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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Curious History of the Dark Tome
We transition from the Blood Forest to the world of the Dark Tome via an apocryphal internet essay written in 1999 by a rare book specialist in Simpson Falls, Maine. We learn all about the Dark Tome's strange origins, its connection with lycanthropy, and its weird journey from Mesopotamia to rural Maine.
21 min
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Return to Blackout Point
Young, bored, and with a penchant for mischief, Emma and her friends made their own entertainment in a seaside town in Maine. They got up to things that any crew of teenagers would...up until the night things went too far, and what started as a harmless prank had deadly consequences that would last decades. Now, fifty years later, Emma is returning to the Blackout Point lighthouse — the site of a horrific tragedy — to settle things once and for all. A new original horror thriller by Shawn French - a Maine based horror writer from our previous season, BLOOD FOREST.
42 min
103
The Green Knight's Wife
We've heard the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - but what of his wife? How does she feel about being the prop piece in an endless trial of virtue?
18 min
104
Bonus: Meet the Wolfpack
Why werewolves? Why Maine? What’s really going on in Langeley? Meet the creative team behind Blood Forest as five Mainers and a New Yorker walk into a Zoom...
35 min
105
Enter the Blood Forest
Are you ready to enter the Blood Forest? Just down the road from Simpson Falls is Langeley, Maine, a frontier town that sits on the edge between the known world and a great wilderness beyond... A wilderness where monsters live, who come down from the deep woods to terrorize this small town every twenty years. Get a first taste of the new horror series for Undertow, which stars Jack Falahee and Bree Klauser.
3 min
106
Firsts
An unwitting trip to the dark world of Fae turns a camper in the 1950s into the unwitting servant of the Seelie Queen. How will he contend with all the delectably bloody acts she wants her pawn to commit?
44 min
107
Janine
A haunting tale of youth gone awry thanks to devils in the Maine woods
30 min
108
Agony Chamber
A group of buddies goes hunting in the Maine woods and find an evil beyond imagination.
40 min
109
Simpson Falls, E10
A chapter ends, and a new chapter opens - insofar as there are beginnings, and ends, and middles.
15 min
110
Simpson Falls, E9
Tony has the opportunity to revisit the moment in his childhood when everything changed, and faces an impossible choice.
27 min
111
Simpson Falls, E8
Knocked off balance between there and now and the over there, Sonia latches on to an unreliable narrator to help her track down Tony. The crossing will be more dangerous than she could ever imagine.
30 min
112
Simpson Falls, E7
Sonia's nightmares may become reality as Tony makes a momentous decision to confront his past.
27 min
113
Simpson Falls, E6
Tony and Sonia find themselves within the mirrored walls of the Malleus Corporation building, fighting to hang on to health and sanity, as memory and reality grow increasingly unreliable.
18 min
114
Simpson Falls, E5
With their stay in Simpson Falls unexpectedly extended, Tony and Ricky visit an old childhood haunt while Sonia unearths secrets tucked along the river.
30 min
115
Simpson Falls, E4
Tony takes Sonia to the iconic Mona's Diner, and while grappling with the age-old question, "Whoopie pie or blueberry pie?" an unexpected visitor changes their trajectory.
20 min
116
Simpson Falls, E3
Sonia joins Digby and Madge for a Dark Tome conspiracy theory tour and discovers she's getting far more than she bargained for.
28 min
117
Simpson Falls, E2
Tony and Sonia pull together to get to their assignment - the Press Conference about the new hospital - and start to get a feel for what's really going down in Simpson Falls.
32 min
118
Simpson Falls, E1
Reporter Tony Baxter is called back to his home town of Simpson Falls, Maine to investigate a new multi-million dollar boutique hospital project by the mysterious Malleus Corporation.
36 min
119
Introducing Simpson Falls
2 min
120
Welcome to Undertow
If this is your first journey into the Undertow, start right here! Host Fred Greenhalgh is here to welcome you to this warped version of Maine, and let you know what to expect while you're here.
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