Radio Rental - Episode 95

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

Welcome to Radio Rental, a mysterious video rental shop with a collection of VHS tapes with TRUE scary stories narrated by the people who experienced them... On today's tapes: >> Steve > Bobby Corey

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Take a break from the same old boring blockbusters and experience a new kind of movie night with Radio Rental. At Radio Rental, our videos come to life in your living room, defy all logic and reasoning, and make you question your own reality. This is not your ordinary video rental store. At Radio Rental, we carry one-of-a-kind videos, so frightening, so mind-bending, you won't be able to sleep at night. You've gone. Radio Rental. Hey, it's me, Jared, Radio Rentals' favorite AC repair man. I'm sure you're thrilled to see me again. And that's Malachi, who I think hates me.

Is it me, or is it like this with everyone? And you're the customer. Hi, hi, welcome in. I guess you want me to play a scary tape from Radio Rentals' exclusive collection. Kept in a very exclusive cardboard box. Well, here goes nothing. I'm not even going to read the title of this one. I don't want to get my hoax up again.

Yeah, listen to that baby purr. I fix that. It was a fall night in Guelph, Ontario. This was in my second year of university. I was over at my friend's apartment. Three friends and myself were at their apartment at night, working late into the night on a school project that was due the next morning, a video project.

Two out of the three of my friends working on the project lived at this apartment. Their third roommate, his name's Jay. He wasn't in the same program as us, so he had been studying that night for his midterm the next morning. Jay tended to struggle with sleeping. He would often take certain meds to help him fall asleep and stay asleep. And he had been studying that night and had called it a night, went to bed.

So we were trying to be extra careful when working on our project to keep quiet. We didn't want to startle him, wake him up at any point. His bedroom was in the far left corner of the kitchen so we could see his door closed and how it was dark inside. It's about 1 a.m. at this point, and we're starting to put sort of the finishing touches on this video project we're getting done. Jay's room has been dark for hours. We assume he's dead asleep at this point. He hasn't made a sound.

So we're sitting at this table, about 30 feet away from his door. All of a sudden, there's a thud at his door. And it gets all of our attention right away, because it's late at night, it's 1 a.m. It's quiet. We're being as quiet as we can. We look up at the door. Everything looks normal. It's just a dark room.

Door shut. Has it moved. Maybe he's up. We don't think too much about it. We get back to work. And then about 15 minutes later, the same thing happens. Louder this time, more aggressive.

Startles us again. We look back up, and it's the same thing as before it. His door is shut. The room is dark. we are at full attention now. It's gotten kind of hard for us to focus on our work because, you know, why has he just run into his door twice

without opening it? Maybe he's playing a joke on us, trying to scare us. But like I said before, he struggles with sleeping and he has a midterm the next morning. It's not really the right time for him to be playing a prank on us. It doesn't make sense. I had a running joke at the time in their apartment. They had a poster on the wall of a local politician named Steve.

Every time there would be a noise in the apartment, I would say, oh, that's Steve the poltergeist, trying to reach out to us. Anytime there was something freaky going on, I would just blame it on Steve. It was always in a joking manner. I see the picture of Steve on the wall, and I think, oh, I'll just call out to Steve the polter guy,

So I call out and I say, Steve, if you're there, give us a sign. And then bang immediately after I said that, he's run into the door. It's a loud thump coming from the inside, which sort of shakes the apartment. We're all shocked and terrified at this moment. It's late at night. Everything's quiet for the most part. We're scrambling at this point. I grab a golf club, which was near me, and I'm holding it to my chest.

I just had this sort of primal fear for some reason. The four of us are in this corner kind of huddled to just watching the door, trying to make sense of what's happening. We decide to set up a chair with a phone on it to just be recording the door, just in case whatever happens. And so we have the phone set up, we're recording the door, and we're still trying to finish this project that we have to finish. So we get back to work, we're wrapping things up. I decided to call out to Steve again.

Steve? And then immediately again, the loudest bang at his door. Oh, dude, what the fuck? open that door now or I'm going home? Keep that phone phone? No, that's too much. We can't make sense of what's happening. We ran straight outside.

We didn't put our shoes on. We just threw the door open and flew out into the street. We immediately just tried to explain it, trying to convince our ourselves that he was still playing a prank on us because if he is it's working we were arguing with each other like why would he be doing this right now that this makes no sense at this point it's like 2 a.m. in the morning but then we go through it again like he he struggles with sleeping he has a midterm he's been studying for like he needs his sleep tonight that's why we've been trying to be so quiet tonight.

After about five minutes outside, you know, we work up the courage to go back inside. We look towards Jay's bedroom door. We noticed a piece of paper just sitting in front of his door. That piece of paper had been slipped from his room under the door into the kitchen. Zeke picks up the note and his eyes just go wide looking at it. And we sort of look over his shoulder. On the note is just one word scribbled in, help. This just sends shivers down my spine.

And it's written very sloppily, like chicken scratch, horrible writing. Just the word help in the center of the page. I said to Zeke, I said, we got to go in there. Something's not right. We have to go in there and see for ourselves what's going. going on in this room. Maybe he is in trouble somehow. This has to be done.

So we do open his door to his room, turn on his light. And the first thing I noticed was him laying on the bed with his covers off of his body. He's sort of just laying like he had fallen back into the bed. He's not like snuggled up under the covers. Dwayne's first thought, he checks the closet to make sure that there's not an intruder or just some other being in the room. Make sure Jay's the only one in this room.

We walk right over to him, and Zeke keeps calling out his name, like, Jay, Jay, Jay, wake up, Jay. And he's almost yelling at him at this point, just yelling his name over and over. And Jay's just completely unresponsive. Zeke even goes right up to him, is yelling at him, and we can see his eyes. His eyes would sort of flutter from close to half open, over and over again, like very rapidly. Open enough to where you would see a pupil, but I couldn't see his pupil because they were straight up, like rolled back into his head.

Like he's not in control of them or he's not conscious. Zeke at this point is shaking him, calling out his name. Jay, wake up, Jay, you're scaring us, Jay. Still nothing. Not a single response from the guy. He just was in a frozen state with his eyes fluttering and completely unresponsive. Zeke puts both hands on his shoulders and is pushing up and down. Pretty hard.

Like shaking him so his head's bobbing. the bed is essentially bouncing because he's pushing down on both shoulders over and over again he probably shakes him for a good 20 seconds until we just gave up because there was no response from Jay

and then it seems kind of ridiculous what we're doing we're shaking this man in his bed and he's unresponsive this is freaking me out this is not a prank at all He would have broken character, he would have smiled, he would have laughed.

This guy is possessed, and we can't seem to do anything to snap him out of it. We turn off his lights again, shut his bedroom door, leave him to rest. I remember Dwayne saying that he didn't want to stay there for the night because he didn't have a lock on his door, and he was worried about staying in his room that night because he thought Jay might break into his room and hurt him. Dwayne stays at my house to sleep, and Zieg stays at another friend of ours to sleep. We hardly get any sleep that night, maybe a couple hours, because our minds are reeling. So the next morning, we do go to class, we present our project, but in the back of our

minds, we're just thinking about Jay still, because none of us have seen him since we entered his room. Then we head back to the apartment to talk to Jay and he's just sitting in the kitchen like normal, seems to be himself. Dwayne asked Jay, how was your sleep last night? I hope we didn't bother you. I hope we weren't too loud. I hope we didn't wake you up at all last night. Jay said, yeah, no, my sleep was all right. But I had this dream where I kept trying to leave my room and there was this dark, massive figure at the door blocking my way. And every time I tried to leave my room, this dark figure would stop me. This large, dark figure blocking the doorway. Once we heard this, we couldn't believe it. It was shocking. We checked the footage on the phone.

it had me calling out to Steve it had the door being slammed into and throughout the entire time the room was pitch dark so he in his state was still able to grab a pen grab a piece of paper from his table

and wrote help and put it under the door for us to read we just thought it was incredible what he had told us about his night because it sort of explained how he was essentially running into his door over and over again because that's sort of how it felt

when it was happening like the door is just being smashed into like in an attempt to escape but he wasn't able to open the door and just leave in his state so he was calling out for us to help him for a while we tried to just say that he was pranking us but

that doesn't line up at all and I feel like we sort of failed him, honestly. Look, you want to know about condenser coil, expansion valves. Come to me. I'm your guy. I could tell you stories about refrigerant that would make you shiver. That's actually a pretty good pun.

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All right. Here we go. So it's the summer of My neighbors and I are outside playing. It's something we did all the time. from sun up to sundown, just be playing basketball and just be outside. On this day, whereas we're shooting hoops, we can look down the street and on the corner of our eye we can see two people peeking into houses. First we see them try to jump onto a window sill

and then we can see them go around and try to peek into windows that might have been open. Definitely wasn't people that we knew from the neighborhood. So we go inside and we were only 15 and 13 at the time, so we went in to get our moms to tell them, you know, something's going up down the street. As our parents come out, the people are gone. There's no sign of them. All of a sudden, around the other corner, you see the people come back out and we're like, see, we weren't lying here. There's actually people peeking into these windows. And the same thing, they start peeking into the windows.

they started trying to jump onto the window sill. But at this house, the old man that had lived there was still home. He came out and we could see him arguing with them. We couldn't hear what they were saying, but we could see like their arms flailing. So there was definitely some type of argument being had. Our mom's now believing us, you know, also started watching to see what might go on.

