10 Scary Podcasts to Listen to in the Dark
Horror fans, October is your time to shine. This is the month for planning a Halloween costume, scaring the neighbors with disturbing decorations, and starting a scary podcast.
If you’re looking for an immersive audio experience this spooky season, here are 10 shows full of ghosts, murders, and haunted hallways for days. (And don’t miss my additional suggestions for more scary horror podcasts to listen to this Halloween, plus, if you’re afraid of scaring yourself too much, this list of the best scary podcasts, ranked by scare level .)
Caribbean mystics
InCaribbean Mystics , hosts Paulina and Gabrielle talk about supernatural tales set in the Caribbean. The narrator shares his eerie experience, then Polina and Gabrielle take to the microphone to tell us about the cultural and historical setting and their own impressions. Caribbean Mystics offers carefully crafted stories told by people who lived the experience, combined with fun parties between friends.
Ghost Story
Ghost Story , hosted by Tristan Redman, is the perfect podcast if you’re looking for something murderous and ghostly. Tristan begins by explaining that strange things happened in his bedroom when he was a teenager, although he doesn’t believe in ghosts. He later learns that the people who lived in the house after he left also saw strange things. Oddly enough, his childhood home is next door to the house where his wife’s great-grandmother was murdered in the early 1900s. Could these events be connected? It is, of course, much scarier if you take the idea into account.
Haunted
Lauren Lapkus is known as one of the funniest improv comedians in the podcast industry. In her new showSpooks , she plays the fictional character Teresa, a dead influencer from the other side (finally some undead representation!) sharing non-fiction stories from real people. Equal parts creepy and stupid.
Another world
In“Another World “, host Jack Wagner allows listeners to tell their own horror stories by acting as a curious but neutral host, asking curious questions and allowing the listener to come to their own conclusions about what really happened. Whether you believe these stories are true or not, Jack does a great job of showing us how, at the very least, they changed the lives of the storytellers.
Dark House
If you asked me to guess what podcast we’d get from House Beautiful , I never would have thought it would be something so scary.The Dark House is , as you might expect, about interior design, but also about the intersection of true crime and the paranormal: beautiful homes with stories of ghosts, murders, unexplained events and more. Magazine editors Hadley Mendelsohn and Alyssa Fiorento enlist authors, stage designers, psychics, and paranormal investigators to understand why we’re so obsessed with haunted houses and delve into what they tell us about our culture.
Podcast “Haunted Objects”
The Haunted Objects podcast is hosted by paranormal investigators Greg and Dana Newkirk, known for their work with haunted objects and supernatural investigations. They delve into the strange and eerie world of haunted artifacts while discussing various items from their personal collection, which is part of their traveling museum of the paranormal and occult. They recount the objects’ chilling histories, involvement in mysterious incidents and associated supernatural occurrences, delving into how they impacted the lives (or deaths?) of their previous owners.
Tower 4
If you prefer to get your nightmares from audio dramas,Tower 4 will give you more than your fair share. It’s part mystery, part suspense and part psychological thriller. Mike Arche takes a job as a fire watcher at a remote tower located deep in the Wyoming desert. Soon he begins to hear strange noises, mysterious radio transmissions from a nearby tower, and general oddities. It’s such a gripping narrative that you’ll share Mike’s sense of isolation.
Lor
Lore delves into the eerie and disturbing side of history, folklore and mythology. In each episode, Aaron Mahnke takes listeners into the dark corners of human nature, superstition, and unexplained phenomena through discussions of real historical events and legendary stories. It combines storytelling and exploration with tales of ghosts, creatures, mysterious deaths and more. The stories are made even more enthralling by the atmospheric production and captivating music.
Limetown
Limetown is a gripping, realistic sci-fi mystery that feels and sounds just like investigative journalism—so much so that many listeners initially thought it was real. The plot centers on the disappearance of more than 300 people from a research center in a small town (called Limetown). The main character, Leah Haddock, is a journalist for American Public Radio who investigates what happened to missing people, leading her down a path of conspiracy, government secrets and strange experiments involving mind control. (The Late Show was adapted into a TV series starring Jessica Biel.)
Radio rental
Radio Rental takes you to a fictional 1980s movie rental store (essentially a haunted blockbuster) run by eccentric host Terry Carneis (voiced by Rainn Wilson from I) and his cat Malechai. Terry is a scary DJ with real life stories ranging from the heartbreaking to the bizarre, straight from the source. Created in a documentary style, the series brings together stories of close encounters with serial killers and inexplicable encounters with the other side that will make you question your normal, everyday interactions and remind you that something worth fearing may be lurking everywhere. corner.