CARMAN'S CRYPT

Carman Carrion

Step into Carman's Crypt, where every week, a new door to terror creaks open. Host Carman Carrion, acclaimed creator of Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror, invites you to explore the depths of horror through original, spine-chilling short stories crafted to haunt your dreams.Each episode of Carman's Crypt presents a fresh, fictional tale of terror, meticulously penned to send shivers down your spine. From ghostly whispers in abandoned halls to cosmic horrors lurking beyond the veil of reality, from psychological thrillers that twist your mind to monstrous entities hungry for flesh – no dark corner of the imagination is left unexplored.Immerse yourself in professionally crafted narratives, enhanced by ambient soundscapes that transport you directly into each horrifying scenario. Whether you're a seasoned horror aficionado or a curious newcomer to the genre, Carman's Crypt offers a weekly dose of fear tailored to make your heart race and your senses tingle.Subscribe now and join our growing community of thrill-seekers. But remember, once you enter Carman's Crypt, the doors may not open again until the tale is told. Are you brave enough to listen?New episodes release every Wednesday night at midnight. Available wherever you get your podcasts.Carman's Crypt: Where every story is an original nightmare, and every nightmare is waiting to be told.

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Yesterday · 2 hr 16 min
5 Scary Horror Stories Compilation | Carman's Crypt
The Cryptkeeper's Choice is back. These are the five original horror stories you couldn't stop listening to since spring: a predator at the door, a town gone dark, something in a cave that hears your fear, a good boy who came back, and a ghost who never noticed she died. Lock the doors and keep the lights low. Tonight's stories: The Sound of Gravel Every Streetlight in Town Exploded at Once Held Breath Good Boy The Keeping Which one got under your skin? Tell me in the comments, and subscribe so you never miss a new story in the Crypt. A new original horror story drops every Monday. All stories are original works by Carman Carrion. LISTEN AND FOLLOW Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6RuFdlP6STrEERRUMnXQko Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carmans-crypt/id1776896022 More shows and stories: carman-carrion.com Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror: eeriecast.com Support the Crypt: buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion Crypt Shop: https://the-crypt-shop-2.myshopify.com/ YouTube: @CarmanCarrion X: @CarmanCarrion Instagram: @carmancarrion Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs #CarmansCrypt #HorrorStories #ScaryStories #CryptkeepersChoice #HorrorPodcast #CreepyStories #NightmareFuel #ScaryStoriesToFallAsleepTo #OriginalHorror
October 13 · 16 min
Uber Driver Picks Up the Wrong Passenger - Scary Rideshare Horror Story
An Uber driver picks up the wrong passenger at 3 a.m., and by the time he realizes it, the rideshare app won't let him cancel the trip. Danny Reyes has three rules: confirm the name, confirm the destination, never ask questions. Tonight he breaks all three. He answers a surge request outside a dead roadside motel, and the passenger who gets in the back seat isn't the rider on his screen. As the miles pass, the clock stops making sense, his daughter's voice answers a call she shouldn't, and the headlights in his rearview mirror won't fall behind. Press play only if you're sure your doors are locked. 🎧 Story by Carman Carrion #CarmansCrypt #HorrorStory #ScaryStories #UberHorror #RideshareHorror #CreepyStories #HorrorPodcast #HorrorFiction #OriginalHorror #ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark #CreepyPodcast #NightDriveHorror #SupernaturalHorror #HorrorNarration #NoSleepStories #CarmanCarrion EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
October 6 · 20 min
VACANCY - Creepy Motel Horror Story
You take one wrong exit on a rainy night and find a motel with its VACANCY sign lit and its doors all painted the same green. The clerk knows how many of you there are before you say a word. Every room looks the same, down to the stains on thecarpet, and every morning you leave, you end up right back at the front desk. "Vacancy" is an original liminal horror story about a family road trip that goes wrong, a haunted motel that keeps its guests, and the price nobody asks about until it's too late. Story by Carman Carrion. Narrated by Carman Carrion. #LiminalHorror #HorrorStory #ScaryStories #CreepyMotel #OriginalHorrorFiction #HorrorPodcast #CarmansCrypt #HauntedMotel #ScaryStoriesToFallAsleepTo #CreepyPasta EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
September 29 · 26 min
Don’t Pull the Irons
My grandmother died in February and left me forty acres of Arkansas hill ground, a farmhouse built in 1896, and a family cemetery swallowed by greenbrier. There were seventeen graves inside the iron fence. There was one outside it. A rough fieldstone under the white oak read only "E.M. 1902," and beneath that a verse from Job: He that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.It was ringed by rusted iron stakes that the frost had pushed halfway out of the ground. Every spring of her life, Grandma walked down there with a sledgehammer and drove those irons back in. She never told me why. I pulled them out. Now the graves are sinking, oldest first. Something knocks beneath the floor at night, feeling its way along the foundation of the house it built. My family buriedElias Mercer face down for a reason, and he's been patient for 124 years. A Southern Gothic folk horror story inspired by the Nachzehrer, the German revenant that feeds on its own family. Story by Carman Carrion #HorrorStory #FolkHorror #SouthernGothic #ScaryStories #Nachzehrer #CarmansCrypt #HorrorPodcast #CreepyStories #AudioHorror #Revenant #ArkansasHorror#OriginalHorror #HorrorFiction #HauntedFarm #ScaryStoryTime EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolkloreTwitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQYiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/https://www.carman-carrion.com/ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
