The Witch Bottle Under the Porch is a narrated scary story about a family who finds a dark glass bottle buried beneath the porch of an old rural house. Packed with rusted nails, red thread, yellowed paper, and human hair, the bottle looks like something hidden there for a reason. When it breaks, the house begins to change, and every door starts opening inward, even the ones that had been locked.

What begins as a strange discovery during a home repair turns into something darker as the family realizes the bottle may have been keeping something out, or keeping something buried. This episode is for listeners who enjoy folk horror, witch bottle folklore, haunted object stories, creepy old house horror, rural supernatural suspense, cursed objects, basement horror, old-house hauntings, and eerie tales about what happens when old warnings are ignored.

So, be careful what you dig up under an old porch.

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Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

The Photo Knew Who Died Next is a narrated scary story about haunted family photos, old home movies, grief, and the terrifying idea that some pictures can show death before it arrives. After her grandmother Alma dies, Tessa Drayton begins clearing out the family house and finds every framed photograph turned face-down. At first, it seems like one of Alma’s strange final habits, the kind of thing the family blamed on age, grief, or superstition.

Then Tessa finds a photograph of Alma standing at her own funeral.

As she digitizes old home videos and sorts through hidden family pictures, Tessa realizes Alma may have seen something in the photographs long before anyone else did. The dead appear in mirrors, old footage changes, and certain pictures seem to know who in the family will die next. What begins as a quiet family mystery becomes a supernatural warning tied to an old rule: after a death, turn the photos face-down before the dead choose who follows.

This episode is for listeners who enjoy haunted photograph stories, ghost stories, creepy family mysteries, supernatural horror, found footage-style horror, eerie home movies, grief horror, haunted objects, family curse stories, and slow-burn paranormal suspense.

Look carefully at old family photos, but don’t leave them facing up after a funeral.

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Want more from Feral by Night?

Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
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Stock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:
https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
https://folkloreum.com/

Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.

The House That Forgot the Living is a narrated scary story about a grieving widow, a winter caretaker job, and an old lakeside estate that seems determined to keep its own rules. When Clara Voss brings her young daughter Elsie to Meade House after her husband’s death, the job seems simple enough: wind the clocks, keep certain rooms locked, never turn on the radio after sundown, and never answer a knock from inside the walls.

But the house has been empty for years for a reason. A locked nursery, a child’s red mitten, strange sounds above rooms that shouldn’t exist, and a dining table that sets itself begin to reveal what happened to the Meade family long ago. As Clara realizes the house may be preparing places for her and Elsie, she has to decide whether the dead are the danger, or whether the house itself has started forgetting they belong among the living.

This episode is for listeners who enjoy haunted house stories, ghost stories, winter horror, gothic horror, haunted estate stories, supernatural suspense, eerie family mysteries, atmospheric horror, and scary stories about old houses with rules that should never be broken.

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Want more from Feral by Night?

Listen to The Feral Folklorist, Papa Gee’s weekly folklore and magic podcast for anyone who loves haunted history, ghost stories, witchcraft, folk magic, old superstitions, and the real beliefs behind the strange and unexplained. Full episodes run about 30 minutes, with a Feral Folktale short story every other week:
https://feralfolklorist.com

Become a patron on Patreon to unlock the video version of these stories, classes on occult topics, Feral Footnotes after-show episodes, magical herbal profiles, weekly folk magic articles, videos, witchy art, and downloadable spells:
https://patreon.com/papagee

Stock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:
https://aromags.com

Browse Papa Gee’s books, tarot readings, and more at:
https://folkloreum.com/

Production Note: Feral by Night is a human-voiced original production by Papa Gee. Any supplemental voice modeling is authorized by Papa Gee. Stories may draw inspiration from folklore, superstition, haunted history, urban legends, strange news, and original fictional premises.