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Destination Terror
Every place has a history - Some of those histories may just be darker than others. Join host, Carman Carrion, as she scours the globe for the world's most haunted places, and reveals the history, legends, and stories around them that make them so terrifying. Episodes every Thursday. An Eeriecast original series https://eeriecast.com/
Episodes
Destination TerrorOweynagat – The Cave of the Cats
On a quiet road in County Roscommon, Ireland, a low hump of stone hides a crawl-space entrance into the dark. Locals call it the Cave of the Cats, and…
Destination TerrorHaunted Brushy Mountain Prison - The End of the Line
Deep in the East Tennessee mountains, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was built from the Coal Creek War and the end of convict leasing. For 113 years, men…
Destination TerrorDESPERATION NEVADA – Stephen King’s Town of Tak
Desperation, Nevada – a dying copper town on the loneliest road in America, where the tables are still set, the coffee is still hot, and nobody has been home…
Destination TerrorFlatwoods West Virginia - The Flatwoods Monster
On September 12, 1952, a glowing object dropped from the sky over Flatwoods, West Virginia. A group of boys, a mother, a young National Guardsman and a dog…
Destination TerrorBodie, California — Take a Souvenir, Pay the Price
High in the hills east of the Sierra Nevada sits Bodie, California. It was once one of the most lawless gold rush boomtowns in the West, and today it's the…
Destination TerrorSKELLIG MICHAEL — STONE STEPS TO ISOLATION
For over 600 years, monks climbed 600 hand-cut stone steps to live in total isolation on a jagged rock in the Atlantic — hunting God at the edge of the world…
Destination TerrorLA NORIA – The Ghost Town That Still Rings Bells
Deep in Chile's Atacama Desert — the driest place on Earth — sits the abandoned ruins of La Noria, a saltpeter mining town founded in 1826 and left to rot when…
Destination TerrorFouke, Arkansas — The Beast That Walks Out of Boggy Creek
Something seven feet tall has been walking out of the Arkansas swamp for over a hundred years. It leaves footprints with only three toes. It's been shot at…
Destination TerrorThe Haunted Moonville Tunnel - Ohio's Ghost That Still Stops
Deep in the most heavily forested county in Ohio, a brick tunnel stands alone in the woods with a dead town's name still carved above it — and a lantern that…
Destination TerrorRainbow Valley - The Frozen Dead of Everest's Death Zone
Above 26,000 feet on Mount Everest lies the death zone — where the air can't keep you alive and the cold won't let the dead decay. This is Rainbow Valley, the…
Destination TerrorThe Death Road - Bolivia's Most Dangerous Highway Has a Terrifying Secret
Bolivia's North Yungas Road has a nickname it earned in full: the Road of Death. A single-lane ribbon of dirt and stone clinging to the Andes, with a wall of…
Destination TerrorRamree Island - The Deadliest Crocodile Attack in History
In February 1945, close to a thousand Japanese soldiers were driven into a mangrove swamp on Ramree Island, off the coast of Burma. Almost none came out. The…
Destination TerrorPluckley & Dering Woods - 16 Ghosts in One Tiny Village
Tucked into the orchards and hop fields of Kent sits Pluckley — a village of fewer than a thousand people that once earned a Guinness World Records mention as…
Destination TerrorSkinwalker Ranch - The Thing That Wears Your Voice
They named it after something the people who lived here first refuse to say out loud. Deep in Utah's Uintah Basin sits Skinwalker Ranch — 512 acres of high…
Destination TerrorPeoria State Hospital - The Man Who Cried at His Own Funeral
Four thousand people are buried on a hill outside Peoria, Illinois, and most of them don't have names — just numbers, pressed into small flat stones. For eight…
Destination TerrorLake Nyos - The Night 1,746 People Died in Their Sleep
On the night of August 21st, 1986, a small crater lake in northwestern Cameroon took a breath — and let it out. There was no fire. No flood. No wound on a…
Destination TerrorGREYFRIARS KIRKYARD – The Poltergeist That Leaves Marks on the Living
Based on true events. Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Kirkyard is beautiful in the daylight — mossy stones, crooked angels, the little dog everyone comes to see. But…
Destination Terror5 Most Dangerous Islands in the World You Should Never Visit
A summer replay compilation of five real-world islands where paradise turns deadly — from a Brazilian island crawling with venomous snakes, to a forbidden Bay…
Destination TerrorAMITY ISLAND – The Horror Lurking Beneath JAWS
Fifty years after the summer that made it infamous, Amity Island has turned its tragedy into a tourist brand — until a baited great white comes home to the…
