Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Darker Pastures
| Titre | Date | Durée | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Fears | 16 Mar 2026 | 01:06:08 | |
A seemingly minor accident on a nighttime country road in March of 1921 marks the beginning of a series of events that will forever change the lives of the Grossman family. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of racism toward Indigenous people, and contains some violence and gore. Lister discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Remembrance | 14 Feb 2026 | 00:28:11 | |
On Valentine’s Day of 1975, old wounds are reopened and chilled hearts beat again. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Carrion Wind | 15 Apr 2025 | 00:22:19 | |
In the late 1870s, three souls will discover that the prairie winds sometimes carry dark and wicked things. ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of genocide against Indigenous people and death by hanging. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Immortalis | 14 Mar 2025 | 00:40:28 | |
One cold night in the spring of 1963, the disparate threads of a darkly arcane narrative become interwoven upon the lonely plains of North Dakota. ***Content warning: Episode contains violent scenes and references to historical atrocities. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Lovelorn | 14 Feb 2025 | 00:43:50 | |
A lonely middle-aged woman tries to find love where she has never dared to look before. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| January Smiles | 15 Jan 2025 | 00:29:16 | |
Home for the holidays and for a break from her troubled life, a young woman rediscovers an old passion... and is discovered in turn. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Headspace | 15 Dec 2024 | 01:03:26 | |
A person living on the margins of a tiny rural community is witness to increasingly disturbing developments in their neighbors, and their loved ones. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| The Return | 15 Nov 2024 | 00:53:14 | |
When the charismatic ministry of Asa Donague swept into the little prairie community of Homer, Kansas in late 1923, no one could have foretold what would follow. ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of antisemitism, racism, and anti-Catholicism, as well as disturbing and violent imagery. Listener discretion advised.*** “Old-Time Religion”, performed by the Criterion Quartet, arranged by Charles Davis Tillman, recorded 1920. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-35596/>, and included under fair use. Cover image provided courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3-033945-D (b&w film neg.) You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Serenity | 14 Oct 2024 | 01:28:51 | |
A young man, returning to his hometown for the first time since starting college, finds that it is not quite the community that he remembers – and that perhaps even his memories cannot be wholly trusted. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Buried | 14 Sep 2024 | 00:49:11 | |
Fleeing from his troubles, a man forced by chance to shelter in a site of historical atrocity finds that the evils of the past are both very real and undying. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Gatherings | 14 Aug 2024 | 01:01:32 | |
In 1901, a mysterious man arrives in rural North Dakota, summoned by a family in need with no one else left to whom they can turn. Yet awaiting him is something far more malignant than even he, gifted with esoteric expertise, could ever anticipate. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Corvidae (Part V) | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:35:14 | |
In the conclusion of the season two finale, the assembled survivors of the plague-devastated land come at last to the end of their long road. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Vicious Circles | 16 Jan 2026 | 00:39:32 | |
In response to an unforgivable transgression, two brothers plan the inconceivable. But no plan survives contact with reality. ***Content Warning: This episode obliquely alludes to child sexual abuse, and references torture and murder. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Corvidae (Part IV) | 05 Mar 2024 | 00:43:24 | |
Many paths converge, and for a time, refuge is found, and darkness and fear are left behind. But the evils of the world always find a way in. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Corvidae (Part III) | 20 Feb 2024 | 00:58:14 | |
A teenage girl, irrevocably separated from the family of her birth, finds a new one. But too late she learns the price of belonging. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Corvidae (Part II) | 06 Feb 2024 | 00:44:08 | |
Two traumatized young men, a boy from Cheyenne and an ex-soldier, bear witness to the depths of human depravity. Meanwhile, the true inheritors of the earth look on from afar, patient and inscrutable. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Corvidae (Part I) | 22 Jan 2024 | 00:47:23 | |
In the wake of unbelievable calamity, a woman encounters both wonder and living nightmare on her long journey home. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Whiteout | 09 Jan 2024 | 00:45:45 | |
A prairie schoolteacher experiences purest terror and loss during the tragic Children's Blizzard of 1888. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Strangers | 26 Dec 2023 | 00:37:14 | |
Two strangers approach a small town we have visited once before, and something follows close behind them. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| El Sepulcro | 12 Dec 2023 | 00:54:18 | |
A small band of cowboys, chasing outlaws upon the southern Plains, happens upon a dubious sanctum. Despite their disparate life experiences, not a one of them is prepared for that which awaits them within. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Sawbones | 28 Nov 2023 | 00:59:58 | |
Unable to escape the horrific recollections of his Civil War service even in the remoteness of the Dakota Territory, a surgeon finds his nightmares bleeding into reality. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Beasts | 14 Nov 2023 | 00:25:52 | |
Two wanderers, tossed adrift by the desperation of the Great Depression, encounter something strange and hellish on the benighted plains. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| The Old Cottonwood | 31 Oct 2023 | 00:53:34 | |
The events of Halloween, 1973 scar a boy’s psyche so profoundly that he finds himself returning to their locus decades later, in the hope of finding resolution. But the mystery he finds waiting for him is darker still. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Crypsis | 15 Dec 2025 | 00:30:58 | |
An aging cattleman struggles with the usual hardships of winter... and with one entirely new. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Harvest | 17 Oct 2023 | 00:41:40 | |
