Hello, my dark darlings, I'm Marquia, and this is the Something Scary podcast. To our veteran listeners and those just voyaging into the dark with us for the first time, welcome. When you care for someone, you do your best to be faithful and loyal. But when that someone is deceitful and betrays your confidence, it will do more than shake you.

It'll make you question everything you knew about them.

That is, if you're still alive.

Because when someone stabs you in the back, you might not survive their deadly deceit.

First, the devil lurks right below you, followed by comfort and evil. Then friends aren't

always forever. Finally, in our featured story, a midnight massacre. I receive hundreds of

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So, want to hear something scary.

Deadly deceit.

Giving someone a good fright is all fun in games until you're the one who isn't in on the joke.

Then you just may get scared to death.

Like in this story based on a true legend inspired by Nicole.

Topeka, Kansas is the home of the Washburn University Ichabods.

A sleepy little college town,

where the most trouble you can get into is siphoning gas are using a fake ID. So when two couples from

the college were looking to stir things up, they decided to take a little road trip about half an hour

away to the city of Alma. The city of Alma had a cemetery rife with folklore. So when Tina and

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