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Scary Tellings explores unsolved mysteries, historical crimes, and unexplained events. Each episode presents the facts in a conversational style, letting you draw your own conclusions. New stories weekly.

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The forecast warned her not to open the door

A radio broadcast predicted Petra's every move at a roadside motel and warned her not to open her door after 1:10 AM.

The Forecast Warned Her Not to Open the Door

Same Look, Different Protection

Hinterkaifeck killer stayed after murders

At the 1922 Hinterkaifeck murders in Bavaria, someone continued feeding animals and tending the farm after killing all six victims.

Hinterkaifeck Killer Stayed After Murders

Hinterkaifeck murders: footprints led in but never led out

The 1922 Hinterkaifeck murders left six dead and footprints that led to the farm but never left. Someone stayed to care for the animals.

Hinterkaifeck Murders Killer Vanished Without a Trace

Absorption vs digestion: not the same thing

Ferry worker confesses to lighthouse murders as water rises around him

A ferry worker trapped underwater confesses to using a lighthouse to wreck ships and discovers photographs of an unnatural pact.

Trapped Beneath Ferry as Lighthouse Watches

Ferry keeper vanishes as shrinking door traps him with phantom drivers

A ferry nightkeeper counts foghorn blasts tied to rescues, then watches a watertight door shrink as phantom drivers appear in empty cars.

Powerless Ferry Arrives With Keeper Missing

Footprints appeared from nowhere at a locked ice fishing hut

Marisol found someone in her locked ice hut wearing Denny's coat, with mysterious tracks starting in the middle of an empty field.

Something Came Into the Locked Ice Hut

Which One Do You Actually Own?

Babysitter receives calls from sleeping child's phone inside the house

A babysitter receives mysterious calls from a sleeping child's phone while it sits charging upstairs, leading to a frightening discovery.

Babysitter Answers a Sleeping Child’s Phone

Doctor vanished from locked cabin on Great Lakes steamer in 1910

Oscar Olsen vanished from a locked cabin on the Pier Marquette 18 steamer, leaving blood but no body or explanation.

The Pier Marquette 18 Doctor Mystery

Night manager finds a storage unit that shouldn't exist

A storage facility worker discovers Unit 18 on her records, but the row only has 17 units. Then the ledger begins writing by itself.

Unit 18 The Storage Mystery

Kansas City Massacre left prisoner and four officers dead in failed rescue

Frank Nash and four officers died when gunmen tried to free him. Investigators never settled who planned the Kansas City Massacre or fired the shots.

Kansas City Massacre Prison Rescue Mystery

School building echoes teacher's words before she speaks them

A teacher hears her own voice echoing through an empty school building, speaking her words before she says them.

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