The Halloween Podcast

The Halloween Podcast is exactly what the name promises: a show completely dedicated to the holiday, running year-round since 2017. Host Lyle Perez treats Halloween not as a single night but as an entire cultural phenomenon worth exploring from every angle. Episodes cover ghost stories, haunted locations, Halloween history and traditions, paranormal investigations, and interviews with people who live the Halloween lifestyle 365 days a year. In 2025, co-host Meghan Cunningham joined the show, adding a second perspective to the conversations. With 294 episodes and counting, the show releases weekly and typically runs between 45 minutes to over an hour. The format varies. Some episodes are deep dives into a single haunted location or historical event. Others feature interviews with horror filmmakers, haunted attraction designers, paranormal investigators, and Halloween enthusiasts. Lyle has a genuine enthusiasm for the subject matter that comes through clearly. He is not performing spookiness for effect. He is someone who clearly thinks about this stuff constantly. The show has a 4.6 rating from 185 reviews on Apple Podcasts, with listeners particularly praising the research quality and the variety of topics. Recent episodes have included Christmas horror stories, explorations of specific folklore traditions, and examinations of how different cultures celebrate the holiday. The production is clean and straightforward, letting the content do the heavy lifting rather than relying on jump scares or dramatic sound effects. For anyone who starts decorating in September and never really wants the season to end, The Halloween Podcast is the audio equivalent of keeping your skeleton decorations up year-round. It takes the holiday seriously without taking itself too seriously.