Knifepoint Horror

Year by year, step by quiet step, a well-intentioned collective of great minds evolves into something to be feared. MUSIC - ‘Through the Past’ by Michael Vignola, ‘Gazing Wide’ by Palm Blue, ‘Where the Wind Blows’ by Sean Williams, and ‘Coriolis Effect’ by Kyle Preston, all rights reserved. https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eight very different stories for the season. 1. hitcher 2. Is It That Time Again? 3. prodigal 4. panophobe 5. legalese 6. contestants 7. A Bitter Pill 8. blueberries 'Is It That Time Again?' features Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast and Beth Abdallah of the Twelve Chimes It's Midnight podcast. Watch the video adaptation on Soren Narnia’s YouTube channel. 'A Bitter Pill' features Currer Hathaway (www.currerhathaway.com) and Beth Abdallah. The song 'The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten' is by Empty Heaven, from the album Getting the Blues, all rights reserved. Additional music in 'A Bitter Pill' and 'Blueberries' by Emma Fradd, all rights reserved. https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia For Halloween, Nichole Hamilton has done a reading of the Knifepoint Horror story 'trail' on her podcast Light & Shadow: https://www.lightandshadowpod.com/podcast/halloween-party-2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are reliable narrators, there are unreliable narrators… and then there are outliers like the one heard here. 'Clearly guilty of murder, he somehow remains committed to his narrative,' one journalist wrote of him. 'I wasn't sure whether to look at him with a strange kind of awe, or simply run screaming and never look back.' Additional narration by Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast. Music: 'Atmo' by Jamie Bathgate, all rights reserved. https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A filmmaker recalls the details of his darkest project: the people who endured it, the illusions he lost to it, and the horrific force that set it all in motion. With: Donald Kokoschka – John Jorgenson Noah DiLeo – Corey N. (Rust Belt Gothic podcast) Mayor - Beth Abdallah (Twelves Chimes It’s Midnight podcast and Odd Salon) Bill Savoy – Teddy Ray Bullard Mary Neary – Linda Wojtowick (The Ghosts on This Road podcast) Lisa Whitelaw – Mig Windows (migwindows.com) Officer Ekins – Dana Bolton (The Night Terrors podcast) French Translator - Isabelle Humbert Ernestine Souza – Naomi Azran English Translator – Emma Fradd (Sibling Horror podcast) Music: ‘Ana Yelena’ by Kristian Sensini, ‘Midnight Clear’ by Hans Johnson, ‘Better Now’ by Philip Daniel, ‘Quiet Contentment’ by The David Roy Collective. All rights reserved. Audio mastering by Les Lentz Audio-Video Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many is the band that wishes they could have a second chance at what turned out to be their final performance—maybe they could have brought more energy to that night, or savored it just a little more... and then there’s the terrible but unforgettable case of the celebrated rock group Waters Blue and Permanent (2003-2022). Music (all rights reserved): "Salve Regina - Violin & Piano" by Patrick Ussher, "El Faro" by When the Tide Breaks Free, "Fount" by Homely, "Everything" by The Days Audio mastering: Les Lentz Special thanks to Sharon Yablon of the Garden of Terrible Blooms podcast for being my location advisor on this one. https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one in attendance at the talk on that December night in New England, 2021, really knew what they would hear from the presenter, though they certainly knew his name. And while no video exists of his methodical dissection of the past, the audio recording alone seems more than enough. With additional narration by Robert Cantelmo, and Beth Abdallah of the Twelve Chimes It’s Midnight podcast. Music: 'December' by Dear Gravity, all rights reserved. Audio mastering: Les Lentz www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The tomb would soon sit unnoticed, perhaps forever, in the wild grass of the lonely cemetery. But on its first night of occupancy, one man would keep a careful watch over it. Just in case. Wilhoit McCrail: Hugh Pierce Music: “Submarine” by Morphlexis, all rights reserved. Audio mastering by Les Lentz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You are invited to a place in the mountains where one man decided that no matter what the date, it will always, always be Halloween night. (And after 'attraction,' keep listening to experience the very... well, ROUND terror of a campfire tale called 'sugary' - 39:40) Music: “Mirrors” by Tom Goldstein, “Isolation” by Linus Johansson, “First Impression” by Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat, all rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A documentarian’s celebrity puff piece takes a dark turn when her subject reveals the story of a friend’s haunting. The documentarian Patricia Close : Mig Windows, www.migwindows.com Music: ‘Mysa’ by Laurel Violet, all rights reserved. Audio mastering: Les Lentz www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a curious fact about the tiny railway station mentioned by the teller of this story that he would never know: Almost sixty years before the events he describes, the station was partially demolished in the night by someone or something unknown, and had to be rebuilt from the ground up. Unknown, yes, but there were indeed whispers--from the older folk mostly, people long dead by the time the weary and hungry narrator appeared in the mountains utterly by chance. MUSIC: 'Forests' by Narvik; 'Vodohrai' by Smerichka; all rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Someday, when you find yourself alone in a place like the one where this story occurred, take note of what happens to your footprints as the minutes tick by. As one of the narrators claims, the wind shifts things around fast--and it’s as if no trace of you ever existed. The cast: Anson, the seeker – Ebenezer Alasi, https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/ebenezerfunshoalasi Eva, the penitent – Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast, thebloodlust.net Lydia – Currer Hathaway, currerhathaway.com James Del Norr – Reginald Baskerville, www.backstage.com/u/reginald-baskerville/ Monica – Linda Wojtowick, The Ghosts on This Road podcast Tom - Soren Narnia Music: “Close” by Eleven Tales, “Paragon” by Kyle Preston, all rights reserved. Audio Mastering: Les Lentz www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s the shortest time you’ve ever lived somewhere before you left in frustration? What was the problem—bad neighbors, leaks, noise problems, lousy plumbing? Something worse? Something mystifying? The trashman: Benjamin Gilmour Audio mastering by Les Lentz Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Within every grandiose scheme, there lies the seed of possible disaster. Some of these disasters are loud, chaotic, and violent ... but sometimes they only sound like the wind sighing through haunted ruins. Music: ‘Between the Noise’ by Kyle Preston, ‘Dreams of Light’ by Jacob Pavek. All rights reserved. Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Halloween, a tale of two people dwelling among the monsters who own the night. Music: 'Altered Communications' by Emanuele Errante, and by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast. Listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The letters and diaries of several 19th century soldiers allude to “the terrible Demon of Moscow” that once haunted the city’s streets. One witness alone told the entire story of the ghostly force most still believe was not truly of this world. Music: 'Balance' by Muted, 'Stratum' and 'December' by Dear Gravity. All rights reserved. Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'What about the forest where this terrible thing happened?' people sometimes ask when they hear the story of the small town that became so precariously balanced between true evil and unexpected hope. 'Is it still there?' The answer is yes... the forest is still there. Music selections by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast; end music by Anthony Sanders, cibolathecityofgold.bandcamp.com, used by permission, all rights reserved. Sergeant Maura: Catherine Saraceno Listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each nighttime visitor to the tiny house in the country was more unwelcome than the one before ... but the fourth was truly unimaginable. Music by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast. Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conflicting feelings about a banished relative lead to a visit a long time in coming … but each step toward her house reveals more warning signs. The detectives: 1. Hugh Pierce and 2. Reginald Baskerville Music by Federico Nardella, “Il Riflesso Opaco," all rights reserved. Federico’s works are available on Bandcamp at https://cremisi.bandcamp.com. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cremisi.music/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTQOsXJe6FqlzBoH7jOk7g/featured Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A college professor has a mysterious story to tell to a prized student, but his timing and motive are no less cryptic. With Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast, Linda Wojtowick, Elena Vega, and Cal Butera. All music by Anthony Sanders, used by permission, all rights reserved. Check out some of his work at https://cibolathecityofgold.bandcamp.com/. Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the people in a small town in upstate New York, what happened was just another sordid true crime story. But they would never know just how frightening and surreal things became in its aftermath, or what one woman chose to endure in the name of compassion. Music: Bob Pokrzywa, from the album 'A Wounded and Prostrate Foe,' all rights reserved. https://bobpokrzywa.bandcamp.com/album/a-wounded-and-prostrate-foe -and- Anthony Brown, 'Evolving Ambient Soundscape,' Getty Music. All rights reserved. Cast (in order of appearance): Scholar: Eric Dantley Ellen Hershbergen: Linda Wojtowick Narrator: Jamie Molina Pontiac resident: Julie Medina Father Dorr: Les Lentz Denise Minotka: Amy Newman Detective: Corey Landis Radio broadcaster: Maureen Rivers Nan Carlos: Currer Hathaway Private investigator: Stuart Arnheim Social worker: Effi T. Mothgil Grace Beck: Catherine Saraceno Prosecutor: Cal Butera Police officer: Ebenezer Alasi Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The featured story of this brief trilogy imagines that perhaps, Earth's final confrontation between good and evil will take place so quietly you'll be able to hear a caterpillar crawl through the blood-soaked grass. Before this tale comes an appetizer ... and afterward, a little dessert. 1. dusk 2. extremity 3. project Additional narration by Linda Wojtowick. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Ice Demon" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nothing that has four walls and a roof can be eliminated as a possible breeding ground for the supernatural -- nothing. Music: "Dream" by Jahzzar, SoundExpress, Getty Music. "Mourning Song" and "Past the Edge" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Memories of three weird occurrences that cannot be explained merge for their living witness into a common theme. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man who insists on the existence of a relative no one else has ever seen delves dangerously into the swirling fog of his own youthful perceptions. Radio host played by Currer Hathaway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man blinded by infatuation learns the object of his desire has intentions to become something from which he may have already missed his chance to escape. Additional narration by Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast. MUSIC: Lee Rosevere, from '10 Minute Meditations,' licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere AND by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. 'Mesmerize,' 'Mystic Dark Background,' and 'The Dread' licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maybe your own town holds one: a folk tale, discredited and in many ways absurd, that nevertheless will not die. Here is a glimpse into one such tale ... and the rare destructive force it happened to carry with it. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Virtutes Instrumenti" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man in trouble, wanting only an escape from a crisis, stumbles across a mystery which leads to another... and yet another, demanding a return to a dangerous place and time. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Shadowlands 1: Horizon" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another tale of lands touched by both enigmatic beauty and dormant, uncategorizable cruelty. The narrator: Justy Gee The poem reader: Jes Echo Gail Greenlove: Amy Paonessa, The Bloodlust podcast The truck driver: Cal Butera Michael Spinell: Soren Narnia Nadia Oliver: Susan Wallace Ronald Garr: Brian Lillie Poetry by Mia LeBemay Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) “Concentration” and “Smoother Move” licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the haunted, any calm explanation of a supernatural phenomenon is a comforting one, no matter where it comes from. But it is never more important than in that very moment to remain watchful and mistrusting. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Magic Forest" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man thrust onto the streets must navigate their disturbing sights and sounds, all the while living under the threat of a monster moving relentlessly through their shadows. Music by David Temyik ("Afterlife" and "Mystic Dark Background"), Getty Music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three tales of Knifepoint Horror. 1. thrifting 2. west 3. The Cleaver John Graham: Jason Hill Suzanne: Ariel Alexa Sullivan Gillian: Amy Paonessa (of The Bloodlust podcast) Father Walls: Teddy Ray Bullard Therapist: Kalem Murray Diane Fora: Susan Wallace Mr. Loring: Brian Lillie Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Tempting Secrets" and "Gymnopedie No. 2" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This episode (originally called 'Four for Halloween') previously contained a radio play called 'Report on an Unidentified Station,' based on the short story by J.G. Ballard. This piece is now available on YouTube (@SorenNarnia). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A boy growing up in post-Depression Kansas learns there are no truly innocuous objects as long as the human imagination can infuse them with fearsome properties. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Shadowlands 1: Horizon" and "Shadowlands 4: Breath" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Built as a place of solace for those who could no longer fully fend for themselves, the house should never have been disturbed or even noticed. But then one summer night, unfamiliar footsteps approached. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional music by Anonymous Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conflict in memory between two brothers leads to a return to a place where childhood may have been hiding something too ghastly to retain in the mind. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). "Past the Edge" and "Mourning Song" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These 10 stories were originally produced as video monologues for YouTube over the course of a year as a slight change of pace, and now mostly exist only in audio form. 1. boardwalk 2. forest 3. highway 4. cellar 5. hiker 6. car 7. doppelganger 8. graffiti 9. hometown 10. photographs Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a mysterious, undefined era, a desperate foot journey traverses a winter wilderness that promises a lonely death--perhaps a natural one, but likely not. With Kalem Murray, Teddy Ray Bullard, Melinda Kordich, and Jason Hill. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The next time you take a long country drive, look to your left and right as the scenery rolls by, the forgotten places where no footsteps tread for weeks, months, maybe years at a time. How long would it be before anyone noticed that such a place had become shelter for something unspeakable? Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He was a teenager who suddenly had no place to sleep, no money, and no options. The world had quickly become a very scary place ... and then shelter appeared much too conveniently. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the space of minutes, a travel writer venturing alone in remote waters goes from a state of enviable tranquility to blinding terror. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Somewhere near your house it stands, one of those decaying places that people always whisper about as they pass by. For every day you age, it seems to age three. But it may well live beyond you, silently daring you each night at dusk to enter, coldly confident you'll always be too afraid. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There exists in this life a very real, horrifying phenomenon that science cannot yet extinguish. It strikes a surprising number of people, and none of us are safe. And if it comes for you, it will come at the most vulnerable moment you will ever know. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seemed like such a simple deal, but it felt wrong from the very beginning--and led to a glimpse of a horror which, for those with even a little experience peering into the shadows, need not be named. Watch Jordan Hale's film adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUyWJpc39Pc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A comfortable suburban existence begins to fracture with a single sound. You may have heard it sometime yourself, but those who have surely possess no need for stories like these to haunt them. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This story has been adapted for film several times: Neighborhood Watch The Thing From the Hallway A Noise That Carries Staircase Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A tale made specifically for the campfire--a simple tale of the woods, long-buried secrets, and letting chances to escape terror slip agonizingly away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some places are so remote that just to explore them is an invitation to the phantoms that know we're alone. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man attempting to solve a strange gap in his memory meets a man claiming to offer an answer--one too frightening for mere mortals to grasp. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Very few people had ever even heard of the Poldrict House, let alone investigated it. Surely the lack of fascination within the paranormal community was justified... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cruel game of psychological brinksmanship among thieves breaks the sanity of its most dangerous competitor. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The unexpected phone call's origin raised many questions, but for a man anxious to discover real evidence of mysterious forces at work all around us, there was little question a journey was to be made. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another three tales roughly and tersely told. 1. bells 2. lighthouse 3. army Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Check out Jason Hill's narration of the third story of the group here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices