S20 Ep6: Ghosts, goblins, witches and other Halloween haunts (Sn. 20 Ep. 6)
Monsters Among Us
Derek Hayes | Audioboom Studios
4.8 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Season 20 Episode 6 of Monsters Among Us Podcast, true paranormal stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and more, told by the witnesses themselves.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to see, nozine. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going to be. |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to be. The |
| 0:23.6 | The Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among Us. |
| 0:56.2 | I am your guide, Derek Hayes. |
| 1:00.8 | A good evening, indeed, on this, the spookiest of nights. |
| 1:07.7 | They say Halloween is one night a year when the veil between our world and the next grows dangerously thin. |
| 1:15.6 | Its roots stretch back over 2,000 years to the ancient Celtic festival of Sowan, |
| 1:24.6 | a night when villagers lit bonfires to ward off restless spirits, set to wander |
| 1:30.1 | the darkened countryside. When Christianity crept across Europe, the church repurposed the pagan |
| 1:36.9 | right in an attempt to commandeer the holiday, renaming it All Hallows Eve, a prelude to all saints day. |
| 1:47.0 | But the dead, it seems, didn't get the message. |
| 1:52.0 | They lingered in the traditions, and carved turnips meant to scare off demons, |
| 1:58.0 | in offerings given to beggars, praying for wandering souls, and the bats, cats, |
| 2:03.9 | spiders, witches, ghosts, and goblins that came along with the ancient holiday. |
| 2:10.5 | Over centuries, this dark harvest ritual crossed the Atlantic, mingling with folk tales, frontier |
| 2:17.2 | fears, and American imagination, |
| 2:21.4 | transforming the holiday into the candy-coated costume-clad celebration that we know today. |
| 2:28.8 | But beneath the masks and the jagolanards. That ancient shadow still stirs, |
| 2:35.2 | reminding us that Halloween has always been a night |
| 2:38.3 | for the living and for the dead. |
| 2:44.2 | And tonight I've assembled a lineup that's perfect for both. |
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