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The Ninth Post | A Scarecrow Horror Story
08/31/2026
The Ninth Post | A Scarecrow Horror Story
A scarecrow hangs on the ninth post at the far edge of a Minnesota cornfield. Every morning, it's one post closer to the house. Rachel Kessler moves back to her father's farm with her six-year-old son after a stroke leaves the old man unable to speak. There's no money, no job, and no way out. There's a padlocked barn, a book in a burn barrel that won't burn, and nine T-posts running out to the treeline — eight of them empty. "The Ninth Post" is a full-length rural horror story about caregiving, poverty, and the thing that has been waiting on the Kessler farm since 1881. Told in first person by a woman who counts the posts every single morning with her coffee. Content note: contains profanity, disturbing imagery, and depictions of illness and death. Ear Hole Horror publishes original long-form horror narration every week — folk horror, creature horror, isolation horror, and cosmic horror. New episodes weekly at minimum. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Piano Music By Michael Hughes.
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