Original horror where the ordinary goes quietly wrong.
Edwin Covarrubias writes and produces these first-person horror stories, where the fear starts small: a wrong birthday at a front desk, a swing creaking out of rhythm, a phone's directions steering a driver onto the highway his father always avoided. Some episodes bundle several tales, and some end with Covarrubias stepping outside the fiction to explain where a story came from.
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Scary Story Podcast is a horror fiction series written and produced by Edwin Covarrubias, and the stories in its recent run begin in places most people have already been. A taxi in a storm. A hotel room at night. A receptionist's desk, a mall on a security patrol, a late-December drive down Highway 152. What disturbs is rarely announced up front; it accumulates from details that are slightly off, like a swing set squeaking in a rhythm the narrator remembers differently from childhood, or a clerk whose smile widens while she insists on the wrong birthday. The stories are told in the first person, and several read like accounts written down after the fact. In 'The Woman With the Broom', the narrative moves through a dead woman's journal, a coworker's note and a long-buried email signed Susan L. Family memory is a steady current. 'Rerouting: The Pale Man of Highway 152' sets a driver's trip against the roadside story his father kept retelling, complete with a wary mail carrier and a pale figure that seemed to follow him. 'Soup Mondays' builds its unease from a household that ate chicken soup every Monday and kept a Christmas ritual with their mother's candles and photographs. Across the wider list of episode titles and notes, the subjects keep circling back to night-shift workers, children left alone after dark, old family pictures, haunted motels and theaters, campsites and open water, along with tales from the Mexican desert. Some episodes hold a single story. Others bundle two, three or five. What distinguishes the show most is what can happen after the fiction ends. At times Covarrubias steps out of the story and talks plainly: after the Highway 152 tale, he explains that it grew from his own overnight drives to and from college and a GPS detour onto a dirt road that left him wondering. 'Those Nights in January [Plus Commentary]' includes him reading comments left on recent episodes, and 'Soup Mondays' adds background on how its first story began as an idea about a family that calls on spirits. He also asks people to send ideas for future stories. Those segments offer a sense of the writer behind the tales and the ordinary experiences that seeded them. Where to start depends on appetite. 'Rerouting: The Pale Man of Highway 152' shows the full shape, story plus commentary, while 'A Call For Silvia (And Four More Creepy Short Stories)' offers a batch of campfire-style tales built around childhood memories. The material runs dark, with implied killings, deaths in the family and figures that keep reappearing.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants invented horror rather than true-crime retellings, and who finds a taxi's back seat, a hotel television or a parent's empty house more unnerving than spectacle. Also fits someone who enjoys hearing a writer explain where a story came from.
What sets it apart: The stories are fiction from a single writer, Edwin Covarrubias, rooted in family lore and everyday settings. He sometimes follows them with plain-spoken commentary about the real drives, memories and listener comments behind them.
Scary Story Podcast features scary stories about darkness, unexplained phenomena, ghosts, and the paranormal. A collection of short original horror tales written by Edwin Covarrubias.
That swing set moves after dark, and your kitchen window suddenly feels like a terrible place to stand.
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A locked car and a hotel television turn familiar spaces into quiet horror traps.
"The Driver & The Hotel Incident" brings together two compact horror stories built around familiar places that suddenly feel closed off. The first turns a rain-soaked ride in an old black Camry into a slow squeeze of suspicion: a wet back seat, the driver's eyes in the mirror,…
226 leads a disturbing path from a dentist's office to the woman with a broom.
The Woman With the Broom lets its dread gather around a warning that keeps slipping out of reach. A front-desk exchange starts with a disputed birthday and a smile pushed unnervingly wide, while mouth pain begins to feel like something more than a dental problem.
A phone reroute pulls a familiar drive toward the road a cautious father spent a lifetime avoiding.
A routine drive turns into a quiet test of which voice deserves more trust: a father's old warnings or the phone offering the fastest way home.
A grieving half-owner listens for trouble in a childhood home where the swing set may not be moving by itself.
Those Nights in January makes a family home feel like a place that has been waiting. A swing set moves beyond the kitchen window, an unused upstairs stays heavy with old loss, and a new half-owner has to decide whether the noise in the dark belongs to the house or to grief.
A mall memory turns familiar corridors into a cold, unknowable threat.
A routine mall stop turns hostile as the narrator and Stephen bolt from the food court toward the bathrooms and back storage rooms, then squeeze into a storage closet.
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A rain-soaked taxi ride and a hotel room with a speaking television drive the episode's two horror stories, with the first built around the Night Backers and a system of favors, punishment, and balance.
Scary Story Podcast’s “The Woman With the Broom” follows Diana, a single mother whose dentist records February 26th instead of her stated birthday, then confronts the number 226 repeatedly.
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Scary Story Podcast's "Those Nights in January [Plus Commentary]" centers on a January house story about a man living in the family property he still cannot sell.
Scary Story Podcast's 'Soup Mondays' follows a family whose Monday chicken soup becomes part of a rainy Christmas memory, a father's "softie" reputation, and a line about fixing your own boat.
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