slither
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No homeowner's policy in existence covers everything. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.pa...
carrion
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Walk through most neighborhoods, and you get at least a general sense of people’s back yards. But ...
sunken
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Even after museum hours ended that day, some people walked out to the waterside and just looked at t...
patrolman
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Memories of one very, very strange winter's day in the life of a weary public servant. Additional n...
swerve
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the moody late hours at The Cask & Pear, an all-night dive bar and diner on the edge of the city,...
throat
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A young man’s strange natural gift evolves to wield a disturbing influence. MUSIC: ‘Atmo’ by ...
The Vincents
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this story originally written for the Halloween 2024 episode of Kevin Lane’s Spill Your Guts po...
snatchers
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A story of desperate men, bad decisions, terrible timing, and unexpected faces in the dark. Additio...
Paranormal Appraisal 151
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Originally heard on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is the final recording of a man whose chos...
deep
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this ghost story of the Southern Gothic, a new landowner is rapidly submerged in a relative's mur...
huntress
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Originally heard as ‘Q & A With a Vampire Killer’ on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is a ...
postmarks
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ask people in the Cleveland area about The Ron Tanglethorn Show and you might get a few nods here an...
stranglehold
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A youthful lark across the states takes a man into the heart of an awful anomaly. Music: “Outside...
Carried by Beasts
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Opening statements in what would come to be considered one of the strangest trials in the history of...
rory
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When two colleagues in crime come together again after years apart, one reveals a looming threat mor...
here
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A dark October country road, a driver, a hitchhiker... and a strange, strange story told across cold...
harbingers
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An educator's watch of the winter skies sets him in anxious motion to shelter the innocent. Music: ...
A Quick Quintet of Terror
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Five shorter tales… and just a smidgen more. Intro music by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror Po...
majesty
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 19th-century reign of the mysterious Buth Sugo was detailed only in this one ugly, bloody, regr...
crannies
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many people who hear things behind their walls suspect their house is haunted, but can’t prove it....
doggo
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s always a small element of worry that comes when you leave a stranger to watch your propert...
steps
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Always go very, very slowly through your radio dial, especially late at night. You never quite know ...
summoners
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All the user reviews of the real-life bar at the center of this story are exactly what you’d expec...
sabbatical
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A snowy walk reveals the beginnings of a mystery that grows weirder with each passing hour. Music: ...
detour
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the dead of winter, an old-fashioned ghost story set in a hot and humid place. Patreon: https:...
Devils Everywhere You Turn
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the hurting streets of Claysmith, Connecticut, a hideous comedy of errors engulfs the innocent an...
chains
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It seemed like a simpler time, and the problems faced by the people in that small rural town seemed ...
sideswipe
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There's usually a moment as you drive alone late at night on a long, desolate country road when you ...
endgame
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For sale by Baltimore County: 3 BR, 2 BA single family dwelling on 1/3rd acre in residential section...
rink
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a suspiciously quiet and unspoiled setting, three friends are beckoned by the liberation found wi...
bots
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Joel and Sammie, a young couple suddenly divided by something terrifying—and then bon...
Late Checkout
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of short-term rentals, the personalities bound to the transaction sometimes briefly cla...
hole
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Things were already tense inside a house in the middle of nowhere, and then at the wrong moment, the...
gifters
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a small town struggles to defend itself against cruel interlopers, the hour of vengeance draws ev...
colony
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Year by year, step by quiet step, a well-intentioned collective of great minds evolves into somethin...
A Compendium for Halloween
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eight very different stories for the season. 1. hitcher 2. Is It That Time Again? 3. prodigal...
cleanse
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are reliable narrators, there are unreliable narrators… and then there are outliers like the...
D.N.K.
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A filmmaker recalls the details of his darkest project: the people who endured it, the illusions he ...
pride
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many is the band that wishes they could have a second chance at what turned out to be their final pe...
The Smoke Child
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No one in attendance at the talk on that December night in New England, 2021, really knew what they ...
surveillance
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tomb would soon sit unnoticed, perhaps forever, in the wild grass of the lonely cemetery. But on...
attraction
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You are invited to a place in the mountains where one man decided that no matter what the date, it w...
I Was Called Anwen
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A documentarian’s celebrity puff piece takes a dark turn when her subject reveals the story of a f...
prisoner
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a curious fact about the tiny railway station mentioned by the teller of this story that he...
A Convergence in Wintertime
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Someday, when you find yourself alone in a place like the one where this story occurred, take note o...
digs
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the shortest time you’ve ever lived somewhere before you left in frustration? What was th...
vacancy
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Within every grandiose scheme, there lies the seed of possible disaster. Some of these disasters are...
thresholds
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For Halloween, a tale of two people dwelling among the monsters who own the night. Music: 'Altere...
occupiers
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The letters and diaries of several 19th century soldiers allude to “the terrible Demon of Moscow”...
excursion
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'What about the forest where this terrible thing happened?' people sometimes ask when they hear the ...
drop-ins
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Each nighttime visitor to the tiny house in the country was more unwelcome than the one before ... b...
compulsion
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Conflicting feelings about a banished relative lead to a visit a long time in coming … but each st...
