EPISODE 15 — PART 15

Halfway through October, Ryan’s job at the old mansion feels very different from the one he accepted.

His messages have become a record not just of the house, but of his own growing uncertainty about what is happening there—and what may be happening to him.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 15 pushes deeper into psychological horror, supernatural dread and Gothic mystery through immersive answering-machine recordings.

There is something wrong with this place.

The harder question is why Ryan is here to experience it.

Listen from Part 1.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 16 — PART 16

The safest thing about a nightmare is waking up.

Unless waking up creates more questions.

Ryan’s October ordeal continues in Part 16 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage, an immersive horror audio drama where memory, guilt, isolation and the supernatural are beginning to knot themselves together.

Told through recorded messages from inside an isolated old mansion, the series blends psychological horror, Gothic haunted-house fiction, occult mystery and analog-horror atmosphere.

This story is serialized and increasingly interconnected. Start at Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 17 — PART 17

Ryan has spent long enough in the mansion for fear to stop feeling temporary.

Whatever is happening here has roots.

And some of those roots may reach beyond the house itself.

Part 17 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage continues a supernatural horror mystery about a troubled man, an isolated mansion and a series of answering-machine recordings that preserve his descent one unsettling fragment at a time.

For fans of haunted houses, psychological horror, Gothic dread, occult mysteries and immersive audio fiction.

Listen from Part 1 for the complete story.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 18 — PART 18

The questions surrounding Ryan are multiplying.

What is happening inside the mansion?

What happened there before he arrived?

And how much of what is happening now has anything to do with the house at all?

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 18 continues the slow collision between supernatural horror and one man’s troubled history.

Told entirely through recorded messages, this complete horror audio drama combines haunted-house tension, Gothic atmosphere, psychological dread, occult mystery and immersive sound.

The deeper half of the story begins here.

New listeners should start with Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 19 — PART 19

Ryan has a haunted past.

Now, trapped inside an isolated mansion, he may finally be facing someone else’s demons for a change.

Part 19 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage pushes the supernatural horror story deeper as Ryan’s personal history and the sinister forces surrounding the house become increasingly difficult to keep separate.

Told through answering-machine messages with immersive sound design, the series blends psychological horror, Gothic haunted-house mystery, occult dread and paranormal terror.

This is a continuous 34-part story. Begin with Part 1.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 20 — PART 20

Twenty messages into Ryan’s ordeal, isolation has become something more dangerous than loneliness.

The old mansion, the worsening conditions outside and the questions Ryan carries with him are closing in at the same time.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 20 continues a modern supernatural horror story told through answering-machine recordings from a man increasingly cut off from the ordinary world.

Haunted-house horror, Gothic mystery, psychological dread and occult unease continue to converge as Halloween approaches.

Listen in order from Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 21 — PART 21

Ryan is alone with something sinister.

Whether that something belongs to the house, to another world or to Ryan himself remains a much harder question.

Part 21 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage continues his descent into an increasingly otherworldly nightmare inside an isolated old mansion.

This immersive horror audio drama is told through recorded messages and combines paranormal terror, psychological horror, Gothic atmosphere, occult mystery and the creeping possibility that Ryan has stumbled into something far beyond a conventional haunting.

The mystery is tightening.

Start with Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 22 — PART 22

Ryan is alone, trapped and enduring increasingly supernatural peril.

The mansion has stopped behaving like a place from which ordinary escape should be simple—and the forces surrounding him are becoming harder to dismiss, explain or survive.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 22 continues the serialized horror mystery through Ryan’s answering-machine messages as isolation turns into entrapment and dread becomes something much more immediate.

For fans of haunted houses, occult horror, psychological terror, Gothic mysteries and immersive audio drama.

Listen from Part 1.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 23 — PART 23

Ryan’s descent into terror and madness continues.

By now, the old mansion is not merely frightening. It is a trap filled with unanswered questions—and the deeper Ryan gets, the more those questions begin pointing toward forces both supernatural and painfully personal.

Part 23 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage continues a complete 34-episode horror audio drama told through increasingly desperate recorded messages.

Psychological horror, Gothic dread, occult mystery and haunted-house terror collide as Halloween draws closer.

Start with Part 1 for the complete mystery.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 24 — PART 24

Some hauntings begin long before anyone enters the haunted house.

Part 24 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage turns toward the tragedy and damage in Ryan’s past as his present supernatural ordeal grows darker.

The mystery of the mansion is only part of the story. Guilt has its own ghosts.

CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes references to drugs, alcohol, an automobile accident, injuries and family trauma.

A psychological and supernatural horror audio drama told through answering-machine recordings, combining Gothic atmosphere, occult mystery and immersive sound design.

Listen in order from Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 25 — PART 25

The house has its horrors.

Ryan brought some of his own.

After the revelations and emotional wounds surrounding his past, Part 25 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage continues pushing the story toward the point where personal tragedy and supernatural terror can no longer remain separate.

