Episode 257: Zone Rouge, France's Haunted Forbidden Region

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Comedy

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Welcome to Episode 257: Zone Rouge, France’s Forbidden Zone. This week, we explore the scarred battlefields of northeastern France where World War I left behind a toxic, uninhabitable wasteland still littered with human remains, unexploded bombs, and poisoned soil. Known as the Zone Rouge, this restricted region is not only physically dangerous, but also steeped in eerie reports of ghostly soldiers, phantom music, and unexplained disturbances. From trench warfare horrors to modern-day paranormal encounters, we trace how history, trauma, and environment collide in one of the most haunting places on Earth. Is the Zone Rouge simply a contaminated graveyard of war, or could something more supernatural still be lingering beneath the toxic topsoil? Thank you to special guest Kassie Askin for joining us on this week’s episode! Check out our episode on her channel here: https://bit.ly/4d7cpgg TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 - HOOK 00:02:36 - INTRO / PERSONAL HAUNTINGS 00:11:26 - FIRST LEAF AD 00:12:53 - PART I: THE WESTERN FRONT 00:24:49 - VERACITY AD 00:26:38 - PHOTOS, VIDEOS, MAPS 00:29:38 - PART II: ZONE ROUGE 00:46:52 - PART III: THE HAUNTINGS 01:17:00 - CLOSING CREDITS —— THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED!! Find out more about this week’s advertisers below: FIRST LEAF: Stop settling for wines that don't quite hit the mark—head to https://tryfirstleaf.com/haunted to sign up and get 50% off your first box plus free shipping for an entire year. VERACITY: For up to 65% off your order, head to https://veracityhealth.co and use code HAUNTED. —— Other Important Stuff: Want to learn more about Patreon? Check out this FAQ vid: https://bit.ly/41KeRDT Join the Patreon today! https://patreon.com/letsgethaunted LGH Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/letsgethaunted Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us fan mail: PO BOX 1658, Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: www.letsgethaunted.com or LetsGetHauntedPod@gmail.com —— AUDIO/VISUAL CREDITS: “MAGIC TRANSITION SOUND - NO COPYRIGHT” BY SOUND TRUST, LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNHMu3Upgu4 “Elevator” - Local Forecast, License Dar Golan - Elevator Music - Royalty free music, “Elevator Music (Royalty Free, Infinite Loop)” by Dar Golan, free download link here: https://www.dargolan-free.com/funny-music “Creepy Doll” by Michael Byrnes STOCK VIDEO ASSETS USED IN THIS EPISODE WERE ALL PURCHASED AND LICENSED VIA STORYBLOCKS.COM —— KEYWORDS: France, French, Zone, Rouge, Red, Red Zone, Zone Rouge, Forbidden, Abandoned, WWI, The Great War, World War I, Germany, Russia, Poison, Lead, Arsenic, Contaminated, True Crime, Death, War, Ghost, Ghost Story, Supernatural, Paranormal, Bad Vibes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.1	On June 28, 1914, Gavrillo Princip, assassinated Franz Ferdinand, an act of murder that would
1:09.2	pull nation after nation into one of the most brutal
1:12.2	battles in world history, a conflict that would come to be known as the Great War.
1:18.3	Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Russia joined in to defend its ally. Germany declared war
1:24.5	on both Russia and France in response, and more and more countries quickly
1:29.4	jumped into the fight.
1:31.1	The thrashing bodies of thousands of young soldiers thrust into the front lines like sliced
1:36.2	vegetables into a pot of boiling water.
1:39.1	By the end of World War I, France's countryside where the fighting was the most concentrated, had been left permanently
1:45.2	scarred by winding mazes of trenches, piled corpses of unlucky soldiers, abandoned dog tags
1:52.0	mixed with bloody silverware, and lead and arsenic levels so high from munitions that even still
1:58.1	today, there are some areas the French government prohibits people from entering.
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