Spooky stories with sharp, chaotic company.
Spooky Show covers murders, disappearances, medical scandals, haunted places, cryptids, and unsettling history with a chatty, joke-prone rhythm. The tone swings from goofy household interruptions to blunt moral outrage when the material turns cruel or institutional.
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Spooky Show is a loose, personality-forward series about true crime, paranormal lore, cryptids, conspiracies, dark history, horror-adjacent cases, and strange cultural stories. The show works less like a formal documentary and more like sitting in on a researched conversation that keeps getting interrupted by jokes, side trails, and real reactions. That informality is central to its appeal. Episodes can start with pet chaos, a nonsense bit, or a quick life update, then move into material that is genuinely bleak. The range is broad. Stories include the Bennington Triangle, Elyse Pahler and the case connected to Jennifer's Body, Lake Lanier, the Hart family, the Dalkon Shield, the Jersey Devil, and Cari Farver. The show is comfortable with tonal contrast. It can laugh at an absurd detail, then stop hard at coercion, racism, child abuse, medical negligence, murder, or institutional collapse. True crime is not treated as a comedy premise. The hosts repeatedly draw lines around the cruelty of the cases and the failures that allowed harm to continue. Dark history episodes lean into context, especially when a place or product carries a much uglier history than its public reputation suggests. Paranormal and cryptid episodes give the show room to be lighter, more speculative, and openly scared. The Jersey Devil and Bennington Triangle material plays well because the conversation has space for both folklore and nervous joking. Listener interaction also shapes the show, especially around Instagram questions and milestone episodes. The overall feel is candid, messy in a human way, and more reactive than scripted. It suits people who want spooky subjects with moral temperature, conversational pacing, and a willingness to say when something is simply awful.
Made for: For listeners who like true crime, paranormal lore, cryptids, and dark history delivered as a candid conversation. It especially fits people who want humor around the edges without jokes aimed at victims.
What sets it apart: Spooky Show stands out by letting messy, casual host chemistry coexist with serious attention to harm, coverups, and institutional failure. The result feels less like a polished crime file and more like a friend telling a disturbing story in real time.
It's the podcast for all things SPOOKY! It's the spookiest show in the history of the universe ever & the ultimate destination for your weekly dose of true crime, conspiracy theories, unsolved mysteries, horror films, paranormal encounters, dark history and so much more. With a new episode every Monday, you'll learn something new and get primed for having the best week of your entire life! Meet your hosts: Kait: @bubblinequeenHarrison: @hhaarriissoonnFollow the show on Instagram: @spookyshowpodEmail: [email protected]
That cruise-ship spa appointment sounds suspicious until someone asks what she actually knew.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, playful Bennington Triangle episode finds its weight in two murders tied to the unease around Glastonbury.
Spooky Show's Bennington Triangle episode approaches southwestern Vermont by way of Glastonbury Mount, then lets the story darken around the region's stranger history.
A pop-culture horror premise gives way to a grim plan built around fame and sacrifice.
Spooky Show frames Elise's story by turning the Jennifer's Body idea inside out. What starts as a pop-culture fantasy about a girl who eats boys shifts into a case shaped by virgin sacrifice, occult power, and the urge to make a band famous.
Lake Lanier's dark folklore opens into Forsyth County's racial terror and the history some believe the lake helped bury.
Lake Lanier's grim reputation gives this episode a strong way into Forsyth County's history of racial terror, and into the idea that the lake helped make that past easier to ignore.
A troubling Hart family episode about public image, missed warnings, and institutional failure.
Spooky Show traces the Hart family case through a steady accumulation of warnings, missed interventions, and a carefully managed public image that obscured the harm.
A sharp medical-scandal review of how financial stakes, upbeat marketing, and missing accountability collided.
The Dalkon Shield story plays as a grim study of commercial ambition wrapped in medical assurance. Spooky Show follows the device's sale to A.H.
Paranormal talk with room to wander.
Grave questions, carefully organized.
Oz reimagined, then argued with afterward.
Crime memory with prison-wall detail.
Irish true crime, evidence first.
True crime with forensic bite and blunt banter.
Spooky Show covers the Bennington Triangle in southwestern Vermont, centered on Glastonbury Mountain and the towns Bennington, Woodford, Shaftesbury, and Somerset.
["Spooky Show episode 105 tracks Elyse Marie Pahler, a 15-year-old from Arroyo Grande whose case the hosts connect to Jennifer's Body.", "Kate hosts the narration and Harrison reacts with legal and cultural context.", "The episode follows Royce Casey, Jacob Delishmutt, and Joseph Fiorella, their band Hatred, and their talk of virgin sacrifice and Slayer.", "It also covers Royce's March 13, 1996 confession, the discovery of Elyse's body, 25-years-to-life sentences, and the family's lawsuits and financial fallout."]
