The Silver Star finds the Ourang Medan adrift — and every soul aboard is dead at their posts, faces frozen in terror. An English-language Indonesian folklore horror tale.
Late 1940s, the Strait of Malacca. A wireless operator picks up a dying Morse signal from a Dutch freighter — every officer dead, and a final message: I die. Kuntilanak begins the legend of the ship of the dead.
The final chapter of the Java Sea's darkest telling: a passenger ship left Surabaya for Jakarta and never arrived. Kuntilanak closes the legend with the sailors who swear they still see her — and the one rule every captain must follow.
Kuntilanak tells of the dim-lit ship on the Java Sea horizon — the Flying Dutchman that never draws nearer, and the sailors who sailed toward it anyway.
A Dutch captain swears an oath in a Cape storm — and the Java Sea never lets him go. Part one of the oldest ghost-ship legend ever told in these waters.
The Dutch family of Jalan Bahureksa — a journey into the hills, a ravine, and an ambulance that carried its dead home and never let them go. The chilling finale of the Bahureksa haunting.
On Jalan Bahureksa in Bandung, an old Dutch-era ambulance kept coming home — no matter how many times it was moved, locked away, or sold. Tonight, Part One of the legend, told by Kuntilanak.
The final chapter of Jakarta's most famous ghost train legend: the old man who claims he can summon it, the chalk-circle ritual, and the price he never warns you about.
In 2004, a driverless commuter train rolled into Manggarai Station with four empty-looking carriages and no one at the controls. Kuntilanak opens the legend of Jakarta's most famous ghost train.
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Horor Nusantara — Indonesian folklore horror told in English, 10 times a day. The Kuntilanak narrates serialized ghost stories, haunted village legends, and cursed tales from across the Indonesian…
archipelago — Asian horror stories and supernatural urban legends for scary-story fans in the US and UK. New multi-part episodes every few hours, day and night. Dare to listen alone?