The Halloween Podcast

The Halloween Podcast Hosted by Lyle Perez-Tinics. The Halloween Podcast celebrates Halloween 365 days a year.

New shows released every week featuring topics ranging from Halloween themed sitcom episodes, horror movie reviews, Halloween commercials and more!

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 49: The Ghost Ship Mary CelesteOn a cold December morning in 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste ...
10/19/2025

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 49: The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste

On a cold December morning in 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift upon the Atlantic—her sails raggedly set, her hull intact, her cargo untouched. Food and water still lay in her stores, the crew’s clothing neatly folded in their quarters, the logbook closed only days before. Yet not a soul remained aboard.
Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, their young daughter, and the seven-man crew had vanished into the sea without a trace, leaving only the eerie silence of an abandoned vessel drifting across endless waves.

No blood, no signs of violence, no storm to blame—just a lifeboat missing, and an emptiness that chilled every sailor who stepped upon her decks. It was as if the ocean itself had swallowed the living whole, leaving behind only a phantom ship—a ghostly reminder that at sea, the line between safety and oblivion can vanish as suddenly as the wind.

Episode 49 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/40C6DJqYlOXvIYvKTAGgSI?si=RLwfVG9mT8G9k4SiADkQ8w

The Dark Record – Day 47: The Exorcism of Anneliese MichelIn 1976, the life of Anneliese Michel ended in tragedy, after ...
10/17/2025

The Dark Record – Day 47: The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel

In 1976, the life of Anneliese Michel ended in tragedy, after months of torment that defied medical explanation. Diagnosed with epilepsy and depression, she later began to exhibit terrifying aversions to sacred objects, voices commanding her to damnation, and behaviors that no doctor could cure.

Believing she was possessed, her devout family turned to the Church, where two priests—Arnold Renz and Ernst Alt—were granted permission to perform the ancient rite of exorcism. Over ten months, they battled what they believed were not one, but many demons, recording chilling voices and violent manifestations. When Anneliese finally succumbed to weakness and malnutrition, her death was seen by some as failure—but by others as the ultimate sacrifice of a soul that fought fiercely against powers of darkness.

Her death ignited a trial that branded her parents and priests guilty of negligent homicide, yet the shadow of her suffering still lingers—caught between the cold certainty of science and the unrelenting terror of the supernatural. Though the courts condemned her parents and priests, many faithful regard her as a martyr of the unseen war between heaven and hell.

The case endures - a story whispered in both courtroom records and horror films: the exorcism of Anneliese Michel.

Episode 47 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/5359bRcVjEzmu4MmDRgpii?si=hmdGdpwURyKHRUDY41R83g

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 46: Great Amherst MysteryIn the summer of 1878, in the quiet town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, a mo...
10/17/2025

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 46: Great Amherst Mystery
In the summer of 1878, in the quiet town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, a modest wooden home became the stage for terror. At its center was eighteen-year-old Esther Cox, a young woman already weakened by trauma, who soon found herself stalked by an unseen force. Night after night, the walls shook with phantom raps, objects hurled through the air, and fires ignited from nothing. Most chilling of all was the message scrawled across her wall, as if by an invisible hand: “Esther Cox, you are mine to kill.” What followed was more than a haunting—it was a siege, a year of dread that would make her name echo through history as the unwilling heroine of The Great Amherst Mystery.
Episode 46 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KFskFZzaeaHS4kcJbcFmY?si=ZuUOBnwwSYacMF7TxTlctA

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 45: The Man from TauredAirports are built on order—lines, stamps, and gates meant to hold the c...
10/16/2025

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 45: The Man from Taured
Airports are built on order—lines, stamps, and gates meant to hold the chaos of the world in place. But in the mid-20th century, Japan faced a traveler who did not belong. He stepped from his plane with confidence, presenting papers from a country called Taured—a place no map could claim, no embassy could recognize. Officials checked, searched, questioned, but the name rang hollow in every atlas.
Some say he was detained, only to vanish from a locked hotel room by morning. Others whisper that he slipped through a crack in reality itself, returning to the world that birthed him. Whatever the truth, his story endures: the Man from Taured, forever stranded between borders that should not exist.
Episode 45 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lcXruy8X5wguFlTXIOK8Y?si=OcoYE4F1QsW3EWnXVPSA4g

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 44: The Betz Mystery SphereIn the scorched aftermath of a Florida brush fire in 1974, the Betz ...
10/15/2025

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 44: The Betz Mystery Sphere
In the scorched aftermath of a Florida brush fire in 1974, the Betz family uncovered a polished
metal sphere that seemed to breathe with a will of its own. At home it rolled without touch,
changed course as if following unseen orders, and thrummed in harmony with music like some
buried machine awakening. Tests revealed hollow chambers and strange densities within, but
no answers that could quiet the sphere’s restless energy. Was it a fragment of lost industry, or
an artifact designed for purposes beyond human comprehension?
In the hum of steel and the shifting of shadows, the Betz Mystery Sphere seemed less like
scrap—and more like something watching, waiting, alive.
Episode 44 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Jwsu8fxEB2bCRxiDEZn8c?si=LvWbAcGJTDWaoNGA75uhHg

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 43: The Curse of the Iceman (Ötzi)High in the Ötztal Alps, where the ice guards secrets older t...
10/14/2025

