Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage is a complete 34-episode horror audio drama told through the answering-machine messages of a man trapped alone in an isolated old mansion.Ryan came to the house for a job. Then the storm arrived. The roads disappeared beneath floodwater and unnatural fog. Hidden rooms begin turning up in the attic. A mysterious trunk is surrounded by arcane symbols. Ryan wakes after missing stretches of time with disturbing evidence that something happened while he was gone.And he may not be alone.Part haunted-house story, part psychological horror, part occult mystery, Emotional Baggage combines Gothic horror, cosmic dread, analog-horror atmosphere and immersive sound design in a modern supernatural audio drama about guilt, memory and the things we can never quite escape.Is the house haunted? Is Ryan losing his mind? Is something demonic or ancient reaching for him—or has his own past finally caught up with him?The answers are there.Originally created as an experimental serial unfolding across October toward Halloween, the complete story now runs 34 episodes and more than four hours.Headphones recommended.Ghosts are bad. There are worse things.It’s going to be a long Halloween.

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<h1>EPISODE 15 — PART 15</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Emotional Baggage : PART 15I&#39;m currently releasing an episode a day of a horror audio drama mini series throughout October. The finale will be on Halloween. Death By Inches: Emotional Baggage, is a story told in small bites of less than 5 minutes an episode. The story is told through voice mail messages left by Ryan, a man with a tragic past of his own making, as he slowly realizes the peril his current job (inspecting and repairing an old isolated house) has put him in. This serial uses assets from freesound.org, pexels, and pixabayThis story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage Part 15

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<h1>EPISODE 16 — PART 16</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Death By Inches - Emotional Baggage Part 16 ***This is a serial, so there&#39;s earlier chapters! I&#39;m currently releasing an episode a day of a horror audio drama mini series throughout October. The finale will be on Halloween. Death By Inches: Emotional Baggage, is a story told in small bites of less than 5 minutes an episode. The story is told through voice mail messages left by Ryan, a man with a tragic past of his own making, as he slowly realizes the peril his current job (inspecting and repairing an old isolated house) has put him in. This serial uses assets from freesound.org, pexels, and pixabayThis story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage Part 16

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<h1>EPISODE 17 — PART 17</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Death By Inches - Emotional Baggage Part 17 I&#39;m currently releasing an episode a day of a horror audio drama mini series throughout October. The finale will be on Halloween. Death By Inches: Emotional Baggage, is a story told in small bites of less than 5 minutes an episode. The story is told through voice mail messages left by Ryan, a man with a tragic past of his own making, as he slowly realizes the peril his current job (inspecting and repairing an old isolated house) has put him in. This serial uses assets from freesound.org, pexels, and pixabayThis story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage Part 17

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<h1>EPISODE 18 — PART 18</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Death By Inches - Emotional Baggage Part 18 ***This is a serial, so there&#39;s earlier chapters! Check them out on my profile! I&#39;m currently releasing an episode a day of a horror audio drama mini series throughout October. The finale will be on Halloween. Death By Inches: Emotional Baggage, is a story told in small bites of less than 5 minutes an episode. The story is told through voice mail messages left by Ryan, a man with a tragic past of his own making, as he slowly realizes the peril his current job (inspecting and repairing an old isolated house) has put him in. This serial uses assets from freesound.org, pexels, and pixabayThis story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage Part 18

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<h1>EPISODE 19 — PART 19</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Part 19 of my October horror audio drama- this serial will have 31 chapters (one for every day) and conclude on Halloween. Follow the tale of Ryan, a man with a haunted past, as he faces someone else&#39;s demons for a change in an isolated mansion. Contains sound and art assets from freesound.org, pexels, and pixabayThis story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage Part 19

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<h1>EPISODE 20 — PART 20</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Part 20 of the Emotional Baggage horror audio drama. It ends on Halloween and I&#39;ll be trying to create and upload new chapters daily. Quite the challenge and experiment! It all ends on Halloween! This episode and all others contain sound and art assets from freesound.org, pexels,and pixabay.This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage Part 20

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<h1>EPISODE 21 — PART 21</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Part 21 of a horror audio drama with 31 parts (one for every day of October)The conclusion is on Halloween. Emotional Baggage is a story told through voice messages left by Ryan, a man with a tragic past who finds himself alone with something sinister and otherworldly.This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 21

