Scary Stories and Rain – Episode 298 "SKIN"

Host: Being Scared
Release Date: December 5, 2025

Episode Overview

In this haunting episode of "Scary Stories and Rain," Being Scared shares unsettling first-person tales with the soothing background of rain—stories designed to unsettle, disturb, and linger in the mind. Episode 298, titled "SKIN," weaves together chilling personal encounters with obsession, madness, brushes with death, and brushes with the supernatural. Narrated in a calm, relatable voice, these are harrowing confessionals and cautionary tales about the dark side of human (and not-so-human) nature.

Key Stories and Insights

1. Obsessive Love Turns Deadly

[03:37 – 18:54]

• Summary:
  A North Carolina man recounts his terrifying experience with a woman he meets at work. What begins as a dreamlike romance devolves into increasingly obsessive and manipulative behavior, culminating in a violent confrontation in his own home.

• Key Points:

  • Quick, uncanny emotional connection and escalating intensity.
  • Woman fakes a family emergency to draw him out of work ([05:30]).
  • After their breakup—done via text—her behavior turns threatening and erratic.
  • She breaks into his home, armed with a knife, and holds him hostage during what she calls a "date."
  • She reveals her intent to kill him:
    "She began telling me that the reason she had the knife was not for her protection but because she was going to kill me." ([15:50])
  • After a violent struggle, he is stabbed twice before a neighbor intervenes. Police arrive and uncover her criminal history, including attempted murder.
  • The episode ends with grim relief:
    "There is no moral to this story, just the fact that it happened. I'm alive and she is in prison." ([18:50])

Notable Quote

• "Breaking up with someone over text is a cruel and unusual form of punishment. I know many cruel and unusual forms of punishment. You don't know whose heart you just broke." – The woman ([06:54])

2. Return from the Abyss: A Doctor’s COVID-ICU Nightmare

[20:29 – 27:07]

• Summary:
  A physician shares a harrowing memory from the pandemic ICU. As sedative drugs are lowered for a patient recovering from intubation, she wakes in a panicked, altered state, begging to be "sent back," as if she has returned from a place far worse than oblivion.

• Key Points:

  • The doctor reflects on trauma, memory, and the oblivion of death.
  • A patient under prolonged ketamine sedation becomes distraught when awakened:
    "Please send me back. Please, please. This is all wrong. This is not who I am anymore. I don't want to be here. It hurts and it's wrong. I don't want them to notice I left. I don't want them to notice. I want to go back." ([25:45])
  • After forcibly extubating herself, the patient dies a few hours later.
  • The doctor remains haunted by questions about consciousness under sedation and what the afterlife (or its absence) may truly mean.

Notable Quote

• "I don't know where our consciousness lies when we are sedated for that long. But I am afraid of that place. Death is permanent, but it is also balanced and equal. Everyone rests in oblivion, unbound from the traumas of life, the hells that we can create. However, those places do not seem nearly as merciful." ([26:50])

3. A Trailside Encounter with Menacing Strangers

[27:39 – 35:54]

• Summary:
  A narrator retells their cousin Harper’s close-call with two armed, suspicious strangers while running a rural trail during a local economic downturn.

• Key Points:

  • The setting: semi-rural, downturn-stricken community with rising social problems.
  • Harper encounters two men, one with a machete, on the trail.
  • Using his knowledge of the terrain, he evades them after sensing imminent danger.
  • The brush with violence leaves a lasting impression on Harper and a cautionary tale for listeners about the unpredictability of the human threat.

4. Haunted Childhood Home In Rural Ontario

[35:54 – 51:55]

• Summary:
  A storyteller from rural Ontario recalls a series of inexplicable, ghostly events connected to their childhood home’s basement and its previous Portuguese family occupants.

• Key Points:

  • Slow build-up of unease in a quintessentially rural Canadian setting.
  • Friends report hearing loud dragging sounds like “a body or something” the night after a sleepover ([41:05]).
  • The narrator dismisses it—until strange phenomena escalate: cupboards found open, chairs rearranged, and quiet, disembodied murmuring in Portuguese accompanied by the chilling sensation of being watched ([47:46]).
  • A final, unforgettable moment:
    "As I started to drift off into the liminal dream state of oncoming sleep, I heard the unmistakable giggle of a woman echo through my thoughts as I finally sank into my dreams." ([51:50])
  • The narrator is left with lingering doubt and an uneasiness that never fully fades.

Memorable Moments & Quotes

• On yearning for anything “exciting” to happen:
  "I used to sit at night... and wish to myself... that something exciting would happen and my life would spiral... in an upward and firework way. And then she walked into the store one day..." ([03:55])

• On the paradox of protection and threat:
  "She began telling me that the reason she had the knife was not for her protection but because she was going to kill me." ([15:50])

• Philosophical reflection by the physician:
  "Death is often very merciful because of its true erasure. You no longer have to live with the terrible pain or haunting experiences. Trauma lives on only for those who can remember it." ([21:45]).

• Childhood fear, validated:
  "I stood staring at the chairs, confused and taken aback by the sight of the chairs that I had just seen in the kitchen above me. When I realized that this wasn't right and that this couldn't be anything other than paranormal, I quickly came to my senses and turned on my heels, bounding up the stairs..." ([48:45])

Timestamps for Main Segments

• Story 1: Obsessive Love Turns Deadly – [03:37 – 18:54]
• Story 2: Return from the Abyss (ICU Doctor) – [20:29 – 27:07]
• Story 3: Trailside Encounter – [27:39 – 35:54]
• Story 4: Haunted Childhood Home – [35:54 – 51:55]

Tone and Style

The narrator delivers each tale in a calm, conversational manner, sustaining suspense and empathy regardless of whether the story’s horror is physical, psychological, or supernatural. The episode is marked by its quiet intensity and lingering sense of dread, enhanced by the gentle rainfall in the background.

Final Thoughts

Episode 298 of "Scary Stories and Rain" explores the "skin" we inhabit—both literally and metaphorically—the boundaries between safety and danger, sanity and madness, life and whatever lies beyond. These stories, shared in the first person and without embellishment, leave listeners with a sense of awe, caution, and perhaps a little more alertness when moving through the world.