Birch Bride Episode 5 - The Witnesses

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Marcel is alone, left with his memories and his love. He brings her back in the only matter he can, and he does what he can to keep her. Together.

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Birch Bride Episode 4 - Stop

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Augustine and Marcel have found their place. Now, the only thing that is keeping them from their happily ever after is Augustine's pesky cough.

This episode deals with themes of loss and mortality.

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Birch Bride Episode 3 - Allergies and Dust

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Marcel is keeping house and Augustine is meeting her students. Our new couple is having a life that neither knew they always wanted.

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Mikey and the Garden Arch Presents Johnson's Story Episode 1 - The Court of Air

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Mikey has found his way back to the arch, completed his loop, and has gone home. Now, Johnson is left to fend for himself. What comes next is his test of loyalty.

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Birch Bride Episode 2 - A Life Beginning

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Marcel and Augustine are starting their new lives together as husband and wife. She is securing work, he is securing their new lives together.

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Birch Bride Episode 1 - A Moment

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Marcel Emery has never stopped long enough for romance. Augustine Tremblay has never believed the right life would come from the right place. When they meet near the Soo in 1910, their courtship is brief, practical, and sincere — the first careful steps toward a home they will build together.

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The Laughing Flame Episode 5 - The Getaway?

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:00:00 GMT

The Merrit family is on their way home. They are going to leave Christmas and all of it's weirdness behind and get back to their lives...but fire doesn't cage. Fire waits. 

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The Laughing Flame Episode 4 - An Ember Grows

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:00:00 GMT

The Merrits stay over one extra day but today isn't quite as idyllic as it was yesterday. Little things keep happening; breaking glass, stoves that overheat, engines running too loud, sparks being thrown off things.

And then the laugh.

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The Laughing Flame Episode 3 - The Stop Over

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Its been years since the fire that claimed the ornament factory in Christmas, Michigan. Now, just a sleepy little stop over of a town, we meet a lovely family traveling back to Wisconsin from visiting family in Cheboygan for the holidays. But the weather has other plans and they have to make a unplanned stop

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The Laughing Flame Episode 2 - Christmas Factory

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Time has passed and few remember the fire of Bay Furnace. An ornament factory in the town of Christmas, Michigan brings prosperity and good tidings the year round. But one man, an old Cornish "Cousin Jack" was there when the fire laughed as it chased him and his cohorts through the woods. And he sees the flames in the kilns of the factory and knows the truth...fire doesn't cage. Fire waits.

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The Laughing Flame Episode 1 - Bay Furnace

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:00:00 GMT

The ground was frozen and a body lay stiff. There was no way to bury it. So the well meaning miners of Bay Furnace, MI let the fire take him. The fire took him....and kept him...

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Hermit of the Pines Episode 5 - South

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Our trio of students have made it out of the woods - but one of them, Jonah, is taking some of the woods back with him.

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This concludes the Hermit of the Pines story arc. We're rolling directly into another story next week.

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Hermit of the Pines Episode 4 - The Cabin

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Our trio of students have had enough. This was just supposed to be a scenery shot, turned into a hunt for a mythic figure, turned into now a fight just to survive. Michigan winters have a way of doing that to a person. On their way back to their car, back to their homes, the woods take one more shot at making them permanent residents and the Hermit makes himself useful again.

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Hermit of the Pines Episode 3 - The Cave

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:00:00 GMT

The three students from Ferris State University have seen their quarry. They know he exists and they try to find him. But this is November and even though it may be early, it's still the Upper Peninsula and the lakes can effect the weather fast and hard. As these three are beginning to learn if you're not from the land, the land may have plans for you.

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Hermit of the Pines Episode 2 - The Hunter

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Into the Dark of the Woods is a Rust Belt Studio production

The three students from Ferris State University head deeper into the woods, looking for confirmation that the Hermit is real, that he's what's leaving these "trades" to find. They find it, and more.

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Hermit of the Pines Episode 1 - Northbound

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Hermit of the Pines is the next story arc from Rust Belt Studio's "Into the Dark of the Woods" show

We meet three Ferris State film college students traveling north for some shots, some sounds, and some story. They find there way near Tahquamenon Falls where the pines hide a story as old as they are.

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The Bargain of the Field Episode 5 - Payment Due

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMT

This is "Bargain of the Field" episode 5 - the final episode. We come back to the present to see what happens to the Kallio's from the bargain that was made in the past.

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The Bargain of the Field Episode 4 - A Deal Struck

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMT

Episode 4 of "Bargain of the Field" brings us back to the past, back to Eno and his family. We watch as they try to carve out their piece of the land and see the land push back, trying to throw them out. We see why a man would make a deal and what that deal cost him."

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The Bargain of the Field Episode 3 - Town Festivities

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMT

We follow Eero and Anja, one enjoying everything the town has to offer with blissful ignorance. The other, feeling the growing dread of knowing that a deal was made and that prices are coming due

"The Bargain of the Field" is a generational horror drama set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We follow the Kallio family from their roots coming over to the United States from Finland to their thriving farm today.

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The Bargain of the Field Episode 2 - The Journey

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMT

Eno Kallio, the patriarch of a small family, herds his wife and children on a ship bound for the new land. Hear their journey and see them find their new home.

"The Bargain of the Field" is a generational horror story set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We're following a Finnish family as they find their way, and so much more.

Into the Dark of the Woods is a Rust Belt Studio production: horror and folklore from the heart of the Midwest.

💀 Written and narrated by Bryan Foster

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The Bargain of the Field Episode 1 - Halloween Week

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMT

The frost came early that morning, slicking the Kallio fields with silver. The pumpkins sat in rows like fat lanterns, their skins shining where the sun caught them. Eero Kallio walked the rows in his flannel and boots, the cold on the air had nothing to do with the cold in his heart.

"The Bargain of the Field" is a generational horror story set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Kallio family must keep their pact with the soil, and soon, payment will be due

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Into the Dark of the Woods Episode 0 - Greetings

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:06:23 GMT

Welcome to Into the Dark of the Woods, a Rust Belt Studio production. In this brief introduction creator Bryan Foster shares what's ahead - horror rooted in the Upper Peninsula. Follow the show for weekly episodes starting October 2025

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