The Halloween Podcast

By Lyle PerezHistory

The Halloween Podcast episodes

October 05 Leigh Haggerwood Spooky Sounds Composer Interview
Lyle and Meghan welcome British composer and sound designer Leigh Haggerwood to The Halloween Podcast to explore something we hear every October but rarely stop to think about: the sounds that make Halloween spooky. Leigh has spent decades working professionally in music and sound, with credits across British television, live productions, commercials, and sound design, while also creating Halloween and horror soundscapes heard by listeners around the world.
From childhood trick-or-treating in London to creating imaginary haunted worlds entirely through sound, Leigh joins us for a fascinating conversation about the language of spooky audio, Britain’s centuries-old tradition of ghosts and folklore, reputedly haunted places, and how Halloween sound effects have evolved from physical records, cassettes, and CDs into the digital age.
25 days until Halloween!
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55 min
October 04 Under The Umbrella Tree Halloween Special (1991)
Under the Umbrella Tree was a cozy fixture of Meghan’s childhood Disney Channel viewing, but this Canadian children’s favorite is completely new to Lyle. For the Xennial Countdown, they revisit Holly, Iggy, Gloria and Jacob—and the wonderfully simple Halloween special that brought the holiday into their already delightfully unusual household.
From costumes and trick-or-treating to a little practical Halloween safety and some wonderfully witchy fun, this is the kind of seasonal television that could make an already-beloved childhood show feel even more special. Meghan revisits a Halloween memory she hasn’t forgotten, while Lyle discovers what made this little corner of early ’90s television so memorable.
27 days until Halloween!
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Haunt Line: 731-400-0472
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24 min
October 03 Witches Night Out (1978)
Witch’s Night Out is one of Meghan’s beloved childhood Halloween specials — a wonderfully weird Canadian cartoon from 1978 featuring Gilda Radner as an eccentric Witch who can make a couple of kids’ Halloween dreams come spectacularly true. Meghan still watches it every year and is now introducing it to her own children.
Lyle, however, had somehow never seen it. So Meghan takes him to Anytown for the first time to talk about the distinctive animation, that unforgettable opening song, a surprisingly recognizable voice cast, and why this peculiar little special has remained part of her Halloween for so many years. Will its weirdness win Lyle over without the childhood nostalgia? Well... that may be another story.
28 days until Halloween!
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37 min
October 02 Halloween Horror Movies With Curtis Andersen
Actor Curtis Andersen, who played Gordy on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, joins Meghan and Lyle for a trip through Halloween horror! Curtis puts together a movie watch list every year leading up to Halloween, so we’re talking about some of his annual go-tos alongside a few films that earned an important place in horror history.
How did horror movies become such a big part of the way we celebrate Halloween? We’re talking scary movie traditions, Halloween nostalgia, and the films we find ourselves coming back to when October rolls around. Plus, Curtis shares his own Halloween memories and traditions along the way.
29 days until Halloween!
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Haunt Line: 731-400-0472
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1 hr 25 min
October 01 Wonderful Sausage By Alvin Schwartz Explained (CONTENT WARNING)
CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses murder, cannibalism, and harm to children and animals. Parental discretion is advised before listening with children.
Today, Meghan and Lyle sink their teeth into “Wonderful Sausage,” a particularly gruesome tale collected by Alvin Schwartz in Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (1991), with unforgettable illustrations by Stephen Gammell.
What makes Samuel Blunt’s sausages so wonderfully delicious? You might wish you hadn’t asked! Lyle also traces the story’s folkloric roots to the Ozarks and Louisiana as we explore where this deliciously disturbing tale came from.
30 days until Halloween!
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Haunt Line: 731-400-0472
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1 hr 3 min
September 30 Peter & The Werewolf! Cassette Tape Story Review
Lyle is taking Meghan back to his childhood with a Halloween cassette she had never heard before: Peter & the Werewolf! This vintage Fun World recording combines spooky storytelling with the wonderfully eerie sound effects that made Halloween so much fun for Xennial kids.
Join us as Lyle shares his memories of this childhood favorite and Meghan discovers what she's been missing all these years. It's a little Halloween nostalgia, a little old-fashioned storytelling, and a reminder that sometimes the simplest things can still give us a good scare!
31 days until Halloween!
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Haunt Line: 731-400-0472
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41 min
September 29 Jason Marsden Interview (Eerie Indiana, Hocus Pocus)
Jason Marsden joins us for today’s Xennial Countdown to Halloween! You know Jason from an incredible list of films and television shows, including A Goofy Movie, Eerie, Indiana, and very importantly around here Hocus Pocus.
We had an absolute blast talking with Jason, who is genuinely one of the nicest guys you could hope to meet. We get into some of those Xennial favorites, spend plenty of time talking Hocus Pocus and Eerie, Indiana, and hear a few stories along the way — but we’re not spoiling those here. You’ll have to listen!
32 days until Halloween!
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Haunt Line: 731-400-0472
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1 hr 2 min
September 28 Eerie Indiana Memories (1991)
Today on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, Meghan and Lyle are heading to one of the strangest little towns of the early 1990s: Eerie, Indiana. Premiering on NBC in 1991, the series followed 13-year-old Marshall Teller as he tried to document the increasingly bizarre things happening around him in a place where almost everyone else seemed perfectly happy to accept the weirdness as normal.
Meghan remembers watching Eerie, Indiana as a kid—most likely during its later run on The Disney Channel—but remembers surprisingly little about it, so she and Lyle revisit what made this short-lived series so unusual. They look at its place just ahead of the huge 1990s kid-horror boom, its distinctly Xennial world, and the surprising amount of social satire hiding beneath all that small-town weirdness.
33 days until Halloween!
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41 min
September 27 Buttons and Rusty in Which Witch Is Which (1984)
Buttons and Rusty are heading into Halloween for the first time, and the young bear and fox quickly discover that humans have some very strange October traditions.
Meghan revisits a childhood favorite filled with trick-or-treating, witches, a pair of criminals, and one ridiculously catchy title song. And given her mild childhood obsession with “woodland animals” — something friends and family can readily attest to — putting a bear and a fox into a Halloween special was really stacking the deck. Meanwhile, Lyle experiences Which Witch Is Which? for the first time.
34 days until Halloween!
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5UywgN_D6s&t=836s
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Haunt Line: 731-400-0472
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16 min
September 26 Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)
Garfield loves food, hates Mondays, and discovers that Halloween may be the perfect holiday for one very important reason: candy.
Today, Meghan and Lyle are watching Garfield’s Halloween Adventure for the first time. Neither grew up with this 1985 special, but after hearing generations of Xennials talk about creepy old houses, ghostly pirates, and one surprisingly spooky Halloween night, it was time to find out what they missed.
We’re talking homemade costumes, trick-or-treating, Lou Rawls, Garfield’s questionable candy ethics, and the moment this funny neighborhood Halloween adventure turns into a genuinely creepy ghost story — with a little Halloween history along the way.
35 days until Halloween!
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Haunt Line: 731-400-0472
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32 min

About The Halloween Podcast

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Welcome to The Halloween Podcast, where your hosts Lyle Perez and Meghan Cunningham delve into the eerie, the unexplained, and the downright spooky. Join us as we explore the chilling corners of…