AFTER DARK | True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories
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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...
Episodes(40 episodes)
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.”The BOOKB...
Published: Sep 5, 2026Duration: 31m 32s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL...
Published: Aug 29, 2026Duration: 34m 12s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITE<...
Published: Aug 22, 2026Duration: 31m 6s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTER<...
Published: Aug 15, 2026Duration: 35m 56s
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.Special thanks to Overall-Flamingo-107 and Tiarnán for allowing us to share your stories.The BOOKBY US A COFFEEJo...
Published: Aug 8, 2026Duration: 23m 7s
Summer of Fear | True Scary Stories from the Wild | RERUN Day 5 2026
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 sha...
Published: Aug 1, 2026Duration: 22m 26s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WE...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 27m 14s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://en.wi...
Published: Jul 18, 2026Duration: 27m 51s
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.But for those who believe they remember the other world, the question remains. If reality did...
Published: Jul 11, 2026Duration: 29m 1s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on...
Published: Jul 4, 2026Duration: 31m 31s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us...
Published: Jun 27, 2026Duration: 25m 26s
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.”The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin...
Published: Jun 20, 2026Duration: 28m 27s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://www.cambriastories.net/the-pentyrch-ufo-incident/https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-todmorden-ufo-mystery-a-close-encounter-in-west-yorkshirehttps://www.blaze.tv/series/todmorden-ufo-sighting-britains-roswellhttps://en.wikipedia.org...
Published: Jun 13, 2026Duration: 28m 26s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOK<...
Published: Jun 6, 2026Duration: 29m 31s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://forensicscience.llnl.gov/research/case-studies/mysterieshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Published: May 30, 2026Duration: 25m 28s
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. The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTER<...
Published: May 23, 2026Duration: 31m 21s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https...
Published: May 16, 2026Duration: 23m 47s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEE<...
Published: May 9, 2026Duration: 26m 42s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lars_Mittankhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35001777https...
Published: May 2, 2026Duration: 37m 41s
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.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudanhttps://www.britannica.com...
Published: Apr 25, 2026Duration: 29m 54s