In this special spooky episode of The Spark File, Susan and Laura share Halloween inspired sparks from the dark side: the eerie calling of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara">Aokigahara Forest</a> in Japan and the spine-chilling true life story of The Exorcist's voice of satan: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_McCambridge">Mercedes McCambridge</a>. Content Warning: suicide, addiction, violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

In this special spooky episode of The Spark File, Susan and Laura share Halloween inspired sparks from the dark side: the eerie calling of Aokigahara Forest in Japan and the spine-chilling true life story of The Exorcist's voice of satan: Mercedes McCambridge. Content Warning: suicide, addiction, violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special spooky episode of The Spark File, Susan and Laura share Halloween inspired sparks from the dark side: the eerie calling of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aokigahara Forest</a> in Japan and the spine-chilling true life story of The Exorcist's voice of satan: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_McCambridge" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mercedes McCambridge</a>. Content Warning: suicide, addiction, violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Creativity Sparks: Spooky Sparks Special Episode: Aokigahara Forest + Mercedes McCambridge

Your one stop shop for creative ideas and inspiration. Sign up for our newsletter HERE. Each week on The Spark File podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien reach into their spark files and share stories, ideas and fascinations to ignite your imagination. Obsessed with creativity, Blackwell and Camien also talk with artists and makers, movers and shakers who have taken the spark of inspiration and fanned it into a flame. Hear from inspiring creatives like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Eric Stonestreet, Jonathan Groff, Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich, Zachary Quinto, Leslie Odom Jr, Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Billy Eichner, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Karen Olivo, Sutton Foster, Michael R. Jackson and many more about their passions and their failures, their inspirations and their aspirations. Refill your creative fish pond with new ideas and fresh perspectives. Listen, then take it and make it! Learn more at thesparkfile.com.

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