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Horor Nusantara
by Kuntilanak
Horor Nusantara — Indonesian folklore horror told in English, 10 times a day. The Kuntilanak narrates serialized ghost stories, haunted village legends, and cursed tales from across the Indonesian archipelago — Asian horror stories and supernatural urban legends for scary-story fans in the US and UK. New multi-part episodes every few hours, day and night. Dare to listen alone?
Episodes
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The Legend of Ken Arok (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
Ken Arok's perfect frame-up unfolds: a stolen blade, a murdered king, and an avenger who is the killer himself. Start from Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-legend-of-ken-arok-part-1-of-3-horor-nusantara--75986635 #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #JavaneseLegend
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The Legend of Ken Arok (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
According to Javanese legend, a cursed unfinished keris began its seven-generation harvest with the murder of its own maker. The outlaw who seized it would take a throne — and pay the price. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #JavaneseLegend
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The Legend of Roro Jonggrang (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The bargain is broken, and the prince walks toward the palace in the dark. According to Javanese folklore, one curse still stands on the plain of Prambanan today. Start from Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-legend-of-roro-jonggrang-part-1-of-3-horor-nusantara--75981738 #Horror...
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The Legend of Roro Jonggrang (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The impossible night on the plain of Prambanan: a thousand temples rise from the dark, and one clever princess dares to fake the dawn. A Javanese legend of bargains, trickery, and a count that stops one short. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast Start from Part 1:...
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The Legend of Roro Jonggrang (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
A captive princess sets an impossible condition: a thousand temples in a single night. The prince only smiles. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast
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The Legend of Fort Belgica (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The final chapter of Fort Belgica: inside the fort that never emptied, the guides lower their voices and the fort asks its question. Start from Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-legend-of-fort-belgica-part-1-of-3-horor-nusantara--75975767 #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories...
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The Legend of Fort Belgica (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
In 1621, the fleet returned to Banda — and the fort on the hill finally showed what it was built for. The middle chapter of the Fort Belgica legend. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #BandaIslands Start from Part 1:...
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The Legend of Fort Belgica (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
A five-pointed star of black basalt guards the most valuable spice on earth — and the fort never emptied. Part 1 of the Banda Islands legend. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast
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The Legend of Palindo (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The King of Luwu sent eighteen hundred men to drag a god of stone from its valley — and the valley answered. The final chapter of the Bada Valley stone faces closes tonight. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #MegalithMystery Start from Part 1:...
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The Legend of Palindo (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
In the mist-shrouded Bada Valley of Central Sulawesi, hundreds of ancient stones stand where no one can explain them — and the greatest of them, the smiling giant Palindo, faces west, toward death. Journey into Indonesia's oldest stone mystery. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories...
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The Legend of Waruga (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The Dutch ban emptied the stone houses of Minahasa — but the old people say the waruga were never really emptied, and some lids are heavier than stone should be. Start from Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-legend-of-waruga-part-1-of-2-horor-nusantara--75971093 #Horror...
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The Legend of Waruga (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
In the highlands of North Sulawesi, the dead do not lie down — they sit upright in little stone houses, facing north. Step inside the legend of the waruga, Minahasa's stone coffins. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #Minahasa
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The Legend of Bromo (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The bargain comes due on the rim of the crater, and a promise made to a volcano must be kept for six hundred years. The final chapter of the Bromo legend, told as the Tengger people tell it. Start from Part 1:...
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The Legend of Bromo (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
A mountain bargain comes due in the highlands of East Java, and one family must face the price of a prayer answered. According to Tengger folklore, some promises can only be kept once. Start from Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-legend-of-bromo-part-1-of-3-horor-nusantara--75968886...
