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Scared To Death

Nightmare Fuel #19: Unknown Caller

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

True Crime, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture, Horror

4.713.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this nineteenth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to New Orleans, where a man is found in dead in his home that he had boarded up in the final days of his life. It quickly becomes clear that he had been tormented by someone who kept calling him over the phone. And then the phone of one of the paramedics declaring him dead starts to ring...

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0:00.0

The Welcome to another edition of Nightmarefeels and Peepers.

0:31.5

I'm Dan Cummins, and I'll be sharing another original short horror story of the fictional variety.

0:36.9

As always, I highly recommend

0:38.8

noise cancellation headphones for the ultimate experience. Hope you enjoy this new nightmare.

0:45.3

Time now for the tale of Unknown Collar. Obviously, no pulse, and based on the amount of rigor mortis it set in i guess he's been dead

0:57.7

somewhere between 12 and 18 hours naomi said to her fellow paramedic dennis the two had worked

1:03.8

together most shifts going on five years now dennis had worked as a paramedic for another 12 before that

1:09.4

and in those years he'd seen a lot Naomi had worked for almost paramedic for another 12 before that, and in those years, he'd seen a lot.

1:12.7

Naomi had worked for almost seven years before she started working with Dennis.

1:16.2

She'd seen a lot, too.

1:17.9

But neither of them had ever seen anything quite like this.

1:21.5

They both stood over the dead body of Shane Dixon, a middle-aged, married Caucasian father of two,

1:29.7

55 years old, and looking like he'd been an excellent health for his age, fit and muscular. And yet, here he was, lying dead

1:37.0

on the floor of his home with a look of intense fear on his face. While they realized the coroner might

1:43.1

disagree later, to Naomi and Dennis, there were no

1:46.4

obvious signs of foul play. If anything, it looked like he'd had a heart attack, or literally

1:52.3

been scared to death, Naomi thought. Shane also looked like he had completely lost his mind before

1:58.8

he died. He'd boarded up all the windows in his

2:01.5

otherwise nice home. According to a neighbor waiting in the yard when the police and emergency

2:06.1

services first arrived, he'd just done this over the past 48 hours. He'd, quote, gone absolutely

2:13.0

crazy. His wife had gotten scared of him and left two or maybe three days prior to go stay with

2:18.9

relatives. Naomi also heard this neighbor say that he'd screamed at her to keep her phone

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