Nine Halloween horror and true-crime podcasts to keep you spooked out
- Podcasts have taken over from passing a flashlight around and trying to scare your friends with horror stories
- These are some of the best to keep you awake at night
Scary stories are some of the first we learn to tell.
A time-honoured tradition at childhood sleepovers involves passing a flashlight around in the dark and trying to one-up your buddies with tales of the macabre. Monsters, real or imagined, are used to reinforce social mores – mothers shouldn’t hurt their children, do not take candy from strangers, and so on. Horror reinforces the rules just as we’re learning what they are.
Podcasts offer a return to that narrative flavour, and its freakiest renditions are just begging you to hit all of the lights and turn up the speakers.
From serial killers to cults to whatever the heck that just was, here are nine horror and true-crime podcasts that’ll put a chill down your spine. (Obviously, these podcasts contain graphic language and descriptions.)