And my mom at this time had her phone with her, just in case, you know, something had happened. So we're sitting there and the old man seems to go and the two people that were peeking to the houses looks like they leave and we continue playing basketball. All of a sudden we look up and we realize that those two people didn't leave. They were actually coming down the street towards us.

So the two of them start walking towards us and where I was, I was at the top of the driveway. and he makes his way down and he puts out his hand for a handshake. Instinctively, I reach out and grab his hand and just regret it as soon as I grasp it. His warm, sweaty palms just like squeeze tightly onto my hands and I hear him say, Hi, I'm Bobby Corey. He says it with a tone that I should know exactly who. who he is.

I shake his hand and he says I used to live down the street and my daddy won't let me in. We were just looking in the windows to see if our friends were still there so don't be afraid. You guys don't have to be afraid of me. And he says

that a few times to us like don't be afraid. We're not scary. Don't be afraid. He starts asking us where's your daddy? Does your daddy live here? Is your daddy still around? And at this point, our mom's come up, and, you know, they are trying to, like, pull us away, but Bobby is still shaking my hand at this point. As we're talking, he notices that my mom has a phone in her hands,

and he sees a cruiser come down the street. And he gives her a look. Like, did you call the cops? And it turns out that the old man, who had just started walking down, yells, nope, nope, that was me. So the police come down. and they start talking to the adults so all of us kids go down to the back

I noticed that they pat down Bobby and his girlfriend and he's getting into the back of the cruiser no Miranda rights, no cuffs and the cops go over to the adults and they start talking to them as well telling them what's going to happen and the cruiser takes off

all of us kids are a little shaken up I mean this man was extremely creepy his girlfriend was just whispering at him and giggling, so we had no clue what was going on. The adults come to us and tell us that he's gone now, he's going to get dropped off at the next town over. He has a brother whose brother's going to come and pick him up. The old man proceeds to tell us that Bobby did live in the neighborhood. Bobby Corey lived down the street for years, and his whole house with his brothers and sisters were trouble. Bobby, years ago,

had possibly started a fire in the house that had claimed life of one of the kids. Bobby Corey had either been locked up or put away for some unknown reason, and that's why he was home now, and his dad wasn't going to let him in. So with all this excitement, we stay outside for a little bit longer,

and my mom decides, we'll all stay together, we'll have a cool, cookout now. Let's go get some hot dogs and hamburgers and stuff. I ride with my mom and we're just going to go down the street to go pick up some hamburgs and hot dogs and try to just enjoy the rest of the nice day

and try to forget about what just happened and as we're driving down the street it's about three quarters of a mile long and it's straight woods and it's a straight shot we get almost to the end and we see two people walking with a brown paper bag I sink into my chair

try not to look at them and my mom obviously can't sink because she's driving drives past them and they give a little stare down and my mom realizes oh my God we have to get back home so we go up another like

probably 10 seconds pull a U-turn and start driving back and as we start driving back there was nobody on the street this street had no driveways no other roads it was a straight three-quarter mile of just woods so we get back to our house we gather up our neighbors who are outside still we bring everybody into our house and we just sit in our living room i had a ranch-style house with a big bay window up front so we all sit there and just wait to see if anybody comes walking down

down the street, or if we can hear anything. After about 10, 15 minutes, we can start hearing faint singing. And then it gets louder and louder. And then we can see them coming out down the street, Bobby Corey, waving an American flag, singing, God bless America, marching with his girlfriend in tow giggling, right Behind him also holding an American flag, parading in front of my neighbor's house and then our house. And you can hear, God bless America. Back and forth, horrible-toned, right in front of where we were sitting.

We never saw him peek into our window, but there he was marching right in front of us, probably no more than 20 feet, holding his paper bag, holding his American flag, and going right past our drive, and then down the road. We cracked the window a little bit so we could hear and we could hear him getting fainter and fainter.

And when we thought it was okay and safe, we all got out of the house and very slowly walked to the top of the driveway and looked down and we couldn't see anything and we could barely hear anything at this point. So we thought, okay, we're in the clear. Just as we thought we were in the clear, As we thought we were in the clear, a llama comes flying down the street.

There are some people in our neighborhood that had animals. I didn't know anybody that had a llama, but apparently there was one, and it got loose and started sprinting down towards us. The cruiser came up to us and told us that the original call that he received was somebody had gone into their backyard and unlatched their llamas from the backyard, and now they were running loose. So somebody else now had called to say that there was a man in their backyard unlatching their animals. And he described Bobby Corey.

