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0:15 Lock Fourteen Works Itself Every Night at Two, Paddles Up, Gates Open, Chamber Filled and Emptied in the Right Order, the Counter Logs a Boat Through, and the Water Level Below Drops by a Lockful
4:56 The Sensors on Our Aqueduct Read a Boat Crossing Every Night at One, the Trough Level Drops a Foot Behind It as if the Trough Were Emptying, and It Is Full in the Morning, and Below the Aqueduct the Field Is Wet Where the Water Would Have Gone
9:51 Our Dry Dock Floods and Drains Itself Every Night, the Gate Paddles Working on Their Own, Around a Boat That Is Not in It, and in the Morning the Blocks on the Dock Floor Have Fresh Tar on Them and the Shape of a Hull
14:22 The Old Ice Breaker Moored by Our Depot Is Rocked Every Night From Side to Side by a Crew That Is Not on It, in a Winter With No Ice, and in the Morning There Is Broken Ice Along the Cut That Was Not There and the Water Is Not Cold Enough for It
18:54 The Lengthsman's Hut on Our Stretch Has Its Stove Lit Every Night, the Walk Log on the Wall Has a Line Added in Pencil for a Length of Canal That Was Filled In, and the Path Across the Field Where the Cut Was Is Trodden by Morning
23:26 Our Visitor Moorings Book Has a Boat Tied Up Every Night at Ring Nine, Which Was Cut Off the Wharf Wall in 1994, and the Water at Ring Nine Has a Boat Shaped Calm on It, and a Light in a Cabin Window
28:04 The Old Beam Engine at Our Pumping Station Runs Every Night for Two Hours, Its Boiler Is Cold, Its Hour Meter Turns, and It Pumps Water Up to a Summit Pound That Is Already Full, and the Pound Does Not Rise
32:53 Our Swing Bridge Opens Itself Every Night at Ten Past Twelve for a Boat the Canal Camera Does Not Show, and the Road Camera Shows the Barrier Down, the Lights Red, and a Car Waiting, and the Car Has Been Waiting Since 1978
37:51 The Toll House at Our Junction Has Its Window Opened Every Night at Midnight, a Toll Taken in Coins That Are on the Sill in the Morning, and the Tally Stick on the Wall Has a New Notch Every Day Since the Tolls Stopped
42:10 Outro
Horrifying Pier Stories for the Small Hours
0:32:27 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Our Anglers' Permit Book Has a Permit Written in It Every Night for the Same Name, the Man's Rod Is on the Wall in the Pier Office Because He Left It Behind in 1977, and the Rod Is Wet in the Morning
4:55 Our Deckchair Hire Is Counted Into the Store Every Evening and Is One Short Every Morning, and the Chair Is on the Deck at the Sea End, Set Up, Facing the Sea, With a Coat Folded on It
9:10 The Box Office at the End of Our Pier Sells One Ticket Every Night for the Last Show the Theatre Ever Put On, the Seat Is the Same, and the Working Light on the Stage Comes On for the Length of the Show
13:48 The Oldest Penny Falls Machine in Our Arcade Pays Out Every Night at Twenty Past One, Into a Tray That Was Empty, in Pennies That Have Not Been Minted Since 1970, and the Machine Is Unplugged
18:24 The Lifebelt at the Sea End of Our Pier Is Thrown Every Night at a Quarter to Three, Its Rope Pays Out the Full Length, and It Is Hauled Back Wet and Put on Its Hook, and the Alarm on the Housing Has Logged It for Sixty Years
23:06 The Photo Booth on Our Pier Prints One Strip of Pictures Every Night With Nobody in It, Four Frames of a Family in Summer Clothes From Another Decade, and in the Fourth Frame One of Them Is Missing
27:20 The Little Train on Our Pier Logs One Trip Every Night, Shore to Sea End, on a Track That Was Shortened After the Storm, and the Trip Runs the Old Length, Into the Dark Past the Buffers, and Comes Back Full
32:10 Outro
Deranged Garden Centre Horror Stories for the Quiet Hours
0:42:05 · 12 September 2026
0:15 The Loose Bird Seed Scale Weighs Out a Pound Every Night After Close, the Paper Bag Is Gone From the Roll, and the Feeder on the Old Oak by the Car Park Is Full Every Morning and Has Been Since the Man Who Filled It Died
4:34 Our Cafe Till Rings a Cream Tea for Two Every Afternoon at Ten Past Five, After the Shutters Are Down, and the Table by the Window Has Crumbs on It and Two Chairs Pushed Back and a Coat on One
8:59 The Christmas Shop's Lights Come On Every Night in July for One Tree in the Back Corner, the Tree Is Decorated by Morning in Ornaments We Do Not Sell, and the Ornaments Have a Family's Names on Them
13:26 Our Greenhouse Climate Log Shows One Bench Watered by Hand Every Night at Five, a Can's Worth, on a Bench We Cleared for the Season, and the Pots on It Are Back in the Morning
18:18 The Irrigation Timer Waters One Patch of Our Turf Display Every Night That Is Not on a Zone, the Patch Is the Size and Shape You Would Think, and the Grass on It Is a Different Green
22:55 One Tank in Our Pet Corner Holds Itself at Twenty Six Degrees Every Night With the Heater Unplugged, the Filter Runs, and a Fish We Sold in 1998 Is on the Water Quality Card
27:19 Our Label Printer Prints One Plant Label Every Night for a Rose That Is Not in Our System, With a Name and a Price, and in the Morning It Is in a Pot in the Rose Section on a Plant That Was Not There
32:11 The Demonstration Potting Bench in Our Shop Is Used Every Night After Close, Fifty Pots Filled and Lined Up in Rows, Compost on the Floor Swept, and the Radio That Is Not Plugged In Plays the Programme He Listened To
36:59 The Seed Rack Till Logs One Packet Sold Every Night After Close, a Variety Withdrawn From Sale in 1986, and the Packet Is Gone From a Rack That Never Had It, and Somebody Is Growing It
41:48 Outro
Terrifying Department Store Horror Stories Before Bed
0:36:15 · 12 September 2026
0:15 The Up Escalator From the Ground Floor Runs Every Night After the Timer Has Stopped It, at the Speed of Somebody Being Carried Who Does Not Want to Arrive, and the Handrail Is Gripped
4:17 Our Grotto Booking System Takes One Booking Every Night After the Grotto Has Been Boxed Up for the Year, the Camera Shows the Chair With Weight on It, and the Gift Is Gone From the Sack
9:09 Our Old Lift Announces a Floor We Do Not Have Every Night, Stops There With the Doors Open for the Length of Time It Takes to Browse, and the Lift Attendant's Stool Is Warm
13:39 The Watchman's Clock Is Punched at All Fourteen Stations Every Night in the Right Order at the Right Times, by a Key We Do Not Have, and the Round Has Not Been Walked Since 1988
18:02 The Perfume Counter Till Rings One Sale Every Night at the Moment the Doors Lock, for a Scent Discontinued in 1974, Gift Wrapped, and the Ground Floor Smells of It Till Morning
22:33 The Pneumatic Tube System in Our Store Delivers One Capsule Every Night to the Cash Office From a Counter Station That Was Bricked Up, With Money in It and a Chit in Handwriting, and the Change Goes Back
27:01 Our Fifth Floor Restaurant Lays Table Nine for Two Every Night After the Kitchen Has Closed, the Till Rings One Afternoon Tea, and the Second Chair Is Never Pulled Out
31:31 The Children's Shoe Fitter's Gauge Measures a Foot Every Night After Close, the Same Size, and the Chair Beside It Creaks Under a Weight, and a Box Comes Off the Shelf and Goes Back Tried
35:58 Outro
Disturbing Observatory Horror Stories From the Feed
0:44:04 · 12 September 2026
0:15 The Weight Driven Clock on Our Old Refractor Is Wound Every Night at Eleven by Nobody, Runs Exactly Eight Hours, and Stops at the Minute It Stopped on the Night the Observer Did
4:50 The Dew Heater on Our Main Telescope Draws Current Every Night for the Finder Scope, Which Was Taken Off in 1990, and the Place Where It Was Is Warm and Dry When Everything Else Is Wet
9:21 Our Dome Opens Itself Every Night at Two, Cloud or Clear, and the Telescope Slews to a Patch of Sky With Nothing in It and Tracks It Till Dawn, and the Log Says Observer Present
14:01 Our Meteor Camera Records One Bright Fireball Every Night at Twelve Minutes Past Midnight That No Other Camera in the Network Sees, on the Same Track, Ending Over the Same Field, and the Field Has a Stone in It
