7. The Basement — A Widowed Musician's Descent Into Madness in 1873 and the Bones He Left Behind

Narrative horror podcast In Another Room finally unlocks the basement — and the story of how the house began. Wendy finally unlocks the basement door — the room she has been told never to enter, the room every spirit in the house has been pointing her toward. In 1873, Frank Smith is finishing construction on the grand mansion he has built as a gift for his beloved wife. She is traveling west to join him. She never arrives. Wracked with grief and slowly losing his grip on reality, Frank begins seeing a shadowy woman flitting through the halls of his nearly-finished home — an apparition that will lead him, eventually, to commit a murder he does not understand and bury its evidence beneath the basement floor. When Wendy digs in the same spot, more than a century later, she finds bones. And then she finds something that should not be possible. A Violet Hour Media production. LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and murder. Listener discretion advised. Popular Topics Include: narrative horror podcast, Victorian ghost story, 1870s haunted house horror, grief horror podcast, madness horror, ghost story podcast, horror fiction podcast, audio drama, serialized horror, origin story horror, horror podcast like The Magnus Archives, horror podcast like Archive 81, horror podcast like Old Gods of Appalachia, Wendy Morrow, Violet Hour Media, Victorian murder horror audio drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices