The Supernatural Protection Company

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Paranormal claims, handled with deadpan care.

The gist

The Supernatural Protection Company imagines a world where supernatural disasters come with policy numbers, coverage limits, and exhausted customer support. Its calls range from vampire therapy referrals to alien-liability disputes, with occasional detours into darker anthology territory.

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About The Supernatural Protection Company

The Supernatural Protection Company is a comedy-fiction series about the systems that would grow around everyday hauntings. Its central pleasure is procedural. Calls open with careful intake language, then drift into problems no normal claims department should be equipped to handle. A vampire needs records updated after centuries of aliases. A farmer tries to understand whether a pleasant alien encounter creates a compensable injury. Halloween callers report scratches, strange televisions, war worms, and increasingly questionable emergencies. The tone is usually dry and patient. The world, meanwhile, is completely unreasonable. That contrast gives the show its shape: paranormal chaos filtered through customer-service etiquette, policy categories, referrals, and liability logic. The writing is especially good at letting jokes emerge from small administrative details rather than only from monster gags. A coffin sofa in a therapist's office becomes both a punchline and a thoughtful note about newly turned vampires performing old stereotypes. An alien abduction becomes less about spectacle than about coverage channels and preexisting injuries. The hotline episode works because harmless false alarms sit right next to actual danger, forcing the operator to stay calm through both. The show also has a wider experimental streak. Some entries move away from the claims format into broadcasts, sound-design showcases, or darker collaborative horror. Those shifts can bring heavier material, including violence, unreality, body horror, political grief, and pointed commentary about Palestine. The result is not a pure comfort comedy. It is stranger and more elastic than that. Still, its core identity remains clear: an alternate reality where monsters call support, paperwork has lore, and the person on the line has to make the impossible sound routine.

Made for: Best for listeners who like scripted comedy with supernatural worldbuilding, workplace absurdity, and call-in formats. It also suits fans of indie audio fiction that can switch from silly bureaucracy to darker experimental episodes.

What sets it apart: The show stands apart by making insurance procedure the engine of its paranormal comedy. Instead of chasing monsters, it asks who answers the phone afterward, what the policy covers, and how calm a support agent can remain.

In their own words

Need paranormal insurance? Call us! The Supernatural Protection Company is dedicated to providing quality customer service to help you with any and all paranormal issues for which you may be covered. From haunted cars to cryptid caused injury, we're here for you! The Supernatural Protection Company is an episodic comedy podcast about a world where paranormal occurrences are so commonplace you can just buy insurance for them! In a mix of fully scripted and improvised episodes, we learn about the quirks of this alternate reality through recorded phone calls with an SPC customer service agent, and all the nonsense that e...

paranormal insurance claimscustomer service intake callsvampire identity and therapyalien encounter liabilityHalloween emergency callssupernatural false alarmsstrange broadcastsbureaucratic absurdity

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Best episodes of The Supernatural Protection Company

Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.

Watermelon Flag - Wireland NOWNov 6, 2023

A protest performance that turns rage into something tense, direct, and hard to forget.

It opens with a call for an open mind, then settles into a hard-edged protest piece that moves from personal urgency into a plainspoken account of Palestine, empire, and the cost of turning away. The strongest thing here is how little it softens itself.

K I L L FMNov 1, 2022

A poisoned radio bulletin that sounds official, urgent, and deeply wrong.

K I L L FM builds a broadcast that feels tightly wound from the start. It moves from clipped news copy to leaked audio to small-town dread, and the closing stretch keeps the pressure high without letting the mood drift.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Watermelon Flag - Wireland NOW

    This episode of The Supernatural Protection Company departs entirely from its usual fiction format to address the conflict in Gaza, recorded on day 31 of the Israel-Hamas war.

    Nov 6, 2023·29m·2 clips
  2. 2

    Intake #04329 - Bleeding Hearts Therapy

    A centuries-old vampire calls supernatural insurance to become an in-network therapy provider, revealing his specialized practice treating vampiric trauma.

    Sep 17, 2023·17m·1 clip
  3. 3

    New Episode out NOW for Patrons

    Sep 10, 2023·1m
  4. 4

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    This is a brief, largely improvised episode of The Supernatural Protection Company in which monsters apparently call in for help with insurance claims.

    Apr 1, 2023·10m·1 clip
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    Syntax Crossover - The Brinkers

    Dec 30, 2022·16m
  6. 6

    Claim #424116 - Alien Encounter

    Nov 27, 2022·19m
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    K I L L FM

    Hidden gem

    Kill FM is an anthology horror audio fiction show presenting multiple interconnected segments under a fictional radio station format.

    Nov 1, 2022·1h 4m·4 clips
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    The Hallow's Eve Emergency Hotline

    This episode of The Supernatural Protection Company presents a series of calls received by the Hallows' Eve emergency hotline on Halloween night.

    Oct 29, 2022·11m
  9. 9

    Nowhere, On Air Pre-Canon Crossover - The Braedon Community Policy

    Sep 30, 2022·13m
  10. 10

    Claim #84931 - Package Protection

    Aug 28, 2022·11m
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    Claim #322856 - Melted Car

    Jul 24, 2022·15m
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    Claim #02953 - Sentient Tree

    Jun 24, 2022·12m
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    The SPC Commercial

    Jun 23, 2022·2m
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    On Hold - Pre-Launch Trailer

    May 28, 2022·2m