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Freaky Folklore

TRENCH 1915: SHADOWS OF WAR - A Halloween Journey into WWI's Darkest Terrors

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6840 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In the muddy trenches of World War I, death wasn't always the end of duty. Join Carman Carrion for a special Halloween collaboration with historian and author Jake Barrett as we explore the phantom soldiers who still patrol No Man's Land over a century after the armistice. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/   Follow Carman Carrion!    https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en   https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion   Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY   Please Review Us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184   Music and sound effects used in the Freaky Folklore Podcast have or may have been provided/created by:  CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ Jinglepunks: https://jinglepunks.com/ Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/ Dark Music: https://soundcloud.com/darknessprevailspodcast Soundstripe: https:// Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.3

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0:26.4

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0:30.8

October 31st, 1915, the Western Front. The screams of the wounded echo across no man's land, but tonight,

0:40.3

there are other sounds, sounds that don't belong to the living. In the muddy trenches,

0:47.3

carved into the blood-soaked earth of Belgium and France, soldiers huddle against more than

0:53.3

just enemy fire. It's Halloween, though few

0:57.4

remember what day it is anymore. Time blurs when you're living in a grave that stretches for

1:03.3

hundreds of miles. But the dead remember. They remember everything. Sergeant Maxis pulls his collar tight against the October chill, but it's not the cold

1:14.6

that makes him shiver.

1:16.6

It's the shadows that move when there's no light to cast them.

1:20.6

It's the whispers in languages he doesn't recognize, coming from mouths that stopped breathing

1:26.6

weeks ago. In the Great War, the line between the living and the dead became as blurred as the line between

1:34.3

friend and foe.

1:36.3

And on this Halloween night, in 1915, that line would disappear entirely.

1:43.3

What happens when the horrors of war awakens something far more terrifying than any human enemy?

1:51.0

What happens when Halloween falls in hell on earth?

1:55.0

Tonight, we'll find out.

1:59.0

Welcome to Freaky Folklore, the podcast where we discuss We'll find out.

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