In October of 1989, a well-to-do farmer, ruled by his voracious appetites, reaps the ultimate fruit of his labors. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Invitation | 03 Oct 2023 | 00:36:02 | |
After a loss few seem to understand or even notice, a young woman learns that both love and grief can manifest in the most uncanny of ways. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Habitation | 19 Sep 2023 | 00:48:15 | |
A house that has long stood as a silent monument to past hardship becomes the locus of a new disquiet. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Spiritual Nourishment | 05 Sep 2023 | 00:51:00 | |
Against her wishes, a young student is transferred into a new and unwelcoming school. But what is happening there proves so much more sinister than she anticipates. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Cultus | 22 Aug 2023 | 00:50:32 | |
Something wicked grows in the fields near Umber, Nebraska. But it grows only under the most diligent care, and its like can be found throughout this fair land, and beyond. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Marvel | 08 Aug 2023 | 00:37:13 | |
A troubled farming family living in 1940s Colorado falls victim to a gruesome, if altogether too common, accident. But they will soon learn that this is only the beginning of their changing fortune. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Offerings | 07 Feb 2023 | 01:10:20 | |
An embittered and lonely man, whose life lies in shambles and who has fallen fully under the sway of his worst impulses, stumbles upon a terrible secret—and the further into it he delves, the more it threatens to swallow him and all he knows. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of alcohol dependency, familial estrangement, and the abduction and exploitation of children. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Collection | 24 Jan 2023 | 01:01:59 | |
The self-styled curator of a museum of horrors finally attains the masterpiece for which he has long yearned, but does not find quite the fulfillment that he expects from completing his collection. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Lonesome Heart | 10 Jan 2023 | 00:30:51 | |
During the deadly winter of 1886-1887, which would end the era of the open range, a ranch hand seeks to escape the crushing solitude and boredom of his isolated station in the merciless vastness of the Wyoming Territory. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Putrefaction | 27 Dec 2022 | 00:33:01 | |
A weary office worker learns that sometimes, a few words are all it takes to unravel the pattern of a carefully ordered life. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Excavations | 14 Nov 2025 | 00:40:48 | |
The son of a Texas ranching dynasty returns from the battlefields of 1918 France to develop newly discovered oil wells on his inheritance, and discovers that his home is irrevocably changed… as is he. **Content Warning: This episode touches upon themes of combat-related PTSD, substance abuse, mental illness, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Vargen | 23 Dec 2022 | 00:46:26 | |
A child of Swedish immigrants living in northwestern Dakota Territory in the 1880s becomes convinced that a dreadful entity from whispered tales stalks the hills near their homestead. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Cats of Lothar | 13 Dec 2022 | 00:45:56 | |
A girl from a troubled home finds solace in her friendship with a new neighbor and her pet. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Raider | 29 Nov 2022 | 00:27:30 | |
Exhausted and unable to trust his own perceptions, a former bushwhacker wanders the plains of a wounded country, haunted by both past and present horrors as he tries to flee that which cannot be escaped. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Well | 15 Nov 2022 | 00:52:50 | |
Living on his uncle's farm at the turn of the century, a young boy begins to suspect that something nameless dwells under the surface. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| The Bogeymen | 01 Nov 2022 | 00:48:07 | |
A community in rural Montana is terrorized by a new and relentless menace – but no one realizes how existential the threat truly is. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Gloaming | 30 Oct 2022 | 00:29:52 | |
A teenage outcast finds strange succor on Halloween night. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Festive | 18 Oct 2022 | 00:42:32 | |
A woman who has spent her entire adulthood traveling from one city and one contract to another settles into the house left to her by a late relative, and slowly comes to realize that one of her new neighbors possesses a little too much holiday enthusiasm. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Locusts | 04 Oct 2022 | 00:27:41 | |
A housewife and caretaker feels overwhelmed by the events in her life, and by the recent hardship of her community. But there is something far more threatening just over the horizon. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Homestead | 20 Sep 2022 | 00:29:37 | |
A young and troubled man, drawn involuntarily back to the country and the life he tried to escape, is soon snared by a far darker mystery. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Black Hole Eyes | 06 Sep 2022 | 00:46:47 | |
An insidious but devastating evil visits itself upon a small-town family... perhaps not for the first time. Who can say how many lives it has touched, or how long it has wandered these darker pastures? You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Undersong | 16 Oct 2025 | 01:00:19 | |
Few could ever hope to understand the events that transpired in the autumn of 1888 on the Černik homestead, nestled in the gently rolling Bohemian Alps of southern Nebraska. Those who could forever maintained a stubborn silence. ***Content Warning: This episode contains themes of familial abuse and child illness. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Butcherbird | 24 Aug 2022 | 00:53:31 | |
Two soon-to-be college freshmen, torn between hope and anxiety for their shared futures, meet terror on the road. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Teaser | 11 Aug 2022 | 00:01:51 | |
These are the darker pastures of America... You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Guardian | 16 Aug 2025 | 01:10:27 | |
An elderly couple finds their new neighbor troublesome and strange, but they could never guess what dark secrets lie in wait so near to their home. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of the abuse and genocide of Indigenous people, as well as animal cruelty. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||
| Homogene | 16 Jul 2025 | 01:04:08 | |
In the heart of the country, a traveling couple find themselves encountering a persistent shadow of the past – one that just might follow them home. ***Content Warning: This episode touches upon the history of American eugenics, and contains frank depictions of racism and sexual horror. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com. | |||