Every family keeps secrets.

Every clock in the house has stopped at exactly 3:17. Ravens gather silently on the roof. Seven ancestral portraits bear the same strange scar. And hidden behind an old book, Emma discovers a heavy iron key that Eleanor is terrified for her to possess.

Then the dreams begin.

When seventeen-year-old Emma arrives at the isolated and decaying Black Briar House to stay with her elderly great-grandmother Eleanor, she immediately senses that something about the old family home is terribly wrong.

Sometime no means safe

Adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1838 short story Lady Eleanore’s Mantle, this Weird Circle episode tells the eerie tale of pride, vanity, and supernatural punishment. Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe, the governor’s niece, arrives in Boston wearing a luxurious, mysterious mantle rumoured to be cursed. Her arrogance and cold disdain for others soon alienate the townspeople—especially her fiancé, George Helwyse, who warns her of the mantle’s dark power.

In this haunting tale, a man named Paul is summoned to a mysterious trial—not in a courtroom, but in a surreal, dreamlike setting that seems to exist outside of time. He’s accused of a crime he doesn’t remember committing, and the judges appear to know more about his soul than he does. As the trial unfolds, Paul is forced to confront the moral consequences of his past actions, which may have led to another’s death.

Based on a detective tale by Émile Gaboriau, this episode of The Weird Circle blends classic mystery with psychological intrigue. The story follows Monsieur Lecoq, a sharp and methodical investigator, as he unravels the strange murder of Henri Coudrai—a humble hairdresser nicknamed “the little pig.” Though the crime appears trivial at first, Lecoq suspects deeper motives and uncovers a web of jealousy, deception, and long-held grudges.

Adapted from Sir Walter Scott’s Wandering Willie’s Tale, this eerie radio drama unfolds in the haunted Scottish Highlands, where Steenie Steenson, a poor tenant, witnesses his cruel landlord, Sir Robert Redgauntlet, hang three men for unpaid rent. Steenie, who remains silent during the executions, is later confronted by a ghostly stranger in the Woods of the Dead who demands he atone by giving his silver to the victims’ families—or face death himself

Driven by obsession with an old man's "vulture eye," a disturbed narrator commits murder and hides the body beneath the floorboards. But as guilt consumes him, the imagined sound of the victim’s beating heart grows louder

A man boards the mysterious 4:15 train and finds himself trapped in a ghostly loop, reliving the same eerie journey with no escape.

Latimer, cursed with telepathic powers and haunting visions of the future, foresees his own death and the sinister intentions of those closest to him.