Greetings, brave souls. I am Professor Adontes Finch, your guide through the shadowy realms of fear and the unknown. Step into The Nightmare Trials, where fact and fiction blur, and the most chilling tales come to life.
These aren’t mere stories of fantasy or wild imagination—each tale is steeped in terrifying truth. Passed down to me for analysis and experimentation, these accounts of horror have been meticulously dissected with the help of my loyal lab assistants and cutting-edge technology. Our mission? To unravel the deepest, darkest mysteries that lurk in the shadows and the sinister unknown.
Here in the lab, we dive into realms haunted by unspeakable creatures, eerie coincidences, and supernatural forces. Every episode pushes the boundaries of your understanding of the macabre. But beware—these stories aren't for the faint-hearted.
Prepare yourself for a journey through dread, fear, and the supernatural. Together, we will confront the horrors that defy reason, and with your help, we will unlock the unspeakable secrets that most dare not face.
So, strap in tight... the trials are about to begin.
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Greetings, brave souls. I am Professor Adontes Finch, your guide through the shadowy realms of fear and the unknown. Step into The Nightmare Trials, where fact and fiction blur, and the most chilling tales come to life.
These aren’t mere stories of fantasy or wild imagination—each tale is steeped in terrifying truth. Passed down to me for analysis and experimentation, these accounts of horror have been meticulously dissected with the help of my loyal lab assistants and cutting-edge technology. Our mission? To unravel the deepest, darkest mysteries that lurk in the shadows and the sinister unknown.
Here in the lab, we dive into realms haunted by unspeakable creatures, eerie coincidences, and supernatural forces. Every episode pushes the boundaries of your understanding of the macabre. But beware—these stories aren't for the faint-hearted.
Prepare yourself for a journey through dread, fear, and the supernatural. Together, we will confront the horrors that defy reason, and with your help, we will unlock the unspeakable secrets that most dare not face.
So, strap in tight... the trials are about to begin.
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S2E62: Existentialism
Season 2 Finale
Description:
Everything has led to this.
The final moves are set in motion as Merrick completes the last step of his three-part ascent, securing another god and pushing himself beyond the threshold of return. Power stacks upon power, but identity fractures under the weight of divinity.
Aubrey and Simon stand in opposition, not as saviors, but as witnesses to what Merrick has become and what he is willing to sacrifice to finish his work. Ideology clashes with inevitability, and no one leaves this confrontation unchanged.
About This Episode:
Existentialism serves as the Season 2 Finale, closing the cycle of Merrick’s rise.
Heavy with philosophical dread, cosmic consequence, and irreversible choice.
The end is not explosive.
It is unavoidable.
⚠️ Warning:
This episode contains intense psychological horror, cosmic themes, identity erosion, and existential dread. Listener discretion is advised.
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🩸 S2E61: The Hole — by C.P. Bearden
About This Episode:
The Hole is a tightly wound psychological horror short written by C.P. Bearden, exploring fixation, dread, and the quiet terror of inevitability. Minimalist and unsettling, this episode lingers long after it ends, like the feeling that something unseen is still watching.
If you’re drawn to stories that burrow under your skin and refuse to let go, this one leaves a mark.
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🎄🩸 A Holiday Horror Special
All cheer. No mercy.
Description:
This holiday season, Merrick returns.
What were once four separate Christmas nightmares have been stitched together into a single, uninterrupted descent into festive horror. Bells ring. Snow falls. And Merrick reminds the world that not all traditions are meant to bring comfort.
From twisted acts of “generosity” to cruel lessons wrapped in tinsel and blood, this special delivers the full collection of Merrick’s holiday atrocities, unchanged, unfiltered, and far more horrifying when experienced all at once.
Christmas isn’t cancelled.
It’s corrupted.
About This Episode:
A Holiday Horror Special combines the previously released Merrick Christmas episodes into one complete feature-length experience. Designed for both returning listeners and first-time victims, this episode showcases Merrick at his most theatrical, sadistic, and disturbingly joyful.
Perfect for late nights, cold weather, and listeners who like their holidays dark.
