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Moonlight Over a Ruined Village

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village is a Weird Fiction anthology podcast dedicated to weird and scary stories. These stories deal with people caught in the grasp of social decay and are based on accounts collected from the residents of a suburban village that has fallen into a state of ruin. Though the names of the people and locations have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved in these events, the events could happen anywhere at any time. These tales deal with dark themes and disturbing

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50:28

Moonlight Over a Charming Serpent

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2026/02/11

For tonight’s tale, we find ourselves beneath the ruined village. Our guide through this realm of unforgiving darkness is the ethereal Sachiko, the charming snake deity who has captured the hearts of the River Road crew. With her in the tunnels are the devil monk and the weasel. They are her unwilling guests as she unravels the mystery of why the faceless man now looks like Chico Marx. Yet something is different about her this evening. She no longer has any semblance of

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5:05

Moonlight Over a Printed Face Trailer

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2026/02/05

The world is falling down around us, and the situation does not seem to be improving. The streets are still congested, the sidewalks are more broken than they were before, and all public places are more crowded than they have any right to be. But there are a few remaining places we can go to escape the madness. For we still have our ruined village beneath the moonlight. One year ago, I started this podcast to provide all of you with a place to safely observe a village as it

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48:02

Moonlight Over Artificial Flesh

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2026/01/26

For tonight’s tale, we join Sachiko as she rides the bus to meet with her colleague. Since she is a snake deity, every interaction she has with the human world is strange to her. So she puts in the effort to understand the humans around her and the nature of their actions. Doing this enables her to move about amidst the humans largely unnoticed. Yet on this bus ride, she encounters something too strange for even this ruined village. For on this bus, she happens to look at the passenger

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57:21

Moonlight Over Discarded Faces

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2026/01/12

For tonight’s tale, we find ourselves back in the ruined village. Strange events continue to occur there, and their grotesque players continue to lurk in the darkened corners of the village. Yet they are largely held in check by the efforts of them boys and their crew. Now the village can even pass for quaint on its better days. However, one strange figure still terrorizes the doomed inmates of the village. More importantly, the town drunk and them boys still have an old score to

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52:54

Moonlight Over a Wild Hunt

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/12/28

For tonight’s tale, we join another solitary pilgrim who has the audacity to walk on the river road after nightfall. The night on which he chose to do this dangerous activity is the night of the Wild Hunt. Though this tradition is forgotten amidst the chaotic events that happen in the ruined village on a regular basis, the gods have not forgotten. This night is when supernatural denizens are led by the Queen of Winter. They hunt for living souls to enlist in their endless

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35:44

The Guitar at the Crossroads

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/12/15

For tonight’s episode, I explain why there was a delay in the release of this episode. That involves me recounting a strange incident that occurred while I was conducting field work for the next episode. This episode will serve to give you an idea of the hardships and dangers I face to bring these episodes to you on a semi regular basis. Despite the informal nature of this episode, it still includes references to violence, excessive alcohol consumption, charlatanism, and profanity

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41:17

The Fox in the Drunkard's Shadow

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/12/05

For tonight’s tale, we follow a lone fox as it emerges from its burrow. It has just healed from wounds dealt to it in the past, and it needs to hunt to regain its strength. So the fox ventures out to capture its prey. After a successful hunt, it returns to its burrow. It is that satisfied it has secured its survival for the immediate future. However, the prey is far from normal. It was infected by some unknown force that animates it into a grotesque mockery of life. The prey

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51:56

The Lair of the Skin Doll

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/11/26

For tonight’s tale we follow a lone IT specialist as he whiles away his life working for a pharmaceutical company. However, this is no normal pharmaceutical company. For it has government contracts to produce chemical weapons that can be used to remove the bones from the living. Fortunately for out IT specialist, he knows all about those contracts. In fact, he is not even an IT specialist. He is a spy that was sent to that company to find those very chemicals. He was sent by none other

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26:41

Interview with a Wolf Deity

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/11/19

In this episode, I will talk to you like a normal person and give you some insight into what it’s like to do field work in these two ruined villages. Please be warned that I will resort to the use of course language to do so. I may also mention violence, occult activities, and antisocial behavior. For those reasons, and probably others that I am too far gone to even notice, listener discretion is advised.

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55:05

The Disciple of the Spider

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/11/13

For tonight’s tale, we revisit an incident that had a monumental impact on both the River Village and the Mountain Village. Yet we will not concern ourselves with that tale, for it was not true. Not only that, it was a shameful falsehood intended to cover up the folly of the wolves of the mountain. That had been charged with protecting the mountain, and they had been found lacking. This is the tale of the young man who forced the wolves of the mountain to own up to their

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21:27

Prelude to a Meeting with the Disciple of the Spider

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/11/09

For tonight’s tale, I explain why this week’s episode is late. I also give you a bit of insight into how these episodes are made, and what it's like to deal with the denizens of these villages. Though this is not a full episode, I still managed to include profanity in it for some reason. Listener discretion is advised.

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59:08

Moonlight Over a Hunted Priest

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2025/10/24

For tonight’s tale, we look upon an abandoned house. It was the scene of a horrific attack on a family that left one dead and two wounded. The attack was so brutal and savage that the surviving brothers could live there no longer. At least, that’s was version of the story that was told to a lone priest, who had previously been content to passively observe the village around him. However, this tale inspired him to take an active role in investigating the house. He is a member of a

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6:25

Trailer for Season 2

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/10/19

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the ruined village. If you’re new here, the flowers are beautiful this time of year, so you picked a great time to join us. Other than the flowers, the rest of the place is fairly ruined. It would be a good idea to watch where you step. In fact, go ahead and bring an extra pair of shoes. Shoes don’t tend to last long in the village. Our returning listeners probably think they’re familiar with the state of the ruin at the

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3:28

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village Trailer

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/10/17

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village is a Weird Fiction anthology podcast dedicated to weird and scary stories. These stories deal with people caught in the grasp of social decay and are based on accounts collected from the residents of a suburban village that has fallen into a state of ruin. Though the names of the people and locations have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved in these events, the events could happen anywhere at any time. These tales deal with

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61:54

Moonlight Over the Cult of the Spider

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/10/10

For tonight’s tale, we meet the cult of the spider. Their leader has been lurking in the shadows of all of these tales. He watched the wolves move into the mountain village, and he did nothing. He watched the river village fall into a state of ruin, and he did nothing. He watched the demented followers of the wolf of the mountain perpetrate their sick bone removal ritual on a lonely traveler, and he did nothing. Yet when the character known as the bird man started to manipulate the

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37:15

State of the Ruin Address September of 2025

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/09/29

Tonight is the night we look back over the second seven episodes of the series. First, we meet the mysterious Sachiko as she rides the bus into the ruined village. She has come to investigate the bizarre incidents the area has become known for. Then we meet the solitary thug on his way to meet someone about a job, which does not go well for him at all. Next, we meet Reggie, who was once down and out, but who managed to pull himself back up. He uses his second chance at life to rid the

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49:50

Moonlight Over a Punk Weasel

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/09/19

For tonight’s tale, we finally address the issue of the weasel, for he has been lurking in the background of these tales for far too long. While his story is as tragic as you probably think it is, there are supernatural elements woven throughout the weasel’s misspent life that may shock you. The weasel possesses supernatural powers that enabled it to survive the hatred all living creatures. These powers were given to him by a notorious fox deity by the name of Tomisaburo. He bestowed

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48:37

Moonlight Over Earthen Spiders

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/09/04

For tonight’s tale, we rejoin the young woman who dared to venture into the ruined village where she lost her way on the river road. Having learned little from her last ordeal, she decides to set out to explore a different village, this one at the foot of a haunted mountain. This mountain is said to be the home of not only a coven of witches, but also a murderous cult who is suspected of using bones for the purposes of occult rituals. She is sent at the request of the denizens of the

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53:49

Moonlight Over Bones in the River

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/08/20

For tonight’s tale, we find ourselves back on the river road. Yet we are not alone. Far from it. We are members of a gang of likeminded malcontents who have finally decided to do something about the strange occurrences that have plagued the river road. They are going to go straight to source all of these occurrences. The entrance to the drainage tunnels. This is near the area where six of the village youths were found after their bones had been removed from their bodies. The charge is being led by

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40:05

Moonlight Over Two Pieces of Rebar

Moonlight Over a Ruined Village ·

2025/08/08

For tonight’s tale, we return to the very spot where the solitary thug waited beneath the moonlight for his doom. This was the spot where the hapless thug encountered the ruined beings that removed the very bones from his body while he was still alive. They then left the empty husk of all that was left of him to drown in water not even deep enough to cover the discarded cans and garbage that always seems to accumulate along the river road. Though that event is in the distant past for the surviving

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