Darker Pastures

Many paths converge, and for a time, refuge is found, and darkness and fear are left behind. But the evils of the world always find a way in.

***Content warning: Episode deals with themes of traumatic loss, catastrophic fire, and automobile accidents. Listener discretion advised.***

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A teenage girl, irrevocably separated from the family of her birth, finds a new one. But too late she learns the price of belonging.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious indoctrination and past sexual trauma, and contains some gore. Listener discretion advised.***

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Two traumatized young men, a boy from Cheyenne and an ex-soldier, bear witness to the depths of human depravity. Meanwhile, the true inheritors of the earth look on from afar, patient and inscrutable.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of sexual slavery and violence, involuntary mater ity and pregnancy-related death, mass murder, pandemic and disease, and religious extremism. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***

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In the wake of unbelievable calamity, a woman encounters both wonder and living nightmare on her long journey home.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of disease, pandemic, social upheaval, and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.***

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A prairie schoolteacher experiences purest terror and loss during the tragic Children's Blizzard of 1888.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial loss, missing children, and children in peril. Listener discretion is advised.***

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Two strangers approach a small town we have visited once before, and something follows close behind them.

***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of misogyny, bigotry, unwanted sexual contact and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***

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A small band of cowboys, chasing outlaws upon the southern Plains, happens upon a dubious sanctum. Despite their disparate life experiences, not a one of them is prepared for that which awaits them within.

***Content warning: This episode touches upon the realities of slavery, racism, and Indigenous genocide. Listener discretion is advised.***

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Unable to escape the horrific recollections of his Civil War service even in the remoteness of the Dakota Territory, a surgeon finds his nightmares bleeding into reality.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare, substance abuse, and associated psychological trauma, and contains both gore and body horror. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***

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Two wanderers, tossed adrift by the desperation of the Great Depression, encounter something strange and hellish on the benighted plains.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial abandonment, poverty, and genocide. Discretion advised.***

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The events of Halloween, 1973 scar a boy’s psyche so profoundly that he finds himself returning to their locus decades later, in the hope of finding resolution. But the mystery he finds waiting for him is darker still.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement, child death, suicide, racist violence, and murder. Listener discretion advised.***

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