Be. Scared
Fiction & Audio Drama
About
Every week Be. Busta shares stories that will have you looking over your shoulder while questioning what may actually reside under your bed. You will hear tales of horror from contemporary writers; both emerging and renowned, with the occasional set coming from real life experiences. Subscribe to the ad-free version at: https://bescared.supercast.com For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/us/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy
Episodes
- The Voice That Followed
A couple spending a quiet evening near a remote reservoir in New Jersey notice something unsettling: a forest gone completely silent, unnaturally perfect rows of trees, and a dead bird lying in the middle of the trail, its feathers stained…
- It Was Watching From the Woods
A small family moves into a secluded home deep in the Appalachian foothills quiet, isolated, and surrounded by dense forest. At first, it’s just a feeling…like something in the woods was always watching. Then come the sightings. A man stan…
- The Silence Closed Us In
Six experienced campers set up in a quiet clearing in Grampians National Park. Until, in a single instant, the bush goes completely silent. Then something begins circling them in the dark, keeping a perfect distance. A hand begins pressing…
- He Found His Prey
The episode describes a group of friends camping in the New Mexico desert who are approached by a silent stranger at a remote wash station. He later stalks them back at their campsite.
- What Was That Thing?
The episode "What Was That Thing?" from the podcast Be. Scared recounts a late-night delivery to a secluded farmhouse where the driver experiences unsettling events, including feeling watched and witnessing a street sign fall inexplicably…
- The Boy Who Came Back Wrong
This episode of Be. Scared recounts the unsettling story of a boy who vanished at age six and reappeared days later, miles from where he disappeared. Decades on, he still questions his identity and whether the person who returned was truly…
- I Was Warned, But I Didn’t Listen.
A listener ignored a warning about stopping near a forest in northern Minnesota. He stopped for an abandoned truck, and the sheriff revealed a disturbing pattern: previous reporters of the truck were found dead.
- We Were Not Alone on That Property
A couple bought rural property in Louisiana, intending to renovate. During demolition, they found disturbing hidden items in the house. Subsequently, the property exhibited strange phenomena, including lights and candles activating on thei…
- He Was Watching Through the Blinds
A young boy begins waking up at the same time every night… always drawn to the faint gaps in his bedroom blinds. At first, it’s just a shadow. Then the outline of a man. Then something began touching the screen. His father checks the yard…
- The 4 Hours That Were Taken
A routine late-night drive turns strange when a dense fog swallows the road. Then somewhere along the tree line, a massive figure stood watching— definitely not human. Then… nothing. They wake up soaked in a river below a cliff, truck inta…
- The Mysterious Hitchhiker
Driving home at 3AM on an empty stretch of road, a young man spots a girl walking alone. No houses, no lights, nothing for miles. She asks for a ride to a party and he agrees. But the farther they drive, the darker it gets… no signs of lif…
- The Thing Near the Dunes
In the late 90s, a group of friends spent nights fishing along a remote coastline locals warned about—whispers of movement in the sand, of something unseen. At first, it was just unease. Then the dog started reacting. One night, separated…
- The Graveyard Shift
During a quiet overnight shift guarding a cemetery, a lone night watchman spotted a pack of stray dogs wandering through the graves—one massive Rottweiler among them. Then a piercing shriek cut through the darkness. Something sprinted acro…
- The Cries That Still Haunt Me
On a storm-lit night in Minnesota, two high school friends parked by a quiet reservoir to watch lightning split the sky. What started as harmless awe turned into something neither of them could explain. From somewhere beyond the water came…
- We Shouldn’t Have Gone Back
During the fall semester of his second year, a 20-year-old student and his lifelong friends wandered off a marked trail with no plan, just curiosity. Deep in the woods, they found something they were never meant to see: a hidden shelter tu…
- We Found Him Disemboweled
On a remote California ranch, the dogs were the first to sense it, standing rigid at the fence line, staring into empty darkness. By morning, strange tracks circled the property: prints that shifted from four legs… to two. Then came the vo…
- The Thing That Lurked In The Woods Behind My House
A young man raised on an isolated stretch of rural Kentucky land recounts a series of encounters that still defy explanation. Something kept appearing at the edge of the woods behind his family’s home, a long, pale figure, not quite human…
