These Are Some of The Strangest Encounters I've Ever Had | A Compilation of Scary Stories
August 26, 2026
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5 min readThese Are Some of The Strangest Encounters I've Ever Had | A Compilation of Scary Stories
At a house party in an industrial loft, Kate notices a lanky, pale man sitting alone on a couch. Her friend Jerry warns her away: "He's weird." Kate approaches anyway, introducing herself to Devin, who admits he doesn't know anyone at the party—he's a party crasher. He refuses food and drink. Then he asks her a strange favor: "For the next fifteen minutes, don't leave this spot on the couch, okay?" She agrees. What follows is a series of impossible events—the room goes silent, partygoers chant in unison, shimmering forms rise from the floor, and one by one, every person in the room is enveloped and vanishes in puffs of steam. Only Kate and Devin remain. Devin explains: "It needs to happen once every ten thousand years. I have to watch to make sure it all goes through." Then he disappears too, leaving Kate alone with a pile of personal effects.
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- 1 These Are Some of The Strangest Encounters I've Ever Had | A Compilation of Scary Stories
- 2 Main Outline
- 3 (01:32) **Party Crasher with a Warning** - Kate meets a strange, anxious man named Devin at a party, who makes her promise not to leave the couch for 15 minutes
- 4 (09:06) **The Disappearance** - Shimmering forms emerge from the floor and begin consuming every person in the room
- 5 (11:59) **The Bar Patron Who Knew Too Much** - A traumatized WWII medic tending bar encounters a strange chaplain who asks about his greatest failure
- 6 (22:56) **The Chaplain's Payment** - The stranger reveals his own failure and leaves behind impossible evidence
- 7 (26:16) **The Friend Who Wasn't** - A man realizes he can't remember anything about his best friend Ryan — not even how they met
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Show Notes
The Worst Party in Ten Thousand Years
A strange Night In The City of Angels
Well, That Was Weird
Advice From The End of Eternity
A Letter From a Demon To Whoever May Find It
Be Careful Hiring Hitmen on The Dark Web
A Man Has Been Standing in The Middle of Our Street for The Past 4 Days
The Tapping Man, On My Sleeper Train
When It Rains In The Woods
Did Anyone Play The Bath Game
The Su*cide Engineer
An Illegal Investigation of Ballintully Springs
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