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🩸 S2E60: A Tussle With Vanity
Power demands admiration. Gods demand worship.
Description:
The endgame continues. In the wake of To Capture a God, the fractures widen. Merrick pushes forward with his next objective, Vanity. But capturing a god obsessed with self-perception is not a battle of strength… it’s a battle of reflection, deception, and control. Every step closer risks losing what little of himself remains.
Elsewhere, Aubrey is drawn deeper into forbidden history as she’s told the origin of Lilith, a story of betrayal, hunger, and transformation. What began as survival became obsession.
About This Episode:
A Tussle With Vanity serves as Part 2 of the three-part Season 2 finale, peeling back the layers of godhood and revealing the cost of becoming something more than human. This episode balances mythic revelation with escalating dread as the path toward the finale narrows.
Some gods are taken by force.
Others must be understood first.
Featured Author:
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🩸 S2E59: To Capture a God
The beginning of the end.
Description:
The pieces are finally moving into place.
As Season 2 reaches its breaking point, five paths converge, each one vital, each one dangerous. Merrick grapples with the growing presence of the god Fame, a celestial force gnawing at his identity from the inside. Control is slipping, and something divine is learning how to wear human skin.
Elsewhere, Simon prepares Aubrey for an encounter that will change everything. Meanwhile, Agent Blaylen and Callahan discuss the Dreamwalker, a being whose influence stretches across sleep, memory, and fate itself.
This is not the end.
This is the alignment.
About This Episode:
To Capture a God marks the opening movement of the Season 2 finale, weaving together multiple perspectives into a single, escalating narrative. This episode deepens the mythos, fractures alliances, and sets the stage for a confrontation that will decide the fate of gods and monsters alike.
⚠️ Warning:
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❄️ S2E58: The Changing
When the world freezes, survival isn’t measured in miles... only minutes.
Description:
The world didn’t end in fire. It ended in cold.
In this post-apocalyptic chillscape, a creeping sheet of sentient ice, known only as The Changing, has consumed the West and is slowly devouring its way across the United States. Entire towns vanish overnight. Highways turn to frozen tombs. And the cold… comes with a hidden secret.
Blue is alone with only a CB radio, a warm fire, and the distant voice of his friend Parsnip. When Parsnip calls with some unsettling news, Blue sets out into the deadly frost. But the deeper he travels, the more of The Changing is revealed.
About This Episode:
The Changing is a slow-burn survival horror set in a world reclaimed by ice. It blends atmospheric dread, isolation, and creeping existential panic as Blue races through a dying landscape to save the last voice he has left.
In this world, warmth is hope.
And hope is running out.
⚠️ Warning:
This episode contains themes of isolation, environmental horror, body horror, and intense atmospheric tension. Listener discretion is advised.
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🩸 S2E57: Necro
When the dead want revenge, they don’t always come for your body... sometimes, they come for your mind.
Description:
Roger has always been in control.
A meticulous predator.
A monster who believed no one could touch him.
But after taking something he should have left, Roger finds himself stalked by an entity older, darker, and far more sadistic than he is. It doesn’t want justice. It doesn’t want peace. It wants him to break. Roger’s life twists into hallucinations, his past victims making themselves known. But that is impossible... right?
About This Episode:
Necro is a psychological descent into the unraveling mind of a serial killer who finally meets something worse than himself. This episode blends existential terror, reality distortion, and supernatural vengeance as Roger is forced to confront a force that refuses to let him die… until it’s done with him.
He spent years playing with victims.
Now something is playing with him.
⚠️ Warning:
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🩸 S2E56: Going Live – Part II
An escalating Oteev nightmare, where the livestream becomes a ritual.
Description:
The moment Dare hit “Go Live,” something ancient was watching.
Now Merrick stands before him... amused, violent, and ready to use Dare as fuel for his newest obsession. His goal? To summon and merge with a celestial demon known only as Fame, a creature born from worship, attention, and the hunger of the digital masses.
Aubrey and Mr. Fields push through the collapsing reality to reach Dare before Merrick completes the summoning. But the walls between dimensions are thinning…
And Fame is already pushing through.
