diff --git a/packages/memory-storage/src/cache-helpers.ts b/packages/memory-storage/src/cache-helpers.ts
index e4eb76183b44..e441c5416f4d 100644
--- a/packages/memory-storage/src/cache-helpers.ts
+++ b/packages/memory-storage/src/cache-helpers.ts
@@ -307,8 +307,24 @@ export async function findRequestQueueByPossibleId(client: MemoryStorage, entryN
                     break;
                 }
                 default: {
+                    // Skip non-JSON and files that start with a dot
+                    if (entry.name.startsWith('.') || !entry.name.endsWith('.json')) {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
                     const entryName = entry.name.split('.')[0];
-                    entries.add(entryName);
+
+                    try {
+                        // Try parsing the file to ensure it's even valid to begin with
+                        const fileContent = await readFile(resolve(requestQueueDir, entry.name), 'utf8');
+                        JSON.parse(fileContent);
+
+                        entries.add(entryName);
+                    } catch (err) {
+                        memoryStorageLog.warning(
+                            `Request queue entry "${entry.name}" for store ${entryNameOrId} has invalid JSON content and will be ignored from the store.`,
+                        );
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/packages/memory-storage/test/request-queue/ignore-non-json-files.test.ts b/packages/memory-storage/test/request-queue/ignore-non-json-files.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1cef2fba6772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/memory-storage/test/request-queue/ignore-non-json-files.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';
+import { rm, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { resolve } from 'node:path';
+
+import { MemoryStorage } from '@crawlee/memory-storage';
+import type { InternalRequest } from '@crawlee/memory-storage/src/resource-clients/request-queue';
+import type { RequestSchema } from '@crawlee/types';
+import { ensureDir } from 'fs-extra';
+
+describe('when falling back to fs, Request queue should ignore non-JSON files', () => {
+    const tmpLocation = resolve(__dirname, './tmp/req-queue-ignore-non-json');
+    const storage = new MemoryStorage({
+        localDataDirectory: tmpLocation,
+    });
+
+    beforeAll(async () => {
+        // Create "default" request queue and give it faulty entries
+        await ensureDir(resolve(storage.requestQueuesDirectory, 'default'));
+        await writeFile(resolve(storage.requestQueuesDirectory, 'default/__metadata__.json'), JSON.stringify({
+            id: randomUUID(),
+            name: 'default',
+            createdAt: new Date(2022, 0, 1),
+            accessedAt: new Date(2022, 0, 1),
+            modifiedAt: new Date(2022, 0, 1),
+        }));
+
+        await writeFile(resolve(storage.requestQueuesDirectory, 'default/123.json'), JSON.stringify({
+            id: '123',
+            orderNo: 1,
+            url: 'http://example.com',
+            uniqueKey: 'owo',
+            method: 'GET',
+            retryCount: 0,
+            json: JSON.stringify({
+                uniqueKey: 'owo',
+                url: 'http://example.com',
+                id: '123',
+            } satisfies RequestSchema),
+        } satisfies InternalRequest));
+
+        await writeFile(resolve(storage.requestQueuesDirectory, 'default/.DS_Store'), 'owo');
+        await writeFile(resolve(storage.requestQueuesDirectory, 'default/invalid.txt'), 'owo');
+    });
+
+    afterAll(async () => {
+        await rm(tmpLocation, { force: true, recursive: true });
+    });
+
+    test('attempting to list "default" request queue should ignore non-JSON files', async () => {
+        const defaultQueueInfo = await storage.requestQueues().getOrCreate('default');
+        const defaultQueue = storage.requestQueue(defaultQueueInfo.id);
+
+        expect(defaultQueueInfo.name).toEqual('default');
+
+        const requests = await defaultQueue.listHead();
+        expect(requests.items).toHaveLength(1);
+    });
+});