The Supernaturals

Halloween is supposed to be a night of costumes, parties, and scary stories. But what happens when you’re stuck at home, sick, while everyone else is out celebrating?   That’s exactly where one Halloween night takes a terrifying turn. Strange noises at the front door, unsettling messages from a friend, and increasingly disturbing surprises leave one person wondering what’s really happening outside...

THE BLOOD COUNTESS | A GOTHIC HALLOWEEN SPECIAL  Tonight, we travel deep into the mountains of 16th-century Hungary, where castles rise above dark forests, villages disappear beneath the fog, and whispers of a terrible secret begin spreading through the countryside. For this special episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, we tell the story of Elizabeth Báthory, the Blood Countess, as you've never he...

A TERRIFYING STORM. A MYSTERIOUS HOTEL. A NIGHTMARE WITH NO WAY OUT.   When a violent storm makes it impossible to continue driving, one traveler is forced to seek shelter for the night. Through the darkness and pouring rain, he discovers an unfamiliar hotel that seems almost frozen in time. With its grand staircase, antique furnishings, and strangely quiet guests, the place feels more like a reli...

Was Houska Castle really built over the Gates of Hell? Deep within the forests of the Czech Republic sits one of the world's most mysterious castles. Unlike every other medieval fortress, Houska Castle wasn't built to defend a city, guard a trade route, or protect a kingdom. According to centuries-old legend, it was built for one terrifying purpose… to seal a bottomless pit believed to be the Gate...

October 2016. Clown sightings are spreading across the country. But what happens when one of those clowns shows up at your front door?   In the fall of 2016, reports of creepy clown sightings began appearing across the United States. People dressed as clowns were spotted lurking in neighborhoods, standing along roadsides, and frightening unsuspecting strangers. For some, it was nothing more than a...

What happens when police, investigators, or ordinary people stumble across something that looks like a Satanic ritual? In this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, we explore five strange and disturbing cases involving alleged Satanic rituals, occult practices, mysterious shrines, ritual sites, and bizarre discoveries uncovered by police and unsuspecting witnesses. From hidden altars and mysterio...

Whatever happens, never answer your door after midnight.   That was the warning an old woman gave to a young couple who had just moved into a quiet suburban neighborhood outside Houston.   At first, they thought it was nothing more than an unsettling attempt to scare the new neighbors.   But this neighborhood has always been strange.   Nobody talks to each other. Nobody visits. Curtains move when...

Is Hoia Baciu Forest truly the most haunted forest in the world, or is there a logical explanation for the terrifying stories that have surrounded it for centuries? In this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, our story takes us to the mysterious forests of Transylvania, Romania, to investigate one of the most infamous paranormal hotspots on Earth. Known as the Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania, H...

On this episode of AFTER DARK   Deep in the hills outside the small town of Westcliff, Virginia, there’s a place locals have whispered about for generations.   They call it The Hole.   According to the legend, the cave isn’t like other caves. People who have entered it have disappeared without a trace. Some say the darkness inside can swallow you whole. Others claim the cave can take you somewhere...

Are the Phantom Hounds of England real? From the terrifying legend of Black Shuck to the Barghest, Padfoot, Gytrash, and the Cŵn Annwn, we're diving deep into one of the oldest supernatural mysteries in British folklore. For centuries, travelers across England and the United Kingdom have reported encounters with enormous black dogs with glowing eyes, supernatural abilities, and eerie connections t...

It started with a new kid in class.   He didn’t talk much. He didn’t seem to have any friends. And there was something about him that just felt… wrong.   For a high school football player, life is usually pretty predictable—classes during the day, practice after school, and Friday night lights. But when a strange student begins appearing in the narrator’s classroom and around the football field, t...

Two men. Two strange lead masks. One mysterious note. And a question that has remained unanswered for nearly 60 years. In this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, we dive into one of the strangest and most unsettling unsolved mysteries in history: The Lead Masks Case. In 1966, two Brazilian electronics technicians, Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz, were discovered dead on Vintém Hill...

They thought it was just a normal night at the harvest festival.   In mid-September, a 15-year-old boy takes his longtime girlfriend Sarah to a local harvest festival for a night of food, lights, games, and a haunted corn maze. But somewhere inside the maze, they encounter a tall man dressed entirely in black wearing a strange white theater mask with a wide, unnatural smile.   At first, they assum...

What really is happening inside the Bridgewater Triangle? In this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, we explore one of the most famous paranormal hotspots in the United States: the Bridgewater Triangle. Located in southeastern Massachusetts, this 200-square-mile region has become legendary for its overwhelming number of unexplained disappearances, cryptid sightings, UFO encounters, ghost storie...

He swore the scarecrow moved… It was September on a farm outside Lincoln, Nebraska. Harvest season was approaching, the temperatures were dropping, and the family cornfields stretched for hundreds of acres. But something was wrong with the scarecrows. After spending days helping his father prepare the farm for an unusually early harvest, a farmer’s son discovers that one of the scarecrows he built...

One of the most disturbing unsolved murders in history happened on a quiet German farm… In this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, we dive deep into the chilling and still-unsolved Hinterkaifeck murder mystery, one of the most infamous true crime cold cases in history. In 1922, the small Bavarian farmstead of Hinterkaifeck became the site of a horrific crime: six members of the Gruber family an...

They say that if you see the orange glow of her lantern… death will soon be at your door.   Deep in the plains of Colorado lies a forgotten legend about a woman who supposedly wanders the darkness carrying an old, flickering lantern. Some say she was once a grieving miner’s wife. Others believe she became something far more sinister.   They call her The Lantern Woman.   According to the legend, Da...

Some stories refuse to die... From children with pitch-black eyes knocking at your front door to mysterious white creatures caught on security cameras, this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast explores four of the world's most chilling urban legends. Are these stories nothing more than modern folklore, or is there something far more sinister hiding behind the legends? This week, we're diving deep...

What if your best friend disappeared… but everyone insisted he was never there?   One final summer road trip before college was supposed to be a weekend none of us would ever forget.   Turns out… we were right.   In this episode of After Dark, four lifelong friends travel to Bar Harbor, Maine to spend one last weekend together before life takes them in different directions. Between breathtaking co...

In this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, we dive deep into one of the most disturbing and controversial true crime cases in Canadian history: the mysterious and unsettling story of Cindy James, a nurse from British Columbia who spent years claiming she was being stalked, harassed, and terrorized by an unknown attacker… before ultimately being found dead under highly suspicious circumstances....

What if Bigfoot stories aren’t stories at all?   For years, I laughed at the legends surrounding Bigfoot and Bluff Creek. The footprints, the sightings, the old stories of something massive moving through the Northern California wilderness, I always assumed they were nothing more than folklore.   Then I decided to spend a weekend alone in those woods.   In this episode of After Dark, a man heads d...

What is really hidden beneath Antarctica's ice? From Operation Highjump and Admiral Richard Byrd's mysterious expeditions to the infamous Nazi Antarctica theory, the Hollow Earth, ancient pyramids, Google Earth anomalies, and secret underground bases, Antarctica has become the center of some of the world's most fascinating conspiracy theories.  In this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, we sepa...

What if hearing the ice cream truck meant you were about to die?   In this episode of After Dark, four roommates spend a blistering summer afternoon in suburban Colorado doing something completely ordinary—buying ice cream from the neighborhood ice cream truck. But what begins as a nostalgic summer memory quickly turns into an unexplainable nightmare when one of them begins hearing the truck’s eer...

We went inside one of the most haunted houses in America… and recorded this episode on location. In this episode of The Supernaturals Podcast, we take you inside the infamous Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas, one of the most well-known and heavily investigated haunted houses in the United States. This is one of our on-location episodes, where we step directly into the places tied to the stories we...

There are places that should stay abandoned… and maybe Belmont Hall is one of them.   In this episode of After Dark, a group of college football teammates decide to break into an abandoned dorm hall that has sat empty for years. Rumors of hauntings, mysterious deaths, and strange disappearances have surrounded the building for decades, but nothing could have prepared them for what they discovered...