Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, and Horror Genre Explored
The Dark Side of Storytelling…
Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, & Horror Genre Explored is a horror podcast focused on psychological and folk horror, featuring original short stories, true haunting accounts, and deep dives into the lore, films, and cultural nightmares that shape the genre.
Each episode invites listeners into unsettling worlds designed to make you question the noise in the hallway, rethink old houses, and linger in the quiet dread that lives between myth and memory.
The podcast is hosted by John Keaser Jr., founder of Dark Hollow Media LLC, with the occasional unhinged commentary from Macabre Bob. Echoes in the Dark blends twisted storytelling with research, realism, and just enough adult sarcasm to make your therapist concerned. Expect dark humor, creeping atmosphere, folklore-driven horror, and honest reactions fueled by caffeine, trauma, and questionable life choices.
If you like your horror atmospheric, your folklore unsettling, and your jokes a little too inappropriate for HR—welcome home.
Some echoes whisper.
These ones bite.
Episodes
23 episodes
Urban Legends
What happens when local legends refuse to die?In this terrifying episode of Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, & Horror Genre Explored, John Keaser Jr. and Macabre Bob dive deep into the folklore, haunted ro...
Listener Submissions
Tonight on Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, & Horror Genre Explored, we dive into six terrifying listener-submitted stories from across the country—stories of shadow figures, recurring nightmares, haunted closets...
Possession
Episode 13 of Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, & Horror Genre Explored dives into one of the most disturbing corners of horror—Possession.Not just what you see in movies… But what ...
Backwoods Horror
What starts as a shortcut… often ends as a mistake you can’t undo.In this episode of Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, & Horror Genre Explored, we dive into one of the most unsettling corners of ...
Bad Ass Final Girls
What up my creeps…Tonight’s episode of Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, & Horror Genre Explored is a little different.We’re stepping away from the standard format to take a deep dive into one of the...
Haunted Places
Some places don’t just hold history… they remember it.In this episode of Echoes in the Dark, John Keaser Jr. explores the unsettling idea that certain buildings seem to carry the weight of everything that happened ...
Submitted for Approval of the Midnight Society
If you grew up in the 1990s, fear didn’t come from algorithms — it came on Friday nights.In this bonus episode of Echoes in the Dark, host John Keaser Jr. — writer, insomniac, and horror exhibitionist — steps back in...
The Night of the Willow
In this episode of Echoes in the Dark, we explore the terrifying idea that some places don’t need monsters — they just need memory.We continue our journey through Hopewell Hollow, reading Chapters 21 and 22 as fear, ritual,...
Scary Stories and the Fear That Followed Us
If you grew up in the 1990s, there’s a good chance your first real brush with horror didn’t come from movies — it came from books hidden in school libraries and book fairs.In this bonus episode of Echoes in the Dark, host John Kea...
The Place That Keeps Score
In this episode of Echoes in the Dark, we explore the terrifying idea that some places don’t need monsters — they just need memory.We dive deep into Hopewell Hollow Chapters 21 and 22, where ritual, fear, and the land its...
Love Bites Back
What happens when love stops being romantic… and starts keeping score?In this Valentine’s Day Extended Bonus Episode of Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, & Horror Genre Explored, we dive into the darker sid...
The Covenant
😶🌫️ Fear doesn’t arrive screaming. It arrives offering solutions.In Episode 8: The Covenant, we explore the moment when fear stops being private and becomes communal — when people stop asking what’s h...
The Voices That Follow You Home
In this chilling bonus episode of Echoes in the Dark, host John Keaser Jr. explores the terrifying idea that the most dangerous voices don’t scream — they whisper.The Voices That Follow You Home blends original psy...
The Year That Followed Us In
New Year’s is supposed to mean closure. A reset. A clean page.But some years don’t arrive quietly.In this full-length episode of Echoes in the Dark, host John Keaser Jr. — writer, insomniac, and horror ...
Night Terrors and Sleep Demons
Tonight, sleep isn’t rest — it’s exposure. In Episode 6 of Echoes in the Dark, John Keaser Jr. (writer, insomniac, and horror exhibitionist) drags you into the in-between: night terrors, sleep paralysis, shadow figures, and the sickening...
More Hopewell Hollow
Step back into the woods of Hopewell Hollow in this bonus episode of Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, and Horror Genre Explored.Due to overwhelming listener demand, author John Keaser Jr. deliv...
Santa's Slay Bells: Christmas Horror Edition
Winter changes things. The nights grow longer. The cold seeps into your bones. And the stories — the bad ones — come looking for you.In this Christmas Horror Edition of Echoes in the Dark, host John Kea...
We Wish You a Morbid Christmas
We Wish You a Morbid Christmas a brutal bonus episode of Echoes in the Dark, where host John Keaser Jr. — writer, insomniac, and horror exhibitionist — rips the holiday cheer out of three Christmas horror films that...
Winter of the Wendigo
In Episode 4, John descends into the frozen nightmare of one of North America’s most chilling legends: the Wendigo. This creature isn’t your pop-culture antlered forest spirit—this is the real beast of Algonquin lore: a gaunt, s...
Feast of the Damned (The Thanksgiving Special)
Tonight, we carve into a feast of fear.In this Thanksgiving special of Echoes in the Dark: Stories, Haunt, and Horrors, we’re diving headfirst into the chaos of holiday horror. From family curses and cults to killer turkeys and un...
Bonus Episode 1-The House That Didn't Want New Owners
In this special haunted-house throwdown, John dives headfirst into the homes you should absolutely never sign a mortgage for. From the emotional trauma engine of The Haunting of Hill House to the glass death-maze chaos of 13 Ghosts...
Roots of Evil
Welcome back to Echoes in the Dark: Stories, Haunts, and Horror — where the trees whisper, the hosts are sleep-deprived, and the ghosts have better attendance than your coworkers.In this episode, John Keaser Jr. digs into the ch...
Echoes in the Dark: Stories, Haunts, and Horrors
In the premiere of Echoes in the Dark: Stories, Haunts, and Horrors, John Keaser Jr. explores the eerie origins of Halloween — from its ancient Celtic roots to its modern traditions of masks and mayhem. With atmospheric storytel...