About this podcast
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
- The Wrong Turn in Appalachia · 13 minA wrong turn deep in the Appalachian Mountains leads a group of travelers to a small, isolated community where the residents have something horrifying in common: their mouths…
- Something Came Home From the Hospital (3 Scary Stories) · 31 minA woman digging into a grave in the middle of the night, a hospital patient who comes home different, and a terrifying discovery deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Three…
- The Realtor Told Me to Run | 3 Scary Stories · 22 minA 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…
- I Had To Pretend To Be Dead (3 STORIES) · 15 minI 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…
- She Almost Drowned & Came Back Different · 20 minThree fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓
- What Did His Family Have Planned? (5 STORIES) · 18 minFive 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…
- He Brought Bloody Clothes (3 STORIES) · 17 minTonight: 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…
- I Never Forwarded the Chain Email (STORY) · 20 minA 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…
- She Did A Ritual To Prove They Were Real (STORY) · 20 minMy 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…
- Two Little Girls Wanted Me To Let Them In (STORY) · 17 minI 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…
- What I Saw In The Hospital Morgue (STORY) · 18 minThis 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…
- She Knew I Was Desperate For Friends (STORY) · 18 minI 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…
- I Saw Her On The Ceiling (STORY) · 14 minWhen 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…
- My Friend Tried To Sacrifice Me (STORY) · 21 minMy 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…
- She Was Still Inside the Mine (STORY) · 19 minWhen 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…
- The Dead Never Left These Mines - 3 Appalachian Ghost Stories (RABBIT HOLE) · 14 min(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…
- The Woman in the Mirror (STORY) · 15 minI 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…
- 3 People Who Realized the Stranger Wasn’t Human - RABBIT HOLE · 13 minThree 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…
- 3 Disturbing Paranormal Stories From Deep in Appalachia - RABBIT HOLE · 13 minWe’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…
- Something Dragged Her Up the Stairs - RABBIT HOLE · 19 minIn 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…
- Demon House Case (RABBIT HOLE) · 25 minIn 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…
- The Enfield Poltergeist (RABBIT HOLE) · 20 minIn 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…
- The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery: All 3 Were Gone - RABBIT HOLE · 19 minIn December 1900, three lighthouse keepers disappeared from a remote island off the coast of Scotland. When the relief crew finally reached Eilean Mòr, the lighthouse was empty…
- She Was Under My Bed - STORY · 9 minI woke up at 3 a.m. to my college roommate whispering underneath my bed. I pretended to be asleep while she slowly crawled out, stood beside me, and left the room like nothing…
- The Elevator Never Opened - STORY · 13 minShe worked overnight at a supposedly haunted hotel where the right elevator would open after 2 a.m. with every light inside turned off. Each time, she heard several voices…
- The Voice Beside My Bed - STORY · 14 minA woman downloads a sleep-recording app after waking up exhausted every morning. At first, it only captures normal sounds. Then the app records a man asking her questions while…
- My Neighbor Knew - STORY · 15 minA woman begins having the same terrifying dream every night: a faceless man slowly climbing the stairs from her basement. Then her neighbor asks how far he has made it. As the…
- A Dead Woman Claimed Me - STORY · 15 minA woman receives a call from a funeral home saying her mother has died. But her real mother is sitting right across from her. The dead woman listed her as her only daughter, left…
- I Left Myself A Warning - STORY · 13 minA woman arrives at a remote mountain cabin and finds her full name written in the guestbook seven years earlier, in handwriting identical to her own. Beneath it is a warning: Do…
- My Best Friend Tried To Sacrifice Me (STORY) · 21 minMy 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…
- Who Was At The Kitchen Table? - STORY · 18 min · Episode 1A woman stays overnight at her mother’s house after a minor surgery and wakes to the sound of her mom talking in the kitchen at 2:13 a.m. But when she goes downstairs, her…
- Cursed Roadside Fair - STORY · 16 minA newly married couple on a cross-country road trip stops at a tiny roadside fair to stretch their legs, only to be led by a strange old man to a row of barrels filled with…
- Woman In The Hallway - STORY · 17 min · Episode 9Today’s episode features Woman in the Hallway. A woman living alone checks a late-night security alert and sees a woman already walking through her hallway in real time. As more…
- She's Lying - STORY · 19 min · Episode 8Today’s episode features She’s Lying. After her grandfather dies, a woman finds two old VHS tapes hidden in his attic — one unlabeled, and one marked SHE’S LYING. When she plays…
- She Wanted My Face - STORY · 17 minToday’s episode features She Wanted My Face. A woman looks back on a childhood sleepover where one extra girl seemed to be there by the end of the night, even though nobody…
- She Kept Asking Me To Crawl In - STORY · 18 minToday’s episode features She Kept Asking Me To Crawl In. As a child, a girl makes a quiet new friend near the woods behind her neighborhood. But every day, the girl leads her…
- Don't Fall Asleep Yet - STORY · 20 min · Episode 5Today’s episode features Don’t Fall Asleep Yet. As a child, a woman dreaded every visit to her grandmother’s house for one reason: the old bunk bed in the spare room. Night…
- The Doll in the Basement - STORY · 17 min · Episode 4Today’s episode features The Doll in the Basement. After visiting a haunted museum, a woman’s friend becomes fixated on a doll locked away in the basement’s most dangerous…
- Who Was Wearing My Face? + Not My Teeth - STORY · 22 min · Episode 3Today’s episode includes two scary stories. In Who Was Wearing My Face?, a visit home to help an aging grandmother turns disturbing when she starts insisting there are two…
- My Friend Didn’t Sleep Anymore + She Wasn’t Alone in the Bathroom - STORY · 22 min · Episode 2Today’s episode includes two scary stories. In My Friend Didn’t Sleep Anymore, a woman lets her best friend stay in the spare room after a brutal breakup. At first it feels like…
- Something in the Catacombs + Fire in the Basement - STORY · 17 min · Episode 1Today’s episode includes two scary stories. In Something in the Catacombs, a tourist gets separated from their friends in the catacombs and realizes they are not alone in the…
