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**Tales from the Break Room**

When you’re focused on work, you don’t expect your next hour on the clock to be the most horrifying in your life. In Tales from the Breakroom, folks from around the world send us their scariest workplace encounters and we narrate them to you. Enjoy, and try not to clock out forever… Submit your scariest work experiences at https://www.eeriecast.com/submit

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176 | Drive Thru FROM HELL - 4 True Scary Stories Aug 19, 2025

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This is one drive thru you want to avoid at all costs!

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0:52 McDonald’s Files from Keeten

14:04 When I Was A JC Penney Person from Anonymous

27:45 A Story from my Dad in Laos from TZ13

41:31 The Stuff I Don’t Show from Rick

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175 | The Most Terrifying McDonald's Encounter - 4 True Horror Stories Aug 12, 2025

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Can dogs be haunted? Oh yes, they can. But they're still good boys.

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0:50 The Night the Dogs Came from Dennis

11:39 Something Was Calling Her Home from Sarah M.

29:36 The Student Who Drew Things Before They Happened from Ms. K

45:59 The Three-Second Rule from Jake

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172 | Road Trip FROM HELL - 7 TRUE Scary Works Stories Aug 06, 2025

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When two friends depart on a road trip, they encounter a secluded restaurant with a disturbing patron.

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0:57 Margret’s House from Sabrina

7:11 Extra Crispy, Extra Wrong from coopandcai

13:36 Butterflies from Thick_Mick_Chick

17:50 They Always Come Back on Christmas from L1NDO (leendor)

24:31 He Wasn’t a Gentlemen from Mr. B

33:26 Limbs in the Rain from Johnzy Zombee

46:56 Working from Home can be Scary and Weird from PupPup23

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174 | I Used to Work with the Homeless and This was my Most DISTURBING Case - 2 True Scary Stories Aug 05, 2025

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When a late work meeting out of town brings a man through the Appalachian mountains on his way home, he becomes stranded and encounters the terrifying...

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0:45 I Don’t Drive Through Appalachia Anymore from Talwen

24:52 It Follows from Amarie

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173 | 26 TRUE Small Town HORROR Stories Jul 29, 2025

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Over 6 hours of scary small town or forgotten village terror that will have you yearning for population density.

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0:57 Margret’s House from Sabrina

7:11 Extra Crispy, Extra Wrong from coopandcai

13:36 Butterflies from Thick_Mick_Chick

17:50 They Always Come Back on Christmas from L1NDO (leendor)

24:31 He Wasn’t a Gentlemen from Mr. B

33:26 Limbs in the Rain from John O’Rourke

46:56 Working from Home can be Scary and Weird from PupPup23

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171 | New Mexico has a SKIN STEALER - 6 TRUE Scary Stories Jul 15, 2025

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Something stalked a small quiet neighborhood and turned one childhood into a living nightmare.

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0:45 Desert Walks from Puyu

12:53 Still Not As Scary As Working Retail from Bob Bingi

17:10 When I Was a Kid, A Werewolf Was Killed in my Town from DownADirtPath

28:47 This Man Ruined My Life from 88DairyGirl

41:56 The Night I Wasn’t Alone from anonymous

51:41 Right in the Thrift from Jozzy

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170 | NEVER Drive Near the Creek After Sundown - 7 TRUE Scary Stories Jul 08, 2025

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Something there is neither alive nor dead but wishes to see you no longer breathing...

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0:55 The Night Crawler from StorageGuy_92

8:48 The Woman on the Road from TOL

17:41 The Regular from Anonymous

24:41 I Don't Know What They Were Going to Do from Vasto

32:19 The Tunnels Under Boston from ThirdShift

41:39 A Certain Type of Girl from Smiley2019

49:46 The Pressure of Pressure Washing from Anonymous

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169 | Woman in the Trees - 5 True HORROR Stories Jul 01, 2025

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0:58 Seen in my Most Private Moments from KayKay

12:22 Church from Jamie Bellway

26:12 Woman in the Trees from BushDog

39:15 Chat Ruined my Life from TwitchyDude

51:49 My Dad had a Paper Route from Igg

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168 | 5 REAL Skinwalker Sightings that will DISTURB You Jun 24, 2025

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0:58 Hospice of the Haunted from Ann_newly

12:25 Followed by Something from Doug Flitt

26:19 A Story from a Storm Chaser from Anonymous

37:10 Night Shift Storytelling from Randolph

48:16 Skinwalker on the Chain Gang from Anon

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167 | I Found Something in the Woods - 6 DISTURBING True Stories Jun 17, 2025

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1:10 Cigarettes might kill from ScrimpShampy

7:10 The Last Check - A True Calgary YMCA Horror Story from Spooky Mango

21:22 Haunted Classroom from horror loving teacher

27:21 Doll Trail from Skyfall

36:35 Lottery Gambit from Sora241

43:09 Terror in the Night from Larley

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