Beware of the Love Spell is a narrated scary story about a woman who asks two rumored witches for a love spell to win a married man, only to learn that wanting someone can become dangerous once the spell starts working. Set in a small New England town, this folk horror story blends witchcraft, obsession, an elegant old Victorian house, and the kind of back-door magic people whisper about but still seek out after dark.

What begins as a desperate visit to two stylish older sisters with a leather-bound spell book becomes something much harder to control when the man Claire wants starts showing up, leaving strange gifts, and watching her house. The spell doesn’t fail. That’s the problem.

This episode is for listeners who enjoy witchcraft horror, folk horror, scary stories about love spells, supernatural suspense, old house horror, cursed object stories, obsession horror, and eerie small-town scary stories.

Be careful what you ask to be brought to your door.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
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The Lady on the Porch is a Haunted house story narrated by Papa Gee. Every afternoon, Caleb walked the long gravel driveway from the school bus stop to his grandfather’s house. Across the field stood an old abandoned farmhouse with a leaning porch, broken windows, and weeds grown up around the steps.

Then one October afternoon, Caleb saw an old woman sitting on that porch.

She wore a faded blue dress. Her white hair was pulled back from her face. She didn’t move. She didn’t rock. She only watched him from across the field.

When Caleb told his grandfather what he had seen, he learned the house had burned down more than thirty years earlier, and the woman who lived there never made it out.

The Old Woman Who Wasn’t There is an original scary story, human read and narrated by Papa Gee, host of The Feral Folklorist podcast. This channel features eerie original horror stories, haunted folklore, strange rural legends, ghostly encounters, folk horror, superstition, and the things people still whisper about after dark.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:https://feralfolklorist.com

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The Doll in the Chimney is a narrated scary story about a couple restoring an old house who discover a handmade doll sealed inside the kitchen chimney behind a loose brick. What seems at first like an eerie old superstition turns into something far more disturbing when small soot handprints begin appearing throughout the house, and the doll refuses to stay gone.

What begins as a strange find during renovations becomes a slow-building haunting tied to the hidden purpose of the doll and the thing it may have been holding back. As the story unfolds, the house fills with soot, the chimney comes alive in the night, and one room in particular begins to feel like it was never meant to be opened. This episode is for listeners who enjoy haunted doll stories, folk horror, old house horror, supernatural suspense, creepy home renovation horror, ghost stories, haunted object stories, and eerie paranormal tales.

Some things were hidden in old houses for a reason.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
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Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

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The Neighbor Who Never Cast a Shadow is a narrated scary story about a woman who realizes the strange man next door never seems to cast a shadow, even in the brightest daylight. What first looks like a trick of the sun becomes harder to ignore when she starts watching him more closely and notices that everything around him leaves a mark on the ground except him.

What begins as suspicion turns into supernatural horror when her own shadow starts behaving strangely and appearing where it shouldn’t. As the story unfolds, old family warnings, strange neighbor behavior, and shadow lore come together in a quiet suburban haunting about identity, fear, and the terrifying thought that part of you can be taken. This episode is for listeners who enjoy scary stories, supernatural suspense, folk horror, creepy neighbor stories, shadow people stories, eerie suburban horror, strange neighbor horror, and unsettling paranormal stories.

Keep an eye on your shadow, especially when someone else seems to be missing theirs.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
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  https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
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Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

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The Broom Turned Bristles Up is a narrated scary story about a man who mocks his grandmother’s old broom rule, only to wake up to a town full of brooms pointing toward his house. What starts as an ordinary household superstition turns into something much stranger when every broom, from shop floors to church closets, begins acting like a warning.

What begins as a joke about old folk magic becomes a slow-building horror story about thresholds, family rules, sweeping taboos, and the dangerous things people dismiss until it’s too late. This episode is for listeners who enjoy folk horror, haunted object stories, supernatural suspense, witchcraft horror, old house horror, rural horror, haunted family stories, cursed object stories, and scary stories rooted in old superstitions.

And don’t forget, be careful what you sweep away after dark.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
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Stock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:
  https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
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Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

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The Spoon Buried in the Garden is a narrated scary story about a gardener who digs up an old silver spoon buried in the soil behind her house. At first, it seems like a strange forgotten object from the past, but once the spoon is brought inside, every meal touched by it begins to taste like dirt.

