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The Bear On TV Was Still Looking For Children In this episode, we delve into a terrifying recovered-memory account about a childhood abduction, a hidden facility, and a children’s television show that may have been used to reach new victims years later. Case: The Bear Costume Abduction Date: 1985 / August 14, 1999 Location: Unknown / Children’s television broadcast Status: Unresolved Event: Childhood abduction and resurfaced predator Phrase: “Bad kids stay up late” Witness: Former victim and his son Connor An eleven-year-old boy was abducted during a sleepover at Anthony Hampton’s house. A chemical smell entered the room after a voice whispered, “Bad kids stay up late.” He woke in a locked room with bones, a caged microphone, and the phrase carved into the wall. A man in a bear costume controlled the room and forced him to follow strange rules. The boy escaped during a fire by crawling through a vent. Fourteen years later, he saw the same bear costume on a children’s TV show inviting kids to write letters. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: 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: [redacted].