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 43: The Curse of the Iceman (Ötzi)
High in the Ötztal Alps, where the ice guards secrets older than memory, two hikers stumbled upon a figure that time itself had tried to bury. It was Ötzi, the Iceman—his furs, tools, and tattoos whispering of a world five thousand years gone. But as scientists celebrated their frozen treasure, the shadows thickened. One by one, those who had touched his story met strange and sudden ends—falls, avalanches, crashes, and illness—all stitched together into the chilling tale of a curse. Was it mere coincidence, or had the ancient hunter carried into our age not only his copper axe, but also a vengeance for those who dared to disturb his eternal rest? Thus begins the mystery of The Curse of the Iceman.
Episode 43 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mrRDqcEbo291qurptYaup?si=ITWGv12hSNSRZ-YuqibnOw

🕯️The Dark Record – Day 42: The Croglin Grange VampireIn the misty hills of Cumbria, where the night air hangs heavy wit...
10/12/2025

🕯️The Dark Record – Day 42: The Croglin Grange Vampire

In the misty hills of Cumbria, where the night air hangs heavy with secrets, whispers tell of the Croglin Grange Vampire—a gaunt, glowing-eyed fiend said to have clawed its way through a pane of glass to feast upon the blood of a young woman as she slept. Her brothers, awakened by her cries, chased the creature into the shadows and cornered it in a church vault, where its leathery body bore the very wounds they had dealt. The horror ended in fire—or so they believed—but the tale, first inked in the 1890s by Augustus Hare, has never truly died.

Whether born of fact or woven from Victorian fancy, the Croglin Grange Vampire lingers still, a legend scratching at the edges of England’s folklore, daring us to wonder if something monstrous once walked beneath those quiet country skies.

Episode 42 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/0HriBo3myLP7gneefUiwlu?si=SqsvVWXTRKiKwcjpnKVQ2w

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 41: The Bridgewater TriangleIn the forests and swamps of southeastern Massachusetts lies a real...
10/12/2025

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 41: The Bridgewater Triangle
In the forests and swamps of southeastern Massachusetts lies a realm whispered about in half-
fear, half-wonder—the Bridgewater Triangle. Here, the Hockomock Swamp, whose very name
means “place where spirits dwell,” breathes with ancient legend and sorrow, said to harbor
ghosts, cryptid beasts, and trickster spirits that lure wanderers astray. Within its mist-choked
borders, spectral lights flicker above the trees, shadowy figures haunt lonely rocks, and
monstrous shapes prowl the darkness, while whispers of curses and forgotten battles linger in
the soil itself. From haunted schoolhouses to ominous stone carvings, from tales of cults to
sightings of UFOs, the Triangle has become more than geography—it is a storybook of unease,
where every path feels like a threshold and every rustle in the undergrowth might be the sound
of something watching from the thin veil between worlds.
Episode 41 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧
👉Listen on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DNg55eMU5pSpcqmx1rCSv?si=ZSt1gfBTTjmuBrHcCHSrXA

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 40: The Vanishing of Frederick ValentichOn the evening of October 21, 1978, twenty-year-old pil...
10/10/2025

🕯️ The Dark Record – Day 40: The Vanishing of Frederick Valentich
On the evening of October 21, 1978, twenty-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich vanished over Australia’s treacherous Bass Strait after radioing air traffic control with a chilling report: a metallic craft with glowing green lights was hovering and circling above his rented Cessna 182L, “orbiting” him with impossible speed and agility. His final words—“It’s not an aircraft”—were followed by seventeen seconds of metallic scraping before the radio went dead. Despite an extensive four-day search, no trace of Valentich or his plane was found, and only five years later did a single cowl flap wash ashore, believed to be from his aircraft. Valentich, ambitious but inexperienced, was fascinated by UFOs and had even joked about abduction days before his flight, fueling theories that ranged from alien interference to a fatal “graveyard spiral” of pilot disorientation. Investigators declared the cause undetermined, but the eerie transmission and absence of wreckage transformed the case into one of aviation’s most enduring mysteries—a gothic crime without a culprit, haunted by the echo of a young man’s last words.
Episode 40 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/2KX6VEsJhojfYXaCZ2qEKp?si=iJIe3bmoSrGdnLjoh9Q-Ww

🕯️ The Dark Record – The Dark Record– Day 39: Mysterious Death of Mary ReeserOn the morning of July 2, 1951, a landlady ...
10/09/2025

🕯️ The Dark Record – The Dark Record
– Day 39: Mysterious Death of Mary Reeser

On the morning of July 2, 1951, a landlady in St. Petersburg opened the door to a sight that
would become legend: Mary Reeser, a 67-year- old widow, had been reduced almost entirely to ash in her easy chair. Only a single slippered foot, a few charred fragments of spine, and — most disturbingly — a skull described as “shrunken” remained.

The apartment itself was nearly
untouched, its curtains still hanging, its newspapers barely singed, as though the fire had
chosen its victim and nothing else.

Investigators spoke of sedatives, ci******es, and the “wick effect,” while the public whispered of spontaneous human combustion.

To this day, the “Cinder Woman” lingers in both science and superstition, her death a chilling reminder of how swiftly the ordinary can burn into the inexplicable.

Episode 39 of The Dark Record is out now. 🎧

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/01gHDAp8VYLNN480SHcCVS?si=SqRZSIcvSWGfPMyXNWpssA

The Halloween Podcast is looking for guests! Please share.With thousands of weekly downloads and listeners tuning in fro...
10/09/2025

The Halloween Podcast is looking for guests! Please share.

With thousands of weekly downloads and listeners tuning in from around the world, this is a great opportunity to share your story with a passionate and growing audience of Halloween lovers. Whether you’re an actor, author, paranormal investigator, podcaster, historian, or just someone with a chilling story to tell, we’d love to have you on the show. Step into the spotlight and let your spooky voice be heard!

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