Scary Stories For A Rainy Night – Ep. 313 – Back For Your Blood

Podcast: Scary Stories and Rain
Host: Being Scared
Date: January 28, 2026

Episode Overview

This episode continues Scary Stories and Rain’s signature blend of unnerving, atmospheric narration and immersive rain sounds, perfect for listeners looking for true horror tales to keep them up at night (or help them drift off uneasily). Host Being Scared delivers a collection of first-person, true accounts of encounters with the sinister, the unexplainable, and the predatory—ranging from chilling late-night stalkers to lingering ghosts and heart-pounding escapes. The episode’s theme centers on experiences where something (or someone) comes "Back For Your Blood," suggesting recurring, relentless terror.

Key Stories & Discussion Points

1. The Pacing Stranger at the Warehouse

[03:05–08:10]

• Location & Setup: Phoenix, Arizona, winter of 2013; a warehouse worker arrives early for a morning shift, alone in the rain.
• Incident: Sees a man pacing outside. As the worker approaches the door, the stranger sprints toward him, jacket pulled entirely over his head, breathing with intense rage.
• Tense Standoff: The attacker abruptly stops when seen, asks, "What are you doing?" then flees.
• Aftermath: No crime committed; coworkers speculate intent (robbery, drugs, or something stranger).
• Lingering Question: "How did he see with his hood up? What was he really after?"

Notable Quote:
"His breathing was so angry and full of rage, like he was getting ready to charge me... I could feel his eyes were somehow locked onto me." (04:30)

2. Locked Out and Stalked

[08:15–11:08]

• Setup: After a party, a young person is locked out of their house by their mom (as threatened) and plans to sleep in the car.
• Rising Fear: Hears footsteps, then sees a shadowy figure prowling around—checking windows, doors.
• Accidental Intervention: Honks car horn by accident, waking mom who comes out.
• Aftermath: Police connect the incident to two escaped prisoners later apprehended far away.

Memorable Moment:
"I am so thankful my mom locked me out of the house that night. I can't imagine what would have happened if we both had been inside and asleep." (10:56)

3. Shortcut Through the Woods

[11:09–15:12]

• Setting: Colorado; winter evening after sports practice.
• Temptation: Against parents' warnings, narrator takes shortcut through woods as night falls.
• Supernatural Encounter: Feels compelled to run, hears footsteps chase, then glimpses a pale, black-eyed man crawling from the darkness.
• Ongoing Fear: Still spots the figure observing from the woods even years later.

Notable Quote:
"I saw a pale white-faced man on all fours crawling slowly back into the woods, dead black eyes staring right into my soul." (14:38)

4. Haunted by a Souvenir From New Orleans

[15:13–26:28]

• Backdrop: Narrator describes New Orleans’ haunting, historic atmosphere and their own family history of attracting paranormal attention.
• Supernatural Chain Reaction: During a cemetery tour, snaps a photo that startles everyone with its eerie streak. Later, violently shoved in a bar by an unseen force.
• Escalation: After returning home, objects move, a black figure appears, and loud, unexplained sounds occur.
• Nighttime Terror: Hears a guttural howl at 3am; doors lock themselves; appliances misbehave. Most chilling is finding videos on her dated phone of herself screaming in terror, filmed impossibly as she slept.
• Resolution: Family and narrator flee the house; years later, weird events continue.

Notable Quotes:

• "It sounded like someone was right in my ear... did you hear that too?" (24:41)
• "There was no way I filmed myself in my sleep and was able to fumble my way through all of the crap to do on that phone." (26:21)

5. The Man in the Bunny Suit

[26:30–32:30]

• Setting: Rural birthday party, large property abutting dense woods.
• Game: Teens play sardines (hide-and-seek); a group hides near the tree line.
• Terror Appears: A grown man in an Easter bunny suit stalks them from the forest and chases, grabbing one boy before he escapes.
• Disturbing Realization: Birthday girl was hiding alone in the barn, nearly discovered by "seekers"—but everyone accounted for, suggesting it was the bunny man who almost found her.
• Chilling Detail: No nearby neighbors; the bunny man’s origin remains unexplained.

