We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

TRIGGER WARNING: There is a brief mention of suicide during our discussion of the hospital's history. If this is too much for you, feel free to skip this episode. As Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss used to say, You Matter! And if you need mental health resources, 988 will connect you with so much. Thank you This week we discuss the Indiana State Sani…

We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "The Silver Mirror" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

The Atlas doesn’t feel much like home anymore. The world underground grows darker as a new terror has made its way beneath the surface. Legend has it that a green goat sucker named El Chupacabra will take your soul for an entire evening, only to return it safely the next day. Will the soldiers tempt fate by welcoming such an unholy beast? Learn mor…

The original production of this episode was lost in the mists of time. Instead, we offer a re-creation of Wyllis Cooper's script produced in December 2021. What could motivate a king to abandon his kingdom and set out on the road like a beggar for a destination unknown to him? What could cause three different kings from lands far apart to do so at …

The terror rises in the cold November with Quiet Please Recreations- Rede Me This Riddle, We're Alive: Goldrush Chapter 9, and Horror Story Collection 4- The Silver Mirror! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

So in this episode, we once more return to Victorian London where we meet Mary Ann Cotton (nee Robson) a lovely wife and mother with the unfortunate curse of having her husbands and children die around her. Digging deeper, we begin to discover she is a poisoner with a body count somewhere in the range of 15 to 20, mostly her children, husbands and …

A midnight joyride revs up conflict with the occupants of The Atlas, as issues of trust start to spread beneath the surface. Secrets start to seep out as the soldiers struggle to maintain control, and the future of the Gold becomes more gray. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

The original audio of this episode was lost to time, but you can listen to a re-creation which was produced for this site in 2019. Every tragedy has a history, often invisible. A myriad of stresses, large and small, accumulate into a release. Even the most common annoyances, like weather or noise, can build up to push someone over the edge. It's a …

It's time for terror! Host Jeff brings us Quiet Please Recreations: Motive, We're Alive: Goldrush- Chapter 8, and Horror Story Collection 4- The Signalman! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

This week our final proper week of spooky season, we release a tale of a violent maniac with a literal lust for blood. We discuss Peter Kurten, psychopath, serial murderer and all around bad guy. A man whose life was almost a blueprint for creating a serial murderer he committed his first killings at the age of 9. We cover his life, his crimes and …

We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "The Mystery of the Semi-detached" by Adrian Praetzellis! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

The rules of the Atlas are established, forcing the soldiers to weigh what is truly valuable in their world. Life underground has a multitude of benefits, but the costs run deep as the dwellers beneath the earth come clean about their struggles. A simple game between friends tests the strength of their bonds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…

The original audio of this episode was lost to the ravages of time, so instead we have a February 2019 re-production made for this site from the original script. George is a long haul trucker who has a one day layover in Dallas before visiting his girlfriend in Chicago. When the dispatcher tries to convince him to take a truck to Big Spring instead…

It's Quiet Please Recreations- The Big Box, We're Alive: Goldrush Chapter 7, and Horror Story Collection 4- The Mystery of the Semi-Detached on Halloween Week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "Letter to Sura" by Pliny the Younger! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

Alex and Puck arrive at “Lake Matthews” a forward operating base, listening to the tapes left behind by his mother, taking them deeper into the history and network of “The Atlas”. The soldiers meet their match beneath the surface of the earth. As everyone becomes entangled with other temptations, unsuspected dangers still loom from a distance. Lear…

You're talking to a man who works as an encyclopedia salesman. His name is Grover Hayes, and he has a dog named Olivia. He used to have a wife named Olivia. He says the dog is an evil little thing, just like his former wife. The dog barks and growls at him as he talks to you, but he tells it to shut up. Grover Hayes isn't here on business, but he s…

It's the hundredth week of Season 6! It's Quiet Please Recreations- Be a Good Dog, Darling, We're Alive: Goldrush- Chapter 6, and Horror Story Collection 4- Letter to Sura! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

Welcome to yet another spooky season episode of the Family Plot Podcast! This week we go to the McPike Mansion in Alton, Illinois. We talk about the history of this beautiful showplace, how it was built by Henry Guest McPike a Civil War soldier, a man who owned a box making company, produced his own grape that became popular in wine making, was an …

We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "The Haunted Orchard" by Richard le Gallienne! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

