Scary Stories For A Rainy Night - Ep. 351 - The Man In The Lake
Scary Stories and Rain
Being Scared
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the podcast. I really hope you enjoy this episode. And if you'd like to hear more |
| 0:04.8 | stories like these with a different background sound, please check the description to check out my other two |
| 0:10.0 | podcasts. And if you want to get rid of all of the ads, you can subscribe for just $2.99 a month. |
| 0:15.8 | Last thing, I really appreciate you being here. And I'd really love if you would follow the podcast |
| 0:20.4 | and come back again soon. |
| 0:22.6 | Thank you so much. I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:31.3 | What you are about to hear is a warning. |
| 0:34.4 | I beg you. I implore you. |
| 0:41.7 | Please do not go hiking in the woods around Pittsfield, |
| 0:48.8 | Massachusetts. I know those woods like the back of my hand. I was playing with my little brother among those trees when I was still in single-digit ages. So trust me when I say that something has been changing out there, |
| 0:57.5 | and not for the better. |
| 1:00.3 | I first noticed something was horribly wrong |
| 1:03.0 | during a hike a few weeks back. |
| 1:06.1 | In early spring, birds migrate from the warmer southern climates |
| 1:10.8 | to their northern territories, in mass. |
| 1:15.2 | Thousands upon thousands of tiny songbirds occupy the trees around Mount Greylock during |
| 1:21.7 | the month of March, each singing a sweet, chirpy song that is, in reality, a bellowed war cry, a call for |
| 1:31.0 | challengers to step up and knock them off their perch. |
| 1:35.0 | Yet as I trudged through the previous winter's leaf litter, I couldn't hear a single thing. |
| 1:42.4 | No birds or any other animals for that matter seemed to still call the forest home. |
| 1:49.0 | This made me nervous for two reasons. One, animals have an uncanny ability to detect dangers that are |
| 1:57.5 | imperceptible to humans. Their sense of smell, hearing, and general atmospherics |
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