Scary Stories and Rain

Episode 289 – "Tongues"

Host: Being Scared (Dane)
Released: November 16, 2025

Overview

This episode of Scary Stories and Rain, “Tongues,” features a series of chilling, true accounts delivered in Dane’s signature calm, atmospheric narration against a backdrop of soothing rain. The night’s tales take listeners from eerie inheritance in rural nowhere, to bone-chilling encounters with strangers, obsessive stalkers, skinwalkers, and hauntings that test even the staunchest skeptics. Thematically, the episode explores isolation, the unknown, and the unnerving ways darkness can surface in unlikely places and people.

Story Summaries and Key Highlights

1. The Slaughterhouse Inheritance

[02:24 – 28:26]

Main Points

• The narrator receives notice of an unexpected inheritance: a slaughterhouse in a forsaken town called Ingleswood, gifted by a little-known great uncle.
• The journey is fraught with unease: an isolated forest, a dead animal in the road, haunting quiet, and a settlement frozen in time.
• The cottage and slaughterhouse are severely rundown and filled with the stench of old blood.
• A strange, gray-skinned figure is seen lurking at the tree line, escalating the discomfort of being alone.
• The slaughterhouse is initially empty—just a shed with rusted meat hooks.
• The first night passes with unsettling dreams of flesh and hooks.
• Come morning, the shed is inexplicably filled with fresh meat on each hook, though it had been empty mere hours prior.
• Emaciated villagers appear, ecstatic at the new “meat,” claiming the new owner has saved them.
• The truth unravels horrifyingly: the flesh is a supernatural, endlessly regenerating extension of the slaughterhouse owner’s own body. The villagers depend on this meat for survival.
• Twist: If the owner leaves Ingleswood, the magic ends—the meat (and the owner’s body) will rot and die. They are now eternally bound to supply the town with their own living flesh.

Notable Quotes

• On first entering Ingleswood:
  “I had never heard of it before, and neither had any of my friends... Even more strange was receiving correspondence from a relative I hadn’t spoken to since I was a young child. It had come out of nowhere.” (02:27)
• Upon discovering the new ‘meat’:
  “Thick slabs of dark meat now hung from the rusted hooks... There was just under a dozen chunks of flesh, all lean and expertly cut, glistening red in the morning light.” (19:58)
• On the village’s secret:
  “The hooks give us flesh... This flesh never rots, never goes bad. It is as alive as you are... It’s a reproduction of your flesh.” (23:04)
• The curse explained:
  “If you ever leave this town, your bond to this place will be broken and the flesh will start to rot. When the meat begins to rot, so do you. Your body will decay and eventually perish. And we, the ones who rely on your flesh, will starve.” (27:06)

Memorable Moment

• The sudden materialization of meat on the hooks before the narrator’s eyes, witnessed mutely by the desperate villagers, is a viscerally horrific set piece, highlighting the episode’s theme of being trapped by forces beyond understanding.
  (23:35)

2. The Silent Stranger by the Tracks

[29:57 – 33:16]

Main Points

• A group of friends, including the narrator, revisit their favorite train tracks and clearing for a last summer hurrah.
• A pristine, unexplained bike appears en route; soon after, a silent, middle-aged man stops 20 feet away, simply watching without speaking.
• Uneasiness grows as the man just lingers, prompting the group to leave quickly.
• They never find out his intentions; theories range from mental illness to possible malevolence, but the gut feeling to leave prevails.

Notable Quote

• “I could tell Miles was kind of freaked out too... I went to pick up Will’s phone that was now on the ground and said we should go back to meet with Chris, and Miles agreed... We didn't turn back to look though.” (31:12)

3. Letters from Egan

[33:17 – 40:37]

Main Points

• The narrator recalls a deeply unsettling episode from 1999 involving a former romantic interest (“Egan”) who becomes dangerously obsessed.
• Charming at first, Egan turns out to be on probation and ends up sending increasingly threatening letters after the narrator breaks things off.
• The escalation culminates in graphic threats involving dead animals—and, ultimately, the narrator’s own safety.
• The authorities warn her to hide, since Egan, now on the run, has mentioned her by name along with his violent behavior.
• Three tense days of hiding ensue before Egan is caught; the narrator is haunted by the experience years later.

