boots. Someone Laced Them Back. Why? A woman’s boots were found double-knotted and deliberately placed on a granite boulder at 10,300 feet with no pack, no tracks, and no one in sight - a scene witnessed by a bird photographer ten hours after the hiker sat down to adjust a liner. Who removed the boots, why were they tied back on an exposed rock, and what happened in the hours that Nicole Osborne cannot remember? In this episode, we recount the timeline from Nicole Osborne’s solo hike into Ashford Basin through the discovery that launched a search-and-rescue operation, and we…
6 Oct 2026 · 19 min
Two Boots on the Gate: The Woman Who Vanished into Pine Shadows
Two Boots on the Gate: The Woman Who Vanished into Pine Shadows One insulated women's pac boots, laced tight and dry, stood upright on the second rung of a cattle gate at 5:50 AM on February 5, 2025 - no coat, no pack, no gloves - facing the road as if the owner had been watching out. How did a practiced hunter who knew every drainage and peg vanish into Pallis National Forest for four days while her boots remained neatly arranged at the gate? In this episode, we follow the timeline that began with a paper carrier's photograph and a 911 call and moves through four days of search-and-rescue,…
5 Oct 2026 · 20 min
The Lunchbox on the Snow: How a Nine-Year-Old Vanished and Returned
The Lunchbox on the Snow: How a Nine-Year-Old Vanished and Returned A child's lunchbox sat upright on top of the snowpack at 9,200 feet, containing an untouched peanut butter sandwich, a juice box, and a still-warm activated hand warmer-found at 6:12 a.m. after a night when temperatures reached minus 17°C. How did a nine-year-old carry that box four and a half miles through darkness and stop at a blind curve no one can see until twenty yards away? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events recorded in the trail register, witness accounts, and search-and-rescue logs to outline what…
4 Oct 2026 · 18 min
She Locked the Gate - Surviving Ten Weeks Inside a Sealed Wilderness
She Locked the Gate - Surviving Ten Weeks Inside a Sealed Wilderness A woman lived alone for ten weeks inside a 62-square-mile federal burn closure with a tent pitched as if she’d just arrived, a truck moved four miles away, and a gate chain showing fresh scoring-how did no one find her? What did the swapped stakes, the odometer math, and the exit cache actually reveal about why she stayed and how she survived? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events recorded by investigators, rangers, and the people who knew Patricia Smith, tracing her last known movements from Portsmith to the Seco…
3 Oct 2026 · 20 min
- el mismo objeto está en dos lugares. Reservar: la explicación (tres chaquetas) para Resolution
- el mismo objeto está en dos lugares. Reservar: la explicación (tres chaquetas) para Resolution The jacket on her body was dry on the outside despite thirty-one hours in the rain, which suggests someone put it on Emily while she was alive - yet investigators found the very same jacket hanging on a hook in a Dellwood closet; how can one object be in two places at once? What explanation could reconcile a dry jacket, a pingoed cell ping from a living room, and a woman found with two fractured ribs and no memory of eighteen hours? In this episode, we walk through the timeline and evidence from…
2 Oct 2026 · 19 min
The Dogs Stopped Two Miles In - What Hides Beyond the Shelf?
The Dogs Stopped Two Miles In - What Hides Beyond the Shelf? A line of search dogs halted dead at a granite shelf two miles from the trailhead - not slowed, not split, stopped - while a twenty-three-year-old hiker lay somewhere beyond, her fate unknown. Thirty-one stone cairns, eleven miles of roadless terrain, and a fossil no scientist had ever recorded would later turn the search inside out; what made the dogs quit where they did? In this episode, you’ll hear the timeline from the first missed Wednesday call to the moment a meter reader’s photographs redirected the search, following the…
1 Oct 2026 · 18 min
The Granite Ledge That Knew Philip's Scent - Unclaimed Jacket Mystery
The Granite Ledge That Knew Philip's Scent - Unclaimed Jacket Mystery Cold bloodhound nostrils found a scent on a bare granite shelf 9,000 feet up where not a single bootprint, scuff of lichen, or fiber could be found-yet the man they sought was three ridgelines away. Two independent search dogs both locked onto that exact ledge, and an olive‑green jacket found on the mountain has never been identified or claimed; how do those facts fit together? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Philip Anderson’s last known preparations to the moment search teams hit that granite ledge and…
30 Sep 2026 · 21 min
- wrongness, placement, the foot inside
- wrongness, placement, the foot inside A dry hiking boot, laced and upright on a single granite shelf in a storm-wet drainage, held a sock with a foot inside - and the boot, the shelf, and the surrounding rock were the only dry things for yards. The calm precision of that scene clashes with a thirty-two-hour disappearance and a woman found twelve feet away who could not move; what does that stillness mean, and how did she end up exactly where she did? In this episode, we follow the timeline from a morning photograph to the search that connected it to a missing hiker, tracing evidence on the…
