A Ponca City mansion gets a warm family tour and a careful brush with possible ghosts.
Marni Vinge's trip to the Marlin Mansion in Ponca City turns a family day out into a lively tour of a house that feels both glamorous and unsettling.
Sooner State stories with a spooky pulse.
The gist
EERIE OKIE works the darker edge of Oklahoma storytelling: haunted places, urban legends, old crimes, strange history, and Halloween detours. The tone stays loose and conversational, with Marnie Vinge often bringing friends or family into stories that move between research, memory, jokes, and genuine unease.
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About EERIE OKIE
EERIE OKIE is a conversational show about Oklahoma’s haunted, criminal, legendary, and just-plain-strange story world. It keeps returning to the darker side of the Sooner State, but it rarely sounds like a sealed museum tour. The show is looser than that. Marnie Vinge talks through places, legends, books, memories, trips, and eerie research with guests who bring their own knowledge and reactions into the room. Jeff Provine is a recurring presence in the excerpts, appearing in conversations tied to modern urban legends, Secret Oklahoma City, the Shawnee Maniac, and Haunted Oklahoma. Those episodes give the show a strong folklore-and-place backbone: Purple Church, Lake Overholzer, the White Lady, Kitchen Lake, Crybaby Bridge, Guthrie, newspaper archives, ghost tours, and city-specific weirdness all sit inside the same broad map. Other episodes change the texture. Marland Mansion brings in Ponca City history, family conversation with Larissa Vinge, and the complicated residue of wealth, monuments, death, and possible hauntings. Halloween Would You Rather is lighter and more personal, built around spooky choices, cemeteries, abandoned houses, horror movies, Halloween parties, and a remembered kangaroo costume. Dead End Film House shifts toward Oklahoma indie horror, with discussion of short films, visual storytelling, sound design, micro-horror, and local filmmaking camaraderie. Subscriber-only material can step outside Oklahoma, as the Tabor Opera House episode does with Leadville, Colorado, while keeping the same interest in haunted buildings and tragic histories. The show’s appeal comes from that blend of research and informality. One minute the conversation is following a legend’s social function; the next, it is laughing at an awkward question or a dog making noise in the background. It is spooky, but not stiff. It lets the human chatter stay in the recording, which makes the haunted material feel closer to ordinary life.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes regional hauntings, folklore, true crime, and Halloween conversation without a heavily formal documentary style. It also fits anyone drawn to Oklahoma-specific stories and occasional detours into horror culture.
What sets it apart: EERIE OKIE stands out by treating eerie material as local social geography, moving from landmarks and newspaper archives to family memories, ghost-tour lore, and indie horror conversations. The show’s casual guest dynamic keeps the macabre grounded in ordinary talk.
In their own words
An Oklahoma podcast that focuses on true crime, unexplained phenomena, and local legends. Host Marnie Vinge explores a different case each week with the help of an ensemble cast of friends. If you're an Oklahoma ghoul who enjoys the morbid and macabre, this is the podcast for you.
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- Marnie Vinge and her mother debating the scarier midnight stop: a graveyard or an abandoned house
- an old babysitter scare reconsidered in a world of cell phones
Oklahoma hauntingsurban legendslocal true crimehistoric mansions and theaterslegend-tripping locationsHalloween traditionsindie horror filmmakingspooky books and ghost tours
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A relaxed folklore conversation about how old fears keep changing shape, from an HIV rumor to a clown statue in the basement.
Modern urban legends serve as a map of public fear in this relaxed episode with Marnie Vinge and Jeff Provine. The conversation moves from the childhood dread of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark to a vacation rumor about HIV, then looks at why those stories stick.
A practical Oklahoma City indie-horror conversation about micro-shorts, visual suspense, and sound shaped by musicians.
Marnie Vinge returns after more than a year for a conversation with Jeff Richardson, Dylan Cole Black, Skylar Taylor, and John Hornbeck of Dead End Filmhouse, the Oklahoma City indie horror production house.
A Halloween would-you-rather game becomes a warm family detour, led by a homemade kangaroo costume and a firm Sharknado vote.
Halloween comes through as a family would-you-rather game, with Marnie Vinge steering her mother, Larissa Vinge, through spooky-season choices that stay more practical than scary.
A haunted opera house opens onto the tragic collapse of Baby Doe Tabor.
A haunted opera house in Leadville, Colorado gives EERIE OKIE a clear way into the fall of H.A.W. Tabor and Baby Doe Tabor, whose story ends with Baby Doe freezing alone in her cabin in 1935.
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Episodes
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MARLAND MANSION
Hidden gem["Eerie Okie's \"Marland Mansion\" centers on Ponca City's 43,561-square-foot \"Palace on the Prairie,\" built in 1928 for $5.5 million at the height of Marland Oil.", "Marni Vinge and her mother, Larissa Vinge, narrate their visit and trace E.W.
Aug 11, 2025·35m·3 clips - 2
MODERN URBAN LEGENDS
Hidden gemIrioki's "Modern Urban Legends" episode follows Momo, Polybius, black-eyed kids, and the "well to hell" chain-letter story through Oklahoma folklore and internet horror.
Aug 1, 2025·38m·2 clips - 3
TABOR OPERA HOUSE
Hidden gem["Eerie Okie's subscriber-only Colorado story centers on the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, a $65,000 theater built in 100 days and advertised as the finest playhouse west of the Mississippi.", "Marnie Vinge ties the theater to Horace Tabor, Augusta Tabor, Elizabeth McCourt \"Baby Doe\" Tabor, the Matchless Mine, and the 1893 silver crash that wiped out the fortune.", "She and her family describe visiting the opera house, Baby Doe's cabin, and the Delaware Hotel, then connect those stops to reported hauntings like a rocking chair that felt occupied and lights that switched on and off.", "The episode also names Mary Coffee, Jerry Coffee, Buffalo Bill, Oscar Wilde, Harry Houdini, and a grave visit where \"he's been dead a long time\" became the punchline."]
