fictional horror stories for helping you sleep… or not. i’m jess ♥️ i create and tell scary stories for people where horror is their favorite kind of escape. new videos every week. ♥️ good luck sleeping tonight 🪓 https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
13 min
A wrong turn deep in the Appalachian Mountains leads a group of travelers to a small, isolated community where the residents have something horrifying in common: their mouths have been sewn shut. What they discover there turns an ordinary trip into a nightmare. An original fictional horror story narrated by Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight.
30 min
A woman digging into a grave in the middle of the night, a hospital patient who comes home different, and a terrifying discovery deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess. Good luck sleeping tonight.
22 min
A house showing that turns into a nightmare, a Halloween party with a girl who hasn't moved from the couch, and an online friend whose gifts become increasingly disturbing. Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess. Good luck sleeping tonight.
13 min
A wrong turn deep in the Appalachian Mountains leads a group of travelers to a small, isolated community where the residents have something horrifying in common: their mouths have been sewn shut. What they discover there turns an ordinary trip into a nightmare. An original fictional horror story narrated by Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight.
30 min
A woman digging into a grave in the middle of the night, a hospital patient who comes home different, and a terrifying discovery deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess. Good luck sleeping tonight.
22 min
A house showing that turns into a nightmare, a Halloween party with a girl who hasn't moved from the couch, and an online friend whose gifts become increasingly disturbing. Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess. Good luck sleeping tonight.
15 min
I have three new disturbing stories for you this week, and each one gets worse the longer it goes. In the first, a woman finds a missing child poster with her own childhood photo on it. Then, someone whose best friend disappeared eighteen years ago finds a video online showing her tied to a chair. And in the last story, a girl grows up thinking it’s completely normal for her mom to make her practice looking dead. Three very different nightmares. Good luck sleeping tonight.
20 min
Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓
18 min
Five fictional horror stories about impossible things, disturbing encounters, and the moment everything goes wrong. In this episode: someone who was supposed to be dead, a recording that shouldn’t exist, someone pretending to be asleep, a terrifying night involving clown makeup, and a stranger who followed someone home. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
17 min
Tonight: a welfare check with an impossible witness, a man caught on a baby monitor looking for someone’s child, and an overnight laundromat encounter that doesn’t end when the shift does. Three fictional horror stories from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
20 min
A fictional horror story from Scared With Jess. A teenager gets one of those old chain emails warning her to forward it to thirteen people before midnight. She deletes it. Later that night, while she’s home alone, someone starts pounding on her bedroom door. After that, she starts seeing the same figure in her dreams, waking up freezing cold, and having thoughts that don’t always feel like her own. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
20 min
My best friend found an old paranormal forum and became obsessed with the rituals people were sharing there. At first, she thought she had finally found proof that spirits were real. Then she started hearing voices inside her head, losing time, and waking up to things she didn’t remember doing. The part that scared me most was when another voice started speaking underneath hers while she was still completely conscious. She kept saying she was going to stop. By the time she actually tried, I think something had already figured out how to use her. A fictional horror story from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
17 min
I was alone at a remote cabin when two little girls showed up at my door after midnight asking to be let inside. I never opened the door. I only spoke to them through the peephole, and at first they looked almost normal. Then the older sister showed me a handmade doll that looked exactly like me, down to the clothes I had changed into after I arrived. It was covered in pins, and somehow she could use it to make my body move. That was when I realized they weren’t lost, and they definitely hadn’t come there alone. Something they called Mother was waiting in the woods. A fictional horror story from Scared With Jess. Good luck sleeping tonight. Follow: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
18 min
This one is about a night shift morgue worker who starts experiencing things she can’t explain, but the cameras keep showing absolutely nothing. At first it’s small stuff. Knocking. A gurney moving. Then she watches a body sit straight up, starts seeing a woman around the morgue, and realizes whatever is happening seems to know exactly when she’s looking at the security footage. I like this story because the scariest part isn’t just what she sees. It’s that she has no proof any of it is happening, and eventually she starts questioning herself too. If you’ve ever worked somewhere creepy at night, this one is probably going to get to you. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
