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Scary Stories to Tell in the Pod
Bingo plays and reacts to listener-submitted scary stories.
Appearances
- Episode 272 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 3 minutes, 37 seconds.
- Synopsis: Viv submitted two stories: her father’s childhood encounters with a cane-waving neighborhood eccentric called Woo Woo, and her own sighting of two featureless figures outside her window.
- Episode 272 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 3 minutes, 4 seconds.
- Synopsis: James Brubaker submitted a Halloween voice memo about forgetting to write a scary story because wearing a pumpkin head made the weather too hot.
- Episode 272 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 5 minutes, 38 seconds.
- Synopsis: Julie submitted a story about her sister Jenny’s teenage Ouija-board obsession and the frightening events that followed.
- Episode 272 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 3 minutes, 46 seconds.
- Synopsis: Desiree recounted a cabin trip where a stranger screamed frightening nonsense in the woods while Bingo lamented not being invited.
- Episode 260 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 24 minutes, 21 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo investigated claims that Labubu dolls contain Pazuzu, consulted ChatGPT, and staged a comic candle-and-tarot ritual to put Pazuzu into Dowiwi.
- Episode 231 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 35 minutes, 30 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo and Danny presented and discussed Gary Sudbrink’s recordings of uncanny telephone calls from an unknown source.
- Episode 223 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 12 minutes, 17 seconds.
- Synopsis: Kelly described an abandoned Mojave bunker and Richardt retold a frightening secondhand story about a date with Jaleel White.
- Episode 223 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 4 minutes, 9 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo played additional listener-submitted Halloween stories, including Viv’s frightening tale.
- Episode 196 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 6 minutes, 13 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo told a frightening workplace story about an older man repeatedly saying he had to talk with a girl.
- Episode 195 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 11 minutes, 45 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo read the Pokémon Black creepypasta about a bootleg cartridge and the Ghost curse.
- Episode 135 — citation pending · Segment length: 3 hours, 25 minutes, 17 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo, Danny, and Jarrod presented an extra-long Halloween feature built from archived listener voicemails, scary stories, paranormal recordings, and extended reactions.
- Episode 122 — citation pending · Segment length: 16 minutes, 19 seconds.
- Synopsis: The hosts read Carly's story, play Naomi's spooky recording and Chris's voicemail, then hear Caddy's account of an unexplained hesitation that prevented a high-speed collision.
- Episode 121 — citation pending · Segment length: 3 minutes, 33 seconds.
- Synopsis: The hosts play Pauly B's bee-character story and continue through the Rest in Bees and My Girl reaction.
- Episode 117 — citation pending · Segment length: 6 minutes, 28 seconds.
- Synopsis: Nested within Bingo's Combo Carnival, the board-game story is framed by the recurring scary-story title and culminates in the Friday-the-13th coincidence.
- Episode 116 — citation pending · Segment length: 1 minute, 37 seconds.
- Synopsis: The title sting frames Friday the 13th and the imminent Ranch release as frightening; the hosts discuss Rooster's fate and drift into the Ramsey case before the topic changes. The endpoint is topic-derived because no closing sting occurs.
- Episode 114 — citation pending · Segment length: 6 minutes, 17 seconds.
- Synopsis: Julie recounts a 2001 night when a strange man asked to borrow the phone and she later felt a comforting hand touch her back three times; the group weighs supernatural and psychological explanations.
- Episode 112 — citation pending · Segment length: 6 minutes, 34 seconds.
- Synopsis: The hosts play Gerald 'Jerry' Wheat's voicemail about seeing a Champ-like creature in Lake Champlain as a child, invite Todd Fawcett to corroborate it, and discuss Champ and other cryptids.
- Episode 112 — citation pending · Segment length: 1 minute, 48 seconds.
- Synopsis: An immediate title reprise begins a second occurrence in which Bingo recounts missing the chance to choose a childhood prize from a relative's knickknack drawer and still being haunted by the unknown opportunity.
- Episode 111 — citation pending · Segment length: 5 minutes, 53 seconds.
- Synopsis: The hosts play Nathan Dan's voicemail about a drowning prediction, a supposedly good demon named Slevin and a possible shadow figure, then assess the story and propose a future truth-versus-fiction submission format.
- Episode 106 — citation pending · Segment length: 8 minutes, 45 seconds.
- Synopsis: Vivian introduces Hartley Hare, who tells a horror story about glove puppet Michael eating Pig and taking Hartley's tail; the hosts stop, restart, pause, and resume the same submitted file.
- Episode 105 — citation pending · Segment length: 31 minutes, 59 seconds.
- Synopsis: The hosts play James Brubaker's edited three-file paranormal voicemail composite, then Bingo and Tony share their own strange-road, old-house and family stories under the same feature.
- Episode 104 — citation pending · Segment length: 41 minutes, 5 seconds.
- Synopsis: The hosts watch four spooky videos, play Evan’s ambulance-lights voicemail, and retell childhood shadow-person stories.
- Episode 104 — citation pending · Segment length: 13 minutes, 59 seconds.
- Synopsis: In a less-official second occurrence, the hosts examine two files from the same unidentified caller, remix the caller’s song, and call back only to reach a disconnected-number recording.
- Episode 99 — citation pending · Segment length: 56 minutes, 29 seconds.
- Synopsis: Danny debuts a listener-submission horror format and makes Bingo watch footage of a dead great-grandmother kept in a backyard coffin, a crawlspace intruder, and several alleged poltergeist incidents; its three explicitly numbered parts form one continuous occurrence, and the proposed future contest has no Episode 99 entrant, winner, or awarded prize.