The paranormal comes to life as husband-wife duo Dan Cummins (acclaimed standup comedian and true horror fan) and Lynze Cummins (costume and wardrobe stylist for numerous film and television productions) share terrifying stories that will leave you sleeping with the lights on. Dan’s goal? To scare Lynze with creepy accounts of demonic possession, shadow people, and other eerie phenomena. And when he’s done, Lynze fights back with chilling fan-submitted tales of true horror. Together, they ex ...
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Dan And Lynze Cummins Podcasts
Dan starts off the week in Chicago, in the suburbs. We will explore the very well documented legend of the Big Muddy Monster. Did a variety of people see some sort of big, terrifying, bipedal cryptid in a swamp back in 1973? And have people been intermittently been seeing it since? Then we head to our favorite city in America, New Orleans. We explo…
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Nightmare Fuel #40: Samael's Curse Conclusion (3 of 3)
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The big showdown is here in this fortieth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins. Lizzie travels to Portland to work with Detective Ray Salazar to put a stop to Samael Orcas's murders. How will she do that? Can she do that? She still doesn't know. But she's not going back home until she tries. Enjoy! For Merch and every…
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Dan's first of two stories takes us to a supposedly haunted bus in the fascinating nation of Singapore. Then we are headed down south for legend of the Plat-Eye. Then Lynze takes us to the Philippines for a creepy tale about a legendary creature. Lastly, we make our way to Ketchikan, Alaska and spend a few nights at the Gilmore Hotel- a notable hau…
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SIX stories this week! Lynze switches it up with four shorter tales after Dan's usual two. We’ll head to Malvern Manor, set in the little town of Malvern, Iowa.Paranormal investigators and the supernaturally curious alike keep traveling to Malvern to explore claims of disembodied voices, pounding footsteps, things that move when no one’s touching t…
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Nightmare Fuel #39: Samael's Curse (Part 2 of 3)
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Things heat up in this thirty-ninth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins. Lizzie travels to Alabama to learn more about the origins of Samael Orcas. And what she finds out is anything but comforting. Meanwhile, Sam seems to be losing his cool in Portland. Finally, for Dark World fans, more Myrkeer Haymur lore is revea…
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We are headed to Japan for Dan's first story about a supposedly haunted - or maybe possessed - doll in Japan: Okiku. It's very unsettling! Then we head to a no name college town for thee anonymous story of a college student who got a lot more than he bargained for while shopping for furniture on Facebook Marketplace. Lynze shares a sad and interest…
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Such a fun show this week as Dan and Lynze take us all over the world. From Greenland to Texas to Croatia to Mexico there is so much paranormal lore to unpack. Dan starts us off in Greenland where a young woman has a possible encounter with it a qivittoq. Then, back in Texas, something at a church knows and whispers the names of people, confusing a…
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Dan's first supposedly true supernatural tales comes to us from Tennessee where we explore the legend of the White Bluff Screamer. After that, we’ll travel to the end of the 16th century, where in what is now Germany, a man named Peter Stumpp, living in the small farming town of Bedburg , was once tortured and killed after confessing to being a mur…
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Nightmare Fuel #38: Samael's Curse (Part 1 of 3)
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In this thirty-eighth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet Samael Orcas. Is he a man? A monster? Both? Lizzie Chavez is determined to find out exactly who he is, why he keeps killing, and how to stop him. For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com Subscrib…
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Dan kicks of this episode with the story of a woman who suddenly recalls a haunting from her childhood that revolves around a board game. Then, Dan uncovers a new fear for Lynze: Spontaneous Human Combustion. What in gods name is it and what causes it? Lynze has two great tales this week. A woman spends her life savings to buy her first home at auc…
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Dan begins with a story is about a woman who is dealing with a family tragedy and the paranormal. Her brother is seemingly unaware, which may make it worse. Then, in Pennsylvania the haunted lore associated with Brownsville’s Nemacolin Castle brings forth an interesting haunted house tale.Lynze brings us three stories this week. Her first takes us …
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Nightmare Fuel #37: Dissonance (continuation/conclusion)
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In this thirty-seventh installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... Duncan Briggs just wants his life to return to what it was before he'd ever heard of AR Innovations. But we all know that's not going to happen, right? Instead, the new ride he's on keeps getting wilder. For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, he…
