Emma finally understands: the entity feeds on attention. Every look makes it stronger. Every witness keeps it alive. She forms a desperate plan—burn the house, create so much light it can't hide, destroy its collection of hollow watchers. But David has looked too long. He can't close his eyes. As flames consume everything, he makes a choice: stay and watch, so Emma can escape. She runs without looking back. Six weeks later, she learns a new building is rising from the ashes. Families will move in. They'll feel the weight of being watched. And Emma must decide: warn them, or let them take her place. Some things don't burn. They just wait for new eyes.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Emma and David try to flee, but the house won't let them leave. Doors seal. Windows fuse. And now that Emma has truly looked at it, she sees it everywhere—even with her eyes closed. In the basement, they discover a nightmare: decades of belongings from every family who ever lived here, arranged like a museum. And in the shadows, the families themselves—standing, watching, hollow-eyed and still. Not dead. Not alive. Transformed into permanent witnesses. David is slipping, becoming one of them. The thing offers Emma a choice: join its collection, or walk away and carry the connection forever. Instead, she sees the fear in its eyes. It can be hurt. And she's going to find out how.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Emma researches the house's history and discovers a pattern: seven families since 1952, each staying shorter than the last. All of them left suddenly, abandoning their belongings. She tracks down a previous owner, Margaret Weatherby, now in a care facility, who delivers a warning: don't look at it. That's what it wants. Every time you look, you make it more real. Her husband looked—and the house never let him leave. That night, Emma finds names carved into a closet wall, desperate messages from the families who came before. And in the darkness of the upstairs hallway, she finally sees it. Tall. Wrong. Watching. It smiles at her—and she realizes her husband has already looked too long.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Emma and David need a fresh start. After losing a pregnancy, they find the perfect house—a beautiful 1920s Colonial at an impossibly low price. The realtor is eager. Too eager. Their first night, Emma hears footsteps in the hallway but can't make herself open the door. By morning, their moving boxes have been opened, searched, rearranged. And tucked among their belongings, Emma finds something that doesn't belong: a child's drawing of the house, with a dark figure watching from an upstairs window. On the back, three words in crayon: "It sees us." The first chapter of a four-part winter nightmare.

Episode 1 of 4.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Christmas Eve. The lights are dead, Lily has vanished into the walls, and Sarah must follow. In the heart of the passages, she finds a nightmare: her aunt Margaret, still a child after sixty years, and her mother Ruth, already lost. The entity reveals itself—ancient, lonely, desperate to keep them forever. Sarah makes an impossible choice: burn it all down, even if it means leaving her mother behind. The cabin becomes an inferno. They escape into Christmas morning. But as they drive away, Lily waves goodbye to something at the treeline. Something that promises to wait. Some things don't die in fire. They just grow patient.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Sarah finds Lily in the hidden passages, talking to something in the dark. She drags her daughter back to safety—but safety is an illusion. Her mother's car sits buried in snow at the edge of the property, abandoned for days. Inside, Sarah discovers her grandmother's journal, documenting decades of horror: the thing in the walls has always taken children. It took her aunt Margaret in 1962. And now, in her mother's final entries, a desperate plan to destroy it—ending mid-sentence. On the last page, five words in an inhuman hand: SHE IS RESTING NOW. Then the lights go out, and the thing in the walls begins to move.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Trapped by the blizzard, Sarah searches the cabin for answers—and finds more than she bargained for. Hidden passages run through the walls like veins. Scratches mark the inside of closet doors. And in decades of family photographs, the same impossible shape appears in every frame, watching from windows and doorways. A letter from her grandmother reveals the horrifying truth: something has lived in this cabin since before it was built. It took Sarah's aunt in 1962. Now, on Christmas Eve, Lily has vanished into a hidden door—following the voice of a man who's been waiting for decades.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Sarah brings her husband and seven-year-old daughter to her family's remote mountain cabin for Christmas. Her mother was supposed to arrive days earlier—but the cabin sits empty and cold. As a historic blizzard seals them in, Sarah discovers footprints in the snow leading to the cabin. Only to the cabin. Not away. That night, her daughter begins talking to someone she calls "the man in the wall." Someone who's been waiting in the dark spaces of this old house. Someone who doesn't like the Christmas lights. The first chapter of a four-part winter nightmare.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Thanksgiving Day dawns with the family buried in snow and slowly starving, unable to eat anything except the impossibly tempting feast Marcus has prepared. The transformed family members from across the centuries sit as shadows at the table when Thomas Brennan enters—now eight feet tall with sideways-opening mouth and fingers that drag the floor, yet his eyes remain human and suffering. As family members succumb to hunger and transform into Wendigos with each bite, Emma discovers Mary Brennan's hidden writing revealing the curse can only work if they choose to eat—starvation will break it—and that an altar in the cave is the source.

 Emma cleverly uses the transfer ritual to make Thomas the "chosen one," causing him to consume himself in an endless loop of hunger, while Sarah and Pete crack the obsidian altar in the cave despite warnings that breaking it means death for all. The family survives and appears free when the hunger vanishes with the altar's destruction, but they find a final note from Josiah warning that hunger never dies, only sleeps, and a new empty journal appears with Sarah's unwritten words already inside. As they flee the cabin, Emma sees Thomas's human form in the reflection, crying and mouthing either "thank you," "I'm sorry," or "still hungry"—they'll never know which—leaving them as eternal guardians of a sleeping hunger that waits for the next family desperate enough to make the same terrible choice.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The power dies at 3 AM as something massive walks across the cabin roof, telling them "one more day" in a voice like wind through a collapsed throat. Marcus disappears, only to be found in the cellar butchering something frozen and human-shaped while inhabited by the Wendigo, singing about preparing the feast with knowledge learned from Josiah in his dreams. Sarah discovers recipes in the journal's final pages detailing how to prepare "the Chosen"—requiring the youngest blood relative, Emma—while another recipe reveals the chosen one can transfer the hunger to another willing family member.

As the family argues over sacrificing Emma, with Dana and David suggesting she should be given up to save the rest, the lights impossibly flicker to reveal Thomas himself: seven feet tall with fingers that touch the floor and too many teeth. Marcus emerges from the unlocked cellar with elongated fingers and white eyes, accompanied by shadows of all the cave's victims, as he begins cooking meat that fills everyone with supernatural hunger. The journal reveals a torn page from Josiah's wife Mary confessing that Thomas didn't die from infection—Josiah murdered him—and they've all become the Wendigo, carrying it in their blood.

With less than twenty-four hours until Thanksgiving, the smell of Marcus's cooking threatens to awaken the inherited hunger in their blood as they realize they're not trying to stop the Wendigo but stop themselves from becoming it.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

A massive blizzard traps the family at the cabin as Uncle Pete reveals their ancestor Josiah's journal from 1874, documenting how thirteen family members, snowed in and starving, resorted to cannibalism when Josiah fed them his dying brother Thomas—who then returned as something inhuman, impossibly tall with elongated fingers, scratching at the walls with endless hunger.

Emma and Sarah sneak into the forbidden root cellar using keys Marcus secretly provides, discovering human bones from victims spanning 151 years, including one person killed every fifty years on Thanksgiving, plus additional victims from years when the creature wasn't properly fed.

When Marcus catches them in the cave, his eyes turn frost-white and he speaks in an ancient voice about feeding the family, his fingers stretching impossibly long before returning to normal with no memory of the encounter. The complete journal reveals that eating Thomas transformed the family line into "the Wendigo's children," carrying the curse in their blood, requiring them to feed one family member to it every fifty years or lose everyone—with only two days until Thanksgiving to decide who becomes this year's meal.

Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!

Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.com

Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]