2025 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

2025 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

Author: Forgotten News Podcast October 26, 2025 Duration: 2:29:51

Listen to our awesome collection of Strange, Spooky, and Sinister Stories and Surprises , for Halloween !!!

Boo!

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EPISODE RELEASE DATE:  10/25/2025.

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THE STORIES AND STUFF:


1_Screamin' Ball (At Dracula Hall) - The Duponts (04:15).

2_Paramedic Paranormal Story Kelsey Oliveri & JerryKokich (07:13)

3_Haunted House - Johnny Fuller (08:23)

4_The Screaming From Our Neighbor’s Back YardAstrid W.S. (11:26)

5_Demonic TV Set (13:36)

6_At The House of Frankenstein - Big Bee Kornegay (16:34)

7_Date Night Becomes Spooky (19:21)

8_Ghost Girl Becomes Jealous - Chrisi Talyn Saje (24:16)

9_Monster Rap - Bobby "Boris" Pickett (29:55)

10_Jean Spangler Mystery (34:57)

11_Moonlight Music Mystery - Astrid W.S. (34:57)

12_Kill It - The Antwinettes (38:47)

13_The Hike (42:39)

14_My Missing Wife - Dan Ware & Rhonda Sigler-Ware (43:57)

15_Janie Made A Monster - The Fabulous Five (45:59)

16_Teen Sleepover Gets Creepy, After Playing With Ouija Board (49:44)

17_We're Gonna Be SO Happy Soon - Erin Suminsby (50:28)

18_He's A Vampire - Archie King (59:46)

19_The Charm - Alyssa Petrey (01:02:40)

20_Choke (01:02:39)

21_It's Halloween - The Shaggs (01:04:11)

22_Ghost Girl Is ShockedKathleen Li (01:07:34)

23_My Childhood Encounter With A Ghost (01:13:15)

24_Laurie (Strange Things Happen) - Dickie Lee (01:14:44)

25_The Girl In The Red Bikini - Jerry Kokich (01:18:33)

26_My Old Boyfriend's Military Funeral (01:26:19)

27_You Can Get Her, Frankenstein - The Castle Kings (01:27:29)

28_Kayla Berg, Unsolved Disappearance (01:30:22)

29_A Twisted Sister's Obsession Becomes Possession (01:35:03)

30_Walkin' Through A Cemetery - Claudine Clark (01:47:48)

31_She Drove Down The Haunted Road (01:51:16)

32_Weird Home Invasion (01:55:09)

33_Rockin' Zombie - The Crewnecks (01:56:13)

34_The Bone (01:59:29)

35_The Static (02:01:31)

36_Frankie Frankenstein - Ivan (02:07:41)

37_Her Green Ribbon (02:10:55)

38_We Saw A Ghost, On Our First Date (02:12:43)

39_That Halloween Night - Denise & The Double Dates (02:18:44)

40_The Unnatural (02:22:15)


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NOTE:   STORIES THAT DO NOT HAVE IDENTIFIED NARRATORS WERE VOICED ANONYMOUSLY.


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MISCELLANEOUS:


Host Intro – Nina Innsted, host of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Already Gone⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcast.

Aphorism Source – Dashiell Hammett, Letter to Josephine Hammett Marshall, November 12, 1951.

Aphorism Voice - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kit Caren⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, co-host of Forgotten News Podcast.


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MUSIC:


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I Knew A Guy.


All Other Music & Sound Effects Are From ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Freesound.org⁠⁠⁠ or the Public Domain.



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There’s a certain kind of story that crackles with urgency when it breaks, dominating conversations and front pages, only to vanish completely a few years later. FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST goes looking for those stories. Each episode is a deep dive into a different moment that once captivated the public, an event or figure that seemed indelible but somehow slipped through the cracks of our collective memory. You’ll hear about scandals that toppled empires of reputation, inventions that promised to change everything, and personal dramas that played out on a very public stage-all now quietly gathering dust in old newspaper archives and forgotten diaries. The aim isn’t just to recount these tales, but to understand why they resonated so powerfully in their moment and explore what their disappearance says about how we remember. It’s a process of careful excavation, piecing together narratives from primary sources, historical accounts, and the cultural echoes that remain. Tuning into this podcast feels like opening a long-lost trunk in the attic; every story is presented with the immediacy it once held, allowing you to experience the surprise, outrage, or wonder just as an audience did decades or even centuries ago. These are the headlines that time edited out, brought back to life.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Duration: 41:08
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Duration: 39:49
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Duration: 38:54
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