Welcome to Ravenbrook. A town in northern Maine where mystery grows like a crop, monsters lurk at in every tree line, and phantoms lurk in more shadows than not. In this week’s first tale, we follow the exploits of an RPD beat cop from back in the 40s as he attempts to rid Ravenbrook of…

It all started in 2006 with what else but an Ouija board. Two girls at a prestigious catholic school in Mexico City led a group of peers in their first explorations of the dark arts. Soon, they began experiencing shadow figures, disembodied voices, and even suicidal ideations, but this is just the beginning of what…

We will be continuing the Campfire Classics Collection throughout the season. For this addition to the collection, we have a tale from one of the true masters of horror. The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in Graham’s Magazine in 1842. It’s a beautifully delivered allegory for the inevitability…

This week, we’re taking a look at a bit of an outlier in the psychological profiles of serial killers. Gary Michael Hilton, known as The National Forest Serial Killer, is an American serial killer responsible for four known homicides between 2007 and 2008 committed in three states, all of which occurred within the premises of…

Welcome to Ravenbrook. A town in northern Maine where mystery grows like a crop, monsters lurk at in every tree line,  and phantoms lurk in more shadows than not. This week, we have a tale of an internet tulpa that examines the effect of modern myth-making on our seemingly sleepy little town and a story of…

In April of 1997, Judy Smith vanished from Logan International Airport. Five months later, her remains were found hundreds of miles away in Asheville, North Carolina. This, in itself is baffling, but the details of the case truly take it to another level. Join us for this truly bizarre tale of a very normal family…

This week, we have a very special treat. After two years of attempts to line our schedules up, we finally managed to get today’s guest to sit down for an hour to talk. Cole Herrold is the brilliant mind behind the New World Explorers Society blog and a veritable human encyclopedia of Fortean knowledge. I had…

The culmination of this year’s Spooky Season has arrived! The Halloween Hellscape Listener Story Extravaganza is our chance to truly revel in the fun, terrifying, and bizarre tales that make this season what it is. Not only are we reading a selection of your very own haunting tales, we’re diving in and read just a…

This week, in our AI story hour, we have two tales of Ravenbrook. First, we follow two young friends as they venture toward the dark heart of a haunted corn maze. What lies at its center just may spell the end of our macabre little hamlet. In our second tale, we check in on Ravenbrook’s…

For this week’s addition to the Campfire Classics Collection, we have a story from a lesser known, but equally as monumental a writer of the Victorian era, William Harrison Ainsworth. Ainsworth was a prolific English writer who lived from 1805 to 1882. Ainsworth’s literary career was marked by a fascination with the macabre, the gothic,…