A Jaunt Through Various Haunts

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

We conclude spooky season (To be fair it's been a pretty damn spooky year) with a history of haunted house attractions. Holden takes us all the way back to when haunts started with Ancient Greece and through some Dark Ages, some not so Dark Ages, and the Great Depression when creepily yelling at people for fun started becoming the art form it is today! Then Jake talks about theme park horror attractions like Halloween Horror Nights and Knotts Scary farm. And finally Mike takes us home talking about the lunatic fringes (emphasis on the lunatics) that have tried to take haunted houses to the extreme and what happens when an art form loses its art and just turns into a guy named Russ torturing people. It's always a guy named Russ, isn't it? Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Nerd of mouth.
0:19.5	Whoa!
0:23.6	E! he! he he! Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
0:27.3	Bats, bats, bats.
0:29.5	I'm a fucking mummy.
0:31.0	Look at me.
0:35.3	Ah, it's Michael Myers.
0:42.5	Legally, you can't touch me. I know you can't touch touch me legally and therefore I'm going to walk through this experience with the fucking steel Contract we get to touch you
0:45.1	Oh fuck
0:46.3	Touch touch touch touch
0:48.2	Let me see your balls friend
0:51.7	Wait my name is Beetlechison and I'm here to say that Universal Studios is where I come to play.
0:57.8	Man, I hate the rapping Beetlejuice room.
1:00.2	It sucks in here.
1:01.7	No one's getting laid in here.
1:03.6	Man, wouldn't it be great if Bill and Ted had jokes about Sarah Palin?
1:09.4	That's what I think about Halloween.
1:12.1	And welcome to our episode on Hans, the history, the modern theme parking version of it,
1:19.8	all the technology that has changed and evolved to get us to the point where, I mean,
1:25.6	haunts are just like a giant, huge, legit industry of all varying qualities and things
1:33.1	of that nature.
1:33.8	And we've done a three-pronged attack on this episode.
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