You will love STD. It’s pure entertainment, Dan & Lulu-Marie share bits of their lives and express opinions so they feel like old friends; but they never forget that they’re here to tell us stories.

Found this podcast sometime last year and it’s been my go-to since. Thank you Dan and Lynze for making my weeks a little bit better x

Love the podcast, the stories, and the hosts!

Here to support podcaster.

Love the show and the banter between Dan and Lynze is great. Love the combination of found stories and listener sent in stories! Keep up the great work!

Lynze! “Area” is not pronounced ARE- E-UH “Scenario” is not pronounced SEN-NAR-E-O. Pretty pleeeeease quit mispronouncing words. It’s driving me nuts! Thanks, love the podcast!

My boyfriend got me to listen and I love it! Definitely up my creeper alley lol Lynze and Dan are an awesome couple they’re so genuine

I only a listen to a handful of podcasts and this is one of them! I love listening to Dan and Lynze tell spooky stories at any and all times and Nightmare Fuels are an added creative creepy bonus.

Best podcast. Been listening for years and I think I have heard them all at least twice.

This amazing podcast dabbles in ghost stories, legends, cryptids, aliens, true-crime, and more! With a husband and wife duo who are absolutely hilarious, this is a podcast I can listen and re-listen to for hours!

Absolutely the best podcast!! Been listening since episode 1 and finally became an Annabelle this year because I NEEDED more!!! Love all the content but the bonus content is awesome because I adore Dan and Lynze and I love their banter and how down to earth they are. After their bonus content I feel like I have just had the BEST therapy session with my best friends and I love it!!! Absolutely recommend this to anyone and everyone I know that is a creeper…and even some peepers too!

My teens and I have been listening for years! They talk about Dan and Lynne like they are extended family!

Love this show! Congrats on 300 episodes!! Keep on rocking!

I started listening to Scared to Death a few months back and I got hooked immediately. I enjoy the stories and banter between Dan and Lynze. After listening to all the latest episodes, I started to listening from the beginning and I have not been disappointed.

Dan has a great ability to tell a story. I like how he provides the relevant background, paints a picture, and has minimal sound effects. Excellent. Lynze tries really hard, I’ll give her that. She’s a little too woo-wooy for me with the crystals and the “I’m surrounded by white light” stuff, which if that’s your thing, that’s your thing it’s just not mine. However, it seems lately that she’s been pronouncing words incorrectly on purpose like “area” and it drives me nuts. I find it really distracting and it takes away from the story.

What a dynamic duo!!!!! I’ve been a huge fan since 2021 when I first started listening to podcasts. Your site was the first one and has since become my absolute favorite. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. ❤️

I seriously love this show so much. Dan and Lynze have this incredible chemistry and banter back and forth that makes for a great listen. Even though most of the time I’m yelling at my phone like I’m in the conversation as well!! Lol as a horror enthusiast and lover of ALL things spooky this is the perfect mix of super scary and sometimes very lighthearted and funny without actually taking away from the scares. I’m telling you I listen to at least one or two episodes every single day but I can’t listen at night sometimes because it really really gets to me!! Highly recommend! I can’t wait to see what else they come up with and I hope one day to hear my personal spooky tale on there!!! Miranda Badgett

Me and my fiancé have been a huge fan since 2020. Love your guys‘ podcast to death! ♥️ keep up the amazing work!

I use to love this show haven’t had the chance to listen for a while so I figured let me catch up with the newer episodes first didn’t take long for lynze to annoy me and change the podcast Dan should just do the show himself

I love scary and spooky stories, I remember finding this podcast during the pandemic and really enjoying the stories and banter. The first few seasons were great. The newer episodes are filled with more fake details and history lessons that take me out of the story. I can no longer dive into the story like before, I’m trying to keep up with the history and lesson and the biology lessons when there is any kind of gore. I just start listening to the older episodes and skipping these newer ones.

The hurt house. Yeah we need more of that. It was brilliant Dan. I love your stuff!

