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AFTER DARK | True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

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.

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On air since
2025
Latest episode
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  1. People Who Entered Fairyland: Missing Time, Hollow Hills & the Otherworld | British Folklore

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    For centuries, British folklore has told of people who crossed into another world hidden beneath hills, inside caves or just beyond the edge of an ordinary field. Some returned believing only minutes had passed when years had gone by, others were warned never to eat, drink or take anything with them, and a few were said to come back changed forever. From King Herla and Thomas the Rhymer to Welsh fairy dances and medieval accounts of underground kingdoms, these are the stories of people who were said to enter Fairyland and the strange rules that governed whether they ever came home.

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    Research:

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.28460407

    https://www.hoap.co.uk/explore_fairy_traditions.pdf

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Fairy_Tales/Chapter_7

    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55025/55025-h/55025-h.htm

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Child%27s_Ballads/37

    https://academic.oup.com/book/59910/chapter/512173459

    https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/41568

    https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/prehistory-fairy-realm

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.28460467

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    38 min
  2. 31 Days of Halloween | Day 21 Rerun | Creepy Stories

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    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.

    A special thanks to Late_General8913 and Sara for allowing us to share their stories.

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    Stories:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1l1xvqk/my_dad_walked_into_the_woods_in_a_trancewe_found/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1mqafr7/still_unexplained_paranormal_experience_in_an/

    Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

    Sarah and Tobie xx

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    22 min
  3. 31 Days of Halloween | Day 18 Rerun | Creepy Stories

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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.

    A special thanks to SkorgeOfficial for allowing us to share your story!

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    Stories:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/7z90j9/summers_with_my_grandparents/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1l21f6u/i_think_i_left_my_shower_running/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/comments/1backzs/blurryfaced_boy_that_ive_seen_twice_any_ideas/

    Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

    Sarah and Tobie xx

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    23 min
  4. 31 Days of Halloween | Day 16 Rerun | Creepy Stories for Halloween

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    Welcome to Day 16 of 31 Days of Halloween.

    In today's episode we share1 spooky story to get you in the mood for Spooky Season.

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    24 min
  5. 31 Days of Halloween | Day 15 Rerun | Creepy Stories for Halloween

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    A special thanks to Numerous-Fox-4663, theonlyjollyroger, and These_Technician_561 for allowing us to share your stories!

    Welcome to Day 15 of 31 Days of Halloween.

    In today's episode we share1 spooky story to get you in the mood for Spooky Season.

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    Stories:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/CrawlerSightings/comments/1l42o5o/faceless_thing_in_the_woods/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/comments/1l36v4d/the_mirror_in_room_313_a_night_ill_never_forget/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/comments/1l2wc3j/i_lived_in_a_haunted_apartment_for_a_year/

    Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

    Sarah and Tobie xx

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    21 min
  6. The Red Light in the Rice Fields: Thailand’s Krasue, Creepy Folklore

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    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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    Research:

    https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/host.5.2.183_1

    https://en.thairath.co.th/news/local/2911706

    https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/central/2696702

    https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/central/2733893

    https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40032079

    https://thethaiger.com/news/national/ghost-hunt-in-lopburi-village-creates-chaos-as-million-baht-reward-retracted

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    29 min
  7. Ghost Stories, Folklore & City of Ghosts with Thom Burgess

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    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 online and, inevitably, those deeply unsettling Cat in the Hat videos. Thom also shares a couple of his own unexplained experiences, including a very strange night in a Seattle hotel.

    We also talk about City of Ghosts: The Canterbury Ghost Story Festival, taking place in Canterbury on 3 October, which brings together more than 300 years of ghost stories, folklore, literature, film and the supernatural.

