Scary Stories and Rain – Ep. 265 – No Place Like Home

Podcast: Scary Stories and Rain
Host: Being Scared
Episode Date: October 21, 2025

Episode Overview

This episode, titled "No Place Like Home," is a chilling collection of first-person accounts that transform seemingly safe and familiar places—family outings, suburban houses, and workplaces—into the backdrop for terror. Each story is narrated in the calm, steady tone characteristic of the show, with a gentle rain ambiance in the background, heightening the sense of unease. Across almost an hour of storytelling, listeners are reminded that horror can find us anywhere, especially in those spaces where we let our guard down the most.

Key Stories & Discussion Points

The Ice Rink Massacre

[02:09 – 08:40]

• Setting: Christmas time, public ice skating rink
• Narrative: The narrator, then 14, recalls going skating with family and his girlfriend. Holiday lights at the rink periodically change to moody red and green, making visibility poor and creating a growing sense of unease.
• Escalation: Suddenly, the lights go out completely, plunging the rink into pitch darkness. Chaos erupts—screams and frantic noises fill the air. The narrator tries to crawl to safety but is injured, feeling blood and pain as he’s trampled and stabbed during the mayhem.
• Climax & Resolution: He blacks out and awakens in a hospital. The event, later revealed as an attack, kills 24 people, including the narrator's girlfriend.
• Memorable Quote:
  • "It was pitch black. It was an incredibly eerie feeling. Then suddenly, being on the ice with so many people but feeling alone." (Narrator, 06:00)
  • "Somebody had stabbed me… I knew it was blood, my blood." (Narrator, 07:50)

The Haunted House Abduction Attempt

[08:41 – 11:41]

• Setting: Halloween night, a neighborhood haunted house attraction
• Narrative: A father takes his daughter, 10, trick-or-treating. They're drawn to a popular haunted house, decked out with elaborate tunnels and smoke machines. Inside, his daughter vanishes.
• Escalation: After searching frantically, he hears her faintly crying "no" and "daddy" behind a hidden door. He finds two strangers restraining her—a man and a teen—inside a dark bedroom. He confronts them, frees his daughter, and calls the police.
• Outcome: The suspects vanish before police arrive. The homeowner claims not to know them; they are never found.
• Memorable Quote:
  • "Her voice sounded like somebody had cut it off, but I heard it right next to me." (Narrator, 10:45)
  • "I looked the older man in the eye and he gave me a very, very bad feeling. His eyes were sinister." (Narrator, 11:00)

The Candy Woman – An Infestation, Not a Haunting

[18:22 – 24:00]

• Setting: Temporary stay in a relative’s large home
• Narrative: Alone in the house, the narrator is visited by an unsettlingly tall, oddly dressed elderly woman claiming to be from the neighborhood council. She gives him a foul, rancid-tasting candy and then disappears.
• Escalation: Odd events escalate: he finds more candy, hears footsteps at night, and ultimately wakes to find the woman standing over his bed. She vanishes but reappears later, chasing him down the stairs. He escapes and calls the police from a neighbor’s house, but they find nothing.
• Reflection: The story ends with persistent fear, sleeplessness, and uncertainty about whether the house or the narrator was the true target.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "That is what this candy tasted like. I almost spit it out onto the floor, but social niceties made me chew the thing and force it down my throat." (Narrator, 19:30)
  • "This isn’t a haunting. It’s an infestation." (Narrator, 23:45)

The Christmas Office Intruder

[24:00 – 26:24]

• Setting: Downtown office building on Christmas night
• Narrative: The narrator returns to work late to finish a proposal. While alone on the floor, he hears the entrance close and spots a man’s head peering at him from a cubicle, unresponsive to conversation.
• Escalation: Alarmed, he leaves quickly. He never learns the identity or motive of the mysterious figure.
• Memorable Quote:
  • "I saw a head sticking up out of a cubicle on the opposite side of the floor. Looking towards me… he just watched me." (Narrator, 25:25)

