Halloween is on a Tuesday this year, which means spooky season fans all over the nation will be trapped at work for most of the day.
With Audacy’s help, you won’t have to have any fear – fear missing out on… fear! Our local news stations have podcast episodes that can keep you creeped out, informed and entertained while you get your work done.
Come with us on an eerie tour across the country, right from your earbuds…
Our first stops are in Philadelphia, Pa., where the crew of “The Jawncast” started ghost hunting in September. Brian Seltzer, John McDevitt, and Holli Stephens joined Philly police officer John Levy, who moonlights as a paranormal investigator, to visit a national historic landmark in Horsham, Pa., that’s supposedly haunted LISTEN HERE.
Sabrina Boyd-Surka of The Jawncast made her own spooky pilgrimage to the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site this month for an inside look at what inspired his classic tales of mystery and horror LISTEN HERE.
Next, we’re headed to Detroit, Mich., where Zach Clark and Annie Scaramuzzino of the “Daily J” podcast team have been digging into a trove of scary stories this month with their “Spooky J” series. These include visits to the Two Way Inn – Detroit’s oldest, and possibly most haunted, bar – (LISTEN HERE); the 178-year-old home of Orson Starr (LISTEN HERE) and the mysterious Cadieux Café on the city’s east side LISTEN HERE.
Did you know that master magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit? On Halloween? Learn more from Zach and Annie, who dove into the macabre tale on the Oct. 27 edition of “Spooky J” LISTEN HERE.
After Detroit, we’ll stay along the shores of the Great Lakes and stop by Chicago, Ill. There, “Looped In: Chicago” host Arielle Raveney went on an investigation with Chicago’s Ghost Research Society inside the oldest limestone roundhouse in the nation, owned by Two Brothers Brewery in Aurora, Ill. LISTEN HERE.
From there, we’re headed to New Orleans, La., where Thanh Truong of “The Thanh Report” visited an expert on Cajun folklore to learn more about the Rougarou, an enigmatic monster that haunts the bayou. It’s said that the creature can take many forms and may be walking among us LISTEN HERE.
In the Dallas, Texas, area the “Texas Wants to Know” crew traveled to a particularly haunted town known for its historic preservation: Granbury. To learn more about this ghost-hunting destination, LISTEN HERE. Chris Blake and Mike Rogers of Dallas and Zach from Detroit also got together on “Something Offbeat” to hash out which are the best and worst U.S. cities for a zombie apocalypse.
Once we hit the West Coast, true crime fans can binge “Bitter Academia” from this spring. This Bay Area-based pod chronicles the 1905 death of Jane Stanford, which still remains shrouded in mystery LISTEN HERE. In true Los Angeles fashion, Mike Simpson kept things sunny as he visited the deep, dark depths of the La Brea Tar Pits – basically a big Ice Age cemetery – this month on the new Audacy podcast “Do You Work Here?” to wrap up our Audacy audio odyssey LISTEN HERE.
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