Dust and Echoes
Dust and Echoes
James Cawley
THE CORN WITCH: A Rural Folk-Horror Story of a Wrong Turn in the Indiana Backroads
47 minutes Posted Sep 23, 2025 at 8:42 am.
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Some roads lead to what people would rather forget.
In the backroads of Indiana, the corn grows high enough to swallow the horizon. Mile after mile of silent rows, where sound dies and even daylight feels heavy. Farmers tell their children to stay clear of the fields after dark. Hunters avoid them altogether. And still, the missing persons reports grow.
This is the story of what Jenson and Susan McBride stumbled into one late summer evening when a wrong turn, a stranger, and a simple act of kindness led them into a darkness beyond imagination.
Part crime story, part rural legend, The Corn Witch is a descent into isolation, obsession, and the terror that grows wild when no one’s looking.
A Dust and Echoes original story, written and performed by James Cawley.