19:10 One Glass Plate Appears in Our Darkroom's Drying Rack Every Morning, Freshly Developed, of a Sky Photographed Last Night Through a Telescope That Has Not Had a Plate Holder Since 1985, and the Plates Are Filling a Gap
23:56 Our Radio Dish Slews Every Night to Track a Source That Is Not in Any Catalogue, Records a Signal at a Frequency We Do Not Observe, and the Signal Is a Voice Counting
28:59 The Seismometer Under Our Telescope Pier Records Footsteps Every Night on the Dome Stairs, Climbing, Never Descending, and Sixty Years of Them Would Be a Crowd
33:24 Our Solar Telescope Opens Its Shutter Every Night at the Time of a Total Eclipse in 1927, Projects a Disc Onto the Table With No Sun to Project, and the Disc Goes Dark for Twenty Three Seconds
38:57 The Master Clock in Our Clock Room Loses One Second Every Night at Ten to Four and Gets It Back at Four, and in the Missing Second the Clock Room Has Somebody in It
43:47 Outro
Horrifying Lifeboat Station Stories for the Small Hours
0:36:12 · 12 September 2026
0:15 The Collection Box on Our Boathouse Wall Is Emptied Every Evening and Has Coins in It Every Morning That Are Wet, Salt Crusted, and Dated the Year of Every Wreck on Our Coast
4:17 The Crew Board in Our Boathouse Shows One More Name Available Than We Have Crew, the Name Moves Itself to On Boat Every Launch, and the Boat Weighs One Man Heavy on the Slip
8:43 Our Drying Room Has One More Set of Oilskins Hanging in It Every Morning Than We Have Crew, Wet Through, Dripping Seawater on a Floor That Was Dry, and Nobody Owns Them
12:51 The Lookout Hut Above Our Station Logs a Sighting Every Night at Half Past Eleven, a Light Off the Point, in a Hand Nobody Has, and the Light Is There When You Look
17:35 Two Maroons Are Fired Over Our Town Every Night at Ten to Three From a Mortar That Was Taken Down in 1990, the Whole Town Hears Them, and Nobody Has Complained
22:11 Our Crew Pagers Go Off at Ten to Three Every Night for a Launch the Coastguard Never Requested, the Boat Is on the Slip When We Arrive, and the Launch Log Has a Shout in It From 1981
26:58 Our Slipway Is Wet to the Top Every Morning, Above Any Tide the Tables Allow, in the Shape of a Boat Being Recovered, and the Recovery Winch Has Paid Out and Taken In
31:26 Our Launch Tractor Logs Two Hours Every Night With the Key in the Safe, the Tyres Are Wet With Sand in the Morning, and the Tracks on the Beach Go to the Water and Do Not Come Back
35:54 Outro
Deranged Stadium Horror Stories for the Quiet Hours
0:42:51 · 12 September 2026
0:15 The Home Dressing Room Showers Run for Eleven Minutes at Ten to Five Every Saturday Whether or Not We Have Played, the Water Meter Says Eleven Men, and the Steam Has Voices in It
4:30 Our Floodlights Come On for Eleven Minutes Every Night at Twelve Minutes Past Eight, Which Is the Length of Time They Were Off in the Match Where It Happened, and the Pitch Camera Shows Forty Thousand Shadows
8:44 Our Pitch Is Cut Every Dawn in a Stripe Pattern the Club Has Not Used Since the Seventies, the Mower Is in the Shed With the Key in the Office, and the Grass Box Is Full
12:48 The Till at Kiosk Four Sells One Pie and One Tea Every Night at Twenty Past Eight, Which Is Half Time of a Match That Is Not On, and the Pie Is Gone From the Warmer and the Tea Is Poured
16:55 The Seats in Our North Stand Fold Down in a Wave Every Night From the Front Row to the Back, the Sensors Count Them, and the Count Is the Ground's Record Attendance to the Person
21:12 Our PA System Logs an Announcement Every Night at Sixty Seven Minutes of a Match That Is Not Being Played, a Substitution, the Same Player Coming On, and He Never Did
25:19 The Moisture Probes Under Our Pitch Read a Line of Compression Every Night Along the Touchline at Walking Pace, From the Tunnel to the Corner Flag and Back, and It Is a Man Pacing
29:10 The Press Box Phone Dials a Number Every Night at Ten Past Ten and Dictates a Match Report, in a Voice We Have on Tape, to a Newspaper That Closed in 2011, and the Copy Is Good
33:54 Our Ticket System Renews One Season Ticket Every Summer for a Seat That Was Taken Out and Replaced With a Plaque, Prints the Card, and the Card Is Scanned In at Every Home Match
37:51 The Tunnel Camera Records Two Teams Lining Up Every Night at Twenty Five Past Seven, in Kit From Different Decades, and a Boy at the Back Holding a Hand That Is Not There
42:34 Outro
Terrifying Data Centre Horror Stories Before Bed
0:36:35 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Rack C17 in Our Hall Draws Four Hundred Watts Every Night for a Server That Was Pulled in 2016, Its Fans Are Audible on the Sound Logger, and It Answers a Ping
4:36 The Cameras in Our Data Hall Lose One Minute Every Night at Ten Past Two, and the Frame After the Gap Shows the Racks as They Were Before the Refit, With the Lights On, and Somebody at a Console
9:39 One of Our Recursive Resolvers Answers Every Night for a Domain That Expired in 2019, From a Cache It Cannot Have, and the Page It Points To Is a Boy's Website Updated at Midnight
14:14 Our Standby Generator Starts Itself Every Night at Twenty Three Minutes Past Eleven, Runs for the Length of a Real Outage, and Its Log Says It Took the Load, and the Grid Was Fine
18:33 The Thermal Map of Our Hot Aisle Shows a Cold Spot Every Night the Size of a Person, Moving Along the Racks at Walking Pace, Stopping at Each One for the Time It Takes to Check a Light
22:59 The Mantrap at Our Data Hall Cycles Every Night at Three for a Badge That Is in the Security Safe, Weighs the Person Inside, and Lets Them Through
27:18 Our Network Operations Screen Shows a Site That Was Closed in 2012 as Green, With Traffic, With a Night Shift Logged In, and When We Ring the Desk Number Somebody Answers
31:51 Our Tape Library Mounts One Tape Every Night That Is Not in Its Catalogue, Reads It End to End, and the Data It Reads Is a Person's Home Directory From a Company That No Longer Exists
36:17 Outro
Disturbing Call Centre Horror Stories From the Feed
0:45:26 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Our Workforce System Schedules a Ten Minute Break Every Night at Ten to Four for an Agent Who Is Not Rostered, the Break Room Door Opens for It, and the Kettle Is Used
4:37 Every Call Recorded on Extension 2020 Has a Second Voice on It, Under the Agent's, Telling Them What to Say a Second Before They Say It, and They Are Our Best Agent
8:47 Our Customer Survey Gives One Agent a Ten Out of Ten Every Night From a Caller Who Was Never on the Phone, With a Comment, and the Comments Are Getting Longer
13:01 The Old Emergency Line in Our Building Takes One Call Every Night at Twenty Past Three, Logs a Dispatch to an Address That Was Demolished, and the Call Is a Child
17:36 Our Weekly Fire Alarm Test Is Acknowledged Every Time From a Desk Panel That Was Removed, by a Fire Warden Who Is on No List, and the Panel Logs the Floor as Clear Before Anybody Has Moved
22:12 One Customer Rings Our Centre Every Night and Is Routed, Against Every Rule of the Queue, to Whoever Is Sitting at Desk 41, and Asks Them by Name Whether They Have Eaten
26:33 Our Phone Menu Offers Callers an Option Nine That Is Not in the Script, the Logs Show People Pressing It Every Night, and It Goes to a Voice That Listens
30:42 Our Outbound Dialler Rings One Number Every Night at Half Past Two That Is Not on Any List, and the Number Is the Phone on the Empty Floor Above Us, and It Is Answered
35:47 Our Queue Shows One Caller Waiting Every Night Whose Wait Time Is Sixteen Years, the Hold Music Is Playing to Them, and When an Agent Picks Up the Line Is Open and Somebody Breathes
40:22 The Screen Recording on PC 217 Shows a Case Note Being Typed Every Night on a Locked Screen, Slowly, With the Mistakes of Somebody Learning, and the Note Is Always an Apology to the Same Customer
45:09 Outro
Horrifying Ice Rink Stories for the Small Hours
0:34:45 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Skate Hire Logs One Pair Going Out Every Night After Close, a Size We Do Not Stock, and They Are Back on the Rack by Morning With Wet Blades and the Laces Done Up
4:36 The Boards at the Home End Ring Every Night With a Hit Hard Enough to Trip the Glass Sensor, the Glass Flexes on the Camera, and There Is Nobody Against Them
9:00 Eight Curling Stones Are Thrown Down Our Sheet Every Night After Close, From the Hack, With the Sweeping, and the Stones Are in the Rack in the Morning and the Ice Is Pebbled
13:07 The Jump Harness Over Our Ice Takes the Weight of a Skater Every Night at the Jump, Holds Her Through Three Turns, and Lets Go on the Landing the Way It Was Never Meant To
17:10 Our Rink's Music System Plays One Song After Close Every Night That Is Not on the Drive, Over the Ice Only, and the Public Session Lights Come Down for It
21:29 The Visitors' Penalty Box Door Opens Every Night Exactly Two Minutes After It Closes, on Its Own, With the Gate Sensor Reading a Player Going Through, and the Bench Inside Is Dented
25:39 Our Plant Room Logs One Corner of the Ice Two Degrees Colder Than the Rest Every Night, the Pipes Under It Are the Same Pipes, and the Corner Has a Shape in the Frost
29:52 Our Ice Resurfacer Does One Lap at Three Every Morning With Nobody Driving, Blade Down, Water On, and the Ice It Leaves Has Skate Marks in It That Were Not There Before
34:28 Outro
Deranged Bus Depot Horror Stories for the Quiet Hours
0:46:36 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Bus Fourteen Logs the Full Forty Two Route Every Night From Its Bay in the Yard, Every Stop, Every Door Opening, and the Odometer Does Not Move
4:33 The Inspection Light in Pit Three Comes On Every Night at Two and the Creeper Trolley Rolls the Length of the Pit Under a Bus That Is Not Parked Over It
8:36 The Bell on Our Heritage Bus Rings Once Every Night From Its Shed, at the Seconds Apart the Stops Were on a Route That Was Pulled in 1968, and the Conductor's Platform Creaks
12:53 Our Bus Wash Runs a Full Cycle at Four Every Morning With Nothing in the Bay, the Brushes Close On a Shape the Size of a Bus, and the Water Comes Out Dirty
16:29 The Kettle in Our Drivers' Room Boils at Half Past Four Every Morning, Six Mugs Come Off the Hooks, and the Milk Goes Down by a Pint Before the First Driver Signs On
20:30 Our Fuel System Logs a Fill Every Night at Two From Pump Three, Which Was Taken Out in 2011, Into a Fleet Number We Do Not Have, and the Tank Goes Down
24:48 Our Lost Property Book Has an Item Handed In Every Night at Half Past Eleven From the Last Sixty One, in the Same Hand, and the Sixty One Stopped Running in 1987
28:59 The Real Time Sign at the Stop Outside Our Depot Shows a Bus Due in One Minute Every Night at Ten Past Twelve, and After a Year It Arrived
33:19 Our Duty Board Allocates a School Run Every Morning to a Driver Who Retired, the Bus Leaves the Yard Empty and Comes Back, and the Passenger Counter Says Thirty One Children Rode It
37:44 The Ticket Machine in Our Spare Cab Prints a Full Shift's Takings at Midnight Every Night, in 1979 Fares, in a Module That Was Never Logged On, and the Cash Is in the Bag
42:08 The Top Deck Camera on Bus Nine Records a Passenger in the Front Seat Every Night After the Last Run, in the Yard, With the Bus Locked, Looking Out of a Window at Nothing
46:19 Outro
Terrifying Museum Horror Stories Before Bed
0:36:12 · 12 September 2026
0:15 The Alarm on Case Twelve Goes Every Night at Ten Past One, the Case Is Open When We Get There, and the Only Object in It Has Been Turned to Face the Wall
4:14 Our Audio Guides Play a Stop Ninety Nine That Was Never Recorded, in a Voice That Is Not the Narrator's, at a Place on the Map Where There Is Only a Wall
8:19 The Gas Suppression in Our Archive Strong Room Goes to Pre Alarm Every Night at the Minute a Fire Started There in 1932, and Counts Down, and Somebody Cancels It
12:00 The Bench in Front of Our Biggest Painting Has a Sensor in It for the Visitor Study, and Every Night It Logs Somebody Sitting Down at Nine and Getting Up at Six
16:01 The Humidity in Our Costume Gallery Rises Every Night in a Rhythm the Conservator Says Is Breathing, in Front of One Dress, and the Dress Is Warm
20:02 Our Goods Lift Goes Down to the Basement Store Every Night With the Weight of a Loaded Trolley on It, Comes Back Empty, and the Basement Has One Object More in the Morning
23:52 One Accession Number in Our Store Is Signed Out Every Night to the Old Reading Room and Signed Back In at Six, and the Object Is on Its Shelf the Whole Time
27:53 The Motion Sensors in Our Natural History Gallery Track Something Every Night at Child Height Between the Cases, in the Same Order, and It Stops Longest at the Fox
31:48 The Counter on Our Museum Door Reads One Person In at Two Minutes to Closing Every Day and Never One Out, and the Building Is Full by the Numbers
35:55 Outro
Disturbing Theatre Horror Stories From the Feed
0:44:10 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Bar Seventeen on Our Fly Floor Comes In Every Night on Its Own, the Load Cell Reads the Weight of a Man on It, and the Bar Is Empty
4:27 The Stage Door Book Has a Signature at the Half Every Night in Dressing Room Five's Line, in Ink That Is Wet When I Find It, and Nobody Signs Out
8:42 Seat H14 Sells Itself Every Night at the Moment the House Opens, the Sensor Under It Reads Occupied Through the Whole Show, and the Ushers Have Stopped Selling the Row
13:09 The Follow Spot in Box Two Comes On Every Night and Tracks Something Across Our Empty Stage From the Wings to the Trap, and Goes Out When It Goes Down
17:33 Our Ghost Light Is Left Upstage Right Every Night and Is at Centre Stage Every Morning, and the Show Relay Records the Speech It Lights
21:55 Our House Count at the Curtain Call Is Always One More Than the Tickets Sold, From the Same Seat, and the Seat Is the One We Took Out
26:05 Our Safety Curtain Lowers Itself Every Night at Twenty to Nine, Which Was the Interval of a Show That Closed in 1996, and Rises When the Bell Would Have Gone
30:22 Our Orchestra Pit Lift Rises to Playing Height Every Night on Its Own, the Pit Microphones Pick Up an A Being Given, and We Have Not Had a Band in Twelve Years
34:54 Our Prompt Desk Fires a Lighting Cue Every Night That Is Not in Any Show We Have Done, and the State It Brings Up Is a Woman Standing Downstage
39:29 The Quick Change Booth in Our Stage Left Wing Has a Dresser in It Every Night Who Is Not on the Crew List, and the Costumes Come Out Pressed
43:53 Outro
Horrifying Care Home Stories That Do Not Add Up
0:37:31 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Room Nine Presses Its Call Bell at Ten Past Two Every Night, the Room Has Been Empty Since March, and the Bell Is Answered by Somebody on the Rota
4:26 Our Dining Room Is Laid Every Morning for One More Than We Have Residents, at the Same Place, and the Kitchen Logs the Meal as Served
8:36 The Front Door Alarm on Our Home Goes at Six Every Morning for Somebody Going Out Who Did Not Come In, and the Camera Shows the Door Held
12:37 The Garden Gate of Our Home Is Unlocked From the Outside at Dawn Every Day by a Key We Took Off a Resident in 2021, and Somebody Walks the Path
16:31 The Ceiling Hoist in Room Four Runs Its Lift Cycle at Two and Four Every Night With Nobody in the Sling, at the Times the Gentleman Used to Be Turned
20:13 Our Lift Is Called to the Second Floor Every Night at Half Past Twelve, Stops There, Opens, and Our Home Has a Ground Floor and a First
24:41 Our Electronic Medication Record Shows a Four in the Morning Round Every Night, Every Resident Signed, by a Nurse Who Retired in 2019, and the Counts Come Out Right
28:58 Our Hourly Night Check Sheet Prints With a Room Fifteen on It, Initialled Every Hour in Handwriting That Is Not Ours, and the Home Stops at Fourteen
33:04 The Sensor Mat Outside Room Twelve Logs Footsteps Every Night at Three, Slow Ones, With a Frame, and Room Twelve Has Not Walked in Two Years
37:14 Outro
Deranged Warehouse Horror Stories That Take Their Time
0:44:27 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Aisle Forty in Our Warehouse Picks Itself Every Night, Every Light Pressed in Order, and the Tote at the End Is Packed by Nobody
4:27 Charger Fourteen in Our Battery Room Draws a Full Charge Every Night With No Truck on It, and the Hydrogen Alarm Goes for a Battery That Is Not There
9:02 Dock Twelve Opens Every Night for a Trailer the Yard Camera Never Sees, the Leveller Drops Onto It, and the Unload Scans Come In
13:34 Our Chiller Logs One Badge Going In at Half Past Two Every Night and Never Coming Out, and the Temperature Curve Inside Shows a Body Cooling
17:57 Our Clocking Machine Clocks Out One Badge at Six Every Morning That Never Clocked In, Payroll Pays It, and the Money Goes to an Address That Is a Field
22:21 Every Fire Drill at Our Warehouse the Roll Call Tablet Counts One More Person at the Muster Point Than Are Standing There, and It Is Always the Same One
26:34 The Load Cells Under Our Mezzanine Read Seventy Kilos at the Unfenced End Every Night, Standing Still, and the End Was Fenced Because of What They Read
30:42 Our Pallet Wrapper Runs One Cycle Every Night on an Empty Pallet and the Film Comes Off It in the Morning in the Shape of Somebody Standing
35:19 Our Sorter Diverts One Parcel Every Night to Chute Nineteen, Which Was Removed in 2015, and the Parcel Arrives Somewhere
39:32 Our Tannoy Pages the Same Name to Goods In Every Night at Half Past Three From a Handset in a Canteen That Was Demolished
44:10 Outro
Terrifying Car Park Stories for the Small Hours
0:36:19 · 12 September 2026
0:15 Our Multi Storey Has One More Car on Level Four Every Night Than the Barrier Let In, and the Space It Is Parked In Is Not Painted
4:03 Our Entrance Shutter Comes Down at Midnight and Reopens at Two for Something Its Safety Edge Finds Underneath It, and Lets It In
8:06 Our Exit Camera Reads One Registration Every Morning That Was Scrapped in 1994, the Barrier Lifts for It, and It Has Never Once Come In
12:10 The Help Point on Level Six Rings My Booth Every Night at Ten Past Three, and the Person on It Asks Whether Their Car Is Still There
16:03 The Pay Machine on the Ground Floor Prints One Ticket a Night for a Stay That Started in 1989, and the Fee Comes Out Right
19:47 The Pillar on the Tight Bend Between Two and Three Has a Fresh Dent Every Morning in the Same Place, With Paint on It From a Van Nobody Drives
23:40 The Loops on Our Ramps Count One Car Going Down From Six to the Ground Every Forty Seconds, All Night, Every Night, and Never Reaching the Exit
27:33 The Edge Alarm on Our Car Park Roof Goes Off at Twenty to One Every Night, the Pavement Camera Below Sees the Shadow Land, and Nothing Lands
31:47 The North Stairwell in Our Car Park Has Nine Flights Between Six Floors on the Way Down, and the Extra One Is Where People Stop Answering
36:02 Outro
Disturbing Leisure Centre Horror Stories for the Quiet Hours
0:45:21 · 11 September 2026
0:15 Squash Court Three Is Booked Every Tuesday at Eleven at Night Under a Name That Has Not Paid Since 2017, and the Ball Is Warm
4:06 Locker 112 Is Locked Every Morning by a Wristband Our System Never Issued, and What Is Inside Changes
7:58 Shower Six in the Changing Village Runs Hot for Four Minutes Every Night on a Push Button That Cannot Be Held Down, and the Drain Catches Hair
11:34 The Climbing Wall Auto Belay Pays Out Rope Every Night to the Top of the Wall, and Takes the Weight of Someone Coming Down
15:01 Our Three Metre Board Flexes Every Night Under the Weight of a Dive Nobody Makes, and the Pool Alarm Hears the Entry
19:08 The Thermal Camera Over Our Pool Shows a Warm Body in the Lifeguard Chair Every Night After the Last Lifeguard Has Clocked Off
22:42 Our Pool's Drowning Detection System Marks a Swimmer on the Bottom of the Deep End Every Night, in a Pool That Is Empty and Covered
26:43 Our Sauna Reaches Ninety Degrees Every Night With Its Heater Isolated at the Breaker, and the Door Log Shows a Session
30:16 Our Soft Play Ball Pit Holds Four Thousand Balls by Day and Is a Foot Deeper Every Morning, and We Have Stopped Counting What We Take Out
33:38 Our Twenty Spin Bikes Upload a Full Class to the Cloud at Four Every Morning, Every Bike Ridden, and the Room Was Locked
37:21 The Vending Machine in Our Foyer Sells One Item Every Night to a Building With Nobody in It, Takes Coins We Do Not Find, and Has Started Choosing
41:10 Treadmill 4 in Our Gym Logs a Forty Minute Run at Three Every Morning With a Heart Rate, and the Belt Hours Go Up
45:04 Outro
Deranged Sorting Office Horror Stories Before Bed
0:33:44 · 11 September 2026
0:15 Post Office Box 47 Logs Its Door Opened Every Night With a Key Issued to Nobody, and the Box Is Empty in the Morning
3:58 Our Franking Machine Logs a Letter Every Night Stamped With Tomorrow's Date, and It Is in the Intake Before the Van Arrives
7:32 Our Sorting Machine Routes Mail Every Night to a Bay for a Postcode District Withdrawn in 1996 and the Bay Fills
11:20 Our Parcel Scanner Measures Every Box With Lasers and One Parcel Measures Bigger Inside Than It Is Outside
15:08 Our Postcode Reader Keeps a Photograph of Every Envelope It Reads, and For One Item a Night the Photograph Is Not the Envelope
18:52 There Is a Live Redirection on Our System for a House That Burned Down in 1988, and It Forwards the Mail to the Same House
22:30 Every Sealed Sack Off One Round Weighs One Letter More Than the Letters In It, on a Weighbridge Checked Daily
25:55 Our Signature Pad Records a Signature Every Night for a Registered Item That Is Not in the Office, and the Signature Is Always the Same Name
29:50 Our Collection Van Scans a Tag Every Night at a Pillar Box That Was Removed in 2003 and Brings Back Its Mail
33:27 Outro
Disturbing Fire Station Horror Stories From the Feed
0:45:24 · 11 September 2026
0:15 Our Station Bells Ring at Twenty to Four With the Mobilising Unit Isolated, and They Ring the Rounds of One Particular Night
4:05 Our Aerial Ladder's Cage Weighs Somebody in It at Full Extension and the Cage Is Empty
7:57 The Thermal Camera Finds a Warm Figure on the Floor of the Same Room in Every Smoke House Drill and the Room Is Empty
11:35 The Fall Arrest Line on Our Drill Tower Logs a Fall From the Fourth Floor With Nobody on the Tower
15:12 One Length of Hose Tests Four Metres Longer Than It Measures on the Ground and the Reel Counts the Extra
18:56 I Test Fire Hydrants and One Delivers More Water Than the Main It Sits On Can Carry, and the Water Comes Warm
22:43 The Sensor on Our Station Pole Logs a Descent Every Night at Twenty to Four With the Whole Watch Asleep Upstairs
26:22 Our Turnout Printer Mobilises the Watch Every Few Weeks to an Address That Was Demolished, and Control Has No Record of Sending It
30:22 Our Appliance's Pump Logs Water Delivered at Firefighting Pressure in the Bay at Night With the Engine Off and the Tank Goes Down
33:58 A Breathing Apparatus Set on Our Station Rack Logs a Wearer Using Air at Three in the Morning and the Cylinder Goes Down
37:52 Our Smoke House Fills Itself With Smoke Before Six Most Mornings and the Machine's Fluid Goes Down by a Drill's Worth With the Machine Off
41:26 There Is a Tally on Our Entry Control Board for a Firefighter Not on the Watch, Booked In, With a Set Number and a Time Out
45:07 Outro
Terrifying Church Stories for the Small Hours
0:33:19 · 11 September 2026
0:15 The Votive Stand in Our Church Has Candles Lit Every Night Behind a Locked Door and the Coin Box Is Never Touched
