Scared To Death
Episodes
Nightmare Fuel #55: Resurrection Final Chapter: Ashes of Faith
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this fifty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we reach the Children of Abraham's day of resurrection. When ...
The House That Never Empties
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan has some older tales for us this week. We start our journey of horror at the Ferry Plantation House where not just one but many ghosts seem to be ...
The Ibadan Forest of Horror
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan considers a creepy question in his first story this week. We’ll explore the strange phenomenon of some people seeming to have known in advance...
Nightmare Fuel #54: Resurrection Chapter Five: Father Knows Best
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this fifty-fourth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, the walls are closing in on Zander as the clock ticks closer...
Belmez Faces
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan starts with the story of a man, who has gotten sober in the last year, wondering if he's seeing things due to his drug use or something else. Next...
The Man On The Gate
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A ton of stories this week! Dan has six tales from all across the globe! A faceless man in Dublin, a possession in Mexico and more! Lynze also takes u...
Nightmare Fuel #53: Resurrection Chapter Four: Smile. Nod. Play Your Part.
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this fifty-third installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we return to Jonesberg, Idaho. Sammy Alvarez is wrestling wit...
It Prayed With Us
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if some demons aren’t repelled by scripture but are attracted to it? After a minor car accident, a husband in suburban Iowa becomes more devo...
The Toyol
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
First, we’ll go to Malaysia to hear about the Toyol this week. When cash starts vanishing, a young family assumes stress, forgetfulness or maybe e...
Nightmare Fuel #52: Resurrection Chapter Three: Mayberry Above/Hell Below
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this fifty-second installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we continue with a story about Jonesberg, Idaho's Cult of Ab...
The Man In My Reflection
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Dan tries a new way of telling stories, which was so fun! He gives us SIX small stories, all of them uniquely creepy, although one might be...
The Ghost of Roland Edwards
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We start this week in New Zealand where a man goes ghost hunting in the supposedly very haunted former Napier Prison. Did he have an intense encounter...
Nightmare Fuel #51: Resurrection Chapter Two: Everybody Knows Something
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this fifty-first installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we return to the fictional town of Jonesberg, Idaho where a m...
The Offering
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A quiet housesitting job in the Danish countryside is nothing but peace and silence until two strange visitors ringed the doorbell in Dan's first stor...
Brunckow's Bloody Cabin
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We head to the Arizona desert, just a few miles outside of Tombstone, where there sits a small adobe ruin with a body count that defies belief. More...
Nightmare Fuel #50: Resurrection Chapter One: The House Across the Highway
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this fiftieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins (how are we already at fifty episodes!?), we travel to the fictio...
How Could I Help Her?
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan brings us one, long tale today. We meet a young woman who moved into an old San Francisco house with roommates and then began to hear things. ...
Samoa’s Ghost Sickness
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan shares tales of two islands this week. We’ll head to the remote Pacific Samoan island of Ofu, where there’s a stretch of beach so feared that ...
The Demonic Possession of Julia Melis
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this week in 1970’s Sardinia, where a quiet, deeply devout teenage girl began to wake up every night at exactly 3:00 a.m., convinced some...
Nightmare Fuel #49: The Long Dark Morning
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this forty-ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we travel to Tromsø, Norway, where during the small, vibrant...
Room 1009
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan takes us to downtown Dallas, across from Union Station, to an old hotel that’s changed names so many times it’s like it keeps trying to hide f...
The Woman of the Woods
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan gets us going with an unsolved paranormal mystery double headed this year! A nursing student who crashed her car on a lonely New Hampshire highw...
Nightmare Fuel #48: The Liminal Lodge (4 of 4)
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the conclusion to this story, Ellen, Marco, and Cal come up with a plan to save Ned's soul and imprison Dr. Blackwell. Will they free him? Or will ...
The Face Peelers Of Peru
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan takes us to Peru for our last stories of 2025. We begin in the Amazon, where indigenous villagers say seven-foot-tall armored beings with glowin...
