Junebug Fugitt, Tracy Rowsey, Jimmy Petonito, Kyle Lovern
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Strange accounts with West Virginia static.
In Dark Places is a story-forward paranormal show built from strange reports, witness accounts, folklore, and odd personal coincidences. Its mood is plainspoken and unsettled, moving from Williamson, West Virginia asides into skinwalkers, Dogman encounters, UFO sightings, ghost stories, and glitches that refuse tidy explanation.
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In Dark Places is a paranormal and strange-events show built around narrated accounts rather than polished investigation. It has a strong West Virginia center, often opening from Williamson, West Virginia, before wandering into reports from New Mexico, northern Illinois, Spain, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and other places where something feels off. The show likes a plain detail. A DVD receipt dated the same day as a rewatch. A cousin seen after years away. A road curve rumored to be haunted. A phone app demanding one more verification code. Those everyday irritants and coincidences act as the doorway into stranger material. Recent episodes cover glitches in the matrix, skinwalker encounters, Appalachian UFO reports, ghost stories, Dogman sightings, Bigfoot items, and folklore entries such as the Kappa. The rhythm is brisk. A personal aside gives way to a witness account, then another account, then a quick reaction, then the next unsettling file. The show does not treat every claim as proven, but it also does not flatten the stories with clinical distance. It is more interested in the atmosphere created by specific memory: dates, roads, distances, weather, voices, missing time, bright lights, scratches on a roof, or a shape in the sky that refuses to fit a normal category. Some accounts are intimate and disorienting, like a sudden inability to understand language or a friend calling after sensing a private crisis. Others lean into monster folklore, desert warnings, and rural sightings that sound half like family legend and half like field report. The tone can be funny in a dry, grumbling way, especially when modern technology or bad media comes up. Then it gets quiet again. The show’s strongest appeal is its willingness to let stories remain unresolved without sanding off their messier edges. It feels less like a museum exhibit of the paranormal than a long night of accounts from people who still do not know what happened.
Made for: Best for listeners who want paranormal stories, cryptid lore, UFO reports, and uncanny coincidences delivered in a direct, conversational style. It especially fits people who prefer unresolved witness accounts over heavily produced documentary arcs.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its mix of local West Virginia framing, blunt personal asides, and rapid stacks of first-person reports. It keeps the mystery alive by asking whether a story could be true without forcing an official answer.
Join Junebug, Mr. Haunted, Tracy, and Kyle as they look into all aspects of the unknown, ranging from cryptids to UFOs, and everything in between.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Junebug Fugate's mix of paranormal reports, personal asides, and open-ended reactions keeps attention on how people tell and preserve strange experiences.
In Dark Places treats the unexplained as a body of stories people keep testing against ordinary life. Junebug Fugate moves from UFO sighting reports and werewolf lore to strange coincidences, alleged skinwalker encounters, and Bigfoot claims, usually reading an account before…
A Christmas UFO archive meets West Virginia deadpan, and your night gets pleasantly less explainable.
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Ordinary settings and uncanny timing keep the story grounded.
This episode leans on coincidence and memory more than plot. A cousin with oversized false teeth turns up at Walmart after being on the narrator's mind, then the story drifts into radio noise, a sudden loss of language, a friend's call after a marriage ended, and childhood…
Phone gripes give way to skinwalker stories, family memory, and one very strange hotel visit.
The episode starts with a long, cranky stretch about phones, passwords, and app logins before settling into skinwalker stories tied to New Mexico and the Four Corners area.
A loose back-porch take on Bigfoot reports and UFO witness accounts, carried by plain conversational delivery.
The episode moves through Bigfoot reports and UFO witness accounts with a loose, steadily rising sense of oddity. Its strength is not polish but accumulation: each new claim adds a little more pressure, and the grounded details keep the material from drifting too far into the…
Christmas UFO reports, dry humor, and concrete details that keep the mystery in play.
The episode leans into Christmas UFO reports and the host's dry humor, using the holiday frame to keep the stories moving. Its strongest stretches come from the concrete sightings: a hotel sky full of moving lights, a bright pink object over Doncaster, a daytime flash in Union,…
A straight-faced tour through wolf lore, old medicine, and a stubborn question about belief.
This episode keeps werewolf lore tied to older, stranger material. It opens with a harvest-night attack near the Vistula in Poland, then moves into the difference between a werewolf and lycanthropy. That gives the piece a tighter frame without sanding down the unease.
Firehouse talk with real tactical weight.
Vampire fandom with teeth and receipts.
Radio-room chaos with no clean edges.
Junebug Fugate opens from Williamson, West Virginia.
Junebug Fugate opens with a cranky riff on phones, apps, and passwords.
The host opens with a tired joke from Williamson, West Virginia, then settles into a run of strange reports.
This episode features a segment on the Kappa, a mischievous water creature from Japanese folklore, as part of a ghost stories podcast.
This episode discusses a CSB analysis ranking U.S.
The hosts discuss cryptids, UFOs, and paranormal phenomena, sharing personal stories like a Dog Man encounter.
The hosts discuss recent UFO sightings in Appalachia, reading listener reports of triangular and disc-shaped craft.
The host recounts a personal ghost sighting and a studio mishap while introducing a show about paranormal phenomena.
A paranormal investigation show where hosts share ghost stories and explore unexplained phenomena.
The hosts share and discuss 'Glitch in the Matrix' stories from listeners, involving strange coincidences and unexplained events.
In Dark Places returns for its 5th annual "UFOs of Christmas Past" roundup.
In Dark Places turns to werewolves and asks whether the legend hides anything real.
The host shares a personal story about attending an independent wrestling event and meeting childhood wrestling heroes.
The hosts discuss everyday annoyances and weather manipulation conspiracies, blending humor with paranormal themes.
Scientists discover a mysterious sphere in Columbia, sparking UFO speculation and debate between believers and skeptics.
The hosts discuss a drone show mistaken for UFOs, a locust invasion, and a vampire story about Mercy Brown.
A British mayoral candidate's past as a creepy clown who terrorized hospital workers is examined.
The host discusses a Soviet Venus probe crash prediction and shares a West Virginia ghost story about a ghostly bride.
The host reads a listener's story about a possible alien abduction involving a mysterious blue light and a frightened dog.
The hosts discuss personal anecdotes and a news segment about Blue Origin's all-female space mission.
The hosts discuss various paranormal topics including cryptids, UFOs, and a news story about a crackdown on witchcraft in Iraq.
A group discusses a mysterious ice chunk that fell through a Florida home's roof, investigating its possible origins and the FAA's inconclusive findings.
The hosts discuss paranormal topics, with this episode featuring a story about Florida police wrangling a creepy clown.
A news-style report about a man who found his late mother's dead baby in a freezer after 37 years, fact-checked as true.
The hosts discuss a breaking news story about a foster mother sentenced for sitting on and killing a ten-year-old boy.
The hosts plan a road trip to explore paranormal facts and stories about Maryland.
This episode explores the history of UFO investigations by the U.S.
The host apologizes for a delayed episode due to a major flood in Williamson, West Virginia, and briefly mentions recording UFO-related stories for the episode.
The host discusses mysterious drones over New Jersey with a White House update and shares a personal creepy experience while hiking alone in the woods.
This episode explores UFO cults, groups that believe in extraterrestrial beings and often claim communication with them, focusing on examples like the One World Family founded by Alan Michael Noonan.
The host shares chilling personal and family ghost stories, including a childhood encounter with a tuxedoed apparition and a mysterious experience at Yellowstone's Native American pits.
The host finally discusses the controversial Mandela Effect, a topic they've avoided for years due to fear of backlash.