3:52 Our Communion Silver Is Weighed Every Year for the Insurer and the Chalice Gains Eleven Grams a Year, and a Mark Has Appeared on It
7:32 I Test Lightning Conductors and One Church Tower's Earth Reads Lower Every Year Towards a Number the Ground Cannot Give
11:23 Our Font Is Emptied After Every Baptism and Its Level Rises Overnight by Exactly the Water a Baptism Uses
14:39 I Survey Churchyards With Ground Radar and One Yard Has a Grave on No Plan That Is in a Different Place Every Time
18:17 The Hymn Board in Our Church Is Set in the Night to Numbers Nobody Chose, and They Are Always the Same Service
21:45 I Tune a Church Organ and Its Wind Gauge Holds Pressure With the Blower Switched Off, and One Pipe Speaks
25:30 The Alarm on Our Church Roof Logs Somebody Walking the Length of the Lead Every Night and the Camera Shows an Empty Roof
29:28 Our Visitor Book Gains an Entry Most Nights in a Hand From the Last Century, in Ink That Is Still Wet at Nine
33:02 Outro
Disturbing Ferry Horror Stories for the Quiet Hours
0:44:22 · 11 September 2026
0:15 The Ramp Weighs a Vehicle Aboard Into Lane 4 That the Loading Officer Never Loaded and the Ship Trims for It
4:19 Our Gyrocompass and Magnetic Compass Agree at Both Ports and Disagree by Four Degrees on One Stretch, and the Magnetic Points at a Place
8:32 The Winch on Our Number Two Lifeboat Logs a Full Lowering to the Water on Every Night Crossing With the Boat in Its Cradle
12:23 The Car Deck's Heat Cable and Gas Sensors Read a Vehicle Idling in an Empty Bay for the Whole Night Crossing
16:22 The Voyage Data Recorder Keeps a Helm Order on One Stretch in a Voice None of the Watch Owns, and the Helmsman Answers It
20:37 The Bridge Searchlight Trains Itself Onto One Bearing on the Stretch and Holds It on Empty Water
24:20 Our Echo Sounder Reads the Seabed Nine Metres Shallower Than the Chart on One Stretch and the Nine Metres Moves With the Ship
28:14 Our Ferry's Stabilisers Correct a Roll on Every Crossing That the Wave Recorder Says the Sea Is Not Making
32:23 The Bow Thruster Draws Full Power for a Push Nobody Commanded Every Time We Berth at One Port and the Ship Moves Off the Fender
36:05 Our Fog Signal Fires by Itself on One Stretch in Clear Air and the Sound Meter on the Wing Records a Whistle Answering From Ahead
40:05 Our Ferry's Two Clocks Disagree by Four Minutes for the Middle of One Crossing and Agree at Both Ends
44:05 Outro
Deranged Zoo Horror Stories Before Bed
0:34:50 · 11 September 2026
0:15 The Browse Bar in Our Giraffe House Logs Leaves Pulled From a Height No Animal We Have Can Reach
3:58 The Thermal Camera in Our Lion House Counts One More Animal at Night Than We Own and the Floor Scales Weigh It
7:59 Our Meerkat Burrow Cameras Show a Chamber Occupied Every Night That We Filled With Concrete in 2019
12:12 I Run a Reptile House Incubator and One Clutch of Eggs Gains Weight Every Week and Never Hatches
16:17 One Drained Tank in Our Aquarium Uses Oxygen and Makes Ammonia at the Rate of a Large Fish
20:35 The Vibration Sensors Under Our Elephant House Log Five Animals Walking at Night and We Keep Four
24:21 The Ring Reader at Our Aviary Feeder Logs a Bird Every Night That Died in 2004 and the Feeder's Scales Weigh It
27:45 The Floor Scales in Our Tortoise House Log a Walk Every Night at the Pace of the One We Buried in the Spring
30:47 Our Penguins Take Two Kilos More Fish a Day Than the Colony Can Eat and Every Bird Is Weighed
34:32 Outro
Disturbing Garage Horror Stories From the Feed
0:45:45 · 11 September 2026
0:15 The Immobiliser on One Car Lists Three Keys and Two Have Ever Been Cut, and the Third One Is Always in the Car
4:36 The Compressed Air Meter in Our Workshop Logs Air Drawn at Night at the Rate of a Wheel Gun With Every Airline Capped
9:01 I Test Emissions for a Living and Our Analyser Reads Exhaust Gas From an Engine That Is Switched Off
13:12 Our Headlamp Aligner Shows a Correct Beam Pattern on Its Screen From a Lamp With the Bulb Taken Out
16:49 Our Paint Booth's Particle Counter Reads a Sanding Job in Progress in a Sealed Empty Booth
20:51 The Diagnostic Port on One Car Keeps a Fault Record From a Drive Its Odometer Says It Never Made
24:57 Our Four Post Ramp Weighs Every Car It Lifts and One Car Weighs Seventy Four Kilos More With Nobody in It
28:54 Our Brake Tester Records Braking Effort on the Nearside Rear of a Car That Has Three Wheels on the Rollers and One in the Air
32:44 The Spare Wheel in One Car's Boot Reports Its Pressure, Its Temperature and Its Speed as if It Were on the Road
36:53 One Car's Sump Drains More Oil Than the Engine Holds, Into a Trolley With a Graduated Tank, Every Service
41:16 One Wheel Balances Perfectly With Its Weights Knocked Off and the Balancer Logs Every Spin
45:28 Outro
Terrifying Library Stories for the Small Hours
0:34:26 · 11 September 2026
0:15 One Newspaper Reel in Our Microfilm Archive Has a Frame That Is Not in Its Index and the Reader Counts It
4:35 Our Returns Sorter Takes in a Book Every Week That No Library Owns and Routes It to a Shelf That Does Not Exist
9:06 The Old Date Stamp on Our Counter Is Set to a Date in the Future Every Morning and Returned Books Carry It
13:23 Our Security Gates Alarm at Closing Time Every Night for a Book That Was Withdrawn and Pulped in 2019
17:26 Our Self Service Kiosk Prints a Loan Receipt at Half Past Two Every Night for a Card That Was Cancelled, and the Receipt Is in the Tray
21:13 I Digitise Old Books and the Scanner Captures Pages That Are Not in the Book
25:20 The Mobile Shelving in Our Basement Opens an Aisle Every Night That Nobody Asked For and the Motors Log the Move
29:50 Our Archive Strongroom Is Held at Fifteen Percent Oxygen So Nothing Can Burn, and Sealed and Empty It Uses Oxygen Like a Person Breathing
34:09 Outro
Disturbing Cinema Horror Stories for the Quiet Hours
0:46:35 · 11 September 2026
0:15 Every Film in Screen 1 Runs Four Minutes Longer Than Its Own Length by Both Clocks and Nobody Can Find the Minutes
5:06 Our Box Office Sells One Ticket for Screen 3 at Two Minutes to Three Every Morning and the Cash Is in the Drawer
9:19 The Air Sensor in Screen 5 Reads the Carbon Dioxide of Two Hundred People in an Empty Room and the Fans Run for Them
13:40 Our Projector's Playback Log Shows a Full Screening in Screen 3 at Three in the Morning and the Lamp Hours Agree
18:45 Our Fire Panel Tests a Smoke Detector in a Screen That Was Knocked Through in 2015 and the Detector Answers
23:13 The Hearing Loop in Screen 2 Carries a Voice Into Hearing Aids With the Sound System Off
28:04 The Screen Masking in Screen 2 Moves to a Shape No Film Uses at Four in the Morning and the Motor Counts the Hours
32:05 We Keep One 35mm Projector for Old Prints and the Footage Counter Runs on a Reel That Is Locked in Its Can
36:53 The Sound System in Screen 4 Calibrates Itself Before Every Show and It Keeps Measuring an Audience That Is Not There
41:36 I Calibrate Projector Colour and the Light Coming Off One Screen Is Not the Light Going Onto It
46:18 Outro
Deranged Countryside Horror Stories
0:54:01 · 11 September 2026
0:15 The Egg Counter on One Belt in Our Laying Shed Counts Forty More Eggs a Day Than the Hens on It Can Lay, and the Packer Confirms Them
4:51 The Camera in an Empty Stable Logs a Horse Moving Every Night and the Trough Goes Down by Twenty Litres
8:50 The Flow Meters in My Pub Cellar Log Four Pints Pulled From One Pump Between Three and Four Every Morning
13:24 The Traffic Counter on Our Gated Lane Records One Vehicle at Twelve Minutes Past Three Every Night, Between Two Locked Gates
17:50 I Date Trees by Their Rings and One Oak's Outer Rings Match the Weather of Years That Have Not Happened Yet
21:57 I Survey Field Boundaries and One Hedge Line Moves Thirty Centimetres a Year Against Satellite Fixes, With the Ground Not Moving
26:26 I Wind a Church Clock and It Gains Four Minutes a Week on a Pendulum That Is the Right Length