Love the stories. No idea where lynz learned to pronounce “area” though 😂

I’ve been listening since June 2023, Hope did I find you, you ask? Well my grandson came to stay with us for three weeks and said this was his favorite podcast, so we would listen as we were road tripping. After the first episode I was hooked! Summer of 2024 came and we did the same thing. It’s “our thing.” Oh by the way, my grandson was 7 in 2023! It started when his dad would listen, then he started asking to listen everything they were in the car. Now my grandson doesn’t like to watch horror, doesn’t like scary movies, but Scared to Death, he’s obsessed!

Hey guys I’m so happy that 3 years ago I started this show. It’s my favorite show and have recommended it to so many people. You guys are also the reason I started listening to timesuck and watching Severance! It’s been such a great ride with the both of you! Thank you for everything related to the two podcasts including the good vibes and laughs!

Love love love the show. When I heard Allison’s story I knew exactly what was happening. This happens a lot with sleep disorders. It’s one of the symptoms of narcolepsy so if she’s still having issues I recommend a sleep specialist. It’s definitely a very weird feeling to be unsure what’s a dream and what’s reality.

Literally amazing. The narration skills are insane. The creativity is CRAZY good. The writing skills ARE ON POINT and evoke in me the most scared and invested emotions. God bless you all! Jesus loves you 😘😘

I’ve been listening on and off for a few years. As of late I’ve been living for Nightmare Fuel. They thoroughly creep me out. Dan is an amazing writer and story teller. As a psychologist you got to wonder about the minds that come up with these stories 🤔. Lol jk Dan. I’m sure you’re perfectly sane…

I listen to this whenever i'm doing crafts or drawing for ideas to make and it's a really good podcast

I’ve been down with you guys since day 1! Dan, Lynze I take you guys everywhere I go, and introduce you guys to everyone I know and listen to every new episode every week! Please keep it up! You’re both too awesome! #team Ohio! Lynze!🙌🏾🫶🏾

The character Ace sounds like Tom Waits. So five stars!

JC!! I just listened to He will make you whole again while at the end of my day driving (trucker here) stopping at 1 am in the pan handle of New Mexico/Texas. I am on the edge of my chair listening and completely hanging on each moment of the story. It ends. Great ending! I pull the brakes, parked in a nearly ghost town and realize as I am checking my rig in the pitch black with only my work lights and flashlight that I am absolutely on edge, searching the sutra ding field and brush for any sign of movement. Great job! You got me good as I laugh to myself nervously. Love the show and have been a follower since the beginning (almost) and this new addition of Nightmare Fuel is fantastic. Keep writing my man for tonight you literally had me scared to death.

I’ve listened to Scared to Death (and Timesuck, Dan’s other podcast) for years and been impressed by Dan’s curiosity, irreverence, and interest in the macabre. Huge fan of all Dan does and is. (Stand up is fabulous, too.) THEN, dude started writing his own scary stories and releasing them under the Nightmare Fuel title on StD. As a fellow writer, I am blown away, not only because the stories are SOLID every time, but because Dan is churning these out while managing his otherwise busy life, and I find that inspirational. Keep it going, Dan. Hail Nimrod!

I’ve been listening for 5 years now!! I love scary stories and I stumbled upon S2D during my sophomore year of high school, and I’ve been listening since!! Amazing stories and banter!! Love the addition of nightmare fuels to,, always look forward to them!!

Can the editing team go back and edit out Lynzee’s unnecessary commentary? It really takes me out of the story and makes for a worse product. After every sentence there is a random outburst. In the middle of the best parts of some stories she gasps and interjects with irrelevant, unwanted, and useless rhetoric. When it gets to the second half of the podcast when Lynzee gets to treat us with listener stories, she can’t ever get through a set up without interrupting herself. Maybe some more preparation before she goes live would be helpful.

I love your podcasts this one & nightmare fuel. I loved ALL the episodes and have left many awesome reviews.. Well except this one’s ending. I beg, no I plead with you please don’t go political.. Just remember can 1/2 the population be wrong? Try to look at this as positivity & wishing for nothing but success in the next 4yrs for the country and not who or what side is getting ‘𝑼𝑺’ there bc 𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆.

Can do without his wife’s pointless comments, also keep your political stances to yourselves just stick to the horror story

David Bowie was in The Labyrinth, not The Dark Crystal. Otherwise, good stuff.

