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.
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Lone Pine Mountain Devil Pt. 2
In part 2 of Lone Pine Mountain Devil, a journalist sets out to uncover what really happened to Maxine and Shane faces something far more dangerous and bloodthirsty than some monster.
29 min
52
Lone Pine Mountain Devil Pt. 1
In part 1 of Lone Pine Mountain Devil, an internet rabbit hole leads Rodney to the social media channel of a cryptid hunting couple. Shane and Maxine are on the verge of internet fame when tragedy strikes.
28 min
53
The Snallygaster Gang
A kid from a broken home falls in with the wrong crowd. Driven by a desire to belong, he becomes more of a monster than the one he encounters.
29 min
54
The Mermaid
A grieving man returns to a resort where his wife had drowned to get some closure and finds himself allured by an ancient sea creature who preys on people yearning for a connection.
28 min
55
The Vampire of Mercy Notch Pt. 2
In the second and final episode of this horror mystery, Sheriff Bill's investigation leads him to an unlikely suspect and uncovers an assortment of body parts belonging to imprisoned kids.
24 min
56
The Vampire of Mercy Notch Pt. 1
In the first episode of this horror mystery, a Maine teen vanishes in the middle of the night and the town's sheriff is determined to track him down before it's too late. But each new clue leads to more questions than answers.
18 min
57
The Dark Watchers
Rodney takes a writing trip to a secluded cabin in Big Sur, but is unsettled by what he learns happened to the last writer who visited that eerie place for some inspiration.
28 min
58
La Mala Hora
An old evil spirit finds a new way to lure victims. When Jay gets on the dating app Moment, following a pretty bad breakup, he inadvertently swipes right on the date from hell.
26 min
59
The Phantom Hitchhiker
When Rodney was trying to break into Hollywood in his early 20s, he'd often drive from Maryland to LA through the barren, dusty backroads of the Southwest. Then he had an inexplicable encounter with a hitchhiker that convinced him to avoid the desert route.
26 min
60
The Monster of Chesapeake Bay
A father and son go out on a routine crabbing excursion in the Chesapeake Bay when their boat begins to rock violently. They initially write it off as some rogue wave, but then they see the shadow of a massive snake-like creature glide by.
24 min
61
Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
Rodney meets Hank, a blogger who’s made a career out of debunking local legends, at the annual Lizard Man Festival in Bishopville, South Carolina. The pair head into the nearby swamps to uncover the truth behind one of the most lethal monsters.
25 min
62
Boo Hags
Miri begins to have terrible nightmares and sleep paralysis when she moves into a new house in rural Georgia. She isn’t too concerned about it at first, but then she encounters something that literally gets under her skin.
28 min
63
Goatman
Rodney revisits a story his grandma used to tell him about a local goat farmer who was taken in the night and hanged off the Kootenai County Bridge. Although that night was the end of the farmer’s life, it was the beginning of something far more terrifying.
31 min
64
Dead Children’s Playground
Rodney drives to an eerie playground in Huntsville, Alabama where he encounters a pediatric nurse seeking solace. When she’s lured into a spectral world, she finds herself grappling with the boundary between the living and the dead.
26 min
65
The Jersey Devil
When a master poker player gets unlucky in a seedy underground gambling ring, a couple of mobsters drop him deep in the woods of New Jersey. Then he hears a tortured shriek.
29 min
66
The Little Girl on Knock-Knock Road
Roger finds himself wrestling with a dark secret when he decides to take the long way home from dinner with his wife. Suddenly, a chilling knock on their car’s window changes everything. Turns out, Roger isn’t the only one hiding a secret.
30 min
67
Rougarou
Helene, Leon and Davey are known as the arrogant, cool kids at their New Orleans Catholic school. When the teens choose to give up nothing more than an eye roll for lent, the town turns dark, as does their fate.
27 min
68
Hopkinsville Goblins
A group of former college friends meet for a reunion in a small Kentucky town called Hopkinsville. The drinks start to flow, the laughter spreads – until something violent and angry descends from the sky.
30 min
69
Voodoo Village
Jacob Henderson is desperate to be liked by his high school classmates. So desperate that he accepts a dare to visit a cursed place known as Voodoo Village. What he finds inside will make him question his sanity, his faith – and his assumptions about good and evil.
29 min
70
The Resurrection Man
Rodney attends a wedding in Georgia, near the site of an old medical college. There, he learns about the centuries-old legend of Grandison Harris, an enslaved man once tasked with obtaining corpses for white doctors. What became of the so-called "Resurrection Man" – and does his ghost still haunt the halls of the school?
27 min
71
The Wendigo
In the pilot episode of RUN, FOOL!, our host travels to Minnesota, where he encounters an Ojibwe woman who claims to have survived an encounter with the bloodthirsty snow beast called the Wendigo. But nothing is what it seems.
32 min
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Introducing: RUN, FOOL!
Out of the terrifying mind of Rodney Barnes comes RUN, FOOL!, a weekly compendium of grisly and harrowing tales guaranteed to make you scream.
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