The Spooking Minutes

Double double toil and trouble, we’re brewing up an extra fun episode of The Spooking Minutes as we discuss witches! Joined by today’s co-host Brad Robinson, we delve into a brief history of the cackling baddies, and share the local tales of Maggie Pollock, and the Ellice Swamp Witch. Then a strange new student has trouble fitting in at their new school in our improvised story, Any Witch Way.

Merry Christmas spookerinos! We had our old pal Victor Lacoste dig through his archives so we could share another chilling and festive episode of his old radio program, The Lacoste Of Terror. Today’s tale is titled “Scare Noel” and finds Victor on holiday in France, where a ho-ho-homicidal Santa Claus looks to cross Victor off of his naughty list.

Happy Halloween! For our season three finale Matt, Steve, and a suspiciously quiet Louise invite three of their best friends to join them around the fire to discuss their fears. Then five friends find a dream trip to the Amazon turns into a nightmare in our story Snakes & Splatters.

Step into the spotlight in today’s episode as we talk with actor Nyiri Karakas. We chat about her love for Rocky Horror, the terror that lives in her grandmother’s basement, and the fears that are faced before stepping on stage. Then, a theatre troupe revives a cursed play and the consequences are dire in our improv Exit Stage Fright.

We’re not playing around with today’s episode. No, we’re talking haunted dolls! Robert, Letta, and that mischievous Annabelle, we discuss these sinisters dolls and more! Then, a desperate father buys a strange toy as a gift for his son in our story Diadollical.

To listen to today’s episode of The Spooking Minutes you’ll have to pay the troll toll. Yes we’re talking trolls. From folklore and mythology to fluffy haired dolls to the terrifying Trantor from Ernest Scared Stupid, we’re discussing it all. Then three classmates on a field trip in Norway pick up a mysterious stranger in our improv See Me Trollin’.

We’re conjuring guest Holly Clausius to join us around the fire in this episode of The Spooking Minutes! We’ll discuss things that go bump under the bed, the terrifying being known as Santa Claus and some spooky musical inspiration. Then a young boy learns he shouldn’t tell tall tales in our story Dread Time Stories.

Greetings spookheads, we’re back for another season of thrills and chills. In today’s episode Matt, Steve, and Louise talk the terrifying side of tech and AI. Then the Polybius family test out an experimental new VR system in our improvised story, Lost in Cyberspace.

Merry Christmas spookheads! After discussing the Victorian tradition of reading ghost stories on Christmas Eve, we decided to have our pal Victor Lacoste read Ada Buisson’s The Ghost’s Summons as a Christmas Eve treat for you. This one won’t be very funny but hopefully it sends a chill down your spine.

Tis the season to get spooky! Yes, it’s the 2024 Christmas Special episode of The Spooking Minutes. In this episode Matthew, Steve, and Louise discuss the Victorian England tradition of sharing ghost stories on Christmas Eve and delve into their own local ghost, The Green Lady of Hay Swamp. Then they spin a terrifying tale about The Green Lady herself!

Happy Halloween! In today’s season finale we are joined by the multi-talented musician, singer, song-writer, and song-listener-to, Emmett O’Reilly! Emmett tells us about his love of Christmas horror movies that began with his childhood fear of that green bastard The Grinch. Then we spin a terrifying tale about a movie set that’s totally killer.

We unwrap a fun topic on today’s episode as we discuss ancient Egyptian curses! Matthew, Steve, and Louise talk about the opening of Tutankhamun’s Tomb, cursed objects, and the myth of there being a mummy on the Titanic. Then our (g)hosts improvise a chilling tale called Fright at the Museum.

Matthew, Steve, and Louise are joined by Steve’s spooky sisters to discuss murder houses, morgue visits, and hot animated cat monster ladies. Then our (g)hosts improvise a thrilling tale about a haunted tiki bar! Spooky!

Stay the night with us! We discuss the anxiety-inducing sleepovers of childhood. Then we spin a story about a group of three friends spending the night at the creepy new kid’s house. Sleep fright!

Matthew, Steve, and Louise are joined by wickedly funny improviser and standup Sahara Bayley. Sahara tells us about her spooky childhood involving ghosts, aliens, and a portal to hell! Then we improvise a new take on a classic story.

We gather around the campfire to discuss fun cryptids like the squonk, the tale of Ape Canyon, and the Mothman. Then we improvise a story involving our own cryptid that’s sure to get under your skin.

After a digression on Stephen’s history of shoplifting, the trio explore the darker side of Christmas. Krampus. The Yule cat. Askasleikir. These terrifying figures of folklore inspire a new holiday demon who definitely won’t call before dropping by.

If you turned into one of your past Halloween costumes, which would you choose? What are your favourite trick-or-treat candies? Does Darth Vader have a dick? It’s these important questions that inform Stephen, Matthew, and Louise’s improvisation, a petrifying plot of pimply piss kids planning a party.

Stephen relates the contemporary perception of Mountain Dew, Matthew defends his ska sensibilities, and Louise chronicles that one time somebody turned off the lights in the bathroom. This leads to an improvised modernization of a classic urban legend. #rip-tyssson #motts-clamato-caesar-spooky-horror-death-challenge

Louise recounts the film that tormented her youth, Darby O’Gill and the Little People. Motivated by this foundational text of Hollywood, from the era in which children’s movies were not meant to entertain but to traumatize, the trio improvises a cautionary lesson about stranger danger in the Emerald Isle.

Matthew and Louise confront Stephen’s multitude of fears: musicals, contagious freckles, arm amputation, pale kids, and haunted houses. But mostly vampires. The undead creatures of the night provide inspiration for their improvised tale, Fright-Day Night Lights.

Matthew discusses his formative childhood fear of bats, which did not lead to him becoming a caped vigilante (yet). The trio then improvise a thinly-veiled allegory about the horrors of puberty.

Stephen, Matthew, and Louise discuss their introduction to horror via Goosebumps, then Matthew and Louise try to convince Stephen that plants are scary. Will they succeed with their improvised story, Burgers from the Beyond?

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