The show isn’t what it was when it started. Stories lack that feeling of being sucked in and encapsulated by paranormal. I’m officially tapped out when lynze decided to share a story about how a past loved one came back to tell someone it’s okay they’re transgender…

Awesome podcast. One little thing I’d suggest is maybe Lynze find more range in her stories. The heartwarming ghost stories about a family’s loved one passing over and letting them know they are okay seems to be the last story she shares on every episode. Regardless I’ll always listen and still support. You guys do an awesome job

The entirety of your podcasts are awesome. But “Nightmare Fuel” is the best. I am super digging them all, not one bad story. This should definitely be a stand alone podcast, but even if not I will continue to listen to them all. Thanks these really are awesome!!!

Love this pod cast helps me get through the day and love the nightmare fuel you guys just keep getting better

I started following the show years ago and it has been a good companion for overnight shift. Nightmare fuel is so good and it’s only getting better each episode. Thanks yall.

Been listening for years. Love the new nightmares. Dan, I want to thank you, your wonderful wife and the team you have for all of the amazing content. I listen practically every day: timesuck, STD and nightmare fuel. Stay strong brother. I recommend anyone to spend some time in this community.

I love this podcast so much! I look forward to it every week. Howeverrrrrr... Lynze stop correcting Dan on stuff that don't even matter or stop trying to be right all the time 🙄 she annoys me to the point that it makes me want to stop listening but the stories are too good!

Love the show and gang. Gotta unsubscribe until Nightmare Fuel is moved to its own podcast because, ironically, Dan is getting too good with his writing. I enjoyed the first couple of NF episodes, but as more have released I started skipping them, which turned into avoiding the show completely in my feed. Keep up the great work, but i gotta check back in once NF has its own feed because for whatever reason they freak me out in a different way than STD does. So, good job! lol I guess knowing the titles and stories are whole cloth from Dan’s mind RATHER than found and dressed up material makes is scarier to me, which is backwards right??

I’ve loved every nightmare fuel you’ve given us, Dan. This most recent- Moloch’s Pact - was INCREDIBLE!! The characters, the terror; loved every minute. My jaw was dropped at the end of part two. Ya write some great stories, thank you for them!

I think this may be my favorite podcast. I’ve been listening to podcasts for about 15 years and this one is just the perfect mix of funny and spooky and scary. Nightmare Fuel is 15/10 for me. It’s spectacular. Dan & Lynze are absolute gems of humans 🖤🖤

If you’re a fan of spine-chilling tales that keep you looking over your shoulder long after the episode ends, then Dan Cummins’ Nightmare Fuel episodes on Scared to Death are an absolute must-listen. Dan, alongside his wife Lynze, has mastered the art of immersive horror storytelling, and these special episodes take the fear factor to a whole new level. What sets Nightmare Fuel apart? First, Dan’s delivery is impeccable—his deep, deliberate pacing and eerie storytelling style pull you right into the darkness. He has a way of painting a picture so vividly that you feel like you’re right there, trapped in the haunted house, standing in the cursed woods, or waking up to something watching you from the shadows. These stories are next-level terrifying, often leaving even the most seasoned horror fans checking their closets before bed. But it’s not just the scares—it’s the production quality and attention to detail that elevate these episodes. The careful research, the creepy sound design, and the sheer variety of tales—ranging from historical hauntings to modern-day supernatural encounters—make for an experience that lingers long after you’ve pressed pause. And let’s not forget the perfect balance of humor and heart that Scared to Death is known for. While Nightmare Fuel leans heavily into pure terror, the chemistry between Dan and Lynze, along with their reactions to each other’s stories, keeps the experience both entertaining and personal. If you’re looking for a podcast that delivers true horror with a storyteller who knows exactly how to get under your skin, Nightmare Fuel is the way to go. Just be warned—you might not sleep quite as soundly after listening.

The stories are legitimately scary, with great voice acting and ambience, and the in-between banter is always so much fun.

The Nightmare Fuel series has been on-par with your best work, and I really love your standup and TimeSuck very much. It’s creeping up on being some of your best work; the story telling and world building has been phenomenal. Wouldn’t change a thing. 3/5 stars.