New possibilities create new problems as the world itself seems to turn on the soldiers, sending them spiraling into the den of an unexpected creature. The soldiers learn to expect the unexpected as this detour seems promising, but is it too good to be true? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Port Hueneme today is a bustling commercial hub with a major naval base on the southwestern coast of California. There was a time not so long ago when it was a beautiful, peaceful wilderness worthy of its' name -- which means resting place. Gunnar has seen the world, but there's nowhere he'd rather be than back in Hueneme. Despite the overwhelming …

The month of horror continues with Quiet Please Recreations- The Gothic Tale, We're Alive: Goldrush- Chapter 5, and Horror Story Collection 4- The Haunted Orchard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode mentions both sexual assault and incest. If these subjects are triggering for you, please feel free to skip the episode. As our friend Kate used to say: You Matter. This week we go full spooky True Crime as we visit a German farmstead called Hinterkaifeck where we discover a particularly spooky and gruesome series of m…

We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

Alex is taken further down the trail in the steps of his father, as Puck divulges the first leg of their Gold-Hunt. Permission, supplies, and a helicopter are the last three pieces to the puzzle, but the infected prove to complicate the plan as a stranger on the horizon stands by with his mechanical beast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me…

Why does it seem like there's always road work blocking traffic everywhere? Must every road have holes in it? Is it the price of progress, the fault of poor materials, government bureaucracy gone awry, or is it all the work of little green men? Romney Greel is a bewildered man far behind the times, a man who'd like to tell you a story about what ha…

Please Recreations- Below 5th Avenue, We're Alive: Goldrush- Chapter 4, and Horror Story Collection 004- A Haunted House! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

We are back with another spooky season episode, this time, we go to nearby (to us) Weston, Missouri where we learn about the charming little town's history, we discuss a few haunted locations as well as a few of the more famous 'residents' of the town's Laurel Hill Cemetery. We discuss the town's beginnings and it;s modern spookiness, the most deli…

We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "Green Tea, Part 2 " by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

The party lives on! There is hope on the horizon as the pieces of the mission start to come together during the events of the extravagant birthday celebration. A card game puts everything on the line between some new and old friends, along with a local musical vaudevillian show to entertain the colonists, all the while the GOLD looms on the horizon…

The original broadcast audio of this episode is not known to exist anywhere. Instead, we have a re-creation made for this site in August 2018 which you can enjoy. Oliver is a timid man, unable to stand up for himself. His boss Everwein walks all over him, and his wife Caroline pays no attention to him. Oliver isn't a violent man, but he has a habit…

Horror month begins on the Terror with Quiet Please- Mirror Mirror on the Wall, We're Alive: Goldrush Chapter 3, and Horror Story Collection 4- Green Tea, Part 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

So this episode is the first of our 2024 Spooky Season and we begin with a few haunting tales of phantom trains. We begin in Washington DC for a story about Lincoln's Funeral train and how it would reappear at night years afterwards chugging it's way down the tracks attended by skeletons and sepulcheral figures. Then we go to Maco Station in North …

We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "Green Tea, Part 1 " by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

The soldiers continue their investigation into the mysterious signal from the outpost. Upon returning home, the Colony has come to life to celebrate a cherished locals’ 33rd birthday with a western-themed party. During the excitement, Carl continues to hunt for clues for the location of the gold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm…

This is a missing episode. The original audio is not known to exist anywhere, so instead we have a re-creation produced in 2018. They say there are two sides to every story. This story goes one further and has three sides, and three narrators to tell it: Clyde, Victor and Frances. They agree on the basic events, but each sees the details and motiva…

The horror continues with Quiet Please Recreations- Three Sides to a Story, We're Alive: Goldrush Chapter 2- Bushwacker, and Horror Story Collection 004- Green Tea, Part 1! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

Well this week we go back and meet a woman who revolted against the Romans around the time of Jesus. Boudicca has become a legendary figure but we do our level best to track down what she was really like. We dig into this enduring historical figure who has become an enduring figure of empowerment as well, We discuss what we could discover of her ea…

We continue our 4th classic collection of horror and ghost stories from Libriviox. This week it's "Clairvoyance" by Algernon Blackwood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Jack Ward

We’re Alive has returned with it’s new season/series Goldrush. This 10-part epic will take you places we have never gone before. An aging General Puck confides a previously undisclosed tale to Alex Robbins, the son of his former teammate and friend, Anthony Robbins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…