Notable Quotes

• The threat:
  “If you don’t come back to me, I will kill a dog and leave its body in your car. If you still don’t come back, I’ll kill a puppy and spread its blood all around your car and leave the puppy there for you to find. And if you still don’t come back, it will be your blood they find.” (37:01)
• The aftermath:
  “Those letters haunt me. I still get a knot in my stomach at times when I go to get the mail.” (40:05)

Memorable Moment

• The escalation of Egan’s letters from romance to explicit threats is deeply chilling and builds real-life horror throughout the segment.

4. Shadow Figure and the Skinwalker

[42:45 – 47:22]

Main Points

• Set in the American Southwest, the narrator and his brother witness a shadowy, unnatural figure outside their neighbor’s house—“blacker than the night.”
• The entity’s surreal movement (“moving both slow and fast at the same time”) and its being welcomed by neighborhood dogs raise cultural alarm.
• Recalling traditions meant to repel skinwalkers, their mother dusts them in ash and performs protective rituals.
• Later, they learn the neighbor dies from cancer, deepening the aura of dread and mystery.

Notable Quotes

• “It was standing on the side of our neighbor’s house, and while I couldn’t see its face, I knew that it was staring at our neighbor’s draped windows.” (43:21)
• “...it morphed down onto all fours, sprang a black tail, and disappeared into the night. With the group of neighborhood dogs following.” (44:37)

5. Skeptic’s Haunting

[47:23 – 57:46]

Main Points

• The narrator, a self-professed skeptic, moves into a new townhouse and dismisses early sounds as house creaks.
• Over time, footsteps become too distinct to ignore. Both the family cat and, later, their young son become visibly distressed by a specific spot near the stairs.
• With corroboration from a husband and sister, the narrator documents the escalation: pets and a baby monitor seem to detect a “shadow person.”
• Hauntings increase after their son is born, including eerie notifications that the baby has been “taken out of bed” at odd hours despite nothing visible in the footage.
• The haunting ceases only after the narrator, out of desperation, loudly tells the entity to leave—and it obeys.

Notable Quotes

• “The creek would be so loud and sound so much like someone was upstairs, my husband and I would actually run up to check on our son because it legitimately sounded like someone could be up there.” (51:23)
• “I did instantly feel like I was not being watched anymore and my son stopped crying… I haven’t heard them once since that morning.” (56:42)

Memorable Moment

• The shared relief (and slight sadness) when the “shadow person” leaves, hinting it might have just been lonely, adds an unusually bittersweet twist to standard ghost fare.

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:24] – Start of “The Slaughterhouse Inheritance” story
• [19:58] – Discovery of the mysterious meat in the slaughterhouse
• [23:04] – Village’s curse and the truth about the flesh revealed
• [27:06] – Conditions of the curse explained
• [29:57] – “Silent Stranger by the Tracks” story begins
• [33:17] – “Letters from Egan” stalker story
• [42:45] – “Shadow Figure and the Skinwalker”
• [47:23] – “Skeptic’s Haunting” with footsteps and the ‘shadow person’
• [56:42] – Haunting ends after plea for entity to leave

Tone and Atmosphere

Throughout these tales, Dane maintains a quiet, measured delivery that amplifies the sense of dread. The rain ambience adds intimacy and tension, making domestic and rural settings feel remote, vulnerable, and fraught with unseen dangers.

Final Thoughts

Episode 289 showcases a compelling mix of supernatural folklore, unsettling real-life encounters, and quiet domestic terror. With each story, the everyday is made uncanny, leaving listeners to question what creeps at the edge of their own reality, just beyond the glow of the porch light or in the shadows of a forgotten shed.

“You have no choice but to stay here for the rest of your life and feed us with the flesh from your body. That is your duty... There is no escape.”
(Villager, 27:06)

For those sleepless, stormy nights, “Scary Stories and Rain” offers bone-deep chills, sympathy for the haunted, and a reminder: some keys are better left unturned.