The Peekaboo Man: Who is Watching You Right Now?
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Scary Stories
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Scheduling for this episode was done by Bianca Chaves, editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound. Additional production by me, Edwin Covarrubias, and the Scary FM team.
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| 0:00.0 | Suddenly the door slammed shut on his fingers and we both are putting all of our strength |
| 0:11.0 | into trying to push and pull this door off his hand and it's just not budging, it's not moving. |
| 0:19.0 | From a haunted childhood in rural Ontario to a home stocked by something known as the Peekaboo Man, |
| 0:26.3 | that is known in the area. |
| 0:27.7 | It should make you wonder, are you being watched right now? |
| 0:31.7 | My name is Edwin, and here is Alex's true, scary story. |
| 0:55.0 | I think the time I started understanding there were other things in this world and that I was sensitive towards them is around 2006. |
| 1:01.0 | I would be around six at this time. |
| 1:06.0 | I lived in a small town in Ontario, Canada. I lived in a house just off of the highway. |
| 1:20.5 | The house that I lived in was like kind of one of those box houses. |
| 1:26.9 | There was a loft area that was holding my dad's office, my two siblings' rooms, and then downstairs was my one brother's room |
| 1:30.9 | and my parents' room, then my room. |
| 1:35.0 | My window in my room faced the highway. |
| 1:43.3 | So one night I was getting ready for bed and I was laying down watching the lights from the passing cars through my window. |
| 1:55.0 | I looked away for a second to recalibrate myself and maybe get ready to close my eyes |
| 2:04.6 | when I turned back to the window and I saw a skeleton hug. |
| 2:11.6 | I called for my dad, very scared. |
| 2:16.6 | My dad came rushing into the room and I told him like I saw |
| 2:22.4 | skeletons at my window. I didn't know how else to describe it. So then my dad went back to his |
| 2:31.7 | room and brought in some holy water and blessed my windows and my door |
| 2:36.3 | and then pulled out a teddy rucks bin and put on a tape for me to fall asleep too |
| 2:42.3 | little did I know this was the start of many other encounters that I would have in my life. |
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