Creepy, but awesome Podcasts

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A few days ago, Sofie (Thursday) sent a link to me directing me to The Night Vale Podcast also known as “Welcome to Night Vale”. The podcast is produced by Commonplace Books, and was created by former Something Awful writer Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. The Podcast was created last year and has become very popular on social networks in the summer of 2013. The podcast is set up as a fictive community radio, where you will listen to local news, commercials and announcements of the town Night Vale.

I haven’t listened to too much of the podcast episodes, because the podcast isn’t exactly my taste, knowing that none of it is actually real. But I still felt like mentioning it here because, first of all, it is incredibly popular, and second of all, it lead me inspire to find other podcasts. And those are the ones I will be talking about the rest of today’s feature.

A podcast that I find very entertaining is the podcast “The Last Podcast on the Left” featured on the website CaveComedyRadio. The podcast consists of three men, Ben Kissel, Henry Zebrowski and Marcus Parks who discusses various topics concerning horror and the like. They talk about a lot of things, including serial killers, ghosts, war crimes, religion, hauntings and creepypastas.

Ever felt like listening to people talking without using too much of your brain to concentrate on difficult subjects,” The Last Podcast to The Left” might be something for you. The guys are happy and outgoing, and while they discuss serious topics, they do it in a funny and entertaining way so you won’t be bored listening to it. Be ready for some bad jokes, swearing and creepy and scary facts, and I hope you will go to the CaveComedyRadio website to check the podcast out.

Another podcast that I found and simply can’t get enough of is “The Nosleep Podcast” featuring stories from the Nosleep forums on Reddit.com. After Reddit.com member Matt Hansen proposed the idea of a podcast introducing different stories from the forums, the idea was accepted in 2011. The host and producer of the podcast is the deep-voiced David Cummings, and the stories are read by all kinds of people and all the episodes have some nice soundtracks which fits the stories well.

As you might already know, I am a sucker for creepypastas, and what better way, for a lazy person like me, is there to find creepypastas than a podcast, where people find the best for you and even read them aloud. You don’t need to research the internet for creepypastas, and you don’t even have to read them yourself. Talk about killing two birds with one stone! Ohh, lazy me!

Well, the podcast is perfect if you’re looking for some really good and really creepy creepypastas, and some might even be so good that you’d want to support some of the authors. After listening to the podcast, I realized that a guy named Dathan AuerBach (also known as 1000Vultures) had written a creepypasta series called “Penpal” featuring six stories on the Nosleep forums. I can’t exactly explain what I love about the stories, but there is definitely something very eerie and maybe a bit epic about the stories that are about a boy (supposedly the author himself) and his life from kindergarten to the teenage years where some really creepy things happened.
I was curious and found out that there had been made a Kickstarter for the series to make it into an actual book, and yesterday I bought the book in paperback, and am now looking very much forward to receiving it next month.


"Penpal" by Dathan Auerbach

That's pretty much all for today! I hope you'll check some of the podcasts out, and as a bonus I will tell you that the last two podcasts are perfect listening to on your way to and from school!

Shia