Twelve Tiny Cabins
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A college professor has a mysterious story to tell to a prized student, but his timing and motive ar...
The Lockbox
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the people in a small town in upstate New York, what happened was just another sordid true crime...
Three for Halloween
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The featured story of this brief trilogy imagines that perhaps, Earth's final confrontation between ...
laborer
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing that has four walls and a roof can be eliminated as a possible breeding ground for the super...
transit
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Memories of three weird occurrences that cannot be explained merge for their living witness into a c...
The Copper Cup
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A man who insists on the existence of a relative no one else has ever seen delves dangerously into t...
elements
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A man blinded by infatuation learns the object of his desire has intentions to become something from...
circles
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe your own town holds one: a folk tale, discredited and in many ways absurd, that nevertheless w...
impound
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A man in trouble, wanting only an escape from a crisis, stumbles across a mystery which leads to ano...
The Crack
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Another tale of lands touched by both enigmatic beauty and dormant, uncategorizable cruelty. Th...
family
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the haunted, any calm explanation of a supernatural phenomenon is a comforting one, no matter wh...
moonkeeper
12 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A man thrust onto the streets must navigate their disturbing sights and sounds, all the while living...
Three More for Halloween
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Three tales of Knifepoint Horror. 1. thrifting 2. west 3. The Cleaver John Graham: Jason H...
tarp
16 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A boy growing up in post-Depression Kansas learns there are no truly innocuous objects as long as th...
mother
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Built as a place of solace for those who could no longer fully fend for themselves, the house should...
attic
17 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A conflict in memory between two brothers leads to a return to a place where childhood may have been...
A Quick Decalogy of Terror
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
These 10 stories were originally produced as video monologues for YouTube over the course of a year ...
Let No One Walk Beside Her
10 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In a mysterious, undefined era, a desperate foot journey traverses a winter wilderness that promises...
fields
22 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The next time you take a long country drive, look to your left and right as the scenery rolls by, th...
guest
29 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
He was a teenager who suddenly had no place to sleep, no money, and no options. The world had quickl...
chasm
11 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In the space of minutes, a travel writer venturing alone in remote waters goes from a state of envia...
landmark
19 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere near your house it stands, one of those decaying places that people always whisper about a...
sleep
01 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There exists in this life a very real, horrifying phenomenon that science cannot yet extinguish. It ...
bargain
03 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It seemed like such a simple deal, but it felt wrong from the very beginning--and led to a glimpse o...
staircase
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A comfortable suburban existence begins to fracture with a single sound. You may have heard it somet...
legend
01 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A tale made specifically for the campfire--a simple tale of the woods, long-buried secrets, and lett...
lake
05 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Some places are so remote that just to explore them is an invitation to the phantoms that know we're...
vision
17 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A man attempting to solve a strange gap in his memory meets a man claiming to offer an answer--one t...
presence
19 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Very few people had ever even heard of the Poldrict House, let alone investigated it. Surely the lac...
retaliation
21 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A cruel game of psychological brinksmanship among thieves breaks the sanity of its most dangerous co...
proof
11 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The unexpected phone call's origin raised many questions, but for a man anxious to discover real evi...
A Second Quick Trilogy of Terror
08 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Another three tales roughly and tersely told. 1. bells 2. lighthouse 3. army Music: Kevin ...
A Quick Trilogy of Terror
21 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Here are three stories that don't quite fit into the mold of those previously offered. 1. mounta...
sisters
24 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The secluded castle, once rumored to harbor evil, had been redeemed by the influence of piety and in...
undead
17 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A brief history of a brilliant creator slowly becomes a tale of shadows, footsteps, and terror when ...
outcast
04 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Whether high school student Garrett Markish was truly evil or under the influence of forces he could...
sounds
30 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Two fugitives desperate to escape both the police and the elements become aware of a far greater hor...
visitation
23 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A knock at the door in the dead of night begins a mystery involving a gruesome crime and a vengeanc...
rebirth
16 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A nighttime expedition to a sleepy town uncovers the truth behind seemingly groundless rumors. Musi...
desert - from the files of Savid Doud
02 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Neil Donnelly. In a previous episode, 'house', the psychic researcher Aramis Churchton make...
cabin - from the files of Savid Doud
02 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Neil Donnelly. In a previous episode, 'house', the psychic researcher Aramis Churchton make...
house
30 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Dennis Smith. On a dark winter's night, a seeker of ghosts attuned to the strange energy wit...
possession
26 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A man's slow descent into depression and addiction opens up a world of once-hidden terrors, the wors...
tunnel
22 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Logan Masterson. Nine seconds was all it took to scar a subway rider for life when the flick...
return
17 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Markham Anderson. The inability of two troubled teens to extricate themselves from the influ...
plague
12 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Mike Harris. Few considered the strange substance which spread through a small city to be an...
rehearsal
09 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Brian d'Eon. One of the most famous political assassinations in history may have been crypti...
school
05 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A damaged man recalls his time at Seacrist Elementary, the unlikely site of a hideous paranormal out...