S6E15 - 4 Scary Stories: The Abandoned House Down The Road
The Scarecast: Scary Stories, Mysteries, and True Crime
Michael Crutchfield
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The house I pass every day has always been peaceful... the owner of the house is always rocking on her chair waving over to me... but today, out of nowhere, there is an ad showing the house for sale and the house looks burned down and abandoned... but I literally just walked past that house...
Story 1: "My husband died a month ago. How do I tell him?" written by u/Classic_Challenge325
Story 2: "What a burger" written by u/I_Kill_Porch_Pirates
Story 3: "I just found out the house down the road has been abandoned since 2002. I'm not sure who's been waving at me" written by u/M_V_R_Ellis
Story 4: "The Secret About My Grandmother" written by u/orchidsindreams
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| 0:00.0 | My husband died a month ago. |
| 0:07.1 | How do I tell him? |
| 0:09.6 | Written by Classic Challenge 325. |
| 0:17.6 | Hey loose. |
| 0:19.6 | Haven't talked to you in a little while. |
| 0:21.9 | Just checking to see how you're doing since smart. |
| 0:25.9 | Anyways, call a text when you feel like talking. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm here for you. |
| 0:34.0 | I stare at the phone, rereading the message my best friend sent. |
| 0:40.5 | How am I doing? |
| 0:42.7 | How do I answer that? |
| 0:45.5 | Mark was my husband. |
| 0:47.8 | Is my husband, I guess. |
| 0:51.7 | Two years ago, he was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. |
| 0:56.9 | It started 18 months of total hell, pursuing treatment after treatment, making the smallest |
| 1:03.6 | headway before it came crashing back on us, again and again. |
| 1:10.8 | We had discussed children but had never gotten around to it. |
| 1:15.5 | That was only the sober lining in all of this, that I didn't also need to worry about |
| 1:21.2 | caring for a child during the time. |
| 1:25.2 | Eventually, we accepted that we needed to prepare for the very real fact that Mark was |
| 1:32.0 | going to die. |
| 1:34.0 | We made sure his will and life insurance were in order. |
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