Scary Stories For A Rainy Night

Episode 299 — December Scary
Podcast: Scary Stories and Rain
Host/Narrator: Being Scared (Dane)
Date: December 6, 2025
Rain Ambience Throughout

Episode Overview

This December episode features several unsettling, true horror stories, told in the host's signature calm, evocative narration, accompanied by gentle rain sounds. The stories delve into urban exploration gone wrong, haunted houses, life-threatening encounters with dangerous strangers, and the terrifying intrusion of evil into ordinary lives. Each story builds suspense, relying on detail and first-person accounts, creating the perfect unsettling experience for a cold, rainy night.

Story 1: The Paris Catacombs Nightmare

[02:40 – 14:03]

Key Points & Insights

• A young, thrill-seeking narrator is lured by friends Zach and Sebastian into the forbidden tunnels of the Paris Catacombs.
• Entry is achieved through a rumored, unsealed sewer entrance; the dangers and illegality of this are made clear.
• The group initially experiences excitement and awe, marveling at the bones and history (“The Paris catacomb was an incredible gallery of macabre art.” [08:06]).
• Tension escalates as eerie sounds and an oppressive atmosphere set in.
• Zach wanders off, soon screaming for help. Searching for him, the narrator and Sebastian experience an unearthly terror.
• They are confronted by a grotesque, bone-and-muscle centipede monstrosity with a human skull for a head.
• In panic, they attempt to flee, using luminescent paint marks to guide their escape route.
• Amid the chaos, Sebastian vanishes. The narrator escapes alone but is forever changed and wracked with guilt.

Notable Quotes

• On entering forbidden places:
  “All my rebellious mind had in my head was everything forbidden tasted better.” ([04:37])
• First encounter with the ossuary’s horror:
  “The walls were lined with stacked skulls and human bones, forming grotesque and frightening images… I couldn’t help feeling that I was being watched through the hollow eyes of hundreds of skulls.” ([07:30])
• Confronting the supernatural horror:
  “Before me was a creature that could only be described as something resembling a giant centipede, made up mostly of several bones… In place of its head was a massive human skull with large sharp teeth stained red.” ([11:16])
• Survivor’s remorse:
  “That experience changed me forever. I will never be the same fearless adventurer I was before. I managed to escape with my life, but the price I paid for my recklessness was high. I lost my best friends, and now I live with this bitter and deserved guilt for the rest of my life.” ([14:03])

Story 2: The Haunted Victorian Apartment

[16:04 – 26:09]

Key Points & Insights

• Newly expecting parents move into the upper unit of an old Victorian house converted into apartments.
• The narrator experiences uncanny events his very first night—footsteps, creaking floorboards, and the oppressive sense of a presence—but dismisses them as the house settling.
• The family grows, moves into the whole house, and more disturbances follow: the narrator hears the same footsteps during the day when alone.
• The most chilling moment arrives via the baby monitor: a gruff man’s voice is heard talking to the baby, in a moment that deeply unsettles both parents.
• The encounter forces the narrator to finally reveal all his experiences to his wife.

Notable Quotes

• On initial rationalization:
  “I figured it was something I would eventually get used to and learn to tune out as time went on.” ([18:16])
• The moment of intrusion:
  “Over the speaker I heard an unmistakable voice, gruff and low, as if a man was standing by the speaker talking to our baby. Did you hear that? I asked, jolting up and looking at my wife. Yes, what is that? She replied. It’s a man.” ([24:39])
• Giving in to fear:
  “I was already having a hard time sleeping away from my son, but now, for the time being, I think I’ll go back to sleeping on the floor upstairs. If you want to call it sleep.” ([26:09])

Story 3: The Man Behind the Dumpster

[27:57 – 36:26]

Key Points & Insights

• 24-year-old female assistant manager recounts a night shift at a suburban North Carolina convenience store.
• Tasked with taking out garbage, she discovers a man behind the dumpster, knife in his teeth, apparently “sawing into something” with blood everywhere.
• A terrifying standoff ensues; the man grins and pursues her, but she manages to get back inside and call police while he bangs on the door, yelling in an unknown language.
• Police arrive, finding bloody footprints but no suspect—only blood and a knife.
• The man is soon apprehended—he had killed and was dismembering a victim, intending to silence the witness.
• The assailant returns to the store days later, asking for the narrator by name; her quick-thinking coworker prevents giving him any information.

