Scared All The Time

Introducing Scared After Dark, a bonus series for the month of too many treats, in which Chris reads you an old spooky story that will either lull you to sleep or keep you up all night.

Tonight's bedtime story: "Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft.

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Every October, millions of people willingly pay strangers dressed and monsters and demons to chase them through dark buildings. But how did haunted houses go from simple parlor tricks to massive attractions designed to push our fear response to the breaking point?

In Part One of EXTREME HAUNTED HOUSES, Chris and Ed trace the strange history of the fear business - from the ghostly illusions of 18th-century phantasmagoria and the homemade haunts of the Great Depression to amusement park dark rides, Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Halloween Horror Nights, and the horrifying real-life tragedy that changed the haunted attraction in...

This week, we flash back to the strange story of June Field, a Scottish spiritual medium who claims she’s spent years privately advising royal clients, exchanging messages with them, and even helping them connect with loved ones who have died. So how does someone become a psychic to royalty - and what happens when you almost reveal too much?

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Originally aired on Patreon: 11/12/25

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Chris just turned 40, and he’s handling it extremely well (trust us!). So naturally, we’re investigating why this particular birthday became synonymous with existential dread, midlife crises, collapsing bodies, and the horrifying realization that the clock is ticking.

Along with writer Gaby Moss, co-author of "The Midlife Plot Twist: How to Reboot Your Life Without Burning It Down Even If You Really, Really Want To," we trace the strange significance of the number 40 through history, discover how “life begins at forty” went from a bestselling promise to a cultural punchline, meet the psychoanalyst who coined the midlife crisis...

Remember that embarrassing thing you did fifteen years ago? Your brain brings it up enough already. Now imagine remembering your past so vividly that the feelings come back with it.

This week, Chris and Ed flash back to when they explored hyperthymesia, a rare ability to recall personal experiences in extraordinary detail, and the case of a 17-year-old who describes filing her memories in rooms inside her mind. She's got mental binders, a room for cooling down, and a chest holding a painful loss.

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Originally aired on Patreon: 11/05/25


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In 50 States Of Fear: California Part 2, we leave the haunted landscapes of Part One behind and meet some of the people who made California terrifying.
 
First, there’s Peg Entwistle, the talented young actress whose tragic death at the Hollywoodland sign became one of Hollywood’s most enduring ghost stories.
 
Then we descend into Synanon, a pioneering drug-rehabilitation program that transformed into an abusive cult complete with forced lifestyle changes, its own armed “Imperial Marines,” and an attempted murder involving a rattlesnake hidden inside a mailbox.
 
Finally, we visit the seemingly sweet Sacramento boarding-house owner Dorot...

This week, we flashback to the fear burning a hole in your pocket.

Chris and Ed dig into the growing danger of lithium-ion battery fires aboard airplanes, why these everyday devices can suddenly enter a terrifying chain reaction, and what happens when one ignites thousands of feet in the air. 

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Originally aired on Patreon: 10/23/25


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Welcome to California - an American paradise built on a body count.

In Part One of their journey through the Golden State, Chris and Ed dig beneath California’s sun-soaked reputation to uncover what’s been buried there: the prehistoric death trap of the La Brea Tar Pits, the horrifying history of violence against California’s Indigenous people, the strange underground folklore of the Tommyknockers, the cursed ghost town of Bodie, and Colma...a town where the dead vastly outnumber the living.

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Chris and Ed flashback to their coverage of one of the strangest murder cases in modern history.

It seemed like an ordinary family lunch: beef Wellington, mashed potatoes, green beans, and a conversation Erin Patterson said she needed to have with her estranged husband’s relatives. By the next morning, all four of her guests were violently ill. Within days, three were dead.

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Originally aired on Patreon: 10/09/25

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This week, Chris and Ed stare directly into the terrifying history of solar eclipses. From celestial dragons and fire-dogs devouring the sun, to wars stopped by sudden darkness, sacrificial substitute kings, retina burns shaped like the eclipse itself, and American doomsday prophecies that refuse to die - this one is a scorcher.

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While the Spanish flu was tearing across the globe,
another epidemic began stealing people’s bodies from them.

