I Live for Lists: Horror Podcasts
If you’re into fictional podcasts and horror is your jam, I’ve included a comprehensive list below. Most of these you have probably heard of but in case you haven’t, here you go. Obviously, these are all shows that I love and typically I’ll do a repeat listen in the fall This year I’m listening too and catching up with The Box and Lake Clarity.
Alice Isn’t Dead - A fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead. This isn't a story. It's a road trip.
Archive 81 - Uses found footage technique and follows the story of Dan, an archivist tasked to restore the audio recordings of Melody Pendras during her stay at the Visser Apartment. Creep vibes to the max!
The Black Tapes - A journalist's search for truth, her enigmatic subject's mysterious past, and the literal and figurative ghosts that haunt them both. The episode titled Cheryl!
The Box - When Addison Gilmore found the old lockbox of journals filled with entries about bizarre and terrifying events, she thought she'd stumbled upon a unique mass participation fiction project. But as she shares those stories and digs into their contents, it becomes increasingly clear that these journals are more than they seem... and she's in over her head.
The Bridge - The Bridge is a fictional serialized fantasy podcast about the monsters we fear, the monsters we can become, and the stories we leave behind. In the early 90’s, a transoceanic bridge crossed the Atlantic ocean. A series of ill-informed decisions and disastrous accidents and events mean the bridge is now rather derelict. Although it is still occasionally used, it’s not the center of activity that it once was. Etta is in charge of the Traffic Reports on Watchtower 10, at Checkpoint 10 on the bridge. Etta provides not only a traffic report, but histories, and points out various places where creepy events have occurred.
Bridgewater - Folklore professor Jeremy Bradshaw is pulled into the mysterious 1980 disappearance of his police officer father, Thomas, by new evidence that threatens to upend decades of certainty.
Darkest Night - The show is about an assistant working at the Roth-Lobdow Center for Advanced Research on Project Cyclops, which involves experiencing the last few moments of a dead subject. Lee Pace does the narrations throughout the podcast and I love it.
Lake Clarity - Five teens head up to Camp Clarity to celebrate their last summer together, but little do they know they're about to stumble on dark secrets that surround the lake.
Last Known Position - Last Known Position follows a group of experts including submersible pilot Mikaela Soto as they seek to recover a flight that suddenly vanished over the Pacific Ocean.
Leap Year Society - Join host Amanda Morrison, her producer Mitch, and conspiracy theorist friend, Colin, as they work to uncover the truth behind an age-old, secretive group known only as the Leap Year Society, whose enigmatic present day recruitment program is inexorably linked to research that borders on the paranormal. I loved this podcast, sadly it is incredibly difficult to find. Thank god I was able to finish listening before it went missing!
Lethal Lit - True crime podcaster Tig Torres has a knack for solving real-world murders, and her small hometown of Hollow Falls has too many of those! Along with her friends Wyn and Max, the teens are determined to bring killers to justice and uncover the town's long-buried dark secrets along the way.
Limetown - On a seemingly ordinary day, seventeen-year-old Lia Haddock hears news that will change her life forever: three hundred men, women, and children living at a research facility in Limetown, Tennessee, have disappeared without a trace. Among the missing is Emile Haddock, Lia's uncle.
Mabel: Mabel is about ghosts, strange houses, stranger occurrences, and missed connections. The story follows Anna Limón, a nurse, trying to get into contact with Mabel Martin, a missing person.
Magnus Archives - The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology examining the mysteries within the archives of London based The Magnus Institute, an organization dedicated to documenting and researching the esoteric and the weird. New head archivist Jonathan Sims attempts to organize and record a collection of seemingly unconnected statements of mysteries, supernatural and the occult, converting them to audio and supplementing them with follow-up work from his dedicated archival team. Individually the statements within the archives are unsettling. Together they begin to form a clear and disturbing picture. As you look deeper in to the archives something stares back.
The Passage - 150 years ago, the S.S. Cumberland disappeared in the Pacific Northwest. A lifeboat from the ship with four skeletons inside just mysteriously showed up in Marrow Passage. Reporter Daisy Bonham attempts to solve the mystery and find out what other secrets are lurking just below the surface.
Rabbits - When Carly Parker's friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly's search for her friend leads her headfirst into a ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits.
Video Palace - When a video collector watches a mysterious VHS tape and begins talking in his sleep in a language that doesn't exist, he and his girlfriend investigate and find themselves caught up in a web of occult surrounding a notorious video store.
The Deep Vault - The story follows a group of longtime friends as they journey from the uninhabitable surface world into a mysterious underground bunker in search of safety and shelter.
The White Vault - This series follows a group of individuals sent to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to investigate a remote outpost gone radio silent after sending a distress signal.