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<h1>EPISODE 22 — PART 22</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Part 22 of the horror audio drama serial where our protagonist is alone and enduring supernatural peril. You should really listen to previous chapters first-- it is a serial after all. I am releasing (and usually recording and editing too) an episode every day of October 2024 with the finale being Halloween. Listen along and see how this experiment goes!This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 22

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<h1>EPISODE 23 — PART 23</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Part 23 of Ryan&#39;s descent into terror and madness. There&#39;s still time to catch up and enjoy the finale on Halloween! I&#39;m recording and releasing an episode daily all through October! This horror audio drama is told through voice messages left by our isolated and terrorized protagonist. Each chapter is between 4 - 7 minutes in length though the finale may wind up being longer. This is an experiment that is partially scripted and partially improvised. The show utilizes assets from freesound.org pexels.com and pixabay.comThis story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 23

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<h1>EPISODE 24 — PART 24</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Part 24 of Ryan&#39;s descent into terror and madness. This one deserves a trigger warning (hopefully no spoilers) drugs, alcohol, auto accident, injuries, family drama...) There&#39;s still time to catch up and enjoy the finale on Halloween! I&#39;m recording and releasing an episode daily all through October! This horror audio drama is told through voice messages left by our isolated and terrorized protagonist. This is the longest chapter so far but most are between 4-6 minutes in length-- though the finale may wind up being longer. This is an experiment that is partially scripted and partially improvised. The show utilizes assets from freesound.org pexels.com and pixabay.com You can find past episodes in podcast form under Creative Genus Audio on Spotify &amp; iHeartRadio or look me up on Youtube for my channel @Creative-GenusThis story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 24

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<h1>EPISODE 25 — PART 25</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Episode 25 of Ryan&#39;s horror audio drama ordeal. Sorry it&#39;s a day late, but it&#39;s almost 3x as long as a regular episode! I&#39;ll catch up with a double episode in the next couple of days and be on track for the Halloween finale! I&#39;ve been sick but I&#39;m still cranking out episodes every day as best as I can! I hope you&#39;re enjoying this experiment!This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 25

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<h1>EPISODE 26 — PART 26</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Episode 26! I&#39;m a day late again, but working to catch up! If you&#39;re late to the party, I&#39;m creating a horror audio drama told through voice mail messages left by the protagonist. It&#39;s partially scripted and partially improvised and I&#39;m trying to release an episode every day (from recording to editing) until the finale on Halloween. Follow Ryan as he faces terror and isolation-- as well as his own past in an isolated house in the woods.This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 26

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<h1>EPISODE 27 — PART 27</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Episode 27! I&#39;m a day behind still, but working hard to catch up! If you&#39;re late to the party, I&#39;m creating a horror audio drama told through voice mail messages left by the protagonist. It&#39;s partially scripted and partially improvised and I&#39;m trying to release an episode every day (from recording to editing) until the finale on Halloween. Follow Ryan as he faces terror and isolation-- as well as his own past in an isolated house in the woods.This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 27

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<h1>EPISODE 28 — PART 28</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Episode 28! I&#39;m STILL a day behind still, but working hard to catch up! If you&#39;re late to the party, I&#39;m creating a horror audio drama told through voice mail messages left by the protagonist. It&#39;s partially scripted and partially improvised and I&#39;m trying to release an episode every day (from recording to editing) until the finale on Halloween. Follow Ryan as he faces terror and isolation-- as well as his own past in an isolated house in the woods.This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 28

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<h1>EPISODE 29 — PART 29</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Episode 29! I&#39;m STILL a day behind still, but working hard to catch up! If you&#39;re late to the party, I&#39;m creating a horror audio drama told through voice mail messages left by the protagonist. It&#39;s partially scripted and partially improvised and I&#39;m trying to release an episode every day (from recording to editing) until the finale on Halloween. Follow Ryan as he faces terror and isolation-- as well as his own past in an isolated house in the woods.This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 29

