Terrifying True Stories

About Terrifying True Stories

What’s hiding in the dark? Terrifying True Stories brings you real ghost stories, truly haunted places, and creepy paranormal experiences—told by the actual people who lived through them. No fiction. No scripts. Just raw, first-hand encounters with evil spirits, supernatural creatures, and true horror that will haunt your dreams long after the episode ends. These aren’t just scary stories. They’re real. And they’re waiting for you. Listen with the lights off… if you dare.

Publisher

Terrifying True Stories

Category

society & culture · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Oct 2023

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   My Grandma's Ghost Never Left - A True Family Haunting

   What if the people we lose never really leave us? After the passing of a beloved grandmother, one family begins experiencing strange occurrences inside the home she once lived in. At first, the unexplained moments seem almost comforting, like gentle reminders of someone who is still watching over them. But when a family member moves into the grandmother's former bedroom, the experiences take an unsettling turn. Doors open without explanation. Personal belongings mysteriously change places. And something about that room doesn't feel quite right. Determined to find answers, the family decides to investigate. What happens next leaves them questioning everything they thought they knew about life, death, and the possibility that someone familiar might still be present. Could love keep someone connected to the living, or is something else happening inside this house? Join host Ryan Azevedo for another chilling episode of Terrifying True Stories, where the line between comforting memories and unexplained encounters becomes frighteningly thin. Some goodbyes aren't forever. For more chilling stories and paranormal encounters, follow us on TikTok.

2. 

   8 Oct 2026

   The Mock Seance: Something Followed Me Home

   A true ghost story about a seance that was supposed to be fake, and the something that followed one man home anyway. Justin Vasquez (@scardiecatvasquez) was new to the horror world when he was invited to a mock seance. It was an immersive horror theater show held in an old house above a North Hollywood record store in Los Angeles, where a man once murdered his family. Before he went, his anthropology professor gave him one warning about spirits, Ouija boards and rituals: they don't know when you're only pretending. The symbols were fake. The ritual was fake. But after the final bow, a woman stopped every guest at the door with a strange parting gift and a vague explanation. Justin took his home. Then his father started asking him the same unsettling question every morning. This is a real paranormal experience, told by the person who lived it. Justin still takes precautions to this day.

3. 

   31 Oct 2025

   The Midnight Caller

   A woman’s sleepless nights turn to terror when phone calls at 3:17 a.m. reveal a chilling truth. Based on a true story from Vancouver, Washington, 1987.

4. 

   30 Oct 2025

   Granny’s Ghosts: A True Story of Family, and the Unseen

   A young girl moves into her grandmother’s haunted Carson, California, home and faces chilling encounters with ghosts, sleep paralysis, and dark plantation secrets.

5. 

   29 Oct 2025

   The Man in the Attic

   A chilling true crime from 1920s Los Angeles: a man secretly lives in an attic for 9 years before murder and madness unfold. True crime, mystery, horror, LA

6. 

   24 Oct 2025

   The Girl in the Barrels

   A tow-yard worker’s cleanup takes a dark turn when three forgotten barrels unleash something far worse than decay, a haunting that won’t stay buried.

7. 

   21 Oct 2025

   The Haunting of the New Witch

   A college witch’s harmless ritual turns dark when something unseen answers her call. A true story of curiosity, fear, and a haunting that felt too real.

8. 

   16 Oct 2025

   Haunted Hospital: The Endless Night Watch

   A sheriff’s chilling encounter inside LA County Hospital: flickering lights, locked wards, and something unseen in the dark. A real haunted story.

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   16 Oct 2025

   Haunted Hospital: A Night Watch That Wouldn’t Let Go

   A veteran custody officer walks the silent corridors of Los Angeles County General Hospital after midnight. Lights flicker, doors refuse to behave, and something unseen keeps pace just outside the circle of her flashlight. This is a true account from the upper floors of one of LA’s most notorious hospitals, told by the person who lived it. LACountyHospital What really happens in a locked ward when the power diesWho nods at you from behind a sealed glass sliderHow far would you climb in pitch black when the elevator never arrives This isn’t folklore. It’s documented memory from inside a real haunted hospital in Los Angeles: a sheriff’s true paranormal encounter that feels too strange to be fiction. If you’ve ever wondered what lingers in old wards and sealed stairwells, this story will make you question the buildings you pass every day.

10. 

