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Description: A Christmas Eve blizzard grips Bellweather City as Faye and George follow the case to the burned ruins of the Virtuoso Theater. Beneath the snow and ash, the investigation reaches its most dangerous threshold yet, where old ghosts, police power, and Bellwether secrets converge before midnight. Content Warnings: Gun violence, pregnancy in peril, hypothermia/extreme cold, electrical discharge, severe emotional distress, occult horror. Listen to the episode 5 Post-Session Talkback: https://audio.com/maias-game-room-misc/audio/haunted-ep-5-talkback Edited by: Maia Wilson Character Art by: @balascraft on Instagram CastMaia Wilson as your Narrator / GamemasterMichael Gilbert as The Shamus, George ValentineAnna Glover as The Medium, Faye Bellwether About the Game: The Dead Don’t Testify is played in Haunted, a supernatural noir tabletop RPG about troubled investigators, impossible cases, and the wounds that follow them home. Instead of dice, Haunted uses a tarot deck, turning every draw into a story prompt, consequence, or moment of revelation. This season is sponsored by Burzerkerr Studios, the two-person studio behind Haunted. Haunted is now live as part of Gamefound’s RPG Party 2026. Learn more and follow the game at hauntedrpg.com. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Description: With time running out, Faye and George take a dangerous risk inside one of Bellweather City’s most restricted archives. What they find there could change the shape of the investigation — if they can get back out before the people protecting the city’s secrets catch up with them. Content Warnings: Break-in stress, physical trauma/unconsciousness, loud noises/sirens, institutional corruption, classism, mild jump scares. Edited by: Maia Wilson Character Art by: @balascraft on Instagram CastMaia Wilson as your Narrator / GamemasterMichael Gilbert as The Shamus, George ValentineAnna Glover as The Medium, Faye Bellwether About the Game: The Dead Don’t Testify is played in Haunted, a supernatural noir tabletop RPG about troubled investigators, impossible cases, and the wounds that follow them home. Instead of dice, Haunted uses a tarot deck, turning every draw into a story prompt, consequence, or moment of revelation. This season is sponsored by Burzerkerr Studios, the two-person studio behind Haunted. Haunted is now live as part of Gamefound’s RPG Party 2026. Learn more and follow the game at hauntedrpg.com. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Description: The case leads beneath Bellweather City into the Underway, a hidden world of tunnels, old machinery, and impossible sounds in the dark. As Faye and George trace strange copper conduits below the streets, they uncover signs that the city’s haunted past may still be dangerously active. Listen to the episode 3 Post-Session Talkback: https://audio.com/maias-game-room-misc/audio/haunted-ep3-talkback Content Warnings: Claustrophobia, electrical hazards, physical injury, gunfire, supernatural dread, themes of human exploitation. Edited by: Maia Wilson Character Art by: @balascraft on Instagram CastMaia Wilson as your Narrator / GamemasterMichael Gilbert as The Shamus, George ValentineAnna Glover as The Medium, Faye Bellwether About the Game: The Dead Don’t Testify is played in Haunted, a supernatural noir tabletop RPG about troubled investigators, impossible cases, and the wounds that follow them home. Instead of dice, Haunted uses a tarot deck, turning every draw into a story prompt, consequence, or moment of revelation. This season is sponsored by Burzerkerr Studios, the two-person studio behind Haunted. Haunted is now live as part of Gamefound’s RPG Party 2026. Learn more and follow the game at hauntedrpg.com. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Description: Faye and George follow Orion’s trail into the frozen tenements of Palermo Block, where a ransacked room, a frightened witness, and lingering echoes of an old disaster point toward something larger than a single killing. As official pressure closes in, the investigators must decide who to trust before the city buries another truth. Listen to the episode 1 and 2 Post-Session Talkback: https://audio.com/maias-game-room-misc/audio/haunted-ep1-2-talkback Content Warnings: Home invasion, physical violence, hostage themes, trauma, grief, police intimidation, claustrophobia. Edited by: Maia Wilson Character Art by: @balascraft on Instagram CastMaia Wilson as your Narrator / GamemasterMichael Gilbert as The Shamus, George ValentineAnna Glover as The Medium, Faye Bellwether About the Game: The Dead Don’t Testify is played in Haunted, a supernatural noir tabletop RPG about troubled investigators, impossible cases, and the wounds that follow them home. Instead of dice, Haunted uses a tarot deck, turning every draw into a story prompt, consequence, or moment of revelation. This season is sponsored by Burzerkerr Studios, the two-person studio behind Haunted. Haunted is now live as part of Gamefound’s RPG Party 2026. Learn more and follow the game at hauntedrpg.com. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Description: On a freezing December night in 1929, the murder of Orion Bellwether draws medium Faye Bellwether and private investigator George Valentine into the fog-choked South Docks of Bellweather City. With the police eager to close the case and something strangely silent beyond the Veil, the investigators begin following Orion’s final clues into a mystery of grief, ghosts, and buried city secrets. Listen to the episode 1 and 2 Post-Session Talkback: https://audio.com/maias-game-room-misc/audio/haunted-ep1-2-talkback Content Warnings: Gun violence, murder, blood, police corruption, grief, alcohol use, supernatural horror, drowning themes. Edited by: Maia Wilson Character Art by: @balascraft on Instagram CastMaia Wilson as your Narrator / GamemasterMichael Gilbert as The Shamus, George ValentineAnna Glover as The Medium, Faye Bellwether About the Game: The Dead Don’t Testify is played in Haunted, a supernatural noir tabletop RPG about troubled investigators, impossible cases, and the wounds that follow them home. Instead of dice, Haunted uses a tarot deck, turning every draw into a story prompt, consequence, or moment of revelation. This season is sponsored by Burzerkerr Studios, the two-person studio behind Haunted. Haunted launches on Gamefound on October 1, 2026 as part of Gamefound’s RPG Party 2026. Learn more and follow the game at hauntedrpg.com. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: None – out‑of‑character discussion, light spoilers for the full series. Synopsis: The story is over. Now, the players and Game Master pull back the curtain as they discuss the making of this Old Gods-inspired miniseries, why Liminal Horror was the right system for Appalachian dread, and what it was like to bring Adelaide's tragedy to life. There is also discussions of some behind‑the-scenes moments and character choices. Light spoilers ahead – listen after Episode 7. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: Violence, death (supernatural and human), emotional goodbye, grief, resolution. Synopsis: Deep in the cave, the Mander Witch waits – bound and powerless. To free her, two men must face a corrupted enemy and make a final choice. The debt from childhood comes due. Not with blood, but with memory. And in a clearing long forgotten, a ghost says goodbye. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: Supernatural water threat, tense negotiation, environmental peril. Synopsis: The river rises with a fury – and a voice. It wants answers. It wants revenge. To survive the crashing wave, two men must convince the water to listen before it drowns them both. But the river remembers who took its protector. And it does not forgive easily. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: Tense atmosphere, supernatural threat, water peril, mild horror imagery. Synopsis: Fifty miles north, the river waits. Somewhere along its banks lives a witch who can speak to the water – the only one who can stop what's coming. But the road is long, the woods are dark, and the current is rising. By the time they reach her door, it may already be too late. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: Violence, gore (animal bites), injury, supernatural threats, stress fallout. Synopsis: The debt from childhood is called in. To stop a dam that threatens to wake something ancient, two men must find a witch who speaks to rivers. But first, they have to survive the creature who holds their promise – and the darkness they carry within. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: Grief, funeral setting, ghostly apparition, supernatural dread. Synopsis: Two men, bound by a childhood promise, return to their hometown for a funeral. But the old fort in the woods calls them back. And in the clearing where they once played, a voice from the past speaks – and an old debt stirs. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: Supernatural bargaining, temporary child death (off-screen reversal), body horror (rabbit imagery), stress, panic. Synopsis: In the dark of the Appalachian woods, a creature offers a second chance – at a price. Two children must decide how far they will go for a friend. Decades later, a funeral brings them home. But some bargains are never truly paid. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: Death of a child (temporary), supernatural horror, body horror (rabbit imagery), childhood trauma, suffocation/death imagery, stress-induced panic. Synopsis: Summer, 1908. Deep in the Appalachian woods, three children play at being musketeers, throwing bang snaps and building a secret fort around a rabbit-shaped stone. Then one snap changes everything. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Content warning: Emotional neglect of a child (implied), mild peril, no graphic violence or death. Synopsis: This prologue is an unscripted "origin story" designed to build the emotional bond between the characters as children. It establishes the childhood friendship and blood pact that will haunt these same individuals as they return home as adults following a tragic event. While this origin story provides deep context for the characters' bonds, it is an optional listen before the main series begins. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw

Step into the shadows of Appalachia. A new standalone horror story steeped in the world of Old Gods of Appalachia. A childhood promise. A blood debt. And something ancient waiting in the dark, hungry and patient. This is an unofficial actual play story from Maia's Game Room, played using the brutal, tension-filled Liminal Horror system. ► First two episodes arrive May 14th, 2026. Cast Maia Wilson: Gamemaster / Narrator / EditorAndrew Park: as W.E. WhaleyMichael Gilbert: as Ezekiel “Zeke” Greene Music by Guillermo Cueva Credit: Set in the world of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games / DeepNerd Media, adapted to Liminal Horror for this miniseries Disclaimer: Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone is a mini series for the Maia's Game Room podcast and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives, DeepNerd Media, or Monte Cook Games Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/maiaw