As The Raven Dreams Podcast
As The Raven Dreams Podcast

ATRD Ep. 237 - 13 True Scary Stories FROM YOU! (Stories from Listeners)

August 11, 2026

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The episode opens with a quick shout-out from host Raven to Sarah in the Twin Cities, whose boyfriend Eric is deployed in Poland and asked for the mention. Then it dives into thirteen listener-submitted stories spanning near-death experiences, violent home intrusions by unseen entities, cryptid encounters, past-life memories, and a direct communication with God. The throughline is the experience of being confronted by something that defies ordinary explanation — whether traumatic, terrifying, or transcendent — and the lasting uncertainty it leaves behind.

The Glitch at the Moment of Impact

The first and most detailed story comes from a woman who, at eighteen, crashed her boyfriend's newly purchased car on an icy road in rural Pennsylvania. After sliding on black ice and slamming into a truck illegally towing a car out of a ditch, she found herself trapped between vehicles as a van crested the hill behind them. She remembers thinking, "I'm dead. I'm going to be squished between all these cars right in front of the farm that I grew up on." Then she blinked and was standing in a ditch, snow up to her knees, with no memory of how she got there. The van, carrying a father and five young girls, somehow turned into the ditch instead of plowing into the pileup. She was left with numb spots on her shins and a new birthmark, and 17 years later she still wonders: in some other dimen

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  • 1 (00:00) **Opening & Shout-out** - The host greets listeners and gives a personal shout-out to a listener's girlfriend named Sarah.
  • 2 (01:00) **Story 1: "Glitch in the Ice"** - A woman recounts a car accident on icy roads where she inexplicably teleported to safety.
  • 3 (11:26) **Story 2: "Protecting the Baby"** - A mother describes a terrifying night when an invisible entity stomped through her home toward her infant daughter.
  • 4 (21:09) **Story 3: "The Lake Dragon"** - A witness describes a giant, bat-like creature erupting from a lake and attacking her boyfriend.
  • 5 (24:16) **Story 4: "The Invisible Attacker"** - A woman has a premonition of an attack moments before an unseen force slams into her truck.
  • 6 (27:42) **Story 5: "The Cat-Eating Man"** - Two teenage girls encounter a man eating a live cat under a streetlight in Dayton, Ohio.
  • 7 (34:37) **Story 6: "The Haunted Kitchen"** - A man and his friend experience a loud, chaotic poltergeist event in an otherwise quiet home.

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Show Notes

Today, on the 237th episode of the As The Raven Dreams podcast, we have 13 True Chilling stories. These stories come from the shadowy corners of reality, where everyday life takes an eerie twist & ordinary people experience the extraordinary.


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I upload episodes every 3 days, so there are 2 days between new uploads. The podcast consists of new scary story collections, Glitch in the matrix collections, and also what I call the "Dark Dreams" collections (which are older stories, remastered and layered with rain sounds).


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TimeStamps…

Ad breaks after Story 1 & Story 5

1 ➤ 00:57

2 ➤ 10:52

3 ➤ 20:38

4 ➤ 23:45

5 ➤ 27:10

6 ➤ 34:07

7 ➤ 39:00

8 ➤ 42:53

9 ➤ 48:11

10 ➤ 51:00

11 ➤ 58:26

12 ➤ 1:00:58

13 ➤ 1:12:23


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