About This Episode:
Going Live – Part II deepens the Oteev mythos with a brutal collision of cosmic horror and digital culture.
The stakes rise as Aubrey and Mr. Fields confront the consequences of attention-driven chaos and the horrifying truth behind what Merrick is becoming.
A ritual disguised as content.
A demon disguised as a god.
A livestream disguised as entertainment.
Everything is watching.
⚠️ Warning:
This episode contains intense horror, violence, disturbing themes, and digital-ritual imagery. Listener discretion is advised.
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🩸 S2E55: Going Live – Part 1
An Oteev storyline tie-in following the aftermath of The Void.
Description:
After the collapse of the Void, cracks in reality still remain and something hungry presses against the edges.
When a reckless YouTuber known as Dare accepts a challenge to explore the home of The Chylds, he unknowingly steps into a dimensional fault line that should have stayed sealed forever.
To prevent a catastrophic breach, Simon sends Aubrey into a fragile reality to stop Dare’s livestream before he awakens what sleeps beneath the floorboards. But Aubrey quickly realizes this isn’t just another mission… something in the Void wants out.
About This Episode:
Going Live – Part 1 is a fast, visceral blend of cosmic horror, digital-age dread, and Oteev mythology.
This episode explores the terrifying consequences of attention, influence, and what happens when an online stunt becomes a ritual.
What begins as a livestream becomes a countdown — and every viewer is a witness.
⚠️ Warning:
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🩸 S2E54: We Apologize for the Delay - by Viggy Parr Hampton ✈️🔥
From the author of The Rotting Room, A Cold Night for Alligators, and Much Too Vulgar
Description:
Tammy comes to consciousness standing in line to board a plan. Odd as that may seem, things just keep getting stranger. She is hounded by ghosts from her past, the familiar faces she hoped to never see again.
Caught in an endless loop of check-ins, holding patterns, and terminal despair, Tammy must face the haunting truth of why she’s stuck in this infernal layover.
Welcome aboard, and fasten your seat belts, because we’re going straight down.
About This Episode:
We Apologize for the Delay is a surreal descent into madness and memory — where Hell takes the shape of an airport terminal and every delay feels like an eternity.
Written by Viggy Parr Hampton, this episode blends dark humor, psychological horror, and cosmic dread into one turbulent ride you’ll never forget.
⚠️ Warning:
This episode contains disturbing imagery, mature themes, and strong language. Listener discretion is advised.
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S2E53: DaVinci 🕵️♂️🩸
When a string of brutal murders shocks the city, Detective Wright is assigned to the case that has left even seasoned investigators shaken. The evidence is haunting. The details, impossible. With nowhere else to turn, Wright begins to review a series of interrogation tapes—hours of questioning with the prime suspect, a man named Jim.
But as he listens deeper into the recordings, strange details begin to emerge. The lines between past and present blur, and the familiar crackle of the tape hides something much darker. Each playback pulls Wright further into a psychological labyrinth where truth, obsession, and guilt intertwine.
Some cases are better left unsolved… and some voices should never be heard again. 🎙️🕯️
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S2E52: Hide and Seek — Part 2 🌲🩸
The hunt continues.
After the horrors that unfolded at the secluded hunting lodge, Rich finds himself alone and on the run. His partner Steve is gone, or rather, changed, transformed into something inhuman… something ancient.
Now, deep in the dark woods, Rich prepares for the ultimate nightmare: to be hunted by an old vampire whose hunger knows no mercy. As dawn inches closer, the lines between predator and prey begin to blur, and Rich must face the chilling truth, the game of Hide and Seek was never meant to end.
Survival isn’t guaranteed. But the blood calling through the trees ensures the hunt will never stop. 🦇🔥
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S2E51: Hide and Seek — Part 1 🪜🕯️
For Rich and Steve, it was supposed to be just another day on the job. Two gutter cleaners heading out to a secluded hunting lodge deep in the woods. But when they arrive, something feels wrong. The roof is littered with dead animals, the air hums with flies, and the silence that follows feels far too heavy to ignore.
