Welcome to the Shadows

The Hours Between

You've been awake for three days. Not because you want to be. Because you saw what's waiting for you when you close your eyes. It's in the corner of your bedroom. It's been patient. It's been watching. And now it knows you can see it too. Trigger Warnings Parasitophobia Dark Themes Please prioritize your mental health and well-being when deciding whether to listen this story

Purpose

When beauty becomes obsession, and obsession becomes madness. Trigger warnings Self Harm, Death Please prioritize your mental health and well-being when deciding whether to listen this story

The Trap

A solo hike through autumn wilderness becomes a nightmare when a single misstep triggers a forgotten bear trap buried beneath the leaves. TRIGGER WARNINGS Content Warning: This story contains graphic depictions of severe injury, and death and includes explicit body horror Please prioritize your mental health and well-being when deciding whether to listen this story.

The Avocado Green Rotary

When a desperate tenant moves into a furnished apartment to escape their past, they dismiss the vintage rotary phone as a charming relic from the 1960s. But soon the impossible happens, the unplugged phone begins to ring. TRIGGER WARNINGS This story includes graphic descriptions of strangulation and murder, depictions of violence against women, themes of stalking and predatory behavior, and intense psychological horror involving loss of control and inescapable danger. Please prioritize your mental health and well-being when deciding whether to listen this story

Trailer

Podcast Description Welcome to the Shadows is a supernatural anthology podcast that exists in the space between heartbeats, in the pause before sleep takes you. Hosted by the mysterious Keeper—a being who exists outside of time in a library built from echoes—each episode tells the story of someone who died with their truth unheard, their ending unexplained, their final moments unobserved. This is not a library of books. It is a collection of residue. The last words never spoken. The confessions that died on tongues. The secrets that dissolved into silence. Each story can only be told once. When the Keeper speaks it aloud, it dissolves—returns to the void it came from. But for that brief moment, you bear witness. And in your listening, the dead exist again. One last time. Welcome to the Shadows is a fiction podcast for those who linger in doorways, who notice when the light changes, who hear whispers in static. It's for anyone who has ever wondered: what happens to the stories no one was there to hear.