Destination Terror

Based on true events. Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Kirkyard is beautiful in the daylight — mossy stones, crooked angels, the little dog everyone comes to see. But behind an iron gate at the far end sits a sealed black tomb the city itself locked shut, and a walled field where 1,200 men were left to die in the cold. Since 1998, hundreds of ordinary visitors have walked out of this graveyard with scratche...

A summer replay compilation of five real-world islands where paradise turns deadly — from a Brazilian island crawling with venomous snakes, to a forbidden Bay of Bengal shore guarded by an uncontacted tribe, to a crumbling NYC asylum, a canal haunted by hundreds of decaying dolls, and a South Carolina barrier island where the dead try to save the living. https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destinat...

Fifty years after the summer that made it infamous, Amity Island has turned its tragedy into a tourist brand — until a baited great white comes home to the same waters. Police chief Nora Brody and charter captain Sam Quint, grandchildren of the men who hunted the first shark, discover the town hasn't learned a thing, and that the ocean never forgets. An original present-day continuation exploring...

Deep in the state of Guanajuato sits Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas — a quiet farming town with a reputation that has outlived almost everyone who earned it. For generations it was known across Mexico as la tierra de brujos, the land of witches: a place of healers and hexes, of curanderas who could pull sickness from a body and brujos who could put something far worse back in. On its outskirts lies...

Based on true events.   In August of 1976, three teenagers driving an isolated road outside Whitehall, New York came face to face with a seven-foot creature with glowing red eyes. They did what no one in a monster story is supposed to do — they went straight to the police. And within days, the police saw it too. Trained officers. State troopers. Spotlights. Official reports. What happened on Abair...

Based on true events.   On November 13th, 1985, the Colombian town of Armero — home to nearly 30,000 people — was buried alive in fifteen minutes. A volcano that scientists had been tracking for over a year sent a wall of volcanic mud down the river valley in the middle of the night, and by morning, Armero was gone. But the most terrifying part of this story isn't the eruption. It's the thirteen-y...

Join Carman Carrion on a haunted vacation to Hot Springs, Arkansas—America's original spa town with a dark and deadly past. In this episode of Destination Terror, Carman broadcasts from a cabin on the Ouachita River to explore the sinister history lurking beneath Hot Springs' healing waters. Discover why Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Bugsy Siegel made this mountain town their criminal headquarters...

In 1938, America's richest copper mine shut down overnight. The Kennecott Copper Corporation ordered 300 workers to evacuate immediately—leaving behind tools on benches, meat in storage, money in safes, and twelve bodies in graves. For 87 years, the buildings have stood empty on an Alaskan mountainside, perfectly preserved by the cold. But park rangers, tour guides, and visitors report something i...

In Northern Tanzania, a blood-red lake with a mirror-perfect surface lures birds to their deaths—then preserves their bodies as calcified statues. Lake Natron's caustic waters can burn human skin in seconds, reach temperatures of 140°F, and have a pH almost as high as ammonia. Yet millions of flamingos breed here, protected by water so toxic it kills everything else that touches it. When photograp...

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed 8,000 people in a single night. Bodies washed back to shore. Funeral pyres burned for weeks. This is the story of America's deadliest natural disaster—and the ghosts that still haunt the beach. 🎧 EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.c...

In the heart of rural France stands a village frozen in time—not by choice, but by horror. On June 10th, 1944, Nazi SS troops entered the quiet commune of Oradour-sur-Glane and committed one of World War II's most brutal massacres. 642 people—men, women, and children—were murdered in a single afternoon. But here's what makes it different from countless other wartime atrocities: the village was nev...

In the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter stands a elegant mansion with a blood-soaked past. Behind the lavish parties and glittering chandeliers of socialite Madame Delphine LaLaurie, investigators discovered a chamber of horrors that shocked even hardened authorities in 1834. Join us as we explore the true story of torture, the fire that exposed unspeakable cruelty, and the restless spirits th...

In a small village in Andalusia, Spain, there's a house where faces appear in the concrete floor. Not painted. Not carved. They emerge from the material itself—eyes, mouths, expressions of anguish—and they won't go away. For over fifty years, the Pereira family has lived with floors that cry, concrete that bleeds human features, and faces that watch from beneath their feet. Scientists have studied...

In the summer of 2019, videos started appearing on TikTok that made viewers sleep with the lights on. A woman in a white dress, dancing alone on empty streets. Nothing that unusual—except her movements were wrong. Joints bending at angles that made your stomach turn, limbs jerking like a marionette with cut strings, bare feet slapping pavement with mechanical violence. The videos spread like wildf...

When you're surrounded by water, there's nowhere to run. This compilation episode explores five of the most terrifying islands on Earth—each one a prison of fear where the living are outnumbered by the dead, the dangerous, and the damned. From Italy's Isle of the Dead to Mexico's Island of Dolls, from Japan's abandoned Battleship Island to Brazil's Snake Island crawling with the world's deadliest...

Deep in the North Carolina woods, there's a perfect circle where nothing grows. Not a blade of grass. Not a weed. Not even moss. For over two hundred years, locals claim it's where the Devil himself walks at night, plotting evil against mankind. Objects left inside vanish or get thrown out. Dogs refuse to enter. Compasses spin wildly. And those brave enough to camp there overnight report being gri...

In 1900, 200 miners died in a single explosion. Some say they never left. On May 1, 1900, the Winter Quarters Mine in Scofield, Utah became a tomb for 200 men and boys in America's deadliest mining disaster. The explosion shot flames a quarter mile into the sky and shook buildings twenty miles away. They sealed the mine with bodies still inside. And every year on the anniversary, locals report see...

In the 1982 horror film *The Beast Within*, the fictional town of Nioba, Mississippi represents every nightmare about small Southern towns with buried secrets. A place where family bloodlines control justice, where monsters are created in basements and fed on human flesh, and where vengeance follows a seventeen-year cycle—the same cycle as the cicada emerging from underground. Though Nioba exists...

On a small island in the Delaware River sits a massive granite fortress that once held 12,000 Confederate prisoners of war. During the Civil War, nearly 2,700 men died within its walls from smallpox, starvation, and despair. Today, Fort Delaware is considered the most haunted location in Delaware—a place where the dead refuse to leave, where phantom soldiers still walk the corridors, and where vis...

Perched 400 meters above Italy's alien badlands, the medieval ghost town of Craco clings to crumbling cliffs where nothing should stand. In 1963, landslides began tearing the town apart—but the survivors say it wasn't geology that drove them out. It was something older. Something that lived in the clay hills long before Greeks built their fortress here. When 1,800 people fled in terror, they left...

A special cross-promotional message from Carman introducing Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror listeners to Deadly Intent through the chilling case of Israel Keyes a serial killer who engineered randomness, buried kill kits across the country years in advance, and remained undetected until a single debit card transaction unraveled his carefully constructed design. Discover why understanding in...

Eight miles from the legendary town of Tombstone, in the desert scrubland of southern Arizona, stand the crumbling adobe ruins of what newspapers called "the bloodiest cabin in Arizona. https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   #BrunckowsCabin #Tombstone #Arizona #HauntedHistory #OldWest #TrueCrime #HorrorPodcast #DestinationTerror #DarkTourism #WildWest #Paranormal EXPLORE MORE SPIN...

Beneath the sun-baked streets of Palermo, Sicily, over a thousand mummified bodies line the walls of an underground cemetery where the dead were never meant to disappear—they were meant to be seen, visited, and remembered. Dressed in their finest clothes, pinned upright in stone alcoves, and arranged by gender, profession, and social class, the residents of the Capuchin Catacombs have been watchin...

In northeastern Oklahoma, a once-thriving mining town sits abandoned beneath mountains of poisoned earth, where the ground itself can swallow you whole, the air carries invisible death, and the abandoned mine shafts may hold secrets far darker than toxic waste.   https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   #Picher #Oklahoma #GhostTown #ToxicWaste #AbandonedPlaces #TrueCrime #HorrorPodc...

On November 20, 1980, a single drilling miscalculation transformed a peaceful Louisiana lake into a monstrous whirlpool that devoured oil rigs, barges, and sixty-five acres of land—leaving behind waters so deep and changed that locals whisper something else emerged from those flooded salt mine tunnels.   #LakePeigneur #DestinationTerror #HauntedLouisiana #TrueDisaster #CreepyPlaces #JeffersonIslan...