    Links to the festival, tickets and Thom’s work can be found below:

    Early Haunts

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Early-Haunts-T-W-Burgess/dp/B0BQ4X2WLF

    Malevolents - Click Click

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Malevolents-Click-Thom-Burgess-ebook/dp/B077F4XB87

    Ghoster : TW Burgess

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghoster-Thom-Burgess-Toby-Meakins-ebook/dp/B088Q4PKPN

    The Eyrie

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eyrie-Thom-Burgess-ebook/dp/B077F17L3B

    Hallows Fell

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hallows-Fell-T-W-Burgess/dp/B08W7SPT3C

    Manoghosts Youtube

    https://www.youtube.com/c/ManoghostsTV

    And here is the link for City of Ghosts: The Canterbury Ghost Story Festival:

    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-of-ghosts-the-canterbury-ghost-story-festival-tickets-1998994102171?keep_tld=true

    Take care everyone and I'll catch you again tomorrow.

    Sarah xx

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    54 min
  8. Season of the Witch: The Islandmagee Witches | Possession, Haunting & Ireland’s Last Witch Trial

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    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 last major witch trial.

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    https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/215482763/Sneddon_Devlin_Islandmagee_Witches_Documents_online_.pdf

    https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/documents-from-the-trial-of-the-islandmagee-witches-at-carrickfer/

    https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/possessed-by-the-devil-the-history-of-the-islandmagee-witch-trial/

    https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/roundtable-the-islandmagee-witches-1711-creative-and-digital-proj/

    https://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2013/october/mark-twain-and-the-irish-connection

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    34 min
  9. Season of the Witch: The Killing of Ann Tennant | Victorian Witchcraft

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    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 has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

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    https://d23iiv8m8qvdxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Full-Story-of-the-Murder-of-My-Great-Great-Grandmother-Ann-Tennant-of-Long-Compton.pdf

    https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/the-murder-of-my-great-great-grandmother-ann-tennant-of-long-compton-part-one

    https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/the-murder-of-ann-tennant-of-long-compton-part-two

    https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/murder-long-compton

    https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/370166320/Julia_Phillips_Doctoral_Thesis.pdf

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    40 min
  10. Season of the Witch: From the Archives | The Strange Death of Charles Walton – Part Two

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    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.

    The Charles Walton episodes were originally released around 14 months ago and have been refreshed with our current music.

    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 has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

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    Research Links:

    http://www.stratford-herald.com/news/witchcraft-and-murder-on-meon-hill-9223403/

    http://www.crimemagazine.com/last-witch-killing-united-kingdom-murder-charles-walton-1945-0

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/charles-walton-murder-victim/

    https://medium.com/@anncarney51/a-murder-on-valentines-day-f1088bde52c6

    http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2012/02/meon-hill-valentines-day-death-celia.html

    http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/charles.htm

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    26 min
  11. Season of the Witch: From the Archives | The Strange Death of Charles Walton – Part One

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    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.

    The Charles Walton episodes were originally released around 14 months ago and have been refreshed with our current music.

    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 has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

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    Research Links:

    http://www.stratford-herald.com/news/witchcraft-and-murder-on-meon-hill-9223403/

    http://www.crimemagazine.com/last-witch-killing-united-kingdom-murder-charles-walton-1945-0

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/charles-walton-murder-victim/

    https://medium.com/@anncarney51/a-murder-on-valentines-day-f1088bde52c6

    http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2012/02/meon-hill-valentines-day-death-celia.html

    http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/charles.htm

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    24 min
  12. Season of the Witch: The Rollright Stones & England's Witch Village | British Folklore

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    BONUS

    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.

    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 has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

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    https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/articles/story/folklore-and-legends

    https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/stones/whispering-knights

    https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/stones/kings-men

    https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/stones/king-stone

    https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/murder-long-compton

    https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/51780/folklore/king-stone

    https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/54048/folklore/rollright-stones

    https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/150625/folklore/rollright_stones.html

    https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/65/rollright-stones

    https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/462/king-stone

    Julia_Phillips_Doctoral_Thesis.pdf

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    32 min
  13. The Train Station That Doesn’t Exist: Kisaragi Station | Japanese Urban Legends & Otherworld Encounters

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    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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    https://xn--u9jv84l7ea468b.com/kaidan/2wa.html

    https://mikanseijin.livejournal.com/986.html

    https://www.entetsu.co.jp/tetsudou/kisaragieki/

    https://www.entetsu.co.jp/tetsudou/kisaragieki/case/

    https://www.entetsu.co.jp/tetsudou/station/saginomiya.html

    https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/364920

    https://sanblo.com/kisaragi/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisaragi_Station

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    32 min
  14. The Year Without a Summer: Mount Tambora, Frankenstein, and the Summer That Never Came

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    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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    https://www.britannica.com/event/Year-Without-a-Summer

    https://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Tambora

    https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/1815-eruption-mount-tambora

    https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/1510/tambora

    https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/year-without-summer-1816

    https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2020/04/10/the-eruption-of-mount-tambora/

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210817-the-year-summer-never-came

    https://www.history.com/articles/the-year-without-a-summer

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/1816-year-without-summer

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Diodati

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre

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    34 min
  15. Count Its Legs: Kerala’s Shape-Shifting Odiyans | Malayali folklore from Kerala in South India

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    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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    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35690/35690-h/35690-h.htm

    https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.71073/2015.71073.Cochin-State-Manual_djvu.txt

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/lore-and-legends-of-kerala-9780195698893

    https://www.keralatourism.org/districts/palakkad/

    https://indiaartreview.com/stories/odiyan-dark-knights-that-dwarf-halloween/

    https://www.newindianexpress.com/kerala/2025/Nov/04/keralas-mysterious-odiyan-legends-find-global-recognition

    https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/ഒടിയൻ

    https://ijrar.org/papers/IJRAR25B2484.pdf

    https://ideas.repec.org/a/ajp/edwast/v8y2024i6p5687-5692id3239.html

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    31 min
  16. The Ghost of Big Moose Lake: Grace Brown, Chester Gillette, and the Adirondack Murder

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    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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    https://www.adirondack.net/history/grace-brown/

    https://unsolved.com/gallery/ghost-of-grace-brown/

    https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/6528/20051201/heard-up-north-grace-brown-s-last-letter

    https://crimereads.com/people-v-gillette/

    https://history.nycourts.gov/product/2009-calendar/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Grace_Brown

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Gillette

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    36 min
  17. Summer of Fear | True Scary Stories from the Wild | RERUN Day 7

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    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.

    Special thanks to Overall-Flamingo-107 and Tiarnán for allowing us to share your stories.

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/comments/1kivd9s/something_is_in_the_gsmnp_woods_near_cherokee/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/comments/113t123/the_banshee_in_the_bog/

    Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

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    23 min
  18. Summer of Fear | True Scary Stories from the Wild | RERUN Day 5 2026

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    A special thank you to IntrepidSnowball for allowing us to share your story!

    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.

    In today's episode we share 2 spooky stories.

    Special thanks to RxMurloc and ThaYetiMusic for allowing us to share your stories.

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/comments/yik0t4/cursed_hike_in_oregon/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/CrawlerSightings/comments/df85cd/something_ran_at_my_mom_in_our_backyard/

    Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

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    22 min
  19. The Ghost of Superman: George Reeves, Benedict Canyon, and Hollywood’s Haunted Death House

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    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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    https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-george-reeves-19590617-20160615-snap-story.html

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-15-et-reeves15-story.html

    https://people.com/george-reeves-death-controversial-theories-11755407

    https://walkoffame.com/george-reeves/

    https://www.jimnolt.com/location.htm

    https://www.hollywood.com/general/george-reeves-superman-hollywoodland-ghost-haunted-house-57174240

    https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/reeves-house

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    27 min
  20. Dead Woman’s Ditch: Somerset’s Ancient Mystery, Murdered Women and Dark Folklore

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    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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    https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1008254

    https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=19191&uid=189513

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cannan

    https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2024-11-07/bristol-murderer-and-sex-offender-dies-in-jail-aged-70

    https://www.suzylamplugh.org/suzys-story

    https://www.suzylamplugh.org/news/statement-on-john-cannans-death

    Daily Mirror, “At Last They’ve Found Shirley,” Tuesday 5 April 1988

    Somerset County Herald, “The Land of Quantock,” Saturday 12 March 1938

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    28 min

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