September 22 · 22 min
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - When Love Turns Feral PART THREE (Finale) The Only One Left
Content Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence, including body horror, animal death, injury and dismemberment, death of a sibling, and a graphic depiction of suicide/self-sacrifice. Listener discretion is advised. Lucy always knew how this would end — for one of them. Twenty years of flowers, funerals, and following, and she's finally found the one place it never thought to be afraid of. This is the last part of a three-part story. If you haven't heard Parts One and Two, go back and start from "Where It Found Him" first. ⚠️ Contains graphic horror and body horror. Series finale. #CarmansCrypt #horrorpodcast #horror #scarystories #horrorstory #creepypasta #originalhorror #folklorehorror #monster #creaturefeature #bodyhorror #darkfiction #horrorfiction #nosleep #seriesfinale #podcast #audiodrama #scary #creepy #partthree EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you moreterrifying tales. DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
September 17 · 25 min
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - When Love Turns Feral PART TWO
Lucy thought Scotland was behind her. It wasn't. What followed her home doesn't want to hurt her — it wants to be loved, and it's willing to tear apart everyone standing in the way to prove it. Daniel finds out first, and it isn't quick. ⚠️ Contains graphic horror and body horror. Part two of three — continued next week. #CarmansCrypt #horrorpodcast #horror #scarystories #horrorstory #creepypasta #originalhorror #folklorehorror #monster #creaturefeature #bodyhorror #darkfiction #horrorfiction #nosleep #tobecontinued #podcast #audiodrama #scary #creepy EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6RuFdlP6STrEERRUMnXQko iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carmans-crypt/id1776896022 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
September 8 · 26 min
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST -When Love Turns Feral
Lucy went to the Highlands alone to put her life back together. She came home with a shadow that knows her name, leaves gifts at her door, and gets inside rooms it was never let into. The little wrongnesses are becoming a pattern — and the pattern is closing in. ⚠️ Contains graphic horror and bodyhorror. Part one of three — continued next week. #CarmansCrypt #horrorpodcast #horror #scarystories #horrorstory #creepypasta #originalhorror#folklorehorror #monster #creaturefeature #bodyhorror #darkfiction #horrorfiction #nosleep #tobecontinued #podcast #audiodrama #scary #creepy EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: FreakyFolklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman'sCrypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ DeadlyIntent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ DestinationTerror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website:https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X:https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your supporthelps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
September 1 · 18 min
The Compound - A Modern Jekyll and Hyde Horror Story
Danny is drowning. A year of missed calls, late meetings, and quiet mornings he can't climb out of — until the company wellness program puts him on an experimentalcompound that finally makes him the man his wife fell for. Warm. Sharp. Present. The version everyone prefers. The only problem is the hours he can't account for. The emails he doesn't remember sending. The plaque on his desk with a name that isn't quite his. A modern retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, told entirely through one man's recovery voice-log — and you're the only one listening. Story by Carman Carrion. Original horror fiction from Carman's Crypt. #HorrorStory #JekyllAndHyde #CreepyPasta #ScaryStories #PsychologicalHorror EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website:https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X:https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your supporthelps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
August 25 · 25 min
Held Breath — Something Came Up From the Cave and It Can Hear Your Fear
There's something new at the bottom of the hollow. It's blind. It can't hear your voice. But it hunts the one thing you can't hide forever — the drum of a frightened heart. When a sinkhole opens on her land, whatever climbs out of the dark can't see Ruthie Combs and doesn't care what she says. It hunts fear itself. Alone in the Ozarks with her six-year-old, she has to become the calmest thing it's ever met — andteach her little girl to hide her own heartbeat before the dark finds them both. An original horror story written and narrated by Carman Carrion. New tales from the Crypt every Monday. Subscribe, and keep a light on. #HorrorStory #CreepyPasta #CarmansCrypt #ScaryStories #HorrorNarration #OriginalHorror #HorrorPodcast #MonsterHorror #NightmareFuel #CreatureFeature#ScaryStoriesToldInTheDark #HorrorFiction EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
August 18 · 36 min
ROOM SEVEN - Every room in the hotel has a ghost… except one.
Every room in the hotel has a ghost… except one. Casa Esencia sits alone on the cliffs — a wedding venue that makes its money by being beautiful and just a little bit haunted. The staff talk about the dead like beloved relatives living upstairs. The bride who's always searching. The littlegirl chasing her ball. The boy who counts the stairs and always stops at six. None of them frighten anyone. That's part of the charm. But whennewly divorced Emily Harper takes a job at the house, she notices something no one will talk about. A door with no handle. A room that isn't on any map, isn't in any blueprint, and takes up four feet of space the house doesn't actually have. And every ghost in Casa Esencia is watching it. They aren't trapped here. They're hiding. And Emily is about to learn exactly what they're hiding from — and why some doors are locked from the inside for a reason. Turn off the lights. Some guests check in long after they've died… and one room keeps the register. 🎧 A Carman's Crypt original. Story by Carman Carrion. #CarmansCrypt #HorrorPodcast #HorrorStories #ScaryStories #HorrorFiction #CreepyPasta#GhostStories #HauntedHotel #Paranormal #HorrorNarration #AudioDrama#ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark #HorrorCommunity #TrueHorror #SupernaturalHorror#HorrorLovers #NightmareFuel #GhostStory #HauntedPlaces #OriginalHorror EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
August 11 · 26 min
Yield - Why This Town's Crops Never Fail - A Carman's Crypt Horror Story
Every town has a story it won't tell. Cane Bend has a field. The crops out there never fail. The wells never run dry. Nobody who lives in Cane Bend will tell you why — and nobody will say what happened to the girls who went missing, one almost every year, always the same handful of families, alwaysright around their eighteenth birthday. Cass Hale has spent her whole life trying to solve it. She's the town's morbid girl, the one with the corkboard and the red yarn, the one who can't leave a locked drawer alone. She thinks she's chasing the truth to protect the next girl. She has no idea the whole town is letting her run. She has no idea her own parents have known since the day she was born. And she has three weeks until she finds out what her family really owes the ground. A brand-new original folk horror story, written and narrated by Carman Carrion. 🎧 Listen with the lights on. Some ground stays hungry. #CarmansCrypt #HorrorPodcast #FolkHorror #HorrorStory #ScaryStories #OriginalHorror #CreepyStories #HorrorFiction #ScaryStory #CreepyPasta #SmallTownHorror #RuralHorror #HorrorNarration #ScaryPodcast #HorrorCommunity #CosmicHorror#DarkFiction #Frightening #HorrorLovers #CarmanCarrion EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music andsound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
August 4 · 19 min
Deep Tan - 1985 Tanning Salon Horror Story
#HorrorStory #80sHorror #BodyHorror The women who come to Sun Society keep getting better. Smoother. Younger. And a lot hungrier. Summer 1985. Dawn is twenty-two and working the desk at a new tanning salon in a dying strip mall. The pay is bad, the sessions are free, and the owner buys her bulbs froma supplier with no return address. Dawn notices everything that's wrong with the place — she just keeps deciding it's fine. An original horror story written and narrated by Carman Carrion. ⚠️ Content warning: body horror, injury description, gore. 🔔 Subscribe for a new original horror story every week. 💬 Tell me the worst job you ever had in the comments. I'll read them. All stories are original works of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons or places is coincidental. #HorrorStory #80sHorror #BodyHorror #ScaryStories #OriginalHorror #HorrorFiction #RetroHorror #CreepyStories #HorrorNarration #ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark#CarmansCrypt #HorrorPodcast #AudioHorror #1980s #StripMallHorror EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
July 28 · 22 min
The Keeping - She Died in 1953 and Never Noticed
Verlie Pike has kept the house on Sorrel Bend Road since before the sweetgum tree got tall. She lets the light in every morning. She counts the six doors in the upstairs hall every afternoon. And she stays out of the kitchen after dark — because something else lives under this house, down in the crawl where the sun has never been, and it borrows voices to call children to the pantry door. When the Skeen family moves in, Verlie tries to warn them. Burnt sugar. Letters on the icebox. A message in a fogged mirror. But the warnings keep coming out in her own handwriting — from nights she can't remember. And the only person in the house who can see her is a nine-year-old girl who looks at her the way you look at something you feel sorry for. An original Southern gothic horror story about the thing under the floor, the woman who keeps the house, and how long it takes to notice which one you are. Story by Carman Carrion. #horrorstory #ghoststory #creepypasta #southerngothic #scarystories #horrorpodcast #hauntedhouse #originalhorror #scarystoriestotellinthedark #horrorfiction#audiohorror #carmanscrypt #creepy #folkhorror #narratedhorror EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me aCoffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your supporthelps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
