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 Covenant
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😶🌫️ 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 happening and start agreeing on what must be done.
📖 This episode dives deep into Hopewell Hollow Chapters 16 and 17, where suspicion hardens into ritual and the idea of “just three” becomes dangerously reasonable.
🩸 From there, Macabre Bob traces the real-world consequences of fear made law — from the Salem Witch Trials to documented global cases where belief, authority, and panic led to executions and communal violence.
🎞️ We then break down folk horror as a genre, not as monsters or aesthetics, but as a social mechanism. Through in-depth analysis of landmark films like The Wicker Man, The Witch, Impetigore, November, Onibaba, and Häxan, this episode exposes how covenants form, scapegoats are chosen, and relief is mistaken for morality.
🕯️ This isn’t an episode about evil.
It’s an episode about agreement.
🖤 Echoes in the Dark is a horror podcast featuring original stories, true hauntings, and horror genre explored.
⚠️ Listener discretion advised.
🎧 Listen if you’re drawn to:
- Folk horror & psychological horror
- Slow-burn dread and atmospheric storytelling
- Horror rooted in history, belief, and consequence
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✍️ Writer submissions: hopewellhollow1993@gmail.com
Some places don’t haunt you.
They wait.
That noise you hear while you're lying in bed is just your imagination...or is it?