23 Freaky Scary Stories to Listen to in The Rain

A couple discovers a subtle dip in their new home's floor, leading to the revelation of a century-old illegal burial site of a disabled child directly beneath their living room. The landlords offer a rent freeze to keep the discovery quiet.

A series of short wooden supports had rotted away underneath the floor, creating a sunken area. The police later moved the girl's remains, and landlords offered a 3-year rent freeze to the tenants.

During a dream holiday in Paris, a tourist confronts a man aggressively parking his car by ramming other vehicles. The man escalates to physical violence, chasing the tourist through the streets before being arrested after mistaking a police officer for his target.

The man used his vehicle to 'shunt the cars on either side of the space.' He later 'almost leaped over the hood of his car' and 'grabbed me and pushed me up against the wall.' Police subdued him after he 'mistook one of the officers for me.'

A family moves into a semi-detached house, finding their attached neighbors cold and unwelcoming. Their neighbors' house is later targeted in a deliberate arson attack, which police link to another fire, suggesting the neighbors were involved in dangerous activities.

The narrator saw 'flames all over the front door of our attached neighbor.' Police determined 'the fire wasn't some accident. It was a deliberate attack,' and connected it to 'the other fire' on the other side of the city.

An American backpacker in a 'sketchy' Eastern European town is confronted by a gang of teenagers attempting to steal his expensive sneakers. He escapes and is ultimately saved by a former Czech soldier friend and a local barman with a shotgun.

A group of teens 'were pointing at me and then whispering to each other and laughing.' One of them had a 'Swiss Army knife.' The narrator's friend, Matias, produced a 'military-l looking club,' and the barman stepped out with a 'shotgun in hand.'

A family's children discover a hidden metal door in their new Texas home's backyard, leading to an underground bunker. The bunker contains a cot, working plumbing, deep scratches on the walls, and a bolted chain, suggesting it was used as a makeshift prison.

Kids found 'a heavy metal door' in the backyard. The room below was a 'bunker' with 'concrete walls and a low ceiling,' a 'metal cot,' 'a rusty sink bolted on the wall and a toilet.' Deputies found 'a small chain bolted to the floor near the cot.'

A young American woman gets lost in a crowded Cairo bazaar and is targeted by a group of young men who attempt to assault her. She uses self-defense to escape and eventually finds her tour group amidst a developing riot.

A few young men 'strutdded over towards me' and 'looked at me with a barely disguised hunger.' One 'grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me deeper into the shadows.' She 'slammed my body back into the guy holding my hands' and 'kicked forwards at the guy who had been touching me.'

A father discovers a small hole drilled into his young son's closet wall, which is shared with the elderly widower neighbor. The hole confirms his son's fears of being watched, revealing the neighbor was a peeping tom.

His son said 'someone was inside the closet and they would watch him whenever we left him alone.' The father found 'a small hole in the wall near the floor about the size of a coin' in the wall shared with the neighbor.

A man joins a 'free' moped trip across Europe, only to discover it's a front for a cocaine smuggling operation. He is arrested by Dutch police but is later cleared after the ringleader confesses and implicates his co-conspirators.

The trip was advertised as 'a group moped trip from Poland to the Netherlands' that would 'cost us almost nothing.' Police 'pulled two duct tape packages out of the seat cushioning' of the mopeds. The ringleader, Pete, 'spilled everything and cut some kind of deal where he ratted out his suppliers.'

A family experiences a terrifying home invasion by four masked men who ransack their new house, searching for something specific. The men eventually realize they have the wrong address, believing the family to be previous owners with hidden valuables.

The narrator heard 'a loud noise outside' then 'the door in front of me crashes open.' Four masked men 'pushed me into the living room' and 'started ripping open cabinets, pulling out pots and pans.' They later concluded 'the men thought we were someone else. Maybe the last owners.'

A family renting an Airbnb in Canada encounters bizarre and aggressive individuals claiming to be the owners. These 'Gabaldis' are actually disgruntled neighbors attempting to sabotage the real owners' rental business due to a long-standing land dispute.

The 'Gabaldis' gave a 2-hour tour, helped unpack, then 'made themselves comfortable in the living room.' Gerald Gabaldi 'pushed me in the chest and accused me of being an ungrateful guest.' The 'actual owners' called, confirming the 'Gabaldis' were neighbors 'enraged on a land boundary dispute.'

A solo hiker in the Catskills finds a journal warning to 'stay away' from 'Hollow Crag.' When she reaches the area, she is pursued by two aggressive, wild-looking men, forcing her to flee for her life and seek refuge at a ranger station.

The journal's final entry read, 'Warn any other hikers. Stay away' from 'Hollow Crag.' She later saw 'some type of figure walking at the far edge of the crag... tall, strong looking... His clothes were very wrong.' A ranger confirmed 'they were aggressive and didn't like people passing through.'

Two campers in the Catskills are terrorized by looping recordings of baby cries in the middle of the night. They realize this is a tactic to scare them away, and upon leaving, find their campsite ransacked and valuables stolen.

