AFTER DARK | True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories
The Whispering Woods: After Dark was formerly known as Obscurata.It is still the place for the darker stories. The unsolved cases, strange disappearances, true crime, occult history, paranormal reports and unexplained events that don’t quite fit anywhere else.Each episode looks at the stories that linger after the lights go out. Some are rooted in crime. Some in folklore. Some in witness accounts, old reports, rumours, fear and the things people have never been able to fully explain.Different name. Same dark corners.Brought to you by the creators of The Whispering Woods. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
31 Days of Halloween | Day 21 Rerun | Creepy Stories
Welcome to Day 21 of 31 Days of Halloween.
In today's episode we share 2 spooky stories to get you in the mood for Spooky Season.
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Welcome to Day 18 of 31 Days of Halloween.
In today's episode we share 3 spooky stories to get you in the mood for Spooky Season.
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 16 Rerun | Creepy Stories for Halloween
Welcome to Day 16 of 31 Days of Halloween.
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 15 Rerun | Creepy Stories for Halloween
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Welcome to Day 15 of 31 Days of Halloween.
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The Red Light in the Rice Fields: Thailand’s Krasue, Creepy Folklore
For generations, people in rural Thailand have told stories of the Krasue, a woman whose head leaves her body after dark with her internal organs hanging beneath it as she travels in search of blood, carrion and filth. Strange red, green and orange lights seen moving above fields have repeatedly been linked to the creature, and remarkably, alleged sightings continue today, with reports from Ratchaburi and Lopburi in 2023, Surin and Buriram in 2024, and Phetchabun as recently as February 2026.
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Ghost Stories, Folklore & City of Ghosts with Thom Burgess
In this special episode, I'm joined by writer and screenwriter Thom Burgess for a chat about ghost stories, folklore and a lifelong fascination with the supernatural.
Thom talks about growing up surrounded by the ghostlore of Kent, from the phantom bride of Bluebell Hill to the stories that first frightened and fascinated him as a child, and how that interest eventually found its way into his own writing and the Paramount horror film Passenger.
Along the way, we get into M. R. James, haunted pubs, phantom hitchhikers, the strange ways folklore has moved...
Season of the Witch: The Islandmagee Witches | Possession, Haunting & Ireland’s Last Witch Trial
In 1710, strange disturbances began inside Knowehead House on the Islandmagee peninsula in County Antrim. Stones appeared from nowhere, bedclothes were arranged into the shape of corpses, and a ragged childlike figure was seen moving through the house before apparently predicting the death of its elderly resident, Ann Haltridge. After Ann died, eighteen-year-old Mary Dunbar arrived and soon began suffering violent fits, claiming invisible women were attacking her and producing pins, feathers and other objects from her mouth. Her accusations eventually sent eight women to prison for witchcraft and drew a ninth person into a case that became Ireland’s la...
Season of the Witch: The Killing of Ann Tennant | Victorian Witchcraft
On 15 September 1875, seventy-nine-year-old Ann Tennant left her home in the Warwickshire village of Long Compton to buy a loaf of bread. Minutes later she was attacked by agricultural labourer James Haywood, a neighbour who had become convinced that Ann and a number of other villagers were witches. His extraordinary claims would follow him from the harvest fields of Long Compton to the courtroom at Warwick and eventually to Broadmoor.
As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time...
Season of the Witch: From the Archives | The Strange Death of Charles Walton – Part Two
Season of the Witch – Archive Note:
As part of this year’s Season of the Witch, we’re bringing our two-part Charles Walton case back into the feed. Charles Walton’s story connects with some of the new cases we’re covering this season, so we thought it was the perfect time to revisit it.
Patreon and Apple subscribers can listen to Charles Walton Parts One & Two and our new Ann Tennant episode now. For everyone else, Charles Walton Parts One & Two will be released on Friday and Saturday, followed by Ann Tennant on Sunday.
Season of the Witch: From the Archives | The Strange Death of Charles Walton – Part One
Season of the Witch – Archive Note:
As part of this year’s Season of the Witch, we’re bringing our two-part Charles Walton case back into the feed. Charles Walton’s story connects with some of the new cases we’re covering this season, so we thought it was the perfect time to revisit it.
Patreon and Apple subscribers can listen to Charles Walton Parts One & Two and our new Ann Tennant episode now. For everyone else, Charles Walton Parts One & Two will be released on Friday and Saturday, followed by Ann Tennant on Sunday.
Season of the Witch: The Rollright Stones & England's Witch Village | British Folklore
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Above the Warwickshire village of Long Compton stands one of England's strangest prehistoric landscapes. According to legend, the Rollright Stones are a king and his army turned to stone by a witch, while generations of local people told stories of bleeding elder trees, fairies dancing around the stones, impossible stone counts, shape-shifting witches and ancient monuments that moved after dark. Even into the twentieth century, Long Compton retained its extraordinary reputation as a village where the influence of witches was said to come and go like the full moon.