    30 Oct 2024

    008: Haunted Hallways

    What would you do if you uleashed something evil in your elementary school that started latching on to your classmates? That’s exactly what happened to tonight’s guest.Ryan:: [00:00:00] Tonight on terrifying true stories, a secret tragedy quickly turns to terror at a child’s elementary school when something evil possesses their classmates. Tonight’s story is called The Haunted Hallways.Suede:: When I was in sixth grade, I and a group of friends called ourselves ghost hunting around the school. Um, I had this ability where I could touch things and I could see the past of it. You know, I’m pretty sure I can still do that now. I just have not practiced that in a while. Since my youth, actually. You know, I told my friends this and it’s about, you know, maybe four or five of us.And we all go to the auditorium of the [00:01:00] school. This is, you know, around the last days of school where, you know, you can go and visit your classrooms and Teach other teachers and friends and stuff. It’s kind of like a, like a chill, you know, period at the end of the year. So we went to the auditorium to do ghost hunting.I figured that it’d be a nice place to start. It always seemed majestic and dark and mysterious. So we went there. I put my hand on the door and I started seeing some things. This door was a door on a stage, by the way. I started seeing a, uh, Image of a girl in the auditorium and I started to see smoke and flames and calamity all around her.And, you know, I had wondered what exactly was going on, but it seems as if she suffered from smoke inhalation. I took my hand off of the door and I told my friends. And we were trying to figure out, [00:02:00] okay, how could we find this information out? We didn’t have cell phones then, um, to just pull out and be able to look things up like that, you know.So we thought to ourselves, well, let’s go to someone who’s been working here at the school for a while, you know, and maybe they’ll know some more about this situation. And we went to the oldest teacher that we could find in close proximity to us at that time. She said that back in her day, maybe the 70s, something like that, there was a girl who suffered from smoke inhalation.And my friends began to hoot and holler because they just were stunned that she confirmed something that I had saw. And I was shocked as well, because I was like, Oh wow, maybe there’s something to this. And so we decide to, you know, try to ask her [00:03:00] more questions. And she’s like, that didn’t happen. It didn’t happen.Y’all go back to class. It didn’t happen. Forget everything I said. It didn’t happen because I guess she figured maybe I should not have put that information out there, but she already confirmed it, you know? So we go back to the auditorium and we were just like, okay, let’s try to communicate with her. And another girl walks in.This girl is, I believe she’s on the cheerleading team at the time. They’re about to do a pep rally and, you know, she was getting ready for rehearsal and she asked us why we were in there and, you know, she chuckled when we told her why. But, as she approached the door to leave, she began to have stomach pains.That’s what it seemed to look like. And she was bent over, and she started crying. And, you know, she was just [00:04:00] fine a few seconds ago, and then she was crying. And so the girls that were in the group went to go over and check on her, to see how she was doing, and, you know, she was not responding. And so we sat her down and we were going to go get some help until, you know, I began to realize that maybe she’s not responding because she’s possessed.I knew only minute things of, about spirituality, if that, at that time, but one thing I did know to do and that I did do was, and I still do, was keep a crucifix or a rosary.

11. 

    25 Jul 2024

    Terrifying True Stories – NEW Trailer!

    Are you afraid of the dark? You should be. Terrifying True Stories features real ghost stories, truly haunted places, and creepy paranormal experiences told by the actual person who lived through it! You'll be transported to an immersive world of evil spirits, supernatural creatures, and true horror. These are more than just "scary stories" - they are truly terrifying stories that will haunt your dreams. For a more extreme experience, listen with the lights off.

12. 

    7 Nov 2023

    007: The Spirit in my Crawlspace

    What would you do if you found something hidden in the crawlspace beneath your home that may allow you talk to the dead? That's what happened in tonight's terrifying true story.

13. 

    29 Oct 2023

    006: The Beast in my Bedroom

    Can a rosary save you from something evil in your house or will it just make it angry?

14. 