29 Sep 2026 · 19 min
She Walked Into the Dark: The Disappearance of Angela Young
She Walked Into the Dark: The Disappearance of Angela Young The isolation of a fire lookout becomes a trap: a tidy cot, a rinsed thermos, and an open paperback told Tom Estrada someone had stepped out for a moment - but Angela Young had vanished into four hundred acres of scrub oak and unnamed drainages on the night of July 12, 2019, leaving her phone and radio behind. What made a meticulous 26-year-old leave the safety of her tower into dark terrain she had never crossed, carrying a rain shell but no means to call for help? In this episode, we follow the timeline and tangible details left…
28 Sep 2026 · 18 min
Left Ankle, One Boot in a Tree: He Walked Away Broken
Left Ankle, One Boot in a Tree: He Walked Away Broken A single double-knotted hiking boot was found lodged four and a half feet up a red fir, forty yards off the trail-no sock, no second boot, no gear, no sign of camp. The boot was deliberately wedged and the scent trail from the trailhead stopped on bare granite; how did a moderately experienced hiker with a fractured left ankle simply disappear into the woods? In this episode, we tell what happened when a routine day hike turned into a multi-day search and an inexplicable set of clues in the Coleville National Forest; what the search teams…
27 Sep 2026 · 19 min
The Beacon on the Vault: Why Brenda Vanished from the Trailhead
The Beacon on the Vault: Why Brenda Vanished from the Trailhead A working avalanche beacon was found sitting dead-center on a vault toilet lid at 6:40 a.m. on May 11, 2019 - powered, dry, broadcasting on 457 kHz with its green light cycling, but no skier, no tracks, and no pack in sight. How did Brenda Rafferty’s personal transceiver end up placed with such precision at a trailhead 1,300 feet below the nearest snowpack, and what does that placement say about where she really was? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Brenda Rafferty’s last confirmed text on May 2 to the discovery of…
26 Sep 2026 · 18 min
Dry Pages, Frosted Rock: The Surveyor Lost Above Fenner Pass
Dry Pages, Frosted Rock: The Surveyor Lost Above Fenner Pass A flat granite rock in Broken Tooth Meadow held an orange spiral-bound journal with pages open to the sky and completely dry, despite frosted surrounding rock and an overnight temperature below freezing. Why were Earl Riley’s meticulous, labeled supplies and a bone-dry journal at odds with fifteen centimeters of new snow and a near-whiteout above Fenner Pass? In this episode, you’ll hear how a filed four-night route, a missing truck, and three SAR teams converged on a contradiction that stretched their assumptions; can the pieces…
25 Sep 2026 · 19 min
He Walked Away Barefoot: The Tent with No Footprints
He Walked Away Barefoot: The Tent with No Footprints Snow swallowed sixty feet around a perfectly staked tent but left no footprints - not coming in, not going out - and the owner was missing for six days. Inside the vestibule sat size-eleven boots with loosened laces and a fully packed bag; how does a seasoned cartographer vanish after leaving his boots behind in deepening March snow? In this episode, we lay out the sequence of receipts, trailhead signatures, eyewitness accounts and search-findings that map Leon Underwood’s last known movements and the strange evidence at the bivouac; what…
24 Sep 2026 · 17 min
The Notebook on the Roof: How Did It Get There?
The Notebook on the Roof: How Did It Get There? A field notebook, dry and perfectly centered on the roof of a Subaru buried under eight inches of undisturbed snow, became the single baffling clue in a missing-person case that ended with a 28-year-old geologist found alive - and a detail no investigator can explain. How did a notebook stay dry on top of a car through twelve hours of snowfall with no footprints around it? In this episode, you’ll hear the timeline from last contact at 4:52 p.m. through the discovery at 6:40 a.m., the habits that made Rhonda Schultz’s absence immediately…
23 Sep 2026 · 19 min
The Vanishing Between River and Gate: The Empty Shore Mystery
The Vanishing Between River and Gate: The Empty Shore Mystery A woman vanished from a familiar riverbend with boot prints that ended mid-stride and her bright orange fishing vest found buttoned to a gate three and a half miles away in undisturbed snow - how do you cross that gap without leaving a trace? This episode follows a missing-person case where the known facts clash with every ordinary explanation: a meticulous logbook, a seven-day survival, and a final report that trails off with one line about the dogs. What did those dogs see? In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, the…
22 Sep 2026 · 19 min
Small Hands in Cold Clay: Why a Grown Man Vanished Uphill
Small Hands in Cold Clay: Why a Grown Man Vanished Uphill A pair of child-sized handprints pressed into dark clay, palms flat and fingers splayed, were found on the bank of Whetstone Run with no missing child reported in Cutter County - and a twenty-two-year-old man vanished into the mountains the same morning. What connects those three-inch prints, a clean scent trail that stops in the middle of a creek, and forty-one hours of unexplained absence? In this episode, we follow the timeline from the bridge at Sable Branch to the clay bank a mile downstream and through the search that brought…
21 Sep 2026 · 20 min
She Walked Back Nine Days Later - Camera, Jacket, and a Missing Time
She Walked Back Nine Days Later - Camera, Jacket, and a Missing Time A woman in an orange jacket appears in an eleven‑second trail camera clip taken at 11:42 AM on November 14th-nine days after Marie Walsh was last confirmed alive-and that single image pulled a rescue team back into Sutter Ridge. The photograph, a camera trigger at 2:26 AM recorded below its rated temperature, and an empty house with a missing orange jacket and green boots rewrite the timeline: how did she walk calmly through fresh snow after nearly ten days alone? In this episode, we lay out the precise, documented facts of…
20 Sep 2026 · 17 min
The Glove on the Granite Shelf: One Cartridge, No Tracks
The Glove on the Granite Shelf: One Cartridge, No Tracks A blaze-orange wool glove sat upright in fourteen inches of unbroken snow, nine thousand four hundred feet above sea level, four miles from the nearest human footprint - and inside it lay a single polished .30-06 cartridge. Search and rescue called its placement "consistent with deliberate human action and inconsistent with the established timeline," and yet no tracks approached or left the spot; what could have been intentional enough to leave that precise, inexplicable scene? In this episode, we present the sequence of events, the…
19 Sep 2026 · 19 min
She Climbed Where No Shoes Could Reach: The Boot on Casner Wall
She Climbed Where No Shoes Could Reach: The Boot on Casner Wall A single women's hiking boot, size seven and a half, sat upright on an inaccessible ledge forty feet below a cliff rim - placed heel to wall, toe over a river gorge - and Rhonda Johnson, a careful 26-year-old hiker, was unaccounted for; how did an unequipped woman end up with a GPS track that shows a 42-foot vertical ascent on a five-point-eleven technical slab at 9:47 p.m.? What happened in the dark between the trail register and that impossible ledge? In this episode, we follow the sixty-hour search that began after Rhonda…
18 Sep 2026 · 19 min
Dry Glove on the Shoreline: What Brian Saw at 4 PM
Dry Glove on the Shoreline: What Brian Saw at 4 PM A single right-hand leather work glove sat dry on a root ball at the water's edge while the ground around it was wet - found at Piñon Arm two days after a man vanished from a mesa cabin. The search produced a nine-day operation in remote Cibola National Forest, a caretaker's log entry timed "around four in the afternoon" describing a man moving slow on the Narrows who didn't wave back - so what happened on that ledge? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Brian Osborne's last known actions to the search team's puzzling discoveries,…
17 Sep 2026 · 19 min
The Trail Rung Bare: Why Debra York Vanished From Camp
The Trail Rung Bare: Why Debra York Vanished From Camp A quiet solo camp held everything except its owner: a pot of half-cooked lentils dried to the rim, a spoon across the pot, a headlamp and topo map in place, and a pair of women's trail runners heel-to-heel at the tent vestibule. A ten-day search, 41 rescue personnel, aircraft sweeps and a GPS coordinate from a stranger's phone followed - but one small, unexplained detail from inside that camp keeps the case unsettled. What really happened to Debra York on the morning she vanished? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Debra York’s…
16 Sep 2026 · 19 min
The Boot on the Road: Why Hikers Vanish Every June 10th
The Boot on the Road: Why Hikers Vanish Every June 10th A lone size-seven hiking boot, lace neatly tied and toe pointing north, was found sitting upright in undisturbed yellow-orange dust on a locked Forest Service road with no footprints or tire marks within six feet - and it appeared during the same week a hiker vanished into the Calloway North Arm. How did that boot arrive where no one could have placed it, and what does it mean for the woman who went missing days earlier? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Diane Simpson’s meticulous trip planning to the discovery that…
15 Sep 2026 · 20 min
The Glove on the Dry Rock: Forty Missing Minutes in the Woods
The Glove on the Dry Rock: Forty Missing Minutes in the Woods A purple gardening glove was found bone dry, pressed into a crack four feet up a basalt outcrop while every inch of the surrounding forest was soaked - and the woman it belonged to had no memory of the forty minutes she vanished. What can explain a dry glove, a thirty-foot basalt shelf that left search dogs baffled, and a forty-five-year-old hiker who reappeared barefoot 1.4 miles off-trail with no recollection? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events on May 11, 2019, from the moment Amy Mueller and her hiking partner…

