Explore every episode of the podcast Darker Pastures
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Fears | 16 mars 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 févr. 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. | |||
| Vicious Circles | 16 janv. 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. | |||
| Crypsis | 15 déc. 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Guardian | 16 août 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 juil. 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. | |||
| Leavings | 16 juin 2025 | 00:43:45 | |
Returning home to deal with her estranged father's estate, a young woman discovers a strange survival. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of parental abuse, familial estrangement, substance abuse, and hoarding, and contains explicit descriptions of decomposition. 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. | |||
| Cold Ashes | 15 mai 2025 | 00:34:04 | |
A tragic 1984 fire continues to haunt one of the survivors in a manner most unnatural. ***Content Warning: Contains repeated and descriptive references to deadly house fires.*** 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 avr. 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 mars 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 févr. 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 janv. 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 déc. 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 sept. 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 août 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 mars 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. | |||
| Corvidae (Part IV) | 05 mars 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 janv. 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 janv. 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 déc. 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 déc. 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. | |||
| 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 sept. 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 sept. 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 août 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 août 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 févr. 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 janv. 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 janv. 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 déc. 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. | |||
| Vargen | 23 déc. 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 déc. 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 sept. 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 sept. 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. | |||