After Midnight Tales episodes:

• December 03, 2025The Protector Beneath the Bed

  A first-person account of a traumatic night when a 16-year-old was left caring for his younger brother, Mikey, in a dangerous neighborhood. After their mother left for work, an Amber Alert reports a nearby home invasion. Later that night, Mikey screams, claiming a "monster" is in his room. The narrator looks under the bed and sees a massive creature with yellow, slit-pupiled eyes. He hides Mikey in the attic and calls 911, but the phone dies as they hear crashes, screams, and animalistic sounds from downstairs. When the police arrive, they attribute the damage and a discovered burglar’s pistol to the intruder. The narrator ultimately realizes that the entity under the bed was not malevolent, but a guardian protecting the family from harm.
  
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• December 03, 2025The Orchard's Face

  A horrifying series of events following the death of a child, Elsie, who was buried in the family’s pear orchard. Struggling with grief and financial pressure, her parents agree to have experimental grafting technology installed in their trees to increase yield. Soon after, a single fruit grows on Elsie’s tree, rapidly developing features resembling her face and body. The mother, Marissa, becomes obsessed with the fruit, treating it as if it were her daughter. When a company assistant attempts to interfere, Marissa’s desperation escalates into murder, with the father helping to conceal the act by burying the body. The narrative concludes with the fruit being destroyed during a violent storm and subsequent fire caused by the experimental technology, and the father secretly removing a second seed to prevent further horror, while his wife’s fragile sanity clings to the idea of replanting it.
  
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• December 03, 2025The Dead Men's Deepest Descent

  A terrifying expedition in which a convicted criminal is offered freedom in exchange for a perilous mission into an uncharted cave system. Recruited by a mysterious woman, the narrator joins three other expendable individuals—two murderers and a nervous guide, Ren, who previously fled the caves—to document and assess a dangerous, possibly sentient, biological entity that killed the first team. Ill-equipped and treated as disposable, the group faces escalating tension as they encounter a metallic, bladed creature deep within the caverns. In a brutal confrontation, the narrator is forced to sacrifice Ren to survive and ultimately escapes as the sole survivor. He completes the mission and secures his promised freedom, but is left deeply traumatized by the events he endured.
  
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• December 03, 2025The River Wives' Toll and the Debt Paid in Kind

  Narrates the unsettling experience of a couple who move into a cheap, rural cottage to escape mounting debt. Upon arrival, the locals warn them about the mysterious "riverwives," advising Mara, judged for her city attire, to cover up and avoid drawing attention. Mara happily adapts to the countryside, making soap, while the narrator grows increasingly anxious, struggling to hide his financial troubles. The horror intensifies when Mara, disregarding the warnings, offers her soap to the riverwives, resulting in her violent death at their hands—an act the townspeople silently accept as beyond the law. In the aftermath, the narrator seeks revenge, arming himself, only to encounter a final, horrifying twist involving the entity he believes is responsible.
  
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• December 03, 2025The Inheritance of Grandpa's Locks

  Recounts a narrator’s childhood experience of observing a bizarre family ritual in which their elderly grandfather was locked in his room each night. At first, the narrator assumed the locked door was a safety precaution, until witnessing their grandfather cough up blood at dinner, prompting suspicion. Driven by concern, the narrator finds a hidden key and enters the room at night, discovering that the frail grandfather is hosting a grotesque, fleshy entity that emerges from his mouth. The narrative concludes with the father violently killing the grandfather to stop the creature, only for the narrator to realize that the terrifying "host" condition has now passed to their father, and the nightly locking ritual continues.
  
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• December 03, 2025The Farm, The Pit, and the Father's Legacy

  The story of a man returning to his family farm to care for his ailing and abusive father. The narrator struggles with deep-seated trauma from his childhood, including his father’s cruelty and the mysterious death of his mother, while noticing strange occurrences connected to the farm’s productivity. He eventually uncovers a horrifying secret: the fertile land is sustained by a pulsating, fleshy pit that requires live sacrifices, which his father had been providing, including the narrator’s pet rabbit and, shockingly, his own mother. This revelation drives the narrator to a final, grim act of vengeance, feeding his father to the pit, only to realize he has inherited his father’s monstrous legacy and the burden of maintaining it. The story explores themes of generational trauma, abuse, and the price of keeping a terrible secret linked to the land.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• December 03, 2025Cop's Account of the Winding Pines Horror

  A terrifying night experienced by a veteran police officer named Donley. During a routine traffic stop, two nervous men flee and crash near a youth retreat, leaving one person dead. The situation escalates into the supernatural when the surviving driver undergoes a horrifying transformation into a monstrous creature inside the police cruiser. The narrative focuses on Donley’s desperate struggle to prevent the entity from reaching the camp full of children, involving the destruction of his vehicles and a frantic escape on a school bus under attack. The story concludes with the officer and the surviving children being rescued, though the disappearance of the initial crash victim’s body hints that the terror may not be over.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• December 03, 2025The Custodians of Unnatural Fauna

  Follows the supernatural experiences of a newly hired veterinary technician working the night shift. At first, the narrator assumes they are simply working in a quiet clinic, until a man brings in a disturbing, biologically anomalous creature, revealing a hidden world of unnatural occurrences. As more cryptid animals arrive—with features like fish-gilled teeth, spiraling pupils, and impossible skeletal structures—the narrator learns that the clinic is actually a secret facility tasked with the containment and disposal of these “breaches.” The story concludes with the senior veterinarian revealing the facility’s true purpose and passing the responsibility to the narrator, who reluctantly accepts their new, grim role.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• December 03, 2025The Tracks and the Halloween Vanishing

  A chilling supernatural event experienced by four friends on Halloween night. The children crossed a forbidden train track to trick-or-treat on a desolate street, encountering static, lifeless houses and receiving strange black candy. The climax occurs when one boy, Danny, puts on a mysterious mask found on a branch, causing him to join a silent, masked procession of figures waiting on the street. A year later, the narrator returns and discovers that Danny has become a permanent part of the eerie phenomenon, silently marching with the other masked figures.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• December 03, 2025Do Not Turn Around The Counting Man

  Explores the origins and details of a legend known as "The Counting Man." According to the legend, an individual hears footsteps mirroring their own, followed by a voice that counts one number higher each subsequent night, with a critical rule: never turn around, or face instant doom. Accounts of the Counting Man appear across centuries and cultures, showing strikingly similar patterns. Reported incidents suggest that reaching the number ten leads to disappearance, and intriguingly, simply knowing the rules may trigger the phenomenon.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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