On Those Nights, Something Was Watching: Red Eyes & Shadows
True Scary Story
Scary Stories
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we hear two chilling true stories told by people who were far too young to understand what they were seeing. The first begins with a single night, a terrifying sound, and glowing red eyes watching from outside a bedroom window, an experience two sisters would not speak about for years. The second unfolds across decades inside a quiet house on the east side of Toledo, Ohio, where a shadowy presence seems tied to one specific room… and one family.
Whether these encounters were warnings, hauntings, or something far darker, both stories share one unsettling truth: some things don’t go away just because you grow up.
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Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound. Additional production by Edwin Covarrubias and the Scary FM team.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, we have two childhood encounters, years apart, that leave the same scars. |
| 0:10.8 | A pair of red eyes outside a bedroom window and a shadow that follows one family through generations. |
| 0:17.8 | These two stories ask the same question. |
| 0:25.6 | What happens when something sees you first? My name is Edwin, and here is Natalie's true, scary story. |
| 0:32.6 | Growing up, I was raised by my grandmother, because my mom was pretty young when she had us. |
| 0:46.3 | I have three other siblings. |
| 0:50.3 | I was only at my mom's house if I got in trouble at school or something, or my grandma needed a break. |
| 1:04.0 | This particular weekend, it was summer, and I went to my mom's house. |
| 1:14.1 | My two siblings weren't there, but my youngest sister was. |
| 1:16.6 | So it was me, my mom, and my sister. |
| 1:19.3 | It was pretty big. |
| 1:21.8 | It was a three-bedroom, and it was a big backyard. |
| 1:25.5 | When you walk in, you have the living room, and immediately, |
| 1:29.3 | to the right with my brother's dining room, bathroom, mom's room, kitchen, and then us girls, this room in the back. |
| 1:34.3 | And our room was in the backyard. There literally was a door to the backyard in our room. |
| 1:39.3 | The day was pretty normal. We went to lay down. |
| 1:48.0 | The way that our bed was set up, it was... Our heads were literally right under the window pane. |
| 1:53.0 | As we went to lay down, the vibes kind of fell off in the house, |
| 1:56.7 | but it wasn't anything too unbearable. |
| 2:01.6 | You start hearing this. but it wasn't anything too unbearable. |
| 2:07.6 | You start hearing this screeching noise that sounds like a bird, and it just gets louder and louder, and louder. |
| 2:16.6 | And then it's not so bird-like anymore. |
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