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The Legend of Bromo (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
A childless couple climbs a smoking volcano and makes a bargain the mountain will never forget. According to Javanese folklore, this is how the Tengger people got their name. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #MountBromo
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The Legend of The Ghost Palace of Bedugul (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
Kuntilanak returns to the palace that never opened, to meet the workers who never left. The final part of the Bedugul telling. Start from Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-legend-of-the-ghost-palace-of-bedugul-part-1-of-2-horor-nusantara--75965646 #Horror #IndonesianFolklore...
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The Legend of The Ghost Palace of Bedugul (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
A thousand rooms above Lake Beratan, and not one guest — yet the palace in the mist is occupied after all. The first part of the Bedugul telling. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #Bali
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The Legend of Trunyan (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The village that does not bury its dead keeps three cemeteries — and only eleven places beneath the fragrant tree. The final chapter of Trunyan reveals who rests where, and what happens when the grove is full. Start from Part 1:...
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The Legend of Trunyan (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
A village in Bali that never buries its dead — beneath a fragrant tree that is said to drink the smell of death itself. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #Bali
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The Legend of Terowongan Casablanca (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The taxi drivers of Jakarta whisper about the ones who stopped for the woman in white. Part 2 of the Casablanca tunnel legend — the passengers, the mirror, and the car found empty at dawn. Start from Part 1:...
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The Legend of Terowongan Casablanca (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
A Jakarta tunnel built over a relocated cemetery — and the woman in white who flags down cars after midnight. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #UrbanLegends
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The Legend of Rumah Kentang (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
Rumah Kentang's smell has outlived every tenant — and on certain Bandung nights, something small still cries behind the gate. The final chapter of the Potato House. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #UrbanLegends Start from Part 1:...
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The Legend of Rumah Kentang (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
A colonial house in Bandung where the smell of boiled potatoes never fades, and a child's cry drifts through the verandas at night. Part one: the boiling pot. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #Bandung
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The Legend of Nabau (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The 2009 Baleh river photographs, the world's loudest argument, and the Iban elders who only nodded. Start from Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-legend-of-nabau-part-1-of-2-horor-nusantara--75944593 #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #Nabau
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The Legend of Nabau (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The Iban of Borneo say the rivers are watched by a serpent longer than a longhouse. The watcher is old, and it does not like being surprised. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #Borneo
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The Legend of Cindaku (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The cindaku carry the tiger-change - but tonight the telling turns to what the change costs, and the village art of the coffee test. Some footprints, once changed, never change back. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #Weretiger Start from Part 1:...
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The Legend of Cindaku (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
In the Minangkabau highlands of Sumatra, the tiger is not only an animal — it is kin, law, and Grandfather. Tonight, the legend of the cindaku: the tiger-shifters who walk at night on four legs with a man's mind behind the eyes. #Horror #IndonesianFolklore #GhostStories #HorrorPodcast #Weretiger
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The Legend of Calon Arang (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The stolen book. Bahula's wedding lie unravels, and the widow of Girah returns with nothing left to lose — until Empu Bharada faces her without a sword. The chilling finale of Java's most infamous legend.
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The Legend of Calon Arang (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The king of Java sends a sage, and the sage sends a wedding: Empu Bahula marries the witch's daughter to steal her mother's book of spells.
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The Legend of Calon Arang (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
A shunned widow, a daughter no one will marry, and a midnight bargain in a graveyard. Part 1 of the Javanese legend of Calon Arang, the Widow-Witch of Girah.
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The Legend of Buto Ijo (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The smallest sack holds the hermit's last secret. Buto Ijo faces the boiling mud in the final chapter of Java's greatest chase.
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The Legend of Buto Ijo (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
Timun Mas flees the green giant of the bamboo grove, armed with only the hermit's four sacks. The chase is on — and Buto Ijo is not far behind.
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The Legend of Buto Ijo (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
An old widow's whispered prayer is answered by something listening in the bamboo grove — and the price of her wish is spoken aloud. Part one of the Timun Mas legend.
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The Legend of the Ghosts of Cipularang (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The final chapter of Cipularang: why the old drivers say the road's ghosts are its warning system — and the night a driver obeyed a woman who was not there.
