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Acadia After Dark
by Christian Leathers
Welcome to Acadia After Dark, where the shadows of Maine come alive with tales of mystery, history, and the supernatural. From the fog‑soaked pines to the rocky coastline, Maine holds stories that don’t stay quiet. Acadia After Dark dives into local folklore, haunted history, and real unexplained encounters — all told by people who were raised in these woods. Join your host, Reverend Redbeard, as we explore the hidden corners of this enchanting landscape, uncovering the legends and lore that haunt its woods, coasts, and skies. From ghost stories and cryptid sightings to forgotten histories and eerie encounters, Acadia After Dark is your guide to the unknown. Podcasts, investigations, and atmospheric horror come together to illuminate the shadows of the Pine Tree State. Whether you're a believer in the supernatural or just love a good horror story, Acadia After Dark promises to thrill, chill, and captivate. Subscribe now and embark on an unforgettable journey into
Episodes
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The Lantern-Lit Symposium: A Gathering of Maine Horror Voices
Tonight, the lanterns burn low and the fog presses close. Across Maine's long spine of forests, rocky coastlines, and forgotten towns, eight voices have answered the call: storytellers who spend their nights walking the boundary between the real and the uncanny. In this special edition of The...
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The Fogcast Episode 51: Deadlands and Uncanny Coincidences w/ Katherine Silva
Tonight on the Fogcast, I’m joined by Maine horror author Katherine Silva, creator of the Deadlands series and one of the most distinctive voices in New England dark fiction. Silva’s work blends grief, uncanny wilderness, and existential dread into landscapes that feel both ruined and strangely...
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The Fogcast Episode 50: Suspense and Survival on the Golden Road w/ Michael Lowell Wright
In this episode of The Fogcast, reverend Redbeard sits down with Maine author Michael Lowell Wright to reflect on the first year of his breakout novel The Golden Road — a book that climbed to #1 on Amazon Mystery and earned repeated Best Seller placement on Audible. Michael shares how his years...
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The Fogcast Episode 49: Acadia After Dark Anniversary Special
In this special live anniversary episode I will be reliving my top 5 favorite stories from the last year of the Fogcast as well as laying out the plans for the next year of Acadia After Dark. The Fogcast is an Acadia After Dark production. Our title theme is written and performed by local Maine...
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The Fogcast Episode 48: From North Carolina to Derry w/ Zak Cowell
Maine has a way of claiming people as its own. Some arrive chasing clean air and quiet trails; others come for work, for family, or for the pull of a coastline that feels older than memory. Whatever the reason, this place keeps those who wander into its pine‑shadowed forests and jagged…
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The Fogcast Episode 47: The Sounds of Horror w/ Fred Greenhalgh
In this episode of the Fogcast, we explore a realm of horror which has languished in antiquity but is finding new life in the modern era. From whispers in empty rooms to the creak of old floorboards, audio has a way of slipping past your defenses, and tonight’s guest has spent his career…
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The Fogcast Episode 46: Bookstores, Romance, and Fear w/ Fox Emm
From the fog-drenched streets of Bangor to the quiet stacks of an independent bookstore where stories and stranger things tend to gather, tonight’s episode brings you a conversation steeped in creativity, hauntings, and the peculiar magic of Maine. Reverend Redbeard sits down with author and...
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The Fogcast Episode 45: The Holyburn Witches and the Witchcraft in Maine
Good evening hikers, Tune in for a special live Fogcast where I will be playing The Holyburn Witches, a horror game set right here in Maine. I will also be sharing some news about the channel, talking about the upcoming Lantern-lit Symposium, and discussing Maines ties to the Salem witch trials....
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Welcome to the Family: the Maine Book of Secrets
This week, the Fogcast is taking a brief rest from its usual wanderings through the strange and storied corners of Maine. But rather than leave you without something eerie to explore, we’re using this pause to introduce a new member of the Acadia After Dark family. The Maine Book of Secrets is a...
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The Fogcast Episode 44: Celebrating Stephen King's Legacy with Nit-Noi Ricker
Bangor has always had two faces—the quiet New England city everyone knows, and the older, stranger one Stephen King carved out of its bones. In this episode, we step straight into that shadow‑twin as the town prepares for a three‑day celebration honoring the man who turned its streets into…
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Coming Soon from Acadia After Dark: The Maine Book of Secrets
There are stories in Maine people don’t tell in daylight. Stories whispered on long drives home, or passed down around woodstoves in the dead of winter. Now, they finally have a home. The Maine Book of Secrets is collecting real encounters from real Mainers — unexplained lights, impossible...
