It’s a tradition for us to bring our readers a month of spooky content in
October every year. While this year is far different, due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA
strike, we still want to shine a light on some fun chills and thrills for you
to enjoy in this haunting time leading up to All Hallows Eve. It occurred to me
that I knew the perfect addition for this year. Let’s call it BOO-Tube. That’s
right – there is a dark and spooky corner of YouTube content that spans several
genres. There are channels dedicated to investigating the paranormal, creepy
found footage, independent short films, and even a treasure trove of scary
stories.
It's the latter that I’m bringing you today. This is a compilation
of 13 videos spanning channels dedicated to telling scary stories – most of
them “allegedly true.” These tales of terror are sourced through Reddit, subscriber
submissions, and whatnot. I searched up some specifically Halloween-dedicated
or themed content and have compiled the best of what I found below. Each of these
channels has curated their own brand of creep-factor perfect for the Spooky
Season.
These videos are listed in order of length from shortest to
longest.
If Halloween and all things creepy are your jam, we hope this fits the bill!
(1) Thriller Teller : 1 Story, 5 minutes
This channel provides scary stories that they have animated
themselves. The content creator narrates the stories they have brought to life
on the screen. Honestly, the quality of this animation is generally better than
most of the similar “animated scary stories” channels.
(2) Scary Hours : 3 Stories, 13 minutes
This channel provides narrated stories with thematic scenery
videos and an ambient score. These stories are not animated.
(3) Twisted Tales : 3 Stories, 14 minutes
This channel also provides narrated stories over thematic
images and an ambient musical score.
(4) MJV Animations : 3 Stories, 15 minutes
This channel is one that provides their own animations of
the stories they narrate.
(5) Mr. Nightmare : 3 Stories, 19 minutes
This is the first of 2 videos I’ve included from this
channel. These stories are narrated with an ambient score and thematic video
clips. Mr. Nightmare’s content is not animated.
(6) Mort : 6 Stories, 30 minutes
This channel also provides animations for the stories that
they narrate.
(7) Martin Animations : 7 Stories, 31 minutes
This is another channel that provides their own animations
for their narrated stories. Unlike some, this one also provides a breakdown in the
description for the time-markers for each story. The stories aren’t described
there, just numbered, however.
(8) Mr. Nightmare : 8 Stories, 32 minutes
This is the 2nd offering I’ve listed from this
channel. As with the other video, this is not animated but does provide some
spooky thematic music and video clips in the background of the narrated stories.
(9) Swamp Dweller : 5 Stories, 39 minutes
This channel focuses primarily on the narrated story rather
than the visuals within the video. The title card remains throughout and there
is a bit of rain as a background score.
(10) Lets Read! : 6 Stories, 55 minutes
This channel provides a spooky Halloween Jack-o-lantern as
an ambient animation loop with a complementing spooky score.
(11) Booze and Boos : 8 Stories, 56 minutes
This video uses ambient rain audio as a background for these
scary stories and gives us another Jack-o-lantern clip on loop.
(12) Darkness Prevails : 11 Stories, 1 hour 2 minutes
Once more, we have 2 video offerings from a single channel.
These were from last year and this channel hasn’t released any new content for
2023. However, if you like these compilations, perhaps keep checking in with
their listings and they might publish something new for this season. This video
has a backdrop of ambiance animated videos and an eerie score. The stories, themselves,
are not animated.
(13) Darkness Prevails: 25 Stories, 3rhs 55 minutes
This final video also sports an animated loop of a candle-lit
Jack-o-lantern with ambient instrumental music in the background.
