Darker Pastures

A child of Swedish immigrants living in northwestern Dakota Territory in the 1880s becomes convinced that a dreadful entity from whispered tales stalks the hills near their homestead.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of racism toward Indigenous peoples, familial loss, child mortality, depression, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.***

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A girl from a troubled home finds solace in her friendship with a new neighbor and her pet.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and psychological familial abuse, racism, harm to animals and animal death. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***

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Exhausted and unable to trust his own perceptions, a former bushwhacker wanders the plains of a wounded country, haunted by both past and present horrors as he tries to flee that which cannot be escaped.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare and sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.***

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Living on his uncle's farm at the turn of the century, a young boy begins to suspect that something nameless dwells under the surface.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical spousal and child abuse. Listener discretion is advised.***

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A community in rural Montana is terrorized by a new and relentless menace – but no one realizes how existential the threat truly is.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement and domestic terrorism, and contains descriptions of violence and gore. Listener discretion advised.***

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A teenage outcast finds strange succor on Halloween night.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of homophobia, bullying, and familial loss, and may be triggering for some listeners. Discretion advised.***

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A woman who has spent her entire adulthood traveling from one city and one contract to another settles into the house left to her by a late relative, and slowly comes to realize that one of her new neighbors possesses a little too much holiday enthusiasm.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of transphobia and familial loss, and may be triggering for some listeners. Listener discretion advised.***

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A housewife and caretaker feels overwhelmed by the events in her life, and by the recent hardship of her community. But there is something far more threatening just over the horizon.

***Content warning: This episode contains scenes pertaining to age-related cognitive disease, as well as numerous references to insects, and may be triggering for some listeners. Discretion is advised.***

Cover image adapted from: Arphia pseudonietana, Red-winged Grasshopper, red wings, ID Confidence: 98  © 2012 by Robert Webster is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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A young and troubled man, drawn involuntarily back to the country and the life he tried to escape, is soon snared by a far darker mystery.

Cover image adapted from original: Abandoned Homestead @ 2012 by William Neuheisel, licensed and included under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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An insidious but devastating evil visits itself upon a small-town family... perhaps not for the first time. Who can say how many lives it has touched, or how long it has wandered these darker pastures?

 ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of child victimization, familial violence, and suicide, and contains scenes with gun violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised. *** 

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