The Drive-In Theater Creeper

[26:25 – 28:00]

• Setting: Summer night at a drive-in movie theater
• Narrative: While parked and watching a movie, the narrator and his girlfriend are warned by a neighboring car: “There is somebody under your truck.”
• Creepy Climax: After calling for help, a girl in a dress crawls out from under their truck, stares at them eerily, then walks away without explanation.
• Memorable Quote:
  • "I decided to call the drive ins number listed online and told them what was happening… then a girl wearing a dress crawled out from under my truck right in front of us and began walking backwards towards the movie screen." (Narrator, 27:40)

The Man in the Wooden Chair

[28:01 – 30:00]

• Setting: Suburban home, Halloween night
• Narrative: The narrator and a friend spot a man sitting in a chair at the end of a long driveway. When approached, the man threatens them, stands, and begins moving toward the house.
• Resolution: The boys lock themselves inside. The man is later revealed to be a fired ex-employee of the boy's father, presumably there out of malice.
• Memorable Quote:
  • "He yelled, if you come any closer, I’ll kill you." (Narrator, 29:04)

The Woman at the Window

[30:00 – 33:40]

• Setting: New family home in the suburb
• Narrative: A couple, with their baby, repeatedly spot a strange barefoot woman peering into the baby’s window. After several confrontations (including a night when she shrieks, arms flailing), the woman escalates her behavior and eventually is discovered sitting “Indian style” on the family’s bed in their locked home.
• Climax: Family flees and calls police, who find the woman upstairs, sitting in the dark hallway.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "She smiled at me and then opened her mouth wide and let out a nightmare-inducing scream that sounded as if she was in pain." (Narrator, 32:51)
  • "The woman was sitting Indian style on our bed." (Narrator, 33:27)

The Security Guard and the Ghostly Intruder

[33:41 – 36:36]

• Setting: Construction site on a night patrol
• Narrative: On a routine patrol, a security guard hears noises, then spots a man with a shaved head sitting in his truck. When the narrator investigates, the man disappears, only to reappear inside the building, looking down at the guard from a window.
• Resolution: The narrator abandons further search; police find no one.
• Memorable Quote:
  • "There was somebody sitting in my truck… The man had his arms crossed and he was wearing all black… he suddenly looked up at me and waved." (Narrator, 35:27)

Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• "It was pitch black. It was an incredibly eerie feeling. Then suddenly, being on the ice with so many people but feeling alone."
  — [06:00], Ice Rink Massacre

• "Her voice sounded like somebody had cut it off, but I heard it right next to me."
  — [10:45], Haunted House

• "This isn’t a haunting. It’s an infestation."
  — [23:45], Candy Woman

• "He yelled, if you come any closer, I’ll kill you."
  — [29:04], Man in the Chair

• "She smiled at me and then opened her mouth wide and let out a nightmare-inducing scream."
  — [32:51], Woman at the Window

• "There was somebody sitting in my truck… he suddenly looked up at me and waved."
  — [35:27], Security Guard Story

Tone & Atmosphere

True to the podcast's style, the narration is calm, almost lulling, paired with the gentle, persistent sound of rain. This contrast between soothing delivery and harrowing story content amplifies the uncanny horror at the heart of each tale. The stories are rendered in the direct, conversational, first-person style of someone simply recounting a memory—making each account feel disturbingly plausible.

Conclusion

"No Place Like Home" is a masterclass in everyday horror, showing that sometimes, the scariest stories are not about monsters in distant forests, but the darkness—literal and figurative—lurking in the places and nights we consider safest. From chilling encounters at an ice rink, a haunted house gone awry, and the simple act of letting a stranger inside, every story in this episode leaves listeners with the disquieting sense that terror is never far from home.

For those seeking unease and adrenaline before bed—or while drifting off to the soft patter of rain—this episode is not to be missed.