NF Halloween Re-Release: The Beast of Bodie

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

True Crime, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture, Horror

4.7 • 13.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Hello Creeps and Peepers! Welcome to another Halloween revisiting of a few of my favorite Nightmare Fuels as we lead up a special new Halloween Nightmare Fuel release. Let's look back (or take a first look if you're new!) at the first episode that seemed to really excite a lot of you about this series. The third horror story I wrote. The tale of a mysterious beast that's been brutally killing men for decades in the former gold rush town of Bodie, California. And out introduction to Ezra Calhoun.

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0:00.0	The Welcome or welcome back to another old edition of Nightmare Feeves and Peepers.
0:31.6	Our revisiting of some of my favorite early Nightmare Fuel stories continues as we count down towards Halloween. And again,
0:38.6	on Halloween, you'll get a new story called The Dead House. Tomorrow and Thursday, you'll get two more
0:44.3	of my favorite early stories that maybe some of the new listeners haven't heard yet. Today, we are
0:50.2	revisiting The Beast of Bodie, originally released on March 1st, 2024, just a third
0:56.5	story I wrote.
0:57.9	I was pretty nervous to try a horror Western mashup, but then it worked.
1:02.6	For a long time, based on feedback, I think it was a lot of listeners' favorite nightmare
1:06.4	fuel, and Ezra Calhoun was the favorite character.
1:09.9	Now, favorites are kind of all over the place, which I love.
1:13.2	But I think Ezra's great-granddaughter, Lizzie Chavez,
1:16.6	probably is most people's current favorite character.
1:19.5	Anyway, hopefully this story still holds up.
1:22.3	Thanks again to AMC's Fear Fest for sponsoring this Nightmare Fuel re-release.
1:27.2	I highly recommend noise cancellation headphones for the ultimate listening experience.
1:32.2	Time now for the tale of the Beast of Bodie.
1:39.4	Crass down a crutch, Ezra. Is that? Is that an arm?
1:44.1	Yeah. Appear so, Charles. What's left of one,
1:47.5	anyhow? Charles looked pale and unsteady. I could have knocked him down with a feather.
1:53.2	He could barely believe what he was seeing. This was the same for me. Based on the strip of
1:58.0	dark brown, oil-skinned duster that still encased most of his limb and the
2:02.4	location of the lost appendage. I surmised correctly, we were staring at what remained of Gus Chambers'
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