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Scary Horror Stories is a English stories podcast from Creator at Obomedia. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

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Typical length: 19 min
Latest episode: 14 Oct 2026
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She Came Back Wearing Her Own Vest - With No Memory Why

Earlier episodes 29 most recent

The GPS Blinked Alone: Who Moved Julie Callahan's Device?

They Found Her Logbook First - Nine Miles Crawling, Unexplained Tracks

She Walked Toward the Sound - Found 640 Feet Below

She Left Her Journal Open: The Boot on Sablo River Rim

Found Alive: How Pelham Creek Swallowed Tammy for Eleven Days

The Meadow With a Boot and No Footprints: Lost at 9,400

She Took Off Her Boots. Someone Laced Them Back. Why?

Two Boots on the Gate: The Woman Who Vanished into Pine Shadows

The Lunchbox on the Snow: How a Nine-Year-Old Vanished and Returned

She Locked the Gate - Surviving Ten Weeks Inside a Sealed Wilderness

- el mismo objeto está en dos lugares. Reservar: la explicación (tres chaquetas) para Resolution

The Dogs Stopped Two Miles In - What Hides Beyond the Shelf?

The Granite Ledge That Knew Philip's Scent - Unclaimed Jacket Mystery

- wrongness, placement, the foot inside

She Walked Into the Dark: The Disappearance of Angela Young

Left Ankle, One Boot in a Tree: He Walked Away Broken

The Beacon on the Vault: Why Brenda Vanished from the Trailhead

Dry Pages, Frosted Rock: The Surveyor Lost Above Fenner Pass

He Walked Away Barefoot: The Tent with No Footprints

The Notebook on the Roof: How Did It Get There?

The Vanishing Between River and Gate: The Empty Shore Mystery

Small Hands in Cold Clay: Why a Grown Man Vanished Uphill

She Walked Back Nine Days Later - Camera, Jacket, and a Missing Time

The Glove on the Granite Shelf: One Cartridge, No Tracks

She Climbed Where No Shoes Could Reach: The Boot on Casner Wall

Dry Glove on the Shoreline: What Brian Saw at 4 PM

The Trail Rung Bare: Why Debra York Vanished From Camp

The Boot on the Road: Why Hikers Vanish Every June 10th

The Glove on the Dry Rock: Forty Missing Minutes in the Woods

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