The Dark Folio

For decades, drivers on a quiet rural road outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin have reported seeing something they can’t explain.Tall.Upright.Wolf-like.Known as The Beast of Bray Road, this eerie figure has been described by multiple eyewitnesses since the late 1980s. Journalists documented the accounts, but no physical evidence was ever found.In this episode of The Dark Folio, we explore:• The earliest...

Step aboard one of the most haunted ships in the world—the RMS Queen Mary. Once a glamorous ocean liner and later a WWII “Grey Ghost,” this legendary vessel now rests in Long Beach… but many say something on board never found rest.In this episode, May takes you deep inside the ship’s chilling history:• The tragic death behind Door 13• The infamous Room B340 and its decades‑long closure• The...

Five men leave a basketball game on a cold February night in 1978. They have plans for the next morning. Families waiting. Lives carefully mapped out.But they never make it home.What follows becomes one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in American history — a case involving a snowbound mountain road, a mysterious abandoned car, and questions that still haunt investigators decades later.In this...

In November 2007, a Fresno homeowner captured something impossible on security footage—two legless creatures walking through his yard. No arms. No bodies. Just pants... that walked. This is the true story of the Fresno Nightcrawlers, the cryptid that went from terrifying one man so badly he wouldn't leave his house, to becoming the internet's most beloved monster. We investigate the original...

Step inside one of Arizona’s most haunted hotels in this chilling episode of The Dark Folio. We travel to historic Hotel Monte Vista in Flagstaff, nestled on Route 66, where guests and staff report eerie encounters, unexplained knocks, phantom footsteps, and lingering spirits from the past. From the infamous Room 220 “Meat Man” and the rocking chair ghost in Room 305, to the tragic murders in...

There's a moment every year where time feels thin—and for centuries, people believed what you did in that moment could shape everything that followed.In this episode of The Dark Folio, we explore New Year's folklore from around the world: the dangerous midnight hour, why you should never clean on New Year's Day, the eerie tradition of First-Footing, and why people ate specific foods to survive...

Not every visitor of the season wears red.Some wear horns… and carry bells through the winter night.Full Description:Step into the snow-covered shadows of Christmas as The Dark Folio explores the true folklore of Krampus, the horned figure who walks beside Saint Nicholas in Alpine legend.In this winter episode, host May unravels the ancient origins of Krampus, from pagan winter spirits to...

The Sodder Children disappearance is one of America’s most disturbing unsolved mysteries.On Christmas Eve 1945, a house fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. When the ashes cooled, five of the Sodder children were missing—and no remains were ever found.In this episode of The Dark Folio, host May explores the eerie details of the Sodder Children case:• The fire that...

Mercy Brown: The Last Vampire of New England | The Dark Folio Ghost FileIn 1892, a Rhode Island community exhumed 19-year-old Mercy Brown, believing she was a vampire feeding on her family from beyond the grave. What they found in her coffin sparked international scandal and may have reached the desk of Bram Stoker as he wrote Dracula. Tonight on The Dark Folio, we uncover the true story of...

Step into the shadowed beginnings of American Spiritualism as May opens the Dark Ledger on the Fox Sisters, the teenage girls whose mysterious “spirit knocks” ignited a nationwide movement. From the haunted Hydesville farmhouse to their sold-out séance demonstrations, the sisters reshaped how a generation thought about ghosts, grief, and the great beyond.Were the Fox Sisters gifted mediums?...