The Stoop Story Archive contains the true, personal tales shared by thousands of everyday people on our stages since 2006. We’re proud of this amazing collection and invite you to listen, browse by topic or storyteller, check out past shows — and share, share, share.
Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Delvin: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Dawn Allette: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Host Aaron Henkin and The Stoop radio players are back with a show about walking down the aisle that will have you rolling in the aisle. We’ve got old-time sketch Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | love |
| Ricki Baker: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Host Aaron Henkin and The Stoop radio players are back with a show about walking down the aisle that will have you rolling in the aisle. We’ve got old-time sketch Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | love |
| Don Palmer: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Host Aaron Henkin and The Stoop radio players are back with a show about walking down the aisle that will have you rolling in the aisle. We’ve got old-time sketch Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | love |
| Faith Ward: Gimme Shelter | February 7, 2011 | Stories about finding, creating, and losing a home In partnership with “Earl’s Place” A woman talks about her childhood losing her home and how her moms attempts to keep their family together allowed her to live a “normal” life with financial struggles | homelessness |
| Rebecca Donnelly: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | A Holiday Live Radio Show The Stoop rings in the ha-ha-holidays with its biggest live radio show extravaganza ever, featuring old time comedy sketches and true personal tales of holiday | |
| Amy Greco: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school |
| Dave Minges: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school |
| Gabe Donnenberg: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school |
| Diane Macklin: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school |
| Robert Pelrine: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about a boy whose aunt fell through the ceiling while taking a bath when visiting for the holidays | aunt, bath, ceiling collapse, naked, older woman |
| Trixie Little: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Granddaughter learns that her grandfather is a nudist | beard, grandpa, naked, Nudist, Santa |
| Sarah Achenbach: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about a woman who loves christmas with a passion and married someone whose parents did Christmas just so wrong | annual present wrapping, Christmas, gift wrap, love, mother in law, obsessions, sleigh ride |
| Bridget Cavaiola: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about always wanting to play Mary in the Nativity play | Barbie, Cabbage Patch kid, Catholics, Christmas, family, little sister, Nativity |
| Therese Lynch: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about how a grandmother uses mouth-to-mouth to rescucitate a family pet bird. | bird, Christmas, CPR, dating, mothers, pets |
| Presscott Gaylord: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about family videotaping Christmas every year. Prescott rebelled by filming himself naked with a santa hat covering his wang. | Christmas, family, home videos, naked, penis, santa hat, staging, tradition, VCR |
| Jim Magruder: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each | CAN'T USE |
| Josh Granger: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about how a group of friends were affected by a shark attacked in NC summer 2001. One friend died and another lost his leg. | beach, break-ups, death, friends, North Carolina, ocean, shark attack, signature coral reef, travel |
| Tim Paggi: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about how his younger brother wet the bed and crouched in the corner, scaring him out of sleep. (the way he tells it is very unclear). | Catholic school, creativity, disembodied heads, golum, little brothers, nightmare, over active imaginations, scared of the dark |
| Charlie Wilhelm: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about how a wiseguy became a FBI informant | Baltimore, crooks, FBI, murder, reporter, straight, wise guy |
| Brian Flanagan: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Firefighter who has fear getting up to a burning building, before he even gets to the people he has to rescue | burning, fear, fire, heavy suit, highrise, ladder, poverty |
| Mark Eisendrath: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Surviving a plane crash in the jungle and making the experience into an artistic passion | burning, family, fire, jungle, plane crash, survival, wood |
| Femi “the dry fish”: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about a man who grew up in London/Nigeria and went through the foster system. Only thing he loved was comic books. Suicidal as a teen. Went to a party | comics, fighting, guns, London, Nigeria, suicide |
| Mike Subelsky: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about failing during Navy Seal training week | defecation, male, military, San Diego, Seals, swimming |
| Herman Williams: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Montel Williams’s brother. Story about how he was a talk show producer who did a show about interracial couples to get rating up. | black, diversity, Montel Williams, racism, reality talk show |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Chamblee: Movers and Shakers | March 4, 2020 | Became an anti gun activist after her husband was murdered in the Capital Gazette attacks | activism, guns, loss, pain, republicans, social media, widow | |
| Andrea Schanbacher: What I Did for Love | February 15, 2007 | a sweet naive girl from a working-class Philly neighborhood falls in love with the bad boy and eventually marries him | camp, high school, moving, New Kids on the Block, philly, pregnancy, sweetheart | |
| Andrea Seabrook: Silk Road | June 10, 2016 | Woman recounts move back into America with a marijuana-dusted vehicle. | border patrol, college, drugs, fraud, independence, marijuana, Mexico, mistakes, moving, sexual threats, volkswagen | |
| Andrea Seabrook: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Living in Mexico City with her gay friend and boyfriend | gay friends, Mexico City, youth | |
| Andrea Seabrook: Under the Influence | October 10, 2011 | |||
| Andrew Hazlett: Eureka! | May 20, 2013 | |||
| Andrew Stephenson: Kitchen Confidential | ||||
| Andrew Verrier: Guilty | November 21, 2013 | |||
| Andy Levy: Trials and Tribulations | April 1, 2015 | Andy Levy recounts the time he represented his parents in a jury trial. | ||
| Andy Parsley: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | story about overcomng OCD | 666, christianity, counting, hell, mental health, OCD, Red Hot Chili Peppers, therapy | |
| Angela Guss: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | |||
| Angie Elliott: Coming Out Stories | September 24, 2015 | |||
| Angie: It’s Complicated | November 15, 2018 | Story about finding love in her Hampden neighbor | ||
| Ann Bracken: On Drugs | April 19, 2018 | A woman who was taking a lot of drugs to deal with migraines and depression becomes drug free after working with an energy healer | car accident, energy, essential oils, methodone, migraines, oxycotin, prescription drugs | |
| Ann Loar Brooks: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Story about finding bongos in her mom’s closet for Christmas | ||
| Ann Loar Brooks: Love Hurts | February 9, 2009 | A women’s fairytale marriage ends up as an abusive one and when she leaves she takes his microwave | abuse, cinderella, fairytales, marriage | |
| Anna : Abortion is Autonomy | August 26, 2022 | |||
| Anna Beidelman: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | Being able to see an R-rated move as a 17-year old | teenagers | |
| Anna Ditkoff: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Story about getting into an accident that resulted in her not being able to move for months while she recovered in her parents house as a teenager | back, car accident, high school, injury, moving back home, parents | |
| Anna Fitzgerald: Summer Camp Stories | March 10, 2016 | Story about being a city kid, going to nature camp, and learning about taxidermy. Pretty graphic and she drops some f bombs | ||
| Anna Grothe: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | Woman gets into three accidents in a week. | ||
| Anna Grothe: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | Woman gets into three accidents in a week. | ||
| Anna Rhodes: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Brother wanted a horse for Christmas and got a saddle | ||
| Anna Szapiro: The One That Got Away | September 14, 2023 | |||
| Anne Costlow : It’s Complicated | April 5, 2014 | |||
