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Horror Nights - The Forest

Horror Nights - The Forest

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Forest Horror Nights opens with a truck engine still running, headlights cutting through fog, and no driver in sight—just a foil wrapper on the dashboard that nobody can explain. That is the kind of image this horror show builds every episode around, one complete story at a time, pulled apart piece by piece until you understand exactly how someone walked into the woods and didn't walk out the same.

This is a narrated horror documentary podcast with no host chatting in your ear, no banter, no filler. Each episode reconstructs a real case in careful detail: the timeline, the search parties, the physical evidence left behind, the small details investigators can't stop thinking about. You get boots found nine miles from where a woman disappeared, still laced, her feet bare and silent when they found her alive. You get a man whose footprints simply stop on a boulder, as if he stepped out of his own shoes and vanished. These aren't jump-scare stories. They're true horror tales built from case files, witness accounts, and the unanswered questions that make the woods feel different once you know them.

The themes running through this horror-driven show are the ones people search for late at night when they can't sleep: creepy encounters on isolated trails, scary true stories from search-and-rescue logs, disappearances near campgrounds, sounds recorded by hikers who never explain what they heard. The forest is the constant thread—not as a backdrop, but as a character that keeps its own secrets, feeding a quiet sense of horror that never quite fades. Every episode asks the same quiet question: what actually happened out there, and why does no one ever fully explain it.

New horror episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained descent into a different case. Subscribe to Forest Horror Nights so you don't miss the next chilling chapter waiting in the trees.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Drama & Plays
Episodes
  • The beacon that rode the melt tunnels and betrayed her location

    The beacon that rode the melt tunnels and betrayed her location
    Oct 20 2026
    A county surveyor hears an avalanche beacon blinking in a bare creek bed - how did a missing skier’s beacon ride melt tunnels and betray her location?

    The beacon that rode the melt tunnels and betrayed her location

    In this episode, we follow the timeline of Lori Carter’s disappearance and the search that found her beacon transmitting in dry ground far below the snowpack. We trace the decisions, terrain, and seasonal melt processes that shaped the search and ask what evidence the teams missed while the mountain was changing. What transport route could carry a beacon over a mile through thawing snow?

    Person: Lori Carter
    Date: April 29 (disappearance) and May 9 (beacon found)
    Location: Harlan Peak area; beacon found at 5,100 ft, primary debris at 6,400 ft
    Status: Beacon transmitting for nine days
    Person: Clifford Stevens

    - Lori Carter, 24, avalanche-certified seasonal lodge worker, skied familiar chutes and left a topographic map at the diner folded to the north chute.
    - On April 29, Pete Dunbar and Lori split at a ridgeline; he heard a single low shelf-crack two hundred yards south of him and later reported she never reached camp.
    - Harlan County SAR led by Tammy McCarthy began grid searches with certified receivers and avalanche dogs on May 1 across the primary debris field at 6,400 ft and found no signal.
    - On May 9, surveyor Clifford Stevens re-flagging a timber boundary at 5,100 ft registered a faint beacon signal and found an avalanche beacon wedged in a granite boulder in a dry creek bed.
    - The mountain experienced melt-season wet-slab releases and subsurface water corridors that can transport objects beneath receding snow, creating movement the search teams did not initially account for.

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    25 mins
  • She Came Home-Then Wrote Tomorrow's Days From Her Armchair

    She Came Home-Then Wrote Tomorrow's Days From Her Armchair
    Oct 19 2026
    A missing librarian returns to Dellwood, sits in an armchair and writes trail-journal entries - how did that expose them?

    She Came Home-Then Wrote Tomorrow's Days From Her Armchair

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from Kathleen Whitaker’s solo Harlan Creek hike to the baffling journal entries found on her porch. The episode traces search decisions, odd scentwork by a dog, and the actions that shaped the hunt - what do those choices reveal?

    Person: Kathleen Whitaker
    Date: April 7-19, 2019
    Location: Dellwood, Colorado; Harlan Creek loop; Sutter Basin trailhead
    Event: Trail journal entries written from inside the house while search teams combed the wilderness
    Person: Paul Whitaker

    - Kathleen’s GPS recorded her at Sutter Basin trailhead at 2:09 PM on April 7 and her signature-shaky-appeared in the register at 2:14 PM.
    - Her car keys were found inside the metal trail register box while her car arrived at the Whitaker driveway at 3:44 PM the same day.
    - A neighbor’s doorbell camera captured Kathleen carrying her pack onto the back porch; she removed boots and sat in an armchair without contacting anyone.
    - Search-and-rescue deployed immediately on April 9 with helicopters, ground teams, dogs, and a $43,000 operation focused into the backcountry.
    - The scent dog Brix locked on at the parking lot edge and refused to track into the wilderness, a detail logged by SAR leader Tracy Bell and noted in decisions that shaped the search.

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    24 mins
  • The ice axe stood upright and led rescuers to the tent

    The ice axe stood upright and led rescuers to the tent
    Oct 18 2026
    A wildlife photographer finds an orange tent and a lone ice axe on a snowbound bench at 7,400 ft - how did that expose them?

    The ice axe stood upright and led rescuers to the tent

    In this episode, we follow the discovery that redirected a winter mountain search: an orange tent on Harrow Plateau, fresh snow all around, and a lone ice axe planted in the vestibule. What the tent, the axe, and the missing tracks reveal about Brenda Boyd's disappearance drives the questions rescuers must answer.

    Date: March 4-9
    Person: Brenda Boyd, 32
    Location: Harrow Plateau, eastern bench, 7,400 feet
    Responder: Pamela Tate, Siskine County Search and Rescue, certified avalanche responder
    Observer: Marilyn Farrell, aviation charter photographer

    - Brenda signed the Decker Creek trailhead register at 6:47 AM on March 4, intending a day trip and arranging a neighbor to give her diabetic cat its 6:30 PM injection if she wasn't back.
    - Search dogs lost Brenda's scent at the saddle at 4,200 feet, where handlers ran the line three times and found only a faint alert on the eastern branch.
    - A storm on the night of March 7-8 dumped about 22 inches of snow across Harrow Plateau, potentially erasing any preexisting tracks or surface clues.
    - On March 9, photographer Marilyn Farrell spotted and photographed an orange tent with its fly taut and an ice axe planted upright in the vestibule, surrounded by forty meters of undisturbed snow.
    - Pamela Tate, seeing the photo, redirected her team toward the eastern bench after concluding the tent's condition conflicted with being buried before the storm.

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    20 mins
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