Darker Pastures

Tagline: In the spring and summer of 1952, the sun shines brightly for a young farm boy – but the shadows yawn dark and deep.***Content Warning: This episode deals with bullying, harm to children, implied spousal and child abuse, the historical reality of Japanese-American internment, and contains graphic depictions of violence and a scene that may be triggering for survivors of sexual assault. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

An isolated and bereaved man discovers what so many of us do in time: that middle age steals over us far sooner than expected, and that so too can life’s subtler cruelties.***Content Warning: This episode contains body horror, deals with themes of major depression and parental loss, and may be triggering for those with mycophobia. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In the spring of 1904, a young man arrives on a ranch in Wyoming, pursuing a singular aberrant desire. What follows is one of the strangest annals in the closure of the Old West.***Content Warning: This episode contains potentially disturbing themes, scenes, and imagery, deals frankly with animal cruelty, murder, and suicide, and makes reference to the historical 1903 incident at Lightning Creek, Wyoming. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In a lonely saloon on the 1888 western Kansas prairie, a man recounts an incredible tale from his childhood – one which has no clear beginning, and no definite end.***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of disease, disfiguration, decay, and familial loss, and contains explicit descriptions of physical violence and body horror. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A seemingly minor accident on a nighttime country road in March of 1921 marks the beginning of a series of events that will forever change the lives of the Grossman family.***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of racism toward Indigenous people, and contains some violence and gore. Lister discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

On Valentine’s Day of 1975, old wounds are reopened and chilled hearts beat again. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In response to an unforgivable transgression, two brothers plan the inconceivable. But no plan survives contact with reality.***Content Warning: This episode obliquely alludes to child sexual abuse, and references torture and murder. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

An aging cattleman struggles with the usual hardships of winter... and with one entirely new.You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

The son of a Texas ranching dynasty returns from the battlefields of 1918 France to develop newly discovered oil wells on his inheritance, and discovers that his home is irrevocably changed… as is he.**Content Warning: This episode touches upon themes of combat-related PTSD, substance abuse, mental illness, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.**You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Few could ever hope to understand the events that transpired in the autumn of 1888 on the Černik homestead, nestled in the gently rolling Bohemian Alps of southern Nebraska. Those who could forever maintained a stubborn silence.***Content Warning: This episode contains themes of familial abuse and child illness. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

An elderly couple finds their new neighbor troublesome and strange, but they could never guess what dark secrets lie in wait so near to their home.***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of the abuse and genocide of Indigenous people, as well as animal cruelty. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In the heart of the country, a traveling couple find themselves encountering a persistent shadow of the past – one that just might follow them home.***Content Warning: This episode touches upon the history of American eugenics, and contains frank depictions of racism and sexual horror. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Returning home to deal with her estranged father's estate, a young woman discovers a strange survival.***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of parental abuse, familial estrangement, substance abuse, and hoarding, and contains explicit descriptions of decomposition. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A tragic 1984 fire continues to haunt one of the survivors in a manner most unnatural.***Content Warning: Contains repeated and descriptive references to deadly house fires.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In the late 1870s, three souls will discover that the prairie winds sometimes carry dark and wicked things.***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of genocide against Indigenous people and death by hanging. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

One cold night in the spring of 1963, the disparate threads of a darkly arcane narrative become interwoven upon the lonely plains of North Dakota.***Content warning: Episode contains violent scenes and references to historical atrocities. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A lonely middle-aged woman tries to find love where she has never dared to look before.You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Home for the holidays and for a break from her troubled life, a young woman rediscovers an old passion... and is discovered in turn.***Content Warning: Episode deals with themes of severe depression.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A person living on the margins of a tiny rural community is witness to increasingly disturbing developments in their neighbors, and their loved ones.***Content warning: Episode touches upon themes of enbyphobia, queerphobia, bullying, familial estrangement, and contains some gore. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

When the charismatic ministry of Asa Donague swept into the little prairie community of Homer, Kansas in late 1923, no one could have foretold what would follow. ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of antisemitism, racism, and anti-Catholicism, as well as disturbing and violent imagery. Listener discretion advised.*** “Old-Time Religion”, performed by the Criterion Quartet, arranged by Charles Davis Tillman, recorded 1920. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-35596/>, and included under fair use.Cover image provided courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3-033945-D (b&w film neg.)You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A young man, returning to his hometown for the first time since starting college, finds that it is not quite the community that he remembers – and that perhaps even his memories cannot be wholly trusted.***Content Warning: Episode contains explicit discussion of depression and suicide. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Fleeing from his troubles, a man forced by chance to shelter in a site of historical atrocity finds that the evils of the past are both very real and undying.***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of exploitation of minors, misogyny, and the abuse and murder of Indigenous people. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***Cover image adapted from:  St. Joseph's Indian Normal School © 2012 by  Chris Light , licensed under  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In 1901, a mysterious man arrives in rural North Dakota, summoned by a family in need with no one else left to whom they can turn. Yet awaiting him is something far more malignant than even he, gifted with esoteric expertise, could ever anticipate.***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of antisemitism, genocide against Indigenous peoples, and child abuse. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In the conclusion of the season two finale, the assembled survivors of the plague-devastated land come at last to the end of their long road.You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Many paths converge, and for a time, refuge is found, and darkness and fear are left behind. But the evils of the world always find a way in.***Content warning: Episode deals with themes of traumatic loss, catastrophic fire, and automobile accidents. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A teenage girl, irrevocably separated from the family of her birth, finds a new one. But too late she learns the price of belonging.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious indoctrination and past sexual trauma, and contains some gore. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Two traumatized young men, a boy from Cheyenne and an ex-soldier, bear witness to the depths of human depravity. Meanwhile, the true inheritors of the earth look on from afar, patient and inscrutable.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of sexual slavery and violence, involuntary mater ity and pregnancy-related death, mass murder, pandemic and disease, and religious extremism. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In the wake of unbelievable calamity, a woman encounters both wonder and living nightmare on her long journey home.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of disease, pandemic, social upheaval, and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A prairie schoolteacher experiences purest terror and loss during the tragic Children's Blizzard of 1888.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial loss, missing children, and children in peril. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Two strangers approach a small town we have visited once before, and something follows close behind them.***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of misogyny, bigotry, unwanted sexual contact and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***Cover image adapted from original: NE50sNE8wRoadHills @ 2014 by formulanone, licensed and shared under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A small band of cowboys, chasing outlaws upon the southern Plains, happens upon a dubious sanctum. Despite their disparate life experiences, not a one of them is prepared for that which awaits them within.***Content warning: This episode touches upon the realities of slavery, racism, and Indigenous genocide. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Unable to escape the horrific recollections of his Civil War service even in the remoteness of the Dakota Territory, a surgeon finds his nightmares bleeding into reality.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare, substance abuse, and associated psychological trauma, and contains both gore and body horror. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Two wanderers, tossed adrift by the desperation of the Great Depression, encounter something strange and hellish on the benighted plains.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial abandonment, poverty, and genocide. Discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

The events of Halloween, 1973 scar a boy’s psyche so profoundly that he finds himself returning to their locus decades later, in the hope of finding resolution. But the mystery he finds waiting for him is darker still.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement, child death, suicide, racist violence, and murder. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

In October of 1989, a well-to-do farmer, ruled by his voracious appetites, reaps the ultimate fruit of his labors.***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of familial loss, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and psychological abuse. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

After a loss few seem to understand or even notice, a young woman learns that both love and grief can manifest in the most uncanny of ways.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of pet loss, and may be upsetting for some listeners. Discretion advised.***Cover image adapted from: A Belgian Malinois male named Intrepid's Chase, sired by dog "Veni Van Balderlo". © 2005 by D. Williams is licensed under A Belgian Malinois male named Intrepid's Chase, sired by dog "Veni Van Balderlo". © 2005 by D. Williams licensed under CC BY 2.0In loving memory of Manfred von Katzstein, darkling prince of felinity.You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A house that has long stood as a silent monument to past hardship becomes the locus of a new disquiet.You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Against her wishes, a young student is transferred into a new and unwelcoming school. But what is happening there proves so much more sinister than she anticipates.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious and psychological abuse, homophobia, and discrimination against non-binary people. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Something wicked grows in the fields near Umber, Nebraska. But it grows only under the most diligent care, and its like can be found throughout this fair land, and beyond.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of misogyny, racism, nativism, religious trauma, depression, and mass gun violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A troubled farming family living in 1940s Colorado falls victim to a gruesome, if altogether too common, accident. But they will soon learn that this is only the beginning of their changing fortune.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and emotional abuse, ableism, and contains gore and body horror. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

An embittered and lonely man, whose life lies in shambles and who has fallen fully under the sway of his worst impulses, stumbles upon a terrible secret—and the further into it he delves, the more it threatens to swallow him and all he knows.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of alcohol dependency, familial estrangement, and the abduction and exploitation of children. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

The self-styled curator of a museum of horrors finally attains the masterpiece for which he has long yearned, but does not find quite the fulfillment that he expects from completing his collection.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of objectification of and violence against women, and true crime fetishization. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

During the deadly winter of 1886-1887, which would end the era of the open range, a ranch hand seeks to escape the crushing solitude and boredom of his isolated station in the merciless vastness of the Wyoming Territory.*** Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of cruelty and harm to animals. Listener discretion is advised. ***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A weary office worker learns that sometimes, a few words are all it takes to unravel the pattern of a carefully ordered life.***Content warning: This episode contains body horror and sexual content. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A child of Swedish immigrants living in northwestern Dakota Territory in the 1880s becomes convinced that a dreadful entity from whispered tales stalks the hills near their homestead.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of racism toward Indigenous peoples, familial loss, child mortality, depression, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A girl from a troubled home finds solace in her friendship with a new neighbor and her pet.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and psychological familial abuse, racism, harm to animals and animal death. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Exhausted and unable to trust his own perceptions, a former bushwhacker wanders the plains of a wounded country, haunted by both past and present horrors as he tries to flee that which cannot be escaped.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare and sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

Living on his uncle's farm at the turn of the century, a young boy begins to suspect that something nameless dwells under the surface.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical spousal and child abuse. Listener discretion is advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A community in rural Montana is terrorized by a new and relentless menace – but no one realizes how existential the threat truly is.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement and domestic terrorism, and contains descriptions of violence and gore. Listener discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!

A teenage outcast finds strange succor on Halloween night.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of homophobia, bullying, and familial loss, and may be triggering for some listeners. Discretion advised.***You can now text the show here with feedback or questions!Support the showThank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com, and receive special bonus content!