In 2003, researchers tracking a nine foot great white shark off the coast of Bremer Bay, Australia made a chilling discovery when the shark’s tracking device washed ashore without the shark. The data revealed a sudden deep dive to 1,900 feet and a sharp temperature spike, suggesting the shark had been swallowed whole by an unknown predator. What followed became one of the ocean’s most unsettling mysteries: What could possibly hunt and devour one of the world’s most fearsome predators?

Fearful is a podcast produced by Media Forge Studios, and releases a new episode here every Wednesday.

Tucked away in the quiet town of Cayuga, Indiana, stands a house that has earned a reputation darker than its peeling walls reveal. Known as Willows Weep, it has been called the most haunted and possibly the most evil house in North America. Its history is soaked in death, despair, and something far more sinister that refuses to stay buried.

Fearful is a podcast produced by Media Forge Studios, and releases a new episode here every Wednesday.

Hidden in the shadows of global folklore, the Duende is a small, humanlike creature often described as no taller than two feet, covered in wild hair, sometimes bearded, and frequently seen wearing a wide-brimmed red or gold hat. Though its appearance may echo the gnomes or goblins of European myth, the Duende carries a far darker reputation. It is a creature said to lure children into the forest, live within walls, or punish those who trespass on sacred ground. Across the globe, the Duende is feared, and for good reason.

Fearful is a podcast produced by Media Forge Studios, and releases a new episode here every Wednesday.