So Bobby Corey now had gone past us and was letting out animals for whatever reason. That was the last time I thought I would ever hear the name of Bobby Corey. about a week later I was going over my friend's house who lived pretty close to me if anybody needed to cut through the woods to pretty much anywhere in this neighborhood instead of driving down the street

or walking wide open you could just go through the woods and be able to get to all these centralized locations so I went over his house and we were going to try to see if any of our friends were around and maybe I'll try to get together and play a big game of wiffle ball. So when we got to his house, he unlocked the door, which typically meant that nobody was home. They always locked their house. So we went inside, grabbed some snacks,

and we went to go on the computer. This is 1999, so you had to use dial-up to get onto America online. So we sat down and we were going to see if any of our friends were online to get in touch with them. As we're sitting there chatting, we can hear something above us. So my friend yells to his brother and he goes, hey, Jay, are you home? And we don't hear anything after that. We look at each other. We think it's kind of odd, but it's an older house. So maybe it was just a creek. So we start talking to some friends, seeing, you know, what's going on when we get knocked off line. Well, like, oh, that's weird. Now back then, if you picked up the phone, you'd get knocked offline.

So we go back on to dial up, and we think we hear some footsteps again upstairs. Well, as we're talking to our friends, I tell my buddy, I say, hey, tell them we think someone might be here. And as I say that, we get knocked off line again. So now we're very suspicious that there might be. somebody in the house with us. So we grabbed the landline that was next to us, and we decided to call our friends and ask them where they are. Maybe they want to come over, because they could come here and help us out.

We call them, and as we're on the phone with them, I hear the receiver pick up upstairs, and I look at my friend, and I go, someone just picked up the phone. He up the phone, and me and him look at each other, and we decide that we're going to go now. upstairs to try to see who's here. It could still be his brother messing with us. It's something he would do.

So we go to the kitchen, we go up his staircase, which is a very old school, steep staircase, and we go to his bedroom, which is on the left, and we look, and there's nobody there. To go to where the noise was, we have to go through a hallway, which connects to another hallway. And as we're walking down this hallway, I can see in the room. a shadow, dart across, and go behind the door. And I freeze.

And I look at my friend and I go, did you see that? And he nods. And we both go to take one more step. And at that moment, he darts. So I dart. And we run down the stairs, out the front door, and just go to the driveway. We look up to the window of where we heard the noise. And then we look at each other and we go, no, we got to be braver than this.

have to go back in. So together we go into the kitchen. I grab a serrated bread knife, just the first thing I grabbed. He grabs a giant butcher knife, and we start walking up the staircase. The hallway that I mentioned before had two doors on either end. As we go up to the staircase, both doors are now shut. So with our knives and hands, We look at each other and we go, all right, on the count of three, we're going to go in. We're just going to see who's there. One, two, three, we slam open our door. Across the hall, the other door, slams open.

He darts. I dart. We run out to the driveway. Now we know that there's someone definitely upstairs. In the driveway, we look down and we can see that there's four guys working on their car. So we go down and we get them.

And we say, hey, if you guys could come up with us, help us. We think someone broke in. It's just us two in the house. We didn't need to give them any more reason. And they ransacked the house. They ran through the first floor, looking for anybody they could see. They went upstairs.

They couldn't find anything. We're walking through the house, and we get up to the second floor and we can see that the second floor window onto the roof is open and we walk out onto the roof and look down and in his mother's flower bed is a perfect body imprint

of somebody who had just jumped and ruined all of her flowers and more than likely to took off into the woods. We gather ourselves, we call the police just to tell them what it happens. The police come and they take our statement. They say there's not much they can, to because there's no one there.

And this is now the third, fourth cop that I've seen in town. So now they all know my name. And he tells us just to relax. So that next day, I go back home. My neighbor comes over, and he says, oh, I heard you had an exciting day yesterday. And I was like, yeah. He says, oh, he goes, there must be a full moon going on

because I've caught someone the past two nights coming out in the middle of the night from the woods. with a bucket in stealing my water. Really? And he goes, yeah, he goes, brown greasy hair, dirty. He grabs it and he sprints back into the woods. And at that moment, I looked out into the woods

of where the snowmobile paths were and realized it was Bobby Corey. Bobby Corey had been out in the woods this entire time watching us. And I know for a fact, Bobby Corey was in the house that day when I was with my friends

and then he escaped back into the woods. It was Bobby Corey. All right, that's about enough for me. If I listen to another one, I'm going to lose complete faith in humanity. So here's another ad break. As if marketing will help me trust again. Boarding for Flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes.

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