    19 Oct 2023

    005: LA’s Haunted Globe Theater – Haunted in LA

    A photographer who is clairvoyant encounters a spirit “mid-torture” at one of the most haunted theaters in Los Angeles underneath the stage at LA’s haunted Globe Theater.Daniel was a photographer at one of the most haunted (https://terrifyingtruestories.com/2023/10/01/my-haunted-childhood-2/) theaters in Los Angeles. He also happens to be clairvoyant. Tonight’s story is about the entity he encountered underneath the stage at LA’s haunted (https://terrifyingtruestories.com/2023/10/01/my-haunted-childhood-2/) Globe Theater.DANIEL: My name is Daniel and I’m a multimedia designer and photographer. What that equates to is I’ll go around and shoot a lot of nightlife photography videography for different groups across Los Angeles. At the time, this was pre pandemic, I think it was the fall of 2017. I was one of the Globe’s lead photographers in the sense, I would go into their spaces and shoot different nightlife like dance, burlesque shows, golf shows, dance parties, LGBT plus anything of that nature. So this whole experience happened on one of the nights in which I was there and photographing a friend’s burlesque group Cherry Poppins, at their Game of Thrones parody show. Growing up, my mom probably came out to me at about the age of 13, or 14, that in her own words, she was a clairvoyant, the way she described at the time when she saw or sensed certain things. She had it very young, she always had it at the age of I think she said, seven or eight, she was actually getting a lot of just flack from her mother because at the age of seven, and eight, she was basically having dreams of like people dying, but she would recognize something about them, and then it would actually come true. And it got I think, as freaky as my mom predicted the death of one of her mom’s closest friends, because she saw in a dream and she predicted exactly how it happened. So the interesting thing going into it was my mom always said that she has three kids. The universe speaks in threes, three different energy levels and stuff. My brother, who’s the oldest, he doesn’t like any of it. My sister who’s the middle child who’s three years older than me, she would always try very hard to have the certain ability or whatever, but she just doesn’t for whatever reason, not that mean, okay against it. But then me. I would not even try but I was a natural sensor for things. So the Globe Theater, the idea of different I guess you’d say spaces or locations housing certain energies, theaters, in particular in Los Angeles are very fascinating, because theater, in that sense involves a lot of drama, there’s a lot of performance going on a lot of flair, things of that nature. So when you combine certain energies with it, and just over time, things can get a bit murkier. On the Globe’s history’s like, a bit dark, I would say dark in terms of I don’t, I haven’t dived in the history, like in full myself. But what I least perceived is a sense of like a certain I would say like a typical like mob or like a different organized crime like nature, fall 2017 to spring of 2018. In this period of time, my friends will put on different shows. They had a Game of Thrones burlesque parody show. Dduring the show, there’s a certain jump that you have to do. By jump I mean, during the show, there’s a certain ground that you have to pretty much hop across to get from one photography vantage point to the other photography vantage point in the Globe. What’s hard about it is it’s built in a way that whatever renovations they did, it’s almost like it was built on a different foundation or there’s an under space in it, where in particular, there’s almost like a crawl space. And if you don’t go there’s a crawlspace that connects these two vantage points,

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    12 Oct 2023

    004: The Soul Sucker – She visits when I sleep

    What do you do when there is something evil in your partner's house that is actively trying to steal your soul while you sleep?!? That's what tonight's guest experienced when she met "The Soul Sucker." Terrifying True Stories podcast features REAL ghost stories about haunted places and creepy paranormal experiences told by the actual person. Terrifying True Stories delivers you to an immersive world of evil spirits, supernatural creatures and true horror. These are more than just "scary stories" these are terrifying true stories that will make you feel like you are there.

16. 

    5 Oct 2023

    003: The Cat From Hell – When Animals Get Possessed

    So who do you call when the sweet cat you raise from a kitten becomes possessed by something truly evil? Then it starts yelling at you in human voices. Then it tries to kill you. Tonight's guest called in the church when it happened to her and blood was spilled when they encountered the cat from hell. Terrifying True Stories podcast features REAL ghost stories about haunted places and creepy paranormal experiences told by the actual person. Terrifying True Stories delivers you to an immersive world of evil spirits, supernatural creatures and true horror. These are more than just "scary stories" these are terrifying true stories that will make you feel like you are there.

17. 

    1 Oct 2023

    002: Can’t Get Out – A True Old West Ghost Story

    Meet a man that lived in a historic bank building that was robbed by the notorious American bank robber Jesse James in 1876 where he encountered a tenacious entity that physically wouldn’t let him leave. Terrifying True Stories podcast features REAL ghost stories about haunted places and creepy paranormal experiences told by the actual person. Terrifying True Stories delivers you to an immersive world of evil spirits, supernatural creatures and true horror. These are more than just "scary stories" these are terrifying true stories that will make you feel like you are there.

18. 

    1 Oct 2023

    001: My Haunted Childhood – The Ghost Story That Follows Me

    What do you do when the ghost that haunted your childhood home follows you to your new house halfway across the country? That is exactly what happened to the person in tonight's story. Terrifying True Stories podcast features REAL ghost stories about haunted places and creepy paranormal experiences told by the actual person. Terrifying True Stories delivers you to an immersive world of evil spirits, supernatural creatures and true horror. These are more than just "scary stories" these are terrifying true stories that will make you feel like you are there.

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