- Curiosity Was the Worst Mistake
High in the Appalachian mountains lived a man no one truly knew. He rarely came down—only to trade furs and gather supplies—silent, distant, and avoided. When weeks passed without seeing him, a small group went to check his cabin. The man…
- She Vanished
A patrol officer responds to a fatal late-night crash and is sent to notify the family. When he arrives, a woman is already waiting at the gate. She says she lives there. As they walk toward the house, she suddenly vanishes... Inside, a yo…
- The Thing That Wore My Dad’s Face
Shortly after moving into a new house, a young boy starts hearing his name constantly called by unseen voices. But the day he came home early changed everything. Standing in the kitchen, he saw his father’s head slowly peeking around the w…
- Barely Made It Out Alive
A young woman studying abroad accepts help from a stranger she meets in a repair shop—housing, a job, a sense of safety in an unfamiliar place. But something feels wrong. His behavior shifts. The comments turn disturbing. The attention won…
- Wearing His Face
It’s 2 a.m. when a young man jolts awake in his bed. Still groggy, he sits up, confused about what pulled him from sleep, until he notices a strange figure standing motionless near his wardrobe, half-swallowed by the darkness. He calls out…
- The Scratches It Left Behind
A young person living alone in a quiet duplex is plagued by recurring dreams—intrusive, vivid, and wrong. Each night, a humanoid figure appears, watching, whispering the same message: you don’t belong here. He begins waking with unexplaine…
- What Hovered Above the Campsite
A group of kids went camping and watched a strange object rip across the night sky at an impossible speed, filling the air with a low, electric buzz. By morning, the grass around their campsite was flattened into perfect concentric rings—n…
- A Raw, Guttural Shriek
Two young hunters vanish into the woods for a week-long trip. By nightfall, the forest starts making sounds it shouldn’t — shrieking from the treeline, a baby crying in the dark, low moans rolling off the cliffs. Then it begins to mimic on…
- The Thing That Feeds on Trauma
A five-year-old girl, trapped in a violent home, hides from her father behind a dresser. That’s when it first appears — a strange figure that visits only on the worst nights. She thought it was an imaginary friend born from fear… until the…
- Predatory in the Stillness
After a brutal long shift, a young doctor collapses into the top bunk he still shares with his brother. Hours later—around 5 a.m.—he wakes with that prickling sense of being watched. At the foot of the lower bunk sits his brother’s girlfri…
- Suffocating in the Darkness
Two explorers head beneath the Cornwall cliffs, expecting a quiet day exploring abandoned mine tunnels. But the deeper they go, the heavier the air becomes—until their gas detector slams to 100%, oxygen collapses, and a crushing pressure s…
- It Waits Near the Treeline
A lone mapper ventures into the misty moors of rural England, tracing long-forgotten parish boundaries and sleeping in a tent under the fading summer light. But one evening, he discovers a weather-worn standing stone near the woods—surroun…
- Being Hunted
A solo hunting trip north of Stillwater Creek was supposed to be quiet — peaceful, even. The forest stood still. But immediately, something felt… off. Then came the sound of footsteps. Not his own. He realized: he wasn’t the only one stalk…
- The Stretch Where They Go Quiet
Somewhere along the Pacific Crest Trail, a solo hiker found himself far from anyone—or so he thought. Out of the treeline stepped an old man: tall, wiry, with shock-white hair and a hollow stare. He asked, almost too softly, “Are you alone…
- It Seemed Harmless… Until It Wasn’t
It started as an innocent mix-up — a delivery to the wrong house on a quiet summer afternoon. A 16-year-old living on the edge of a suburban town answered the door to find a man holding a pizza he hadn’t ordered. Harmless enough… until the…
- The Voice at the End of the Driveway
In the fall of the 1970s, deep in rural Kansas, six children waited each night for their mother to return home from work. One cold October evening, they heard her familiar voice call out from the driveway—soft, tired, and unmistakably hers…
- It Whispered My Name
What was supposed to be a quiet three-day camping trip turned into a nightmare. Deep in the woods—along a stretch of river that doesn’t appear on most maps—a man began to hear faint footsteps near the water each night. Then came the whispe…
- Figures in the Fog
When a violent storm knocks out a remote lighthouse, a repairman is forced to spend the night inside its decaying walls. But as the fog thickens, strange shapes begin to move in the darkness—human-like, but wrong. Footprints lead to the do…
- YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE.