Notable Quotes

• On facing real danger:
  “Until you must handle yourself, do you truly know if you can or cannot?” ([28:13])
• Standoff with the killer:
  “He grinned, the knife still stationed between his teeth, and began standing… I backed away faster, timing when I was going to turn and run for my life.” ([33:02])
• Aftermath:
  “His pursuit of me was to make sure I saw nothing and was to ensure that if I did or didn’t, I wouldn’t be able to talk about what I had seen or had not seen.” ([34:50])

Story 4: Night Intruder in Long Island

[36:54 – 42:37]

Key Points & Insights

• 14-year-old Nick relates a terrifying home invasion during a sleepover with friends John and David in suburban Long Island.
• Awoken in the night by banging at the door, the group witnesses a man in a hospital gown with a butcher knife attempting to break in.
• Too shocked at first to call for help, they hide as the man enters the house and searches for them.
• In a climactic confrontation, John stabs the intruder in the neck with a pocketknife they’d kept for safety; the kids flee to a neighbor’s, who calls the authorities.
• The police find and arrest the mysterious man, who has no record or apparent history.

Notable Quotes

• On terror’s grip:
  “Feeling utterly helpless, we heard footsteps coming up the stairs toward our room… If one of us didn’t act fast, it would be over.” ([40:53])
• Resolution:
  “To this day, we have no idea who he was. He had no record in any nearby hospitals. No record at all. No family, no friends, no home. It was as if he just appeared out of nowhere.” ([42:10])

Story 5: A Predatory Encounter in St. Catharines

[45:44 – 56:07]

Key Points & Insights

• A 16-year-old narrator in a safe-feeling part of St. Catharines, Ontario, decides on a midnight walk to the store.
• He’s approached by a suspicious, desperate man who asks for a smoke and then tries to lure him into a wooded park to “help move a TV.”
• The narrator employs quick thinking and white lies to disengage, but the stranger’s persistence and final comment—“16… Ah, never mind. You’re too young for me anyway.”—reveal sinister intent ([55:16]).
• He escapes safely, but as he leaves the store in an Uber, he glimpses the man watching the sidewalk—waiting for another potential victim.

Notable Quotes

• When trouble reveals itself:
  “I must have looked visibly scared at this point because he started to double down… and he had a grin that was now showing slightly from beneath his scruffy facial hair.” ([54:07])
• Chilling final words:
  “16… Ah, never mind, never mind. You’re too young for me anyway.” ([55:16])
• Cautionary realization:
  “I will never go out that late again.” ([56:07])

Memorable Moments

• The use of environmental sounds—rain, distant thunder—was especially effective at immersing the listener and amplifying tension.
• The catacombs monster was a standout for both its imaginative horror and its metaphor for the unforeseen dangers of reckless exploration.
• The baby monitor incident brought an everyday, relatable fear to chilling life with understated but haunting delivery.
• The story in which a hostile stranger attempts to lure a teen walks a fine line between urban legend and real, daily peril, resonating with the show’s ethos of “true accounts.”

Episode Flow & Tone

• The narration is calm, detail-rich, and designed to unsettle gradually, never descending into theatricality or exploitation.
• The rain and atmospheric background act as a comforting counterpoint to the stories’ unease, heightening the sense of being safe—but only just—while listening.

Timestamps for Key Stories

• Paris Catacombs: [02:40 – 14:03]
• Haunted Apartment: [16:04 – 26:09]
• Dumpster Killer: [27:57 – 36:26]
• Long Island Intruder: [36:54 – 42:37]
• St. Catharines Predator: [45:44 – 56:07]

Final Thoughts

This episode is a perfect example of why Scary Stories and Rain sustains its popularity: authentic narration, well-paced suspense, and firsthand details balanced by a somber, reflective tone. The stories chosen for December run the gamut from supernatural horror to chilling true crime, all united by a thread of ordinary people suddenly thrust into the extraordinary.

For those who need a dose of dread with their rain-soaked nights, episode 299 delivers memorable stories and lasting goosebumps.