Scary Stories For Dark Dreams - Vol 63 | ATRD Podcast
September 14, 2026
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5 min readA Night of Mimics, Fire Figures, and Glitches in the Dark
In this episode of As The Raven Dreams Podcast, the host presents a collection of listener-submitted stories under the recurring "Scary Stories For Dark Dreams" format. The episode does not follow a single interview or central thesis. Instead, it compiles first-person accounts of encounters with the uncanny—mimicking spirits, sleep paralysis fused with prophetic dreaming, a pillar of fire on a football oval, and a small-town predator resurfacing years later. The common thread running through these narratives is not a single argument but a shared pattern: the boundary between the ordinary and the inexplicable is thinner than most people assume, and the strangest events often involve something that looks like a person but is not.
The Mimic: Something That Looks Like Your Mother
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What you'll learn
- 1 Timestamped Outline
- 2 (01:04) **Episode Introduction & Setup** - Host Raven greets listeners, notes the date (September 14th), and sets the mood for a "stories for sleep or dark dreams" episode with rain background sounds
- 3 (02:27) **First Story: "Mimic Spirit in the Basement"** - A 17-year-old listener shares a haunting story from her father's house, centered on a spirit that imitates family members
- 4 (09:56) **Second Story: "The Dream That Became Real"** - A listener describes a terrifying experience where a vivid dream about a horror app merges with sleep paralysis and a mysterious entity
- 5 (16:14) **Third Story: "Hotel Pool Predator"** - A teenage girl recounts a terrifying encounter with a creepy man at a hotel pool who follows her to her floor
- 6 (27:40) **Fourth Story: "Two Unexplained Experiences"** - A skeptical content creator shares two bizarre, neutral-feeling paranormal events from childhood and adolescence
- 7 (37:10) **Fifth Story: "The Missouri Farmhouse Haunting"** - A woman describes escalating paranormal activity in a rural farmhouse basement, culminating in a séance gone wrong
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Show Notes
Today we have 18 More true scary stories with a late night ambience. Scary Stories For Dark Dreams is a collection of older stories, remastered and put together in a long form episode.
So, turn down the lights, tune in, and let the haunting tales of everyday people take you down that dark and creepy road. Remember, these aren't just stories... these are true experiences that remind us that our world can truly be scarier than fiction.
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 own 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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TIMESTAMPS
One Ad After the First Story, No ads after that
Story 1: 1:22
Story 2: 7:50
Story 3: 14:26
Story 4: 25:35
Story 5: 35:13
Story 6: 41:55
Story 7: 48:13
Story 8: 1:03:29
Story 9: 1:09:36
Story 10: 1:17:44
Story 11: 1:21:31
Story 12: 1:28:04
Story 13: 1:32:00
Story 14: 1:38:20
Story 15: 1:41:21
Story 16: 1:43:12
Story 17: 1:47:24
Story 18: 1:49:39
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