Memorable Moment:
"This was a man in the middle of the forest, late at night, two miles from civilization, stalking and chasing us. To this day, the Bunnyman has not been identified or found." (32:23)

6. Trapped in the School Bathroom

[32:31–35:00]

• Location: 2003, Catholic school in the Philippines.
• Event: Alone in the bathroom, narrator experiences an unexplained presence, water running in the empty stalls, then is trapped when the door (with a broken lock) won’t open.
• Rescue: Teacher and librarian enter easily, leaving narrator stunned and frightened.
• Background: The school has a reputation for ghost stories linked to its history as rice fields where bodies were dumped.

Notable Quote:
"It was the scariest feeling I ever felt, because I felt helpless, trapped." (34:42)

7. The Woman in the Blue Raincoat

[35:01–39:12]

• Setting: Nighttime grocery run; young adult is approached by a distressed woman in a blue raincoat in sweltering weather.
• Escalation: Woman gets hostile, storms out; later, both she and a menacing man in a white van tailgate and chase narrator at high speed for miles.
• Narrow Escape: Outmaneuvers pursuers with a risky maneuver, makes it home safely but remains shaken.

Notable Quote:
"The look of anger in their eyes is what haunts me the most." (37:51)

8. Thanksgiving Party Gone Wrong

[39:13–45:27]

• Background: After a falling-out with his father, a young man stays with a friend and accepts a party invitation from an older acquaintance named Jerry.
• Party: The event is strange, sexual, and overwhelming; he suspects he was drugged.
• Flight: As Jerry refuses to drive him back and instead passes the house, narrator jumps from the moving car at a red light and escapes home.
• Afterthought: The trauma leads him to attempt reconciliation with his father.

Notable Quote:
"There was only one option for me to escape. I had to jump out of the car." (45:00)

Most Notable Quotes and Moments

• “His thick jacket was pulled up over his head, covering his entire face. I don't know how he could see anything when he was sprinting to me.” (04:10)
• "I jumped up quickly, mad at my boyfriend for pushing me. I was like, what the heck?... But he wasn’t laughing. Babe, I didn't push you." (Bar story, 18:32)
• "I could finally see the backlight of the TV on my face... whoever or whatever was holding my phone and recording me was right directly above my face." (Sleep video, 26:08)
• "The Bunnyman could not have been a neighbor, family friend, or neighborhood teenager looking for entertainment... This was a man in the middle of the forest, late at night, two miles away from any sort of other civilization, stalking and chasing us." (32:09)

Tone & Style

Being Scared’s narration is calm yet intense, alternating between matter-of-fact recounting and chilling, immersive description. The stoic delivery and slow-building detail make even the most fantastical accounts feel plausible—and all the more unsettling. The stories are told largely in the original voices of those who submitted them, retaining an authenticity and rawness that amplifies their creepiness.

Timestamps & Segment Guide

• [03:05] Warehouse stranger & pursuit
• [08:15] Locked out, man lurking outside house
• [11:09] Shortcut through woods, crawling man
• [15:13] New Orleans haunting (cemetery photo, bar attack, ghost at home)
• [26:28] Sleep videos & decision to move house
• [26:30] The bunny man at the party
• [32:31] School bathroom ghost/trap
• [35:01] Woman in blue raincoat, van pursuit
• [39:13] Thanksgiving party drugging & escape

Final Thoughts

Each story in this episode is expertly woven together by Being Scared’s understated narration and punctuated by the persistent rain, making everyday and extraordinary horrors come alive. From strange humans to the supernatural, the common thread is a feeling of pursuit—of being watched, hunted, or haunted—and the uncertainty of whether the threat is physical, spiritual, or both.

Listeners are left with the uneasy message: sometimes the things that come for you don’t stop, don’t make sense, and may never be explained.