Scary Stories #17: Bone-chilling!

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Our 17th annual Halloween special with scary true stories about ghosts, corpses and mortal danger. 🎤Radio Story: Do You Know My Name? by Robert Oakes Robert leads ghost tours, but unlike his father, he’s unsure he’s a believer. After his father dies, Robert’s tour of a haunted house is visited by paranormal investigators, who have him ask a question to the spirits there which reveal a family connection. keywords: haunted house, paranormal investigation, EVP session, skeptic vs believer, Berkshire ghosts, Venford Hall, Edith Wharton, paranormal tourism 🎤Radio Story: A World of Corpses by Johanna Stein As a child Johanna faked all sorts of finding of dead bodies, until the day she discovered a very real one in the dark waters near her house. keywords: Little kid, dead bodies, corpse, river 🎤Radio Story: Saint Andrew's Cross by Fixxy New to sex work in his late teens, Fixxy gets picked up by a guy who pays Fixxy to be tied up and tickled. Things start out as negotiated, but once Fixxy has been bound and blindfolded, things become terrifyingly nonconsensual. keywords: sex work, kink, consent, tickling fetish, fetish culture, BDSM, power dynamics 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on Dec 11th! • ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ • ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Risk, you'll hear Joanna Stein.
0:06.4	There's also a huge wad of cash in there. Possibly as much as 20 bucks? I don't know.
0:11.9	Causing me to wonder if maybe I have a legitimate claim to the money. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but even at 12, I know the finders' keepers rule.
0:20.3	That and more.
0:21.7	But first, you're about to hear some scary shit.
0:28.1	It's our end of October special, our scary story series.
0:33.0	And when you go back and listen to any of our scary stories episodes,
0:37.4	you might think to yourself,
0:38.8	well, I've never seen a ghost, but there was that one insane coincidence that scared the fuck
0:45.3	out of me. Or you might think, well, I've never barely escaped from a serial killer, but
0:51.5	there was that one time that one lady went horrifyingly bonkers on me.
0:57.2	Whatever it might be, pitch us your scary memories,
1:00.6	and you might just be on the podcast at the end of October next year.
1:05.9	If next year is a thing.
1:14.4	We'll be right back.
1:24.1	Hey, Sainswrease,
1:25.1	any way you can save me a few quid on my weekly shop?
1:27.9	Well, Jane, try your nectar prices. Every week in your nectar app, you can unlock up to 10
1:33.0	personalized discounts on things you love at Sainsbury's. A Jainsbury's, if you will.
1:38.6	Sounds like my kind of place. Get personalized discounts with your nectar prices. That's good food
1:43.7	for all of us.
1:44.8	Jamesbris.
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