Scary Stories and Rain – Ep. 212: “The Old Lady In My Closet”

Host: Being Scared
Air Date: August 29, 2025
Theme: True, unsettling horror tales told in calm narration, accompanied by immersive rain ambience. This episode features three distinct stories, each exploring different flavors of fear: night terrors and alien abduction, a terrifying encounter during a late-night walk, and unsettling truths in a supernatural Texas town.

Overview

This episode weaves together three unnerving tales designed to chill the listener. Each story features first-person accounts of inexplicable horror:

• Story 1: The narrator experiences a paralyzing nighttime abduction, with hints of alien experimentation.
• Story 2: A mundane suburban walk turns into a brush with an unimaginable entity.
• Story 3: A Texas deputy gives a wry, world-weary account of policing a town full of monsters, both figurative and literal.

Story 1: “The Old Lady In My Closet”

(Nighttime Abduction, Alien Experimentation)
Timestamps: 01:59 – 21:02

Key Discussion Points & Insights

• Universal Fear: Opens with the primal feeling of being watched, especially in heightened states like sleep or paralysis.

  • ”You know the feeling of being watched? Sure you do. We all do... There’s something so disconcerting about it.” – Host (02:00)

• First Encounter: The narrator’s exhaustion is shattered by detection of a non-human entity at the foot of their bed.

  • Vivid recall of panic, sleep paralysis, and the horror of an inhuman presence (“Its bulbous white head peered up at me… Eyes, black as death, glared up at me.” 03:10)

• Overpowering and Abduction:

  • As the narrator attempts to defend themselves, another creature clamps a clawed hand over their face, inducing full-body paralysis and unconsciousness.

• Awakening in Captivity:

  • The narrator finds themselves conscious but disembodied, floating in a fluid-filled vat, with all ability to move, scream, or blink taken away.
  • Gruesome realization: Their bodily systems are dissected and displayed in a metallic lab, watched over by small, black-eyed beings.
  • "It was my skin, but it had been hollowed out and stretched flatly like a bearskin rug." (06:45)

• Clinical Horror:

  • The narrator is subjected to bizarre experiments, unable to feel pain, stripped of humanity.
  • The horror intensifies as a human scientist directs the creatures, suggesting complicity or collaboration.

• Return & Aftermath:

  • After a needle is plunged into the narrator’s eye, they black out and awaken in their own bed, puking and physically unsettled.
  • Lingering sense of bodily alienation and paranoia about their own identity.
  • Closing reflection: The narrator wonders if others have experienced similar overnight changes, hinting at a broader pattern.

Notable Quotes

• "My body no longer feels like it's mine. I have worked it over countless times in my head and have come up with no conclusions as to why any of it happened." – Narrator (18:45)
• "For the past few days my right eye has been throbbing and I swear that when it’s dead silent, I can almost hear a tiny beeping in my brain… I think something is going to happen soon." – Narrator (19:43)

Story 2: “Where Are You?”

(Suburban Encounter With the Unexplainable)
Timestamps: 21:02 – 38:12

Key Discussion Points & Insights

• Setting the Scene:

  • Suburban Vancouver, BC. The narrator, a stressed student, often takes late-night walks to clear their mind.

• Gradual Encroachment of Fear:

  • Initially, only the classic “feeling of being watched.”
  • Environmental disturbances: Street lights flicker erratically, earbuds begin to malfunction.

• Escalation:

  • The narrator senses strange static energy in their body, then hears ragged, inhuman breathing right behind them.
  • When the narrator confronts the fear by turning around, they see an impossibly tall, monstrous silhouette partially hidden behind a tree: limbs too long, a body composed of apparent darkness, and writhing tendrils.

• Flight and Home Invasion:

  • The narrator flees home, barricades themselves in, but electronic malfunctions resume.
  • The horror enters the house: The entity’s voice begins to echo phrases (“Where are you?”) in a horrifying, inhuman mimicry, along with a barrage of disturbing noises—screams, bone-crunching sounds, and evil laughter.
    • "It sounded like it was all around me... I will most likely continue to hear it over and over in my head for the rest of my life." – Narrator (33:10)

• Climax:

  • The being finally appears pressing its twisted face against the window—empty dark face, huge toothy grin, bloodshot human eyes—before attempting to break in.
  • The narrator blacks out, surviving to morning but physically and emotionally scarred.

• Lingering Trauma:

  • No evidence is accepted by others. The narrator is left with lasting fear, sensory disturbances, and a desperate hope to never encounter the entity again.

Notable Quotes

• "That thing was as real as my own skin and bones. I was sure of it." – Narrator (33:27)
• "I still hear its tainted voice when I'm alone, and sometimes when I close my eyes, I can still see its gruesome visage." – Narrator (37:50)

Story 3: “Bull’s Heart, Texas”

(Supernatural Small-Town Law Enforcement)
Timestamps: 40:11 – 74:41

Key Discussion Points & Insights

• Immersive Worldbuilding:

  • A grizzled federal agent describes life as a deputy in Bull’s Heart, Texas—a town populated by monstrous, supernatural inhabitants and convicts called “stripers.”
  • Law and order are enforced by a blend of normal humans and legendary beings.

• Establishing Normalcy Amidst Horror:

  • Anecdotes about regulars at “Toothy Earl’s Eatery”—a crocodilian proprietor, a centuries-old werecat waitress (Ellie), a minotaur (Bubba Ray), and a headless customer (Murray).
  • Stripers (convicts) are pressed into humiliating service, forever outcast and tormented.

• Dark Humor and Social Commentary:

  • The narrator displays sharp, sometimes morally ambiguous wit—taunting and confronting the anxieties and crimes of the stripers.
  • “You had to be tough to get by in Bullsheart. Even more so.” (41:29)

• Supernatural Enforcement:

  • The balance of fear, respect, and violence keeps the community stable—barely.
  • Reference to President Chalmers, erased from history after crossing the town—a nod to the town’s hidden power.

• Tension Breaks:

  • A tense interaction escalates between a striper and Ellie, ending with the striper publicly shamed and chased, showcasing the deadly seriousness underlying the humor.

• Resigned Tone:

  • Despite the horror and violence, the deputy maintains a deadpan, pragmatic approach: “Despite my hatred of my job, I can at least admit that the town has one hell of a fascinating history.” (53:45)

Notable Quotes

• "Keep the monsters with the monsters... Let us sort each other out, he would finish with a diabolical laugh." – Deputy (46:40)
• "They were people. He was not. Screw him." – Deputy (63:47)

Memorable Moments & Timestamps

• Vivid Abduction Description: (Story 1, 03:10 – 04:50)
• Self-Dissection Horror: (Story 1, 06:45 – 09:40)
• Supernatural Entity’s Voice Mimicry: (Story 2, 33:10 – 34:44)
• Face at the Window: (Story 2, 37:20 – 37:50)
• Comedic While Ominous Diner Dynamic: (Story 3, 42:05 – 50:30)
• Ellie’s Confrontation with Marcel: (Story 3, 64:26 – 73:39)

Episode Tone & Language

The narration remains calm and deliberate despite the disturbing subject matter, maximizing the contrast between the tranquil rain soundscape and the horror content. Storytelling alternates between clinical description, dry humor, and personal despair, all while maintaining the first-person point of view and immersive detail.

Final Reflection

The episode explores the many faces of terror: the loss of control over one’s own body and mind, the invasion of the everyday by the monstrous, and the coexistence of dark truths beneath the veneer of small-town normalcy. It invites listeners not simply to be scared, but to consider how horror may hide beneath the surface—whether in sleep, in shadow, or just down the street.

For the full chills, listen along with the rain.