Scared To Death
The paranormal comes to life as husband-wife duo Dan Cummins (acclaimed standup comedian and true horror fan) and Lynze Cummins (costume and wardrobe stylist for numerous film and television productions) share terrifying stories that will leave you sleeping with the lights on. Dan’s goal? To scare Lynze with creepy accounts of demonic possession, shadow people, and other eerie phenomena. And when he’s done, Lynze fights back with chilling fan-submitted tales of true horror. Together, they explore the darkest corners of the web, dusty old books, and even their own eerie surroundings—a studio filled with occult objects and locate...
Episodes
Nightmare Fuel #41: The Judge
In this forty-first installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins, we meet Lachlan Harrison. Maybe not the best guy. But does he deserve what happens to him in the forest when he goes for what's supposed to be a light,…
The Eye Dwellers
Dan takes us to China, back to the 17th century for a truly weird and deliciously creepy tale. Then, England, where we explore another story involving a supposedly haunted doll, a doll with no name. Lynze brings us to the UK for a haunted …
Big Muddy Monster
Dan starts off the week in Chicago, in the suburbs. We will explore the very well documented legend of the Big Muddy Monster. Did a variety of people see some sort of big, terrifying, bipedal cryptid in a swamp back in 1973? And have people…
Nightmare Fuel #40: Samael's Curse Conclusion (3 of 3)
The big showdown is here in this fortieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins. Lizzie travels to Portland to work with Detective Ray Salazar to put a stop to Samael Orcas's murders. How will she do that? Can …
Bus 975
Dan's first of two stories takes us to a supposedly haunted bus in the fascinating nation of Singapore. Then we are headed down south for legend of the Plat-Eye. Then Lynze takes us to the Philippines for a creepy tale about a legendary cre…
Leave Hank Alone
SIX stories this week! Lynze switches it up with four shorter tales after Dan's usual two. We’ll head to Malvern Manor, set in the little town of Malvern, Iowa.Paranormal investigators and the supernaturally curious alike keep traveling to …
Nightmare Fuel #39: Samael's Curse (Part 2 of 3)
Things heat up in this thirty-ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins. Lizzie travels to Alabama to learn more about the origins of Samael Orcas. And what she finds out is anything but comforting. Meanwhil…
Okiku the Doll
We are headed to Japan for Dan's first story about a supposedly haunted - or maybe possessed - doll in Japan: Okiku. It's very unsettling! Then we head to a no name college town for thee anonymous story of a college student who got a lot m…
What Else Could Be Out Here?
Such a fun show this week as Dan and Lynze take us all over the world. From Greenland to Texas to Croatia to Mexico there is so much paranormal lore to unpack. Dan starts us off in Greenland where a young woman has a possible encounter with…
The White Bluff Screamer
Dan's first supposedly true supernatural tales comes to us from Tennessee where we explore the legend of the White Bluff Screamer. After that, we’ll travel to the end of the 16th century, where in what is now Germany, a man named Peter St…
Nightmare Fuel #38: Samael's Curse (Part 1 of 3)
In this thirty-eighth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet Samael Orcas. Is he a man? A monster? Both? Lizzie Chavez is determined to find out exactly who he is, why he keeps killing, and how to st…
The Bad Dream Phone
Dan kicks of this episode with the story of a woman who suddenly recalls a haunting from her childhood that revolves around a board game. Then, Dan uncovers a new fear for Lynze: Spontaneous Human Combustion. What in gods name is it and wha…
Stop Hunting My Family
Dan begins with a story is about a woman who is dealing with a family tragedy and the paranormal. Her brother is seemingly unaware, which may make it worse. Then, in Pennsylvania the haunted lore associated with Brownsville’s Nemacolin Cas…
Nightmare Fuel #37: Dissonance (continuation/conclusion)
In this thirty-seventh installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... Duncan Briggs just wants his life to return to what it was before he'd ever heard of AR Innovations. But we all know that's not going to happen, …
The Watseka Wonder
Both Dan's stories seem to present exceptionally strong evidence for life after death. The first comes from the state of Illinois and is the exceptionally strange late 19th century tale of the Watseka Wonder. Then his second story takes us…
Every Night He Runs
The first story Dan gives us this week was posted online by a man claiming to have recently resolved a haunting from his childhood apartment. It's bizarre and twisted. Next up, we are off to Siberia to explore the Tunguska Event. Then, we…
Nightmare Fuel #36: Dissonance
In this thirty-sixth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet a man, Duncan Briggs, who agrees to participate in a paid scientific study to make a little cash to get his wife something nice for her bir…
The Lord Of The Locusts
We hope all our Creeps and Peeper are also unsettled by our tales this week. Dan starts off in North Carolina with a story about a man who tried to transform into an actual demon. And some think he was, in a way, successful. Then, his seco…
The Kong-Kong Gwishin
First, we head to Korea where Dan shares stories about one of the most disturbing ghosts The Kong-Kong Gwishin. She is the ghost of a schoolgirl doomed to haunt in death those who remind her of her tormenters in life. Then Dan take us to Po…
Nightmare Fuel #35: The Unfrozen
In this thirty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to The Dark World, and meet a new creature that The Architect has created to torment our world: The Ice Hunter. How will Dr. Candace Jack…
Aokigahara: The Suicide Forest
We begin this week in a place literally called the Suicide Forest. Aokigahara. Dan will share the whisperings of hauntings from this infamous Japanese location. Then, we’ll head to Italy for an Italian folklore tale about La Borda. Lynze of…
Tale Of The Pontianak
We begin this week with an especially terrifying creature from Indonesia known as the Pontianak . Dan will share the lore of the Pontianak and then a handful of supposed modern encounters with this vengeful, angry, female, vampiric spirit. …
Nightmare Fuel #34: Burn the Witch 3: The Final Toll
In this thirty-fourth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bristol County, Massachusetts once more, over sixteen years after Brad Collins made his blood pact with the undead witch, Marina Hart…
The White Witch
This first story of Dan's was mined from a Ghost Stories subreddit full of nothing but supposedly true paranormal encounters. The poster claims to have seen his fair share of all the gruesome horrors mankind has to offer during his time in …
The Glass Door
Dan kicks off this week with a strange story of a young student who is trapped inside a glass doored vestibule. Then, a very upsetting possessed doll story wraps up his half of the show. Lynze provides three tales this week. To start, a hau…
Nightmare Fuel #33: Burn the Witch 2: A Book For Blood
In this thirty-third installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bristol County, Massachusetts, where struggling horror author Brad Collins has completed his new book, Burn the Witch, and it appears …
Lady Koi Koi
Dan showers us with four tales for the 300th episode today! The first story revolves around real world tragedy in Virginia intersecting with the supernatural. Then, a mysterious death in Australia. This is followed by a third story about …
The Monitor
We begin this week in Pennsylvania with a story that involves a woman who starts to believe that something in her new house is coming for her family and trying to take it from her. Then, Dan takes us to Brazil to explore one of the more dis…
Decapitate The Dead
Dan's first of two tales covers the lore and supposed paranormal encounters associated with Dublin, Ireland’s St. Michan’s Church and the dead bodies that reside in the crypts beneath it. Then, we’ll venture over Lake Pleasant, New York, …
Nightmare Fuel #32: Burn the Witch
In this thirty-second installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to Bristol County, Massachusetts, where struggling horror author Brad Collins's desperation for another hit book leads him to experiment w…
You're It
A man in his 40s has a recollection of a very strange incident from his childhood but only recalls it after his brother passes away. Listen as Dan unfolds this creepy childhood tale. Then we visit a poltergeist case from Columbus, Ohio that…
Brownwood's Haunted House
We start this week in Brownwood, Texas where a murder tragic murder may have added additional paranormal energy to a property already rumored to be haunted. Then, is a spirit sending emails from the great beyond? A short and very strange…
Nightmare Fuel #31: The House of Hurt
In this thirty-first installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to Upstate New York's Woodhull Mountain, where Gabe and Hassan see a very strangely placed house on the side of the hill while out on a hik…
Room 11
Dan's first of two tales is a modern encounter story set in Sauk Centre, Minnesota’s Palmer Hotel. Lynze, of course, was excited when she heard "sock" center! The second story shares the haunted history of Kansas City, Missouri’s St. Mary’…
Edith's Summer Visitors
Supposedly true tales this week from Dan include a story about an elderly widow living alone in the early 1980s and her visitors. Then, we’ll bounce around the world to a number of so-called “phantom islands.” Can an island discovered by n…
Nightmare Fuel #30: Operation Wandering Soul
In this thirtieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to the tropical jungle of Vietnam's Annamese mountains. On a dark, rainy night in January of 1968, PsyWar Detachment Six - a six-man team and …
The Man Outside The Cabin
We are in a bit of a remote, wooded double feature today for Dan's tales. The first of two stories is composed out of what may have been a hermit’s final diary entries, as a man living alone in a remote cabin writes of something terrorizing…
The Boy
We start with a very upsetting story of an imaginary friend in Council Bluffs, Iowa that Dan does an amazing job of bringing to life. Then, in his second tale of the week Dan takes us to Tujunga Canyon for a very bizarre UFO encounter. Lynz…
Nightmare Fuel #29: The Hitchhiker
In this twenty-ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet Ryan Castillo, who, on a long late-night drive through the desert from Los Angeles, California to Tonopah, Nevada, hits one hitchhiker, and…
The Ghosts of Ballarat
For the first of two tales, Dan takes us to the old mining city of Ballarat , Australia, to explore reports of hauntings from the 19th century, and some even stranger reports of some ghost hoaxers. Such an entertaining story! Then, a suppo…