Unexplained Encounters
(Formerly the Darkness Prevails Podcast) Host Darkness Prevails brings you Unexplained Encounters, a podcast where everyday folk share their most terrifying and unexplained experiences. From mysterious creatures seen in national forests to supernatural events disrupting peoples' lives, prepare to explore the unexplained. These stories might sound bizarre, but it's up to you to decide which to believe. Submit your story to Unexplained Encounters at darkstories.org
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June 17, 2026 • 59 mins
There is no escape. If you hear your name being called from just outside the door, it's already too late. DO NOT ANSWER THE DOOR.
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June 10, 2026 • 60 mins
A man takes his friend home on a walk at night, but on his way back by himself, he encounters the most TERRIFYING entity he could ever imagine.
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June 3, 2026 • 647 mins
This deep woods horror stories compilation is so long, it'll feel like you really ARE lost in the woods with no hope of escape!
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May 27, 2026 • 60 mins
A turkey hunter in the Ozarks finds out in a disturbing way that something big and inhuman does NOT want him in the mountains. Plus two more stories of a face stealer and wampus cat killings.
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May 20, 2026 • 68 mins
Taxidermy animals are creepy as is. But what do you do when your dad becomes obsessed with putting as many stuffed deer in the yard as possible?
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May 13, 2026 • 55 mins
A hunting trip goes horribly wrong when a werewolf-like creature attacks. This allegedly true story and more in today's episode.
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May 6, 2026 • 60 mins
In this terrifying and allegedly true story, a teenager living in the woods of Missouri encounters something almost human during a walk, something that remembers when it's been slighted.
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April 29, 2026 • 62 mins
An assortment of stories from real people about close encounters with skinwalkers, monsters in Appalachia, and homes that are never quite empty.
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April 22, 2026 • 63 mins
Two sisters on a rainy road trip in the mountains stop for just a moment, and they soon find the baby in the back seat has been taken, but not by human hands...
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April 15, 2026 • 56 mins
When a family moves to a cheap piece of land in rural Texas, they find something that has been waiting for them for a very long time...
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April 8, 2026 • 58 mins
Two best friends take on the Appalachian Trail on a multi-day hike together. But they will soon have a third member to their party. Something that loves to smile and follows them for days.
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April 1, 2026 • 63 mins
Three stories this week featuring a near death encounter with an alleged werewolf in the Ozarks as well as a vile attack on a ranch.
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March 25, 2026 • 369 mins
Several hours of wendigo stories, sightings, and encounters to keep you a little less hungry for more (for now).
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March 18, 2026 • 61 mins
College students discover the most disturbing creature in the New Mexico desert, but soon it finds its way to their campsite...
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March 11, 2026 • 58 mins
A national park ranger reveals some extremely disturbing events surrounding what appear to be hyper realistic but fake human bodies.
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March 4, 2026 • 62 mins
When a couple moves to a quiet lake at a rural home, they at first believe it to be their dream come true. But something lives in the water. Something that has its dark eyes set on one of them.
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February 25, 2026 • 72 mins
One man's grandparents had a very specific set of rules every night at their place in the Missouri Ozarks. What happens when the rules are ignored? Something is hungry, and it's been waiting for just this moment.
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February 18, 2026 • 290 mins
Almost 5 hours of terrifying Appalachian Trail and Appalachian Mountains horror stories to keep you awake almost all night.
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February 11, 2026 • 61 mins
A group of friends go hiking in the famously rainy Olympic National Park. Instead of a good time, they stumble upon a living horror straight from indigenous legend. It changes their lives forever.
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February 4, 2026 • 67 mins
When Brood IV of the cicadas awoke in Missouri in the summer of 1998, something awoke with them. And it changed the lives of 5 friends forever.
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