Scary Stories For A Rainy Night - Ep. 257 - GRIMM

Podcast: Scary Stories and Rain
Host: Being Scared (Dane)
Date: October 13, 2025
Episode Theme:
Real-life terrifying encounters—vanishings, rural intruders, urban nightmares, and brushes with the uncanny—narrated calmly over rain for maximum chilling effect. This episode blends unsolved true crimes, personal brushes with horror, and urban legends, each story magnifying a different shade of fear that can awaken on a rainy night.

Episode Overview

This episode is a curated mix of truly unsettling, mostly true stories, each taking place in rain-soaked, isolating, or otherwise vulnerable environments. The host, Dane, threads these tales with measured narration and soft rain in the background, evoking an atmosphere of tension perfect for late-night listening or as a soothing yet unnerving bedtime ritual.

Key Discussion Points and Story Summaries

Disappearance of Kelly Berg Dove (00:00–11:28)

• Synopsis:
  The episode opens with the haunting real-life mystery of Kelly Berg Dove, a young woman who vanished without a trace in 1982 from a Virginia gas station during her night shift.
• Key Points:
  • Kelly, beloved mother and wife, works at a rural gas station at night for extra cash.
  • On June 18, after multiple calls to police about harassment by a man in a gray Ford, Kelly disappears moments after her final, panic-filled 911 call.
  • No struggle is found—only her purse remains; despite leads and a suspected perpetrator known to both Kelly and her family, there’s never enough evidence for an arrest.
  • Story underscores both the vulnerability of night shift workers and the chilling potential for evil to strike "the most wonderful of people."
• Notable Quote:

  "The last thing the 911 dispatcher heard was Kelly screaming that the man had just gotten out of the vehicle and was heading towards the gas station's main building." (08:30)

• Chilling Reflection:

  "For all intents and purposes, the person who showed up at the Imperial gas station that night is a ghost." (10:20)

• Host’s Final Thought:

  "The only truth we have of that night is the terrifying reality that Kelly went to work that night not suspecting a thing, and ended up encountering someone that caused her to vanish from the face of the earth." (11:10)

The Night the Ripper Came (12:53–21:00)

• Synopsis:
  A listener’s experience as a child living with her grandmother in rural Florida during the "Gainesville Ripper" murders.
• Key Points:
  • Family organizes for the narrator, age 10, to sleep at her ailing granny’s isolated house for company.
  • Fear permeates the community as the Ripper kills nearby; narrator’s father arms her for protection.
  • One night at 3:05am, a stranger tries to force his way inside, believing—due to her granny’s confusion—that he’s her deceased husband.
  • The narrator fends off a potential home invasion, keeping her family safe through sheer courage and vigilance.
• Notable Moment:

  "I looked out the window, my eyes meeting the eyes of a strange man standing there...he jiggled the handle and pushed hard on the door with all his weight." (14:30)

• Lingering Aftermath:
  The incident instills lifelong fear of windows at night:

  "To this day I don’t know who was at the door...but I still panic looking out of windows at night into the darkness." (20:45)

Randonautica and the Clown in the Field (21:00–28:40)

• Synopsis:
  A chef in remote UK hotel staff accommodation, emboldened by beer and curiosity, uses the infamous Randonautica app with a friend and stumbles into a nightmarish encounter.
• Key Points:
  • The app leads the pair, after midnight, deep into dark fields and woods towards an unknown “scary” location.
  • At 3am, they find a storage container graffitied with a sinister clown—soon after, they spot a tall, shadowy figure in the trees.
  • Terror takes over; both flee for their lives, convinced the presence was human rather than paranormal.
• Notable Quote:

  "It’s just a clown, bro," AJ joked, "I just looked at him. 'Yeah, mate, it's just a clown...' Spray painted on a random storage container in a random field with no one around for miles." (24:05)

• Warning:

  "This is a warning. Never download Randonautica and if you ever do, only use it in the day." (28:30)

The Grey Figure in the Pennsylvania Woods (28:40–35:45)

• Synopsis:
  Siblings take their younger sister hiking for her birthday in rural Pennsylvania and encounter something inexplicable lurking just off the trail.
• Key Points:
  • Little-used state game lands, marked only by faint blue dots, provide a quiet but unsettling backdrop.
  • Minutes into the hike, a loud rustling and then the older sister’s urgent command to "run" sends them fleeing.
  • Later, the sister describes a bipedal, hunched, grey figure "shuffling towards us."
  • Family shares memories of a "mystery animal" seen years before in the same area.
• Memorable Dialogue:

  "There's someone over there. Run." (30:50)
  Spoken calmly but with "clear panic"—the turning point for fear.

