Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales

Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales

Welcome brave listeners to my collection of frightening tales, scary stories and ghostly yarns. Each season runs from May till the finale on All Hallows Eve. I‘ll post a new story for my listeners each Friday till then. So, make yourself comfortable and settle in for a spooky time, there is currently more than 13 hours of paranormal stories for you to listen to... if you're brave enough. Have a frightening story of your own? Please submit it at FrighteningTales.com. "LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED" These stories are varied and may contain an assortment of triggers.

Episodes

October 31, 2023 9 mins

Why is it that some of us can't shake the need to refrain from dangling a limb off the bed during the night... perhaps that need is there for a reason.

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They say in the deep south that when the rains come down hard and God plays his drums, it may wake loved ones long since gone. And on one dark and stormy night there was a knock at the door.

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October 20, 2023 35 mins

There were two strong women in his life – and one of them were dead.

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October 13, 2023 24 mins

Billy had made concessions to give his wife her dream pool, but what would this really cost them?

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October 6, 2023 34 mins

A retrospective visit to the classic tales by renowned authors. In this tale author M.R. James shares arguably his best ghost story, written in 1894.

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September 29, 2023 43 mins

What lengths would you go through for success in your career? This weeks story examines the dark place one might be led to in an effort to get... a head.

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September 22, 2023 25 mins

How many of us are haunted by the life that might have been... But what happens when that haunting is no longer metaphor?


A story from Sara Century's new book "A Small Light & Other Stories" available through publisher Weird Punk.

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September 15, 2023 25 mins

We all have our vices, our personal demons. But some demons are a little more tangible than others.


*Listener Discretion is Advised horrific scenes depicted.

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September 8, 2023 43 mins

What happens with the unoticable is noticed? Starved for attention how far would a being go once it finally felt 'seen' This weeks story asks just such a question, in an exclusive story by Mark Wilhelm.

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September 1, 2023 28 mins

What happens when you peer into the mirror only to realize that something was off a little about your reflection. As though it just wasn't right.

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August 25, 2023 17 mins

A magician is only as good as their assistant. Sometimes the entire act hinging on the skills they possess.


This dark tale was written by Katharine Widdows to a prompt from reedsy.com "Write a story about a magician who never reveals their secrets"

https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/i1i78l/#comments

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August 18, 2023 13 mins

A seemingly normal date is interrupted by the demands of an unassuming side dish.

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August 18, 2023 13 mins

A recounting of the terror filled moments hunted by... something in the dark woods.


A story created at the prompt provided by Reedsy.com "Start your story with an unusual sound being heard"

https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/6g70s7/

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August 11, 2023 37 mins

Pilot Episode. An odd man with a very personal connection to the paranormal is on a hunt, shaking down hells minions for information that will help him aquire a powerful divine relic. Along the way he meets an even stranger man that seems to remain outside the perceptions of hell, a real life Nobody. Thrust together seemingly by fate the two start to try to unravel this mystery but will they do it before hells warden notices it'...

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August 4, 2023 39 mins

Clarabelle and her Father are trying to make their new house a home. But Clara's unplanned roomate seems to have darker idea's for the new residents. It wouldn't be long before dark secrets would take these negotiations to a whole other level.

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July 28, 2023 58 mins

It was a sad and somber thing that set about one of the truly great moments for nearly any New Yorker. Henry Adams was dead, and that meant there would be a vacancy.

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July 21, 2023 96 mins

Special Presentation!

Written in 1820 by American author Washington Irving as part of a collection of 34 essays and short stories in a volume called 'The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon'. This is the a reading of the original story of Sleepy Hollow.

As this was written in 1820, what was considered proper in life back then deviates from what is considered by today's standards of proper. Keep in mind that this piece suffe...

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July 14, 2023 25 mins

Trigger warning: descriptions of family violence.


A Mother's love can span greater distances than the measurements of mankind, in time Darcy would learn how far a Mother would go for her little girl.

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July 6, 2023 20 mins

What would you give to change the things about yourself that you just don't like? What if you were approached with a miracle fix to get that perfect you? Would you leap before you look?

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June 30, 2023 29 mins

Lisa is having trouble getting a song out of her head... a song that only she can hear. Seemingly now the soundtrack to all the tragedy in her life. But where did it come from? And who made it?

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