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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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...
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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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.
Website: kaidankaistories.com
Please feel free to contact me through the website contact form.
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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 ...
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.
Website: kaidankaistories.com
Please feel free to contact me through the website c...
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.
Website: kaidankaistories.com
Please feel free to contact me through the website c...
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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 ...
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...
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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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.
Website: kaidankaistories.com
Please feel free to contact me through the website contact form.
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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.
You can read "Empty House" at...
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.
You can read "Empty House" at...
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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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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.
Website: kai...
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August 6, 2025 • 12 mins
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...
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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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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July 23, 2025 • 24 mins
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...
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...
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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July 9, 2025 • 21 mins
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...
"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
You can read "Out of the Fi...
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
You can read "Out of the Fi...
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June 25, 2025 • 14 mins
In a pulsing nightclub, a man re-lives the same horrific moment as time loops, reality blurs, and a stranger’s purpose becomes terrifyingly clear.
Tim Law has loved to write from a very young age, but has only recently discovered the joy of being published. He is happily married to a wonderful girl, a proud father of three humans, and a reluctant father figure to four cats. He writes fantasy, science fiction, general, detective, hu...
Tim Law has loved to write from a very young age, but has only recently discovered the joy of being published. He is happily married to a wonderful girl, a proud father of three humans, and a reluctant father figure to four cats. He writes fantasy, science fiction, general, detective, hu...
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June 18, 2025 • 41 mins
A haunting melody becomes the thread between love, loss, and the mysterious forces that blur the line between life and death.
C.S. Fuqua’s books include Fatherhood ~ Poems of Parenthood, Walking After Midnight ~ Collected Stories, Big Daddy’s Fast-Past Gadget, Native American Flute ~ A Comprehensive Guide, and White Trash & Southern ~ Collected Poems. His work has appeared in publications such as Year's Best Horror Stories XIX, ...
C.S. Fuqua’s books include Fatherhood ~ Poems of Parenthood, Walking After Midnight ~ Collected Stories, Big Daddy’s Fast-Past Gadget, Native American Flute ~ A Comprehensive Guide, and White Trash & Southern ~ Collected Poems. His work has appeared in publications such as Year's Best Horror Stories XIX, ...
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June 11, 2025 • 42 mins
A nurse confronts the emotional and spiritual toll of his work in end of life care.
Tony Del Degan is an author and screenwriter from Calgary, Canada. When he was a young boy, he was introduced to the world of fiction through films like Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and was immediately captured by the desire to create imaginative worlds and stories of his own. Since elementary school, when he started creating books for ...
Tony Del Degan is an author and screenwriter from Calgary, Canada. When he was a young boy, he was introduced to the world of fiction through films like Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and was immediately captured by the desire to create imaginative worlds and stories of his own. Since elementary school, when he started creating books for ...
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June 4, 2025 • 17 mins
A podcast team explores a chilling urban legend in Santiago, uncovering haunting tales, personal fears, and deeper truths about belief, memory, and the unknown.
Sam Williamson is an aspiring writer and a medical student from Santiago, Chile. Her story "Light," earned third place in the Miroptics Contest. Her pieces have appeared in magazines such as Amazine, with forthcoming work in ionosphere. When not writing, she immerses herself...
Sam Williamson is an aspiring writer and a medical student from Santiago, Chile. Her story "Light," earned third place in the Miroptics Contest. Her pieces have appeared in magazines such as Amazine, with forthcoming work in ionosphere. When not writing, she immerses herself...
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May 28, 2025 • 9 mins
When Laura returns once more to the place where her uncle disappeared, she expects only silence. Instead, she finds a voice calling her name, a face she thought was long gone, and a reality that begins to unravel.
Grove Koger is the author of Not, a chapbook of poetry; and When the Going Was Good: A Guide to the 99 Best Narratives of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure. He’s Assistant Editor of Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal...
Grove Koger is the author of Not, a chapbook of poetry; and When the Going Was Good: A Guide to the 99 Best Narratives of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure. He’s Assistant Editor of Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal...
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