Darker Pastures

An aging cattleman struggles with the usual hardships of winter... and with one entirely new.

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The son of a Texas ranching dynasty returns from the battlefields of 1918 France to develop newly discovered oil wells on his inheritance, and discovers that his home is irrevocably changed… as is he.

**Content Warning: This episode touches upon themes of combat-related PTSD, substance abuse, mental illness, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.**

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Few could ever hope to understand the events that transpired in the autumn of 1888 on the Černik homestead, nestled in the gently rolling Bohemian Alps of southern Nebraska. Those who could forever maintained a stubborn silence.

***Content Warning: This episode contains themes of familial abuse and child illness. Listener discretion advised.***

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An elderly couple finds their new neighbor troublesome and strange, but they could never guess what dark secrets lie in wait so near to their home.

***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of the abuse and genocide of Indigenous people, as well as animal cruelty. Listener discretion advised.***

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In the heart of the country, a traveling couple find themselves encountering a persistent shadow of the past – one that just might follow them home.

***Content Warning: This episode touches upon the history of American eugenics, and contains frank depictions of racism and sexual horror. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***

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Returning home to deal with her estranged father's estate, a young woman discovers a strange survival.

***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of parental abuse, familial estrangement, substance abuse, and hoarding, and contains explicit descriptions of decomposition. Listener discretion advised.***

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A tragic 1984 fire continues to haunt one of the survivors in a manner most unnatural.

***Content Warning: Contains repeated and descriptive references to deadly house fires.***

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In the late 1870s, three souls will discover that the prairie winds sometimes carry dark and wicked things.

***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of genocide against Indigenous people and death by hanging. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***

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One cold night in the spring of 1963, the disparate threads of a darkly arcane narrative become interwoven upon the lonely plains of North Dakota.

***Content warning: Episode contains violent scenes and references to historical atrocities. Listener discretion advised.***

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A lonely middle-aged woman tries to find love where she has never dared to look before.

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