A Creepy Story from Childhood: Don’t Open the Door, Kid

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A scary story about when you’re a kid, and the nights feel endless. The nights when you're counting the hours until your mom returns from her midnight shift. The rules were always the same: don’t open the door, don’t answer the phone. Simple enough, until the silence of the trailer park stretched too long, and the shadows outside seemed to move on their own.
The only comfort came from a red light shining through the window, a glow that cut through the dark like a watchful eye. But that light couldn’t keep everything away. Memories of liquor store parking lots, strangers passing by, and voices that didn’t belong begin to blur with the stillness of the night.
This is a creepy story about childhood fear that stays long after you’ve grown up. It’s about the way certain knocks on the door, certain voices in the dark, can stay with you forever. Don’t Open the Door, Kid is a story of patience, memory, and the things that wait outside when you’re not ready to face them.
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0:00.0	DC high volume, Batman.
0:04.0	The Dark Night's definitive DC comic stories adapted directly for audio for the very first time.
0:12.0	Fear, I have to make them afraid.
0:15.0	He's got a motorcycle, get after him or have you shot.
0:19.0	What do you mean blow up the building?
0:21.6	From this moment on,
0:22.6	none of you are safe.
0:24.6	New episodes every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.6	I heard Mom moving in the night.
0:33.6	It wasn't so laid out.
0:34.6	At least I don't remember it that way when it all started. Mr. Param, the owner of the lot, would always turn off the lights at 10 p.m. and everything would go pitch black.
0:45.3	It was at that time when we would rely on the porch lights, some working, some not, to navigate around the trailers whenever we came back from my mom's work and came back late.
0:55.9	But the rent was due, and I knew how mom would get around those times.
0:59.7	So I stayed quiet, though she knew I wasn't asleep.
1:03.4	She was able to get those extra shifts and had taken a short nap on the couch before heading out again.
1:08.9	I heard her walk up to the room we shared. I'm leaving now. Mama
1:13.7	loves you. And then I whispered the rest. Don't open the door. Don't turn on the stove. Don't answer the
1:21.1	phone. My work number is on the counter. I'd heard her tell me this a thousand times, but had no idea of just how important it was to get it right.
1:35.3	My name is Edwin, and here's a scary story.
1:43.4	I took the blanket off my face and shouted by, looking at the clock for just an instant,
1:49.0	too fast to remember what it said.
1:52.0	Six hours, I told myself.
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