Encephalitis lethargica aka “sleepy sickness” - could make victims
sleep almost continuously. It could also cause insomnia,
hallucinations, involuntary movements, dramatic personality changes,
paralysis, and death. Those who survived sometimes became living
statues, unable to initiate even the smallest movement as life
continued around them.

Chris and Ed trace this forgotten plague from World War I Europe to
the institutions where survivors remained trapped for decades.

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Music festivals promise freedom, transcendence, and memories you’ll treasure forever. That's why human beings have been gathering in the dark to drink, dance, lose their minds - and occasionally die - for thousands of years.

This week, Chris and Ed follow the music festival from the frenzied worshippers of Dionysus and ancient beer-soaked ritual sites to Woodstock, Altamont, Woodstock ’99, and Astroworld. Along the way they taste raw flesh, meet Hells Angels, dance through human sewage, and learn all about the the Satanic conspiracy theories that turned a preventable tragedy into an alleged portal to hell.

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Chris and Ed flash back to when they uncovered three horrifying true stories about intruders found hiding inches beneath sleeping victims - including a babysitter who investigated a child’s claim that there was a “monster” under the bed, a woman who discovered her threatening ex hiding beneath hers while a new security system was being installed, and a stalker who secretly remained under his victim’s bed for two full days...


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Originally aired on Patreon: 09/18/25

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Forget Ariel. Forget Splash. Forget the Starbucks logo. This week, Chris and Ed dive into the terrifying pre-Disney history of mermaids, from Greek sirens and Japanese ningyo to Mami Wata, Sedna, Christopher Columbus’s “sightings,” P.T. Barnum’s infamous Feejee Mermaid, and the fake Animal Planet documentary that got so convincing the U.S. government had to officially say: no, mermaids are not real.

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For this week’s Flashback Friday, we’re unlocking our New Fear Unlocked episode on Brazil’s reborn doll craze - a viral phenomenon that saw hyper-realistic baby dolls became the center of a full-blown public freakout in Brazil.

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Originally aired on Patreon: 09/11/25

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Chris and Ed burrow deep into one of summer’s nastiest threats: ticks. These tiny, bloodsucking nightmares can glue themselves to your skin, spread Lyme disease, trigger a life-changing meat allergy...and have even dragged some people into a Cold War bioweapons conspiracy. 

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Wet, drunk, and in a basement, Chris and Ed go live from a subterranean location in Pennsylvania to have an impromptu, scatter-brained chat about the horror beneath many of your feet.

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This week we flash back to one of history’s most disgusting medical mysteries: the Insatiable Tarrare, an 18th-century French man whose appetite was so extreme he became the fascination of spectators, surgeons, and even the military.
 
From chowing on garbage and live animals to swallowing secret military documents, Tarrare’s story is part body horror, part history lesson, and part “please don’t listen to this while eating.”
 
Was he cursed? Sick? Or just the hungriest man who ever lived?

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Originally aired on Patreon: 09/04/25

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Chris and Ed kick off the second annual Summer of Fear with guests Cassidy and Amanda from "Drinking the Koolaid" for a terrifying deep dive into tsunamis. From the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2011 disaster in Japan to ancient waves that may have helped topple civilizations, the crew explores what causes tsunamis, why they don’t look like movie waves, and why seeing one usually means it’s already too late to run.

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Summer is here and it's time to get scared. In this special minisode, Chris and Ed officially announce SUMMER OF FEAR 2026 - but that's not all!  They prepare for a season of horrors by looking at the disgusting summer of 1858, when London’s River Thames became an open sewer so foul it forced the city into a full-blown sewage revolution. Then they cool off with Ambrose Bierce’s short horror story “One Summer Night,” a classic tale about being buried alive, dug up, and still having things get worse.

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This week Chris and Ed flash back to two big fears with tiny bodies: a swarm of bees that injured 24 people in France, and a government plan to breed and release millions of sterile flies to stop flesh-eating “man-eater” maggots from spreading

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Originally aired on Patreon: 08/28/25

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Get 20% off and free rush shipping with code SCARED at takelean.comChris and Ed dig deep into the horror of false accusations. From headline-grabbing names like Amanda Knox, to the secret history behind the punchline "Dingo ate my baby!", to an ancient murder mystery that changed the course of civilization, this episode asks what happens when the law decides you’re guilty - even when you’re not.Visit this episode’s show notes for links and references.Want even more out of SATT? Now you can SUPPORT THE SHOW and get NEW SATT content EVERY WEEK for as little as 5 B...