31:12 My Static Bat Detector Records a Species That Has Been Extinct in Britain Since 1990, at One Barn, Every Night
35:47 The Bird Scarer in My Orchard Fires With the Gas Turned Off and the Cylinder Loses Weight Anyway
40:06 My Tractor's Guidance System Logs a Pass Across One Field Every Spring Night With the Tractor Locked in the Shed
44:44 I Sample Soil for a Living and One Field Has a Patch of Chemistry That Cannot Exist and Moves Two Metres a Year
49:27 Trading Standards Have Tested My Farm Shop Scale Three Times and It Reads Forty Grams Heavy on One Shelf's Produce Only
53:44 Outro
Horrifying Railway Stories for the Small Hours
0:38:37 · 11 September 2026
0:15 Our Train Data Recorders Log a Brake Application at the Same Milepost Every Night and No Driver Has Touched the Brake
4:58 One Overhead Line Section Draws Forty Amps All Night With No Train In It and the Insulation Tests Clean
9:43 Our Level Crossing's Obstacle Radar Finds Something on the Crossing at Three in the Morning With the Barriers Up and Nothing There
14:37 Every Unit That Stops at Platform 2 Loses Its Door Interlock on One Door and the Switch Tests Closed
19:34 One Unit Comes Back From the Wheel Lathe With More Metal on Its Wheels Than It Went In With
24:16 The Warning Horn Sounds in Every Cab at a Signal That Was Removed and I Have Measured the Magnet That Is Not There
29:23 One Rail Temperature Probe in a Cutting Reads Eight Degrees Above Its Neighbours in the Dark
33:37 The Track Recording Train Finds a Twist Fault at the Same Chainage Every Run and the Gang Has Never Once Found It
38:20 Outro
Terrifying Motorway Horror Stories From the Feed
0:51:15 · 11 September 2026
0:15 The Same Thirty Metres of Crash Barrier Is Hit Every Few Months and the Paint on It Was Discontinued in 1987
5:05 The Smoke Detector in Our Motorway Tunnel Reads a Fire in One Bay With Nothing In It
10:19 A Motorway Gantry Displays a Sign That Is Not in the Sign Library and the Log Records the Command
15:40 The Loops Under Lane Three Report It Occupied Four Percent of the Time at Four in the Morning With No Traffic
20:28 Our Average Speed Cameras Time a Vehicle Through Six Miles of Roadworks at a Hundred and Forty, and the Plate Is Not a Real Plate
25:45 One of the Three Anemometers on Our Motorway Bridge Reads Twenty Knots High, and Only When the Wind Comes From the East
30:26 A Bridge Strike Detector Fires Twice a Month for Vehicles That Pass Under With Half a Metre to Spare
35:48 We Log Every Animal Removed From the Motorway and One Marker Post Produces the Same Species Every Week
41:04 One Stretch of Motorway Lane Marking Reads Brighter Than the Day It Was Painted and It Has Not Been Repainted
46:22 Three Drivers a Month Report Somebody Walking on Our Motorway and the Thermal Camera Sees an Empty Road
50:58 Outro
Disturbing Hospital Horror Stories for a Dark Room
1:01:41 · 11 September 2026
0:15 Our Hospital's Pneumatic Tube System Delivers a Carrier Every Week From a Station That Was Removed in 2011
5:38 Our X-Ray Room Records a Dose for a Procedure Nobody Performed and the Tube's Own Counter Agrees
10:54 Our ECG Machine Stores a Trace Every Few Weeks Under a Patient Number That Has Never Been Issued
16:08 The Nurse Call System Logs a Call From Bed 14 Every Night and Bay 14 Has Been a Store Room Since 2015
20:51 I Am a Theatre Scrub Nurse and Theatre 3 Counts One Swab More at the End Than We Opened
25:39 One of Our MRI Scanners Boils Off Four Times the Helium It Should and the Cold Head Is Working Perfectly
30:35 Our Blood Fridge Logs a Door Opening Every Night While the Door Contact Says It Is Shut
35:27 I Run Hospital Sterile Services and Autoclave 4 Prints a Perfect Cycle at Three in the Morning for a Load Nobody Booked
40:30 An Infusion Pump in a Sealed Store Cupboard Has an Event Log Showing It Delivered a Dose
45:18 Our Blood Analyser Passes Its Quality Control All Day and Fails One Channel Every Night at the Same Hour
51:05 One Ward's Sharps Bins Weigh Four Kilos More Than Everything We Put In Them
56:14 Our Operating Theatre Holds Positive Pressure With the Ventilation Plant Switched Off
1:01:24 Outro
Deranged Supermarket Horror Stories to Sleep To
0:40:52 · 11 September 2026
0:15 Our Car Park Cameras Have a Vehicle That Entered in 2021 and Has Never Been Recorded Leaving, and a Bay Sensor Agrees With Them
5:59 I Date Check a Supermarket and I Found a Pack With a Use By Date Fourteen Months Away and a Batch Code That Was Never Made
11:23 One Aisle in Our Store Loses Four Times the Stock of Any Other and the Gates Have Never Once Gone Off
17:04 One Chiller in Our Store Gets Colder During Its Defrost Cycle and the Engineer Says That Is Not a Thing a Fridge Can Do
22:33 A Warehouse Terminal in Our Store Confirms Picks All Night on a Login That Belongs to Nobody, and the Stock Moves
28:49 Our Self Checkouts Flag an Unexpected Item Every Night With the Store Locked and the Weight Is Always the Same
34:47 One Till in Our Store Counts Over Every Friday by the Same Amount and the Notes Are Always the Same Two
40:35 Outro
Disturbing Night Shift Horror Stories From the Feed
0:48:03 · 11 September 2026
0:15 I Test Telephone Cables at Night and One of Them Has a Fault Three Hundred Metres Past the End of It
6:22 I Watch Grain Stores Overnight and One Bin Has a Hotspot That Cannot Exist at Thirteen Percent Moisture
12:28 I Read Furnace Temperatures on Nights and One Patch of the Shell Runs Forty Degrees Hot With Full Lining Behind It
18:28 I Do Nights at a Museum and One Gallery Holds Fifty Two Percent Humidity With the Plant Switched Off
24:11 I Brew on Nights and Tank 6 Ferments Faster Than the Sugar In It Allows
30:10 Our Payroll Pays One Night Shift a Month That Nobody Worked and the Money Is Never Claimed
36:15 Our Sewage Works Takes a Surge at Three in the Morning With No Rain and the Load In It Is Four Hundred People
42:10 I Run a Wind Farm Control Room at Night and Turbine 11 Generates Eighty Kilowatts With the Brake On
47:46 Outro
Terrifying Old House Stories From the Dark
0:41:16 · 11 September 2026
0:15 I Survey Damp and One Wall in This House Reads Saturated on Every Meter and Bone Dry in the Laboratory
6:22 I Sweep Chimneys and One House Gives Me More Soot Than Its Fires Could Possibly Make
11:31 I Restore Longcase Clocks and One Keeps Perfect Time in Its Own House and Nowhere Else
17:28 I Monitor Cracks in Old Buildings and One in a Farmhouse Closes Every Year by the Same Amount
23:32 Our Deeds Reserve a Right of Access to a Room in Our House and the Right Is Still Registered
29:18 The Listed Building Description of My House Describes a Room That Is Not in It
35:09 A Thermal Survey of Our House Found a Cold Void Behind a Solid Wall and Two Contractors Have Refused the Job
40:59 Outro
Disturbing Late Night Drive Stories From the Dark
0:33:39 · 11 September 2026
0:15 I Analyse Number Plate Camera Data and One Car a Month Passes the Second Camera Before the First
7:16 I Manage a Haulage Fleet and One Lorry Uses Eleven Litres Less Going North Than Physics Allows
14:05 I Drive Nights for a Taxi Firm and the Meter Books a Fare Every Few Weeks While the Car Is Parked
20:21 I Look After the Axle Counters on a Toll Bridge and Lane Four Counts Axles With No Vehicle Attached
27:09 My Tachograph Says I Was Driving During a Break I Took in the Same Lay-By Every Night for Four Years
33:21 Outro
Disturbing Small Town Horror Stories for a Dark Room
0:53:17 · 11 September 2026
0:15 A Library Card Issued in 1986 Is Still Borrowing Books and Bringing Them Back on Time
6:45 Our Council Pays for One More Streetlight Than It Owns and I Have Counted Every Column in the District Twice
13:03 Plot 41 on Our Allotments Has Paid Its Rent for Thirty Years and Nobody on the Site Has Met the Tenant
18:42 I Am a School Business Manager and the Kitchen Serves One Meal a Day That No Pupil Is Charged For
