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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of objectification of and violence against women, and true crime fetishization. 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 inquiri...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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. *** Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of cruelty and harm to animals. 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 sh...
Jan 10, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 11
A weary office worker learns that sometimes, a few words are all it takes to unravel the pattern of a carefully ordered life. ***Content warning: This episode contains body horror and sexual content. 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 support the show at p...
Dec 27, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of racism toward Indigenous peoples, familial loss, child mortality, depression, and suicide. 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 inquiri...
Dec 23, 2022•46 min
A girl from a troubled home finds solace in her friendship with a new neighbor and her pet. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and psychological familial abuse, racism, harm to animals and animal death. 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....
Dec 13, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare and 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...
Nov 29, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical spousal and child abuse. 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 als...
Nov 15, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 7
A community in rural Montana is terrorized by a new and relentless menace – but no one realizes how existential the threat truly is. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement and domestic terrorism, and contains descriptions of violence and 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 ...
Nov 01, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 6
A teenage outcast finds strange succor on Halloween night. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of homophobia, bullying, and familial loss, and may be triggering for some listeners. 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 also support the show at patreon.com/Darke...
Oct 30, 2022•30 min
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. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of transphobia and familial loss, and may be triggering for some listeners. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you...
Oct 18, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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. ***Content warning: This episode contains scenes pertaining to age-related cognitive disease, as well as numerous references to insects, and may be triggering for some listeners. Discretion is advised.*** Cover image adapted from: Arphia pseudonietana, Red-winged Grasshopper, red wings, ID Confidence: 98 © 2012 by R...
Oct 04, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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. Cover image adapted from original: Abandoned Homestead @ 2012 by William Neuheisel , licensed and included under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license . 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 a...
Sep 20, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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? ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of child victimization, familial violence, and suicide, and contains scenes with 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...
Sep 06, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Two soon-to-be college freshmen, torn between hope and anxiety for their shared futures, meet terror on the road. ***Content warning: This episode contains themes of misogyny and racism, the threat of sexual violence, and some gore. 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@gma...
Aug 24, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 1
These are the darker pastures of America... 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!...
Aug 11, 2022•2 min
