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3 Internet Stories That Still Haunt Us | The Smiling Man, Candle Cove, & The Ring

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Red Web

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re heading to the campfire for a new series: Red Web Scary Stories. Trevor and Alfredo dive into three of the most chilling stories the internet has ever produced, including a legendary urban encounter, a TV show that never actually aired, and a paranormal nightmare. Join our Patreon for extra horror content: https://www.redwebpod.com "The Smiling Man" by r/blue_tidal "Candle Cove" by Kris Straub "A Ring Appeared On My Finger" by r/Brief-Coyote7753 Red Web explores the world’s most fascinating unsolved mysteries, true crime, and horror lore. In this series, we narrate and react to our favorite creepypastas and haunting internet stories that defined a generation of horror. Producer: Christian Young Sound Design: Philip Spann Show Notes & Info: Genre: Horror Narration / Internet Stories Format: Immersive Storytelling / Podcast Reaction Themes: Urban Legends, Lost Media, Stalking, Nostalgia Horror, Paranormal Encounters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome Task Force to a new series from Red Web where we explore terrifying stories from the internet.

0:12.0

My name is Trevor Collins and as a lover of creepypasta I'll be doing the narration for today's story.

0:18.0

But joining me reacting to these stories for the first time, is my terrified

0:21.8

friend Alfredo Diaz.

0:24.4

I don't like scary stories, let alone ones that are curated to be extra scary.

0:33.4

This reminds me of the Nickelodeon show.

0:35.5

Is it the Midnight Society?

0:36.8

Are you afraid of the dark? Yes, yes. I it the Midnight Society? Are you afraid of the dark?

0:38.1

Yes.

0:38.7

Yes.

0:39.3

We are our own Midnight Society.

0:42.6

This gives me that feel and that was the first time I was ever introduced into scary stories.

0:47.9

And, you know, they had full episodes.

0:49.9

They were producing everything.

0:51.6

And it was terrifying to me.

0:53.1

Absolutely terrifying to me. terrifying to me and I

0:54.6

stayed away from a lot of scary stuff and like I said Red Web big mistake for me

0:59.5

because now I'm comfortable with all the like scary stuff the true crime and

1:03.7

here I am going head first into scary stories luckily we're shooting this in

1:08.3

the daylight so yeah well you, it's midnight somewhere.

1:12.6

That's true.

1:13.6

People listening, they can listen to it at any point in time.

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