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Scary Stories Told in the Dark is a horror fiction podcast, spun off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show stars voice actor Malcolm Blackwood as both host and narrator, and features the hand-picked work of hundreds of talented authors. Sleep well, listeners… if you can.
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1To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, Malcolm Blackwood invites listeners into a night of psychological horror where the most terrifying things are not monsters lurking in the dark, but the choices people make when grief, rage, and temptation press in from all sides. Featuring Mak Ralston’s “All Hands Are Red,” this episode descends into a world of contradiction, private pain, and quiet moral collapse, where justice and vengeance begin to resemble one another in all the worst ways. Darkly intimate, unnerving, and steeped in dread, this is a tale for anyone who’s ever wondered what it really takes to push an ordinary person past the point of no return.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into a tale where love refuses to accept loss… and where a single miscalculation could mean the difference between reunion and ruin. When tragedy strikes, one desperate soul begins searching for answers beyond the limits of science—and discovers that some doors don’t simply open. They require instructions. Precision. Timing. And the willingness to follow through, no matter the cost. If you were given the chance to undo the unthinkable to bring back someone or something you loved… would you be able to resist?To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A new season begins… and this time, the danger doesn’t hide in graveyards or abandoned houses. It waits in fluorescent hallways. In tidy institutions. In the quiet rules no one questions. In our latest episode, we open with a story that lingers long after the lights go out: a tale of silence, survival, and the subtle cruelty that can pass for harmless play. When being unnoticed becomes a defense mechanism, and obedience becomes a habit, something begins to learn from it. Something patient. Something practiced. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing you can be… is easy to forget.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The harvest season is nearly over. The lanterns are lit. And some visitors don’t wait for October to knock. On a quiet farmhouse porch, beneath the fading glow of autumn skies, grief lingers longer than the falling leaves. The crops have withered. The land is tired. And a man left alone with his memories begins to wonder whether the dark holds answers… or something far worse. This week, Scary Stories Told in the Dark closes Season 18 with a story that proves the most dangerous horrors aren’t the ones that chase you in the night. They’re the ones that convince you to open the door.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Curiosity has always been humanity’s sharpest tool. And its most dangerous. In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites listeners to explore the fragile boundary between affection and obsession… between improvement and interference. What begins as admiration for something small and familiar gradually becomes something far more unsettling—an experiment not born of cruelty, but of conviction. Tonight’s tale examines the quiet confidence of a mind certain it knows better than nature. It asks what happens when science moves faster than wisdom, when devotion clouds judgment, and when progress begins to reshape what was never meant to be redesigned.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, familiar pleasures become dangerous invitations—and the line between reward and punishment quietly dissolves. What begins as routine drifts into something far more unsettling, where reassurance masks intent and kindness hides its teeth. This is a story about offers that come too easily, about places that feel safe until they aren’t, and about the terrible cost of noticing what you were never meant to see. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, the past beckons with the promise of closure and the comfort of familiarity. A return to somewhere once called home feels like a chance to finally understand what was lost, what was forgotten, and what might still be waiting. Tonight’s story explores the quiet terror of buried memories, sealed spaces, and the unsettling realization that some structures are designed not for living—but for containment. When reassurance replaces warning, and nostalgia dulls suspicion, the most dangerous truths can feel almost welcoming. Because the most effective prisons don’t look like cages. They look like answers.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, familiar faces begin to fracture, and the comfort of home becomes a dangerous illusion. What starts as an act of love—returning to be with family in a time of loss—slowly twists into something far more unsettling, as subtle wrongness gives way to quiet dread. Tonight’s story explores the fragile boundary between trust and survival, asking how well we truly know the people we believe we’re safest with. Sometimes the most terrifying moment comes... after the mask slips.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, horror doesn’t announce itself with screams or shadows. It hums quietly beneath fluorescent lights. It hides behind counters, inside policies, and within systems that promise order and safety—while quietly demanding a price. Our latest edition explores what happens when violence becomes procedural and morality is reduced to numbers.