Creepy stories with blunt kitchen-table energy.
Hair Raising Horror moves between supernatural lore and disturbing real-world cases, from Hecate and Lilith to Lori Vallow Daybell and Tinder-related murder. Alina and April keep the tone loose, funny, and personal without sanding down the darker material.
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Hair Raising Horror is a loose, talk-forward mix of supernatural storytelling, urban legends, mythology, and true crime. Alina and April do not present the material like distant narrators. They sound closer to friends trading research, reactions, memories, and jokes before the room suddenly darkens. One episode may center on Lori Vallow Daybell, Chad Daybell, missing children, storage-unit searches, and a court case. Another may follow a Tinder-related murder story or a featured case about vampire belief and killing. Then the show can swing into Hecate, Lilith, witchcraft, goddesses, the underworld, or a legend about microphones lowered into a deep Siberian hole and returning human wails. The range is broad. The connective tissue is fascination with stories people tell when fear, belief, obsession, or violence takes over. The hosts often open with ordinary life: family, sleep, weather, dating, Mother’s Day, social media, margaritas, and inside jokes. Those digressions are not incidental to the style. They make the show feel communal and informal, even when the subject matter is bleak. Hair Raising Horror is also candid about its own mood shifts, acknowledging that some stories are fun and strange while others are deeply upsetting. Episodes involving Lori Vallow Daybell and JJ and Tylee carry a heavier true crime weight. Occult and mythology episodes feel more reflective, especially when they connect women, power, history, and demonization. Guest presence changes the texture, with Trisha stepping into the Lori Vallow Daybell coverage and Raven appearing through a Rogue Darkness feature. The show is not a polished documentary machine. It is chatty, reactive, and sometimes chaotic in a way that suits listeners who want spooky material with personality still attached. Its best fit is an audience comfortable with dark subject matter, gallows-leaning humor, and hosts who process grim stories out loud. The recurring sign-off captures the whole proposition neatly: keep it creepy.
Made for: Best for listeners who like supernatural lore, occult beliefs, and true crime delivered through casual host chemistry. It suits people who prefer personality, side stories, and strong reactions over a strictly scripted documentary style.
What sets it apart: Hair Raising Horror stands out by letting everyday banter and dark storytelling sit side by side. The show can cover Hecate, Lilith, missing children, dating-app danger, and underground urban legends without losing its loose, personal rhythm.
This weekly show delves into the creepy, weird, spooky, and supernatural. Hair Raising Horror is full of fun and interesting tales from all around the world. Join the hosts every week as they explore urban legends, things that go bump in the night, and look for the truth in tall tales.
A supposed microphone in hell becomes podcast gear banter; your creepy story gets a side conversation.
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A conversational case overview finds its footing in the missing-children timeline, public statements, and the storage search.
Lori Vallow Daybell's case is handled as a missing-children story first, with the conversation moving through public explanations, a missed 5 p.m. deadline, a storage search, and arrests in Kawaii.
A candid, loose conversation about Tinder, romantic deception, and the safety questions around dating-app attention.
Dating-app risk enters through everyday conversation as Alina and April start with the familiar pull of feeling wanted, then move into the dishonesty that can make romantic attention unsafe.
A lively, personable introduction to Hekate's fierce protection and ritual offerings.
Goddess Hekate approaches its mythic subject with an easy, conversational rhythm, tracing a figure tied to fierce protection, offerings, and the uneasy boundary between good and evil.
A Siberian drilling legend gets a funny, uneasy retelling built around wailing voices from below.
Screams From Below follows a reported drilling project in remote Siberia into one of horror's oldest anxieties: the fear that the earth might answer when people dig too far.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Alina and April bring Trisha from Tuesdays with Trisha into the studio to update the Lori Vallow Daybell case after new trial information surfaced.
Trisha frames Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell's case as an open investigation involving missing Tylee, 17, and JJ, 7.
Hair Raising Horror's "Tinder Dating Murders" tracks Tinder dates that ended in strangulation, stabbing, and a Nebraska case that left Sydney's body cut into 14 pieces near Omaha.
April's horror pick is Blood Diner, a 5.3 IMDb cannibal movie about two men killing women for a diner special and accidentally waking an Egyptian goddess.
Hair Raising Horror's "Screams From Below" starts with the Well to Hell legend, where a Russian drilling team is said to have reached 8.9 miles into Siberian permafrost and heard voices from a 2,000-degree hole.
Alina and April open with backyard planting, squirrel benches, a raccoon twice the size of a dog, and trash-soaked bleach.
Alina and April examine disturbing interpretations of nursery rhymes including “Rub-a-dub-dub,” Humpty Dumpty, “Three Blind Mice,” and “Ring Around the Rosy.” They say “Rub-a-dub-dub” originally featured three maids and may imply spying on women bathing or visiting a peep show.
Hosts explore creepy urban legends and supernatural tales from around the world.
A horror fiction podcast that explores creepy, supernatural, and urban legend stories from around the world.
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The hosts share a special episode with a guest co-host, featuring disturbing tales and urban legends from around the world.
Hosts Alina and April introduce a show exploring creepy, weird, and supernatural stories from around the world, including disturbing tales like 'Butterbox babies'.
This episode explores the disturbing history and stories of human sacrifice as a ritual practice.
The episode explores the White House Farm Murders, a familicide case, with a focus on disturbing true crime storytelling.
The episode explores the legend of Sasquatch, tracing its origins and cultural significance.