The Mortal Immortal
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's our seventh annual holiday episode where Dan shares a classic tale! This year, he picked a tale from the amazing Mary Shelley! We hope you enjoy ...
Nightmare Fuel #47: The Liminal Lodge (3 of 4)
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this chapter, Ned nearly dies when he previews Dr. Blackwell's "Quiet Room" right before his sister Ellen brings a team the Liminal Lodge to save h...
The Hushed House of Borgvattnet
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Like always, Dan has two awesome tales this week! We are headed to Sweden! The first story is about Borgvattnet Vicarage. For nearly a century, this...
The Brewer's Box
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A really fun show this week with stories that are somewhat traditional and somewhat not! We hope you enjoy the variety. Dan takes us to Ohio for a dyb...
Nightmare Fuel #46: The Liminal Lodge (2 of 4)
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this chapter, Ned pushes further into his troubling pursuit of previewing the afterlife and contacting Courtney, guided by the spirit of Dr. Blackw...
The Lament Box
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan begins with a little known case of the Warren's about a grieving family heirloom and a century-old pact. Then, we’ll examine what many conside...
Jenny Greenteeth
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We head to Northern England for Dan's first tale and meet the creepy bog hag, Jenny Greenteeth. She’s the monster kids went to sleep fearing for cen...
Nightmare Fuel #45: The Liminal Lodge (1 of 2)
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this forty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, tech millionaire Ned Watkins becomes dangerously obsessed wit...
The Science Of Poltergeists
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan offers us a poltergeist double header this week! We start with some wild, cool and interesting science that explores these strange occurrences. Fr...
The Ceiling Man
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We head to South Africa to start this week. Two South African men vanished from separate hospitals in recent years - only to be discovered days late...
Nightmare Fuel #44: The Curse of Captain Bannister’s Gold
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this forty-forth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we head back to 1921, when sixteen year-old Tommy Calloway is...
The Man Across The Street
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan has a modern encounter claim revolving around a man and his friend seeing something across the street from his house when he was a kid. the events...
Nightmare Fuel #43: The Dead House
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this forty-third installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we head back to 1985, when ten year-old Ryan Mellard and thre...
NF Halloween Re-Release: Sleep Paralysis
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Creeps and Peepers! Welcome to one last Halloween revisiting of a few of my favorite Nightmare Fuels as we lead up to tomorrow's special new Hal...
NF Halloween Re-Release: The Disruptor
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Creeps and Peepers! Welcome to yet another Halloween revisiting of a few of my favorite Nightmare Fuels as we lead up a special new Halloween Ni...
Resurrection Mary
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan has two awesome legends for us this week. We start in Chicago to learn the legend of Resurrection Mary followed by many encounters with her. Then,...
NF Halloween Re-Release: The Beast of Bodie
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Creeps and Peepers! Welcome to another Halloween revisiting of a few of my favorite Nightmare Fuels as we lead up a special new Halloween Nightm...
NF Halloween Re-Release: Sometimes the Darkness Wins
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Creeps and Peepers! Welcome to a Halloween revisiting of a few of my favorite Nightmare Fuels as we lead up a special new Halloween Nightmare Fu...
The Bangkok Ghost Tower
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Both of Dan's stories come from Thailand. Thailand has a LOT of supernatural stories! We begin in Bangkok where we explore an abandoned and supposed...
Nightmare Fuel #42: The Man Upstairs
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this forty-second installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we meet Tess Hughes in another standalone story. She's just ...
A Banquet Of Blood
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are off to Lima, Peru to explore the very dark legend of what many claim to be Lima’s most haunted location, La Casa Matusita with Dan. Has a 16t...
Bringing Evil Home
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first tale this week is wild. What if you brought some type of demonic presence home from a vacation and it ended up possessing your neighbor, a...
Nightmare Fuel #41: The Judge
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this forty-first installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we meet Lachlan Harrison. Maybe not the best guy. But does he...
