Never Sweep After Dark | Folk Horror Scary Story

Never Sweep After Dark or You’ll Invite Evil In is a narrated scary story about a woman cleaning out her late mother’s old house, only to discover that one family superstition may have been protecting her from something buried beneath it. The rule was simple: once daylight was gone, the broom stayed in the pantry.As the story unfolds, a line of black dirt keeps returning to the kitchen floor, a burned broom finds its way back inside, and the basement door begins to feel less like storage and more like something waiting to be opened. This episode is for listeners who enjoy folk horror, old house horror, haunted object stories, supernatural suspense, creepy basement horror, and scary stories rooted in family warnings and old superstitions.Some messes were never meant to be swept away.-------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.comBecome 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/papageeStock up on your magical supplies from our metaphysical shop, aromaG’s Botanica, that’s been serving the public since 1999:  https://aromags.comBrowse 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.Support the show