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
24 episodes
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...
The Spoon Buried in the Garden | Cursed Object Horror Story
The Spoon Buried in the Garden is a narrated scary story about a gardener who digs up an old silver spoon buried in the soil behind her house. At first, it seems like a strange forgotten object from the past, but once the spoon is brough...
The Witch Bottle Under the Porch | Folk Horror Scary Story
The Witch Bottle Under the Porch is a narrated scary story about a family who finds a dark glass bottle buried beneath the porch of an old rural house. Packed with rusted nails, red thread, yellowed paper, and human hair, the bottle look...
The Photo Knew Who Died Next | Haunted Family Photo Horror Story
The Photo Knew Who Died Next is a narrated scary story about haunted family photos, old home movies, grief, and the terrifying idea that some pictures can show death before it arrives. After her grandmother Alma dies, Tessa Drayton begin...
The House That Forgot the Living | Haunted Estate Story
The House That Forgot the Living is a narrated scary story about a grieving widow, a winter caretaker job, and an old lakeside estate that seems determined to keep its own rules. When Clara Voss brings her young daughter Elsie to Meade H...
The Haunted YouTube Channel | Internet Horror Story
The Haunted YouTube Channel is a narrated scary story about a woman who discovers a strange channel online, only to realize the videos may be showing things that haven’t happened yet. What starts as a late-night curiosity turns into some...
The Light Under the Door | Haunted House Horror Story
The Light Under the Door is a narrated scary story about an old duplex, a sealed staircase, and the thin yellow glow that should never have been there. When Daniel moves into a cheap downstairs rental, the landlord tells him the upstairs...
The Haunted Wedding Dress | Scary Ghost Story
The Haunted Wedding Dress is a narrated scary story about an old wedding gown that should have stayed packed away. When the dress is brought back into the house, strange things begin to happen: black thread appears where it shouldn’t, th...
The Woman in the Upstairs Window | Supernatural Scary Story
The Woman in the Upstairs Window is a narrated scary story about a man driving a lonely rural road who keeps seeing the same impossible sight: a woman standing in the upstairs window of an abandoned house that shouldn’t have an upstairs....
The Room Behind the Mirror | Secret Room Horror Story
The Room Behind the Mirror is a narrated scary story about a renter who removes an old bathroom medicine cabinet and discovers something impossible hidden behind the wall: a narrow secret room, a single chair, a notebook, and hundreds of...