Deep in the forest, a man stumbled upon an unmarked cave—its mouth hidden, waiting. As he ventured inside, a low murmur rose from the walls, growing louder with each step. Shadows stretched unnaturally long, twisting into thin figures that…
- “Where Is Caleb?”
A teenager and his dad crash at his dad’s coworker’s house for a few weeks—but the spare room he’s given feels... wrong. Every night, he dreamed that a misty, faceless figure appeared in the corner of the room, repeating one question over…
- It Followed Me Home...
A solo hiker ventures into the woods behind his small-town home for a five-day trek—but things take a dark turn by day two. The forest goes dead silent. He finds strange symbols made of feathers, a footprint identical to his own, and hears…
- A Smile That Makes Your Skin Crawl
A quiet tram stop. A porcelain-skinned woman. And a stare that felt like it cut through the soul. While visiting his cousin in Portsmouth, one man had a chilling encounter that still haunts him to this day. It started with a glance from a…
- The Grim Reaper is Waiting...
A lifelong nurse always had the ability to sense spirits—but over the years, she learned to tune them out. That is, until one chilling night on the hospital’s graveyard shift... While suctioning a patient’s airway, she spotted a ghostly fi…
- Deadly Waters
Three friends went to a remote beach. One guy wandered off and suddenly heard a "hey" coming from the waves. Far out in the waves, a lone figure floated, unmoving. Thinking it was his friend, he paddled toward it—until the shape’s face cam…
- “I’m Scared… Someone Is Here”
A routine burglary call turns into something far more unexplainable. Responding to a report of an intruder, two officers arrive at a quiet suburban home and are led to the upstairs bathroom—where the door is locked, the lights are off, and…
- Echoes from the Empty Campus
When the world shut down in 2020, a lone security guard was assigned to patrol an abandoned New England boarding school. But during one of his nightly rounds, the silence was broken by phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, and a chilling…
- The Silent Call from the Cellar
In this chilling tale from a Scottish police officer, a routine night shift takes an unsettling turn when a silent 999 call draws him and his partner to an abandoned countryside inn. What begins as a standard welfare check soon becomes som…
- Never Go Swimming at Night
Deep in the Midwest, surrounded by forest and farmland, sits a remote house with a dark past—locals call it " the haunted farmhouse ." One summer night around 10 p.m., a group of siblings relaxes in the backyard pool when they hear a voice…
- The Dead End Track
They say something still lingers on the dead-end track—where decades ago, an entire rail crew died in a collapse. The line was shut down, the wreckage buried… but not forgotten. During a routine 2 a.m. shift, a conductor is sent near the a…
- The Face Under the Bed
When a man moves into a new apartment, he senses something is off from the very first night. A presence. A feeling of being watched. And then—he sees it. Through the mirror, a pale, unmoving face staring at him from beneath the bed. Night…
- It Waits at Night
On a remote generational ranch, a man begins to notice something is deeply wrong. It starts with a heavy, bone-rattling thud echoing from the basement every night—always the same time. Then come the shadows, creeping through hallways that…