Darker Pastures

An isolated and bereaved man discovers what so many of us do in time: that middle age steals over us far sooner than expected, and that so too can life’s subtler cruelties. ***Content Warning: This episode contains body horror, deals with themes of major depression and parental loss, and may be triggering for those with mycophobia. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here...

In the spring of 1904, a young man arrives on a ranch in Wyoming, pursuing a singular aberrant desire. What follows is one of the strangest annals in the closure of the Old West. ***Content Warning: This episode contains potentially disturbing themes, scenes, and imagery, deals frankly with animal cruelty, murder, and suicide, and makes reference to the historical 1903 incident at Lightning Creek,...

In a lonely saloon on the 1888 western Kansas prairie, a man recounts an incredible tale from his childhood – one which has no clear beginning, and no definite end. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of disease, disfiguration, decay, and familial loss, and contains explicit descriptions of physical violence and body horror. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the sh...

A seemingly minor accident on a nighttime country road in March of 1921 marks the beginning of a series of events that will forever change the lives of the Grossman family. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of racism toward Indigenous people, and contains some violence and gore. Lister discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast In...

On Valentine’s Day of 1975, old wounds are reopened and chilled hearts beat again.  You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Kevin Schrock and Annie Marie Morgan Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop...

In response to an unforgivable transgression, two brothers plan the inconceivable. But no plan survives contact with reality. ***Content Warning: This episode obliquely alludes to child sexual abuse, and references torture and murder. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Kevin Schrock and A...

An aging cattleman struggles with the usual hardships of winter... and with one entirely new. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Kevin Schrock and Annie Marie Morgan Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel fr...

The son of a Texas ranching dynasty returns from the battlefields of 1918 France to develop newly discovered oil wells on his inheritance, and discovers that his home is irrevocably changed… as is he. **Content Warning: This episode touches upon themes of combat-related PTSD, substance abuse, mental illness, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.** You can now text the show here with feedbac...

Few could ever hope to understand the events that transpired in the autumn of 1888 on the Černik homestead, nestled in the gently rolling Bohemian Alps of southern Nebraska. Those who could forever maintained a stubborn silence. ***Content Warning: This episode contains themes of familial abuse and child illness. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or quest...

An elderly couple finds their new neighbor troublesome and strange, but they could never guess what dark secrets lie in wait so near to their home. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of the abuse and genocide of Indigenous people, as well as animal cruelty. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird...

In the heart of the country, a traveling couple find themselves encountering a persistent shadow of the past – one that just might follow them home. ***Content Warning: This episode touches upon the history of American eugenics, and contains frank depictions of racism and sexual horror. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podca...

Returning home to deal with her estranged father's estate, a young woman discovers a strange survival. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of parental abuse, familial estrangement, substance abuse, and hoarding, and contains explicit descriptions of decomposition. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your...

A tragic 1984 fire continues to haunt one of the survivors in a manner most unnatural. ***Content Warning: Contains repeated and descriptive references to deadly house fires.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Kevin Schrock and Annie Marie Morgan Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Thank you for...

In the late 1870s, three souls will discover that the prairie winds sometimes carry dark and wicked things. ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of genocide against Indigenous people and death by hanging. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries reg...

One cold night in the spring of 1963, the disparate threads of a darkly arcane narrative become interwoven upon the lonely plains of North Dakota. ***Content warning: Episode contains violent scenes and references to historical atrocities. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Kevin Schrock...

A lonely middle-aged woman tries to find love where she has never dared to look before. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Kevin Schrock and Annie Marie Morgan Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to...

Home for the holidays and for a break from her troubled life, a young woman rediscovers an old passion... and is discovered in turn. ***Content Warning: Episode deals with themes of severe depression.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Kevin Schrock and Annie Marie Morgan Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Supp...

A person living on the margins of a tiny rural community is witness to increasingly disturbing developments in their neighbors, and their loved ones. ***Content warning: Episode touches upon themes of enbyphobia, queerphobia, bullying, familial estrangement, and contains some gore. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your...

When the charismatic ministry of Asa Donague swept into the little prairie community of Homer, Kansas in late 1923, no one could have foretold what would follow.  ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of antisemitism, racism, and anti-Catholicism, as well as disturbing and violent imagery. Listener discretion advised.***  “Old-Time Religion”, performed by the Criterion Quartet, arranged by...

A young man, returning to his hometown for the first time since starting college, finds that it is not quite the community that he remembers – and that perhaps even his memories cannot be wholly trusted. ***Content Warning: Episode contains explicit discussion of depression and suicide. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Yo...

Fleeing from his troubles, a man forced by chance to shelter in a site of historical atrocity finds that the evils of the past are both very real and undying. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of exploitation of minors, misogyny, and the abuse and murder of Indigenous people. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** Cover image adapted from:  St. Joseph's Indian Normal Sch...

In 1901, a mysterious man arrives in rural North Dakota, summoned by a family in need with no one else left to whom they can turn. Yet awaiting him is something far more malignant than even he, gifted with esoteric expertise, could ever anticipate. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of antisemitism, genocide against Indigenous peoples, and child abuse. Listener discretion advised...

In the conclusion of the season two finale, the assembled survivors of the plague-devastated land come at last to the end of their long road. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Kevin Schrock and Annie Marie Morgan Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback...

Many paths converge, and for a time, refuge is found, and darkness and fear are left behind. But the evils of the world always find a way in. ***Content warning: Episode deals with themes of traumatic loss, catastrophic fire, and automobile accidents. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! The Podcast Inside Your House Weird Horror. Created by Ke...

A teenage girl, irrevocably separated from the family of her birth, finds a new one. But too late she learns the price of belonging. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious indoctrination and past sexual trauma, and contains some gore. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you...