Endless Dread: Haunted Hayride

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In keeping with Endless Thread tradition, Ben and Amory are celebrating spooky season with another installment of "Endless Dread." This time, we're bringing you along on both an actual haunted hayride — thanks to McCray's Farm in South Hadley, MA — and a digital one, through a handful of spooky stories from the internet.

Ben introduces Amory to a TikTok commentary on recent ICE raids disguised as a parody of consumerism.

Amory tells Ben about an auditory illusion that has risen from the dead (Twitter) to unsettle the living (TikTokers and Redditors), and about a "vampire" from Rhode Island who was exhumed and turned into a tonic to cure tuberculosis. Spoiler alert: it didn't work.

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0:31.2	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:40.1	Amory, she's a witch, Siebertson.
0:44.0	Ben, Bogeyman Johnson.
0:46.4	We are publishing this episode on Halloween of 2025.
0:50.6	And once a year, we do a thing in commemoration of Halloween.
0:54.8	It is different every year.
0:56.2	And this year, we wanted to go on a haunted hayride together and do a haunted house.
1:01.7	Yes.
1:01.9	Did we want to do that, Ben?
1:05.1	Yeah, I think it was we.
1:06.6	No, it wasn't we?
1:07.7	No.
1:08.6	You know.
1:14.1	I live to tell the tale, so I can't complain.
1:14.8	There you go.
1:21.1	But we also wanted to bring you a kind of haunted hayride or haunted house from the internet.
1:23.7	So we kind of did both. We went out near where Ben lives and freaked ourselves out.
1:26.9	But we also told each other some internet-y, spooky stories.
1:31.0	Yeah. Rated PG-13, maybe?
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