Ghost - Scary Stories

Rachel's sister Carmen arrives from Chicago with a lawyer, a journalist, and a plan to get Rachel out of Coldbrook. But when Rachel goes to confront Ben at Mrs. Holloway's house, her water breaks three weeks early. Labor begins in the worst possible place—Mrs. Holloway's birthing room, surrounded by forty years of stolen children. As contractions intensify, Rachel begs Ben to see the truth: the forged documents, the stolen babies, his own origins. When he finally demands proof, Mrs. Holloway's mask slips. Ben catches his own daughter as she's born. Mrs. Holloway calls the sheriff to take the "unstable mother" away—but Carmen bursts in with a Tribune journalist, breaking the siege. They escape. The investigation takes three years. Forty-seven stolen children are identified. Mrs. Holloway dies in prison. And Rachel, holding her daughter every night, remembers how close she came to losing everything. Some monsters wear warm smiles. Some prisons look like nurseries. And some mothers will burn down the world to keep their children safe.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Mrs. Holloway arrives for Rachel's prenatal visit—and drops the mask. She tells Rachel exactly why she's unfit: anxious, career-focused, unable to surrender control. She mentions the Hendersons, a couple who've been waiting five years for a baby. Rachel's baby. When Rachel confronts Ben with everything—Elaine Marsh, the birth certificate, the evidence that he was stolen at birth—he can't accept it. He leaves. That night, Rachel watches as Elaine is taken away in handcuffs, committed on Mrs. Holloway's word. At 3 AM, Rachel breaks into Mrs. Holloway's house and finds the records: forty years of "placements," documented in meticulous detail. Mrs. Holloway finds her there—and explains how this ends. Rachel can fight, but no one will believe her. The town protects its own. And by the time anyone listens, her daughter will be the Hendersons' child, bonded and loved, impossible to reclaim. Rachel runs. She sends the evidence to everyone she can reach. She has three weeks. Maybe less. The battle for her daughter has begun.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Rachel digs deeper into Coldbrook's history and discovers a disturbing pattern: twenty-three "stillborn" babies over forty years, none with death certificates. She finds a birth certificate from November 1987 with a mother's name she doesn't recognize—Elaine Marsh—whose baby supposedly died one day before Ben was born. Rachel tracks Elaine to a town thirty miles away and learns the horrifying truth: Elaine held her son for ten seconds before Mrs. Holloway took him away, claiming he'd died. He didn't die. He became Ben Torres. Rachel returns to Coldbrook with proof her husband was stolen at birth, but she can't tell him yet—not until she has evidence he can't deny. The next morning, Mrs. Holloway arrives for Rachel's first prenatal visit, settling into her living room with a warm smile and a medical bag. Rachel has three weeks until her due date. Three weeks until her daughter is born. Three weeks to expose forty years of secrets before Mrs. Holloway decides that her baby belongs to someone else.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Rachel is eight months pregnant when she and her husband Ben move to Coldbrook, his sleepy hometown, for her difficult third trimester. Everyone welcomes her. Everyone asks about the baby. Everyone recommends Mrs. Holloway, the town's beloved midwife who has delivered every child in Coldbrook for forty years and never lost a single one. But Rachel notices things. Children who look too similar despite different parents. Pointed questions about her career, her plans, her fitness for motherhood. And in the town hall basement, she finds birth records that don't add up—including her husband's. His mother's medical history shows two miscarriages, but no documentation exists. His baby photograph looks wrong in ways Rachel can't articulate. When she shows Ben the evidence, he dismisses her concerns as pregnancy anxiety. But that night, looking across the street at Mrs. Holloway's house, Rachel sees the curtain move. Someone is watching her. Judging her. And in three weeks, she's going to deliver her baby into that woman's hands.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Daniel Mitchell finally emerges from the shadows. Not a ghost—a man, patient and broken, who has spent forty years hunting the men who killed his sister. Now only Claire's father remains, and Daniel has come to finish what he started. But Claire offers him something he didn't expect: the truth. A confession. A proper burial for Sarah. In exchange for her father's life, she promises justice—real justice, the kind that comes with prison cells and public records and a grave with a headstone. Daniel accepts. Ed confesses. Sarah is finally laid to rest. But some wounds never fully heal. And some debts echo forward, carried by the living, waiting for the next reckoning to come.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Claire drives to Sarah Mitchell's hometown and meets her mother, Margaret—a woman who has spent forty years knowing her daughter was murdered and unable to prove it. She learns that Sarah had a younger brother, Daniel, who vanished twenty years ago on a mission of patient vengeance. One by one, the men who killed his sister have died. Now only Claire's father remains. That evening, Claire sees the watcher for the first time: a figure standing motionless at the edge of the backyard. Her father insists it's Sarah herself, returned from the grave. But when footsteps circle the house at three in the morning, when a hand tests the locks, when a voice whispers "Soon, Ed. Soon"—Claire realizes it doesn't matter whether it's ghost or man. What matters is that he's been waiting forty years. And he's done being patient.