Don’t Listen to This Episode Alone… (Scary Reddit Stories)
August 6, 2026
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5 min read“You should see my teeth,” the baby said in a deep voice. That line, from a Reddit story about a man who picks up an abandoned infant on a dark Mexican road only to discover it is something else entirely, sets the tone for this episode of Pretty, Not Smart. Hosts Louie and Yoatzi Castro, along with their producer Crystal, spend the episode reading aloud a curated selection of creepy Reddit stories, ranging from the paranormal to the uncanny to the genuinely tragic. The throughline is the unsettling power of anonymous, real-life accounts—stories that feel more disturbing because they are presented as true, often with no tidy resolution.
The episode opens with a story about a man whose car breaks down in the Mexican countryside. He finds a crying baby, picks it up, and comments on how heavy it is. The baby replies, “You should see my teeth,” before laughing as the man drops it and flees. The hosts react with genuine alarm, and the moment establishes the episode’s casual, reactive tone: the stories are not just read aloud but experienced in real time, with laughter, shivers, and interruptions.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (04:04) **Kicking Off a Night of Scary Reddit Stories** - Louie and Yoatzi introduce the episode’s theme: creepy, true Reddit stories, not conspiracies.
- 2 (05:52) **“Mexicans Are Scary” – The Baby with a Demon’s Voice** - A classic Mexican folktale about a stranded driver who picks up a crying baby, only to hear it speak in a deep, terrifying voice.
- 3 (10:40) **“I Live Alone” – The Hair in the Shower Drain** - A woman spirals into paranoia after finding long, thick hair in her drain that isn’t hers, leading to dark, poetic musings.
- 4 (18:01) **The Eight-Foot Shadow Figure** - A childhood story of a tall, black, featureless shape that stared into a boy’s room, which his parents later admitted they saw too.
- 5 (21:35) **The Face Under the Water at the Lake** - A man recalls stepping on a submerged face while swimming as a child, only to learn a boy had drowned there that same day.
- 6 (32:08) **The Haunted Farmhouse That Got Worse** - A family buys an old farmhouse and experiences escalating paranormal activity, from footsteps to a clown costume floating in mid-air.
- 7 (36:22) **The House with the Red Swing – A Fever Dream** - Louie and Yoatzi recount a house they almost moved into as kids, which gave everyone a deeply unsettling feeling.
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Show Notes
Diving into MORE SCARY REDDIT STORIES!!! Which one was your favorite?
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