What started as a routine cleanup becomes a desperate game of survival against something ancient, unseen, and merciless.
The woods have eyes. And the hunt has already begun. 🌲🩸
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S2E50: The Zyper Tapes 🎙️🕰️
When Dr. Richard Atwell sits down to interview Sebastian Zyper a patient whose crimes defy logic and whose words fracture reality, the line between science and the supernatural begins to blur. What starts as a simple psychological evaluation descends into a nightmare of existential horror, and something far older than madness itself.
The Zyper Tapes is a descent into the mind of a killer and the man who dared to understand him. This episode blends psychological horror, metaphysical tension, and reality distortion into a single, unnerving experience. Each tape unravels more than truth. It unravels the listener. 🔊🩸
Themes:
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S2E49: Health Risk 🚂🩺
A long night. A packed train. A doctor just trying to get home. But when passengers begin falling ill with a mysterious sickness, the journey quickly turns into a nightmare. Panic spreads faster than the infection itself, and survival becomes a race against time.
As the train barrels through the darkness, questions arise that no science can answer. What started as a routine trip soon becomes something far more sinister... something that threatens not just those aboard, but everything beyond the tracks. 🦠💀
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S2E48: Bones 🦴🌑
For most, bones are silent remains of the past. But for her, they whisper secrets only she can hear. Gifted with otherworldly insight, a forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a chilling case where the dead refuse to stay silent.
Every fragment, every fracture, tells a story. As she pieces together the truth, shadows lengthen, and the line between her gift and her curse begins to blur. Step into a tale where the past has teeth, and it’s ready to bite. 🩸👁️
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S2E47: Rideshare 🚗🌒
Charlie thought driving for a ride share app would be an easy way to make extra cash. But from the moment he picks up his first passenger, the night takes a strange turn. Each ride brings unsettling encounters cryptic conversations, shifting shadows, and an unease that grows with every mile.
As the clock ticks toward dawn, reality blurs and the road ahead twists into something far darker than a simple night behind the wheel. Buckle up for a journey where every detour hides a secret and nothing is as it seems. 🌌😱
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S2E46: The Sleep Trial App 💤📱
When restless nights stretch into weeks, desperation makes even the strangest solutions seem tempting. In this chilling episode, an exhausted insomniac discovers a mysterious new download, The Sleep Trial App, promising the first full night of rest she’s had in years.
At first, it works. Dreams come easily. But with each “successful” night, reality frays. ⏳🕳️ Time loops. Memories blur. Her once-familiar world begins to fold in on itself, slipping toward a quiet, endless oblivion.
Slip on your headphones and descend into a story where rest is anything but peaceful, and every moment of sleep might be the last tether to reality. 🌙😱
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S2E46: How I Met Your Monster
This week is a little different, listeners. Instead of an original tale from The Nightmare Trials, I’m bringing you something special, an episode from a podcast I personally listen to and recommend: How I Met Your Monster Podcast.
Each episode of How I Met Your Monster dives into the terrifying, bizarre, and often deeply human stories behind the creatures that haunt us in film, folklore, and our own nightmares. It’s a perfect blend of insight and horror, making it a natural fit for fans of The Nightmare Trials.
So, settle in and enjoy this special feature. And if you like what you hear, make sure to check out How I Met Your Monster Podcast for more.
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📱 The Nightmare Trials Podcast – Show Notes 📱
Episode Title: S2E44 – Deadlines
Some apps track your steps. Others… track your soul.
In this disturbing episode of The Nightmare Trials Podcast, we meet Tyler, a man whose night takes a dark turn when his car breaks down on a lonely stretch of road. Searching for help, he discovers a phone lying in the dirt its screen cracked, its battery nearly drained, and only one app installed: Deadlines.
Curious, Tyler takes the phone home, assuming it’s just another gimmick. But the app has other plans. Once opened, it drags him through three horrifying experiences visions drenched in gore, violence, and grotesque body horror that leave him questioning what’s real.
When it’s all over, Tyler learns the most sinister rule of all: the phone must be passed on. To someone else. To anyone else.
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Every deadline must be met.
Even yours.
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