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<h1>EPISODE 30 — PART 30</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Episode 30 of my 31 part horror audio drama! I was trying to release an episode every day until Halloween-- Well, I&#39;m late...but just because Halloween came and went, that doesn&#39;t mean I have to stop! I apologize for the delay but I guess being sick for so long really did knock me for a loop. Also, as this has been a very experimental series, the episodes have been getting longer and longer as I near the finish-- this is so that I can adequately pay off what has been set up and tie up loose ends. If you&#39;ve ever worked on a project like this, you know it takes more time to refine and edit work to make it shorter-- and I was hustling daily to try and be done by Halloween! This show was barely scripted and was about 70% improvised during recording. I&#39;ve been working on the show for 6-10 hours a day every single day since September 29th, so trust me, I haven&#39;t been asleep at the wheel-- though at times I was asleep with a fever just like the one poor Ryan had. Anyway, enjoy! I&#39;ll get the final episode out within the next day or two! I never quit even when the universe shoves plague into my lungs!This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 30

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<h1>EPISODE 31 — PART 31</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Episode 31 is here! And It&#39;s NOT the last episode! Since I&#39;ve been so far behind, AND since the last episode was looking to be of ENORMOUS length, I decided to release it in smaller chunks rather than make everyone wait even longer. I REALLY tried my best to meet the challenge of doing an episode a day, but between being sick for over a month, trying to maintain quality, and allowing the story to breathe and grow, I just couldn&#39;t bring myself to go any faster. So this is the beginning of the end... If you&#39;re new to this horror audio drama, you should really start at the first episode or it&#39;s going to be tough to follow. I expect there will be at least 2-3 more chunks of the finale left -- and they will be released very soon. All of the dialogue is recorded and edited. I&#39;m just working on sound effects and mixing at this point. Thanks for your patience!This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 31

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<h1>EPISODE 32 — PART 32</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Episode 32 is here! And It&#39;s NOT the last episode! This show was supposed to have one episode for every day of October, with an ending on Halloween. Well, for our protagonist Ryan, it&#39;s STILL Halloween for awhile longer. My illness just derailed me too much to get it all done on time. Since I&#39;ve been so far behind, AND since the last episode was looking to be of ENORMOUS length, I decided to release it in smaller chunks rather than make everyone wait. If you&#39;re new to this horror audio drama, you should really start at the first episode or it&#39;s going to be tough to follow. It&#39;s a serial about a tragic dupe all alone in a haunted hellhole. This is a partially scripted and partially improvised show. Many sound assets were used from freesound.org. Other audio &amp; image assets came from pexels.com, and pixabay.com.This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 32

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<h1>EPISODE 33 — PART 33</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

Better late than never! It&#39;s still Halloween night for Ryan as he struggles alone in the dark, trapped with an unearthly horror! This horror audio drama series started as an experiment where I would try to create an episode every day of October and end the story on Halloween night. Well, I slipped behind due to illness but I&#39;m still pushing forward! This is the second to last episode! Next one is the finale. It&#39;s all recorded. I&#39;m just working on sound effects and mixing at present. This episode (as well as previous ones) uses art and sound assets from freesound.org, pixabay.com, and pexels.com.This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 33

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<h1>EPISODE 34 — THE END</h1>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&#39;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&#39;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 4.0This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

This is it! The actual very end of the story! It&#39;s still Halloween night for poor Ryan, but maybe not for too much longer. Spoiler?: Yes, we see inside the trunk! If you haven&#39;t heard any of this story, then I urge you to start at episode one so it makes sense. This is the terrifying tale of a poor soul with a tragic past of his own making as he faces mind shattering horrors in an isolated old mansion. This experimental horror audio drama serial was partially scripted and partially improvised. It was initially meant as a challenge to create and release a chapter every day of October with the big finish on Halloween night- alas, illness and life complications got in my way --along with the fact that my vision of the tale began to take form in much longer episodes than I originally intended. This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it&#39;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&#39;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.

DBI - Emotional Baggage - Part 34 The End

Our first offering is the complete 34 episode horror audio drama Death By Inches: Emotional Baggage. Eavesdrop on voice mail from poor Ryan as he renovates an isolated mansion. By the time he realizes he's not alone, unearthly fog and floodwaters trap him. Why are there hidden rooms in the attic? What's in the mysterious trunk surrounded by arcane symbols? How come gaps in Ryan's memory are replaced by nightmare scenes? Will he fall victim to the supernatural or starve first? Ghosts are bad, but there are worse terrors. It's our past that haunts us most. It's going to be a long Halloween.

