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True Scary Story

Safe Secrets: A Haunting in San Antonio

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Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this true scary story, when a family moves into a home in San Antonio, they don’t expect their past experiences with the paranormal to follow them, let alone escalate. But after discovering a hidden safe beneath the floor and witnessing strange behavior from their dog, subtle disturbances turn into undeniable encounters. Backed by real CCTV recordings and a lifetime of unexplained experiences, this episode explores a haunting that seemed to grow bolder over time… and the surprising moment everything stopped.
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Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound
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Transcript

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0:00.0

That now the thump started getting louder and louder, to the point where the last time that it happened, it sounded like the gunshot.

0:13.0

Tonight's story comes from a family who lived four years with something lurking behind their walls, something tied to a mysterious sealed safe left behind by the home's original owner.

0:25.6

My name is Edwin, and here is Ruben's true, scary story.

0:35.6

I was born in El Paso, shortly after I was born in El Paso.

0:40.3

Shortly after I was born, my parents moved to a small town in Texas called Odessa.

0:47.3

My mother says that they moved into a small two-bedroom house.

0:55.0

She was always very scared to be in that house, especially when it would get dark,

1:00.0

to the point where she would ask my dad to get up and go with her to the restroom in the middle of night

1:07.0

because she was just so fearful of being alone in that little house.

1:15.6

She says I used to wake up crying all the time, which is normal for a baby,

1:21.6

except for the fact that one time I woke up crying and I just wouldn't stop.

1:35.3

She says that they found three marks on my back as if something had scratched me.

1:42.4

She says that that really freaked her out and convinced my dad to move out of that little house.

1:47.0

They ended up moving back to El Paso. My uncle, which still lived in Odessa,

1:50.0

he tells them that when they moved out of that little house,

1:54.0

that the next tenant was a middle-aged woman.

1:58.0

And he says that about a week after she moved into the house, they found her inside the house

2:04.5

crawling around like a snake. Nobody knows what happened and they couldn't get her out of that state.

2:11.9

And so he basically says that she went crazy.

2:22.1

My parents always tell me that, thank God, they moved out of that little house.

2:29.2

The other story that my mother tells me about when I was young,

2:31.8

we were at my grandmother's house.

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