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! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please fe...
Jul 16, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 12
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! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a...
Jun 16, 2025•44 min•Season 3Ep. 11
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! Support the show 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 . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout...
May 15, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 10
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! Support the show 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 . You can als...
Apr 15, 2025•22 min•Season 3Ep. 9
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! Support the show 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...
Mar 14, 2025•40 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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! Support the show 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 . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!...
Feb 14, 2025•44 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Home for the holidays and for a break from her troubled life, a young woman rediscovers an old passion... and is discovered in turn. ***Content Warning: Episode deals with themes of severe depression.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show 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 . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at...
Jan 15, 2025•29 min•Season 3Ep. 6
A person living on the margins of a tiny rural community is witness to increasingly disturbing developments in their neighbors, and their loved ones. ***Content warning: Episode touches upon themes of enbyphobia, queerphobia, bullying, familial estrangement, and contains some gore. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to dro...
Dec 15, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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/ju...
Nov 15, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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. ***Content Warning: Episode contains explicit discussion of depression and suicide. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to d...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of exploitation of minors, misogyny, and the abuse and murder of Indigenous people. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** Cover image adapted from: St. Joseph's Indian Normal School © 2012 by Chris Light , licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International You c...
Sep 14, 2024•49 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of antisemitism, genocide against Indigenous peoples, and child abuse. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for liste...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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! Support the show 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 . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus con...
Mar 19, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 17
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. ***Content warning: Episode deals with themes of traumatic loss, catastrophic fire, and automobile accidents. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodca...
Mar 05, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 16
A teenage girl, irrevocably separated from the family of her birth, finds a new one. But too late she learns the price of belonging. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious indoctrination and past sexual trauma, and contains some gore. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpastu...
Feb 20, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 15
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of sexual slavery and violence, involuntary mater ity and pregnancy-related death, mass murder, pandemic and disease, and religious extremism. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Su...
Feb 06, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 14
In the wake of unbelievable calamity, a woman encounters both wonder and living nightmare on her long journey home. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of disease, pandemic, social upheaval, and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show 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...
Jan 22, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 13
A prairie schoolteacher experiences purest terror and loss during the tragic Children's Blizzard of 1888. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial loss, missing children, and children in peril. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show 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 . You can also suppo...
Jan 09, 2024•46 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Two strangers approach a small town we have visited once before, and something follows close behind them. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of misogyny, bigotry, unwanted sexual contact and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** Cover image adapted from original: NE50sNE8wRoadHills @ 2014 by formulanone , licensed and shared under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. You can now text the show here with feedback or qu...
Dec 26, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 11
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. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon the realities of slavery, racism, and Indigenous genocide. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the s...
Dec 12, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare, substance abuse, and associated psychological trauma, and contains both gore and body horror. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or...
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 9
Two wanderers, tossed adrift by the desperation of the Great Depression, encounter something strange and hellish on the benighted plains. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial abandonment, poverty, and genocide. Discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show 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 . You can a...
Nov 14, 2023•26 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement, child death, suicide, racist violence, and murder. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feed...
Oct 31, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In October of 1989, a well-to-do farmer, ruled by his voracious appetites, reaps the ultimate fruit of his labors. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of familial loss, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and psychological abuse. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@g...
Oct 17, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 6
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of pet loss, and may be upsetting for some listeners. Discretion advised.*** Cover image adapted from: A Belgian Malinois male named Intrepid's Chase, sired by dog "Veni Van Balderlo". © 2005 by D. Williams is licensed under A Belgian Malinois male named Intrepid's Chase, sired by dog "Veni Van Balderlo". © ...
Oct 03, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 5
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! Support the show 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 . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!...
Sep 19, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious and psychological abuse, homophobia, and discrimination against non-binary people. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the ...
Sep 05, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 3
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of misogyny, racism, nativism, religious trauma, depression, and mass gun violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding ...
Aug 22, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and emotional abuse, ableism, and contains gore and body horror. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries...
Aug 08, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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! Support t...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 13