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Claire finds the key to the basement door. Behind it: a hidden room with a bed, a dresser, and boxes of a woman's belongings. A diary tells the story of Sarah Mitchell, who in 1987 discovered a secret she wasn't supposed to know. The entries end mid-sentence. Claire digs deeper and finds newspaper clippings documenting the deaths of five men—her father's closest friends. Accidents. Suicide. Murder. All of them gone. Her father is the last one left, and someone has been hunting them for nearly forty years. That night, Ed finally tells the truth: they killed Sarah. They buried her in the backyard. And now, every night, someone stands at the edge of the property. Watching. Waiting. With Sarah's eyes.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Claire hasn't spoken to her father in fifteen years. Now he has Alzheimer's, and she's the only one left to care for him. But the childhood home she returns to has been transformed into a fortress: plywood over windows, deadbolts on every door, cameras watching the yard. Her father speaks of promises kept and men who are gone. He warns her about "the man in the backyard" who watches every night. He begs her not to go in the basement. But behind a steel door with a heavy lock, something waits in the dark. Something connected to a patch of ground where nothing grows. Claire wanted answers. She's about to find out why her father stopped talking fifteen years ago.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

The loops grow darker. Each funeral is more accusatory than the last—eulogies twist into indictments, mourners stare with open contempt, and Claire's body in the coffin looks worse every time. Helen tries to escape, but every road leads back to the church. Finally, standing in her sister's empty grave, she finds the ring—and with it, the memory she buried. She was there the night their mother died. She took the ring. She left before dawn and let Claire believe their mother died alone. Two years of lies collapse in a single confession, spoken to a corpse in an empty church. Claire's eyes open one last time. "I knew," she says. "I forgave you. I just wanted you to stop lying." Helen wakes on February 3rd. The loop is broken. But some prisons, she learns, we build ourselves. And the only key is the truth we refuse to speak.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Part 1 of 2. Helen hasn't spoken to her sister Claire in two years—not since the accusation, not since the silence that followed. Now Claire is dead, and Helen has driven four hours to attend a funeral full of people who've heard only one side of the story. The service is tasteful. No one mentions Helen exists. She looks at her sister's body and sees their grandmother's ring on Claire's finger—the ring Claire accused her of stealing. That night, Helen sleeps. She wakes up. It's February 2nd again. And again. And each time, the funeral changes. The eulogies grow longer. The mourners stare harder. And Claire's eyes in the coffin won't stay closed. Helen is trapped in the worst day of her life. And the only way out is to remember what she did.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Emma finally understands: the entity feeds on attention. Every look makes it stronger. Every witness keeps it alive. She forms a desperate plan—burn the house, create so much light it can't hide, destroy its collection of hollow watchers. But David has looked too long. He can't close his eyes. As flames consume everything, he makes a choice: stay and watch, so Emma can escape. She runs without looking back. Six weeks later, she learns a new building is rising from the ashes. Families will move in. They'll feel the weight of being watched. And Emma must decide: warn them, or let them take her place. Some things don't burn. They just wait for new eyes.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Emma and David try to flee, but the house won't let them leave. Doors seal. Windows fuse. And now that Emma has truly looked at it, she sees it everywhere—even with her eyes closed. In the basement, they discover a nightmare: decades of belongings from every family who ever lived here, arranged like a museum. And in the shadows, the families themselves—standing, watching, hollow-eyed and still. Not dead. Not alive. Transformed into permanent witnesses. David is slipping, becoming one of them. The thing offers Emma a choice: join its collection, or walk away and carry the connection forever. Instead, she sees the fear in its eyes. It can be hurt. And she's going to find out how.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Emma researches the house's history and discovers a pattern: seven families since 1952, each staying shorter than the last. All of them left suddenly, abandoning their belongings. She tracks down a previous owner, Margaret Weatherby, now in a care facility, who delivers a warning: don't look at it. That's what it wants. Every time you look, you make it more real. Her husband looked—and the house never let him leave. That night, Emma finds names carved into a closet wall, desperate messages from the families who came before. And in the darkness of the upstairs hallway, she finally sees it. Tall. Wrong. Watching. It smiles at her—and she realizes her husband has already looked too long.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Emma and David need a fresh start. After losing a pregnancy, they find the perfect house—a beautiful 1920s Colonial at an impossibly low price. The realtor is eager. Too eager. Their first night, Emma hears footsteps in the hallway but can't make herself open the door. By morning, their moving boxes have been opened, searched, rearranged. And tucked among their belongings, Emma finds something that doesn't belong: a child's drawing of the house, with a dark figure watching from an upstairs window. On the back, three words in crayon: "It sees us." The first chapter of a four-part winter nightmare.Episode 1 of 4.