Get the latest episode of NEW FEAR UNLOCKED and a whole lot more at: patreon.com/scaredallthetimeThis week, we flash back to two terrifying true stories of people killed in industrial meat-processing accidents: a 19-year-old worker who died cleaning machinery at a California burrito factory, and a Pennsylvania worker killed in a commercial meat grinder. It’s a bizarre descent into workplace horror that'll leave you questioning what's really in that microwave dinner.SHOW NOTES

Originally aired on Patreon: 08/14/25

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Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in YOU at https://www.rula.com/scared #rulapodThis week, Scared All The Time investigates one of the strangest medical mysteries of the internet age: Morgellons Disease. Is it a real biological illness? A misunderstood skin condition? A form of delusional parasitosis? A government cover-up involving chemtrails, nanotechnology, and synthetic organisms? Or is it something even scarier: a disease that can spread through belief?Visit this episode’s show notes for links and references.Want even more out of SATT? Now yo...

We flash back to when Chris, Ed, and friend of the show Pat Townsend, creep through the abandoned corners of Connecticut, starting with the cursed legend of Dudleytown, moving through the crumbling former psychiatric campus of Fairfield Hills, and ending with the state’s most gloriously messed-up piece of roadside folklore: the Melon Heads. It’s a fun trip into the kind of local legends that make Connecticut feel way weirder than you might think it is.Originally aired on Patreon: 07/17/25Get the latest episode of NEW FEAR UNLOCKED and a whole lot more at: patreon.com/scaredallthetime

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and we're celebrating the only way we know how: by taking a close, horrifying look at kids who kill their parents. From ancient myths and Rome’s insane “penalty of the sack” to infamous true crime cases like Lizzie Borden, Beatrice Cenci, Mary Blandy, and Christopher Porco - join us for a Mother's Day you'll never forget. Visit this episode’s show notes for links and references.Want even more out of SATT? Now you can SUPPORT THE SHOW and get NEW SATT content EVERY WEEK for as little as 5 BONES — which includes our...

"When you set out to tame a sinkhole, there's a good change the sinkhole will tame you." Find out if that quote is real as we flash back to the terrifying true story of cave-diving legend Sheck Exley, who died attempting to conquer Zacatón - one of the deepest, darkest holes in the world. Originally aired on Patreon: 06/19/25Get the latest episode of NEW FEAR UNLOCKED and a whole lot more at: patreon.com/scaredallthetime

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Mummies are even more disturbing than you might think. This week, Chris and Ed unwrap the real history of mummification, from ancient Egyptian embalming rituals (and 70 million animal mummies), Victorian unwrapping parties, and the horrifying ways the preserved dead were used as medicine, entertainment, and spectacle. Plus: a modern “wandering mummy” whose afterlife turned out to be worse than any curse.Visit this episode’s show notes for links and references.Want even more out of SATT? Now you can SUPPORT THE SHOW and get NEW SATT content EVERY WEEK for as little as 5 BONES — which includes our bonus video show New...

This week, we flash back to the case of a young woman whose meth-induced psychotic break ended in one of the most disturbing acts of self-destruction imaginable.SHOW NOTESOriginally aired on Patreon: 06/05/25Get the latest episode of NEW FEAR UNLOCKED and a whole lot more at: patreon.com/scaredallthetime

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April Fool’s Day is supposed to be harmless fun. History says otherwise. This week, Scared All The Time explores pranks gone wrong and the long, bizarre trail of panic, humiliation, violence, and death they’ve left behind. From the Hammersmith Ghost murder and War of the Worlds hysteria to viral media hoaxes, YouTube prank idiots, and the Boston Aqua Teen bomb scare, Chris and Ed unpack what happens when “it’s just a joke” goes way too far.Visit this episode’s show notes for links and references.Want even more out of SATT? Now you can SUPPORT THE SHOW and get...

