Nightmare Fuel #25: Ezra & The Dark Watcher

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

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

4.7 • 13.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this twenty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bodie, California! Twenty-seven years after confronting the Beast of Bodie, former sheriff Ezra Calhoun has a new monster to fight. The Dark Watcher. A strange and ferocious man-like entity appearing on the ridge of one of the hills above town, and butchering locals.

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0:00.0	The Welcome to another edition of Nightmarefuel, Creefs and Peepers.
0:30.7	I'm Dan Cummins, and I'll be sharing another original short story of the fictional horror variety.
0:36.5	It's not entirely necessary, but if you want a bit
0:39.0	extra out of today's episode, go back and listen to Nightmare Fuel 3, The Beast of Bodie,
0:44.2	and also Nightmare Fuel 11. Sometimes the darkness wins too. But again, that's just to get a bit
0:50.4	more out of a few moments today. I think this episode also works just fine by itself.
0:55.8	I highly recommend noise cancellation headphones for the ultimate experience.
1:00.6	Hope you enjoy this new nightmare.
1:03.7	Time now for the tale of Ezra and the Dark Watcher.
1:11.1	August 3rd, 1943,
1:14.4	Boaty, California.
1:16.4	10-year-old Ruth Harding, one of just a handful of kids still living in town,
1:20.5	has been seen something,
1:23.2	something no one else believes she's been seen.
1:26.6	Something many have seen for centuries, over
1:28.9	400 miles away along the coast in the Santa Lucia Mountains, in the mountains of Eastern Europe,
1:34.8	and in various other mountainous locations all around the world. But something new to Bodie.
1:41.2	A strange man, a very, very tall man has appeared above her along the ridge behind her
1:47.9	family's home in the Bodie Hills on the edge of town. She'd seen him on two separate occasions,
1:54.0	the previous evening and the evening before that, just as the evening sun began to dip behind the
1:59.7	mountains.
2:03.2	Although she'd only been able to make out his silhouette,
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