Macabre Mondays

A family throws away their daughter’s Elsa doll. Then, according to them, it comes back. This week on Internet After Dark, Alé takes Tom through four unsettling accounts + a spooky Reddit Story: the reportedly haunted Frozen doll in Texas, a woman whose unexplained voices prompted a search for a brain tumor, a Utah river rescue where responders reported hearing a mysterious plea for help, and Japa...

Harper knows the truth. Now she has to survive it. In the final chapter of You Are Safe Here, the confrontation inside The Marlowe leaves no room for another explanation. With help approaching and danger standing between her and the door, Harper must fight for the future someone else tried to take from her. Thirteen nights of warning signs, unanswered questions, and misplaced trust come down to th...

Harper wanted answers. Now she needs a way out. In Night 12 of You Are Safe Here, the discoveries at The Marlowe force Harper to reconsider everything she thought she understood. The small details she dismissed, the reassurance she trusted, and the moments she believed she was alone begin to form a terrifying picture. As Ray works to confirm a witness’s identification, Harper and Dani face a dange...

Welcome back, When we last left off, our hosts were in a perilous position, coming to you from an abandoned radio station with a Halloween broadcast that had gone awry. Forced to continue the show (and continue enduring some seriously unsettling tales recorded by their friends in the Collective), the entity on the phone has not only started to make those stories a reality, but It has now begun to...

The plans don’t match the apartment. Someone needs to find out why. In Night 11 of You Are Safe Here, Ray revisits Rebecca’s past and speaks to a neighbor who remembers more than anyone realized. Meanwhile, Harper and Dani return to The Marlowe to help with an inspection of Apartment 4C. It’s daylight. The apartment is empty. They’re only there to explain where the strange sounds and smells occurr...

Pack the boxes. Hand back the keys. Leave the nightmare behind. In Night 10 of You Are Safe Here, Harper makes her final move out of Apartment 4C. With her friends helping and the police taking the evidence seriously, she finally has a chance to put distance between herself and The Marlowe. Then Tessa brings up something she should have shared sooner. As Ray follows a new lead, the investigation r...

The camera keeps failing. The door sensor shows nothing. It’s time to try listening. In Night 9 of You Are Safe Here, Ray digs into The Marlowe’s original plans while Harper prepares to leave Apartment 4C behind. Logan believes her, her friends are helping, and Noah has a new idea: a battery-powered audio recorder that doesn’t need Wi-Fi. The plan is simple. Pack her belongings, keep everyone toge...

Three weeks of silence. A promising date. Maybe Harper can finally start moving forward. In Night 8 of You Are Safe Here, Harper settles into Dani’s guest room and finds comfort in work, friendship, and a routine away from The Marlowe. With no new messages or disturbances, she begins to reclaim parts of her life she thought fear had taken from her. Then she meets Logan. He’s kind, patient, and wil...

The door was locked. The windows were secured. Someone got inside anyway. In Night 7 of You Are Safe Here, Harper finally has proof that she hasn’t been imagining things. But a thorough search of The Marlowe leaves Ray and the police struggling to explain how anyone could enter Apartment 4C unnoticed. As Ray checks the evidence against their suspicions, the investigation takes an unexpected turn....

Save every message. Check every entrance. Don’t assume you know who’s responsible. In Night 6 of You Are Safe Here, Dani calls in her uncle Ray, a former detective turned private investigator. He’s willing to help Harper, but first he needs to separate what they know from what they’ve only begun to suspect. As Ray examines the messages and The Marlowe’s possible access points, Harper’s friends hel...

The Marlowe has stories. Harper is starting to wish she’d asked about them before signing the lease. In Night 5 of You Are Safe Here, Harper’s friends refuse to let her face Apartment 4C alone. But when a conversation with Mrs. Holloway uncovers a troubling piece of the building’s history, the strange things Harper has experienced take on a different meaning. An evening of pizza and company offers...

WE GOT ANOTHER HALLOWEEN TREAT FOR YOU! Five friends break into an abandoned radio station on Halloween night to broadcast spooky stories. Then the stories begin coming to life, and a long-disconnected phone starts to ring… Welcome to DEAD AIR: A Creators Collective Audio Anthology. This two-part Halloween collaboration brings together indie podcasts for a broadcast full of chilling tales. We’re p...

