The Best Halloween Podcasts to Celebrate The Spooky Season
Halloween is coming up, and it’s time to get those thrills and chills. If you’re looking for something to help you get in the spooky spirit, there are plenty of Halloween podcasts to get you in the mood.
Whether you’re looking for an eerie ambiance, true stories that will give you the willies, or a scary story to keep you up at night, there are plenty of episodes that will hit the spot. Get cozy, launch the Podcast App, and get ready to listen to our list of the best Halloween Podcasts.
Something Scary By Studio71
Something Scary
Join hosts Blair and Steffany every week for the creepiest ghost stories, urban legends, and folktales. This October, the pair kicked off their Halloween podcasts with an episode about Burkittsville, Maryland, the filming location of The Blair Witch Project. The town has a long history of spooky stories, so dive into this series to learn about this legend and plenty others.
A bi-weekly podcast about dark historical tales.
Lore
If we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that there’s lots of spooky, scary things that happened. Lore is the perfect Halloween podcast series because host Aaron Mahnke takes a look at the dark historical tales that fuel our modern scary stories. There are 208 episodes to pick from that span history and make you feel like you’re sitting around a campfire at night.
Multi-award winning anthology series of original horror stories.
NoSleep
If you want a more bone-chilling experience around the digital campfire, check out NoSleep. In 2010, a new forum started on Reddit.com that invited people to post original scary stories about frightening experiences. A year later NoSleep was turned into a Halloween-worthy podcast featuring David Cummings hosting as volunteers narrate and produce the spooky stories.
The small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true.
Welcome to Nightvale
When full-on horror isn’t your cup of tea, take a trip to Nightvale. Welcome to Nightvale has an gentle, eerie vibe as you join the narrator in the radio station of a town full of strange occurrences. With over 200 episodes, you can dive in at the beginning or anywhere in the middle as the eerie escapades can be joined at any time for the perfect bit of Halloween podcast listening.
Every Thursday, we take you on an audio tour of a new haunted place, and its haunted history!
Haunted Places
For something more real-world, have a listen to Haunted Places. You might be familiar with haunted houses or cemeteries or even islands, but this podcast takes a look at how anywhere has a paranormal history. Every haunted place has a frightening backstory, so the episodes take the listeners on an audio tour of a new location while the host explains the history.
Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves.
Spooked
If your house being potentially haunted isn’t enough to keep you up at night, recounting of real life supernatural stories might do the trick. Hear firsthand from people who can barely believe that it happened. Spooked challenges skeptics of the supernatural. If you’re ready to change your mind about the supernatural, then this Halloween podcast is for you.
