MY FRIEND BECAME OBSESSED WITH BLACK MAGIC | 12 TERRIFYING True Scary Stories | EP 308

·1 hr 50 min·5 clips

My friend Kieran showed up at my basement with a stolen Satanic Bible and claimed he could summon demons.

The episode is a compilation of twelve listener-submitted true scary stories narrated in the first person. It opens with a story about Kieran, a lifelong friend who becomes obsessed with black magic, steals occult books, and tries to seduce underage high school girls, culminating in a bloody ritual in the narrator's basement. The second story involves a pizza delivery driver attacked by a halfway house resident named Freddy, who hijacks his car in a meth-fueled plan to kill his ex-girlfriend's fiancé, resulting in a crash that costs Freddy his legs. The third story recounts a childhood friend, Gordon, who steals a real Luger pistol and a grenade from his WWII veteran grandfather, leading to a prank where the pistol accidentally discharges and grazes another friend's forehead. Another story details a pizza delivery in Cornwall where the driver hears a kaiju roar, follows a mysterious sign, and is attacked by a violent squatter in a WWII bunker. A fifth story follows James, a high school friend whose obsession with explicit anime figurines turns into stalking and assault of a transfer student named Hi. The sixth story involves a pizza delivery where a customer named Colleen violently attacks the driver over missing pineapple on a pizza, revealing her addiction and mental health issues. The seventh story is about William, a childhood bully who forces the narrator to climb a jungle gym at night, throws a rock at his head, and leaves him with severe injuries. The eighth story reveals a pizza delivery job that was a front for drug dealing, ending with the murder of the owner's father, Dan, who is shoved into a pizza oven. The ninth story involves Leo, a high school friend who lies constantly, steals trivial items, and frames the narrator for planning a school shooting as a twisted game. The final stories include a trucker's eerie experience at an abandoned rest stop and other brief anecdotes. The episode is structured as a series of standalone narratives with recurring themes of dangerous friendships, workplace violence, childhood trauma, and supernatural hints.

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A forced persona and a rejected crush drive a grim episode about humiliation, harassment, and escalating threat.

The episode turns ordinary social spaces into places where embarrassment and threat can gather fast. One strand follows Kieran, a college friend pushed into a fake alternative persona that makes him reject Metallica, destroy posters, and repeat a crude CD story to seem…

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You get a college-era scare where a performatively weird old friend and a rejected crush make campus life feel unsafe fast.

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