Nothing stolen. Nothing broken. But, that doesn’t mean nothing happened. In Night 4 of You Are Safe Here, Harper calls for help after an unsettling discovery inside Apartment 4C. But a search of her home leaves her with more questions than answers, and The Marlowe’s aging locks and sealed-off spaces offer little reassurance. With her new friends rallying around her, Harper takes steps to feel safe...

A busy day. New friends. A reason to stop checking over her shoulder. Harper could get used to this. In Night 3 of You Are Safe Here, a chaotic photoshoot puts Harper’s new beginning to the test. Between impossible client requests and metallic-blue confetti, she starts to find her place at North & Finch. Over dinner, her coworkers offer friendship, unsolicited dating advice, and a little persp...

An old building. A crossed signal. A perfectly reasonable explanation. Harper is determined to believe that nothing happened in her apartment. In Night 2 of You Are Safe Here, Harper begins her new job at North & Finch, where welcoming coworkers and a last-minute production crisis give her something else to focus on. For the first time since moving to Alderwick, she starts to feel like she bel...

What would you do if you heard your sister asking to come inside… while you were talking to her on the phone somewhere else? Listener Confessions is back for Part 6, and our listeners have brought plenty of reasons to leave the lights on. Alé shares stories of shadow figures, childhood toys switching on by themselves, an imaginary friend with a troubling personality change, and a house-sitting exp...

A new town. A new apartment. A chance to start over. Harper is ready for all three. But how much do you really know about the place you’ve decided to call home? Welcome to Night 1 of 13 Nights of Macabre, Macabre Mondays’ annual Halloween fiction series. Season 2 begins with You Are Safe Here, a serialized psychological horror story following 28-year-old Harper as she settles into Alderwick, Penns...

Why would someone spend decades hanging dolls from the trees? Deep in the canals of Xochimilco in Mexico City sits the Island of the Dolls, also known as La Isla de las Muñecas. Its unsettling collection is tied to Julián Santana Barrera and a legend about a drowned girl, a doll found in the water, and a spirit he reportedly hoped to appease. On this episode of Macabre Mondays, Alé tells Tom the s...

Jackie Hernandez wanted a fresh start. Instead, her small bungalow in San Pedro, California, became a place she was afraid to call home. Unexplained noises. Objects moving. A frightening figure that seemed to appear and disappear. As Jackie’s experiences grew harder to dismiss, friends began witnessing strange events of their own. Eventually, paranormal investigator Barry Taff and a team carrying...

For decades, some residents of Taos, New Mexico have reported hearing a strange, low-frequency hum that seems to come from nowhere. Some describe it as a distant diesel engine. Others hear a vibration or mechanical drone that refuses to disappear. But while certain people hear it constantly, others standing right beside them hear absolutely nothing. Scientists have investigated. Residents have sea...

What happens when you play a song backwards, listen to a supposedly cursed video game soundtrack, or hear something in the dark that you can’t explain? Internet After Dark is back, and this time we’re following the sound. We’re digging into the infamous backmasking conspiracy surrounding Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” the unsettling internet legend of Pokémon’s Lavender Town Syndrome, and ch...

In 2013, 21-year-old Elisa Lam disappeared while traveling alone through Los Angeles and staying at the infamous Cecil Hotel. After police released unsettling surveillance footage of Elisa inside an elevator, her disappearance became one of the internet’s most analyzed cases, spawning theories involving foul play, the paranormal, and even the Elevator Game. This week, we separate what actually hap...

What if an elevator could take you somewhere it was never meant to go? We’re diving into the Elevator Game, the infamous internet ritual said to open a path to another world, from its eerie floor sequence and mysterious fifth-floor woman to alleged experiences from people who claim they tried it. And before the doors close, one unsettling real-life elevator case sets the stage for next week. 🎧 Ma...

For decades, employees at a Toys “R” Us in Sunnyvale, California claimed something strange was happening inside the store. Footsteps echoed through empty aisles, toys seemed to move on their own, faucets turned on without explanation, and some workers even reported being touched by someone they couldn’t see. Then psychics and paranormal investigators got involved. This week, we’re diving into the...

Turn down the lights, light a candle, and follow us down the rabbit hole. Welcome to Internet After Dark , a new Macabre Mondays series digging into the strange, sinister, and spooky stories buried across the internet. For Thread 001, we found three stories from very different corners of the web. Mysterious Post-it notes begin appearing inside an apartment with no explanation. Hundreds of bizarre...