Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories

Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories

This weekly podcast of fiction read out loud explores the entire world of ghosts and the supernatural. The stories are touching, scary, gruesome, funny, and heartwarming. New episodes every Wednesday. Have a story you'd like us to read? Send it to kaidankai100ghoststories@gmail.com Read the stories at our website (kaidankaistories.com Instagram: @kaidankaisupernaturalstories Facebook: Kaidankai: Ghost & Supernatural Stories Podcast Bluesky: @ghoststorylover.bsky.social Substack: @kaidankai

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November 12, 2025 25 mins
A ski trip to Japan turns into a darker adventure when two friends encounter a spirit that wants something.

Paul Walter is an Irish-born, recently retired illustrator, art teacher, and occasional author. He has had two children’s books published by Penguin; Grandpa’s Big Adventure, and Grandpa’s Space Adventure. His literary novel, Fin Rising, was originally published by Really Blue Books in 2012 and was re-published in 2022 by Púca...
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A student filmmaker recreating an old murder discovers that the past is not done performing its part.

A life-long resident of Melbourne, Australia, Rick is retired after 42 years in the transport industry. His stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies and podcasts and he has several books on Amazon. He hasn’t been owned by a cat for decades and must resort to talking to next door's white tom who sometimes condescends to talk b...
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October 29, 2025 33 mins
When the Rodadora arrive, born of blood and storm, a family braces for survival against an ancient, inescapable force.

Helen Gallegos Evans has taught Los Angeles students for 24 years. She enjoys writing, photography, reading, walking, and engaging conversations. Her works have appeared in Gingerbread House Literary, Acentos Review, The Amaranth Review, Papercuts, Bards and Sages Quarterly, and elsewhere.


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October 22, 2025 22 mins
A woman servant is under a monster’s spell. A chance encounter with a stranger makes her  question whether her life—and her very identity—are her own.

Salem Savage-Cutcher strives to spark whimsy in the world. They write experimental and just plain weird fantasy, horror, and magical realism. They have previously been published in the Iris Review. You can find them at salemsavagecutcher@neocities.org.


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October 15, 2025 36 mins
A boy hears his mother’s voice calling from the closet—but didn't he just see his mother downstairs?

David Corisis is a born-and-raised Idahoan and graduate of Gonzaga University. He lives the exciting life of a programmer by day and aspiring writer by night. When not sharing a keyboard with his cat, David enjoys running, brewing mead, playing Magic the Gathering, camping, and worrying about the ever-marching hand of time stealing e...
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October 8, 2025 19 mins
A near-death crash leaves Paul seeing strange, sheet-like entities that drift between life and death—and follow him home.

L.N. Hunter’s comic fantasy novel, ‘The Feather and the Lamp,’ sits alongside works in anthologies such as ‘The Monsters Next Door’ and ‘Best of British Science Fiction 2022’ as well as Short Édition’s ‘Short Circuit’ and the ‘Horrifying Tales of Wonder’ podcast. There have also been papers in the IEEE ‘Transacti...
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October 1, 2025 17 mins
A man wakes from illness to find the world around him terrifyingly changed.

Stefan Sofiski is the pen name of a Bulgarian author living in the UK. Stefan works as an engineering professional by day and uses every free minute to write.

You can read "Fever" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.

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September 24, 2025 19 mins
Roxie Hart is a wise-cracking, ghostly private detective solving supernatural crimes with sass, grit, and a spectral zapper.



Daniel P. Douglas is the pen name for identical twins Phillip and Paul Garver. Phillip, a U.S. Army veteran, former intelligence analyst, and retired federal government employee, and Paul, with 30 years in the museum profession including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, write science fiction, suspense, and ...
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September 17, 2025 15 mins
A former Nazi guard returns to the camp where he worked. His memories stir up old ghosts.

Alice Baburek is an avid reader, determined writer, and animal lover. She lives with her female partner and four canines. Retired, she challenges herself to become an unforgettable emerging voice.

You can read "Stairway to Death" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.

