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True Scary Stories
Read true scary stories and first-person accounts of frightening encounters, unexplained events and real moments that still resist an ordinary explanation.
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Keaau Beach: Two Men Waiting on the Bottom of Their Boat
Their fishing boat was upside down. A distress beacon supplied positions while a helicopter crew searched the west side of Oahu.
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Little Palm Island: Three People in the Water Five Miles Offshore
A 911 call reported three people beside an overturned boat. Their vessel was left offshore after a rescue crew brought all three…
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Lanai Boat Rescue: A Father and Two Sons Clinging to the Hull
The radio call reported a capsize but no position. A father and his boys, eight and twelve, waited on an overturned boat…
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Lake Erie Kayaker Rescue: Reaching the Cliff Was Not Safety
The overturned kayak left one person at the foot of a cliff. Reaching land still did not provide a route back to…
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Benoit Bourguet: A Life Raft in the Middle of the Atlantic
Calls to the rower went unanswered. Two beacons kept transmitting while a tanker changed course toward a life raft far east of…
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Eighteen Miles off Pass-a-Grille: The Signal from an Overturned Boat
Both boaters had life jackets. One carried a locator beacon that gave an aircraft crew a way to find them beyond the…