Destination TerrorThe Land of Witches | The Buried Spells of Juventino Rosas, Mexico
Deep in the state of Guanajuato sits Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas — a quiet farming town with a reputation that has outlived almost everyone who earned it…
Destination TerrorWhitehall, New York – Police Saw Bigfoot and Couldn’t Pull the Trigger
Based on true events. In August of 1976, three teenagers driving an isolated road outside Whitehall, New York came face to face with a seven-foot creature with…
Destination TerrorArmero, Colombia - The Town That Drowned in the Dark
Based on true events. On November 13th, 1985, the Colombian town of Armero — home to nearly 30,000 people — was buried alive in fifteen minutes. A volcano that…
Destination TerrorHot Springs Arkansas: Haunted Bathhouses, Gangster Ghosts & The Ouachita River
Join Carman Carrion on a haunted vacation to Hot Springs, Arkansas—America's original spa town with a dark and deadly past. In this episode of Destination…
Destination TerrorKennecott - Alaska's $5 Billion Ghost Town Where Workers Never Left
In 1938, America's richest copper mine shut down overnight. The Kennecott Copper Corporation ordered 300 workers to evacuate immediately—leaving behind tools…
Destination TerrorLake Natron - Tanzania's Blood-Red Water That Turns Animals to Stone
In Northern Tanzania, a blood-red lake with a mirror-perfect surface lures birds to their deaths—then preserves their bodies as calcified statues. Lake…
Destination TerrorGalveston - The 1900 Hurricane - 8000 Dead in One Night
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed 8,000 people in a single night. Bodies washed back to shore. Funeral pyres burned for weeks. This is the story of America's…
Destination TerrorOradour-sur-Glane - The Village That Time Forgot
In the heart of rural France stands a village frozen in time—not by choice, but by horror. On June 10th, 1944, Nazi SS troops entered the quiet commune of…
Destination TerrorThe LaLaurie Mansion - New Orleans' House of Horrors
In the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter stands a elegant mansion with a blood-soaked past. Behind the lavish parties and glittering chandeliers of…
Destination TerrorThe Belmez Faces - Spain's Concrete Floor That Weeps Human Faces
In a small village in Andalusia, Spain, there's a house where faces appear in the concrete floor. Not painted. Not carved. They emerge from the material…
Destination TerrorThe Serbian Dancing Lady – Internet Horror Made Flesh
In the summer of 2019, videos started appearing on TikTok that made viewers sleep with the lights on. A woman in a white dress, dancing alone on empty streets…
Destination TerrorISLAND HORROR STORIES - 5 Isolated Nightmares Where There's No Escape
When you're surrounded by water, there's nowhere to run. This compilation episode explores five of the most terrifying islands on Earth—each one a prison of…
Destination TerrorThe Devil's Tramping Ground, North Carolina - Where Nothing Grows and Evil Paces
Deep in the North Carolina woods, there's a perfect circle where nothing grows. Not a blade of grass. Not a weed. Not even moss. For over two hundred years…
Destination TerrorScofield, Utah - The Eternal Shift
In 1900, 200 miners died in a single explosion. Some say they never left. On May 1, 1900, the Winter Quarters Mine in Scofield, Utah became a tomb for 200 men…
Destination TerrorNioba, Mississippi - The Fictional Town Where Cicadas Scream and Secrets Devour
In the 1982 horror film *The Beast Within*, the fictional town of Nioba, Mississippi represents every nightmare about small Southern towns with buried secrets…
Destination TerrorFort Delaware – The Island Prison Where Death Never Left
On a small island in the Delaware River sits a massive granite fortress that once held 12,000 Confederate prisoners of war. During the Civil War, nearly 2,700…
Destination TerrorCRACO - The Ghost Town That Won't Let You Leave
Perched 400 meters above Italy's alien badlands, the medieval ghost town of Craco clings to crumbling cliffs where nothing should stand. In 1963, landslides…
Destination TerrorSpecial Message: The Kill Kit Architect
A special cross-promotional message from Carman introducing Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror listeners to Deadly Intent through the chilling case of…
Destination TerrorHaunted Brunckow's Cabin - Site of 21 Murders Near Tombstone, Arizona
Eight miles from the legendary town of Tombstone, in the desert scrubland of southern Arizona, stand the crumbling adobe ruins of what newspapers called "the…
Destination TerrorCAPUCHIN CATACOMBS – 8,000 Mummies Beneath Palermo (Sicily, Italy)
Beneath the sun-baked streets of Palermo, Sicily, over a thousand mummified bodies line the walls of an underground cemetery where the dead were never meant to…
Destination TerrorPicher Oklahoma: America’s Most Toxic Ghost Town (Abandoned Lead Mining Disaster)
In northeastern Oklahoma, a once-thriving mining town sits abandoned beneath mountains of poisoned earth, where the ground itself can swallow you whole, the…
Destination TerrorThe Lake That Swallowed Itself: Lake Peigneur's Terrifying Disaster and Dark Secrets | Louisiana's Most Haunted Waters
On November 20, 1980, a single drilling miscalculation transformed a peaceful Louisiana lake into a monstrous whirlpool that devoured oil rigs, barges, and…
Destination TerrorCarpathian Mountains, Romania - Where Ancient Winter Horrors Still Hunt
Transylvania's remote mountain villages become winter prisons during the ancient Strigoii's Vigil, when three nights of supernatural terror force entire…
Destination TerrorSvalbard Global Seed Vault – The Doomsday Archive Beneath the Ice (Norway)
In the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, where the sun doesn't rise for four months and the permafrost runs deeper than human civilization, the world's…
Destination TerrorScottish Highlands - When Ancient Stones Wake in the Winter Mist
In the Scottish Highlands, where winter fog rolls through glen and moor like the breath of sleeping giants, ancient stone circles serve as doorways for the…
Destination TerrorSpecial Message: When Reality Becomes the Monster
A special cross-promotional message from Carman introducing Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror listeners to her true crime podcast, Deadly Intent. Discover…
Destination TerrorBarrow Alaska - What Hunts During America's Longest Night
In Barrow, Alaska, where the sun disappears for 65 days and temperatures plummet to deadly extremes, ancient predators known as Illie stalk the endless polar…
Destination TerrorTimes Square Underground - Beneath the Ball Drop
This episode explores the abandoned pneumatic postal tunnels beneath Times Square, where a network of forgotten 8-inch cast iron tubes from the early 1900s has…
Destination TerrorDestination Terror - Snowbound on Christmas Day
Christmas Day, and the Carman Carrion goes north. Today, instead of one destination, we’re stitching together a frozen anthology from the most bone-chilled…
Destination TerrorROVANIEMI FINLAND - Santa Claus Village Dark History & True Horror Stories
Explore the dark folklore lurking beneath Rovaniemi, Finland's cheerful Christmas facade, where ancient Sami legends of underground dwellers called maahiset…
Destination TerrorThe Ice Cathedral of Death: Vatnajökull's Cursed Caves
Two experienced adventurers venture into Iceland's Vatnajökull glacier caves seeking the ultimate extreme tourism experience, but discover that some of…
Destination TerrorThe Elemental of Leap Castle - Ireland's Most Haunted Castle Where Ancient Evil Still Feeds on Terror
Journey to Ireland's most violently haunted fortress where a priest was murdered mid-Mass, an oubliette filled with thousands of skeletons was discovered, and…
Destination TerrorThis Family Went Hiking on Thanksgiving - Only 3 Came Back | The Pukwudgie Woods
A Massachusetts state forest where ancient Wampanoag legends meet modern-day disappearances, and the little wild men of the woods still keep score…
Destination TerrorVergas, Minnesota - Where This 8-Foot-Barefoot Terror Has Been Stalking the Frozen Trails for 60 Years
A legendary creature haunts Minnesota's remote wilderness, leaving behind only massive footprints in the snow and traumatized witnesses who barely escaped its…
Destination TerrorHONEYMOON FROM HELL: We Stayed in the REAL Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman Tried to KILL US
When newlyweds Emma and Daniel choose the legendary Sleepy Hollow for their post-wedding getaway, they expect quaint autumn charm and maybe a few tourist…
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DEADLY INTENT - When Motive Becomes Murder
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Destination TerrorPawleys Island - The Mysterious Figure Who Appears Before Every Hurricane
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Destination TerrorFIVE DESTINATIONS OF DARKNESS
On the night before Halloween, we revisit five chilling destinations where werewolves, witches, and vampires refuse to remain buried in legend. Discover more…
Destination TerrorBLICKLING HALL - Where a Headless Queen Still Seeks Revenge
Blickling Hall, England's most haunted home, stands as a testament to royal betrayal and eternal vengeance - where Anne Boleyn's headless ghost arrives each…
Destination TerrorTHE DEVILS POOL
The Devil's Pool sits like a jewel in the Australian rainforest—crystal clear water, ancient rock formations, and a beauty so pristine it seems untouched by…
Destination TerrorKOLMANSKOP - Where the Desert Devours Dreams
Kolmanskop, Namibia - where a diamond boom town became a tomb, where sand claims everything that refuses to leave, and where some fortunes are still being…