Undertow: Familiar Haunts

Undertow is Realm’s showcase of original horror stories. Hosted by audio horror pioneer and creator Fred Greenhalgh, each season presents a spooky standalone series, so you can dive in anytime... if you dare!

Current Season: Familiar Haunts

From haunted houses to remote islands, late night radio transmissions to witchcraft, these character-forward stories reveal how the past is never truly gone, and humanity may be the most ruthless monster of them all.

Craving More Frights? Explore Past Seasons:

Season 1: Simpson Falls - A reporter awakens malevolent forces in his haunted hometown.

Season 2: Blood Forest - Every 20 years, werewolves descend for a night of horror. Starring Jack Falahee.

Season 3: Dark Tome - A teen unleashes a terrifying story from a spooky bookshop.

Season 4: The Well - Family secrets resurface, setting loose horror from an old well.

Season 5: The Pulse - A meteorite awakens animalistic instincts in a group of treasure hunters.

Season 6: The Sisters - True events inspire a chilling tale of occult & possession. Starring Mae Whitman.

Season 7: Last Call - A hustler gambles for his life against the Grim Reaper.

Season 8: Narcosis - A rescue dive turns deadly beneath the waves.

Season 9: The Harrowing - A barbaric crime heralds the rise of an ancient evil.

Season 10: Hovering - A police officer is pulled into unimaginable circumstances when he starts investigating calls about an object in the sky.

Season 11: Trio of Nightmares - Three bone-chilling novellas from Maine writers Chris Bernier, Katherine Silva, and Morgan Sylvia.


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The Sisters, E7
Frankie is trapped in the house of a possible killer…but other, even more sinister forces await her outside. Frances enlists the help of Vincent Garrel, a journalist focused on the occult.
29 min
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The Sisters, E6
Frankie and Kari visit their childhood home, and a local sheriff tells Frankie that he knows the real truth about her sibling. Frances grows increasingly concerned about the nature of her new twin girls when their behavior turns violent.
34 min
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The Sisters, E5
Frankie processes the reappearance of her long-lost sister, Kari. Frances and Thomas are blessed with new twin girls, who share eerie similarities with their deceased twins.
29 min
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The Sisters, E4
After humiliation on live TV, Frankie receives a shocking phone call from someone in her past. Frances and Thomas’ lives seem to turn around after Thomas confronts Mark Whitney, but is it too good to be true?
31 min
80
The Sisters, E3
Frankie and Duncan take a road trip to the Hamptons to chase down their lead on the Hellfire Club. Reeling, the Frances searches for a new beginning while Thomas promises revenge on Mark Whitney.
32 min
81
The Sisters, E2
Frankie receives tapes that point to the skeleton’s origins and brings them to her ex-husband Beneil, whose professional expertise points them to an occult group known as the Hellfire Club. Frances grows hostile towards Mark Whitney, and soon, an unspeakable tragedy befalls the Pollard family.
31 min
82
The Sisters, E1
In present-day Philadelphia, Frankie Bradshaw, curator of the Mutter Museum, receives an anonymous, mysterious skeleton and begins to investigate its origins. In 1960s England, Frances Pollard recounts a happy home life with her daughters and her husband, Thomas… until a stranger arrives.
28 min
83
Introducing The Sisters
Inspired by real events, THE SISTERS is a terrifying tale of obsession and family secrets. Set in 1960s England and present-day Philadelphia, the series follows a mystery that spans decades and asks the question: how far would you go to mend tragedy? THE SISTERS is a Realm Original produced by Goldhawk Productions with LightsOut, the team behind such hit podcasts as THE CIPHER, TAGGED, and PASSENGER LIST. We hear the trailer for the new show today, and speak with series creator and writer, Brett Neichin.
12 min
84
The Pulse, E3
Eyes are on the meteorite prize as the dangerous pulses increase in frequency and power. When something goes terminal in Moose Haven, Maine, who'll still be standing?
22 min
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The Pulse, E2
Previously friendly strangers have become fierce after the strange pulse washes over Moose Haven, Maine. And a group of rival treasure hunters seems to be hiding a dark secret.
22 min
86
The Pulse, E1
After witnessing a meteorite touch down, amateur ghost hunters Alex Keyes and Zoe McIntyre join a crew of treasure hunters eager to retrieve it.
24 min
87
Maggie Doll
Cormac McCarthy's The Road meets Toy Story in this bizarre and macabre tale of toys who survive a human apocalypse and must struggle to survive.
52 min
88
The Well, E9
The great showdown between the Greenway clan and the cousins from the other side of the wood. Is there ever going home again?
37 min
89
The Well, E8
Lizzie faces a gruesome fate unless her friends are able to overcome their darkest fears and rescue her.
32 min
90
The Well, E7
Lizzie breaks a dark enchantment, which gives Carlow the opportunity to launch an all-out assault on the World Tree.
32 min
91
The Well, E6
Lizzie and her friends reach the magical center of the Fae universe: The World Tree itself, and the Queen of Fae, who rules over it. But not all is as it seems...
35 min
92
The Well, E5
Carlow uses a magic mirror to track down Lizzie and her friends.
26 min
93
The Well, E4
Lost in the catacombs of the Gnome Mountains, Lizzie finds a friend and discovers the power of heart stone.
33 min
94
The Well, E3
A friend helps Lizzie and Kyle fight a cockatrice, but this help comes with a high price: Lizzie must steal a wyvern’s egg.
36 min
95
The Well, E2
Lizzie and her new friend, Kyle the talking goat, have found a portal to the magical land of Fae. Unfortunately this has put them right in the darkest depths of the ghoul tree forest.
40 min
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The Well, E1
Lizzie returns to her family’s ancestral farmhouse in rural Maine and discovers tapes in the attic that reveal a chilling family secret.
34 min
97
Keeper of the Dead
Teenager Zelle finds herself introduced to her family’s tradition – and amazing power – to hold audiences with the dead. But do the town elders in this remote part of Idaho have Zelle and her mother's best interests in mind? Keeper of the Dead is written by Marguerite Croft, a writer, podcaster, and mother based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work whose leans towards the intersection of real people and the fantastic. The production is performed by Maiya Koloski, with Shannon Campbell, Christine Marshall, Chris Price, Joe Bearor and Casey Turner.
47 min
98
Dark Tome, E18
Joanna, her brother Oliver, and her dad are all trapped in the upstairs of their house, with a bear prowling downstairs. However, as her father plows deeper into a bottle of whisky, it becomes clear that human beasts may be the most fearsome of all… Meanwhile, the stage is set for the grand finale of the Dark Tome. In the hands of the Parabellum agents, Cassie seems helpless to stop th summoning of a great evil. Can the young enchantress use what she’s learned about the book to stop it?
34 min
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Dark Tome, E17
Cassie finds herself trapped with several other women in a monstrous situation imagined by a twisted doctor in post-WW1 England. This is the world of ""Sing Me Your Scars,"" by Damien Angelica Waters. In this chilling treatise on subservience and bodies, we meet Victoria, a woman torn between her desire for freedom, and her desire not to rot away.
36 min
100
Dark Tome, E16
Mr. Gussy returns, but what he finds on the other side was not what he expected. We venture to the salt-sprayed shores of New Brunswick, where time has been hard on Sammy. But the promise of three square meals and the hunt for a sea monster makes him believe there might be such a thing as second chances. We head out to sea in search of the Nennorluk, in this sea-splattered adaptation of the short story of the same name by Chris Tarry.
38 min