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What happens when Halloween pranks stop being funny? Chris and Ed are joined by writer, producer, and actress Catherine Corcoran to investigate the strange and sometimes disastrous history of Devil’s Night a.k.a the night before Halloween when generations of kids were given an unofficial license to cause trouble. From England’s original Mischief Night to America’s Cabbage Night, Corn Night, Chalk Night, Goosey Night, and Beggars Night, they trace how throwing vegetables, stealing gates, pelting windows, and other seasonal pranks became an annual tradition - and evolved into years of deadly arsons throughout Detroit and Camden. Bring the pumpkins inside and keep an eye on the front door. This is DEVIL’S NIGHT. SHOW NOTES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

In a SCARED AFTER DARK first, Chris features a short story of his own. Happy Halloween! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

How long could you survive without sunlight, clocks, internet, or another human being? This week, we flash back to when we learned about a Spanish athlete who went underground for an extraordinary experiment in isolation and stayed there for 500 days. But when it was finally time to bring her back to the surface, something much stranger had happened: she had lost her sense of time so completely that she believed only a fraction of those 500 days had passed. It's the bizarre true story of extreme isolation, hallucinations, human endurance, and what happens when time itself stops meaning anything. THIS ORIGINALLY AIRED ON PATREON 12/04/25 SHOW NOTES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Welcome back to Scared After Dark, a Scared All The Time bonus series where Chris reads you an old spooky story that will either lull you to sleep or keep you up all night. Tonight's bedtime story: "The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce. Feel free to read along HERE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

What happens when a haunted house decides that jump scares aren’t enough?  In Part Two of EXTREME HAUNTED HOUSES, Chris and Ed leave traditional haunted attractions behind and descend into the controversial world of immersive and extreme horror experiences. They trace the rise of attractions like Blackout, where guests entered alone and surrendered control, before digging into increasingly intense experiences including Miasma, Freakling Bros.’ Victim Experience, and other haunts built around physical contact, isolation, endurance, and psychological torment. And then there’s the living nightmare that is McKamey Manor. We examine the notorious attraction, the videos that made it an internet legend, and the larger question hanging over the entire extreme-haunt industry: when does being scared stop being fun? Listener: Enter at your own risk. SHOW NOTES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Welcome back to Scared After Dark, a Scared All The Time bonus series where Chris reads you an old spooky story that will either lull you to sleep or keep you up all night. Tonight's bedtime story: "The Upper Berth" by F. Marion Crawford. Feel free to read along HERE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

t’s Flashback Friday, and we’re revisiting one of our wildest NEW FEAR UNLOCKED stories: Japan’s terrifying surge in bear attacks. With fatal encounters and maulings hitting record levels, authorities deployed troops to help affected communities - and the danger became common enough to inspire actual bear-attack insurance. Plus, we look at another horrifying encounter involving a grizzly attack on a group of students and their teacher. Turns out the bears may be unlocking some new fears of their own. SHOW NOTES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Introducing Scared After Dark, a bonus series for the month of too many treats, in which Chris reads you an old spooky story that will either lull you to sleep or keep you up all night. Tonight's bedtime story: "Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft. Feel free to read along HERE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Every October, millions of people willingly pay strangers dressed and monsters and demons to chase them through dark buildings. But how did haunted houses go from simple parlor tricks to massive attractions designed to push our fear response to the breaking point? In Part One of EXTREME HAUNTED HOUSES, Chris and Ed trace the strange history of the fear business - from the ghostly illusions of 18th-century phantasmagoria and the homemade haunts of the Great Depression to amusement park dark rides, Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Halloween Horror Nights, and the horrifying real-life tragedy that changed the haunted attraction industry forever. Welcome to the fear business. We're just getting started. SHOW NOTES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Chris just turned 40, and he’s handling it extremely well (trust us!). So naturally, we’re investigating why this particular birthday became synonymous with existential dread, midlife crises, collapsing bodies, and the horrifying realization that the clock is ticking. Along with writer Gaby Moss, co-author of "The Midlife Plot Twist: How to Reboot Your Life Without Burning It Down Even If You Really, Really Want To," we trace the strange significance of the number 40 through history, discover how “life begins at forty” went from a bestselling promise to a cultural punchline, meet the psychoanalyst who coined the midlife crisis, and find out what science says is actually happening to our bodies as we cross into middle age. SHOW NOTES GABY's BOOK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Remember that embarrassing thing you did fifteen years ago? Your brain brings it up enough already. Now imagine remembering your past so vividly that the feelings come back with it. This week, Chris and Ed flash back to when they explored hyperthymesia, a rare ability to recall personal experiences in extraordinary detail, and the case of a 17-year-old who describes filing her memories in rooms inside her mind. She's got mental binders, a room for cooling down, and a chest holding a painful loss. SHOW NOTES Originally aired on Patreon: 11/05/25 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

In 50 States Of Fear: California Part 2, we leave the haunted landscapes of Part One behind and meet some of the people who made California terrifying.   First, there’s Peg Entwistle, the talented young actress whose tragic death at the Hollywoodland sign became one of Hollywood’s most enduring ghost stories.   Then we descend into Synanon, a pioneering drug-rehabilitation program that transformed into an abusive cult complete with forced lifestyle changes, its own armed “Imperial Marines,” and an attempted murder involving a rattlesnake hidden inside a mailbox.   Finally, we visit the seemingly sweet Sacramento boarding-house owner Dorothea Puente, who welcomed elderly and vulnerable tenants into her home, poisoned them, stole their Social Security checks, and buried their bodies beneath her garden.   Get ready for another day in sunny Cali :) SHOW NOTES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

This week, we flashback to the fear burning a hole in your pocket. Chris and Ed dig into the growing danger of lithium-ion battery fires aboard airplanes, why these everyday devices can suddenly enter a terrifying chain reaction, and what happens when one ignites thousands of feet in the air.  SHOW NOTES Originally aired on Patreon: 10/23/25 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Welcome to California - an American paradise built on a body count. In Part One of their journey through the Golden State, Chris and Ed dig beneath California’s sun-soaked reputation to uncover what’s been buried there: the prehistoric death trap of the La Brea Tar Pits, the horrifying history of violence against California’s Indigenous people, the strange underground folklore of the Tommyknockers, the cursed ghost town of Bodie, and Colma...a town where the dead vastly outnumber the living. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Chris and Ed flashback to their coverage of one of the strangest murder cases in modern history. It seemed like an ordinary family lunch: beef Wellington, mashed potatoes, green beans, and a conversation Erin Patterson said she needed to have with her estranged husband’s relatives. By the next morning, all four of her guests were violently ill. Within days, three were dead. SHOW NOTES Originally aired on Patreon: 10/09/25 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support. Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime