The Smiling Man From the Woods

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4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

After their great-grandmother’s passing, a family moves into her secluded home on 180 acres of overgrown land. While exploring the property, two brothers stumble upon an abandoned cabin hidden deep in the woods—one that was never meant to be found. What begins as childhood curiosity quickly turns into a nightmare that follows them back home. Over the years, they experience unexplainable encounters, eerie whispers, and the presence of something that refuses to be forgotten. As they uncover the dark history of the land, they realize the reason their family left it behind… and why they may never truly escape it.

Thank you, Mallory, for sharing your story with us.

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Editing and sound design by Sarah Vorhees Wendel from VW Sound. Additional production by Edwin Covarrubias and the Scary FM team.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Edwin here. Since you're a fan of true scary story, I know you're going to love this.
0:05.3	I have a podcast that I would like to recommend. It's called Sightings, a new series that invites you
0:09.9	inside the world's most mysterious events. I'm talking legendary encounters like Bigfoot or
0:15.7	Roswell, but also ghostly phenomena. Sightings puts you in the center of the action with heart-pounding storytelling.
0:22.6	You're gonna love it.
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0:25.6	Look for it now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.6	We didn't even have time to crouch back down.
0:34.6	I mean, we both just kind of had our hands out, like we were bracing ourselves for whatever
0:38.6	this was to come hurtling into this cabin and find us.
0:46.9	Some places hold memories, and others hold something much darker.
0:52.5	What started as an innocent adventure into the woods led to an encounter that would haunt
0:57.2	Mallory for years.
0:59.3	A silent figure, impossible movements, and a smile that should have never been seen.
1:06.0	This is a story of what she found and what found her. My name is Edwin, and here is Mallory's true scary story.
1:20.6	My great-grandmother, C.C, died on Valentine's Day in 2001.
1:29.3	When we lost her, you know, we lost some knowledge in a generation that we can never get back.
1:36.3	Cece still did this day as probably one of the sweetest, nicest, most genuine people I've ever known.
1:42.3	I was extremely close with her but her death
1:45.7	didn't really come as a surprise the doctors had already prepared the family
1:50.7	that you know she was probably gonna pass she was 93 and had been in poor
1:57.0	health for about a year.
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