The Refrigerators That Took My Brother

On a sweltering summer day, a teenager named Frank convinced his younger brother Alex to break into a seemingly vacant apartment in their building. What began as a petty burglary turned into a nightmare involving two refrigerators that appeared to be alive—and hungry. The story, told in first person on the Scary Stories podcast, follows Frank as he discovers that the apartment's refrigerators are not appliances but predators, and that his theft of a small olive-colored mini fridge has catastrophic consequences.

The Break-In

Frank and Alex lived in a seven-story building where an apartment had sat empty for years. Frank, the older brother, pressured Alex into helping him break in through a fire escape window. "That place has to be vacant," Frank insisted. "I haven't seen anyone go in or out since we moved in, before you were even born."

Inside, the apartment was freezing cold despite the summer heat wave. The space was mostly barren, but it contained two refrigerators—an imposingly large gray one that wouldn't open, and a smaller sickly yellow one that was empty. In the living room, Frank spotted a third: a tiny olive-colored mini fridge between the sofas. He ordered Alex to carry it back to their apartment as a condition of leaving.