The Eye Dwellers
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan takes us to China, back to the 17th century for a truly weird and deliciously creepy tale. Then, England, where we explore another story involvi...
Big Muddy Monster
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan starts off the week in Chicago, in the suburbs. We will explore the very well documented legend of the Big Muddy Monster. Did a variety of people ...
Nightmare Fuel #40: Samael's Curse Conclusion (3 of 3)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The big showdown is here in this fortieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins. Lizzie travels to Portland to work with...
Bus 975
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first of two stories takes us to a supposedly haunted bus in the fascinating nation of Singapore. Then we are headed down south for legend of th...
Leave Hank Alone
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SIX stories this week! Lynze switches it up with four shorter tales after Dan's usual two. We’ll head to Malvern Manor, set in the little town of Ma...
Nightmare Fuel #39: Samael's Curse (Part 2 of 3)
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Things heat up in this thirty-ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins. Lizzie travels to Alabama to learn more abo...
Okiku the Doll
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are headed to Japan for Dan's first story about a supposedly haunted - or maybe possessed - doll in Japan: Okiku. It's very unsettling! Then we h...
What Else Could Be Out Here?
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Such a fun show this week as Dan and Lynze take us all over the world. From Greenland to Texas to Croatia to Mexico there is so much paranormal lore t...
The White Bluff Screamer
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first supposedly true supernatural tales comes to us from Tennessee where we explore the legend of the White Bluff Screamer. After that, we’...
Nightmare Fuel #38: Samael's Curse (Part 1 of 3)
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirty-eighth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet Samael Orcas. Is he a man? A monster? Both? Lizz...
The Bad Dream Phone
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan kicks of this episode with the story of a woman who suddenly recalls a haunting from her childhood that revolves around a board game. Then, Dan un...
Stop Hunting My Family
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan begins with a story is about a woman who is dealing with a family tragedy and the paranormal. Her brother is seemingly unaware, which may make it ...
Nightmare Fuel #37: Dissonance (continuation/conclusion)
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirty-seventh installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... Duncan Briggs just wants his life to return to what it ...
The Watseka Wonder
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Both Dan's stories seem to present exceptionally strong evidence for life after death. The first comes from the state of Illinois and is the exception...
Every Night He Runs
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first story Dan gives us this week was posted online by a man claiming to have recently resolved a haunting from his childhood apartment. It's b...
Nightmare Fuel #36: Dissonance
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirty-sixth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet a man, Duncan Briggs, who agrees to participate i...
The Lord Of The Locusts
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We hope all our Creeps and Peeper are also unsettled by our tales this week. Dan starts off in North Carolina with a story about a man who tried to ...
The Kong-Kong Gwishin
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First, we head to Korea where Dan shares stories about one of the most disturbing ghosts The Kong-Kong Gwishin. She is the ghost of a schoolgirl doome...
Nightmare Fuel #35: The Unfrozen
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to The Dark World, and meet a new creature that...
Aokigahara: The Suicide Forest
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this week in a place literally called the Suicide Forest. Aokigahara. Dan will share the whisperings of hauntings from this infamous Japanese...
Tale Of The Pontianak
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this week with an especially terrifying creature from Indonesia known as the Pontianak . Dan will share the lore of the Pontianak and then a ...
Nightmare Fuel #34: Burn the Witch 3: The Final Toll
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirty-fourth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bristol County, Massachusetts once more, ov...
The White Witch
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This first story of Dan's was mined from a Ghost Stories subreddit full of nothing but supposedly true paranormal encounters. The poster claims to hav...
The Glass Door
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan kicks off this week with a strange story of a young student who is trapped inside a glass doored vestibule. Then, a very upsetting possessed doll ...
Nightmare Fuel #33: Burn the Witch 2: A Book For Blood
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirty-third installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bristol County, Massachusetts, where struggl...
Lady Koi Koi
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan showers us with four tales for the 300th episode today! The first story revolves around real world tragedy in Virginia intersecting with the sup...