• Reflection:

  "I know that black bears stand on their hind legs sometimes, but they are not gray and it didn't sound big enough to be a bear." (33:55)

The Blood-Stained Farmhand (35:45–39:30)

• Synopsis:
  A woman recounts her childhood at her uncle’s farm in the late '70s, where a kindly family harbors a drifter for extra help—and a massacre unfolds.
• Key Points:
  • Family offers jobs and food to drifters; one night, "Tom" the farmhand comes home covered in blood.
  • An instinct prompts the narrator’s cousin to feign sleep—Tom later admits in court he’d have killed any “awake” witnesses.
  • The local bar owners are murdered with an axe, and Tom is identified as the killer.
• Quote:

  "When he returned to my uncle’s home that night, if anyone had been awake, he was going to kill them all and now wishes that he had." (39:00)

• Chilling Realization:
  Both the narrator and cousin were sleeping on sofas that night—mere seconds between life and death.

Construction Site Terror (39:30–44:42)

• Synopsis:
  A young student and her friends witness a horrifying murder at an abandoned construction site while heading home from a party.
• Key Points:
  • Detoured through a construction site, the group sees a “bizarre flickering light”—then hears a woman’s scream and witnesses her fall fatally from the building.
  • A man in a yellow jacket emerges, holding a gas cutter and an amputated arm; the group cowers until it’s safe to escape and alert police.
  • The murder remains unsolved, amplifying the horror.
• Quote:

  "We saw someone wearing a bright yellow jacket exiting the building with a gas cutter in his right hand and an amputated arm in the left." (42:30)

• Haunting Aftereffect:
  The girls never truly recover from what they witnessed.

The Night Visitor in Mexico (46:43–End)

• Synopsis:
  As a child, a listener sleeping alone in her relatives' house hears desperate knocking and pleading from an unknown man at the back door—a plea no one else hears.
• Key Points:
  • The voice pleads, "Miss, please open, please open, please," but the narrator can’t unlock the door.
  • Next day, a construction worker asks cryptically, "Why didn’t you open the door for me, little girl?"
  • Unclear if this was a ghostly visitation, a disturbed intruder, or something else, the mystery is left unresolved but profoundly unnerving.
• Notable Moment:

  "I actually attempted to open the door...All the while this man continued to plead for someone to open the door. I even attempted to talk to him..." (47:30)

• Quote:

  "Why didn’t you open the door for me, little girl?"—said by the worker, days later, chilling the narrator to her core. (48:48)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “For all intents and purposes, the person who showed up at the Imperial gas station that night is a ghost.” — Host (10:20)
• “It’s just a clown, bro.” — AJ (24:05)
• “There’s someone over there. Run.” — M, Pennsylvania hiking story (30:50)
• “When he returned to my uncle’s home that night, if anyone had been awake, he was going to kill them all and now wishes that he had.” — Host, paraphrasing Tom's confession (39:00)
• “Why didn’t you open the door for me, little girl?” — Construction worker (48:48)

Episode Structure and Flow

• 00:00–11:28: Disappearance of Kelly Berg Dove
• 12:53–21:00: Florida farm home invasion during "Gainesville Ripper" era
• 21:00–28:40: Randonautica and the clown in the field
• 28:40–35:45: The grey figure in the woods
• 35:45–39:30: Blood-stained farmhand and the ax murder
• 39:30–44:42: Construction site murder witnessed by friends
• 46:43–End: The night visitor and the unanswered knock

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Overall Tone & Takeaway

The simple, calm narration and persistent rain soundscape amplify each story’s sense of isolation and dread, drawing out the universal fear that horror can be found not just in legends, but in everyday life. Themes repeat across different stories: the suddenness of terror, the ordinary becoming ominous, and the thin line between safety and disaster.

Best for: Late-night listeners, fans of unsolved mysteries and atmospheric storytelling, and those who appreciate horror grounded in reality.
Final Host Thought:

"...the terrifying reality that [these things] could happen to each and every one of us." (11:20)

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