18 min
I was so desperate to make friends my freshman year of college that when a girl from class invited me to a party, I didn’t think twice. Even when the address took me way outside town. Even when I pulled up to a dark trailer in the woods with no cars outside. I should have left. Instead, I went in. The people inside barely moved. Nobody was talking. Something about all of them felt off, and before long I realized my car was gone and the girl who invited me had no intention of letting me leave before I played their game. She knew exactly why I had come. She knew I wanted friends. And that was the whole reason she picked me. A horror story from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
14 min
When I was thirteen, I used to sleep at my best friend’s house almost every weekend. Then I started waking up in the middle of the night and seeing the same woman on the ceiling. She would crawl slowly above the bed, smile down at me, and hold one finger to her lips like she was telling me to stay quiet. Eventually, I started hearing her bare feet running across the hardwood floor. I never told anyone. I just stopped sleeping there. For years, I convinced myself it had all been a nightmare. Then I moved into my first apartment at eighteen. And she came back. Only this time, she wasn’t on the ceiling anymore. A horror story from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
20 min
My best friend had been jealous of my life for years. Then she invited me to spend a weekend at her family’s remote cabin. At first, everything felt normal. But during a hike into the woods, I realized she had been taking pieces of me, my hair, a missing earring, even my full name written down, and bringing them to something she believed lived in the forest. She told me it could “balance” our lives. Then I saw the thing waiting for us in the clearing. And I realized she hadn’t brought me there for a girls’ weekend. She had brought me there as an offering. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
19 min
When I was sixteen, my friends and I snuck into an abandoned mine that had been closed for decades. We didn’t make it far before we heard a woman laughing somewhere deeper underground. Then she called me by name. The entrance disappeared. Something inside started copying our voices. And the farther we went trying to find a way out, the more we realized other people had been there before us. Years later, I finally learned the story people in my hometown told about the woman in the mine: If you answer her, she learns your voice. And then she uses it to call someone else inside. A horror story from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
14 min
(RABBIT HOLE) Three disturbing stories from the coal mines of West Virginia. A miner riding alone into the mine realizes someone else is standing inside the cage with him — a dead man carrying his own severed head. Another worker stops for two miners waiting beside the tracks, only to find the car empty except for the lanterns they were carrying. And a young miner follows a strange blue flame deeper underground, where he hears the voice of his dead father calling his name. These stories come from old Appalachian mining folklore collected from the communities that worked beneath those mountains. Featuring Big John, Section South Main, and The Blue Flame. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓
15 min
I bought a 172-year-old house with an antique mirror built into the upstairs hallway. Within weeks, I started hearing a woman whispering from it at night. Then things in the house began moving. My cats refused to go upstairs. And every time I slept, I found myself trapped behind the glass, watching a dark woman move slowly through my home. I stayed for three years before I finally sold the house for a loss. A horror story from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
13 min
Three people meet seemingly normal strangers, until they notice something that makes the entire encounter terrifying. First, a doctor invites a mysterious man into his home and slowly realizes almost nothing about his appearance seems natural. Then, a salesman is stopped on a dark highway by a smiling stranger who can somehow speak without moving his mouth. And finally, two children approach a man sitting alone in his car and politely ask to be let inside. Then he sees their eyes. The Herbert Hopkins encounter, Indrid Cold, and the Black-Eyed Children. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓
12 min
We’re going deep into Appalachia for three disturbing paranormal stories. First, a West Virginia family is terrorized by something they can’t see, something that seems to move through the house cutting clothes, blankets, and eventually living things. Then, a man walking alone through the woods claims a seven-foot creature grabs his arm and uses needle-like fingers to take his blood. And finally, a dead woman allegedly appears to her mother after burial and tells her exactly how she was murdered. The stories are The Wizard Clip, The Vegetable Man, and The Greenbrier Ghost. Three very different Appalachian nightmares. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓
19 min
