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Our annual Halloween specials filled with scary true stories and frightful surprises. If you have a scary story to share, reach out!

Scary Stories #15: Skin-crawling!

Our 15th annual Halloween special filled with scary true stories, spooky songs and frightful surprises....

10/30/2023

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Scary Stories #8: Egad!

A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the fourth episode of our eighth season, R. Ben Garant, Michaela Murphy...

10/26/2023

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Scary Stories #14: Hair-raising!

Our 14th annual Halloween special filled with scary true stories, spooky songs and frightful surprises....

10/31/2022

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Scary Stories #13: Bloodcurdling!

Our annual Halloween special filled with scary true stories, spooky songs and frightful surprises....

10/26/2021

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Scary Stories #12: Aieee!

Our annual Halloween special filled with scary true stories, spooky songs and frightful surprises....

10/27/2020

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Scary Stories #11: Jeepers!

Oscar Sagastume, Jill Heinerth, Natalie Nicole Dressel, Cyndi Freeman, and Elise delMas share scary stories in our annua...

10/29/2019

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Scary Stories #10: Gadzooks!

Sam Mullins, Ryan Estrada, Kelly Cupell, Ian Steffe and Moloch Masters share stories on our 10th Halloween Special....

10/30/2018

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Scary Stories #9: Muahaha!

Robin Reiser, Ansley Isham, Kristen Ludwig, Burke Heffner and Erika Steigerwald share scary stories in our 2017 Hallowee...

10/31/2017

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Scary Stories #8: Egad!

R. Ben Garant, Michaela Murphy, Ryan Stroud and Alan Weber share spooky stories in our 2016 Halloween episode....

11/01/2016

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Scary Stories #7: Argh!

Myka Fox, Carrie Poppy, Marshall York and Thomas McKean tell more spooky tales....

11/09/2015

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Scary Stories #6: Zoinks!

Sharon Houston, Nelson Lugo and Chris Iacono share spooky tales in our annual ‘ween-tide collection....

11/02/2015

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Scary Stories #5: Boo!

A bunch of scary tales in our annual Halloween episode!...

10/28/2014

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Scary Stories #4: Yikes!

Scott Whitehair, Brett Wean, Heidi Galore and Jackson McKeehan tell spooky yarns in our 2013 Halloween episode....

11/04/2013

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Scary Stories #3: Ack!

R. Ben Garant, Susan Kent and Matt Mercier share stories that go “Boo!” in the second episode of our 2012 Do...

11/09/2012

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Scary Stories #2: Ick!

Ken Reid, Danny Lobell, Michele Carlo and Todd Dakotah Briscoe tell stories that go “Boo!” in the first epis...

11/04/2012

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Scary Stories #1: Eek!

Spooky stories! Ben Garant of Reno 911! as well as Pete Holmes, Kumail Nanjiani, Ptolemy Slocum, JC Cassis, Heidi Rosebr...

11/05/2011

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