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🗓️ 22 October 2025
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In the last 13 days before Halloween, a different ShortHand will rise from the archives for 24 hours only – before disappearing back into the vault. Get exclusive access to every ShortHand episode ad free only on Amazon Music Unlimited.
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Black magic, or ‘Sanguma’, is often used to explain everything from minor illnesses to sudden deaths in Papua New Guinea.
Horrifyingly, it’s also behind the recent rise of brutal witch hunts sweeping the nation. An epidemic of violence in which, predominantly, women and girls are being publicly tortured and murdered.
Why? Find out on this week’s ShortHand.
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| 0:28.8 | Hello there's spooky listener. |
| 0:30.7 | It's October, our favorite time of the year. |
| 0:33.4 | And so to celebrate and give you all a well-deserved treat, |
| 0:36.7 | we're bringing you the 13 days of Halloween. |
| 0:40.1 | Short-hand edition. |
| 0:42.0 | Usually, every single week over on Amazon Music, we release brand new episodes of our bite-sized sister show, |
| 0:49.2 | Shorthand. It's like Red Hand's little friend. |
| 0:51.7 | Where we delve into all sorts of fascinating topics, |
| 0:55.2 | from hell in different religions, Haitian voodoo, the death of Edgar Allan Poe, |
| 0:59.7 | Qatar's syndrome, Japan suicide forest, and so much more. And this Halloween, from the 19th of October |
| 1:06.7 | to the 31st of October, we are going to be pulling out 13 of our most terrifying episodes of |
| 1:12.5 | shorthand to drop straight into your red-handed feed every single day. |
| 1:18.3 | But beware. |
| 1:21.4 | Each episode will only be available for 24 hours. |
| 1:25.8 | So get listening or abandon or hope. |
| 1:30.0 | Enjoy. |
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