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True Scary Story

Dead End Apartments (Extended Version)

True Scary Story

Scary Stories

Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this true scary story, we are revisiting out Dead End Apartments episode, where Haley moves into a newly renovated apartment at the edge of town, hoping to build independence. But strange noises, eerie dreams, and a growing sense of dread start to unravel.
This is the article I mentioned in the introduction of this episode:
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2004/03/31/remains-identified-norman-woman-police-tattoos-determine-body-found-year-reported-missing-september/61996216007/
You can find Edwin on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @edwincov
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Transcript

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0:00.0

I turned to it and I said, what do you want? And I took a step forward and it rushes at me.

0:15.0

Earlier this year, we published a story called Dead End Apartments. There was a part where

0:20.6

Haley mentioned a type of

0:21.9

urban legend or rumor, where kids had found skeletal remains and thinking it was a prop or something,

0:28.4

they dragged it around the area scaring each other. But we found the article that details it,

0:34.7

and it's linked in the description. We're also releasing an extended cut version of her story right now.

0:40.3

My name is Edwin, and here is Haley's true, scary story.

0:51.3

Way back in 2010, my sister was newly engaged.

1:01.0

I was living with her in a little house in central Oklahoma.

1:06.3

Her fiance moved in.

1:08.4

I knew I didn't want to cramp their style.

1:10.6

I didn't want to be the third

1:12.2

wheel in their house. So I packed up and moved out.

1:19.6

I found this apartment. It was all bills paid, very spacious, but the address was kind of weird.

1:33.3

It was on the east side of the town, which is kind of a shady part of town anyway.

1:40.3

And I just didn't recognize it. I was looking at where it was and it didn't make any sense.

1:49.0

I gave the apartment manager a call and she was brand new, the area, and her and some other people had renovated the apartment complex.

1:58.0

I went and toured it.

2:08.2

I'll never forget going through the neighborhood, and I was like the east side was kind of shady and had its own infamous stories with it, different things, creepy things that happened there.

2:15.2

The way this town is, apartment complexes, they were usually by a highway or by a main road.

2:22.3

It just didn't make any sense. But I followed the directions. I went through this neighborhood, well into this neighborhood.

2:29.3

And I remember seeing that the direction said, there's a dead end sign, but keep going.

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