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September 10, 2025 14 mins
A man’s car radio intercepts occult broadcasts that lead him to a motel where ancient gods, lost loves, and unimaginable horrors converge.

Nick Porisch is a writer based in the Northern Midwest. Most of the time you can find him just sitting around someplace, potentially writing genre fiction and screenplays but usually just sitting. On the rare occasion he’s not sitting around, he might be rock climbing or running. But most likely ...
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September 3, 2025 11 mins
When a ghost warns a journalist about her impending death, she learns the afterlife depends on one thing: believing it exists.

Deborah Sale-Butler was born on Halloween and loves to play with supernatural elements in her stories. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in dozens of publications including the Dead Girls Walking Anthology—where today’s story first appeared,— Twisting, Turning Timeshifts Anthology, Three X the Fun An...
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August 27, 2025 13 mins
In the fields of haunted pastures, a cursed shepherd faces the sins of his past.

K. D. P. Wildwood is a trans Midwestern author living in Ohio with his husband and their cat. He enjoys tabletop games, observing the weather, gardening, and horror media.

You can read "The Revenant" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.

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August 20, 2025 10 mins
A promise made to the dying draws one man back to an abandoned house, where he finds strange comfort.

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had 550 stories and poems published so far, and twelve books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories where he manages a posse of six review editors, and as lead editor at Scribes Micro.

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August 13, 2025 9 mins
A gang of graveyard-bound ghosts welcomes a familiar visitor—but this sunny spring day holds a surprise neither the living nor the dead will forget.

Jim Wright (he/him) lives in central New York State, USA. He writes short stories when he can and works as a school psychologist when he must. He is a past member of the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, NY.

You can read "Ghost Picnic" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.

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An elderly man returns to Rocky Point, a place where he was happy and had great exectations. But he’s drawn there now by regret and a love that never died. Is it too late for some of those expectations to be met?

Lee Clark Zumpe, an entertainment columnist with Tampa Bay Newspapers, earned his bachelor’s in English at the University of South Florida. He began writing poetry and fiction in the early 1990s. His work has regularly appe...
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July 30, 2025 21 mins
A mysterious ringmaster has knowledge about a man's father's past. He offers the man a choice that promises truth but may alter the man's life forever.

Daniel Culver lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and four kids. He has work published in places such as The Garfield Lake Review, Paragon Press, and Indolent Books, among others.

You can read "The Last Ticket" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.

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Children vanish, trees move at night, and a young girl begins to ask: Why is the forest stalking her?

Aged 9-10, Matt Smart traded silver in London and Essex, England.  In his teens, Matt began sculpting, using materials for car bodywork repair that he learned when his mother’s agoraphobia led her to drive recklessly, often crashing during panic attacks.  He ran several research funds at Oxford University, and is published academica...
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July 16, 2025 18 mins
Buried alive, betrayed, and robbed of his gold—Diamondback is mad as hell...and wants revenge.

David Corisis is a born-and-raised Idahoan and graduate of Gonzaga University. He lives the exciting life of a programmer by day and aspiring writer by night. When not sharing a keyboard with his cat, David enjoys running, brewing mead, playing Magic the Gathering, camping, and worrying about the ever-marching hand of time stealing everyth...
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In "Last Breath:" A boy on a hunting trip with his father questions the need to kill animals sacred to the Sami people and culture.

"Ode to Obscured Ancestors," speaks to the quiet endurance passed through generations and the ancestral voices that still sing through silence.

Author's Note: This story was written in consultation with a Sámi advisor (poet and activist Elise Maren) and includes elements of their spirituality. The Sámi a...
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July 2, 2025 13 mins
After fleeing the chaos of the city, a woman finds uneasy solitude in a remote forest cabin—until the night fire and something else descend.

Alex Dal Piaz is an author from New York with recent credits in Seaside Gothic, Bristol Noir, The Other Stories, Cast of Wonders, and Bunker Squirrel. He’s currently querying a first novel and can be found online at X/Twitter @smile_stilllife and at linktr.ee/alexdpz 

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