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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
  • Snap

    Snap
    Feb 18 2026
    Thirteen-year-old Thad Phillips fell asleep on his couch—and woke up in a nightmare. Trapped in a decaying house with a smiling teen and sinister intentions, he would spend two harrowing days fighting to survive when all hope seemed lost.

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    29 mins
  • Party

    Party
    Feb 4 2026
    James Rackover looked like someone who had it all. He had style, status, and a last name that carried weight. But the truth behind the image was darker. When a man goes missing after a night in Manhattan, investigators start to uncover the kind of past James hoped no one would find. He wasn’t who he said he was. And he wasn’t done breaking the rules.

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    30 mins
  • Trouble Ahead

    Trouble Ahead
    Jan 28 2026
    A teenage girl’s discovery of a human skull on Iowa’s Greenbelt River Trail led investigators to the murder of missing 29-year-old Angela Nicole Bradbury. The case unraveled into a chilling confession by Nathan James Gilmore, whose digital trail and coded clues revealed a cold, deliberate killing. What began as a missing person report ended as one of Iowa’s most disturbing murder cases.

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    20 mins
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