Scary Stories - Hide and Seek

August 18, 2026

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In a small Texas town, a group of ten-year-old girls playing hide and seek one night heard a voice that sounded exactly like their friend Charlie calling from deep in the woods. They ran to get her parents, only to find Charlie sitting at the kitchen bar eating a popsicle. She had been there the whole time. Her father grabbed his shotgun and searched the property but found nothing. The girls never talked about it much, but they never forgot it either.

This episode of Scary Stories collects first-person accounts of hide and seek gone wrong. The game, a staple of childhood, becomes a framework for encounters that feel impossible: doppelgangers, ghostly figures, voices that mimic the living, and a mysterious man in a closet who appears and disappears at will. The stories share a common structure—the familiar game turns strange when something that should not be there shows up, and the players are left with no explanation.

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1 Scary Stories - Hide and Seek
2 (01:12) **The Haunted House Next Door** - A narrator describes a perpetually vacant house in their neighborhood with a reputation for being haunted, including a backyard animal graveyard
3 (03:50) **The Apparition at the Window** - Erin emerges from the bushes saying she wasn't inside, and the group sees a ghostly scene through the dark windows
4 (06:57) **The Doppelganger at the Playground** - A second narrator describes a nighttime hide and seek game at an outdoor wooden playground when she was seventeen
5 (09:48) **The Peculiar Photographs** - After the playground incident, photos from that night show a strange haze surrounding only the narrator
6 (10:25) **The Voice in the Texas Hill Country** - A third narrator recounts a hide and seek game at a friend's ranch in Texas when she was ten years old
7 (13:11) **The Mimicking Voice** - The group calls down the hill and hears Charlie's voice respond from even further away

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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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