It's Halloween night, and the Marlowe family is headed home from a perfect evening of trick-or-treating in Pine Hollow. Then the station wagon dies on a dark, empty stretch of road. Mom and Dad go to find help and leave the radio on for the kids. Hours pass. A bulletin interrupts the music: a dangerous prisoner has escaped nearby. And then, from the roof of the car, comes a sound.

Clank. Clank. Clank.

Tonight's story is not a Carman's Crypt original. "Head Hunter" is my retelling of a classic urban legend, one that has been passed around campfires and sleepovers for generations. I kept the bones of the tale as it's told and added new characters, a trick-or-treat setting, and a few details of my own. I saved it for Halloween night.

Lock your doors. Keep the radio on. And whatever you hear on the roof, don't turn around.

🎧 Best heard in the dark, with headphones.

Content note: Contains frightening scenes involving children in peril and implied violence. Listener discretion advised.

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The Cryptkeeper's Choice is back. These are the five original horror stories you couldn't stop listening to since spring: a predator at the door, a town gone dark, something in a cave that hears your fear, a good boy who came back, and a ghost who never noticed she died. Lock the doors and keep the lights low.

Tonight's stories:

The Sound of Gravel

Every Streetlight in Town Exploded at Once

Held Breath

Good Boy

The Keeping

Which one got under your skin? Tell me in the comments, and subscribe so you never miss a new story in the Crypt. A new original horror story drops every Monday.

All stories are original works by Carman Carrion.

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An Uber driver picks up the wrong passenger at 3 a.m., and by the time he realizes it, the rideshare app won't let him cancel the trip.

Danny Reyes has three rules: confirm the name, confirm the destination, never ask questions. Tonight he breaks all three. He answers a surge request outside a dead roadside motel, and the passenger who gets in the back seat isn't the rider on his screen. As the miles pass, the clock stops making sense, his daughter's voice answers a call she shouldn't, and the headlights in his rearview mirror won't fall behind.

Press play only if you're sure your doors are locked.

🎧 Story by Carman Carrion

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Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore

Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion

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Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.

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http://eeriecast.com/

https://www.carman-carrion.com/

MUSIC CREDITS:

Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs