Voiceover artist Jonathan Jones narrates this well-produced original tale from the mind of writer Craig Groshek, which centers on a farmer named Richard Mayes and his wife, who is about to give birth to a son. From the beginning, they both know something is wrong, for the baby is growing exponentially and eating far more than is typical. Once the ... Read More »
When his friend Cunningham warns Van Cheele that there is a wild beast in his woods, he pays scant attention. But later, following an encounter in the woods with an uncanny, wild-looking youth who speaks of an appetite for child-flesh, Van Cheele begins to wonder if there might be a connection between the youth and the recent disappearance of a ... Read More »
The Rake is a creepypasta story featuring a humanoid creature that stalks and attacks people in a manner similar to Slender Man. Since 2006, pictures, fan-art and video blogs have been made of the monster. The Rake originated on 4chan’s /b/ board in late 2005. An anonymous poster started a thread with the post “hey /b/ lets make a new ... Read More »
One day, a man finds the hay bales from his farm scattered all over his fields, and at first assumes that it is the work of pranksters. But when he attempts to put the bales back, he upsets the actual culprit. The perpetrator soon sends him a macabre message – a message that changes everything. And then the man sees ... Read More »
Welcome to Chilling Tales new narrator Keenon Brevik – available to tell your original tales! In his first entry on the site, Keenon voices a tale written by horror aficionado Emma Froh. In what Emma calls her first “stab” at a monster story, we follow the tale of a fearless young man. An adrenaline junkie, the young man is put ... Read More »
Narrator Edward Bennett tells this cautionary tale of a boy and his father who live together on a lake. The boy gives his father the age-old excuse typically used to stay up at night, the one regarding a monster under the bed. His father, of course, brushes it off as nonsense – perhaps a bit prematurely. Writer Mark Newton wrote ... Read More »
Sometimes when you hear strange noises at night, you shouldn’t just assume it was the house settling, or someone playing tricks on you. If the hair on the back of your neck stands up and you feel a chill down your spine, just start running. You might get a head start before it catches you. With this vocal rendition of ... Read More »
Some people believe that monsters only come out at night. But the latest rumors of creatures were not of the type found in corners behind doorways or the ones hiding beneath a bed. Instead, they were seen coming up out of old mine shafts. These…things…weren’t human, and every day they got a bit bolder, and they traveled farther from the ... Read More »
From Ask the Bones, a collection of folklore adapted by authors Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz, comes this tale of an unemployed man, who at his time of desperation meets a cousin of his who invites him to stay with her, saving him from homelessness and, presumably, starvation. He and his family enjoy their new life with their cousin ... Read More »
An anonymous author penned this dreadful tale of terror about a boy and a creature outside his window – a creature that will not stop staring at him. This story has often been recorded and posted online, but narrator Jordan Antle’s version here is one of the very best we have found. We hope you enjoy this tale! To see/hear ... Read More »
Narrator Jonathan Jones brings new life to this classic S.E. Schlosser tale of terror from Texas, featured on Schlosser’s website, www.americanfolklore.net, as well as in her published collection of Texas folktales and scary stories, Spooky Texas: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore. The main character in this tale wakes from what she believes to be a nightmare involving a ... Read More »
Voiceover artist Jonathan Jones narrates this well-produced original tale from the mind of writer Craig Groshek, which centers on a farmer named Richard Mayes and his wife, who is about to give birth to a son. From the beginning, they both know something is wrong, for the baby is growing exponentially and eating far more than is typical. Once the ... Read More »
A terrifying original and unpublished tale of a bony creature that haunts the rural English countryside. The story as it appears here has been oft repeated as a version of “creepypasta,” though variants of tales featuring demonic entities such as this go back hundreds of years. The Bwystfel Author: Anyonymous When I was a child, I lived in Radnorshire, one ... Read More »
Voiceover artist Jonathan Jones tells this tale from Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark about a pair of young men who come across a strange creature in a farm field one afternoon. Though they are not sure what “the thing” is at first, its purpose becomes clear many years later. The Thing Source: Scary Stories to Tell ... Read More »
I always thought that this was one of the best “creepypastas” I had ever read – short and unnerving, as good as any short horror or scary story ought to be! Enjoy! Read More »
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