EP24 - 5 TRUE Scary Stories | Hide & Go Seek, Neighbor Haunting & A Tinder Date From Hell
In today's episode, I'm telling you five creepy stories including a hide‑and‑seek encounter with something hiding in the dark, a toddler's chilling "visit" from a grandfather she never met, a dead neighbor's TV that won't stay off, a creepy Pacheco Pass sighting from an Amazon driver, and a Tinder date that could have turned into a true crime case.
After listening, comment which story creeped you out the most —comment on Spotify episode or through a rating/review on Apple Podcasts.
Stories:
(0:30) Story 1 - A ten-year-old playing hide-and-seek in the pitch-black reaches into a closet expecting to find his friend, feels a human hand flinch and pull away from his touch, then turns to find both his friends standing behind him the whole time — with the closet completely empty.
(7:06) Story 2 – For nearly a year, a toddler laughs and giggles at something unseen above her crib every night, until her father shows her a photo of his late father — a grandfather she never met and had never seen a picture of — and she erupts with joy, shouting "Papa!" over and over like she's greeting someone she already knows.
(13:12) Story 3 – A week after his elderly neighbor dies and his apartment is sealed shut, a man starts hearing the dead man's TV blast static through the wall at exactly 2:13 AM every night — and stops the moment he knocks — until a recording reveals a distorted voice buried in the static, saying his name.
(19:21) Story 4 – An Amazon driver working the Pacheco Pass late at night spots what looks like a small black ball on the roadside during a storm, watches it roll into his lane and grow into a seven-foot-tall shape, and drives straight through it as it passes through his van like dense, pitch-black mist.
(20:47) Story 5 – A Tinder date built on mutual friends and easy chemistry turns unsettling fast when a messy apartment, a weapon on the counter, a disturbing poem, and stories about violent fantasies convince a woman she's in real danger — forcing her to fake calm for hours while secretly waiting for her father to rescue her.
Sources:
Story 1 – Reddit r/Paranormal, "Scary event during hide and seek" (anonymous) - LINK
Story 2 – Reddit r/Paranormal, "What we believe was our daughter's paranormal moment as a toddler" (anonymous) - LINK
Story 3 – Reddit r/Paranormal, "My neighbor's TV keeps turning on at night, he's been dead for over a week" / Instagram: oldmanwhispers - LINK
Story 4 – Instagram submission by u/stunna_831
Story 5 – Reddit r/LetsNotMeet, "A Tinder date that could have ended badly" (anonymous) - LINK
Disclosure: This video uses AI imagery and videos that are blurred (with a mixture of real images/videos) to help illustrate what happens in the stories. Also, the narration is 100% voiced by me, a human (as you can see). I have also repurposed the stories I have gathered from Reddit (to avoid reading verbatim) to be narrated in third person and have assigned the protagonist's fictional names (unless their real names are provided in the posted story). Please refer to the writer's pages if you want to read the story as posted originally.
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