Free original horror audio stories
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Original horror audio — about 5 to 15 minutes per story. New episodes on a regular rotation.
Liminal dread, zombies, vampires, sci-fi horror, found footage, stalkers, haunted tech, and more. Browse by category for full theme lists.
Each episode is a self-contained narrated story — five to fifteen minutes of something that gets under your skin. The range covers liminal dread, found footage, haunted technology, sleep paralysis, cosmic horror, zombie outbreak, vampire lore, and sci-fi horror. No account required, no subscription gate: listen in your browser, subscribe via the podcast RSS feed, or find Night Tales on Spotify and your preferred podcast app. New stories on a regular rotation.
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Candle Cove
An internet forum thread where adults share fragmented memories of a local children's TV show called Candle Cove that aired in the 1970s. As posters piece together characters, storylines, and increasingly disturbing episode details, one commenter's mother reveals something terrible: she remembers her child watching TV, but the screen was just static.
Gateway of the Mind
In 1983, a team of scientists sever all sensory nerve connections from a pious elderly volunteer — no sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell. Isolated in absolute nothing, the subject begins hearing voices. Then messages. His final transmission before death: 'I have spoken with God, and He has abandoned us.'
Ben Drowned
A college student buys a bootleg Majora's Mask cartridge from a strange old man at a yard sale. The cart, labeled only 'MAJORA,' already has a save file named BEN. The game begins exhibiting impossible behavior — NPCs know his real name, Link's body floats face-down in water, and the haunting feels intentional.
Dead Bart
A former Fox intern claims to have seen a forbidden Season 1 Simpsons episode titled 'Dead Bart.' In it, Bart is sucked from a plane and dies. The family sits in prolonged, agonizing grief over minutes of silence. The episode ends with a tombstone bearing the names of real celebrities — and their exact dates of death, years in the future.
Herobrine
A Minecraft player notices a strange figure in his single-player world — a human-shaped mob with blank white eyes, watching silently from across a forest. The structures it leaves behind have no in-game explanation. The figure is called Herobrine, and it's allegedly the dead brother of Minecraft's creator, hardcoded into the game as a ghost.
Jeff the Killer
A teenage boy named Jeff moves to a new neighborhood where he and his brother are attacked by bullies. After being doused in bleach and set on fire, Jeff survives disfigured and mentally shattered — and begins carving a permanent smile into his own face before turning on his family with the words: 'Go to sleep.'