Feral by Night
Feral by Night is a scary storytelling podcast hosted and narrated by Papa Gee, creator of The Feral Folklorist podcast. Each episode brings you an original eerie tale of haunted houses, strange roads, hidden rooms, ghostly figures, cursed objects, folk magic, old superstitions, and the things people swear they saw after dark.
These are atmospheric horror stories for listeners who love scary stories, ghost stories, haunted house fiction, paranormal encounters, supernatural suspense, folk horror, Southern Gothic atmosphere, creepy bedtime stories, and eerie tales told in a calm, intimate voice.
Turn the lights down, settle in, and listen close. Some stories are better heard after dark.
New stories released throughout the week.
Episodes
34 episodes
The Motel Room Between 14 and 15 | Haunted Motel Room Horror Story
The Motel Room Between 14 and 15 is a narrated scary story about a tired traveling salesman who checks into an old roadside motel during a rainstorm and notices a narrow room that shouldn’t exist. Between Room 14 and Room 15, there’s a door mar...
The Teeth in the Jewelry Box | Cursed Object Horror Story
The Teeth in the Jewelry Box is a narrated scary story about a woman who inherits an old wooden jewelry box from her great-aunt and discovers it contains no rings, necklaces, or keepsakes, only human teeth wrapped in tissue and labeled w...
The Guest Seed | Rural Folk Horror Scary Story
The Guest Seed is a narrated scary story about a claims investigator who arrives in a remote orchard town after a failed harvest and finds herself trapped inside a community with a very old belief about what the land is owed.What ...
The Festival of Empty Chairs | Small-Town Folk Horror Story
The Festival of Empty Chairs is a narrated scary story about a traveler who stops in a small town during an annual festival where every family sets an empty chair outside. At first, the custom seems like a quiet way to honor the dead, but as ni...
The Creek Took Her Voice | Folk Horror Ghost Story
The Creek Took Her Voice is a narrated scary story about a woman named Sarah who returns to her family home after her mother’s death and finds that the creek behind the property still remembers what happened there. Years ago, a girl drowned nea...
The Museum Case Fogged from Inside | Haunted Object Horror Story
The Museum Case Fogged from Inside is a narrated scary story about a night security guard at a small county museum who notices an empty display case fogging from the inside. The artifact it once held is gone, but something still seems trapped b...
The Stairs That Counted Wrong | Haunted House Horror Story
The Stairs That Counted Wrong is a narrated scary story about a young father, an old house, and a staircase that has twelve steps going down but thirteen going up. When his daughter begins speaking to someone she says is trapped between the sta...
The Cradle in the Attic | Haunted Family Secret Story
The Cradle in the Attic is a narrated scary story about an expecting couple who finds an old baby cradle hidden in the attic of their inherited house. At first, it seems like a forgotten family keepsake, but when the cradle begins rockin...
The Name Written Backward | Folk Magic Horror Story
The Name Written Backward is a narrated scary story about a woman who finds her own name written backward on brown paper hidden behind an old picture frame. What looks at first like a strange folk magic charm becomes something far worse ...
The Staircase Under the Shed | Underground Room Horror Story
The Staircase Under the Shed is a narrated scary story about a man who tears down an old backyard shed and discovers a hidden staircase leading underground. At the bottom is a room set up like someone has been living there, with a cot, a...
The Man Who Came Home Early | Doppelgänger Horror Story
The Man Who Came Home Early is a narrated scary story about a man who comes home from work ahead of schedule and finds his family calmly eating dinner with another version of him. Same face. Same clothes. Same voice. And somehow, everyon...
The Salt Line in the Hallway | Folklore Ghost Story
The Salt Line in the Hallway is a narrated scary story about a teenager who sweeps away a line of salt in her aunt’s old house and realizes too late that it wasn’t there for decoration. What looked like a strange household rule was actua...
The Witches Took Her Name | Folk Horror Witchcraft Story
The Witches Took Her Name is a narrated scary story about a woman who asks the local witches for help after a run of bad luck, only to discover their help comes with a price. Soon, people in town can’t say her name unless she gives them ...
The Houseplant Grew Keys | Weird Supernatural Horror Story
The Houseplant Grew Keys is a narrated scary story about a neglected houseplant that begins growing small brass keys instead of leaves. Each key opens something private, hidden, or locked away inside an old house, and the woman who lives...
The Secret in the Attic | Creepy Old House Horror Story
The Secret in the Attic is a narrated scary story about a woman who moves into her father’s abandoned childhood home and discovers why every generation of his family was warned to leave the attic door nailed shut.As the story unfo...
The Woman in the Parlor Portrait | New Orleans Haunted House Story
The Woman in the Parlor Portrait is a narrated scary story about a couple touring a historic New Orleans house when the wife sees her own face in an old painting above the parlor fireplace. What should be a quiet anniversary trip turns i...
The Station Between Stations | Supernatural Road Horror Story
The Station Between Stations is a narrated scary story about a man driving home late at night when his truck radio starts picking up sounds before they happen. What begins as static on a lonely back road turns into a disturbing supernatu...
Never Sweep After Dark | Folk Horror Scary Story
Never Sweep After Dark or You’ll Invite Evil In is a narrated scary story about a woman cleaning out her late mother’s old house, only to discover that one family superstition may have been protecting her from something buried beneath it...
The Man Who Waved From the Cornfield | Rural Folk Horror Story
The Man Who Waved From the Cornfield is a narrated scary story about a woman driving home through farm country who sees the same man standing at the edge of a cornfield every evening. At first, his wave seems harmless, but the longer she ignore...
The Face in the Garden Statue | Haunted Object Horror Story
The Face in the Garden Statue is a narrated scary story about a man who moves into a cheap old house and begins to notice something wrong with the weathered statue in the overgrown garden. At first, its face is blank. Then, little by little, fe...
Beware of the Love Spell | Witchcraft Folk Horror Story
Beware of the Love Spell is a narrated scary story about a woman who asks two rumored witches for a love spell to win a married man, only to learn that wanting someone can become dangerous once the spell starts working. Set in a small New Engla...
The Lady on the Porch | A Chilling Ghost Story
The Lady on the Porch is a Haunted house story narrated by Papa Gee. Every afternoon, Caleb walked the long gravel driveway from the school bus stop to his grandfather’s house. Across the field stood an old abandoned farmhouse with a lea...
The Doll in the Chimney | Haunted Doll Scary Story
The Doll in the Chimney is a narrated scary story about a couple restoring an old house who discover a handmade doll sealed inside the kitchen chimney behind a loose brick. What seems at first like an eerie old superstition turns into something...
The Neighbor Who Never Cast a Shadow | Supernatural Horror Story
The Neighbor Who Never Cast a Shadow is a narrated scary story about a woman who realizes the strange man next door never seems to cast a shadow, even in the brightest daylight. What first looks like a trick of the sun becomes harder to ...
The Broom Turned Bristles Up | Folk Magic Horror Story
The Broom Turned Bristles Up is a narrated scary story about a man who mocks his grandmother’s old broom rule, only to wake up to a town full of brooms pointing toward his house. What starts as an ordinary household superstition turns in...