ShortSummary
| - In the space of minutes, a travel writer venturing alone in remote waters goes from a state of enviable tranquility to blinding terror. (en)
- Here's a horror tale told through a different format. In a mysterious, undefined era, a desperate foot journey traverses a winter wilderness that promises a lonely death--perhaps a natural one, but likely not.
Note: Features additional narration by Kalem Murray, Teddy Ray Bullard, Melinda Kordich, and Jason Hill. (en)
- A man who insists on the existence of a relative no one else has ever seen delves dangerously into the swirling fog of his own youthful perceptions.
Note: Features additional narration by Currer Hathaway. (en)
- What’s the shortest time you’ve ever lived somewhere before you left in frustration? What was the problem—bad neighbors, leaks, noise problems, lousy plumbing? Something worse? Something mystifying?
Note: Features additional narration by Benjamin Gilmour. (en)
- Year by year, step by quiet step, a well-intentioned collective of great minds evolves into something to be feared. (en)
- Something a little shy of Knifepoint Horror, but perhaps entertaining in their own way, here are three stories that don't quite fit into the mold of those previously offered.
Note: The individual stories in this episode are titled "mountains", "castle", and "solitude". (en)
- A documentarian’s celebrity puff piece takes a dark turn when her subject reveals the story of a friend’s haunting.
Note: Features additional narration by Mig Windows. (en)
- There exists in this life a very real, horrifying phenomenon that science cannot yet extinguish. It strikes a surprising number of people, and none of us are safe. And if it comes for you, it will come at the most vulnerable moment you will ever know. (en)
- A cult's act of human sacrifice and resurrection reaches across the twentieth century to leave its imprint on a modern day murder.
Note: Narrated by Peter Yearsley. (en)
- A man attempting to solve a strange gap in his memory meets a man claiming to offer an answer--one too frightening for mere mortals to grasp. (en)
- Eight very different stories for the season.
Note: The individual stories in this episode are titled "hitcher", "Is It That Time Again?", "prodigal", "panophobe", "legalese", "contestants", "A Bitter Pill", and "blueberries". "Is It That Time Again?" features additional narration by Emma Fradd and Beth Abdallah, while "A Bitter Pill" features additional narration from Abdallah and Currer Hathaway. (en)
- Somewhere near your house it stands, one of those decaying places that people always whisper about as they pass by. For every day you age, it seems to age three. But it may well live beyond you, silently daring you each night at dusk to enter, coldly confident you'll always be too afraid. (en)
- There is a curious fact about the tiny railway station mentioned by the teller of this story that he would never know: Almost sixty years before the events he describes, the station was partially demolished in the night by someone or something unknown, and had to be rebuilt from the ground up. Unknown, yes, but there were indeed whispers--from the older folk mostly, people long dead by the time the weary and hungry narrator appeared in the mountains utterly by chance. (en)
- In a previous episode, 'house', the psychic researcher Aramis Churchton makes reference to the notes his colleague Savid Doud has made concerning cases for potential investigation. Here is one of Doud's original audio recordings, recovered after his death, describing such a case of paranormal phenomena.
Note: Narrated by Neil Donnelley. (en)
- A man in trouble, wanting only an escape from a crisis, stumbles across a mystery which leads to another... and yet another, demanding a return to a dangerous place and time. (en)
- Many is the band that wishes they could have a second chance at what turned out to be their final performance—maybe they could have brought more energy to that night, or savored it just a little more... and then there’s the terrible but unforgettable case of the celebrated rock group Waters Blue and Permanent . (en)
- 'What about the forest where this terrible thing happened?' people sometimes ask when they hear the story of the small town that became so precariously balanced between true evil and unexpected hope. 'Is it still there?' The answer is yes... the forest is still there.
Note: Features additional narration by Catherine Saraceno. (en)
- Whether high school student Garrett Markish was truly evil or under the influence of forces he could not overcome did not matter to those who fell before his seething wrath. (en)
- The featured story of this brief trilogy imagines that perhaps, Earth's final confrontation between good and evil will take place so quietly you'll be able to hear a caterpillar crawl through the blood-soaked grass. Before this tale comes an appetizer ... and afterward, a little dessert.
Note: The individual stories in this episode are titled "dusk", "extremity", and "project". "extremity" features additional narration by Linda Wojtowick. (en)
- A cruel game of psychological brinksmanship among thieves breaks the sanity of its most dangerous competitor. (en)
- A boy growing up in post-Depression Kansas learns there are no truly innocuous objects as long as the human imagination can infuse them with fearsome properties. (en)
- A man thrust onto the streets must navigate their disturbing sights and sounds, all the while living under the threat of a monster moving relentlessly through their shadows. (en)
- No one in attendance at the talk on that December night in New England, 2021, really knew what they would hear from the presenter, though they certainly knew his name. And while no video exists of his methodical dissection of the past, the audio recording alone seems more than enough.
Note: Features additional narration by Robert Cantelmo and Beth Abdallah. (en)
- A courteous stranger offers three friends looking for a Halloween hayride into the woods something deeper and darker.
Note: Narrated by Markham Anderson. (en)
- A brief history of a brilliant creator slowly becomes a tale of shadows, footsteps, and terror when an awful irony reaches out to him with cold, lifeless hands. (en)
- He was a teenager who suddenly had no place to sleep, no money, and no options. The world had quickly become a very scary place ... and then shelter appeared much too conveniently. (en)
- Very few people had ever even heard of the Poldrict House, let alone investigated it. Surely the lack of fascination within the paranormal community was justified... (en)
- Memories of three weird occurrences that cannot be explained merge for their living witness into a common theme. (en)
- A damaged man recalls his time at Seacrist Elementary, the unlikely site of a hideous paranormal outbreak which still haunts him two decades later. (en)
- Another three tales roughly and tersely told.
Note: The individual stories in this episode are titled "bells", "lighthouse", and "army". (en)
- Some places are so remote that just to explore them is an invitation to the phantoms that know we're alone. (en)
- Someday, when you find yourself alone in a place like the one where this story occurred, take note of what happens to your footprints as the minutes tick by. As one of the narrators claims, the wind shifts things around fast--and it’s as if no trace of you ever existed.
Note: Features additional narration by Ebenezer Alasi, Amy Paonessa, Currer Hathaway, Reginald Baskerville, and Linda Wojtowick. (en)
- A college professor has a mysterious story to tell to a prized student, but his timing and motive are no less cryptic.
Note: Features additional narration by Amy Paonessa, Linda Wojtowick, Elena Vegam, and Cal Butera. (en)
- A nighttime expedition to a sleepy town uncovers the truth behind seemingly groundless rumors. (en)
- Another tale of lands touched by both enigmatic beauty and dormant, uncategorizable cruelty.
Note: Features additional narration by Justy Gee, Jes Echo, Amy Paonessa, Cal Butera, Susan Wallace, and Brian Lillie. The poetry in this story was written by Mia LeBemay, marking the only time thus far a story features writing contributions by another author besides Narnia. (en)
- An invitation to a séance leads a Congressman to face the wrath of a tortured spirit bent on making him suffer for a past betrayal.
Note: Narrated by Mark Nelson. (en)
- A knock at the door in the dead of night begins a mystery involving a gruesome crime and a vengeance that can only come in the beyond. (en)
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