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 43: Cryptids from the Maritimes
The North Atlantic is a restless place. Its forests brood, its coastlines whisper, and its old stories cling to the fog like something with claws. In this episode, I am joined once again by Chelsea and Evan Carr Kinnear of It Came From the Maritimes for a journey through the shared folklore of...
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 42: Historically Haunted with Adam the Historian Ghost Hunter
Maine is a state built on long roads, old stories, and the kind of history that never quite settles. In this episode of the Fogcast, I sit down with Adam Begin — host of Historically Haunted, tour guide, storyteller, and lifelong explorer of the darker corners of the Pine Tree State. From...
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 41: In the Haunted Pines
In this return to the fog‑shrouded wilds of Maine, I welcome back researcher and storyteller Nomar Slevik—now a four‑time guest and an undeniable fixture in the Acadia After Dark canon. Together we wander through decades of strange history: from the Johnny Cash alien‑abduction monument in...
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Something Pale in the Trees: True Maine Crawler Sightings
Three true Pale Crawler encounters from the deep woods of Maine — each stranger, darker, and more unsettling than the last. In this episode, we explore eyewitness accounts of tall, pale, uncanny figures stalking rural properties, cannabis grows, mountain trails, and quiet northern homesteads.…
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 40: Boo Fighters Paranormal Part 2 w/ John and Jess
Tonight we step deeper into the shadowed heart of Maine with two members of local Maine paranormal investigation team, the Boo Fighters you haven’t met yet: John Ramsden and Jessica Betit. Jessica—librarian, historian, and keeper of the Gardiner Public Library’s secrets—helped uncover the first...
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The Ghost Bride of Ledgelawn: Unraveling Bar Harbor’s Most Famous Haunting
A red‑shingled mansion rises out of the Bar Harbor fog like a relic from a forgotten age, its gilded trim catching what little light the night allows. Locals say the place changes after dusk — the air thickens, the windows watch, and the old servant halls whisper with footsteps no one can place....
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 39: Boo Fighters Paranormal Part 1
This week on The Fogcast, I sat down with Boo Fighters Paranormal for a deep dive into the paranormal from their origins in Sioux Falls to investigating the shadowed corners of Maine. We explore the explosive rise of paranormal research in Maine, the Gardiner Library’s infamous light anomaly, the...
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The Bucksport 4: A Pattern of Death in a Small Maine Town
Bucksport, Maine is the kind of place where people wave in the grocery store, where the river moves slow, and where tragedy is supposed to be rare. But over four years, four people died or vanished under circumstances their families say never made sense — all connected to one man: David Appleby....
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 38: Where Maine Turns Dark
In this episode of the Fogcast, I sit down with Amazon‑bestselling mystery author Michael Lowell Wright, a writer shaped by the deep woods, logging roads, and folklore of inland Maine. Tonight, we explore The Golden Road, Wright’s breakout novel that blends real disappearances, Maine legend, and...
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5 Maine Cryptids You've Probably Never Heard Of...
Step off the marked trails and into the places where Maine keeps its secrets. In this episode, we explore five cryptids whispered about in logging camps, fishing towns, and the deep woods where the map fades to blank paper. From the branch‑throwing Agropelter lurking in hollow pines to the...
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 37: Terrific Tomes of Maine
In this episode of the Fogcast, I sit down with writer and Mainer, Chris Moller for a conversation that drifts from the everyday to the uncanny — the way life in the Pine Tree State often does. From childhood summers in Kennebunkport to the quiet roads of Union and the Victorian bones of…
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The Boy on the Sand Bar
Bar Island in Bar Harbor, Maine is known for its tidal crossing — a path that appears and disappears with the sea. But beneath the beauty lies a story that has haunted the community for more than a century. Revisit a historic tragedy from 1915 and the ghostly legends that followed as we explore…
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 36: Mutants of the East
In this episode of Fogcast, I sit down with Ryan Von Ghoulsworth—DJ, archivist, writer, and the mind behind Mutants of the East—for a deep dive into Maine’s haunted musical underbelly. A lifelong Mainer with roots in Auburn, Ryan has spent years digging through the state’s overlooked sonic…
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The Faceless Woman of Silver Lake: A True Maine Haunting
CW: Descriptions of violence Is Sarah Ware still searching for justice? Or is something older wearing her shape? In 1898, Bucksport, Maine was shaken by the brutal and still‑unsolved murder of Sarah Ware. More than a century later, witnesses continue to report chilling encounters around — and...
