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.
Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, and Horror Genre Explored
The Year That Followed Us In
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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 exhibitionist — explores what happens when midnight isn’t a celebration, but a threshold.
This episode features:
- Hopewell Hollow readings (Chapters 14 & 15) — where time, place, and memory begin to fracture
- An extended Macabre Bob segment diving into real-world hauntings, midnight phenomena, and why true hauntings don’t announce themselves
- A deep Horror Genre Explored breakdown of threshold horror, including in-depth analysis of:
- The Others (2001)
- 1408 (2007)
- The Ring (2002)
- Skinamarink (2022)
Rather than surface-level reviews, this episode delivers cinematic play-by-play analysis, psychological breakdowns, budgets, box office context, and dark, inappropriate commentary that connects each film to real human fear — control, inevitability, trauma, and places that quietly change ownership.
This episode is recommended for mature listeners and includes spoiler-heavy discussion, disturbing themes, and dark humor.
If you’ve ever felt like a place changed without warning…
If midnight felt less like a moment and more like a shift…
If you believe horror works best when it waits…
You’re already inside.
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Echoes in the Dark — because endings don’t leave quietly.
That noise you hear while you're lying in bed is just your imagination...or is it?