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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/

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    SKELLIG MICHAEL — STONE STEPS TO ISOLATION Sep 24, 2026
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    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. Then, without a single written explanation, they vanished. Tonight we climb Skellig Michael's stairway into a storm, a missing brother, and a wordless song rising up from the sea that the monastery was never meant to hear. Real history, real deaths, and a mystery no historian has ever solved.

    #DestinationTerror #SkelligMichael #HauntedIreland #TrueHorrorHistory #HorrorPodcast #TruecrimeCommunity #HorrorStories #ParanormalPodcast #DarkHistory #HauntedPlaces #IrishFolklore #GothicHorror #CrimeJunkiePodcast #HorrorFanatics #TrueCrimePodcast #HauntedTravel #EerieCastNetwork #SpookyStories #FolkHorror #AtmosphericHorror

    EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:

    Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore
    Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/
    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/
    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion

    CONNECT WITH CARMAN:

    Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion

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    MUSIC CREDITS:

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    LA NORIA – The Ghost Town That Still Rings Bells Sep 17, 2026
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    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 the industry collapsed. What remains is a roofless church, a cemetery of thousands of cracked and leaning crosses, and a legend locals repeat without hesitation: the dead of La Noria don't stay buried after dark.

    This episode, we trace the town's brutal real history — forced labor, child death, and a burial ground the desert keeps trying to give back — alongside the story of a woman who came looking for one name in a hundred-year-old company ledger, and heard something answer her instead.

    If you hear the bell, don't go looking for it.

    🔔 #DestinationTerror #LaNoria #Chile #GhostTown #AtacamaDesert #Haunted #HauntedHistory #TrueHorror #ParanormalPodcast #HorrorPodcast #GhostStories #AbandonedPlaces #Cryptid #DarkHistory #SaltpeterTowns #Humberstone #HorrorCommunity #TruePlacesTrueFear

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    Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore
    Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/
    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/
    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion

    CONNECT WITH CARMAN:

    Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion

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    Fouke, Arkansas — The Beast That Walks Out of Boggy Creek Sep 10, 2026
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    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 more times than anyone can count — and it always comes back. This is the Fouke Monster.

    Deep in the Sulphur River bottoms of southwest Arkansas, the little town of Fouke shares its backyard with the Beast of Boggy Creek — the three-toed, red-eyed swamp Bigfoot that terrorized the Ford family in 1971, inspired the cult classic film The Legend of Boggy Creek, and still gets called in to the county sheriff to this day. Host Carman Carrion — an Arkansas native — takes you down to the bottoms for the full story: the decades of sightings, the night it all went national, and an original tale of one man who went into that swamp after dark and came back marked forever.

    Keep your headlights on. Watch your treeline. And whatever you do — leave it be.

    #FoukeMonster #BoggyCreek #Cryptid #Bigfoot #Sasquatch #Arkansas #SwampMonster #LegendOfBoggyCreek #TrueHorror #Paranormal #ScaryStories #HorrorPodcast #Folklore #Unexplained #Cryptids #DestinationTerror

    EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:

    Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore

    Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    The Haunted Moonville Tunnel - Ohio's Ghost That Still Stops Sep 03, 2026
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    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 swings in the dark for trains that stopped running decades ago. This is the true history of the Moonville Tunnel, the ghosts of the vanished coal town that surround it, and the operating order a real railroad reportedly issued in 1981 telling engineers to look right at the phantom light and pretend it wasn't there.

    Then stay for an original horror story set inside the tunnel — because the legend has one thing backwards about what that lantern is really trying to do.

    🚂 Featured location: Moonville Tunnel, Vinton County, Ohio (Zaleski State Forest)

    👻 The Brakeman • The Engineer • The Lavender Lady • The Bully

    New to Destination Terror? We visit the real places on the map you'd cross the street to avoid — true history in one hand, an original tale of terror in the other. Subscribe and keep a light on. Nothing that swings.

    ⚠️ The story in this episode is a work of fiction. The location, and its history, are entirely real.