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Both Dan's stories seem to present exceptionally strong evidence for life after death. The first comes from the state of Illinois and is the exceptionally strange late 19th century tale of the Watseka Wonder. Then his second story takes us back to the early 18th century to Canterbury, England. Did famed English author Daniel Defoe write the first b…
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The first story Dan gives us this week was posted online by a man claiming to have recently resolved a haunting from his childhood apartment. It's bizarre and twisted. Next up, we are off to Siberia to explore the Tunguska Event. Then, we go with Lynze on a DoorDash delivery from hell. Lastly, we head to Africa for an all new kind of doppleganger, …
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In this thirty-sixth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we meet a man, Duncan Briggs, who agrees to participate in a paid scientific study to make a little cash to get his wife something nice for her birthday while he's in-between jobs. And then things get.... weird. Very, very uncomfortably weird. For Merch and…
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We hope all our Creeps and Peeper are also unsettled by our tales this week. Dan starts off in North Carolina with a story about a man who tried to transform into an actual demon. And some think he was, in a way, successful. Then, his second tale is the story of some of the residents of a housing development outside of Houston, built on a forgotten…
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First, we head to Korea where Dan shares stories about one of the most disturbing ghosts The Kong-Kong Gwishin. She is the ghost of a schoolgirl doomed to haunt in death those who remind her of her tormenters in life. Then Dan take us to Poland, to the little Polish border town of Gubin, where an anonymous man on Reddit claims his parents experienc…
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In this thirty-fifth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to The Dark World, and meet a new creature that The Architect has created to torment our world: The Ice Hunter. How will Dr. Candace Jackson and the other crew members of the Arctic Summit Camp fare, when a massive earthquake opens a deep crevasse…
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We begin this week in a place literally called the Suicide Forest. Aokigahara. Dan will share the whisperings of hauntings from this infamous Japanese location. Then, we’ll head to Italy for an Italian folklore tale about La Borda. Lynze offers us three stories this week. The first two are an alien/UFO double feature. Her last story, though not tra…
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We begin this week with an especially terrifying creature from Indonesia known as the Pontianak . Dan will share the lore of the Pontianak and then a handful of supposed modern encounters with this vengeful, angry, female, vampiric spirit. Next, Dan shares Ontario, Canada’s Baldoon Mystery. A good ol’ fashioned poltergeist story with a very strange…
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Nightmare Fuel #34: Burn the Witch 3: The Final Toll
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In this thirty-fourth installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bristol County, Massachusetts once more, over sixteen years after Brad Collins made his blood pact with the undead witch, Marina Harts. Fame and fortune are his. But now... the final toll for what he's been given is almost due. Will he be able…
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This first story of Dan's was mined from a Ghost Stories subreddit full of nothing but supposedly true paranormal encounters. The poster claims to have seen his fair share of all the gruesome horrors mankind has to offer during his time in the service but nothing he ever witnessed as a soldier ever terrified him quite as much as the inexplicable th…
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Dan kicks off this week with a strange story of a young student who is trapped inside a glass doored vestibule. Then, a very upsetting possessed doll story wraps up his half of the show. Lynze provides three tales this week. To start, a haunted house in Malta! Then, a rather upsetting doppleganger story. Lastly, a tale of treading on the land of wi…
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Nightmare Fuel #33: Burn the Witch 2: A Book For Blood
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In this thirty-third installment of fictional horror written and narrated by Dan Cummins.... we return to Bristol County, Massachusetts, where struggling horror author Brad Collins has completed his new book, Burn the Witch, and it appears as if it will catapult him to fame and fortune. But at what cost? Is he really capable of paying the full toll…
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Dan showers us with four tales for the 300th episode today! The first story revolves around real world tragedy in Virginia intersecting with the supernatural. Then, a mysterious death in Australia. This is followed by a third story about a disturbing legend in Africa that might be much more than modern folklore. Lastly, claims of an alien abduction…
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