Horror Nights - The Forest

About Horror Nights - The Forest

Forest Horror Nights opens with a truck engine still running, headlights cutting through fog, and no driver in sight—just a foil wrapper on the dashboard that nobody can explain. That is the kind of image this horror show builds every episode around, one complete story at a time, pulled apart piece by piece until you understand exactly how someone walked into the woods and didn't walk out the same. This is a narrated horror documentary podcast with no host chatting in your ear, no banter, no filler. Each episode reconstructs a real case in careful detail: the timeline, the search parties, the physical evidence left behind, the small details investigators can't stop thinking about. You get boots found nine miles from where a woman disappeared, still laced, her feet bare and silent when they found her alive. You get a man whose footprints simply stop on a boulder, as if he stepped out of his own shoes and vanished. These aren't jump-scare stories. They're true horror tales built from case files, witness accounts, and the unanswered questions that make the woods feel different once you know them. The themes running through this horror-driven show are the ones people search for late at night when they can't sleep: creepy encounters on isolated trails, scary true stories from search-and-rescue logs, disappearances near campgrounds, sounds recorded by hikers who never explain what they heard. The forest is the constant thread—not as a backdrop, but as a character that keeps its own secrets, feeding a quiet sense of horror that never quite fades. Every episode asks the same quiet question: what actually happened out there, and why does no one ever fully explain it. New horror episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained descent into a different case. Subscribe to Forest Horror Nights so you don't miss the next chilling chapter waiting in the trees.

Publisher

OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT

Category

fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Sept 2026

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

84 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   The ice axe stood upright and led rescuers to the tent

   A wildlife photographer finds an orange tent and a lone ice axe on a snowbound bench at 7,400 ft - how did that expose them? The ice axe stood upright and led rescuers to the tent In this episode, we follow the discovery that redirected a winter mountain search: an orange tent on Harrow Plateau, fresh snow all around, and a lone ice axe planted in the vestibule. What the tent, the axe, and the missing tracks reveal about Brenda Boyd's disappearance drives the questions rescuers must answer. Date: March 4-9 Person: Brenda Boyd, 32 Location: Harrow Plateau, eastern bench, 7,400 feet Responder: Pamela Tate, Siskine County Search and Rescue, certified avalanche responder Observer: Marilyn Farrell, aviation charter photographer - Brenda signed the Decker Creek trailhead register at 6:47 AM on March 4, intending a day trip and arranging a neighbor to give her diabetic cat its 6:30 PM injection if she wasn't back. - Search dogs lost Brenda's scent at the saddle at 4,200 feet, where handlers ran the line three times and found only a faint alert on the eastern branch. - A storm on the night of March 7-8 dumped about 22 inches of snow across Harrow Plateau, potentially erasing any preexisting tracks or surface clues. - On March 9, photographer Marilyn Farrell spotted and photographed an orange tent with its fly taut and an ice axe planted upright in the vestibule, surrounded by forty meters of undisturbed snow. - Pamela Tate, seeing the photo, redirected her team toward the eastern bench after concluding the tent's condition conflicted with being buried before the storm. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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   17 Oct 2026

   The Field Notebook That Stopped Writing and Left Her Frozen

   A volunteer tracker finds a circle of flipped stones and a barely alive geology professor at its center - how did the talus field expose her? The Field Notebook That Stopped Writing and Left Her Frozen In this episode, we follow the disappearance of Laura Myers and the search that led to a frozen talus field arranged with unnerving regularity. We lay out the timeline, the field methods she used, and the unanswered puzzle that begins with a call that never came. Person: Laura Myers Person: Tom Yee Person: Prita Okafor Date: February 11-13, 2019 Location: Hatchback Talus Field, elevation 7,800 feet - At 3:02 p.m. on Feb 11 Laura’s waterproof field notebook records a protocol for systematically flipping talus to photograph pale fractured faces; the entry stops mid-clause. - At about 4:30 p.m. Laura tells her graduate assistant Prita to descend while she stays at the rock formation they’d come to study. - On Feb 12 a routine Tuesday 11:15 p.m. phone call between Laura and her husband Tom never happens; Tom waits and later calls Prita. - Volunteer tracker Walt Briggs, at 2:17 p.m. on Feb 13, encounters a 40-foot circle of roughly 200 stones all flipped fracture-face up and spots Laura near the center. - Laura’s core temperature was 86°F when reached after ~40 hours missing; she has no memory of the prior 18 hours and cannot account for moving stones weighing 8-90 pounds. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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   16 Oct 2026

   The Fishing Rod That Walked Six Miles and Broke Her Trail

   A fishing rod stands upright in a Montana snowbank six miles from the creek; a vanished angler and a blank trail ask how it got there. The Fishing Rod That Walked Six Miles and Broke Her Trail In this episode, we lay out the recorded sequence of a disappearance and the baffling physical traces left behind. The story follows the people, the landscape, and the search that tried to connect a missing woman to a rod found six miles away - but why does the trail stop? Person: Laura Sawyer Date: January 11-12, 2019 Location: Sawback Narrows, Harlan County, Montana Person: Dennis Houck Person: Marcia Reynolds - Laura Sawyer, a 44-year-old dental hygienist and experienced angler, planned to fish Sawback Narrows on January 11 after a Thursday night bowling league. - She and fishing partner Dennis Houck parked at 9:30 a.m. and hiked 1.4 miles to the creek, where they split to opposite banks; Houck later found her bank empty around 11:15 a.m. - Laura’s boot prints led to the water’s edge and stopped twelve feet short with no return prints, no slide, and no disturbance in the snow or canyon acoustics. - Search dogs tracked from the trailhead to the end of those prints and then stopped; search teams initially oriented west into the drainage based on terrain and experience. - At 5:40 a.m. on January 12, snowplow operator Marcia Reynolds found an upright fishing rod with reel and line spooled in a highway snowbank six point two miles from the trailhead. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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