Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins
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Warm banter before the dark arrives.
Scared To Death turns friendly studio chatter into supernatural storytelling. Its episodes move from jokes, updates, and listener-community rituals into grave accounts of haunted houses, spiritualist séances, demonic oppression, eerie folklore, and serialized horror fiction.
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Scared To Death is a paranormal horror show with a dependable ritual at its center. It lets ordinary talk stand in the doorway before the story enters. The openings can feel casual, with colds, ratings, community names, charity notes, podcast friends, and small studio business moving through the room. Then the tone narrows. A protective invocation returns again and again, naming ghosts, phantoms, demons, ghouls, houses, fences, water, fire, and fear. That repeated threshold gives the show a ceremonial pulse without making it feel remote. The main stories favor haunted interiors, religious unease, and witness-style accumulation. In The House That Never Empties, the show reaches back to spiritualism, séances, Daniel Doomless Hume, moving tables, disembodied hands, levitation claims, skeptics, and the old fear that not every answering spirit is human. In It Prayed With Us, quiet clergy visits and soft prayers become more frightening than spectacle, especially as Daniel’s behavior shifts from stillness to something that looks like possession. The show is patient with dread. It likes the moment before explanation, when a room feels too crowded or a whispered sentence lands wrong. Its Nightmare Fuel episodes add a second mode: serialized horror fiction with named towns, family ties, local rumors, and a growing sense of buried conspiracy. The Resurrection arc uses Jonesburg, Idaho, Xander Reed, Moose, Sammy Alvarez, tunnels, a church, and a hidden chapel to build a wider nightmare out of small-town familiarity. Even when the material turns grim, the show keeps a human edge through banter and occasional dry jokes. It is not a clipped case-file series. It is closer to a campfire story told by someone who enjoys pacing, texture, and a slow tightening of the room. Listeners get folklore, hauntings, possession, occult spaces, and recurring community language rather than pure investigation. The strongest episodes make safe places feel negotiable. A living room, a garage, a church, a house, or a fenced yard can all become thresholds. Scared To Death works best when that contrast is allowed to breathe: warmth first, then the cold hand on the shoulder.
Made for: For listeners who like paranormal horror with a theatrical storyteller’s patience, recurring rituals, and enough casual chatter to make the dread feel personal. It especially suits fans of haunted houses, possession stories, occult folklore, and serialized small-town horror.
What sets it apart: Scared To Death stands apart by pairing familiar, sometimes playful openings with sustained, grave narration that treats supernatural fear as something that gathers detail by detail. Its recurring invocations and Nightmare Fuel fiction give the feed a ritual shape as well as a story engine.
The paranormal comes to life as husband-wife duo Dan Cummins (acclaimed standup comedian and true horror fan) and Lynze Cummins (costume and wardrobe stylist for numerous film and television productions) share terrifying stories that will leave you sleeping with the lights on. Dan’s goal? To scare Lynze with creepy accounts of demonic possession, shadow people, and other eerie phenomena. And when he’s done, Lynze fights back with chilling fan-submitted tales of true horror. Together, they explore the darkest corners of the web, dusty old books, and even their own eerie surroundings—a studio filled with occult objects and locate...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It pairs conversational hauntings with original serial fiction, letting paranormal dread work through both accumulated testimony and long-form plotting.
Scared to Death lets Dan Cummins build paranormal accounts through patient narration, then brings Lynze Cummins into a looser conversation where reactions and humor release some of the pressure.
This is the show that can make one soft prayer ruin your relationship with every dark corner.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A measured seance story that starts in ordinary chatter and turns ghostly.
Scared To Death opens with protection language and cold-season chatter before it moves into spiritualism and seance lore. The chill comes through whispers, unseen hands, letter-by-letter messages, and the warning that once certain doors open, they are not easy to close.
A penultimate chapter that turns Jonesburg into a sealed trap.
Dan Cummins keeps Jonesburg tightening around Xander Reed as the story moves from unease toward a bigger reveal. Sammy's shaken arrival and Moose's wary back-and-forth do most of the heavy lifting, which helps the church-tunnel discovery land as a conversation first and a horror…
A restrained possession story that turns quiet prayer into mounting dread.
"It Prayed With Us" treats possession as something that drains a room of air. The story stays close to the Whitfield living room as Daniel shifts from stillness into something harder to read, and the small details carry it: measured prayers, a doubled voice, knowledge he should…
A mournful immortality tale where marriage, vanity, and time become the real monsters.
The Mortal Immortal makes immortality feel domestic and costly: one partner stays young while Bertha has to live with the marriage bending under time. Scared To Death gives the story enough room to settle, favoring a measured Gothic mood over cheap shocks.
