Top Podcasts for Midwestern Stories in 2026

The midwestern stories space keeps producing fresh voices and long-running favorites. This list rounds up 25 of the best, including The Moth, Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast, and Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery.

The Moth

On Tuesdays and Fridays The Moth’s podcast feed presents episodes of the Peabody-Award Winning Moth Radio Hour and original episodes of The Moth Po...

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ArtsBarroom StoriesComedyCultureEntertainmentMidwestern Stories
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Audience:
FreelancersRemote WorkersRetirees

Goal:
Discovering New IdeasFollowing A StoryImproving Public SpeakingSleeping BetterTo Fall Asleep To

Style:
DocumentaryNarrative Storytelling

When:
At The GymAt WorkBackground NoiseBefore BedCommuting
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Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast

Horror Hill is a horror fiction podcast, spun off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show st...

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Dark FictionGhost StoriesMidwest StoriesSupernatural HorrorMidwestern Stories
Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a new audio drama from HartLife NFP.Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for...

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Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesMidwestern Stories
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Audience:
Fantasy Fans

Style:
Serialized Fiction

When:
Commuting
Already Gone Podcast

Great Lakes. True Crime. Host Nina Innsted covers lesser-known cases from MICHIGAN and the Great Lakes Region. #TrueCrime #unsolved #Michigan

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Midwestern Stories
Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations

Dakota Spotlight is a true crime series investigating unsolved murders, cold cases, and missing persons in North Dakota and the Midwest. Hosted by ...

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Cold Case InvestigationsMidwest StoriesMissing PersonsSmall Town HorrorTrue CrimeMidwestern Stories
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Audience:
True Crime Fans

Style:
Investigative
7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato

7 Minute Stories is the leading short-form autobiographical storytelling podcast in the world, reaching over 30 million listeners through weekly un...

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
The Cabin

Welcome to The Cabin, the official podcast of Discover Wisconsin! Join hosts Andrea Boehlke and Megan Christian as they dive into all things Wiscon...

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
Homemade

Allrecipes podcast, Homemade, celebrates good food, the people who make it, and the stories and traditions of beloved recipes. On the show, hosts S...

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Food And CookingMidwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
The Travel South Dakota Stories

Join us on an immersive first-person journey through South Dakota, the land of infinite variety. Recorded on-location, this in surround sound audio...

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Midwestern Stories
Midwest Murder

We’ve all heard the phrase ‘that kind of thing doesn’t happen in our town’, but here on Midwest Murder, we will shatter that false reality. In fact...

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
Midwest Legends

Hey there! Midwest Legends is not a show about Paul Bunyan, Babe the Blue Ox, or Sasquatch, but you will hear lots of great stories from the modern...

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
Midwest Mayhem Podcast

Midwest Mayhem isn’t just a podcast — it’s a movement built from the heart of Missouri. We shine a light on the stories that often go unheard — fro...

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Mental HealthSmall Town HorrorMidwestern Stories

Audience:
Military Veterans
Midwest Writers Room

Podcast from the Wisconsin Writers Association. We discuss all things writerly, with an emphasis on the unique flavor of works that originate in th...

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Midwestern Stories
The Midstory Hour

"The Midstory Hour" is a weekly radio show by Midstory, a nonprofit organization dedicated to telling stories that inform, interpret and inspire fo...

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Midwestern Stories
Wisconsin Legends Podcast

Wisconsin is a paranormal paradise. With lake monsters, dogmen, haunted hotels, famous ghosts, and deadly killers, it's a lot more than just Americ...

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Midwestern Stories
Midwesternish

A podcast for people who ♥ the heartland. Hosted by writer, storyteller and public radio journalist Gina Kaufmann, a Midwesterner born and raised.

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
Midwest Madness

Two Midwestern sisters talk about true crime, cults, conspiracies and cryptids in the Midwest.

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
Midwest Weird

Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers. From strange styles to unique identities,...

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
Shadows of the MidWest

The iconography of the American heartland is often made up of rolling fields, hard work, family values, rural communities, and a sense of innocence...

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Midwestern Stories
More Than Corn

Home of Extreme Midwestern AppreciationFrankly, the narrative is boring--"Why would anybody live in the Midwest? It's flat, boring, and nothing but...

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Midwestern Stories
The Midwestern Experience

Two lifelong pals from the Midwest discuss various topics, from recent news, to everyday slice-of-life stories.

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Midwestern Stories
Question Quest

Have you driven past something — maybe a building, monument or sign — and thought, "What's going on with that?" That's exactly what Question Quest ...

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories
Midwest Hotdish with Lauren

On Midwest Hotdish, we are dishin’ up everything from You Betcha to Uff Da. From snippets of upper Midwest history to stories of growing up in the ...

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Midwestern Stories
Midwest is Best

Midwest is Best is a podcast by three University of Wisconsin alumni. Join us as we explore the best/weirdest/prettiest stuff the Midwest has to of...

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Midwestern Stories
Midwest Mysteries

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Midwest StoriesMidwestern Stories