Jan 5, 2024·33m·3 clips - 4
HALLOWEEN WOULD YOU RATHER
Hidden gemMarnie Vinge and her mother Larissa Vinge spend the Erioki subscriber edition on Halloween would-you-rather questions, opening with graveyards, abandoned houses, vampires, and haunted-house fears.
Jan 5, 2024·34m·2 clips - 5
DEAD END FILM HOUSE
Hidden gemEerie Okie's 'Dead End Film House' centers on Oklahoma City indie horror production, with Marnie Vinge talking to Jeff Richardson, Dylan Cole Black, Skylar Taylor, and John Hornbeck.
Jan 5, 2024·44m·3 clips - 6
GUTHRIE GHOST WALK
Hidden gemStacey Frazier tells Marnie Vinge that her Guthrie Ghost Walk combines local history with ghost stories backed by names, dates, and newspaper accounts.
Sep 30, 2022·1h 5m·2 clips - 7
CONSTANTINE THEATER
Hidden gemAt Pawhuska's Constantine Theater, reports include footsteps on the stairs and a child's voice heard by three people.
Sep 23, 2022·28m·2 clips - 8
BIG MAC AND THE WARDEN'S HOUSE
Hidden gemEERIE OKIE’s Marni Venge and guest Whitney Willis cover Big Mac, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, and its Warden’s House.
Sep 9, 2022·32m·2 clips - 9
101 RANCH
Sep 2, 2022·38m - 10
HAUNTED GARFIELD COUNTY
Aug 26, 2022·1h 4m - 11
JOAN GAY CROFT
Aug 19, 2022·41m - 12
WOOLAROC
Aug 12, 2022·44m - 13
CAIN'S BALLROOM
Aug 5, 2022·39m - 14
SHANNA STOKER
Oct 29, 2021·57m - 15
SECRET OKLAHOMA CITY WITH JEFF PROVINE
Host Marnie Vinge and guest Jeff Provine discuss his book 'Secret Oklahoma City' for a Halloween special, covering hidden stories and spooky local lore.
Oct 22, 2021·40m - 16
ROADSIDE OKLAHOMA
Oct 5, 2021·41m - 17
WEIRD OKLAHOMA LAWS AND CRIMES
Oct 5, 2021·45m - 18
SKIRVIN HOTEL
Oct 5, 2021·44m - 19
EXORCISMS
Oct 5, 2021·53m - 20
PSYCHICS
Oct 5, 2021·52m - 21
EERIE OKIES: part 2
Oct 5, 2021·39m - 22
EERIE OKIES: part 1
Oct 5, 2021·47m - 23
OUIJA
Oct 5, 2021·45m - 24
SPIRITS AND SLEEP DEMONS
Oct 5, 2021·1h 9m - 25
BIGFOOT RETURNS
Oct 5, 2021·53m - 26
TIGER KING
Oct 5, 2021·1h 20m - 27
OVERHOLSER MANSION
Oct 5, 2021·48m - 28
JOE EXOTIC: part 3
Oct 5, 2021·54m - 29
JOE EXOTIC: part 2
Oct 5, 2021·53m - 30
JOE EXOTIC: part 1
Oct 5, 2021·55m - 31
DEER WOMAN
Oct 5, 2021·45m - 32
FAITH HEALING
Oct 5, 2021·46m - 33
HAUNTED OKLAHOMA WITH JEFF PROVINE: part 1
Host Marnie Vinge interviews the author of 'Haunted Oklahoma' about collecting local ghost stories and folklore.
Oct 5, 2021·42m - 34
HAUNTED OKLAHOMA WITH JEFF PROVINE: part 2
Host Marnie Vinge and guest Jeff Provine discuss haunted locations and legend-tripping spots in Oklahoma, including the Purple Church, Lake Overholzer, and Crybaby Bridge.
Oct 5, 2021·34m - 35
SHAWNEE MANIAC
Host Marnie Vinge and guest Jeff Provine discuss a little-known serial killer from 1910s Shawnee, Oklahoma, blending true crime with local folklore.
Oct 5, 2021·35m - 36
CRYBABY BRIDGES
Oct 5, 2021·49m - 37
HAINT BLUE
Oct 5, 2021·36m - 38
WILL-O’-THE-WISPS & THE HORNET SPOOKLIGHT
Oct 5, 2021·33m - 39
LISTENER QUESTIONS
Oct 5, 2021·47m - 40
BLACK CATS
Oct 5, 2021·38m - 41
HAUNTED MOORE HIGH SCHOOL
Oct 5, 2021·33m - 42
SOONER CORRAL
Oct 5, 2021·47m - 43
PICHER, OKLAHOMA
Oct 5, 2021·40m - 44
ROUTE 66 RIDE: part 2
Oct 5, 2021·52m - 45
ROUTE 66 RIDE: part 1
Oct 5, 2021·52m - 46
CEMETERY SYMBOLISM AND FLORIOGRAPHY
Oct 5, 2021·55m - 47
GRIFFIN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Oct 5, 2021·56m - 48
THE OKLAHOMA CITY BUTCHER: part 2
Oct 5, 2021·48m - 49
THE OKLAHOMA CITY BUTCHER: part 1
Oct 5, 2021·40m - 50
MARNIE GETS A TAROT READING
Oct 5, 2021·1h 8m