Video Palace

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Analog horror with a case-file pulse.

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Video Palace follows an amateur investigation into white VHS tapes, a missing collector, strange audio, and the rumored video store behind them. It treats analog media like evidence: clamshell cases, basement rooms, damaged recordings, and half-remembered transmissions become pieces of a larger dread.

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About Video Palace

Video Palace is a supernatural horror serial disguised as an amateur documentary investigation. Its central mystery begins with rare white VHS tapes and keeps widening into phone recordings, collector lore, missing people, damaged apartments, and a video store that seems to have left more than rumors behind. The show is patient. It lets fear build through objects that should be ordinary: a clamshell case, an old VCR, a doorbell camera, a P.O. box, a stack of tapes in a private den. Mark Cambria follows the mystery because the evidence feels close enough to touch. Tamara keeps pushing against the danger of that fixation, even while helping trace addresses, names, sounds, and recordings. Their dynamic gives the story its human friction. The investigation is not just about what the tapes are, but what wanting the answer does to a person. Episodes move through interviews and recovered audio, then pause to reconsider what a witness actually said. A film collector's room becomes a shrine. A piano technician's shop becomes another lead. A hospital waiting room becomes part of the cost. A break-in that ignores valuables and takes only white-tape research turns obsession into threat. Later, the mythology stretches through bonus stories about the Eyeless Man, where teenage cliques, secret music videos, internet fame, blurry footage, and half-seen figures echo the same pattern. The writing keeps its feet on the floor. It uses mundane logistics and technical details to make the impossible feel more invasive. The horror rarely arrives as a clean explanation. It comes as contradiction, compulsion, and the sense that every recording has another layer underneath it. Video Palace suits listeners who like fictional investigations with analog texture, restrained performances, and supernatural dread that grows out of evidence rather than spectacle.

Made for: Built for listeners who like serialized supernatural mysteries, found-footage texture, cursed-media stories, and horror that advances through interviews, recordings, and evidence rather than jump scares.

What sets it apart: Video Palace stands apart by making VHS culture feel procedural: the investigation treats tapes, audio artifacts, collector habits, and damaged media as physical clues in a widening occult case.

In their own words

When video collector Mark Cambria watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a language that doesn't exist. Mark and his girlfriend Tamra set out to investigate the tape's origin and find themselves caught up in a web of conspiracy, occult, and dread surrounding a legendary video store with a sinister purpose beyond imagining. Video Palace was created by Nick Braccia and Mike Monello, directed by Ben Rock, written by Ben Rock & Bob DeRosa and stars Chase Williamson and Devin Sidell.

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Video Palace makes obsolete media frightening by turning tapes, distorted sounds, and uncertain recordings into evidence that keeps resisting ordinary explanation.

Video Palace turns Mark Cambria's investigation into an Audio Drama where each new lead makes the evidence stranger and the investigator less reliable.

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Why you'd press play

A white tape turns one man's podcast investigation into the sort of mistake you will happily hear compounded.

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  • to chase white tapes from obsessive collectors toward a video store with eight basement doors
  • recorded interviews where mundane explanations keep losing ground to impossible evidence
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BONUS: In Search of the Eyeless Man: A Texas Teen Story by Brea GrantOct 26, 2020

A Texas teen story turns obsession, cliques, and power into a tense Eyeless Man entry.

Bria Grant's story follows a teenage rabbit hole of secret videos, half-remembered lyrics, and social jockeying, and it lands as a tight look at how obsession spreads inside a clique.

10. The StackNov 23, 2018

A basement crawl where the evidence starts to look like recruitment.

This episode turns Randy's basement into the center of the dread, and it does the job with little more than a broken window, a rough plywood fix, the stairs down, and an empty clamshell.

4. DissonanceNov 2, 2018

Music theory opens the door to a more practical, and more unsettling, investigation.

Video Palace folds the tritone lesson into a steady drift of dread, and Kat's explanation keeps the hour pointed at something off. The best stretch is where the theory starts hitting the investigation: the white tapes, the old recording gear, and the uneasy feeling that ordinary…

3. The Piano TunerOct 29, 2018

A doorbell, a voicemail, and a paper trail make the ordinary feel compromised.

Video Palace keeps the dread close to the ground here: a half-botched doorbell install, a strange sound outside the apartment, and a paper trail that keeps circling back to 1997.

2. ObsessionOct 26, 2018

A quiet investigation where tape collections and private grief start to feel like the same trap.

The episode follows Mark Cambria’s search for Video Palace from a porch visit in Benton, New Hampshire into a far lonelier place: a widow, a long-shuttered room full of tapes, and the uneasy feeling that one question may be too many.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Introducing The AMC+ Interview with the Vampire Podcast

    Sep 28, 2022·1m
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    BONUS: In Search of the Eyeless Man: A Texas Teen Story by Brea Grant

    A Texas Teen Story is a first-person horror narrative written by Brea Grant and read by Rebecca Ross, presented as a bonus episode of the Video Palace podcast produced by Shudder.

    Oct 26, 2020·48m·4 clips
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    BONUS: In Search of the Eyeless Man: The Real Sharon Lockenby by Graham Skipper

    Graham Skipper's short story, read by Tim Page, follows Sharon Lockenby, whose restaurant impression goes viral as a meme in 2016, triggering a chain of events that includes her being implicated in murders she did not commit, the emergence of an identical double, and the deaths of her parents.

    Oct 19, 2020·44m·3 clips
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    BONUS: In Search of the Eyeless Man: Dr. Maynard Wills: An Origin Story

    Oct 12, 2020·17m
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    10. The Stack

    Mark secretly returns to Randy's piano shop, where he discovers a basement ritual involving TVs playing mysterious white tapes and encounters Randy and others.

    Nov 23, 2018·31m·2 clips
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    9. Revok

    Nov 19, 2018·21m
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    8. Life Support

    Mark and Tamara visit the hospital after their friend Kat is injured in a car accident, then return home to find their apartment robbed with only the white tapes and related research stolen.

    Nov 16, 2018·17m·1 clip
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    7. The Code

    Nov 12, 2018·20m
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    6. The Hidden Basement

    Nov 9, 2018·21m
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    5. Pilgrimage

    Nov 5, 2018·21m
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    4. Dissonance

    Host and investigator Mark Cambria brings composer Kat over to analyze the audio from the mysterious white tapes that previously made him physically ill.

    Nov 2, 2018·22m·1 clip
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    3. The Piano Tuner

    Mark Cambria visits Randy Wayne, a piano technician and former Video Palace member, to show him a white tape and ask about Thurman Mueller, the tape's original owner.

    Oct 29, 2018·26m·2 clips
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    2. Obsession

    Mark Cambria drives to Benton, New Hampshire to interview Betz Mueller, the wife of missing video collector Thurman Mueller, and gains entry by saying a phrase he heard in his sleep-talking recordings.

    Oct 26, 2018·21m·1 clip
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    1. Somniloquy

    Oct 16, 2018·22m