July 20 · 20 min
Bone Country - A Sturgis Rally Horror Story
Four ridersleave Sturgis on the last day of the rally and take a shortcut that isn't onany map. A blown tire strands them beside a sinkhole full of bones — and whenone of them reaches down and takes a souvenir, the road stops letting themleave. Every lap, the bones at the bottom get a little fresher. A originalhorror story set in the Black Hills, where the land remembers exactly what itwas built to do. 🖤 Written & narrated by CarmanCarrion ⚠️ Contains: horror, death, disturbingthemes. Listener discretion advised. New originalhorror every week. Subscribe so you don't take the wrong turn alone. 🎧 Listen everywhere: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6RuFdlP6STrEERRUMnXQko Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carmans-crypt/id1776896022 🌐 carman-carrion.com #horrorstories#creepypasta #scarystories #horrorstories#creepypasta #scarystories #sturgis #horrorpodcast #horror #creepy #folkhorror#truehorror #narratedhorror #blackhills #bikerhorror EXPLORE MORESPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: FreakyFolklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman'sCrypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ DeadlyIntent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ DestinationTerror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THESHOW: Buy Me aCoffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITHCARMAN: Website:https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X:https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE& REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your supporthelps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVERMORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSICCREDITS: Music andsound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
July 14 · 37 min
Good Boy - The Dog That Came Back from the Grave
After losing his wife in a devastating car crash, Marcus Hale returns home with nothing left to live for. Then, one rainy night, he hears the familiar click of paws across the kitchen floor. Standing in the darkness is Buster... the faithful golden retriever Marcus buried thirty years ago. The dog looks exactly the same. He never ages. He never sleeps. And he'll do anything to protect the boy who loved him. When the people responsible for Marcus's suffering begin disappearing without a trace, investigators find only one clue at every scene: muddy paw prints leading intothe darkness... and never back out. Some promises outlive death. Some good boys never stop protecting their owners. And some things should never be allowed to come home. #Horror #CreepyStory #ScaryStories #HorrorPodcast #OriginalHorror #GhostStory #Paranormal #Supernatural #Monster #DogHorror #PsychologicalHorror #DarkFiction#AudioDrama #CarmansCrypt #HorrorNarration EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
July 7 · 23 min
When the Water Goes Down, They Come Up
The drought took Cormorant Lake down eleven feet. Then nineteen. Then a number they stopped putting on the news — because the water had finally dropped far enough to givethe drowned town of Harlow back. Everyone came to see the steeple. Nobody should have gone out onto the mud. They're still down there, standing in the cut, facing the deep. And when one of them turns to look at you, it will know your name. It will know your first dog, and the summer you broke your arm, and the thing you're ashamed of that you'venever told a living soul. It will have all of you — smooth, complete, nothing missing. That's how you know it isn't your dead come home. That's how you know what's really wearing their faces. A brand-new original tale of folk horror, grief, and the things a rising lake was built to hold down. Some rules get handed down for a reason. 🎧 New original horror fiction every week on Carman's Crypt. Keep your water high. #horrorstory #folkhorror #scarystories #creepypasta #horrorpodcast #originalhorror #hauntinglore #drownedtown #ghoststory #horrorfiction #audiohorror#carmanscrypt EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: Eeriecast Music
June 30 · 24 min
The Night the Woods Woke Up