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 35: Locating the Lost
Tonight’s Fogcast brought in two guests who know the darker corners of Maine better than most. Travis Hartford and Jeff Atwood, the voices behind Locating the Lost, joined me to talk about their work uncovering the stories behind missing persons and cold cases throughout New England. Their…
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 34: Wicked Treasure and Witch Windows
Good evening Hikers and welcome back to the Fogcast. On this week's episode I talk with Jenni from Newport about a wide range of topics from uranium glass and Magic the Gathering to eerie childhood memories and strange activity at a local cemetery. Find more of Jenni's work:...
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 33
It's been a while hikers but the Fogcast is back. On this return episode I talk about tourist season, the International Cryptozoology museum is almost open again and I look at your answers to the question of the week. Become a Lantern Holder today to gain early access to ad free episodes. Visit...
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She Saw Something on the Roof… and It Wasn’t Human
In 2001, a Maine woman witnessed a creature sitting on her roof — a wolf‑like humanoid with pointed ears, a long snout, and strangely human features. Was it a Dogman? A cryptid? A misidentified animal? Or something else entirely? If you enjoy the show please leave a rating. Visit...
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The Bear River Road Encounter
A couple driving through Oxford County witnesses an 8–9 foot tall, chocolate‑brown figure sprint across Bear River Road in the middle of the day. The BFRO investigator found the witness credible — and the location sits in one of Maine’s most active sighting clusters. If Bigfoot exists in Maine…...
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5 People Who Walked Into the Maine Wilderness… and Never Returned
Maine is a place where the GPS cuts out and the wilderness takes over — a landscape of deep forests, forgotten logging roads, and secrets older than memory. Tonight we explore five real disappearances where people stepped into the Maine woods… and were never seen again. From a boy on a red…
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It Welcome to Derry with Nomar Slevik
Good evening hikers, If you're from Maine you can’t talk about horror without at least mentioning Stephen King. With the first season of It: Welcome to Derry, audiences got a new chapter in the story of Pennywise but how did the show stack up in the eyes of a couple of people who live there?…
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Acadia After Dark Park Update 6
Good evening hikers, Thank you for tuning in to another broadcast of Acadia After Dark’s Park Updates, coming to you live on ▇▇▇▇▇▇ we’re serving up Downeast dread, delivered weekly. Tonight is no ordinary night. It’s the high holiday. The veil’s gone thin, the air’s gone sharp, and the old…
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Acadia After Dark Fogcast Episode 32: Black Flies w/ Jordan Dube of Goosepoop Games
Welcome back, Hikers. Episode 32 of Acadia After Dark beckons you deeper into the woods, where I’m joined by Jordan Dube—founder of Goosepoop Games and architect of Black Flies, a hidden-objective roleplaying game set in the cursed town of Evergreen, Maine. You are a vessel of the Cult of the…
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Acadia After Dark Park Update 5
Good evening hikers, Thank you for tuning in to another broadcast of Acadia After Dark’s Park Updates, coming to you live on ▇▇▇▇▇▇—the finest radio show on this side of the veil. And it’s not just me saying that. Ask the Ouija board tucked in the back of your grandmother’s bookshelf. You know…
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Was Johnny Cash Abducted by Aliens?
Johnny Cash. Alien abduction. Somesville, Maine. It sounds like the setup to a campfire joke—but what if it’s not? This week we investigate a mysterious roadside memorial tucked beside a unassuming bridge in one of Maine’s oldest towns. A black cowboy hat. A pair of boots. A note claiming the Man...
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Acadia After Dark Promo Fall 2025
The mountain’s shadow stretches long across the trees. A stiff coastal wind combs through the forest’s brittle crown. And in the dark places between the pines… something stirs. Good evening, hikers. You’ve found Acadia After Dark—a horror podcast rooted in Maine’s folklore and the strange…
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Acadia After Dark Park Update 4
Good evening, hikers — and thank you for tuning in to another broadcast of Acadia After Dark’s Park Updates, here on ▇▇▇▇▇▇ — the only radio signal stubborn enough to claw its way through the fog and out into the murky depths of the North Atlantic. Coming up tonight: • Maine Weather - like the...
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Acadia After Dark Podcast 1 Year Anniversary Special
Good evening hikers, It's hard to believe it has already been a year since we started this journey together to explore the foggy coast and discover what dark thing lurk between the trees in Maine's wilderness. Along the way we have met and spoke to some incredible people to hear their stories. In...
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Acadia After Dark Park Update 3
Good evening, hikers. Welcome back to Acadia After Dark’s Park Updates, broadcasting live from ▇▇▇▇▇▇—still the number one-rated radio show among French werewolves (or Loup Garou) in Maine and parts of Quebec. Coming up on tonight’s broadcast: • The After Dark Park Service is seeking a volunteer…
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Acadia After Dark Park Update 2
Good evening, hikers. And thank you for joining another broadcast of Acadia After Dark’s Park Updates, here on ▇▇▇▇▇▇—your favorite community radio show, live from the fog-wrapped coastline where the whispers of the past carry dark secrets... and the rhubarb pie is only mildly possessed. Kids are...
