Destination Terror

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

March 19, 2026 41 mins
In the 1982 horror film *The Beast Within*, the fictional town of Nioba, Mississippi represents every nightmare about small Southern towns with buried secrets. A place where family bloodlines control justice, where monsters are created in basements and fed on human flesh, and where vengeance follows a seventeen-year cycle—the same cycle as the cicada emerging from underground. Though Nioba exists only on film, it was brought to ter...
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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 men died within its walls from smallpox, starvation, and despair. Today, Fort Delaware is considered the most haunted location in Delaware—a place where the dead refuse to leave, where phantom soldiers still walk the corridors, and where visitors encounter spirits trapped in ...
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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 began tearing the town apart—but the survivors say it wasn't geology that drove them out. It was something older. Something that lived in the clay hills long before Greeks built their fortress here. When 1,800 people fled in terror, they left behind more than just empty buildin...
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A special cross-promotional message from Carman introducing Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror listeners to Deadly Intent through the chilling case of Israel Keyes a serial killer who engineered randomness, buried kill kits across the country years in advance, and remained undetected until a single debit card transaction unraveled his carefully constructed design. Discover why understanding intent matters when facing someone wh...
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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 bloodiest cabin in Arizona. https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   #BrunckowsCabin #Tombstone #Arizona #HauntedHistory #OldWest #TrueCrime #HorrorPodcast #DestinationTerror #DarkTourism #WildWest #Paranormal EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:  Freaky ...
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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 disappear—they were meant to be seen, visited, and remembered. Dressed in their finest clothes, pinned upright in stone alcoves, and arranged by gender, profession, and social class, the residents of the Capuchin Catacombs have been watching visitors for over four hundred ye...
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In northeastern Oklahoma, a once-thriving mining town sits abandoned beneath mountains of poisoned earth, where the ground itself can swallow you whole, the air carries invisible death, and the abandoned mine shafts may hold secrets far darker than toxic waste.   https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   #Picher #Oklahoma #GhostTown #ToxicWaste #AbandonedPlaces #TrueCrime #HorrorPodcast #DestinationTerror #Superfu...
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On November 20, 1980, a single drilling miscalculation transformed a peaceful Louisiana lake into a monstrous whirlpool that devoured oil rigs, barges, and sixty-five acres of land—leaving behind waters so deep and changed that locals whisper something else emerged from those flooded salt mine tunnels.   #LakePeigneur #DestinationTerror #HauntedLouisiana #TrueDisaster #CreepyPlaces #JeffersonIsland #SaltMineDisaster #LouisianaHor...
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Transylvania's remote mountain villages become winter prisons during the ancient Strigoii's Vigil, when three nights of supernatural terror force entire communities to seal themselves inside while the restless dead hunt for the living in the frozen Carpathian darkness.   https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   #Transylvania #Romania #WinterHorror #Strigoi #EasternEuropeFolklore #CarpathianMountains #TrueCrime #F...
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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 agricultural future sleeps in frozen vaults carved into an ancient mountain. They call it the "Doomsday Vault"—a repository of humanity's last hope against extinction. But what they don't tell visitors is that some seeds weren't meant to be preserved, and in the endless polar night, ...
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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 Seelie Court's darker cousins—creatures that emerge when the mist is thickest and the boundary between worlds grows thin as morning frost. https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   #DestinationTerror #ScottishHighlands #StoneCircles #WinterMist #ScotlandHorror ...
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A special cross-promotional message from Carman introducing Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror listeners to her true crime podcast, Deadly Intent. Discover why sometimes the real monsters are more terrifying than any legend or haunted location. If you love exploring the darkness in our world, it's time to meet the predators hiding in plain sight. #DeadlyIntent #CrossPromotion #TrueCrime #CriminalPsychology #RealMonsters #Podc...
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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 night, using aurora-bright eyes and stolen voices to lure the living into the frozen darkness where warmth goes to die. https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror #DestinationTerror #BarrowAlaska #Utqiagvik #PolarNight #AlaskaHorror #ArcticTerror #AlaskanLegend...
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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 allegedly become home to pale, adapted underground dwellers who emerge during New Year's Eve celebrations to hunt for new victims. https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   #TimesSquare #UndergroundTunnels #DestinationTerror #NYCHorror #PneumaticTunnels #NY...
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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 corners of the Eeriecast atlas. This compilation exists because the holiday deserves more than tinsel and cheer. It deserves the places where winter has teeth and folklore still files paperwork in bloodless silence. 🎙️ **EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:** 🔮 Freaky Folkl...
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Explore the dark folklore lurking beneath Rovaniemi, Finland's cheerful Christmas facade, where ancient Sami legends of underground dwellers called maahiset reveal the sinister origins of Christmas helpers who emerge during the polar night to claim children for their eternal celebrations. 🎙️ **EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:** 🔮 Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore 💀 Carman's Crypt (Origin...
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Two experienced adventurers venture into Iceland's Vatnajökull glacier caves seeking the ultimate extreme tourism experience, but discover that some of Europe's most beautiful ice formations hide ancient terrors that feed on human warmth. Based on real ice cave incidents and Icelandic folklore about the jökulhuldufólk—glacier beings that have grown hungry as climate change awakens what's been sleeping beneath the ice for centuries....
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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 an ancient entity called the Elemental stalks visitors who dare disturb its domain. 🎙️ **EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:** 🔮 Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore 💀 Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://carmanscrypt.buzzsprout.com...
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A Massachusetts state forest where ancient Wampanoag legends meet modern-day disappearances, and the little wild men of the woods still keep score.   https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   #DestinationTerror #PukwudgieWoods #BridgewaterTriangle #WampanoagFolklore #MassachusettsHauntings #FreetownStateForest #LittlePeople #NativeAmericanLegends #ParanormalHotspot #CreepyForests 🎙️ **EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLI...
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A legendary creature haunts Minnesota's remote wilderness, leaving behind only massive footprints in the snow and traumatized witnesses who barely escaped its clutches. 🎙️ **EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:** 🔮 Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore 💀 Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://carmanscrypt.buzzsprout.com  🔍 Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://carmancarrion.buzzsprout.com ...
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