As The Raven Dreams Podcast
As The Raven Dreams Podcast

ATRD Ep. 240 - 9 True Scary Stories (Unexplained & Parallel Universe)

September 2, 2026

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In a hotel elevator, a woman pressed the button for her floor, stepped out, and found herself in a hallway that did not exist—different carpet, different wall color, her room number on the wrong side. The elevator buttons for floors seven through eleven would not work. She had to take the stairs back to her mother’s floor, then walk to the original elevator to return to her husband. The next morning, her mother took that same elevator, elevator B, back and forth without issue. The woman never learned where elevator B had taken her that night.

This episode of As The Raven Dreams collects nine listener-submitted stories about unexplained events, many of which cluster around a single unsettling idea: that reality is not as solid as we assume. The throughline is the experience of a glitch—a moment when the ordinary rules of time, space, memory, or identity stop applying. The stories are not presented as proof of anything, but as firsthand accounts from people who are still trying to make sense of what happened to them.

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  • 1 (01:00) **Host Introduction & Personal Update** - Raven thanks listeners for support during a personal rough patch and introduces the theme of unexplained and parallel universe stories.
  • 2 (02:29) **Story 1: The Figure in the Doorway** - A woman recounts a childhood experience where she woke to find her cat terrified of a tall figure in her bedroom doorway, followed by a loud scream.
  • 3 (13:23) **Story 2: The Glitch in the Void** - A listener describes waking up with a strange "popping" sensation in their head, followed by a feeling of dying and existing in an eternal, empty void before snapping back to reality.
  • 4 (20:25) **Story 3: The Recurring Dream of a Life Not Lived** - A man shares his experience with a recurring dream of an old apartment complex, which he later visits in real life, only to have his mother tell him he never lived there.
  • 5 (30:18) **Partnership Announcement: Lapwick Studio** - Raven announces a new partnership with Lapwick Studio for two custom candles inspired by the podcast.
  • 6 (31:32) **Story 4: The Premonition on the Highway** - A woman with a fear of winter driving experiences a sudden panic attack and pulls over, only to witness a semi-truck crash that she would have been involved in.
  • 7 (39:26) **Story 5: The Wrong Floor** - A bride-to-be gets lost in her own hotel when an elevator takes her to a floor with different carpet and wall colors, and her room is on the wrong side of the hall.

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Show Notes

This episode is brought to you in partnership with LAFFWICKS STUDIO! Check out more info at https://www.astheravendreams.com/candles


Today, on the 240th episode of the As The Raven Dreams podcast, we have 9 True Chilling stories. These stories come from the shadowy corners of reality, where everyday life takes an eerie twist & ordinary people experience the extraordinary. Today we will be diving into some terrifying unexplained horror stories & some bizarre Parallel Universe Stories.


If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to like or rate the podcast, and leave me a comment with your thoughts if the platform your on supports it!

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).


If you have a story to submit, would like to find where to listen to the podcast, or want to find me on social media platforms, all of that info can be found at https://www.astheravendreams.com

You can also send stories into my subreddit (r/theravensdream) or email them to me at [email protected]


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Thank you to all of the authors that have stories in todays episode...

Alexa V., MichaelByDay, Lauren, Blinked, Anonymous, Used-Acadia4726, WK, GirlsSoul11, CheepThreepPeepOh

As Well As Any Author That Has Requested Anonymity.


TimeStamps…

Ad breaks after Story 6

1 ➤ 1:20

2 ➤ 12:22

3 ➤ 19:24

Laffwicks Partnership info ➤ 29:20

4 ➤ 30:32

5 ➤ 38:25

6 ➤ 40:59

7 ➤ 48:07

8 ➤ 1:00:04

9 ➤ 1:02:58


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