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Oct 2024
53m 1s

Nightmare Fuel #17: The Dead of Winter

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins
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In this seventeenth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we head to the 1970s, where a woman finds a diary in an old homestead cabin that has been in her family's possession since the late 1860s. The author of the diary has obviously long been dead. But is she still somehow writing new entries from the other side? 

This episode was scored by Logan Keith. We recommend listening with headphones to experience the full effect of all the creepy background noises!  If you like this episode, please let us know wherever you rate and review podcasts. Thanks so much! 

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