HIt’s the season for pumpkin-based food waste! Or Halloween, if you prefer. Like all humans since time immemorial, the extended hours of darkness that fall brings no doubt have many of us wondering, “Where are all the spooky podcasts?”
You are lucky From horror podcasts to paranormal shows crowdsourcing blood-curdling experiences for seasonal specials, we’ve rounded up the spookiest music. Introducing a new series that plunges you into a suburban Halloween experience. It went from a fun haunted house to a traumatic experience that I had to write a full-length story about. There will also be an advice show hosted by two terrifyingly evil types, Harry Clarke and Paul Gordon from The Traitors. Be careful: follow their tips at your peril.
Alexi Duggins
TV Deputy Editor-in-Chief
This week’s picks
Asim Chaudhry opens up to Poppy Jay in Brown Girls Do It Too. Photo: David Titlow/The Guardian
Brown Girls Do It Too: Big Boy Energy
BBC Sounds, weekly episodes
While Rubina Pavani is on maternity leave, Poppy Jay is encouraging men to open up about what’s going on in their heads. First, Asim “Chabaddi G” Chaudhry talks about death, rejection, and exchanging kisses with Kali Wali. Jay challenges his own assumptions about women, and there is an enlightening discussion about how he feels sorry for his younger brothers who are growing up in an era where labels for men include “simps” and “sigmas.” Ta. Hannah Verdier
Inside the McKamey mansion
Widely available in biweekly episodes From the outside, McKamey Manor looks like your typical swamp haunted house, but Elizabeth McCafferty reveals its dark side in this fascinating podcast. Is the owner a Halloween prankster or a torturer who locks people in freezers? McCafferty explores the psychology of the fear industry and discovers what it’s really like inside. HV
Source: www.theguardian.com
