S18 Ep17: S18E17 - "We Were Not Alone" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series
Chilling Entertainment
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, certainty erodes one quiet moment at a time. Familiar rituals begin to feel unreliable. Trust frays. And the line between hunter and hunted grows dangerously thin. The terror doesn’t arrive all at once—it settles in slowly, as the realization dawns that you were never alone to begin with.
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| 0:15.8 | Welcome, dear listeners, to scary stories told in the dark. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm Malcolm Blackwood, your host and storyteller. |
| 0:28.6 | And you know where I'm from, we don't do bedtime stories. |
| 0:32.6 | So, if that's what you're expecting, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:39.3 | If it's terrifying tales you're after, well, then I've got just the thing. |
| 0:45.3 | So, get comfortable, settle in, turn off the lights if you dare. |
| 0:52.3 | Your night is about to get a whole lot darker. Besides, |
| 0:59.6 | who needs sleep anyway? Mm-hmm. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 1:09.6 | Good evening, dear listeners, and welcome back. |
| 1:13.8 | You've arrived once more at scary stories told in the dark, a place where certainty fades |
| 1:19.9 | quickly and the familiar has a habit of revealing teeth. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm your host, Malcolm Blackwood. |
| 1:28.0 | Tonight's episode explores a particularly unsettling truth, one that surfaces only after |
| 1:34.7 | the rules fail. |
| 1:37.0 | Because there's a comfort in believing danger follows patterns, that sound has a source, |
| 1:49.2 | that every threat leaves tracks. But sometimes, |
| 1:55.4 | the moment that stays with you isn't the attack itself. It's the realization that something was watching long before you ever knew to look back. Before we begin, a brief word of thanks. |
| 2:04.6 | Scary stories told in the dark is made possible by listeners like you, |
| 2:09.1 | and by those who choose to support us in the patrons area. |
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