Original horror stories, told by the people they happened to. Each week, Harrowing Tales brings you three new scary stories about night shifts that go wrong, lonely roads after dark, strange encounters, and things that were never explained.
This is quiet horror. It's slow-burn, atmospheric, and unsettling, with no gore, no jump scares, and no screaming. Every story is written for this show and can't be heard anywhere else. They're creepy stories for late nights and long drives, and quiet enough to fall asleep to, if you can.
All stories are original fiction. New episodes every week.
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Her boyfriend recorded her talking in her sleep: two hundred and eleven clips over one winter. Every Sunday at breakfast he played them back, kept a leaderboard on the fridge, and called it Sleep Theatre. They played every one of them except the last.
In this original horror story, a young couple gives up their apartment to house-sit full time, starting with a winter at a farmhouse, plus Walter, an elderly basset hound who has to be carried up the stairs every night. A sleep-tracking app on the nightstand saves anything loud enough to count, and it turns out she talks in her sleep two or three times a night, in full sentences, with feeling. "Tell him the soup is fine." "Not the ferret." Marcus does the voices; the pancakes go cold. Then a friendly man stops at the end of the drive asking for the owners, and the clips start to sound less like dreams and more like answers.
A slow-burn, unsettling tale of house-sitting, a sleep-talking app, and what gets recorded while you're asleep. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you.
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All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.
30 Sept 2026
Doubles: A Haunted Film Photography Horror Story
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In 1986, he owns the only one-hour photo lab in a small town, so he sees every photo anyone there takes. One September night, in the middle of a stranger's roll of birthday pictures, there's a frame of his own upstairs hallway, with his daughter's door standing open at the end.
In this original horror story, a man looks back on the three years he spent checking other people's film at the light table after closing, paying off a processing machine the size of a car so his wife could one day open her portrait studio. Film comes out of the camera as one unbroken strip, with every frame numbered in order at the factory. So there is no explaining a flash photo of his hallway sitting between a customer's frames eleven and twelve, with no cut and no splice. Then there are more: dark kitchens and sleeping bedrooms, one to a roll, each with the same small white scratch in the corner. And a man starts standing at the store's drop slot after closing, putting nothing in it.
A slow-burn, unsettling tale of film photography, the pictures we hand to strangers, and something that has been looking in for longer than he's been alive. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you.
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📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL7jxcDOsYWZa3cUXfgfZJg)
All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.
30 Sept 2026
Leave It: A Search and Rescue Cadaver Dog Horror Story
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His cadaver dog's trainer had one rule: every time the dog sits, you reward her. You don't get to decide she's wrong. Everywhere else, he followed that rule. At home, he broke it.
In this original horror story, a volunteer search and rescue handler looks back on the fall he and his dog Biscuit, a Lab mix built like a coffee table who'll do anything for a honking rubber hot dog, were training for certification with Deb, a gravel-voiced veteran who called every dog "sweetheart" and every man "bud." The training samples are kept in the garage, so Biscuit keeps sitting in the backyard as if she's found something. He says "leave it," turns her head away, and logs it as a false alert. Then a man starts watching their night training from the dark bleachers. And then, one October night, the county gets a call that one of their own is missing in the hills.
A slow-burn, unsettling tale of search and rescue, a dog who knows her job, and the one place her handler refused to believe her. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you.
🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show.
📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL7jxcDOsYWZa3cUXfgfZJg)
All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.
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