They heard 'a faint cry of something alive and in pain' which sounded 'almost like a baby crying.' They later realized 'They were recordings.' Caleb stated, 'They're just trying to scare us, buddy.' The next morning, 'Our tents had been ransacked. All of our food and beer was gone.'

A child recounts a traumatic home invasion by 'bikers' demanding payment from her father for a shady project. One of the men, 'Rock Steady,' protects her from another who threatens to harm her, leading her father to abandon his criminal lifestyle.

A man 'hammering on the front door with a very meaty fist' shouted 'he knew we were home.' Three men came 'through our front door.' Another man, 'Creep Show,' called the narrator 'a little b- word and said that if I was Colin's daughter... I was going to suffer.' Rock Steady 'started screaming at this guy, saying that I was only 7 years old.'

A couple on a weekend trip to the Catskills receives a warning from a mechanic about hostile locals. They later discover a deadly log booby trap, triggered by a tripwire, near their rental cabin, confirming the mechanic's ominous advice.

The mechanic warned 'the people who lived up around the cabins didn't take kindly to them being built.' The narrator found 'a log jammed into one of the trees' with 'wire that had been strung down the tree trunk' across the path. When triggered, 'it came crashing down onto the trail almost exactly where the trip wire had been.'

A man recounts a childhood encounter with a 'ghostly' old man in his backyard alley who grabbed and threatened him before mysteriously disappearing. Years later, a law enforcement friend reveals that a violent, previously incarcerated offender lived in a nearby retirement home at that time.

As a child, he 'came face to face with an ancientl looking man' who 'grabbed me by the wrist' and 'called me a liar and a thief.' The man later 'was gone.' His friend in law enforcement revealed 'the guy had been a violent offender in his heyday and had spent quite a bit of time in prison' and lived at the retirement home.

During a volunteer search for a missing 6-year-old boy, a retiree notices a quiet man in a green jacket who consistently avoids a specific ravine. The retiree searches the ravine herself, finds the missing boy's toy, and reports the suspicious man, who then abruptly leaves the search.

A man in a 'faded green jacket' was 'always lingering at the edge of the group' and 'didn't call out for the boy.' He was 'avoiding a particular stretch of the valley.' The narrator found 'a small blue toy car half buried in the leaves' in that ravine. The man was questioned and 'left the search entirely.'

As a child, the narrator is bullied by older kids into crawling into a stack of concrete construction tubes. They trap him inside, moving boards to block his exits, until his frantic kicking causes the tubes to collapse, severely crushing another child's leg, while he is rescued.

Hester and other kids 'put some kind of board or block over the exit.' He 'began flailing and kicking' the 'concrete interior of the tube.' He heard 'a cracking, a crumbling noise, heard a metallic snap, and then felt a seismic shifting as the tubes on top of me began to roll.' Another child's leg was 'literally crushed.'

A wildlife photographer sets up trail cameras in Balsam. One camera captures a feral-looking man digging. Upon retrieving the cameras, most are destroyed, but the one with the man's image is left intact, showing him staring directly into the lens as a clear, unsettling warning.

One camera showed 'a man walked into shot... looked like he'd been living wild for years... started digging in the dirt with his hands.' Four out of five cameras were 'ruined.' The last camera showed the man 'standing right in front of the camera, staring into the lens. His face filled the frame.' The narrator felt 'It clearly said, 'Leave now.'

While staying at a wealthy friend's house as a child, the narrator discovers a hidden, severely ill woman hooked up to medical machines in an upstairs room. The 'mom' figure is strict and abusive, and the incident suggests a dark secret and potential abuse within the family.

The narrator heard 'sounds coming from one of the rooms... heard the word help.' He found 'A four poster bed' with 'translucent medical style curtains' and 'Monitors and machines beep from beside the bed.' His friend Elena 'had bruises on her arms' and was 'scared of their mom.'

Two teenagers are aggressively confronted by men from a local taxi firm after one stops to tie his shoelace near their car. They later discover the taxi firm was a front for drug and 'blood diamond' smuggling, explaining the extreme reaction.

An 'angry middle-aged Turkish guy came charging out' and 'grabbed me and slammed me against the taxi.' Jimbo threatened to call 999, which caused 'Taxi Wanker to freak out.' Months later, a paper reported 'A local taxi firm had been shut down for their role in distributing heroin and cocaine. And get this, smuggling blood diamonds.'

In 1960s UK, a 4-year-old girl is lured by a trusted parkkeeper, Mr. Claude, into his shack. He exposes himself and attempts to assault her. Her brothers intervene, and Mr. Claude mysteriously disappears from town, with local dads suspected of delivering 'old-fashioned justice.'

Mr. Claude 'called her over away from her friends and patted the bench.' He led her 'by the hand to his hut. Inside, he locked the door.' He 'pulled out a magazine... a nudie magazine.' He 'grabbed her by the wrist and began trying to guide her hand somewhere.' Her brothers intervened, and 'The next week, there was a new parkkeeper at the local park. Nobody heard from Mr. Claude again.'