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The Halloween Podcast

Welcome to The Halloween Podcast, where your hosts Lyle Perez and Meghan Cunningham delve into the eerie, the unexplained, and the downright spooky. Join us as we explore the chilling corners of Halloween, delve into spine-tingling ghost stories, and uncover the secrets of haunted houses. Each episode brings you a mix of fascinating folklore, paranormal phenomena, and interviews with special guests who share their own creepy encounters. Whether it"s the legend of the Jack-o-lantern, classic

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00:54:14

Leigh Haggerwood Spooky Sounds Composer Interview

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/10/05

Lyle and Meghan welcome British composer and sound designer Leigh Haggerwood to The Halloween Podcast to explore something we hear every October but rarely stop to think about: the sounds that make Halloween spooky. Leigh has spent decades working professionally in music and sound, with credits across British television, live productions, commercials, and sound design, while also creating Halloween and horror soundscapes heard by listeners around the world.From childhood trick-or-treating in London

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00:23:11

Under The Umbrella Tree Halloween Special (1991)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/10/04

Under the Umbrella Tree was a cozy fixture of Meghan’s childhood Disney Channel viewing, but this Canadian children’s favorite is completely new to Lyle. For the Xennial Countdown, they revisit Holly, Iggy, Gloria and Jacob—and the wonderfully simple Halloween special that brought the holiday into their already delightfully unusual household. From costumes and trick-or-treating to a little practical Halloween safety and some wonderfully witchy fun, this is the kind of seasonal television that could

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00:36:25

Witches Night Out (1978)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/10/03

Witch’s Night Out is one of Meghan’s beloved childhood Halloween specials — a wonderfully weird Canadian cartoon from 1978 featuring Gilda Radner as an eccentric Witch who can make a couple of kids’ Halloween dreams come spectacularly true. Meghan still watches it every year and is now introducing it to her own children. Lyle, however, had somehow never seen it. So Meghan takes him to Anytown for the first time to talk about the distinctive animation, that unforgettable opening song, a surprisingly

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01:24:45

Halloween Horror Movies With Curtis Andersen

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/10/02

Actor Curtis Andersen, who played Gordy on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, joins Meghan and Lyle for a trip through Halloween horror! Curtis puts together a movie watch list every year leading up to Halloween, so we’re talking about some of his annual go-tos alongside a few films that earned an important place in horror history.How did horror movies become such a big part of the way we celebrate Halloween? We’re talking scary movie traditions, Halloween nostalgia, and the films we find ourselves coming

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01:02:09

Wonderful Sausage By Alvin Schwartz Explained...

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/10/01

CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses murder, cannibalism, and harm to children and animals. Parental discretion is advised before listening with children.Today, Meghan and Lyle sink their teeth into “Wonderful Sausage,” a particularly gruesome tale collected by Alvin Schwartz in Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (1991), with unforgettable illustrations by Stephen Gammell. What makes Samuel Blunt’s sausages so wonderfully delicious? You might wish you hadn’t asked! Lyle also traces

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00:40:56

Peter & The Werewolf! Cassette Tape Story Review

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/30

Lyle is taking Meghan back to his childhood with a Halloween cassette she had never heard before: Peter & the Werewolf! This vintage Fun World recording combines spooky storytelling with the wonderfully eerie sound effects that made Halloween so much fun for Xennial kids.Join us as Lyle shares his memories of this childhood favorite and Meghan discovers what she's been missing all these years. It's a little Halloween nostalgia, a little old-fashioned storytelling, and a reminder that sometimes

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01:01:43

Jason Marsden Interview (Eerie Indiana, Hocus Pocus)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/29

Jason Marsden joins us for today’s Xennial Countdown to Halloween! You know Jason from an incredible list of films and television shows, including A Goofy Movie, Eerie, Indiana, and very importantly around here Hocus Pocus.We had an absolute blast talking with Jason, who is genuinely one of the nicest guys you could hope to meet. We get into some of those Xennial favorites, spend plenty of time talking Hocus Pocus and Eerie, Indiana, and hear a few stories along the way — but we’re not spoiling

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00:40:52

Eerie Indiana Memories (1991)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/28

Today on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, Meghan and Lyle are heading to one of the strangest little towns of the early 1990s: Eerie, Indiana. Premiering on NBC in 1991, the series followed 13-year-old Marshall Teller as he tried to document the increasingly bizarre things happening around him in a place where almost everyone else seemed perfectly happy to accept the weirdness as normal.Meghan remembers watching Eerie, Indiana as a kid—most likely during its later run on The Disney Channel—but

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00:15:29

Buttons and Rusty in Which Witch Is Which (1984)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/27

Buttons and Rusty are heading into Halloween for the first time, and the young bear and fox quickly discover that humans have some very strange October traditions.Meghan revisits a childhood favorite filled with trick-or-treating, witches, a pair of criminals, and one ridiculously catchy title song. And given her mild childhood obsession with “woodland animals” — something friends and family can readily attest to — putting a bear and a fox into a Halloween special was really stacking the deck

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00:31:45

Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/26

Garfield loves food, hates Mondays, and discovers that Halloween may be the perfect holiday for one very important reason: candy. Today, Meghan and Lyle are watching Garfield’s Halloween Adventure for the first time. Neither grew up with this 1985 special, but after hearing generations of Xennials talk about creepy old houses, ghostly pirates, and one surprisingly spooky Halloween night, it was time to find out what they missed. We’re talking homemade costumes, trick-or-treating, Lou Rawls,

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01:04:57

Ghostbusters Movie Memories

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/25

Who ya gonna call? For Xennials, Ghostbusters was far more than a 1984 movie. The film became a full-blown childhood phenomenon, with its unmistakable logo, proton packs, Ecto-1, ghosts, toys, cartoons and one of the most recognizable theme songs of the decade.Today, Lyle and Meghan revisit the original Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters, looking at the strange combination of comedy and the supernatural that made the franchise so much fun—and helped it find a permanent home at Halloween despite

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01:06:16

The Trouble by Alvin Schwartz Explained

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/24

Alvin Schwartz told us that “The Trouble,” from Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones, was true. And behind the story that terrified a generation of young readers was a real family, a real police investigation, and a strange series of events that unfolded on Long Island in 1958.Meghan and Lyle revisit “The Trouble” and dig into the real Seaford poltergeist case that inspired it, separating Schwartz’s version from the historical record and exploring the investigation that captured national

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00:26:09

Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1978)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/23

What happens when Bugs Bunny takes on Halloween?Witches, vampires, monsters, potions, trick-or-treating and one extremely eventful Halloween night — Bugs Bunny’s Howl-oween Special takes some of the spookiest corners of classic Looney Tunes and somehow turns them into one delightfully chaotic Halloween adventure. Meghan and Lyle head back to 1977 to revisit this spooky seasonal special, talk about how it all came together, and spend some time with Bugs Bunny, Witch Hazel and a collection of

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01:20:21

Tim Jacobus Goosebumps Cover Artist Interview

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/22

Yesterday, we revisited the original Goosebumps books that terrified, delighted, and completely took over the bookshelves of a generation. Today, we’re joined by the artist responsible for the images we saw before we ever turned the first page.Special Guest Tim Jacobus, the original cover illustrator for R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, joins us to talk about creating some of the most instantly recognizable book covers of the 1990s. Tim takes us inside his creative process and shares what went into

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00:55:36

Goosebumps Books By R.L. Stine Xennial Memories

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/21

For Xennial kids, few books were as instantly recognizable as Goosebumps. That dripping logo, those gloriously strange covers, the Scholastic book fairs and book orders — and 62 original stories that helped make being scared ridiculously fun.Today, Meghan and Lyle are going back to the original Goosebumps series from 1992–1997 and remembering what it was like to discover these books as kids. From the stories and monsters that stayed with us to the unmistakable artwork that practically demanded you

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00:24:16

Jack O'Lantern Rankin Bass Festival of Family...

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/20

Can we really call something a proper holiday if Rankin/Bass didn’t make a television special for it?Today we’re digging up one of the stranger corners of Rankin/Bass history with Jack O’Lantern, the wonderfully weird 1972 Halloween installment of Festival of Family Classics. It’s new to Lyle, relatively new to Meghan, and packed with pumpkins, witches, warlocks, scarecrows, supernatural mayhem and enough aggressively stage-Irish folklore to make Meghan — after living in Ireland with her Irish

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00:33:54

Fat Albert's Halloween Special (1977)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/19

Some Halloween specials become childhood traditions. Others somehow pass you by completely — and then, years later, you finally discover what everyone has been talking about.Today Meghan introduces Lyle to Fat Albert’s Halloween Special, a 1977 Halloween favorite that neither of us actually grew up watching. Meghan only discovered it as an adult after hearing it repeatedly mentioned among beloved classic Halloween television — and, much to her delight, she loved it. We’re talking wonderfully

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01:05:55

The Addams Family (1991)

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/18

They’re creepy, they’re kooky, and for both of us, they’re pretty much perfect.Today on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, we’re revisiting The Addams Family (1991), starring Anjelica Huston, Raúl Juliá, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci. The Addamses had already been delightfully strange for decades by the time they reached the big screen, but for a lot of Xennials, this was our Addams Family—and Meghan and Lyle both absolutely love this film. We’re looking back at what made this wonderfully

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00:46:42

The Dream by Alvin Schwartz Explained

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/17

Today, Lyle takes the lead as we return to the wonderfully unsettling world of Alvin Schwartz with “The Dream,” from 1991’s Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones.It’s a deceptively simple little story about a woman named Lucy Morgan, a disturbing dream, and the uneasy question of whether changing your plans can really change what is waiting for you. We’re talking about why this short tale is so effective, the nightmare imagery that made it memorable, and the particular kind of childhood

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01:05:40

When Nick at Nite (Nick@Nite) Got Spooky

The Halloween Podcast ·

2026/09/16

For a generation of Xennial kids, staying on Nickelodeon long enough meant eventually crossing over into the wonderfully strange world of Nick at Nite. Suddenly we were watching television made years—or even decades—before we were born, and because so much of it was wholesome and family-friendly, it was the kind of television grown-ups could happily watch with the kids still in the room. But Nick at Nite also had a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor, especially when it took perfectly innocent old

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