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The Train Station That Doesn’t Exist: Kisaragi Station | Japanese Urban Legends & Otherworld Encounters
Late on 8 January 2004, a woman calling herself Hasumi began posting to the Japanese message board 2channel after her usual train travelled far beyond its normal route and stopped at a deserted station she had never heard of. Over the next four hours, strangers online followed her journey through tunnels, distant drums, a terrifying encounter and finally a ride with a mysterious man, until Hasumi posted one final message and disappeared from the thread. Her story would become one of Japan’s most enduring internet legends and inspired an entire genre of mysterious “otherworld stations.”
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The Year Without a Summer: Mount Tambora, Frankenstein, and the Summer That Never Came
In 1816, snow fell in June, crops failed across Europe and North America, and thousands feared the end of the world. Known as the Year Without a Summer, this extraordinary period was caused by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora a year earlier, although nobody at the time knew the true reason. As famine spread and old superstitions resurfaced, a group of writers trapped by the relentless storms at Lake Geneva created Frankenstein and The Vampyre, changing horror literature forever.
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Count Its Legs: Kerala’s Shape-Shifting Odiyans | Malayali folklore from Kerala in South India
Before electric light reached the villages of rural Kerala, travellers were warned to examine every animal waiting beside the road. An unnatural bull, dog or buffalo might be an Odiyan, a practitioner of secret magic said to change shape, stalk victims through the darkness and carry out attacks for those willing to pay.
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The Ghost of Big Moose Lake: Grace Brown, Chester Gillette, and the Adirondack Murder
In 1906, twenty year old Grace Brown travelled to Big Moose Lake with Chester Gillette, the man she loved and hoped would marry her. Instead, she was found dead in the water, and her private letters became the centre of a sensational murder trial. More than a century later, Grace is still said to haunt Big Moose Lake as a sorrowful woman in white.
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<...Summer of Fear | True Scary Stories from the Wild | RERUN Day 7
Welcome to Day 7 of 14 Days of Summer Fear.
The sun is high, the trails are calling, and the great outdoors is waiting—but something lurks beyond the trees. For 14 nights, we venture into the heart of summer’s most chilling legends, where national parks hold secrets, camping trips turn into nightmares, and the wilderness is anything but welcoming.
In today's episode we share 2 spooky stories.
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Summer of Fear | True Scary Stories from the Wild | RERUN Day 5 2026
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Welcome to Day 5 of 14 Days of Summer Fear.
The sun is high, the trails are calling, and the great outdoors is waiting—but something lurks beyond the trees. For 14 nights, we venture into the heart of summer’s most chilling legends, where national parks hold secrets, camping trips turn into nightmares, and the wilderness is anything but welcoming.
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The Ghost of Superman: George Reeves, Benedict Canyon, and Hollywood’s Haunted Death House
After George Reeves, television’s original Superman, died in his Benedict Canyon home in 1959, the official ruling was suicide. But questions, rumours and old Hollywood whispers followed the case for decades, and later tenants claimed the house itself was haunted by strange noises, moving objects and even an apparition of Reeves dressed as Superman.
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Dead Woman’s Ditch: Somerset’s Ancient Mystery, Murdered Women and Dark Folklore
High on the Quantock Hills, Dead Woman’s Ditch carries a name older than the murders later tied to it. This episode follows the ancient earthwork, the story of Jane Walford, the 1988 discovery of Shirley Banks, and the shadow of John Cannan and Suzy Lamplugh.
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The 1988 Anomaly: Did Reality Shift? Strange Timeline Stories, Broken Time and Glitches in the Matrix
A church in Texas where thousands looked into the sky in 1988. A theory that time moves towards rupture. A machine beneath Europe that became, for some, a symbol of a universe disturbed. And ordinary people, scattered across the internet, trying to explain why their lives feel as though they continued after something else ended.
Perhaps nothing happened. Perhaps the feeling is memory, grief, fear, nostalgia, or the strange dislocation of living through years that change too quickly.
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The Bleeding Houses | The Atlanta Blood House and La Plata’s House of Blood
In 1986, blood began to rise from the floor of a family photography shop in La Plata, Argentina, drawing police, priests, believers and frightened neighbours to a house suddenly treated as both crime scene and shrine. Less than a year later, in Atlanta, Georgia, another ordinary home became known as the Blood House when human blood appeared across its floors and walls, with no body, no injury, no break-in, and no explanation.
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The Pit of Ghosts: Morfa Colliery’s Haunted History
Before the 1890 Morfa Colliery disaster, miners claimed they heard strange sounds in the four-foot seam, including doors opening and slamming in the darkness, and some believed the pit was warning them of fire or explosion. When the mine later exploded and dozens of men and boys were killed, those ghost stories entered the inquiry itself, turning Morfa into one of Wales’s most unsettling haunted mining legends.
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The Jamison Family Mystery: Witches, Spirits and the Vanishing on the Mountain
In 2009, Bobby, Sherilynn and six-year-old Madyson Jamison drove into the Sans Bois Mountains to look at land for a new off-grid life and vanished, leaving behind their truck, their dog, their phones, their IDs and $32,000 in cash. But before they disappeared, the family had reportedly spoken of hauntings, spirits, demons, apocalyptic fears and a spooky warning painted on a shipping container: “Witches don’t like their black cat killed.”
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British UFO Mysteries: Strange Lights, Military Secrets and the Welsh Roswell
In this British UFO episode, we explore four strange cases where ordinary nights became something far harder to explain.
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The Haunting of Brownsville Road: A Demonic House in Pittsburgh | True Paranormal Folklore
In 1988, Bob and Lesa Cranmer moved their family into a large old house on Brownsville Road in Brentwood, Pennsylvania, believing they had found their dream home. But over the years, the family claimed the house became the centre of violent supernatural activity, including shadow figures, moving objects, broken religious items, mysterious scratches, and blood-like stains on the walls.
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After Dark | Gloria Ramirez: The Emergency Room Mystery
In February 1994, thirty-one-year-old Gloria Ramirez was rushed to Riverside General Hospital in California while gravely ill with advanced cervical cancer. As doctors and nurses fought to save her, staff began noticing strange details.
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AFTER DARK | The Voice Called L’enfant | Strange True Stories
In the 1970s, Bashir Kouchacji survived being kidnapped and tortured in Beirut after his captors accused him of being a CIA agent. Years later, after rebuilding his life in America, the phone began to ring. At first there was only silence, then laughter, then a childlike voice that seemed to know where he was, who he knew, and how afraid he had become.
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<...After Dark | Granger Taylor: The Man Who Said He Was Leaving Earth | Unsolved Mysteries
Granger Taylor was a gifted mechanic who left behind a note claiming he had gone to board an alien spacecraft and would return in forty-two months. When he vanished into a stormy night in 1980, he left behind one of the strangest disappearance mysteries in modern history.
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AFTER DARK | The Loudon Possessions : True Case of Demonic Possession
France, 1634. In the walled town of Loudun, a group of nuns began to scream, convulse, and claim they were tormented by unseen forces. They said demons spoke through them, twisted their bodies, and named the man responsible.
What followed was not just an exorcism, but a public spectacle of fear, obsession, and vengeance that would end in fire.
Because in Loudun, the question was never simply whether the devil had arrived. It was who stood to gain from everyone believing he had.
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AFTER DARK | The Disappearance of Lars Mittank: The Man Who Ran | True Mysteries
In the middle of a crowded airport, a man became convinced he was about to die. Minutes later, he was gone. No one has seen him since.
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AFTER DARK | The Beast of Gévaudan: The Werewolf That Terrorised France
Whatever was moving through the countryside it wasn’t behaving like any animal they knew. It ignored the livestock. It appeared in daylight. And it went after people… again and again.
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AFTER DARK | The Palmyra Wolf Pack : Werewolves in Maine, True Paranormal Stories
In a quiet Maine town, a family reports a terrifying encounter with creatures that walked like wolves, but not quite right.
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AFTER DARK | The Omen Curse, True Scary Paranormal Stories
A string of real-life tragedies shadowed the 1976 production of The Omen, from plane strikes to fatal accidents, fuelling claims that a curse was attached to the making of the film.
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AFTER DARK | Historical Demonic Possession Cases: Cara Germana Cele & Madeleine Bavent
At a remote mission in South Africa and a quiet convent in 17th-century France, two young women began to show signs of what those around them believed was possession.
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AFTER DARK | The Vampire Case of Arnold Paole, True Scary Stories
After Arnold Paole died in 1726, villagers claimed he returned from the grave to kill the living. What followed was a chain of exhumations, stakings, and an official military report that reads like something out of folklore, but wasn’t.
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AFTER DARK | Rise of the Vampire: The Peter Plogojowitz Case
When nine villagers die days after Peter Plogojowitz is buried, the townspeople swear he’s come back for them. This episode takes a look at the chilling 1725 case that helped launch the European vampire panic.
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AFTER DARK | The Bennington Triangle & Glastenbury Mountain, Strange Disappearances
Between 1945 and 1950, five people vanished in Vermont’s Bennington Triangle. Only one body was ever found, under strange circumstances. This episode explores the strange disappearances, dark folklore, and the lingering presence around Glastenbury Mountain.
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AFTER DARK | The Mulberry Black Thing: Shadows in the Kentucky Hills, True Scary Folklore
In the forests of Whitley County, Kentucky, something ancient and shapeshifting prowls the night. Locals call it the Mulberry Black Thing, a silent predator glimpsed in the form of a black panther, a bear, or something far worse.
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AFTER DARK : Slipping Through Time, The Liverpool Anomalies | True Paranormal Stories
In the centre of Liverpool, ordinary people walk into the past without warning, into gas-lit streets and vanished shopfronts, only to return moments later in a state of confusion. This episode explores the unexplained time slips reported around Bold Street and other corners of the city.
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AFTER DARK | The Seventeen Coffins of Arthur’s Seat & Gilmerton Cove
In 1836, a cache of tiny coffins was discovered in a cave on Arthur’s Seat — each one carved, dressed, and buried like a miniature funeral. Were they witchcraft, mourning dolls, or something darker: a ritual burial for those denied their graves? And across the city lies another chamber carved in secret: a stone labyrinth beneath a suburban street, whose purpose no one has ever truly explained.
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