The Dark Folio

The Dark Folio — basically your creepy little coffee break.I share 15-20 minute stories about folklore, hauntings, and true crime that are spooky but still mostly PG.Perfect if you want something quick and eerie without the heavy gore or nightmares.

The Dark Folio is a society podcast hosted by Created by May, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Created by May hosts The Dark Folio, a society show with 31 episodes published.

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  Episode #30

  Isabella's Curse: The White Lady of Belhurst Castle

  Aug 12, 202616 min

  Every castle has its secrets. But Belhurst Castle, perched above the dark waters of Seneca Lake in upstate New York, has one that refuses to stay buried. She is Isabella — a beautiful opera singer who fled her old life for a forbidden love, only to meet her end in a tunnel meant to save her. Tonight, The Dark Folio revisits her story: the desperate escape, the collapsed passage, and the white-gowned figure still seen drifting across the castle grounds and along the lakeshore. Some legends fade. Isabella has not.

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  Episode #29

  The Atlas Vampire: Stockholm's Most Chilling Unsolved Murder

  Aug 2, 202621 min

  Hey everyone — just a quick heads-up before we begin. Today's story involves a real historical murder. Nothing is graphic, but it does deal with some dark themes, including violence and crime. If you're listening with younger kids, you may want to preview this one first. You know your family best. Description: In 1932, a woman was found dead in her Stockholm apartment — and the details were so disturbing that the press invented a monster to explain them. Her name was Lilly Lindeström, and nearly a century later, no one has ever been charged with her murder. Tonight, we open the file on the Atlas Vampire — one of Europe's darkest and most haunting cold cases. The Dark Folio is your creepy little coffee break — stories from the strange, the eerie, and the unexplained. Follow so you never miss a file.

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  Episode #28

  The Enfield Horror: Illinois' Three-Legged Cryptid That Terrified a Town

  Jun 22, 202615 min

  In April 1973, a quiet town in southern Illinois became the center of one of America's strangest cryptid encounters. When 10-year-old Greg Garrett claimed he was attacked by a mysterious creature, few believed him. But just thirty minutes later, Henry McDaniel opened his front door and came face-to-face with something he would never forget—a bizarre three-legged creature with glowing pink eyes that seemed to defy explanation. As sightings spread, strange tracks were discovered, armed search parties combed the woods, and investigators—including renowned cryptozoologist Loren Coleman—arrived in Enfield searching for answers. Was the Enfield Horror an escaped animal? A hoax? A mass misidentification? Or did residents of Enfield, Illinois, encounter something truly unknown? Join May as we open another file and explore one of the most unusual cryptid cases in American folklore. Stay curious... and stay a little dark.

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  Episode #27

  Ghosts of Flight 401 — The Haunting That Followed the Wreckage Home

  Jun 7, 202624 minS0

  <p> On December 29th, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 went down in the Florida Everglades, killing 101 people. But for the crews who flew the aircraft that came after it… the tragedy wasn't over.</p><p>In this Ghost File, we dig into one of the most documented paranormal cases in aviation history — the sightings of Captain Robert Loft and Flight Engineer Don Repo aboard other Eastern Air Lines jets, the warnings they allegedly gave, and the corporate cover-up that tried to keep it all quiet.</p><p>Fact-checked. Researched. And just a little unsettling.</p><p> Follow The Dark Folio so you n...

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  Episode #26

  Roopkund: Secrets of the Himalayan Skeleton Lake

  May 14, 20269 minS0

  <p>Deep in the Indian Himalayas, at over 16,000 feet above sea level, lies Roopkund — a small glacial lake with a gruesome secret. Every summer, when the ice melts, hundreds of human skeletons emerge from the water's edge. Discovered by a British forest ranger in 1942, the remains sparked decades of debate: Japanese soldiers? Victims of a medieval plague? A cursed royal pilgrimage? Then DNA analysis revealed something no one expected — some of the dead weren't even from the same continent, or the same century. In this episode of The Dark Folio, we wade into one of history's strangest cold cases.</p><p><b...

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