This week we flash back to what happens when people stop using AI as a tool and start treating it like a prophet, therapist, or cosmic guide. ChatGPT psychosis is real - and it can happen to anyone.Show Notes:
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Chris and Ed are joined by The Magicians’ Olivia Taylor Dudley (Touch Me) to trace alien invasion panics from ancient Aztec “sky beings” to the mass-media shockwave of War of the Worlds, to the 1952 Washington D.C. UFO “invasion,” that left the U.S. government scrambling for answers. Plus: eerie new research suggests aliens might already be watching us.Visit this episode’s show notes for links and references.Want even more out of SATT? Now you can SUPPORT THE SHOW and get NEW SATT content EVERY WEEK for as little as 5 BONES — which includes our bonus video show New Fear Unlocked...

In spring 2025, a string of bodies discovered across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut sparked a terrifying question: is a serial killer operating across New England? As the story spread, a wave of speculation outpaced what police were actually saying. Chris and Ed break down the real reporting, the web-sleuth panic, and whether the New England serial killer theory holds up.SHOW NOTESOriginally aired on Patreon: 05/08/25Get the latest episode of NEW FEAR UNLOCKED and a whole lot more at: patreon.com/scaredallthetime

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Get to know Flashback Fridays! To celebrate the one year anniversary of New Fear Unlocked, the main feed will now have something to offer EVERY WEEK with a blast from bonus shows past dropping every other Friday.

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With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, Chris and Ed chase the legend of the leprechaun from the cereal mascots of today to the cruel tricksters of the ancient past. Plus: the weirdest modern “sightings,” and the story of how these Irish folklore fae became protected by the EU. Get early release + ad-free + bonus show New Fear Unlocked: patreon.com/scaredallthetimeDon't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what you DO love:00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:58 - Housekeeping
00:05:32 - We’re Talking Leprechauns
00:12:14 - Basic Leprechaun History
00:24:47 - Tracing The Rise Of The L...

Guests Sarah Potter and Zac Clark join the show to discuss a fear that troubles both of them - and more than 5% of the population. Is a fear of heights learned or are we born with it? How small of a fall can actually kill you? What's the highest fall anyone has ever survived? And what does the Vans Warped Tour have to do with any of this? The answers may surprise you!Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what you DO love:00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:29 - Housekeeping
00:03:17 - We’re talking He...

Ed and Chris shine a light on stories of phrogging and phroggers: people who secretly live in the attics, basements, and walls of other people's homes. From beneath the floors of Chris' first apartment to the halls of Buckingham Palace, they are everywhere - and some of them are extremely dangerous. Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what you DO love:00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:28 - Housekeeping
00:03:17 - We’re talking Phrogging
00:10.50 - What is Phrogging?
00:22:21 - Boy Jones
00:43:11 - Phrogging Hauntings
00:53:44 - The Hinterkaifeck Murders
01:07:21 - North Car...

This week, the guys stare straight into the most comforting promise humanity has ever invented — and ask why it feels like a never-ending nightmare. Join us as they spiral through ancient philosophy, world religions, modern psychology, and brain-melting thought experiments to unpack the terror of forever.Don't love every word we say? Ok, weirdo. Here's some "chapters" to find what you DO love:00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:33 - Housekeeping
00:07:54 - We’re talking Eternity
00:16.52 - Ancient Eternity - Pluto
00:23:00 - Ancient Eternity - Aristotle
00:25:03 - Apeirophobia
00:38:27 - How Long is Eternity?
00:44:00 - Apeirophobia Continued
00:50:23 - Te...

As the guys take a week to prep for a new year of shows, we opened the vault to bring you a VIDEO EPISODE of their bi-weekly Patreon show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED to hold you over.In this one, Chris and Ed went looking under the bed for any monsters that might be hiding there.Originally published on Patreon: 09.18.25And if you like this stuff, please consider joining SATT PREMIUM where you can hear New Fear Unlocked every other week and get plenty more! SHOW NOTES

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Inspired by the New Year’s Eve Twilight Zone marathons of their youth, Chris and Ed reached out to some of the best collaborators and podcasters in the biz to ask them to choose their favorite episodes for a very special year-end marathon!

Featuring brand new episode introductions by:

Sarah Potter (Haunted Hotels)
Shrug Buds (Gang Stalking)
Let's Get Haunted (CERN Portals)
Cryptid Cocktail Party - (Lost in Space)
Believing the Bizarre (Bad Trips: Meth)

And cut for time, but available in the extended playlist on our YouTube Channel: