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The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Include a little kaidankai in your holiday by listening to the annual reading of The Goblins who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens.
It's NOT scary!!

#Christmas #christmas2025 #christmasstory #CharlesDickens #achristmascarol

www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...

December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: "Dead Man's Posse" by Chad Gayle. A drifter joins a strange sheriff’s posse, only to discover he’s part of a ghost-hunting ritual—and far closer to the dead than he ever realized.
www.spreaker.com/episode/dead...
#KaidankaiPodcast
#WeirdWestern
#GhostStory
#AudioFiction

December 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Have you ever seen a #ghost? I haven't. And I have tried!! Visited haunted houses, castles, battlefields...But I meet so many people who have had experiences with the supernatural. What's yours?
#ghost #ghoststory

December 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: "Fleeing to the Dawn" by Daniel Stride. Two brothers flee...something, only to discover a city that chooses who may enter.
www.spreaker.com/episode/flee...
#Mystery #fantasystory #shortfiction #fear #escape #spotifypodcast #applepodcasts #supernaturalpodcast #fantasypodcast

December 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: "The Patience Factor" by Rick McQuiston. A self-help guru meets a follower whose “infinite patience” twisted his teachings into something dark.
www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
#ApplePodcasts #fictionpodcast #patience #Centenarian #ghost #SpotifyPodcast #goodpods #RevengeStory

December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: "A Prophet’s Hometown” by Nathan Perrin
A pastor confronts prophecy, madness, and faith in a story where salvation might come too late.
🎙️ Listen: www.spreaker.com/show/kaidankai

#DarkFiction #Faith #AudioFiction #ShortStoryPodcast #religiousficton #applepodcast #spotifypodcast

November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: Penance by Ed Ahern. A priest sells his dying church to a nightclub owner and discovers that even the dead demand redemption.
www.spreaker.com/episode/pena...

#Penance
#ghoststories
#GothicHorror
#SupernaturalFiction
#hauntedchurch
#applepodcasts
#spotifypodcast
#castbox
#goodpods

November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: “Hungry Ghost” by Paul Walter
A haunting born of hunger—and a reminder that some spirits will cross any distance to feed.
Listen: www.spreaker.com/show/kaidankai
#KaidankaiPodcast #HungryGhost #PaulWalter #SupernaturalHorror #DarkFiction #GhostStory #AudioFiction #ShortStoryPodcast

November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: “The Faces in Morgan Alley” by Rick Kennett
A student filmmaker reconstructs an old murder—and learns the past still wants its story told.
Listen now: www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
#DarkFiction #GhostStory #HauntingTales #SupernaturalFiction #AudioFiction #ShortStoryPodcast

November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: The Rodadora by Helen Gallegos Evans. When the Rodadora arrive, born of blood and storm, a family braces for survival against an ancient, inescapable force.

www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...

#DarkFiction #audiofiction
#shortstory
#horrorpodcast
#fictionpodcast
#creepystories

October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today’s Kaidankai story: Brainworm by Salem Savage-Cutcher.
A servant bound by devotion discovers that love, loyalty, and control can be the same cage.
🎧 Listen: www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-3...
#PsychologicalHorror #DarkFiction #applepodcast #HorrorFiction #StockholmSyndrome #AudioStories

October 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's story: The Gap in the Closet by David Corisis. A boy hears his mother’s voice calling from the closet—but she was just downstairs.
www.spreaker.com/.../the-gap-....
#Halloween #Horror #monster #childhoodfears #fictionpodcast #spotifypodcast #applepodcasts
Photo: Veronica on Unsplash

October 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's #podcast: Shadows by LN Hunter. A near-death crash leaves Paul seeing strange, sheet-like entities that seem attracted to death. They follow him home.
www.spreaker.com/episode/shad...
#GhostStory
#SupernaturalFiction
#NearDeathExperience
#DarkFiction
#LifeAndDeath
#BetweenWorlds

Shadows by LN Hunter - Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories

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October 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's #podcast: "Fever" by Stefan Sofiski. A man wakes from illness to find the world around him terrifyingly changed.

www.spreaker.com/episode/feve...

#KaidankaiPodcast
#ShortStoryPodcast
#HorrorPodcast
#fictionpodcast
#UncannyTales
#StrangeEncounters
#DreamOrReality
#SpeculativeFiction

October 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: "The Spook Who Sleuths" by Daniel P. Douglas. Roxie Hart is a wise-cracking private detective solving supernatural crimes with sass and a spectral zapper.
www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
#spotifypodcast #applepodcasts #noir #noirfiction #MysteryFiction #mystery #ghosthunting

The Spook Who Sleuths by Daniel P. Douglas - Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories

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September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's podcast: "Stairway to Death" by Alice Baburek. A former Nazi guard returns to the camp where he worked. His memories stir up old ghosts. Photo of Mauthausen
www.spreaker.com/episode/stai...
#spotifypodcast #applepodcasts #castbox #remember #Atrocity #germany #worldwar2 #WorldWarII

September 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

So, while ICE was busy rounding up people with no criminal background at Home Depot, restaurants, schools, and homes, they missed this one, who is a criminal. But it isn't their fault, of course: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Solution? Round up more people from Home Depot, etc.
#crazy #immigration

Trump vows tough action after gruesome beheading of motel manager in Dallas by employee

President Donald Trump said "the time for being soft" on illegal immigration is over after the beheading of motel manager Chandra Nagamallaiah.

www.yahoo.com

September 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

What constitutes #horror? For me, it isn't slasher type stories. It's things that question what we know to be real, but leave that question hanging over us like a sword of Damocles. Was that just a shadow moving or something unknown? Is that feeling of dread real or imagined? Am I crazy or...

September 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's #podcast: "Transmitter" by Nick Porisch. A man’s car radio intercepts occult broadcasts that lead him to ancient gods and unimaginable horrors converge.

www.spreaker.com/episode/tran...

#driving #radio #demons #ancientgods #love #SupernaturalFiction #applepodcasts #spotifypodcast #castbox

September 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Today's #Podcast: "Expectations" by Deborah Sale-Butler. When a ghost warns a journalist about her impending death, she learns the afterlife depends on one thing: believing it exists.
www.spreaker.com/episode/expe...
#ghoststory
#SupernaturalFiction
#shortstorypodcast
#applepodcasts
#spotifypodcast

September 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM

The Kaidankai

@ghoststorylover.bsky.social

Great lineup this September on the Kaidankai #supernaturalpodcast. First up is a story about a #journalist who learns in advance the moment she'll die. I wonder if you would want to know such information? I'm not sure I would. #ghost #ghoststories #halloween #getreadyforhalloween