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Acadia After Dark Park Update 1
Good evening, hikers. And thank you for tuning in to the inaugural broadcast of Acadia After Dark’s Park Updates here on ▇▇▇▇▇▇ your regularly scheduled dispatch from the dark place between the pines where static meets the shadows. This is your friendly reminder from the Acadia After Dark Park...
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Acadia After Dark Podcast Episode 31: Tattoos to Tarot with Psychic and Medium Autumn Tierney
Welcome back to the official podcast of Acadia After Dark! This week I spoke with Autumn Tierney, a local evidential psychic, medium and tattoo artist. After a traumatic and tragic event in her life Autumn found herself on a journey which put in her in contact with the other side. She now uses…
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Acadia After Dark's Campfire Stories: Pale Crawlers
Maine’s wilderness has long whispered secrets to those willing to listen. But some tales don’t whisper—they scratch. Scratch at the edges of reason. Scratch at something ancient. Something primal. Tonight, we speak of the Pale Crawlers, an uncanny and terrifying creature that stalks humans from…
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Acadia After Dark Podcast Episode 30: Your Reddit Stories
Welcome back to the official podcast of Acadia After Dark! I wanted to do something special to celebrate 30 episodes so we're reading your stories from r/Maine! A few weeks ago I made a post asking to hear about any scary or unexplained experiences people had in the Pine Tree State and y'all did...
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Acadia After Dark Campfire Stories: Rebecca's Story
Something was watching from the skies above Graham Lake—and it left behind no sound, no trace, and no answers. In this unsettling episode of Acadia After Dark: Campfire Stories, host Reverend Redbeard investigates a chilling UFO sighting in rural Maine, reported in December 2024 by a terrified...
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Acadia After Dark Podcast Episode 29: Binnall of America with Tim Binnall
Welcome back to the official podcast of Acadia After Dark! On this weeks episode I was joined by friend of the show, paranormal podcasting pioneer and news editor for Coast to Coast AM - Tim Binnall. We got to chat about some of his favorite parts of the past 20 years in broadcasting, some of the...
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Acadia After Dark's Campfire Stories: Allison’s Story
Good evening, hikers, and welcome to a very special episode of Acadia After Dark: Campfire Stories, where the flicker of the flames illuminates the hidden corners of Maine’s past—its legends, its mysteries, and its ghosts. But tonight, we’re venturing beyond folklore. This episode is unlike any...
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Acadia After Dark Podcast Episode 28: Mythical Creatures of Maine w/ Christopher Packard
Welcome back to the official podcast of Acadia After Dark! This week I got to speak with Christopher Packard, assistant director of the International Cryptozoology Museum and author of Mythical Creatures of Maine: Fantastic Beasts from Legend and Folklore. We discussed fearsome critters, a…
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Acadia After Dark Podcast Episode 27: It Came From the Maritimes
Welcome back to the official podcast of Acadia After Dark! On this episode I am chatting with the hosts of a podcast called It Came From the Maritimes, Evan and Chelsea Carr-Kinnear. They are a brother and sister duo who have studied the folklore of Atlantic Maritimes Canada which shares a…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Acadia After Dark, where the shadows of Maine come alive with tales of mystery, history, and the supernatural. From the fog‑soaked pines to the rocky coastline, Maine holds stories that don’t stay quiet. Acadia After Dark dives into local folklore, haunted history, and real unexplained encounters — all told by people who were raised in these woods.
Join your host, Reverend Redbeard, as we explore the hidden corners of this enchanting landscape, uncovering the legends and lore that haunt its woods, coasts, and skies. From ghost stories and cryptid sightings to forgotten histories and eerie encounters, Acadia After Dark is your guide to the unknown. Podcasts, investigations, and atmospheric horror come together to illuminate the shadows of the Pine Tree State.
Whether you're a believer in the supernatural or just love a good horror story, Acadia After Dark promises to thrill, chill, and captivate. Subscribe now and embark on an unforgettable journey into
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Christian Leathers
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Welcome to Acadia After Dark, where the shadows of Maine come alive with tales of mystery, history, and the supernatural. From the fog‑soaked pines to the rocky coastline, Maine holds stories that don’t stay quiet. Acadia After Dark dives into local folklore, haunted history, and real unexplained...
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Acadia After Dark is created and hosted by Christian Leathers.
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