In the 1960s, a family living at 30 East Drive in Pontefract, England began reporting increasingly violent activity inside their home. Objects moved. Furniture was thrown. Strange banging filled the house. Then their teenage daughter Diane became the target. According to her family, an unseen force grabbed her and began dragging her up the staircase while they fought to pull her back. Later, multiple people claimed to see a tall hooded figure inside the house , the entity that would eventually become known as the Black Monk of Pontefract. But the deeper you go into this case, the stranger it gets. Some incidents may have been exaggerated or faked, and the historical story supposedly explaining who the Black Monk was appears to have serious holes. So if the figure people claimed to see wasn’t actually the monk from the legend…what were they seeing? Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓
25 min
In 2012, a family in Gary, Indiana claimed something evil had taken over their home. They reported footsteps, shadows, strange voices, violent behavior, and children acting as if they were possessed. Then the case reached a hospital — where a DCS caseworker documented something almost impossible. According to her report, a nine-year-old boy walked backward up a wall toward the ceiling. Police, doctors, child services, and a Catholic priest all became involved, and multiple exorcisms followed. In this episode, I’m breaking down what was actually documented, what the family claimed happened, and the explanations that make this case even stranger. Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓
19 min
In 1977, a family in Enfield, England claimed something had taken over their home. Furniture moved. Knocking came from inside the walls. An 11-year-old girl began speaking in a deep male voice. And at one point, a police officer reported seeing a chair move several feet without anyone touching it. Some incidents were later exposed as hoaxes. Others remain much harder to explain. In this episode, I’m breaking down the Enfield Poltergeist case, what witnesses actually reported, what was faked, and the details that still make this one of the most infamous alleged hauntings ever investigated. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓
18 min
In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers disappeared from a remote island off the coast of Scotland. When the relief crew finally reached Eilean Mòr, the lighthouse was empty. The men were gone. Their bodies were never recovered. But investigators found something outside that may explain what happened — including severe storm damage, equipment ripped away by the sea, and one unsettling detail about the clothing the men left behind. In this episode, I’m breaking down what the official records actually say, what was added to the story later, and the theory that still leaves one disturbing question unanswered. Good luck sleeping tonight.
9 min
I woke up at 3 a.m. to my college roommate whispering underneath my bed. I pretended to be asleep while she slowly crawled out, stood beside me, and left the room like nothing happened. Then I found out she had been doing it for weeks. An original scary story about a disturbing college roommate, strange late-night behavior, photos taken while someone slept, and the terrifying secret hidden inside her closet. Good luck sleeping tonight.
13 min
She worked overnight at a supposedly haunted hotel where the right elevator would open after 2 a.m. with every light inside turned off. Each time, she heard several voices whispering from the darkness. The lobby turned freezing, and she was overwhelmed by sudden sadness and dread. But when she checked the security footage, the elevator never opened. Then one night, something inside moved. An original scary story about a haunted hotel, a dark elevator, unexplained voices, and the figure the cameras couldn’t see. Good luck sleeping tonight.
13 min
A woman downloads a sleep-recording app after waking up exhausted every morning. At first, it only captures normal sounds. Then the app records a man asking her questions while she sleeps—and her voice answering every one. As the questions become more personal, she realizes whoever is speaking may be inside her apartment. An original scary story about sleep talking, unexplained recordings, a possible intruder, and the voice waiting beside her bed. Good luck sleeping tonight.
14 min
A woman begins having the same terrifying dream every night: a faceless man slowly climbing the stairs from her basement. Then her neighbor asks how far he has made it. As the dreams become more vivid, the basement door begins opening on its own, and a late-night recording captures something speaking from downstairs. A creepy paranormal horror story about recurring nightmares, sleepwalking, a haunted basement, and the terrifying possibility that some dreams are not yours alone. Good luck sleeping tonight.
15 min
A woman receives a call from a funeral home saying her mother has died. But her real mother is sitting right across from her. The dead woman listed her as her only daughter, left behind years of secret photographs, and seemed to believe they belonged together long before they ever met. Good luck sleeping tonight.
13 min
A woman arrives at a remote mountain cabin and finds her full name written in the guestbook seven years earlier, in handwriting identical to her own. Beneath it is a warning: Do not sleep in the room at the end of the hall again. As pieces of a forgotten childhood trip begin coming back, she realizes someone, or something, has been waiting for her to return. Good luck sleeping tonight.
20 min
My best friend had been jealous of my life for years. Then she invited me to spend a weekend at her family’s remote cabin. At first, everything felt normal. But during a hike into the woods, I realized she had been taking pieces of me—my hair, a missing earring, even my full name written down—and bringing them to something she believed lived in the forest. She told me it could “balance” our lives. Then I saw the thing waiting for us in the clearing. And I realized she hadn’t brought me there for a girls’ weekend. She had brought me there as an offering. A horror story from Scared With Jess. ♥️ Good luck sleeping tonight. 🪓 https://linktr.ee/scaredwithjess
18 min
A woman stays overnight at her mother’s house after a minor surgery and wakes to the sound of her mom talking in the kitchen at 2:13 a.m. But when she goes downstairs, her mother is asleep on the couch. In the kitchen, someone is sitting at the table with her back turned, wearing her mother’s robe, speaking in her mother’s voice, and waiting beside a mug that should have been destroyed years ago. Good luck sleeping tonight.
16 min
A newly married couple on a cross-country road trip stops at a tiny roadside fair to stretch their legs, only to be led by a strange old man to a row of barrels filled with rotting deer carcasses. When they run, he’s already standing right behind their car holding a blood soaked antler, and calling after them that they ran before the best part. Good luck sleeping tonight.
16 min
Today’s episode features Woman in the Hallway. A woman living alone checks a late-night security alert and sees a woman already walking through her hallway in real time. As more motion alerts come in, she realizes the figure is moving through her house without opening doors — and using a voice that sounds almost exactly like her own. Good luck sleeping tonight.
19 min
Today’s episode features She’s Lying. After her grandfather dies, a woman finds two old VHS tapes hidden in his attic — one unlabeled, and one marked SHE’S LYING. When she plays them, both tapes show the same house at night and the same woman walking its halls with a hatchet, but each one tells a different version of what was really stalking the house. Good luck sleeping tonight.
16 min
Today’s episode features She Wanted My Face. A woman looks back on a childhood sleepover where one extra girl seemed to be there by the end of the night, even though nobody could clearly say who she belonged with. Hours later, she woke up to find the girl still awake in the dark, asking horrifying questions about faces, whispering that some come off easier than others, and then disappearing before morning — leaving behind only photos that prove she was there. Good luck sleeping tonight.
18 min
Today’s episode features She Kept Asking Me To Crawl In. As a child, a girl makes a quiet new friend near the woods behind her neighborhood. But every day, the girl leads her back to the same deep hole hidden under roots and brush, always asking her to crawl inside. Years later, she realizes the little girl who waited for her there was never really alive at all. Good luck sleeping tonight.
20 min
Today’s episode features Don’t Fall Asleep Yet. As a child, a woman dreaded every visit to her grandmother’s house for one reason: the old bunk bed in the spare room. Night after night, she would lie awake in the bottom bunk, listening to movement above her, watching a different face lean down from the darkness, and hearing the same whisper in her ear telling her not to fall asleep yet. Good luck sleeping tonight.
17 min
Today’s episode features The Doll in the Basement. After visiting a haunted museum, a woman’s friend becomes fixated on a doll locked away in the basement’s most dangerous exhibit. What follows is a slow unraveling of whispers, fire, and the growing fear that whatever noticed them in that dark room did not stay behind. Good luck sleeping tonight.
22 min
Today’s episode includes two scary stories. In Who Was Wearing My Face?, a visit home to help an aging grandmother turns disturbing when she starts insisting there are two versions of the same person in the house. The one she sees during the day is familiar. The one in the hallway after midnight...is not. In Not My Teeth, a family visit takes a darker turn when someone’s mother becomes fixated on their smile and says their teeth do not look the same. What follows is blood, jaw pain, and the growing fear that something has already started settling in. Good luck sleeping tonight.
22 min
Today’s episode includes two scary stories. In My Friend Didn’t Sleep Anymore, a woman lets her best friend stay in the spare room after a brutal breakup. At first it feels like grief. Then the sleepless nights start. The whispering follows. And before long, it becomes clear something else has settled in with them. In She Wasn’t Alone in the Bathroom, a teenager starts locking themself in the bathroom for hours every night. The family tries to brush it off until a child in the house starts hearing a second voice in there. Good luck sleeping tonight.
17 min
Today’s episode includes two scary stories. In Something in the Catacombs, a tourist gets separated from their friends in the catacombs and realizes they are not alone in the tunnels. In Fire in the Basement, a woman’s life begins to unravel after a ritual, as whispers, sleepwalking, and something far darker begin pulling her toward the fire. Good luck sleeping tonight.
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