Spooky Show's Lake Lanier episode turns a 38,000-acre reservoir north of Atlanta into a story about submerged towns, 675 recorded deaths, and haunted-lake lore.
["Spooky Show's episode 103 follows Jennifer Hart and Sarah Hart, a married couple who presented six adopted children as a perfect family while moving through Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington State.", "The episode centers on teacher reports, CPS visits, and neighbor concern after Hannah said her mom beat her with a belt and Abigail said Jennifer grabbed her by the neck and held her head underwater.", "Jennifer's Facebook posts, including the grocery-store 'kale' exchange and the line 'If not us, who?', sit alongside Devante's viral Ferguson rally photo as evidence of image management.", "The case ends with a March 2018 cliffside crash, Sarah's Benadryl searches, and investigators ruling the children's deaths homicide."]
["Spooky Show episode 102 traces the Dalkin Shield, a contraceptive IUD that surged after the 1970 Nelson pill hearings.", "Kate hosts with Harrison, and their banter frames the episode around Barbara Seaman, Gaylord Nelson, and Dr.
Spooky Show hosts Kate and Harrison examine the Jersey Devil, a New Jersey cryptid reportedly linked to more than 200 sightings in the last 20 years.
Spooky Show's 100th episode is a listener Q&A hosted by Kate and Harrison, covering podcast origins, music, favorite films, paranormal experiences, conspiracies, and future topics.
Spooky Show’s 100th episode recounts the disappearance of Carrie Favre after she abruptly leaves Dave Krupa and begins sending hostile messages to him, his former dating partner Liz Goyler, and family members.
Spooky Show examines Cold War number stations, including predictable shortwave broadcasts of melodies, Morse code, and synthesized number sequences whose operators remain unidentified.
Spooky Show examines the July 5, 2005 disappearance of 26-year-old George Smith from Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas during his honeymoon.
Spooky Show examines Kelly Lane's 1995, 1996, and 1999 pregnancies, including Tegan Lane's disappearance after Kelly left a New South Wales hospital in September 1996.
Spooky Show’s “96.
Spooky Show’s “Lizzie Borden Part 2” follows the investigation from the August 9–11 inquest through Lizzie Borden’s 1893 trial and later life in Fall River.
Spooky Show's “94.
Kate and Harrison use Spooky Show to examine alleged Hollywood PR relationships, distinguishing couples who may genuinely like each other from contracts designed to promote careers.
Spooky Show examines the 2014 disappearance of Dutch students Lisanne Froon and Chris Kramers after they entered Panama's Pianista Trail on April 1.
Spooky Show episode 91 examines the 1999 killing of 23-year-old Fan Man Ye in Hong Kong after a 14-year-old girl told police she was haunted by a blood-covered spirit.
Spooky Show examines the claim that the Olympic, not the Titanic, sank on April 14, 1912, through a deliberate ship switch and insurance scheme.
Spooky Show hosts Kate and Harrison trace the Mary Celeste from its launch as the Amazon in Nova Scotia in 1861 through its 1872 voyage from New York to Genoa.
Spooky Show examines the 2010 South African honeymoon murder of 28-year-old Annie Dewani after two gunmen hijacked a taxi in Gugulatu.
Spooky Show’s “87.
Spooky Show examines the 1995 Austin, Texas murder of 25-year-old Regina Stephanie Hartwell, whose burned body was found inside her Jeep.
Spooky Show’s “Cult: Synanon” traces Charles “Chuck” Dederich’s transition from Alcoholics Anonymous speaker to leader of a California organization built around the confrontational “Game.” Synanon’s sessions could last 72 hours, its Santa Monica headquarters reportedly generated $10 million annually, and its membership later included non-addicts who were expected to remain for life.
Spooky Show examines the unsolved December 30, 2000 murders of Mikio Miyazawa, Yasuko Miyazawa, Nina Miyazawa, and Ray Miyazawa in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.
Spooky Show episode 83 separates subliminal stimuli below conscious awareness from supraliminal cues, using a British supermarket experiment where German or French music increased sales of the matching wine.
The hosts celebrate the show's one-year anniversary, discuss their growth, and introduce the episode with casual banter.
The hosts apologize for a missed episode and announce three listener-requested stories, starting with a request from Allie on Instagram.
The hosts discuss the infamous Action Park in New Jersey, known for its dangerous rides and numerous accidents and deaths.
Hosts Kate and Harrison recount the Slender Man stabbing case with comedic commentary.