Halloween may be just one day, but everyone knows the whole month of October is meant for being spooky. It's the time of year when we get cozy and watch—or listen—to something slightly horrifying.
Podcasts are the modern-day ghost stories told around a digital fire, and if you're ready to get you in the Halloween spirit, we've unearthed eight spook-tacular podcasts that'll give you creepy crawlies, thrills and chills. Remember to leave a light on!
See also: 10 Festive Fall Cocktails To Celebrate the Season
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A Spotify original, Haunted Places: Ghost Stories uploads an episode every Thursday. Podcast host Greg Polcyn takes you on an audio tour of urban legends, haunted places and their histories. Explore the witchcraft capital of Salem, Mass.; the curse of Moll Dyer, the murders of Chester Gillette, Alabama's ghost town Cahawba and much more.
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“Do you believe?” This dark and chilling podcast is hosted by Alex Reagan, who discusses the supernatural and what haunts her. In some of the episodes, Reagan and Dr. Richard Strand discuss haunting situations. The pair has investigated a musician’s suicide, taken a trip to an asylum, analyzed the abduction of Sebastien Torres, and the taken a deep dive into the history of Ouija boards.
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Hosted by Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski, The Last Podcast on the Left discusses all things horror. Weekly episodes tackle all manner of scary and spooky topics such as the violent history of Alcatraz prison, the alien conspiracies of New Mexico’s Roswell, serial killer Jack Unterweger, the psycho-psychedelia of the Ayahuasca Murders, occult icon Aleister Crowly and so much more.
Every week, professional makeup artist Bailey Sarian takes her interest in true crime to the airwaves as host of Dark History. Her YouTube series Murder, Mystery and Makeup helped inspire this audio-only endeavor where Sarian discusses often-buried but true social history topics such as gay conversion therapy, former First Lady Edith Wilson, the C.I.A.'s MKUltra human experiments, and The Doctor’s Riots of 1788.
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Produced by actor Aaron Mahnke and Grim & Mild, Lore is a podcast, a television show and a book series. The podcast talks about a dark side of history not often told, “because sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction.” Join the cast and explore folklore, curses, the town of Hadley and its "witch" Mary Webster, the absurd and spooky murder of Bridget Cleary, the Jersey Devil and more.
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A Spotify original podcast, Supernatural uploads a new episode every Wednesday. Ashley Flowers, who listeners may know from Parcast and Crime Junkie, discusses the world’s most left-field true crime stories. She's taken on The Rendlesham Forest Incident with aliens, blues icon Robert Johnson and his so-called deal with the Devil, the supposed reincarnation of Bridey Murphy, conspiracy theories about engineer Bob Lazar and his alien technology, and the haunting at the Winchester Mystery House.
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This is not your ordinary podcast. Bridgewater is a story about a professor named Jeremy Bradshaw who discovers a relic from his past, leading him to solve a juicy mystery. The show is an iHeartRadio original created by Aaron Mahnke, written by Lauren Shippen, and starring Misha Collins, Melissa Ponzio, Nathan Fillion, Karan Soni and Hilarie Burton Morgan. Tag along for the wild ride.
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Since its debut in 2017, Crime Junkie has become of the most popular crime podcasts. Ashley Flowers and Brit discuss true crime stories on episodes uploaded every Monday. Dive into the murder of Billy Stafford and the Hendricks family, get to know the real Denver Hammer Killer, shriek at the death of Joyce Chiang, follow the clues in the case of Gabby Petito's disappearance, and find out what happened to Ryan Shtuka.
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