    🎧 Listen on all podcast platforms | 🔗 carman-carrion.com

    #MoonvilleTunnel #HauntedOhio #GhostStories #DestinationTerror #OhioGhostStories #HauntedPlaces #TrueScaryStories #Paranormal #HauntedTunnel #AbandonedPlaces #GhostTown #Appalachia #CreepyHistory #HorrorPodcast #ScaryStories #HauntedHistory #RealGhostStories #VintonCounty

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    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion

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    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/

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    Rainbow Valley - The Frozen Dead of Everest's Death Zone Aug 27, 2026
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    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 stretch below the summit named for the bright jackets of the climbers who never came down. This week on Destination Terror: an original story of two climbers, and a brother who won't stay buried — wrapped around the chilling true history of Everest's frozen dead and the valley of color that waits below the summit. Until we meet at our next destination.

    #Everest #RainbowValley #DeathZone #MountEverest #FrozenBodies #DestinationTerror #TrueScaryStories #HorrorPodcast #ScaryStories #Creepy #Haunted #Paranormal #MountainHorror #TrueHorror #Eeriecast

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    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion

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    CONNECT WITH CARMAN:

    Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore

    Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/

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    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY

    iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184

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    Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs

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    The Death Road - Bolivia's Most Dangerous Highway Has a Terrifying Secret Aug 20, 2026
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    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 rock on one side and a two-thousand-foot drop into fog on the other — no guardrail, no shoulder, no mercy. It was carved out by prisoners of war in the 1930s, and for seventy years it killed by the hundreds, until it became the only road in Bolivia where you drive on the left, so you can watch your own wheels decide whether you live. But the people who bury their dead along it will tell you the danger isn't only the edge. It's what waits at the bends where the crosses cluster thickest — the women in the fog, standing where no living person ever would.

    Tonight we drive it together. First a story: a young truck driver named Elías, one night, one old woman who needs a ride, and every warning his uncle ever gave him. Then the real history behind the fiction — the Chaco War, the unrecoverable bodies at the bottom of the gorge, the offerings made to a mountain that keeps a very exact ledger. As always, the story is invented. Everything underneath it is not. Keep to the left. Go slowly. And whatever you do — do not look over the edge.

    #DestinationTerror #DeathRoad #NorthYungasRoad #Bolivia #YungasRoad #MostDangerousRoad #HauntedPlaces #GhostStories #Paranormal #TrueHorror #HorrorPodcast #ScaryStories #Andes #Pachamama #RoadOfDeath #CreepyPodcast #HauntedHighway #SpookyPodcast #FolkHorror #LadyInTheFog

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    Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore

    Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion

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    Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore

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    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/

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    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY

    iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184

    Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.

    ________________________________________

    DISCOVER MORE HORROR:

    http://eeriecast.com/

    https://www.carman-carrion.com/

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    MUSIC CREDITS:

    Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs

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    Ramree Island - The Deadliest Crocodile Attack in History Aug 13, 2026
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    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 legend says saltwater crocodiles devoured them by the hundreds — a slaughter so infamous it landed in the record books as the worst animal attack in human history.

    But is that what really happened?

    This week on Destination Terror, we walk into the swamp the way the legend tells it — the screaming in the dark, the gunfire, the vultures at dawn — and then turn the lights on and look at what the records actually say. What we find is quieter, stranger, and somehow harder to shake than the monster story. Watch your step.

    #RamreeIsland #DestinationTerror #TrueHorror #WWIIHistory #CrocodileAttack #SaltwaterCrocodile #WarStories #HorrorPodcast #TrueStory #Unexplained #DarkHistory #MilitaryHistory #ScaryStories #HistoryMystery #Burma #Myanmar

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    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion

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    CONNECT WITH CARMAN:

    Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore

    Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/

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    SUBSCRIBE& REVIEW:

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY

    iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184

    Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.

    ________________________________________

    DISCOVER MORE HORROR:

    http://eeriecast.com/

    https://www.carman-carrion.com/

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    MUSIC CREDITS:

    Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs

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    Pluckley & Dering Woods - 16 Ghosts in One Tiny Village Aug 06, 2026
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    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 the most haunted village in England. Behind its round white windows and postcard lanes wait somewhere between twelve and sixteen restless dead: a Red Lady drifting the churchyard in search of a child she'll never find, a White Lady sealed inside seven nested coffins, a highwayman run through with a sword at Fright Corner, a schoolmaster hanging from a tree on a quiet lane, and the Watercress Woman who burned alive on a lonely bridge — one of the few Pluckley ghosts tied to a real, documented death. And past the last streetlamp stand the ancient trees of Dering Woods, known to the locals as the Screaming Woods, where ordinary people have fled from human screams rising out of empty darkness for decades.