The wind behind the old Granger place didn't howl. It talked. That was the thing nobody could explain, the thing that made grown men in Bellefontaine go quiet at the gas station and find somewhere else to look. Wind is supposed toroar, or moan, or rattle a screen door. The wind off those pines did something worse. It murmured. Long, low, patient — the cadence of a voice that has all the time in the world and only one thing left to say. Folks said the woods were alive. They didn't mean it the way the nature shows mean it, all root-networks and quiet cooperation. They meant it the old way. Alive. Breathing. Listening. Waiting. But you can't sell waiting to a seventeen-year-old. Eddie Marsh had a six-pack his cousin bought him, Tina Caldwell had a flashlight and zero patience for ghost stories she'd outgrown, and Ricky Boone had a knot in his stomach hecouldn't talk anybody out of. So on a thick June night when the air hung wet enough to drink, the three of them cut across the Caldwells' back field toward the half-collapsed house at the edge of the trees, and not one of them said thething they were all thinking, which was that the woods had gotten closer to the road than they remembered. #HorrorCommunity #HorrorTok #CreepyPodcast #BedtimeHorror #ScaryPodcast #HorrorLovers#TalesOfTerror #NightmareFuel #CarmansCrypt #FolkHorror #SouthernGothic #HauntedWoods #TheGrangerWitch #HorrorPodcast #ScaryStories #DontGoInTheWoods EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: Epidemic Sound,
June 23 · 27 min
The Nursery | There's a Second Voice on the Baby Monitor
When Hannah and Eli bring their daughter home, they expect the ordinary terrors of new parenthood—the sleepless nights, the endless feedings, the bone-deep fear that they have no idea what they're doing. What they don't expect is the voice that comes through the baby monitor in the small hours, humming softly beneath the lullaby. A voice that is not Hannah's. A voice that knows the baby's name. At first it keeps its distance, somewhere out past the edge of the nursery. But each night it comes a little closer to the crib. And it is learning—learning the lullaby, learning the baby's coo, learning to wear the voices of the people Hannahloves. What waits in the nursery? What has it been cultivating in that old house, behind the freshly painted walls? And why does it sing as though it has every right to be there? "The Nursery" is a story about the softest room in the house, and the patient, hungry thing that decides to move in beside the crib. Some houses come with history. Some come with a tenant who was here long before you, waiting for something small and warm to call its own. Check the monitor. Count the breaths. And whatever you do—don't hum along. #SecondLullaby #TheMonitorWatches #NurseryHorror #CarmansUnderground #SomethingInTheStatic#DontHumAlong EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music andsound effects provided by: Epidemic Sound
June 16 · 23 min
Second Sleep | Why You Should Never Wake at 3AM
For three weeks, Elliot slept better than he had in years. He'd stopped fighting the thing that jolted him awake at 3 a.m. every night and started welcoming it—sitting alone by candlelight in the dead, quiet hour our ancestors oncecalled the watch. Before electric light, people didn't sleep in one unbroken stretch. They slept twice, waking on purpose in the black middle of the night. They had prayers for that hour. They had rules. Elliot was certain the rules were just quaint, fearfulsuperstition. He was wrong about why they kept the watch. He was wrong about what the watching is for. And by the time he understood that the sleeping are safe precisely becausetheir eyes stay shut—that only the waking can see what moves through every house, every night—the tall, patient thing in the hall had already learned his name. A slow, intimate descent into folk-historical dread, told first-person from inside the candlelight. Some comforts are doors. And some doors don't stay shut. Sleep well.Keep the watch. #HorrorStory #ScaryStories #CarmansCrypt #HorrorPodcast #Creepypasta #3AM #HorrorFiction #SleepParalysis #NightTerrors #FolkHorror #ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark#ShortHorror #HorrorNarration #BedtimeHorror #ScaryPodcast 🎧 EXPLORE MORE: Carman's Crypt: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Deadly Intent: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror 💀 SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion 🔗 CONNECT: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ 🎵 LISTEN & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6RuFdlP6STrEERRUMnXQko Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carmans-crypt/id1776896022 🎼 Music: CO.AG, Myuu, Jinglepunks,Epidemic Sound, Kevin MacLeod, Dark Music, Soundstripe.
June 9 · 29 min
The Clay Man of Lady Bird Lake
When children begin disappearing during Austin's violent rainstorms, podcaster Rowan Vale investigates whispers of a clay creature that emerges from storm drains to preserve the lost forever in living earth. #UrbanHorror #AustinTexas #ClayMan #MissingChildren #StormDrains #PodcastHorror EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon (Ad-Free + Bonus Content): https://www.patreon.com/c/CarmanCarrion Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ THE CRYPT SHOP: https://the-crypt-shop-2.myshopify.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: CO.AG, Myuu, Jinglepunks, Epidemic Sound, Kevin MacLeod, Dark Music, and Soundstripe.

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