24:02 Our Town Has Two River Gauges Two Hundred Metres Apart and in Every Flood the Downstream One Reads Higher
29:48 I Administer a Council Cemetery and One Grave Has Had Its Maintenance Paid Every Year Since 1974 by Standing Order
35:52 Our Council Bills Council Tax on an Address Between Two Houses on My Street and Somebody Pays It
41:42 Our Church Has Eight Bells and the Peal Recorder Logs a Ninth Rope Being Pulled
47:20 I Run Elections for a Small District and One Postal Vote Comes Back From a House That Has Been Empty Since 2009
52:59 Outro
Deranged Hospital Horror Stories to Sleep To
0:42:10 · 11 September 2026
0:15 I Am a Radiation Protection Adviser and One Dose Badge Reads a Dose in a Room With No Source
6:54 I Look After Hospital Medical Gases and One Ward Draws Forty Litres a Minute of Oxygen More Than Its Patients Can Breathe
12:42 I Run a Hospital Blood Bank and One Unit a Year Is Issued, Never Transfused, and Comes Back Cross-Matched to Somebody Else
18:29 I Run Fire Drills at a Hospital and the Headcount at One Assembly Point Is Always One Over
24:10 I Am a Hospital Porter and the Job System Sends Me to Collect Patients Who Left Days Ago
29:48 I Am a Hospital Pharmacy Technician and One Controlled Drug Register Balances Perfectly and Should Not
35:52 I Manage Hospital Bed Data and One Ward Reports Full Every Night When Two Beds Are Empty
41:53 Outro
Disturbing Winter Horror Stories From the Feed
0:51:36 · 11 September 2026
0:15 I Service Cold Stores and the Product in One Bay Is Five Degrees Colder Than the Air Around It
6:18 I Monitor a Bridge's Bearings and One of Them Moves Four Millimetres Too Far, Only on Frosty Nights
11:52 I Drive a Gritter and Route 9 Uses a Tonne More Salt Than the Road Under It Can Hold
17:32 I De-Ice Aircraft and Stand 9 Takes Four Hundred Litres More Fluid Than the Wing Can Hold
22:52 I Look After a Church Boiler and the North Aisle Has Never Once Reached Temperature
28:43 The Same Sixty Metres of Water Main Bursts Every Hard Frost and We Have Replaced All of It Twice
34:40 I Keep a Climate Station and the Minimum Thermometer Reads Lower Than the Sensor Beside It, on Clear Nights Only
40:23 One Pound of This Canal Freezes Three Inches Thick in a Night and the Ice Has No Air In It
45:49 Every Water Trough on This Hill Freezes Except One, and It Is the Highest and Most Exposed
51:19 Outro
Terrifying School Horror Stories
0:59:16 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Am a Locksmith and a School's Master Key System Has a Key in It That the Schedule Says Was Never Cut
5:50 Our School CCTV Logs a Motion Event in the Same Corridor Every Night and the Footage It Saved Is an Empty Corridor
11:30 I Count Asbestos Fibres Down a Microscope and One School Room Keeps Giving Me a Result, and There Is No Asbestos In It
17:09 Our School Minibus Gains Fourteen Miles Every Half Term and the Fuel Figures Say They Were Driven
22:24 I Tested a School's Wiring and Found Nine Milliamps Flowing Down a Cable to a Building That Was Demolished in 1998
27:37 I Am an Exams Officer and Every Summer There Is One Script More Than We Had Candidates, With a Number in the Right Format
32:40 I Measure Acoustics and One Seat in a School Hall Holds Sound for Half a Second Longer Than the Seat Beside It
38:06 I Tune Pianos and One Note on a School Hall Piano Goes Flat by the Same Amount Every Week
43:07 Our School Bell System Has an Event at Three Forty Two That Nobody Programmed, and It Rings With the Bells Disconnected
48:08 I Look After a School Swimming Pool and One Corner of It Eats Three Times As Much Chlorine As the Rest
53:18 I Do Water Hygiene in Schools and One Tap Will Not Reach Fifty Degrees, and the Pipe Feeding It Was Cut Out in 2015
58:59 Outro
Disturbing Airport Horror Stories Before Bed
0:37:03 · 10 September 2026
0:15 Our Laser Cloud Base Recorder Reports Cloud at One Hundred and Twenty Feet Over One End of the Runway, on Clear Nights
5:35 Something Transmits on Our Ground Frequency for Forty Seconds Every Night and Two Bearings Put It Inside the Fence
10:51 I Screen Hold Baggage and Once a Month the X-Ray Shows an Object That Is Not In the Bag
15:46 I Measure Runway Friction and One Ninety Metre Stretch of Our Main Runway Reads Better Wet Than It Does Dry
21:19 The Boarding Scanner on Gate 6 Counts One More Person Aboard Than the Crew Can Find in the Seats
26:22 Our Fuel Farm Loses Six Hundred Litres a Night and I Have Proved It Does Not Go Through the Only Pipe Out
31:30 I Am a Load Controller and Every Container Loaded on Stand 4 Weighs Twenty Three Kilos More Than the Bags Inside It
36:45 Outro
Terrifying Coastal Horror Stories for a Dark Room
0:38:47 · 10 September 2026
0:15 My AIS Receiver Picks Up a Vessel Whose Number Belongs to Nobody and It Passes the Same Point Every Time
7:18 Our Multibeam Survey Keeps Finding a Wreck at a Position Where Divers Say There Is Flat Sand
13:48 We Ring Birds at a Coastal Observatory and We Keep Catching One That Was Ringed in 1974
19:54 I Sample Bathing Water and One Spot on Our Beach Comes Back Colder Than the Sea Around It, Always
25:37 I Survey Beach Profiles for the Council and One Forty Metre Stretch Gains Sand Against the Drift
32:18 Our Lifeboat Station Has Been Paged Eleven Times to a Position With Nobody In the Water
38:30 Outro
Deranged Rental Late Night Horror Stories
0:33:46 · 10 September 2026
0:15 A Bath Is Run in My Locked Empty Flat at Four in the Morning and the Water Meter Proves It
7:28 I Let a Holiday Cottage and the Smart Lock Records a Retired Code Being Used Between Every Booking
14:24 I Put a Noise Sensor in My Rental to Catch Parties and It Records a Voice in the Empty House
20:38 My Empty Rental Flat Draws Four Hundred Watts Every Night and the Circuit It Is On Does Not Exist
27:11 I Clean Holiday Lets and the Linen Count at One House Comes Back One Pillowcase Over Every Single Time
33:29 Outro
Horrifying Countryside Stories That Do Not Add Up
0:36:22 · 10 September 2026
0:15 One of My Fields Yields More Wheat Than the Sunlight Falling on It Can Physically Grow
6:11 Every Sheep I Own Is Tagged and Scanned and the Flock Comes Back One Over Every Single Time
11:57 I Weigh My Beehives Every Day and One of Them Gains Weight All Through January
18:17 I Survey Public Footpaths and One on the Definitive Map Is Worn Smooth and Ends at a Hedge
24:08 I Read Water Meters and One at a Pumping Station Demolished in 1996 Still Turns
30:04 My Dairy's Bulk Tank Holds More Milk Than My Cows Give and the Creamery Pays Me For It
36:05 Outro
Disturbing Home Alone Stories for the Small Hours
0:34:51 · 10 September 2026
0:15 My Watch Records About Four Thousand Steps While I Am Asleep and It Only Happens in This House
6:04 My Neighbour Sends Me Her Doorbell Clips and Something Walks Past My Window in Fourteen of Them
11:11 My Car's App Tells Me the Doors Have Been Unlocked and the Interior Light Is On, Twice a Month, at Night
16:25 My Smart Speaker's History Has Commands I Never Gave and It Keeps the Recording of Every One
22:35 My Heating Log Shows Somebody Turning the Thermostat Up at the Wall While I Was Four Hundred Miles Away
28:31 My Food Delivery App Sends a Photo of the Order Left at the Door and Three of Them Were Taken From Inside My House
34:34 Outro
Terrifying Night Shift Horror Stories
0:37:29 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Work Nights in a Car Park Control Room and Bay 7 on Level 3 Has Been Occupied Since 2017
6:11 I Do Nights in a Data Centre and Cabinet J14 Draws Two Kilowatts and Is Not on the Floor Plan
12:30 I Patrol a Factory at Night and the Guard Tour System Logs Me Scanning a Point I Was Nowhere Near
18:13 I Run a Newspaper Press at Night and Some Copies Carry a Line That Is Not in the File We Printed
24:42 I Run a Night Shift Call Centre With Eight Seats and the Phone System Says Nine Agents Are Logged In
30:58 Our Bakery Gets a Production Order Every Friday Night for a Loaf We Stopped Making in 1998, and It Is Collected
