Whispers in the Vale

Whispers in the Vale

by Cassian

Science Fiction

The Keening | Folk Horror Story

A woman in a dead-end Appalachian coal hollow starts hearing a wailing outside her windows — and every night it gets closer. Ellis curates her recovered recordings as the keen learns her family's name. A banshee never kills. She only mourns ahead. A folk horror story about the Bean Sídhe, Irish immigrant grief, and the worst voicemail never answered — one of the scariest stories this horror podcast has ever told.

The Thirteenth Child | Cryptid Horror Story

Deep in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, night-shift EMT Dale Whitaker keeps finding cloven hoofprints where nothing should have walked — across the hood of his own rig, along the black two-lane, getting closer every night. This is Ellis's case file on what watches from the treeline: the old Pine Barrens legend of Mother Leeds's thirteenth child, and the winged, screaming thing that still flies the pines. A cryptid horror story for the horror podcast faithful — scary stories, folk horror, and the sounds the woods make at 3 a.m. This episode is fiction.

The Lookout | Skinwalker Horror Story

Three days of fire dispatch logs, six unsent voicemails, and one phone set down very, very carefully. Alone in a lookout tower in the high desert, Maren Cole heard a voice on a dead radio channel — and it was learning. A skinwalker folk horror story for scary-story nights: it learns your people so it can spend them. Fiction built on real Diné beliefs — Ellis says the name so you don't have to.

The Knocking Dark | Cryptid Horror Story

A logging-crew hand answers a wood knock in the Gifford Pinchot backcountry — and something knocks back. Over three days, woven tree structures, herding rocks, and a final knock from inside the treeline he already passed turn a routine flag line into a warning with the safety on. Ellis unpacks a century of Sasquatch reports, from the 1924 Ape Canyon attack to the infrasound dread witnesses still describe today. A cryptid horror story for listeners who like their scary stories slow-burning and their woods somebody else's house. Original fiction — the core beliefs are real and still held; the story around them is ours.

The Last Ride | Skinwalker Horror Story

A night-shift rideshare driver picks up a passenger on a dead desert highway in New Mexico — a man with too many joints in his fingers, a voice that isn't his, and a destination that doesn't exist. Ellis sits down with the driver for the full interview: the mirror, the lullaby, and the old road. A skinwalker horror story about the thing that learns you before it hunts you. Original fiction — the core beliefs are real, the story is mine. Stay creepy.

The Beast of Bray Road | Werewolf Horror Story

A bowhunter's recovered tapes trace a 1991 escalation in rural Wisconsin — eyes six feet up on the trail cam, something circling his tree stand on two legs, scratching at the cabin door at 2 AM. Ellis frames it with the real Bray Road reports. A werewolf story told the aggressive way: no safety, no mercy. Original fiction. #horrortok #scarystories #werewolf #wisconsin #beastofbrayroad

It Knows Your Name | Cryptid Horror Story

Ellis spends three nights in a hunting cabin in the Adirondack foothills, looking into a missing hiker — and something pale starts visiting after dark. Scratching on night one. It speaks his name on night two. On night three, it comes inside. A Rake story told the aggressive way: no safety, no mercy. Original fiction. #horrortok #scarystories #rake #creepypasta #cryptid

The Harbinger | Cryptid Horror Story

A night-shift worker at an abandoned munitions plant in the West Virginia hills sees two red eyes open in the dark — and then the thing with wings starts coming to his house. A cryptid horror story about the Mothman, the thirteen months of sightings, and the December night a bridge fell with forty-six souls on it. Told as original fiction, built on the documented record. A scary story for horror podcast listeners who like their monsters patient.

Knock Twice | Skinwalker Horror Story

When a cocky 26-year-old field biologist hikes into the Ouachita wilderness to finish his late student's owl survey — and kill the local monster stories in the same trip — he laughs at the one rule underlined in her field journal: don't knock back. So on night one, recorder running, he walks to a dead pine and knocks. Twice. What answers him across five days of recovered field logs is a countdown nobody was meant to survive. ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: Implied violence, disturbing audio including screaming, sustained terror, and long stretches of silence that are worse than the screaming. Headphones in the dark at your own risk — keep the lights on for this one.

The Howl in the Hollows | Cryptid Horror Story

Wildlife rehabber Wren Calloway thought her neighbor's snare had caught an injured mountain lion — but the snare was cut clean through, and the thing sitting in it was just... waiting. Across nine nights in the Ozark foothills, the Howler learns her feeding times, her latch times, her routines — and Wren realizes too late that it let itself get caught. A slow-burn cryptid horror story for fans of scary stories and folk horror, from your favorite horror podcast. This episode is a work of fiction. If you hear it howl once, it's curious. If you hear it answer itself — get in the truck.

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