RUN, FOOL!

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Out of the terrifying mind of Rodney Barnes comes RUN, FOOL!, a weekly compendium of grisly and harrowing tales guaranteed to make you scream. Pull up a seat at the campfire and lean in for a new breed of modern ghost story. If you get too scared ... RUN, FOOL!

From the page to the screen – and now straight to your ears – Rodney Barnes has created genre defining stories about monsters, demons, vampires, and the occult. With RUN, FOOL!, every week he’ll tell a new story, each of a different place and period, all equally frightening - and all brought together with gripping and immersive sound design.

New episodes every Tuesday.

RUN, FOOL! is presented by Ballen Studios, Campside Media, and At Will Media.

True Crime
Fiction
Science Fiction
26
Fan Favorite: Black Aggie
29 min
27
Polybius Pt. 2
32 min
28
Polybius Pt. 1
26 min
29
The Other Case of M. Valdemar
25 min
30
The Monsters of Grunch Road Pt. 2
27 min
31
The Monsters of Grunch Road Pt. 1
30 min
32
The Shaman’s Portal
28 min
33
Plat-Eye Pt. 2
33 min
34
Plat-Eye Pt. 1
28 min
35
The Night Marchers
28 min
36
The Slide-Rock Bolter
29 min
37
The Possessed Drone
A drone is possessed by the spirit of a North African date-farmer who, along with his pregnant wife, was targeted because he was believed to be a high-priority “insurgent.” Now the drone haunts the airman who operated it.
26 min
38
The Night Folk, Pt. 2
In Part 2, Rachel learns the factory workers behind the gruesome attacks are actually ancient, vampiric creatures who’re preparing to massacre everyone. She needs to get out of there, but leaving her town to the wolves doesn’t sit right with her.
27 min
39
The Night Folk, Pt. 1
A failed journalist moves back home to take care of her sick mom. She considers her town dull as dirt until she finds a flattened corpse hanging from a tree and uncovers what’s behind the gruesome attack.
27 min
40
Fingernails Freddie
When a counselor is bullied by her peers and struggles to fit in at Camp Harmony, she summons the spirit of an old man who was burned alive by campers’ fire to get revenge.
30 min
41
The Trash Pit
A lab develops a chemical spray that shrinks trash as part of an effort to curb New York’s waste problem. But the plan backfires when the spray inadvertently spawns a ravenous, filthy monster.
29 min
42
Skinwalkers, Pt. 2
After the neighbor and her cat show up dead, Jaya feels that something terrifying was responsible. And that thing might be living in her house.
33 min
43
Skinwalkers, Pt. 1
A married couple from Maine visits a ranch on a Navajo reservation and leaves with a mysterious stray dog. Except the dog isn’t really a dog.
28 min
44
Eastern State Penitentiary
Ghosts of the departed prisoners come alive, ready to feast on the living, and a security guard fights for his life inside the fortified walls and stone arches of the notorious penitentiary.
26 min
45
Hotel Monte Vista, Pt. 2
After Rodney’s life flashes before his eyes, he learns why his friend Lottie turned on him and failed to fulfill her promise to help the ghosts of Hotel Monte Vista.
26 min
46
Hotel Monte Vista, Pt. 1
Rodney’s high school friend Lottie invites him to a haunted hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona. Lottie helps trapped ghosts crossover to whatever comes next, but not every spirit wants her aid.
28 min
47
Black Aggie
One of the most insidious, abhorrent creatures comes after Rodney's grandmother Estelle and changes the way she sees the world forever.
28 min
48
The Montauk Project
Rodney is at a glitzy industry party in the Hamptons when he uncovers a treasure trove of horrors hidden behind the extravagance and all hell breaks loose.
27 min
49
The White Lady Tree
Three friends take a late-night trip into a dimly lit park in New Jersey to look for a rumored ghost. Their lives would never be the same again.
27 min
50
La Llorona
New parents Anya and Rafa move to a secluded house in rural Texas and get a visit from a mysterious elderly woman who’s hellbent on tearing their family apart.
26 min