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The Legend of The Ghosts of Cipularang (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
A woman in white stands where no one should stand on Indonesia's most haunted toll road. Part 1 of the Cipularang legend — whispers, failing brakes, and the watcher at the mirror's edge.
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The Legend of Masalembo (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The final chapter of the Masalembo legend: the footprints that stop in the middle of the deck, and the one man who broke the sailors' rule and followed them.
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The Legend of Masalembo (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
A ship drifts into Indonesia's Bermuda Triangle, where compasses lie, sourceless lights surround the vessel at midnight, and the sea refuses to let go.
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The Legend of SS Ourang Medan (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The ship of the dead leaves no trace in any registry. In the final part of the legend, investigators find nothing, theories bloom like mold in the dark — and fishermen in the Strait of Malacca still see her burning, somewhere below.
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The Legend of SS Ourang Medan (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The Silver Star finds the Ourang Medan adrift — and every soul aboard is dead at their posts, faces frozen in terror. An English-language Indonesian folklore horror tale.
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The Legend of SS Ourang Medan (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
Late 1940s, the Strait of Malacca. A wireless operator picks up a dying Morse signal from a Dutch freighter — every officer dead, and a final message: I die. Kuntilanak begins the legend of the ship of the dead.
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The Legend of the Ghost Ships of the Java Sea (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The final chapter of the Java Sea's darkest telling: a passenger ship left Surabaya for Jakarta and never arrived. Kuntilanak closes the legend with the sailors who swear they still see her — and the one rule every captain must follow.
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The Legend of The Ghost Ships of the Java Sea (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
Kuntilanak tells of the dim-lit ship on the Java Sea horizon — the Flying Dutchman that never draws nearer, and the sailors who sailed toward it anyway.
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The Legend of the Ghost Ships of the Java Sea (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
A Dutch captain swears an oath in a Cape storm — and the Java Sea never lets him go. Part one of the oldest ghost-ship legend ever told in these waters.
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The Legend of Hantu Ambulance (Part 2 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
The Dutch family of Jalan Bahureksa — a journey into the hills, a ravine, and an ambulance that carried its dead home and never let them go. The chilling finale of the Bahureksa haunting.
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The Legend of Hantu Ambulance (Part 1 of 2) | Horor Nusantara
On Jalan Bahureksa in Bandung, an old Dutch-era ambulance kept coming home — no matter how many times it was moved, locked away, or sold. Tonight, Part One of the legend, told by Kuntilanak.
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The Legend of The Ghost Train of Manggarai (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The final chapter of Jakarta's most famous ghost train legend: the old man who claims he can summon it, the chalk-circle ritual, and the price he never warns you about.
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The Legend of the Ghost Train of Manggarai (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
Kuntilanak descends into the carriages of Manggarai's ghost train — the passengers who do not quite look at you, and the man who ran.
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The Legend of the Ghost Train of Manggarai (Part 1 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
In 2004, a driverless commuter train rolled into Manggarai Station with four empty-looking carriages and no one at the controls. Kuntilanak opens the legend of Jakarta's most famous ghost train.
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The Legend of Rumah Pondok Indah (Part 3 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
The house was demolished in 2008. Jakarta believed the story would die with it. Jakarta was wrong — the final chapter of Rumah Pondok Indah.
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The Legend of Rumah Pondok Indah (Part 2 of 3) | Horor Nusantara
A late-night nasi goreng seller takes one fateful order at Jakarta's most notorious gate, and the house keeps its appetite. Part two of the legend of Rumah Pondok Indah.
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Horor Nusantara — Indonesian folklore horror told in English, 10 times a day. The Kuntilanak narrates serialized ghost stories, haunted village legends, and cursed tales from across the Indonesian archipelago — Asian horror stories and supernatural urban legends for scary-story fans in the US and UK. New multi-part episodes every few hours, day and night. Dare to listen alone?
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