A Smile That Makes Your Skin Crawl

Be. Scared

Be. Busta and Studio71

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A quiet tram stop. A porcelain-skinned woman. And a stare that felt like it cut through the soul. While visiting his cousin in Portsmouth, one man had a chilling encounter that still haunts him to this day. It started with a glance from a pale stranger who seemed frozen in place — until she wasn’t. Her glassy grey eyes locked onto his, her smile unblinking… and then she was closer. Rocking. Humming. Watching. What happened next was so sudden, so unnatural, that he ran for his life and hid behind a dumpster — but even there, the humming followed… Follow Be. Busta on Insta: @Be.Busta To listen to the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/BeScaredYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: http://bit.ly/BeScaredPod If you want to support the show, and get all the episodes ad-free go to: https://bescared.supercast.com/ If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/BeScaredPod If you would like to submit a story for the chance to have it narrated on this channel, please send your story to the following email: Bish.Busta@gmail.com Music: All music was taken from Myuuji's channel and Incompetech by Kevin Mcleod which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/myuuji http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Gide, mates, it's B-Buster here.
0:02.5	And before the episode begins, I would just like to let you know that Be Scared,
0:06.3	which is produced along with Studio 71,
0:08.8	feature scary stories from around the globe on a weekly basis
0:11.5	that aim to fuel your nightmares with a smile.
0:14.4	And if you enjoy the podcast, it would be great if you could hit that subscribe button
0:18.0	and drop a review.
0:19.7	Thanks for listening, guys.
0:21.3	And without further ado, let's begin.
0:35.9	I don't usually talk about this, but what happened last month, it still haunts me.
0:43.1	So I was in Portsmouth, staying with a cousin, while handling some family paperwork.
0:49.4	One evening, after dinner and drinks, I left their flat to catch the last tram from a quiet part of town.
0:56.0	The stop was mostly empty, except for one woman sitting on the far bench beneath a flickering street lamp.
1:02.9	At first, I didn't think much of her.
1:05.8	She looked like she could have been anyone, really.
1:08.6	Early 30s maybe dressed in a long grey coat and matching scarf,
1:13.3	even though the air was warm. Her head was down though and she seemed to be staring at her
1:19.1	hands or maybe something on her lap. I took out my phone and scrolled for a bit. Ten minutes
1:26.7	passed, no tram. When I looked back up again,
1:31.1	she was still in the exact same position. That was the first thing that really bothered me,
1:36.9	just how perfectly still she was, not scrolling her phone, not shifting in her seat,
1:42.5	not even blinking from what I could tell,
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