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Christmas Eve. The lights are dead, Lily has vanished into the walls, and Sarah must follow. In the heart of the passages, she finds a nightmare: her aunt Margaret, still a child after sixty years, and her mother Ruth, already lost. The entity reveals itself—ancient, lonely, desperate to keep them forever. Sarah makes an impossible choice: burn it all down, even if it means leaving her mother behind. The cabin becomes an inferno. They escape into Christmas morning. But as they drive away, Lily waves goodbye to something at the treeline. Something that promises to wait. Some things don't die in fire. They just grow patient.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Sarah finds Lily in the hidden passages, talking to something in the dark. She drags her daughter back to safety—but safety is an illusion. Her mother's car sits buried in snow at the edge of the property, abandoned for days. Inside, Sarah discovers her grandmother's journal, documenting decades of horror: the thing in the walls has always taken children. It took her aunt Margaret in 1962. And now, in her mother's final entries, a desperate plan to destroy it—ending mid-sentence. On the last page, five words in an inhuman hand: SHE IS RESTING NOW. Then the lights go out, and the thing in the walls begins to move.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Trapped by the blizzard, Sarah searches the cabin for answers—and finds more than she bargained for. Hidden passages run through the walls like veins. Scratches mark the inside of closet doors. And in decades of family photographs, the same impossible shape appears in every frame, watching from windows and doorways. A letter from her grandmother reveals the horrifying truth: something has lived in this cabin since before it was built. It took Sarah's aunt in 1962. Now, on Christmas Eve, Lily has vanished into a hidden door—following the voice of a man who's been waiting for decades.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Sarah brings her husband and seven-year-old daughter to her family's remote mountain cabin for Christmas. Her mother was supposed to arrive days earlier—but the cabin sits empty and cold. As a historic blizzard seals them in, Sarah discovers footprints in the snow leading to the cabin. Only to the cabin. Not away. That night, her daughter begins talking to someone she calls "the man in the wall." Someone who's been waiting in the dark spaces of this old house. Someone who doesn't like the Christmas lights. The first chapter of a four-part winter nightmare.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Thanksgiving Day dawns with the family buried in snow and slowly starving, unable to eat anything except the impossibly tempting feast Marcus has prepared. The transformed family members from across the centuries sit as shadows at the table when Thomas Brennan enters—now eight feet tall with sideways-opening mouth and fingers that drag the floor, yet his eyes remain human and suffering. As family members succumb to hunger and transform into Wendigos with each bite, Emma discovers Mary Brennan's hidden writing revealing the curse can only work if they choose to eat—starvation will break it—and that an altar in the cave is the source. Emma cleverly uses the transfer ritual to make Thomas the "chosen one," causing him to consume himself in an endless loop of hunger, while Sarah and Pete crack the obsidian altar in the cave despite warnings that breaking it means death for all. The family survives and appears free when the hunger vanishes with the altar's destruction, but they find a final note from Josiah warning that hunger never dies, only sleeps, and a new empty journal appears with Sarah's unwritten words already inside. As they flee the cabin, Emma sees Thomas's human form in the reflection, crying and mouthing either "thank you," "I'm sorry," or "still hungry"—they'll never know which—leaving them as eternal guardians of a sleeping hunger that waits for the next family desperate enough to make the same terrible choice.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

The power dies at 3 AM as something massive walks across the cabin roof, telling them "one more day" in a voice like wind through a collapsed throat. Marcus disappears, only to be found in the cellar butchering something frozen and human-shaped while inhabited by the Wendigo, singing about preparing the feast with knowledge learned from Josiah in his dreams. Sarah discovers recipes in the journal's final pages detailing how to prepare "the Chosen"—requiring the youngest blood relative, Emma—while another recipe reveals the chosen one can transfer the hunger to another willing family member.As the family argues over sacrificing Emma, with Dana and David suggesting she should be given up to save the rest, the lights impossibly flicker to reveal Thomas himself: seven feet tall with fingers that touch the floor and too many teeth. Marcus emerges from the unlocked cellar with elongated fingers and white eyes, accompanied by shadows of all the cave's victims, as he begins cooking meat that fills everyone with supernatural hunger. The journal reveals a torn page from Josiah's wife Mary confessing that Thomas didn't die from infection—Josiah murdered him—and they've all become the Wendigo, carrying it in their blood.With less than twenty-four hours until Thanksgiving, the smell of Marcus's cooking threatens to awaken the inherited hunger in their blood as they realize they're not trying to stop the Wendigo but stop themselves from becoming it.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com