A slow-burn haunted-house tale where ordinary rooms keep collecting stranger reports.
Dan and Lulu guide a haunted-house story that feels less like a burst of shocks than a place slowly filling with prayer, records, and unease. Their banter keeps the episode grounded while the building is allowed to loom: knocks, footsteps, slamming doors, and parish history all…
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
Anu director Luca Gray admits the Red Plague has infected 6.3 billion people, after Iceland’s containment initially worked for several weeks.
Scared To Death’s “The Storm (6 of 7)” follows Brent Collins’s family as they reach Boston on December 30, 2024.
Chapter 2 of the Nightmare Fuel series "The Storm" opens with sniper Noah leading Brent, Cam and Rosie Collins, plus their unconscious wife and stepmother Lori, to a razor-wire compound he calls "God's Ark." Inside, Noah orders a Thanksgiving lunch, tells Rosie she will sit at his left, and announces "We shall wed tomorrow." Meanwhile, former ER nurse Dina whispers to Brent and Cam that Noah's real name is Mike and that he kidnapped her and her daughter.
Dan opens with a protection chant and Lulu Marie answers with a cold.
This episode explores supernatural threats and protective incantations related to the Ibadan Forest of Horror.
Dan Cummins narrates Chapter Five of 'Resurrection,' a serialized horror fiction story set in Jonesburg, Idaho, in December 1999.
This episode explores the paranormal phenomenon of Belmez Faces through a protective incantation against supernatural entities.
This episode of Scared to Death features hosts Dan and Lulu Marie discussing paranormal and horror stories, including a charity announcement for The Birthday Box Foundation.
This episode begins with multiple sponsor advertisements for cancer care, insurance, and wine, followed by the host Dan Kroger introducing the podcast Nightmare Fuel.
In this episode of Scared to Death, hosts Dan and Lulu share two listener-submitted accounts of an unusual category of alleged demonic possession: cases where the entity is not repelled by faith and prayer but is instead attracted to it.
The hosts discuss their friendship with fellow podcasters and share a protective incantation against supernatural entities.
A horror fiction episode continuing a story about a cult awaiting an apocalypse and a man seeing ghosts.
A husband-wife duo shares terrifying paranormal stories, with Dan trying to scare Lynze using creepy accounts of demons and ghosts.
A husband-wife duo shares terrifying paranormal stories, including demonic possession and shadow people, with a mix of listener-submitted tales.
Dan and Lynze Cummins share terrifying paranormal horror stories, including fan-submitted tales, to scare each other and listeners.
Dan Cummins begins a new multi-part original horror story set in Jonesburg, Idaho, about a mysterious house and a packed church.
A husband-wife duo shares terrifying true stories of paranormal encounters, including demonic possession and ghostly hauntings, aiming to scare each other and the audience.
A husband-wife duo shares terrifying paranormal stories, including demonic possession and ghostly encounters, to scare each other and listeners.
A husband-wife duo shares terrifying paranormal stories, including demonic possession and shadow people, to scare each other.
Dan and Lynze discuss their challenging 2025 year and introduce the show's theme of sharing terrifying paranormal stories.
Holiday greetings come first.
Dan and Lulu open with their usual jokes, thanks, and a quick blessing before heading into a haunted house that never seems to settle down.
Dan Cummins narrates an original fictional horror story set at sea in 1921, about the curse of Captain Bannister's gold.
A husband-wife duo shares terrifying paranormal stories, including fan-submitted tales of true horror, aiming to scare each other and the audience.
Dan Cummins shares an original fictional horror story for Halloween, with immersive sound design.
This Halloween episode of Scared to Death introduces spooky stories and supernatural themes, starting with a ghostly invocation and banter about holiday vibes and collectible figurines.
The host revisits an early horror story about a creepy handmade doll, inspired by a doll magazine cover.
Dan and Lynze Cummins share terrifying paranormal stories and promote their upcoming live Halloween show.
The hosts introduce their horror podcast Scared to Death, featuring announcements before diving into supernatural stories.
Dan and Lynze Cummins share terrifying paranormal stories, including a protective incantation and fan-submitted horror tales.
Dan Cummins narrates an original horror short story titled 'The Judge' set in October.
Dan and Lindsay announce their fifth annual Haunted Halloween Show on October 23rd, inviting listeners to join them for a spooky live event with costumes and scary stories.
This episode discusses the Big Muddy Monster and a camp experience with emotional meet-and-greets.
Dan Cummins narrates the third and final episode of a fictional horror story about a serial killer named Samuel Orcus.
The hosts announce details for the 2026 Wet Hot Bad Magic Summer Camp, including dates and ticket sale information.