    Host Carman Carrion traces how one man's booklets and headlines turned a peaceful English village into a legend, separates the documented dead from the folklore — including the internet's beloved 1948 "massacre" that never happened — and then steps beneath the branches, where the screaming still has no explanation. Stay on the path. And whatever you do, don't follow the voice into the trees.

    #DestinationTerror #Pluckley #DeringWoods #ScreamingWoods #Kent #England #MostHauntedVillage #HauntedEngland #HauntedPlaces #DarkTourism #GhostStories #Paranormal #BritishFolklore #Eeriecast #HorrorPodcast #ParanormalPodcast #Supernatural #PhantomCoach #WatercressWoman #GuinnessWorldRecords #HauntedHistory #SpookyTravel #GhostHunting #CreepyTales

    EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:

    Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore

    Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion

    Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/

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    SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW:

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    iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184

    Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.

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    DISCOVER MORE HORROR:

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    https://www.carman-carrion.com/

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    MUSIC CREDITS:

    Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs

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    Skinwalker Ranch - The Thing That Wears Your Voice Jul 30, 2026
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    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 desert that has terrified ranchers, researchers, and one very unlucky family for generations. But forget the lights in the sky. Tonight, host Carman Carrion takes you past the barbed wire to the older, darker legend the ranch is actually named for: the shapeshifter that wears skins, walks the fence line on all fours, and calls to you in a voice you love.

    From the Sherman family's bloodless cattle mutilations and the wolf that took bullets and simply walked away, to the Navajo and Ute traditions that warned people off this ground long before any camera arrived — this is the Skinwalker Ranch story stripped of the spaceships and handed back to the dark where it belongs.

    Then stay for an original tale of a boy hired to watch a fence he was told never to cross… and the thing that followed him home.

    The rule out here is simple. If the dark calls your name in a voice you trust — you don't answer.

    🔦 Listener discretion advised: supernatural horror, animal death, and content some may find disturbing.

    #DestinationTerror #CarmanCarrion #HorrorPodcast #TrueHorror #Paranormal Rotating #Skinwalker #Shapeshifter #UintahBasin #Utah #CattleMutilation #ParanormalPodcast #ScaryStories #Cry tid #HauntedPlaces #Folklore #DarkHistory #Creepypasta #GhostStories #Eeriecast

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    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184

    Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.

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    https://www.carman-carrion.com/

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    MUSIC CREDITS:

    Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs

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    Peoria State Hospital - The Man Who Cried at His Own Funeral Jul 29, 2026
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    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 years, every time one of them went into the ground, a man was there to cry.

    He couldn't speak. Nobody ever learned his real name. The staff called him Old Book, after the only thing anyone knew about his past, and they loved him. He dug the graves of strangers and then wept for them under an elm tree at the edge of the field, because no one else was coming.

    Then in 1910 they buried him — and roughly four hundred people watched him cry at his own funeral.

    This week on Destination Terror, we're going to Peoria State Hospital, and it isn't the asylum story you're expecting. There were no cruel doctors here. No barbaric experiments. The man who ran this place took the bars off the windows and fought the Illinois legislature over the word "incurable." The horror on this hill isn't cruelty. It's grief — thousands of people who died unclaimed in a place that was genuinely trying, and went into the ground under a number anyway.

    The Graveyard Elm. The coffin that came up empty. And a hospital superintendent who risked his entire scientific reputation to write down what four hundred people saw, for one reason: so somebody would remember the old man who cried at every funeral.

    #DestinationTerror #Eeriecast #TrueHaunting #HauntedHistory #PeoriaStateHospital #BartonvilleAsylum #OldBook #GraveyardElm #HauntedIllinois #AbandonedAsylum #GhostStories #Paranormal #TrueGhostStories #HauntedPlaces #Illinois

    EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:

    Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore

    Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/

    Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror

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    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

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    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion

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    SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW:

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    Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.

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    DISCOVER MORE HORROR:

    http://eeriecast.com/

    https://www.carman-carrion.com/

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