The Thing Wearing My Son's Face
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The Thing Wearing My Son's Face
On a Thursday night in late May, a figure resembling Paul Combs' son emerged from the darkness, moving with an unsettling gait and stopping to stare directly into streetlights. Paul, a widower still grieving his missing son, approached the figure only to hear a single, chilling word escape his lips: "Dad." What unspeakable horror had returned to Birchwood Lane?
In this episode, we delve into the terrifying events that unfolded when Paul Combs encountered a creature that had taken on the appearance of his long-lost son, Jake. Discover the unsettling details of the figure's arrival, Paul's desperate attempts to rationalize its strange behavior, and the tragic consequences that followed.
Person: Paul Combs
Location: Birchwood Lane, Hancock County, West Virginia
Event: Arrival of a mysterious figure
Status: Son's body found in Los Angeles
Object: Yellow velcro wallet
- The figure moved in lurching increments, stopping dead beneath each streetlight.
- Paul Combs, 52, had worked 30 years at Number Nine Coal Company.
- Jake Combs had been dead for weeks, possibly months, in a drainage culvert.
- Amy, Paul's wife, died two years prior from lung cancer.
- The Great Southern Brood of cicadas had emerged two weeks earlier on a 13-year cycle.
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On a Thursday night in late May, a figure resembling Paul Combs' son emerged from the darkness, moving with an unsettling gait and stopping to stare directly into streetlights. Paul, a widower still grieving his missing son, approached the figure only to hear a single, chilling word escape his lips: "Dad." What unspeakable horror had returned to Birchwood Lane?
In this episode, we delve into the terrifying events that unfolded when Paul Combs encountered a creature that had taken on the appearance of his long-lost son, Jake. Discover the unsettling details of the figure's arrival, Paul's desperate attempts to rationalize its strange behavior, and the tragic consequences that followed.
Person: Paul Combs
Location: Birchwood Lane, Hancock County, West Virginia
Event: Arrival of a mysterious figure
Status: Son's body found in Los Angeles
Object: Yellow velcro wallet
- The figure moved in lurching increments, stopping dead beneath each streetlight.
- Paul Combs, 52, had worked 30 years at Number Nine Coal Company.
- Jake Combs had been dead for weeks, possibly months, in a drainage culvert.
- Amy, Paul's wife, died two years prior from lung cancer.
- The Great Southern Brood of cicadas had emerged two weeks earlier on a 13-year cycle.
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OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories a scary story podcast for the late night hours.
Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies.
Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news.
Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on.
© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network, who owns and is solely responsible for this content. All rights reserved. Reproduction or commercial use without the creator's written permission is prohibited. Business: [email protected].