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Podcast: Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Episode: Why Would a Farmer Create a Spider Petting Zoo? What I Encountered Is Beyond Description! | HORROR
Description: IN THIS EPISODE: A painter accepts an invitation to a remote cottage beside an ancient forest — but the deeper he ventures into the woods, the more he realizes something within them has been waiting for him. It’s a classic tale from Algernon Blackwood entitled “Ancient Lights”. *** After a 17th-century landowner testifies against a suspected witch, generations of his family begin dying in the same bedroom — and something nesting in the ancient ash tree outside the window may be responsible. It’s “The Ash-Tree” by M.R. James *** A traveling salesman follows a hand-painted sign to a remote farm advertising a "spider pettin...