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What if happiness wasn’t something you had to earn? What if it found you instead? In the quiet shadow of the Colorado mountains, a chance encounter offers something too tempting to ignore — a path away from regret, away from loneliness, away from the weight you’ve been carrying longer than you realize. No struggle. No sacrifice. Just relief. But some invitations don’t demand anything upfront. They simply wait for you to want them badly enough. In this unsettling episode written by father and son duo Jonah Groshek and Craig Groshek, host Malcolm Blackwood guides listeners into a landscape where comfort masks something ancient, and the promise of salvation hums just beneath the surface — patient, persuasive, and impossibly hard to refuse.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, certainty erodes one quiet moment at a time. Familiar rituals begin to feel unreliable. Trust frays. And the line between hunter and hunted grows dangerously thin. The terror doesn’t arrive all at once—it settles in slowly, as the realization dawns that you were never alone to begin with.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In our latest episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we invite you into a world where progress outpaces wisdom and nature responds in ways humanity never anticipated. What begins with optimism and innovation slowly curdles into quiet terror, as familiar surroundings become hostile and the line between safety and surrender erodes.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Beneath a dying sky, humanity waits for an answer. In “Unforgiving Gods,” Scary Stories Told in the Dark delivers a singular journey into cosmic horror—one that strips away comfort, certainty, and the illusion that the universe is listening with compassion. This episode explores a world where the rules of reality no longer hold, where faith offers no shelter, and where something vast and ancient watches from above with neither mercy nor malice—only intent. Told through stark, intimate narration, this tale confronts the terrifying possibility that some truths were never meant to be uncovered… and that some forces do not punish those who reach for them. They simply respond.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In our latest episode, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into four unnerving tales linked by a single, chilling truth: boundaries hold for only so long. A basement experiment reveals a presence that answers back. A remote clan guards its lives more literally than most. A grieving young man dares to claim a future never meant for him. And beneath a quiet suburban home, a hidden space begins to listen… then respond. These are stories about thresholds—physical, spiritual, and psychological—and the dread that comes when something unseen decides to cross them.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this chilling collection of four darkly seductive tales, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you to step behind the mirror—into a world where vanity becomes a trap, elegance hides a pulse, and the pursuit of perfection opens doors best left closed. A girl desperate to belong follows her friends somewhere she shouldn’t. A bride-to-be falls for a dress that loves her a little too much. A newlywed brings home a bouquet whose roots reach deeper than soil.And a young woman slips into a garment that promises a flawless silhouette… at a terrible cost. Alluring, atmospheric, and quietly devastating, Beauty Bites explores the dangerous hunger lurking beneath the surface of the things we admire most.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this unforgettable installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into a world where memory falters, reality bends, and the past refuses to stay buried. Four chilling tales await—each bound by the haunting truth that what slips from our grasp may not be gone at all… and sometimes, it wants to find its way back. Step into a ruined town where magic demands payment in pieces of the self. Wander a fog-soaked cemetery patrolled by a caretaker with one foot in another realm. Cross a field where the very air hums with secrets better left unremembered. And finally, follow the ripples of a drowning that never ended—because some debts don’t die with the body.To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYTDon’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This episode was never loaded ad-free on to the patrons podcast feed. Can you please add it? Thank you.
Am I wrong? Is it just me, but wouldn't this show be great if Otis would just fuck off.
Y'all are rocking out with your shotgun out! 10\10.
my favorite story
why did they fire Otis Jiry? I found his go fund me https://gofund.me/fdf5b4405
Just Malcom Blackwood? Where's Otis Jiry?
what happened to Otis?
This is a really good tale!
What a woman!
my favorite podcast out there even now. have been listening since the beginning. love his narration and voice. keep it up.
Narrator sounding out words drives me nuts..
fuck Angi. end the stupid commercials. literally pick any others
stfu Angi.
This is last week's story
fuck the angi ads
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Love the last story!
Screw ANGI (That's EI EN GI I). And the absolute GENIUS of a guy, who thought putting freaking POWER DRILL sound in an ad to a audio podcast is a good idea. I cannot stress enough how frustrating this is.
awesome narration great stories