37:12 Outro
Deranged Apartment Horror Stories Before Bed
0:38:21 · 10 September 2026
0:15 The Door Entry System in My Block Logs Flat 9 Answering the Buzzer and Flat 9 Has Been Boarded Up Since 2020
7:17 The Communal Laundry in My Building Runs a Wash Every Tuesday Paid For by a Card With No Account
13:50 I Clean the Windows on a Block of Flats and There Are Two More on the Outside Than There Are on the Inside
19:54 The Council Weighs Our Bins and Our Block Throws Out One Household More Than It Has
24:49 I Deliver to a Block of Flats and One Resident Has Been Getting Real Post From Real Companies for Thirty Years
31:29 I Do the Service Charge Accounts for a Block of Flats and They Only Balance If There Are Twenty Five
38:04 Outro
Horrifying Hotel Stories for the Small Hours
0:35:45 · 10 September 2026
0:15 Our Hotel Door Locks Keep Reading a Key Card Encoded for a Room Number We Have Never Had
7:33 I Service the Lift in a Hotel and Its Own Log Records Stops at a Floor That Is Not in the Shaft
15:16 Our Hotel Serves One More Breakfast Every Morning Than There Are Guests in the Building
21:51 The Same Name Books a Room in Our Hotel Every Year on the Same Date, Never Arrives, and the Bed Is Slept In
28:22 Somebody Writes in Our Hotel Night Log in Handwriting None of the Eleven of Us Owns
35:28 Outro
Disturbing Camping Stories From the Dark
0:34:56 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Run a Campsite and the Barrier Counts Nine More Vehicles Out Than In Every Season
7:24 My Campsite Booking System Will Not Let Anybody Book Pitch 31 for One Week of the Year
13:49 A Device Joins My Campsite Wifi Every Night With a Hardware Address Issued to a Company That Closed in 1994
21:07 The Firewood Honesty Box on My Campsite Takes One Bundle a Night and Pays in Coins That Were Withdrawn in 1971
27:53 The Standpipe in a Field We Closed in 2019 Has Used Eleven Thousand Litres Since
34:38 Outro
Terrifying Deep Woods Horror Stories for a Dark Room
0:36:13 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Run Camera Traps in a Forest and Camera Eleven Photographs the Wrong Season
7:25 More Water Comes Out of This Wood Than Falls On It and I Have Six Years of Gauge Readings
14:04 I Core Trees to Date Them and One Compartment of This Wood Is Always a Ring Older Than the Calendar
21:42 I Plan Searches for a Lowland Rescue Team and There Is One Clearing Our Tracklogs Go Round
28:55 I Run a Forest Harvester and Every Year It Cuts One More Tree Than There Are Stumps
35:56 Outro
Deranged Late Night Horror Stories
0:31:48 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Maintain the Hospital's Pneumatic Tube System and Carriers Keep Arriving From a Station That Was Removed
7:18 I Am a Theatre Scrub Nurse and the Instrument Count Is Always Right and There Is Always One Extra
12:53 I Am a Hospital Estates Engineer and the Medical Gas Panel Alarms for a Wing That Was Demolished in 2004
19:07 I Have Walked the Same Forest Loop 900 Times and My Watch Always Adds Half a Mile in the Same Place
25:28 There Is a Line in This Wood Where the Birdsong Stops and I Have Recorded It for Six Years
31:31 Outro
Horrifying Winter Stories for the Small Hours
0:19:42 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Have Done the Garden Bird Count for Thirty One Years and My Form Is Rejected Every Time
6:34 Our Village School Has a Phone Chain for Snow Days and One Number on It Belongs to a House That Was Demolished
13:11 Snow Never Settles on One Rectangle of Our Lawn and There Is Nothing Buried There
19:25 Outro
Disturbing Old House Horror Stories
0:20:29 · 10 September 2026
0:15 Our House Has Six Fireplaces and Seven Chimney Pots
7:15 Every Stone Step Down to Our Cellar Is Worn Except the Fourth One
14:07 Our Front Door Has Three Bell Pushes and the House Was Never Flats
20:12 Outro
Terrifying Coastal Stories From the Dark
0:28:44 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Maintain Tide Gauges and One of Them Records a Tide That Does Not Happen
7:52 I Inspect Sea Defences and There Is a Groyne on This Beach That Is Not on Any Plan
15:06 I Service Automated Lighthouses and One of Them Keeps a Log Nobody Writes
22:12 I Inherited My Aunt's Freezer and Every Meal in It Is Labelled With a Date That Has Not Happened Yet
28:27 Outro
Deranged Small Town Horror Stories for a Dark Room
0:30:47 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Work in a Library and One Borrower's Card Has Been Active Since 1974
7:11 I Am a Locksmith and I Have Changed the Locks on the Same House for Eleven Different Owners
14:55 I Fill Potholes for the Council and One of Them Comes Back the Same Shape
22:36 I Am a Harbourmaster and Berth 14 Has Been Paid For Every Year Since 1981 by a Man Who Died in 1979
30:29 Outro
Horrifying Night Shift Stories for the Small Hours
0:30:16 · 10 September 2026
0:15 I Was a Hospital Switchboard Operator and Bleep 419 Was Withdrawn in 1998 and It Still Answers
7:36 I Worked a Signal Box for Eleven Years and the Bell Rang for a Train Before It Was Sent
15:26 I Ran a Quarry Weighbridge at Night and One Lorry Weighed the Same Full and Empty
22:34 I Do Hearing Tests for the NHS and One Chair Answers Before the Tone
29:59 Outro
Disturbing Small Town Late Night Horror Stories
0:20:51 · 09 September 2026
0:15 I Run a Dry Cleaners and There Is a Coat on the Rail With a Ticket From 1994
7:17 I Race Pigeons and Every Season One More Comes Home Than I Sent
13:53 I Read Gas Meters for Twenty Years and One House Has Used Nothing Since 2011
20:34 Outro
Terrifying Countryside Horror Stories From the Feed
0:24:55 · 09 September 2026
0:16 In a Drought Our Reservoir Gives Back the Village It Drowned, and This Year It Gave Back One House Too Many
8:51 I Was a Night Porter for Nine Years and Room 12 Handed Its Key In Every Night
16:50 I Look After a Caravan Site Out of Season and One Van Has Its Heating On
24:40 Outro
Disturbing Home Alone Horror Stories That Take Their Time
0:21:07 · 09 September 2026
0:16 Something in Our House Makes a Noise at Fourteen Minutes Past Four and It Has Been Getting Closer for a Year
7:52 My Grandad Kept a Weather Diary for Fifty One Years and the Last Eleven Are Still to Come
14:33 I Plough Fields for a Living and One Field Brings Up the Same Thing Every Year
20:52 Outro
Deranged Small Town Horror Stories for the Quiet Hours
0:24:24 · 09 September 2026
0:16 My Doorbell Camera Recorded Somebody Standing at My Door for Six Hours and Never Rang It
8:00 I Sell Used Cars and the Same One Has Come Back to Me Four Times
16:19 Our Church Rings the Passing Bell for the Dead and Last Month It Rang My Age
24:09 Outro
Disturbing Countryside Horror Stories for the Quiet Hours
0:25:31 · 09 September 2026
0:16 The Removal Men Brought One More Box Than We Packed
8:19 There Is a Public Footpath on Every Map That Goes Into a Hedge
16:08 I Life Guard the Six A.M. Swim and There Is Always One More Person in the Water Than Signed In
25:15 Outro
Terrifying Night Shift Horror Stories From the Feed
0:27:30 · 09 September 2026
0:16 I Worked in Railway Lost Property and Shelf Nine Fills Itself
9:48 The Night Bus on My Route Has One More Stop Than the Daytime One
18:54 The Allotment Next to Mine Has Been Empty for Nine Years and Somebody Waters It
27:15 Outro
Disturbing Quiet Horror Stories
0:29:08 · 09 September 2026
0:16 I Bought a Photograph in a Charity Shop for Two Pounds
8:24 My Flat Has a Gas Meter for a Room That Does Not Exist
20:52 I Did a Paid Sleep Study. They Only Wanted Me on the Third Night.
28:52 Outro
Disturbing Horror Stories
0:43:12 · 29 July 2026
0:16 The Tenant Above Me
8:45 There Is a Fourth Camera on My Account
16:49 I Took a Job Watching a Canal Lock. These Were the Rules.
27:15 A Woman Came to My Door About a Dog I Don't Own
35:02 My Dad's Answering Machine Had 42 Messages From the Same Night
