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SPOOK!

Join Nicole and Joe as they discuss TV, film, video games, scary stories, urban legends, and true crime that chill them to the bone. Each week they’ll delve into a new piece of media, with honest reactions and unique commentary. There"s episodes about everything; from the DCOM classic "Halloweentown" to John Carpenter"s "Halloween." You"ll find something for everyone, whether you love gory slasher flicks, sci-fi monsters, or family friendly cheese. Email us at spoook.podcast@gmail.com

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00:57:19

Episode 127: The X-Files Season 1, Ep. 5

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2025/05/20

Viva Atlantic City! Joe and Nicole reopen The X-Files for this unconventional tale about a legendary beast. Along the way, they discuss their favorite cryptids, make predictions about Daredevil, and come up with a new insult for Det. Thomas Thompson.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions murder, gore, and cannibalism. Follow us on Instagram @spook_podcastEmail your spooky stories to spoook.podcast@gmail.comIf you want a shoutout in a future episode, email or DM us!Sources: Available to

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00:32:31

Episode 126: The Twilight Zone Season 1, Ep. 7

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2025/05/15

Hello world! This Twilight Zone episode is another melancholic journey through the human psyche, this time explored through the lens of an isolated man falling in love with a robot. Rod Serling hasn’t missed at all throughout the first season, and this one is another goodie. Nicole and Joe discuss solitary confinement on asteroids, the unusual name of one of the uncredited characters, and the overall tragedy of this episode. Spoilers for the movie Companion included!Warning: Episode contains

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00:48:09

Episode 125: Are You Afraid of the Dark? Season 4, Ep. 8

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2025/05/13

Get your Power Gloves ready to hack the uplink into the download, because this episode is about virtual reality and computer viruses! Gary continues his monopoly of telling good stories with yet another allegory for how annoying his little brother is, with radical 90s computer imagery and some surprising body horror. Joe and Nicole talk about how hacking is portrayed in media, their history with computer viruses, and how this episode sounds like it was definitely made up by a kid.Warning: Episode

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00:39:16

Episode 124: Twin Peaks Season 2, Ep. 12

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2025/05/08

And the side plots keep on coming! This episode of Twin Peaks expands James’s angsty arc, Audrey’s business acumen, and shows off Cooper’s uncanny ability to recognize various substances by taste. We’re past the halfway point of the original run of the show, so stick around and see what happens!Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions domestic violence, death, and drug trafficking. Follow us on Instagram @spook_podcastEmail your spooky stories to spoook.podcast@gmail.comIf you want a shoutout

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00:52:26

Episode 123: The Twilight Zone Season 1, Ep. 6

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2025/05/06

You are about to meet a hypochondriac. Or at least, what people in the 1950s thought hypochondriacs were like. Stubborn narcissists prone to making Faustian bargains for immortality. Gather ‘round and listen to this tale of hubris and scheming, as Nicole and Joe discuss various DSM diagnoses and Walter Bedeker’s disappointing lack of imagination.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions accidental death, suicidal behavior, and mental illness. Follow us on Instagram @spook_podcastEmail your

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00:45:48

Episode 122: Twin Peaks Season 2, Ep. 11

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2025/05/01

You are cordially invited to a Masked Twin Peaks Ball! Where are the masks, you ask? Nowhere to be seen in this episode, but that doesn’t seem to matter much. The Twin Peaks train inches closer to the station as Nicole and Joe discuss Nadine’s super-strength, James’s moodiness, and the surprisingly positive portrayal of Denise.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions domestic abuse, drug trafficking, and murder. Follow us on Instagram @spook_podcastEmail your spooky stories to

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01:36:26

Episode 121: Urban Legends (1998)

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2025/04/29

What’s your favorite urban legend? If that question doesn’t have the same ring to it as a certain other creepy query, there’s likely a reason for that. Joe and Nicole take a deep dive into this 1998 cult classic that’s often accused of being a Scream knock-off, and discuss the similarities between the two, as well as its portrayal of mental illness, the logistics of swinging an axe in a car, and grievances with the Silent Hill 4 PC port.Warning:Episode contains spoilers and mentions murder, animal

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00:44:34

Episode 120: Are You Afraid of the Dark? Season 4, Ep. 7

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2025/04/24

As Doctor Strange once said, “We’re in the endgame now.” Gary and Frank finish their ambitious AYAOTD crossover with a story of pirates, ghosts, and intricate mazes. Can Rush Keegan save his brother from the ghosts’ grasp? Listen on to find out, as Nicole and Joe discuss Dr. Vink’s many side hustles, the lost potential of a spinoff, and Nickelodeon game shows from the 90s.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions child endangerment, murder, and kidnapping. Follow us on Instagram

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00:39:54

Episode 119: Twin Peaks Season 2, Ep. 10

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2025/04/22

Two brothers. At a wake. For one whole minute of screen time. Yes, despite the episode being named after them, the titular brothers are a mere footnote in this first episode after the murder of Laura Palmer being solved. What ensues is a series of setups for the rest of the series’s remaining episodes. Nicole and Joe discuss Lucy’s ladder safety, mysterious moustache men, and what the owls really are.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions death, involuntary drugging, murder, and drug

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00:38:42

Episode 118: The X-Files Season 1, Ep. 4

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2025/04/17

What do the protagonist from The Polar Express and Fox Mulder have in common? They both want to believe, of course! This episode of The X-Files digs into Mulder’s traumatic history with alien abduction, and of course, Scully is the only one who seems to sympathize with him. Nicole and Joe discuss how rude everyone else is to Mulder, spring cleaning, and Joe’s web browser journey.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions child abduction & murder. Follow us on Instagram @spook_podcastEmail

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00:52:31

Episode 117: Twin Peaks Season 2, Ep. 9

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2025/04/15

The big reveal is here! Yes, most of Twin Peaks has been leading up to this very episode, and boy oh boy is it a doozy. Joe and Nicole discuss all the big reveals and twists, which storylines stand out the most (or least) to them, and question the nature of what BOB is. Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions murder, suicide, child abuse, and sexual assault. Follow us on Instagram @spook_podcastEmail your spooky stories to spoook.podcast@gmail.comIf you want a shoutout in a future episode,

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00:36:11

Episode 116: The Twilight Zone Season 1, Ep. 5

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2025/04/10

Jon Bon Jovi once asked, “Who says you can’t go home?” Well, Rod Serling looked into the future from his writer’s room in 1959 and preemptively answered, “I do.” Such is the message of this episode of The Twilight Zone, and Nicole and Joe discuss what a soda jerk is, question the comfort that protagonist Martin Sloan has with talking to strange children, and marvel at a pre-fame Ron Howard.Warning: Episode contains spoilers.Follow us on Instagram @spook_podcastEmail your spooky stories to

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00:54:33

Episode 115: Are You Afraid of the Dark? Season 4, Ep. 6

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2025/04/08

Arrrgh! This episode concerns pirates! In an unprecedented move, there are two storytellers for this Tale of Cutter’s Treasure, and it’s filled with a surprising amount of murder, cameos, and pubescent hormones. Joe and Nicole discuss Gary and Frank’s rivalry over Sam, the Silent Hill 2 remake, and an adorable mindfulness app.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions child endangerment and murder. Follow us on Instagram @spook_podcastEmail your spooky stories to spoook.podcast@gmail.comIf you

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00:34:51

Episode 114: Twin Peaks Season 2, Ep. 8

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2025/04/03

We’re inching ever closer to the end of the original Twin Peaks, and this time Nicole and Joe note Leland’s love of musicals and his similarities to Ted Bundy. Elsewhere, Harry seemingly gets tired of Cooper’s dream logic investigative techniques, which is surprising because they’ve already gotten them this far. Will the murder of Laura Palmer ever be solved? That’s a spoiler for the whole show, but tune in and find out!Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions murder and gore. Follow us on

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00:49:13

Episode 113: Are You Afraid of the Dark? Season 4, Ep. 5

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2025/04/01

Are you afraid of the dark? No, we’re not name-dropping the show, we’re asking about a fear (which is different from a phobia). Frank is afraid of the dark on Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and he uses that fear to tell a culinary horror story co-starring Neve Campbell from before she did Scream. Nicole and Joe discuss the return of Dr. Vink and question the details of the business that he seems to be running in this episode.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions child endangerment. Follow us

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00:28:51

Episode 112: Nicole's True Crime Corner (Maria Ridulph)

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2025/03/27

On the winter night of December 3rd, 1957, in Sycamore, Illinois, seven-year-old Maria Ridulph went outside to play a game of “duck the cars” with her friend, Kathy. The girls were approached by a man who called himself “Johnny.” He offered piggyback rides and asked if the girls liked to play with dolls. Kathy left to retrieve her doll from home to show “Johnny,” but when she returned, Maria Ridulph and the man had vanished. What ensued would be a fifty-year-old cold case and a complicated mystery

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00:36:10

Episode 111: The Twilight Zone Season 1, Ep. 4

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2025/03/25

Portrait of a woman. Her name: Barbara Jean Trenton. Her occupation: sadly watching old film reels of herself from when she was famous. But since this is The Twilight Zone, Barbara Jean Trenton is about to go on an existential journey via the supernatural. Or something like that. Nicole and Joe discuss the contemporary comparisons to this episode and discuss whether its ending is hopeful or depressing.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions depression and suicide. Follow us on Instagram

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00:50:06

Episode 110: Twin Peaks Season 2, Ep. 7

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2025/03/20

As the giant would say, it is happening again. Joe and Nicole sit down to talk about a very busy episode of Twin Peaks, and discuss its portrayals of guilt and death. There’s some heavy imagery in “Lonely Souls”, so prepare for that going in. They also discuss whether the big reveal at the end was effective for them, or whether there was too much slo-mo screaming.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions murder, child sexual abuse, suicide, assault, and gore. Follow us on Instagram

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01:03:15

Episode 109: Leprechaun (1993)

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2025/03/18

Top o’ the mornin’ to you! On this St. Paddy’s Day, Nicole and Joe celebrate the patron saint of the Emerald Isle by watching a movie that is no doubt beloved there as it is in the US, 1993’s Leprechaun. With its cult status, there’s no way it could totally suck, right? Right? Listen on to find out, as Joe and Nicole lament its treatment of Ozzie and how the movie feels like it’s at war with itself. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!Warning:Episode contains spoilers and mentions murder, ableism, gun

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00:57:51

Episode 108: Are You Afraid of the Dark? Season 4, Ep. 4

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2025/03/13

We hope you’ve brushed up on your stages of child development, because this episode digs deep into the psyche of perhaps the most annoying little brother a show ever brothered, and the only thing that can stop him is the mortal enemy of any child: a clown. Nicole and Joe discuss whether they can diagnose said little brother with psychopathy, and observe the budding romance between Gary and Sam.Warning: Episode contains spoilers and mentions child endangerment. Follow us on Instagram

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