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5 min readIn a haunted house in an upper-middle-class town, a group of high school girls playing hide and seek saw a young girl in the window, mouthing something silently, with a tall man behind her reaching out to choke her. When they turned to run, their friend emerged from the bushes—she hadn't been inside. The girl in the window had been described identically by two witnesses. The house, known for its revolving-door tenants and a backyard full of buried pets, finally made sense.
This episode of Scary Stories collects four first-person accounts of hide and seek gone wrong. The throughline is not just the game itself, but the specific vulnerability it creates: players scatter, lose track of one another, and enter spaces they cannot fully see or control. In each story, something else is playing along.
The Doppelgänger on the Playground
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:21) **The Haunted House Next Door** - A high school freshman describes the rumored haunted house in her neighborhood and the decision to explore it with friends.
- 2 (04:10) **The Scurrying Sound and the Girl in the Window** - The group hears movement inside the house and then sees a terrifying apparition through a window.
- 3 (07:41) **Shared Experience and Flight** - The friends confirm they saw the same thing and flee, finally understanding why no one stays long in that house.
- 4 (08:12) **A Doppelganger at the Playground** - A second story begins, about a seventeen-year-old reliving childhood at a night-time playground, where a doppelganger is seen.
- 5 (10:05) **Impossible Timing and Peculiar Photos** - The narrator confirms she was in the car, making the sighting impossible, and later photos show a strange haze around her.
- 6 (11:16) **The Texas Ranch Hide and Seek** - A third story begins, set on a Texas ranch, where a game of hide and seek takes a disturbing turn.
- 7 (13:45) **The Voice from the Hill** - The girls investigate the voice and find it coming from deeper in the wilderness, only to discover Charlie was inside the whole time.
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Show Notes
Today we have a collection of 4 creepy tales about a kid's game I'm sure we all played, Hide and Seek
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