On a fog drenched island off Newfoundland’s coast, a woman’s voice still drifts through the night, whispering, “No one came to help me.” Locals call her the Bell Island Hag, a ghost said to crawl from the swamps and mines, freezing victims in their beds and dragging them into waking nightmares. Her story is woven from tragedy, superstition, and more than a century of fear. She is a haunting that refuses to die.

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Fearful is a podcast produced by Media Forge Studios.

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In the fall of 1903, the small town of Van Meter, Iowa, was gripped by fear as a winged creature with glowing light pouring from its forehead terrorized the community for five consecutive nights. Witnesses described a beast that defied nature as impervious to bullets, reeking of rot, and capable of vanishing into the sky. Over a century later, the Van Meter Visitor remains one of America’s most bizarre and chilling cryptid encounters.

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

In 1971, two boys digging in their garden in Hexham, England, unearthed a pair of crudely carved stone heads that were small, unsettling, and unlike anything they'd seen before. What followed was a wave of bizarre poltergeist activity, werewolf like sightings, and a chilling string of events that would plague every home the heads touched. To this day, no one knows if they were ancient Celtic relics, an elaborate hoax, or something far more sinister.

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