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The World of Scripted Podcasts

What exactly you're missing, and how to catch up.

By Shelby YarchinPublished 6 years ago 2 min read
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The static of a nearby radio splits through the warmed air, air that clings to your throat and presses against every aspect of your body. It's a far cry from the frigid outside conditions- snow collecting at the edges of window panes as darkness slowly forms in a now clear sky.

Your whole family is gathered around a small colored box, one that displays a gage and a few white dials that you're not quite sure of. But none of that matters, not now.

A thick and familiar scent of your father's tobacco pipe burns your throat as you sit cross-legged in front of the radio, ready for that very static to break into dramatic stories of wild gunfights and daring rescues.

Today, things are different. With more than a hundred ways to consume media and stories, the art of storytelling with nothing but sound has faded into the background like white noise.

Podcasts have done a good job of recasting light onto a dying medium, the launch of different crime drama's like serial and my favorite murder give the listener an inside look at different unsolved mysteries and the unknown.

But one genre the general population seems to forget about is radio dramas. The talent of voice actors and surround sound are mixed and edited together to give the reader an unforgiving and unforgettable look into the world and mind of others.

Down below is a list of five Horror/Thriller podcasts that are more than just a retelling of a story- their own distinct nature is worth a listen.

When a truck drivers wife goes missing under mysterious circumstances, she refuses to believe that she's gone for good. The story shows the search for Alice and the strange happenings that don't seem to add up.

The whole entire premise of this audio drama is not only LGBTQ+ positive, but it also shows the means in which people will go to, to get exactly what they want out of life.

Dr.Bright is a therapist that provides a newspaper add offering free therapy to those with unnatural abilities. After going through a lot of different applicants offering different talents, she eventually decides on four core subjects.

Among them is a time-traveling teenager with raging anxiety, an empath with anger issues, and an angle who is convinced she's something more.

This podcast honestly starts out like the original horror film: A group of teenagers wonder into a forbidden campground for one last hurrah before they graduate.

But as the episodes go on, and more in uncovered, this place seems to have a lot more secrets than it led on. Like government lab level secrets, that these kids were never meant to uncover.

The year is 1954, and a fancy dinner party is taking place in the middle of a dark winter storm. In a very clue like style, guests are killed off one by one. Fingers are pointed, and suspicions raise- but we all know who really did it. Right?

Besides, if the story doesn't interest you, you owe it to yourself to listen for Kristin Bell [The Good Place] and Dennis O'Hare [American Horror Story].

Limetown is a very extensive audio drama that taps into a secret government facility, yes another one. But when it comes to this town, something is different. It doesn't exist anymore. It vanished into thin air, leaving behind a distressed 911 call and hundreds of worried family members.

A whole town can't really vanish, can it?

You can find all of these podcasts on itunes, soundcloud, Castbox, etc.

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Shelby Yarchin

All Things weird, spooky, and otherworldly.

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