Ryan is still isolated. The mansion is still holding its secrets. Halloween is getting closer.

This serialized horror audio drama blends psychological horror, haunted-house mystery, Gothic dread, the occult and immersive experimental sound.

New listeners should begin with Part 1.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 26 — PART 26

There is less and less distance between Ryan and whatever is waiting for him.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 26 moves deeper into the final stretch of his ordeal as supernatural danger, isolation and the weight of his own past tighten around him.

Told through recorded messages left from inside an old mansion, the series combines psychological horror, Gothic haunted-house terror, occult mystery and analog-horror atmosphere.

The answers are coming.

So is Halloween.

This is one continuous story. Start with Part 1 before entering the endgame.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 27 — PART 27

Ryan has spent October confronting an impossible house.

Now the story is beginning to demand that he confront himself.

Part 27 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage carries the supernatural horror serial toward its Halloween conclusion as Ryan faces mounting terror, deepening isolation and the consequences of a past he cannot simply leave behind.

A complete immersive audio drama blending Gothic horror, paranormal mystery, psychological terror, occult forces and answering-machine-style found audio.

The final stretch has begun.

Listen from Part 1 for the full story.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 28 — PART 28

The mansion is closing in.

So is the past.

With Halloween almost here, Ryan’s recorded messages have become the chronicle of a man trapped between the supernatural horror surrounding him and the personal history he has spent trying to survive.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 28 drives the story deeper into its endgame, where Gothic haunted-house terror, psychological horror, occult mystery and something increasingly otherworldly begin converging.

There will be answers.

First, Ryan has to live long enough to reach them.

Start with Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 29 — PART 29

Halloween is nearly here, and Ryan is still trapped inside the isolated mansion with terror, unanswered questions and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Part 29 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage accelerates toward the finale as the story’s psychological and supernatural threads begin pulling tighter around him.

Told through answering-machine messages with immersive sound design, the series mixes haunted-house horror, Gothic mystery, occult dread, paranormal terror and a deeply personal story about guilt and consequence.

The end is close.

New listeners: go back to Part 1. You’ll want the whole story.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 30 — PART 30

Everything has been leading toward Halloween.

Now Halloween has arrived.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 30 begins the story’s extended climax as Ryan’s ordeal inside the mansion reaches a new level of intensity and the mysteries surrounding the house, his missing time and his own past demand answers.

This longer chapter pushes the immersive horror audio drama toward its final confrontation, combining Gothic haunted-house terror, psychological horror, occult mystery and supernatural dread.

If you’ve come this far, you know better than to expect an easy night.

Start with Part 1 if you’re new.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 31 — PART 31

The beginning of the end.

It is Halloween night, and Ryan’s ordeal is entering its final stage.

The questions that have haunted Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage from the beginning can no longer remain safely unanswered. The house, the supernatural threat surrounding Ryan and the guilt buried in his past are converging.

Part 31 launches the multi-part finale of this immersive horror audio drama, blending Gothic terror, psychological horror, occult mystery and analog-horror-style recorded storytelling.

Do not start here unless you enjoy being magnificently confused.

Begin with Part 1.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 32 — PART 32

Halloween night continues.

So does Ryan’s nightmare.

Part 32 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage carries the finale forward as the old mansion becomes the setting for the answers—and horrors—the entire series has been building toward.

Ryan is trapped inside a story involving supernatural forces, missing memories, old guilt and something far stranger than the ghost story he might once have preferred.

This is the second movement of the extended finale. The mystery is now deep in spoiler territory, so we’ll leave it there.

Listen from Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 33 — PART 33

Ryan is alone in the dark.

He is trapped.

And whatever is with him is not human.

Part 33 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage is the penultimate chapter of the complete supernatural horror audio drama.

Halloween night has become a final struggle inside the mansion as psychological horror gives way to an increasingly immediate and otherworldly threat. The story’s haunted-house mystery, occult elements, guilt, memory and supernatural terror are finally colliding.

One episode remains.

If you have somehow arrived here first, stop. Go to Part 1.

For everyone else:

The end is waiting.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 34 — THE END

This is it. The final message.

Halloween night reaches its conclusion in Part 34 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage.

Ryan’s long ordeal inside the isolated mansion finally reaches the answers behind the haunting, the missing time, the occult mysteries surrounding the house—and the trunk that has waited at the center of so many questions.

Yes: we finally see what is inside.

This is the conclusion of the complete 34-episode immersive horror audio drama, bringing together Gothic horror, psychological terror, supernatural mystery, occult dread and the consequences of Ryan’s tragic past.

No cheap non-ending. No “maybe none of it happened” escape hatch.

The answers are here.

If you’re new, start with Part 1.

If you’ve made it all the way here:

Thank you for listening.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

Ghosts are bad. There are worse things.

It’s been a long Halloween.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.