Scary Stories For A Rainy Night – Ep. 286 – "Massacred"

Podcast: Scary Stories and Rain
Host: Being Scared
Date: November 11, 2025

Episode Overview

This haunting episode features calm narration of unsettling true accounts amid gentle rain sounds—tailor-made to unsettle and soothe during a restless night. The stories cover home intrusion, mysterious disappearances, an urban legend "vampire" killer, and a stunning, modern folkloric Christmas horror with a ritualistic twist. Each tale explores real human vulnerability and supernatural dread, with the host’s signature, conversational delivery.

Key Stories and Discussion Points

1. Home Intruder: The Unlocked Door Incident

00:54 – 07:45

• Story Summary:

  • Narrator lives on the 10th floor of a city high-rise with her boyfriend Jake, who is infamously careless about locking doors.
  • On a hot Thursday afternoon, while alone with the dog at the sitter's, she hears strange noises after a shower and discovers a stocky stranger in a mechanic’s jumpsuit opening her cabinets.
  • The man claims—unconvincingly—to be “the internet guy.” She confronts and quickly ejects him, heart pounding, and locks up.
  • The doorman and Jake downplay the incident, both suggesting it was nothing sinister.

• Notable Insights & Quotes:

  • “[Jake] has the hazardous custom of leaving the door unlocked, even after I asked him not to.” (02:02)
  • “His face looked average… it’s hard to describe. I could not wait though.” (04:46)
  • “It’s a kind of horror that’s very hard to convey unless you’ve been through a situation like this.” (06:23)

• Takeaway:

  • Illustrates the everyday terrors that stem from small lapses in routine safety—making horror relatable and immediate.

2. Strangest Small Town: The Disappearing Children

07:45 – 12:00

• Story Summary:

  • James recounts his 30 years in a town laden with oddities—vanishing diners, ghost ships, and most disturbingly, children who disappear.
  • In 1990, star basketball player Jack Harvey and several teammates go missing during a big game; blood-stained shoes are all that remain.
  • The case baffles the town and goes cold after failed searches—even deputies vanish in the old mine shafts. One reappears years later, “babbling about a force of nature.”
  • The mines collapse, sealing the mystery; the event enters the town’s bizarre, unsolved history.

• Notable Quotes:

  • “In this town, children just simply disappear… I don’t know if it’s cursed or if this town simply does not like outsiders.” (08:25)
  • “My heart truly goes out to the missing. But to be honest, I’m just glad that it wasn’t me…” (11:38)

• Memorable Moment:

  • The chilling, anticlimactic reality of a cold case in a place where strangeness is a given.

3. Urban Vampire: The Tram Stop Stalker

13:03 – 20:00

• Story Summary:

  • The host describes the legend of the "Vampire": not a blood-drinker but a serial killer who stalked and bludgeoned women for years.
  • Clever police tactics fail because, as the killer later claims, victims “stank of fear”—he preyed only on the frightened.
  • The narrator’s grandmother narrowly escapes after a tram driver notices a suspicious car tailing them. Police confirm a murder happened nearby that very night.

• Memorable Quotes:

  • “I always knew who to attack and who not to attack… Every other woman stank of fear.” (14:55)
  • “You are an angel,” the grandmother writes in a thank-you letter to the driver. (18:08)

• Takeaway:

  • This story underscores the psychology of both victim and predator, and the role of acute observation and kindness in saving lives.

4. Ritual Massacre: Christmas at Juniper’s Cabin

20:00 – 53:29

• Story Summary:

  • The narrator, Calvin, begins with a sardonic tone—his Tinder date Juniper is so hot, he “decided…she would make a great sacrifice.”
  • Welcomed into her strange, affluent family’s lavish Christmas Eve at a remote, snow-laden cabin, Calvin is drawn into ever-weirder rituals, culminating in a midnight Black Mass led by Juniper’s imposing father, Matthias.
  • Calvin, bound naked in the snow, realizes the family aims to offer him in sacrifice to “St. Nicholas”—only for the deity, animated in a horrific, grotesque reindeer, to upend everyone’s expectations with mocking derision.
  • Calvin outwits the Mills family using his own experience with ritual and survival, but the supernatural threat remains: “Because this year, Krampus is back.”

• Notable Quotes & Moments:

  • “I awoke…to hands running up my chest…A warm, naked body pressed into me and I rolled towards her…I was breathing heavily, my panting shifting from arousal to fear in mere seconds.” (38:45)
  • "Prepare him for sacrifice." – Holly, Mrs. Mills (40:02)
  • “I am the soul of St. Nicholas.” – The grotesque reindeer entity (43:31)
  • “The reindeer began to paw the ground, shifting right and left. He looked like a child doing the peepee dance. ‘Oh, look at me,’ he said in a mocking tone, ‘I’m Calvin and I’m an orphan. My daddy entrusted me with our family’s sacred duty. But I’m scared.’” (45:17)
  • “For the first time in 200 years, my bloodline has failed in our sacred duty, and for that I apologize. I have failed you.” (52:40)

• Memorable Moments:

  • Calvin realizing the "witching hour" trick and outsmarting both family and supernatural foe.
  • The abrupt, darkly comic horror twist as St. Nicholas ridicules both participants and Calvin.
  • The final warning to listeners—classic meta-horror blending folklore with the contemporary.

Notable Quotes With Timestamps

• “His face looked average and honestly, it’s hard to describe…I could not wait though. This was too weird.” (04:46)
• "In this town, children just simply disappear... The year is 1990." (08:25)
• “I always knew who to attack and who not to attack. He was active for six years and during that time he attacked 2021 women, killed 14 of them.” (14:55)
• “She only wrote thank you, you are an angel and signed her name.” (18:08)
• “We call upon the witching hour to bring our deity new life. Let St. Nicholas live again.” (44:05)
• "Because this year, Krampus is back." (52:57)

Important Timestamps

• 00:54 – Start of "Home Intruder" story
• 07:45 – "Strangest Small Town" disappearance tale
• 13:03 – "Vampire" urban serial killer story
• 20:00 – "Christmas Cabin Ritual" begins
• 38:45 – Calvin’s awakening in the Mills house
• 40:02 – “Prepare him for sacrifice.” (Holly)
• 43:31 – “I am the soul of St. Nicholas.” (Reindeer entity)
• 52:57 – Closing warning: “Krampus is back.”

Tone and Style

• The narrator uses a measured, almost conversational tone—calm, but edged with intimacy and suspense.
• The stories are just detailed enough to draw you in, but leave plenty to the imagination, making the horror feel both personal and universal.
• There’s a blend of cynicism and dark humor, especially in the Christmas ritual story; chills delivered with a wink.

For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode is a stellar example of Scary Stories and Rain’s unique atmosphere: modern anxieties twisted into folklore, with a narrator whose soothing cadence blurs the line between comfort and fear. True horror here is not just supernatural, but the small, real-world slips—a door left unlocked, the feeling of vulnerability, being watched, or simply being somewhere you don’t belong. Each tale leaves you questioning how much dread you invite into your own safe spaces.

Best enjoyed with the lights low, the rain pattering, and your doors locked tight.