Petrified, the horror fiction anthology audio drama from a darker Ireland , returns on Feb 18th 2026. Petrified tells the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatural, and their terrifying fates. David Dastmalchian and Dylan Baker guest star in Season 4.

Petrified was created by Peter Dunner (writer/director) and Liam Geraghty (producer/editor/sound designer)

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by Coimisiún na Meán with the Television License Fee.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A live comedy show takes a turn for the worst when the jokes begin to deliver more than just laughter.

This episode is available to watch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/bMsZOUesPus?si=Fna11MgAByyBnD7N

Recorded live at The Laughter Lounge, Dublin, Ireland on 25th Oct 2023.

CAST

Ali Fox, Margaret McAuliffe, Anna Sheils-McNamee

Also featuring Donncha O'Dea and Liam Geraghty

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced by Liam Geraghty

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When the creators of a show fail to turn up, an innocent audience member roped into helping slowly figures out why.

This episode was recorded live in front of an audience at SCANRA - a night celebrating the Irish origins of Samhain through the voices and mediums of modern creators - in The Workman?s Cellar on November 4th 2023.

CAST

Georgina McKevitt as Georgie

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

Dulciana Vocal Ensemble performed "Cúnnla" composed by Michael McGlynn.

Venue sound engineer: Ste Lovett

Scanra is on Instagram as @scanrapresents and Dulciana Vocal Ensemble are @dulcianavocalensemble

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A young woman desperate for money is hired for an unusual job where urban legends are a reality.

CAST

Roseanna Purcell as Jenny

Margaret McAuliffe as Catherine / Mam

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The presenters of a live podcast share a most unusual audio file with their increasingly nervous audience. This episode was recorded live at the London Podcast Festival at King's Place on Sat 17th Sept 2022.

CAST

Michelle McMahon as Meg

Margaret McAuliffe as Laura

Donncha O'Dea as Daniel

Liam Geraghty as Ed

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The unlucky guests at a wild Halloween party find out that some traditions really shouldn?t be updated.

CAST

Donncha O'Dea as Henry

Ali Fox as Carol

Deirdre Monaghan as Evelyn

Cecil Baldwin as Loris Delvin

Liam Geraghty & Peter Dunne as the house guests

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When an evening out at a psychic reading goes terribly wrong, one woman is left to pick up the pieces.

CAST

Deborah Wiseman as Jean

Georgina McKevitt as Holly

and Larry Fessenden as Shelley

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A lonely romance writer makes a date with danger when her talents attract a most unusual fan.

CAST

Anna Sheils-McNamee as Diana

Ste Murray as Terry

Margaret McAuliffe as June

Donncha O'Dea as Babbage / hotel receptionist

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The search for a missing girl leads a couple on a perilous journey into a horrifying new reality.

CAST

Amy O'Dwyer as Melanie

Donncha O'Dea as Boyd

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Journalists researching a news story are shocked to discover they may be witness to an actual miracle.

CAST

Margaret McAuliffe as Ashley

Donncha O'Dea as Father Finbar

Ste Murray as George

Special appearance by Anne Doyle as herself

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A simple game to pass the time for a coach load of tourists brings horrifying truths to light.

CAST

Georgina McKevitt as Aubrey

Donncha O'Dea as Pascal

David Fennelly as Van

Deborah Wiseman as Forest

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Petrified returns on Jan 11th 2023 for an all new season of chills with more tales from a darker Ireland.

Actor Cecil Baldwin, best known for voicing Cecil Palmer in the cult hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale, and New York filmmaker Larry Fessenden, director of films such as Wendigo and The Last Winter and actor in Broken Flowers and Bringing Out the Dead amongst others, are the first American actors to join the cast of the award winning podcast.

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vulnerable to covid, a woman self-isolating in a strange house discovers there?s more to fear than what?s outside her door.

CAST

Deirdre Monaghan

Margaret McAuliffe

Deborah Wiseman

Donncha O'Dea

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the last night of manned operations before going automatic, a lighthouse keeper gets a call from a stranded boat.

CAST

Amy O'Dwyer

Margaret Mc Auliffe

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When an actress turns up to the wrong gig, the people in a stately home offer her a very unusual job.

CAST

Margaret McAuliffe

Donncha O'Dea

Michelle McMahon

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three co-workers attempting to drink their way through the 12 Pubs of Christmas discover a more terrifying tradition.

CAST

David Fennelly

Ste Murray

Rowan Finken

Donncha O'Dea

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An heiress from a notorious family answers a phone call that really wasn?t meant for her to hear.

CAST

Michelle McMahon

Margaret McAuliffe

Donncha O'Dea

Liam Geraghty

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A group of nuns making a religious pilgrimage to a remote shrine begin to realise there may be something to fear in the woods.

CAST

Deborah Wiseman

Deirdre Monaghan

Margaret McAuliffe

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dublin?s most popular Pantomime Dame spooks a chorus girl with stories of the theatre?s resident ghost.

CAST

Donncha O'Dea

Michelle McMahon

Margaret McAuliffe

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trapped by the recession in a yet-to-be completed estate, one isolated couple begin to fear they?re not alone.

CAST

Donncha O'Dea

Ciaran O'Grady

Margaret McAuliffe

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 30th March 2022 Petrified returns. Petrified Series 2 emerges from the fog with eight new, uniquely Irish, terrifying tales. 

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When a Christmas party ends, the hosts are left with an unwelcome guest. A guest who really wants to hear a ghost story.

CAST

Margaret McAuliffe

Amy O'Dwyer

Ciaran O'Grady

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A call centre operator's first night on the job becomes a nightmare when one customer makes an unusual complaint.

CAST

David Fennelly

Donncha O'Dea

Michelle McMahon

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A make-up saleswoman and an elderly customer having a spot of afternoon tea soon discover a dark and deadly truth.

CAST

Deirdre Monaghan

Margaret McAuliffe

Donncha O'Dea

Cally Murphy-Dunne

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A writer investigating a woman's death is given a bag of cassette tapes belonging to the deceased which contain terrifying recordings.

CAST

Michelle McMahon

David Fennelly

Donncha O'Dea

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A sceptical horror novelist attends an unusual Christmas party thrown by a group who want to convince her that the afterlife exists. (Part 2)

CAST

Deirdre Monaghan

Charlie Bonner

Donncha O'Dea

Deborah Wiseman

Margaret McAuliffe

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A sceptical horror novelist attends an unusual Christmas party thrown by a group who want to convince her that the afterlife exists. (Part 1)

CAST

Deirdre Monaghan

Charlie Bonner

Deborah Wiseman

Margaret McAuliffe

Donncha O'Dea

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A late night radio show host in a remote station receives increasingly disturbing calls from his listeners out there in the dark.

CAST

Charlie Bonner

Margaret McAuliffe

Donncha O'Dea

Deborah Wiseman

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Petrified - a horror fiction anthology podcast from a darker Ireland. Petrified tells the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatural, and their terrifying fates.

CREW

Written & directed by Peter Dunne

Produced, edited & sound design by Liam Geraghty

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/petrified_pod

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Petrified_Pod

EMAIL: [email protected]

CONTENT WARNING: Petrified is an immersive, sound rich and frequently tense horror drama - if you have specific triggers in either content or sound please don't hesitate to contact / message us before listening to see if your specific trigger is in this episode.

Petrified is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the television license fee

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.