What begins as an odd discovery in the garden turns into a disturbing cursed object story as the spoon keeps returning, the soil refuses to stay outside, and the ordinary comfort of the kitchen becomes tied to graveyard dirt, old domestic curses, and something that wants a place at the table. This episode is for listeners who enjoy haunted object stories, cursed object horror, folk horror, supernatural scary stories, graveyard folklore, creepy old house horror, garden hauntings, domestic horror, and eerie stories about things that should have stayed buried.

So the next time you decide to garden, be careful what you dig out of the ground.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
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Stock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:
  https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
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Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

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The Witch Bottle Under the Porch is a narrated scary story about a family who finds a dark glass bottle buried beneath the porch of an old rural house. Packed with rusted nails, red thread, yellowed paper, and human hair, the bottle looks like something hidden there for a reason. When it breaks, the house begins to change, and every door starts opening inward, even the ones that had been locked.

What begins as a strange discovery during a home repair turns into something darker as the family realizes the bottle may have been keeping something out, or keeping something buried. This episode is for listeners who enjoy folk horror, witch bottle folklore, haunted object stories, creepy old house horror, rural supernatural suspense, cursed objects, basement horror, old-house hauntings, and eerie tales about what happens when old warnings are ignored.

So, be careful what you dig up under an old porch.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
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Stock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:
  https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
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Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

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The Photo Knew Who Died Next is a narrated scary story about haunted family photos, old home movies, grief, and the terrifying idea that some pictures can show death before it arrives. After her grandmother Alma dies, Tessa Drayton begins clearing out the family house and finds every framed photograph turned face-down. At first, it seems like one of Alma’s strange final habits, the kind of thing the family blamed on age, grief, or superstition.

Then Tessa finds a photograph of Alma standing at her own funeral.

As she digitizes old home videos and sorts through hidden family pictures, Tessa realizes Alma may have seen something in the photographs long before anyone else did. The dead appear in mirrors, old footage changes, and certain pictures seem to know who in the family will die next. What begins as a quiet family mystery becomes a supernatural warning tied to an old rule: after a death, turn the photos face-down before the dead choose who follows.

This episode is for listeners who enjoy haunted photograph stories, ghost stories, creepy family mysteries, supernatural horror, found footage-style horror, eerie home movies, grief horror, haunted objects, family curse stories, and slow-burn paranormal suspense.

Look carefully at old family photos, but don’t leave them facing up after a funeral.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
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Stock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:
  https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
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Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

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The House That Forgot the Living is a narrated scary story about a grieving widow, a winter caretaker job, and an old lakeside estate that seems determined to keep its own rules. When Clara Voss brings her young daughter Elsie to Meade House after her husband’s death, the job seems simple enough: wind the clocks, keep certain rooms locked, never turn on the radio after sundown, and never answer a knock from inside the walls.

But the house has been empty for years for a reason. A locked nursery, a child’s red mitten, strange sounds above rooms that shouldn’t exist, and a dining table that sets itself begin to reveal what happened to the Meade family long ago. As Clara realizes the house may be preparing places for her and Elsie, she has to decide whether the dead are the danger, or whether the house itself has started forgetting they belong among the living.

This episode is for listeners who enjoy haunted house stories, ghost stories, winter horror, gothic horror, haunted estate stories, supernatural suspense, eerie family mysteries, atmospheric horror, and scary stories about old houses with rules that should never be broken.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
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Stock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:
  https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
  https://folkloreum.com/

Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

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The Haunted YouTube Channel is a narrated scary story about a woman who discovers a strange channel online, only to realize the videos may be showing things that haven’t happened yet. What starts as a late-night curiosity turns into something much darker when the uploads begin to feel personal, the rooms on screen look familiar, and the line between watching and being watched starts to disappear.

As the videos keep appearing, the channel becomes less like entertainment and more like a warning. This episode is for listeners who enjoy internet horror, haunted technology stories, creepy YouTube mysteries, supernatural suspense, found footage-style horror, modern ghost stories, cursed media, digital hauntings, and eerie tales about what happens when something online reaches back into the real world.

Listen with the lights low, and be careful what you click after midnight.

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Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
  https://patreon.com/papagee

Stock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:
  https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
  https://folkloreum.com/

Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

Support the show