33 Disturbing Reddit Scary Stories

33 Reddit stories, discussed and analyzed one by one. I go through the events these Redditors say are true, then work out where the ordinary explanations stop working.

All 33 come from a single r/AskReddit thread: "[Serious] What's the creepiest/scariest thing you've seen but no one believes you?" That tag matters. Under it, jokes and off-topic replies get removed, so everybody answering was posting it as something that really happened to them. None of it can be verified, and that is the whole premise. Every story here has already been dismissed by the people closest to the person who posted it.

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Almost every one of these has an explanation waiting. A burglar who ran. A sleepwalker. Peripheral vision doing exactly what peripheral vision does. Those get tested first, because a story that survives the obvious answer is a different kind of story. Most of these survive.

A woman who begged to be let out of a building and then begged for security not to be called. Something that matched a man's pace through a cornfield without ever showing itself. A stranger who ended a home invasion without saying a word and was then forgotten by everyone who saw him. A man who stood on a tree stump outside a house once a day for two years while two children watched.

Chapters:
(00:00:00) 33. The dog that stopped walking
(00:02:54) 32. The house rules in Kansas
(00:06:14) 31. Blue light over Joshua Tree
(00:09:27) 30. The girl they call Giggles
(00:12:26) 29. Something in the corn
(00:15:11) 28. He said it out loud
(00:18:22) 27. The bouncing ball
(00:22:06) Subscribe and Rate
(00:22:27) 26. Man at the rest stop
(00:25:29) 25. The yellow raincoat
(00:28:26) 24. Cookie Monster under the bed
(00:30:40) 23. The figure on the flagpole
(00:32:48) 22. Wet footprints in every room
(00:35:10) 21. Something is coming
(00:37:13) 20. The man in the suit
(00:40:53) 19. The tap on the shoulder
(00:43:11) 18. The cat that was awake
(00:45:47) 17. Humming in the graveyard
(00:48:44) 16. The Edinburgh gardener
(00:51:23) 15. Bolted to the bathroom wall
(00:53:41) 14. The knife and thumbs up
(00:56:14) 13. The babysitter in the hallway
(00:58:33) 12. The hospital basement
(01:00:50) 11. The puppet show
(01:03:36) 10. His footsteps went silent
(01:06:29) 9. The Ouija board
(01:09:11) 8. The list of names
(01:11:47) Chills' Music and Socials
(01:12:12) 7. The footlocker from Vietnam
(01:15:12) 6. The kitchen nobody uses
(01:18:01) 5. The house on fire
(01:20:19) 4. Two months of attic footsteps
(01:22:25) 3. The woman at the window
(01:25:19) 2. The end of the bed
(01:28:00) 1. The man on the stump
(01:30:19) Outro

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2Q_1vEH266XKEvkjBjGijC5iWpAOCbzmyYitcaWSEk/

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Chills: The Scary List Podcast covers real unsolved mysteries, disturbing disappearances, and true cases from around the world. This episode does something different and works through first-hand accounts posted online, all of them claimed to be true. New episodes every week or two.

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