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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox |
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| Oct 21 | #48 | #89 | #50 | #87 |
| Oct 20 | #48 | #91 | #50 | #86 |
| Oct 19 | #96 | #89 | — | #88 |
| Oct 18 | #99 | #92 | — | #89 |
| Oct 17 | #100 | #93 | — | #88 |
| Oct 16 | #97 | #88 | — | #89 |
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 21: Savannah, Georgia — America's Most Haunted City
October 21, 2026 · 24 minIn Savannah, Georgia, ghost stories are everywhere. In Wright Square, a woman is said to wander the night asking strangers if they've seen her baby. Her name was Alice Riley, and nearly three hundred years ago, she was executed in the very…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 20: The Amityville Horror — The True Story Behind the Haunting
October 20, 2026 · 22 minOn November 13, 1974, a young man ran into a bar in Amityville, New York, shouting that his parents had been shot. When police arrived at his family's waterfront home, they discovered six bodies. Ronald DeFeo Jr. had murdered his parents…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 19: Friday the 13th — The Truth Behind the Unlucky Day
October 19, 2026 · 22 minIn 1907, a wealthy Boston businessman named Thomas Lawson published a novel called Friday, the Thirteenth. It told the story of a stockbroker who exploited people's fear of an unlucky date to trigger a financial panic. That same year, a…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 18: The Salem Witch Trials — From Tragedy to Halloween Capital
October 18, 2026 · 24 minIn 1891, a jeweler in Salem, Massachusetts, began selling a silver souvenir spoon decorated with a witch on a broomstick. Beneath the witch were three small pins. Those pins were modeled after evidence used two centuries earlier, when…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 17: The Bunyip — Australia's Mysterious Water Monster
October 17, 2026 · 22 minIn 1845, a strange fossil bone appeared in the Australian town of Geelong. When an Aboriginal man was shown the remains, he reportedly identified the creature immediately. It was a bunyip. According to the newspaper account, the animal…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 16: The War of the Worlds — The Halloween Panic That Never Was
October 16, 2026 · 22 minOn October 30, 1938, a radio reporter broadcasting from a farm field in New Jersey suddenly stopped speaking. Moments earlier, he had described a terrifying scene: a strange metal cylinder, creatures emerging from inside it, and a…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 15: The True Story Behind The Exorcist
October 15, 2026 · 21 minIn 1949, a thirteen-year-old boy living outside Washington, D.C., began experiencing something his family couldn't explain. Scratching sounds came from inside the walls. Furniture reportedly moved on its own. Strange marks appeared on the…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 14: The Candy Man — The Murder That Changed Halloween
October 14, 2026 · 27 minOn Halloween night in 1974, eight-year-old Timothy O'Bryan came home from trick-or-treating in Pasadena, Texas, with a giant Pixy Stix. His father helped him open it. Timothy complained that the candy tasted strange. Within an hour, he was…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 13: The Hook — America's Most Famous Urban Legend
October 13, 2026 · 21 minIn November of 1960, a teenage girl wrote a letter to Dear Abby warning other teenagers about something she'd heard. A young couple had been parked on a deserted road when their radio interrupted the music with a frightening…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 12: The History of Haunted Houses
October 12, 2026 · 26 minIn 1888, a woman named Maggie Fox stood before two thousand people in a New York theater, removed her shoe, and demonstrated how she had spent decades convincing Americans she could communicate with the dead. She cracked her toe…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 11: The Woman Who Tamed Halloween
October 11, 2026 · 23 minIn 1899, Halloween was so destructive in parts of America that grown men sat outside their homes with shotguns, waiting for the pranksters to arrive. People stole gates, overturned outhouses, tore up sidewalks, and sometimes set property…
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31 Days of Halloween | Day 10: American Werewolves in America
October 10, 2026 · 23 minOn Halloween night in 1991, eighteen-year-old Doris Gipson was driving along a rural road outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin, when she struck something with her car. She stopped to investigate. There was nothing in the road. Then she saw something…
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