The Monitor
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this week in Pennsylvania with a story that involves a woman who starts to believe that something in her new house is coming for her family a...
Decapitate The Dead
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first of two tales covers the lore and supposed paranormal encounters associated with Dublin, Ireland’s St. Michan’s Church and the dead b...
Nightmare Fuel #32: Burn the Witch
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirty-second installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to Bristol County, Massachusetts, where struggli...
You're It
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A man in his 40s has a recollection of a very strange incident from his childhood but only recalls it after his brother passes away. Listen as Dan unf...
Brownwood's Haunted House
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We start this week in Brownwood, Texas where a murder tragic murder may have added additional paranormal energy to a property already rumored to be ...
Nightmare Fuel #31: The House of Hurt
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirty-first installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to Upstate New York's Woodhull Mountain, where Ga...
Room 11
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first of two tales is a modern encounter story set in Sauk Centre, Minnesota’s Palmer Hotel. Lynze, of course, was excited when she heard "soc...
Edith's Summer Visitors
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Supposedly true tales this week from Dan include a story about an elderly widow living alone in the early 1980s and her visitors. Then, we’ll boun...
Nightmare Fuel #30: Operation Wandering Soul
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thirtieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to the tropical jungle of Vietnam's Annamese mountai...
The Man Outside The Cabin
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are in a bit of a remote, wooded double feature today for Dan's tales. The first of two stories is composed out of what may have been a hermit’s ...
The Boy
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We start with a very upsetting story of an imaginary friend in Council Bluffs, Iowa that Dan does an amazing job of bringing to life. Then, in his sec...
Nightmare Fuel #29: The Hitchhiker
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this twenty-ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet Ryan Castillo, who, on a long late-night drive th...
The Ghosts of Ballarat
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first of two tales, Dan takes us to the old mining city of Ballarat , Australia, to explore reports of hauntings from the 19th century, and so...
His Teeth
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan starts this week with a very bizarre story. It's hard to even explain but we are off to Finland to review a tale about a sculpture garden. Then we...
Nightmare Fuel #28: He'll Make You Whole
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this twenty-eighth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to 1989 and explore, along with the pawn shop ow...
The Redcap
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan offers three stories this week. The first is of Scotland’s Redcap, a monstrous and murderous little goblin of a creature with lore going back to...
The Face That Was Not Hers
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first of two stories takes us to India. He relays the story of a man who shares the story of his grandmother's paranormal affliction. Then, Dan ...
Nightmare Fuel #27: Moloch's Pact Part Two: Satanic Panic
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this twenty-seventh installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to 1988 once more, and to the town of Deacon'...
The Nurse's Office
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first of two stories is centered around a school nurse who claims her encounter literally ended her career. It’s very intense, and not fun to ...
The Exorcism Of Joan Vollmer
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first tale this week is the disturbing story of an exorcism that took place in a small town in Australia in 1993. It is upsetting on so many level...
Nightmare Fuel #26: Moloch's Pact Part One: The Demon of Deacon's Point
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this twenty-sixth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head back to 1988 and to the town of Deacon's Point, w...
There's A Little Boy Up There
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first story today is the retelling of the moments that led to one young woman becoming a firm believer in the paranormal. She sees something… ...
Introducing RUN, FOOL!: Stairway to Hell
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi Creeps and Peepers! Today we wanted to share a bonus episode with you from the RUN, FOOL! Podcast from our friends at Ballen Studios. We hope you l...
He's In My Phone
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan shares a tale around a young man thinking he’s being haunted by something in his phone. It's a sad tale, it's a creepy tale. Then, his second st...
Nightmare Fuel #25: Ezra & The Dark Watcher
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this twenty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bodie, California! Twenty-seven years after ...
Are You Cheating On Me?
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first of two stories today is not sexy, despite being about a succubus. It's strange and upsetting. His second story was once featured on th...
The Woman In The Mirror
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan's first of two stories takes us to London where two flatmates hung up a free mirror and very quickly regretted it. Then a heavily documented polte...