Bonus: Tales from the Darkcast Network Crypt Keeper
And Then They Were Gone
Little Monster Productions
4.3 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy this Halloween Special brought to you at the stroke of midnight by the Podcasts of The Darkcast Network:
Rainbow Crimes, The Final Trace, Missing in the PNW, The Book of the Dead, Mountain Murders, Mythical True Crime, Pod of Terror, Famous Last Words, Murder in the PNW, Day By Day: True Crime Stories, A Hateful Homicide, Rogue Darkness, Tragedy With A View and The Bell Witch Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Darkcast Network Indie Pods with a Darkside |
| 0:08.7 | Indie Pots with a Dark Side Hello and welcome to Tales of the Darkcast Network's cryptkeeper. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm your host, Jackie. |
| 0:39.5 | Join me for this heart-stopping episode of Dark Tales from Darkcast. |
| 0:45.9 | Please step forward into the crypt carefully. |
| 0:49.8 | Keep your hands to yourself, or they could end up being someone else's. |
| 0:54.5 | Don't touch anything, and you might come out of this in one piece. |
| 0:59.5 | I trust that everyone brought a change of clothes. |
| 1:03.7 | Yours may get soiled before this is over. |
| 1:06.7 | Let's begin our first story, shall we? |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah. Let's begin our first story, shall we? What? What? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. She's the one. She's the one asking the questions you're probably asking at home. Final Trace. Normally, I tell a true crime story to my best friend McKenzie. |
| 1:28.5 | She's the one asking the questions you're probably asking at home, or the ones I never even |
| 1:33.7 | thought of. |
| 1:34.9 | But tonight, for this dark cast original Halloween special, I'm going solo. |
| 1:41.2 | The story I have for you today isn't an urban legend. It's the true story of the night |
| 1:47.2 | Halloween changed forever. I'm your host Hopper Daily, and this is the final trace of the Candyman. |
| 1:57.7 | Every Halloween parents whisper warnings, blades and apples, needles and snickers, a stranger with a sweet smile and poison candy. |
| 2:06.4 | Most of those fears are just urban legends. |
| 2:09.9 | But in 1974, on a cold October night in Texas, one of those legends came true. |
| 2:22.3 | This is the story of the Halloween that turned into a nightmare, a story that haunted October 31st for over half a century, |
| 2:26.3 | because sometimes the truth is darker than the myth. |
| 2:31.3 | It's October 31, 1974. |
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