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Nightmares

Nightmares

By: Sword and Scale
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 Welcome to Nightmares. True-Crime for Bedtime. Your nightmare begins now…








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Episodes
  • Sanctuary

    Sanctuary
    Apr 1 2026
    On a quiet January morning in rural Pennsylvania, Rhonda Smith went to work at her church and never came home. What started as a shocking act of violence inside a place of worship slowly unraveled into something far more personal. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered whispered jealousies, blurred boundaries, and a devotion that may have crossed a dangerous line.

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    30 mins
  • Bad Friends

    Bad Friends
    Mar 25 2026
    On March 12, 2000, in Spearfish, South Dakota, nineteen-year-old Chester Allan Poage agrees to a night that seems harmless… until it isn’t. In a secluded pocket of the Black Hills, it’s hard for a trusting kid like Chester to tell the difference between friends and predators.

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    26 mins
  • Survival

    Survival
    Mar 11 2026
    In October 2013, fourteen-year-old Abby Hernandez vanished on her walk home from school in rural New Hampshire. Months passed, searches faded, and a letter arrived that changed how the public understood her disappearance. When Abby finally came home, the truth forced a reckoning with certainty, judgment, and what survival actually looks like when escape is not possible.

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    23 mins
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love the story format. Listen to this most nights nearly as good as the main series

Great short story telling.

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