Episodes

  • THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 4: I Had My Daughter's Name in My Mouth. I Finished the Steps Anyway.

    THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 4: I Had My Daughter's Name in My Mouth. I Finished the Steps Anyway.
    Oct 18 2026
    The sequence takes hours now. And the figure is no longer only at the foot of the bed or on the stairs. It is in every room, ahead of her, waiting.She was deep in the steps when the knock came. Not the figure. A human knock, low on the door, and the voice from the phone. It's so cold out here, Mum. I've been coming for two years.Then the voice said it had found something in the spring, in her closet. A small red coat.The finale of The Instructions. Part 4 of 4.

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    15 mins
  • THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 3: My Sister Said There's Nothing Here. Every Mirror in the House Moved.

    THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 3: My Sister Said There's Nothing Here. Every Mirror in the House Moved.
    Oct 11 2026
    The rule is simple. If you lose your place, you start over from the front door, no matter how far in you were.She lost her place upstairs, an hour in. When she turned to go back down, the figure was on the stairs — standing on the only path to the beginning.Then her sister Kath let herself in with their mother's old key, stood in the hallway looking at the turned mirrors and the paths worn into the floorboards, and started to cry. There's no one here, she said. There was never anything here. It's just you.For one moment, she believed her.Part 3 of 4.

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    14 mins
  • THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 2: A Girl on the Phone Called Me Mum. I Didn't Know Who She Was.

    THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 2: A Girl on the Phone Called Me Mum. I Didn't Know Who She Was.
    Oct 4 2026
    The steps grow. Nobody tells you that at the start. The fear learns the gaps you leave, and every gap you close becomes a new step.

    Now there are the mirrors — every one turned to the wall before dark, because she looked once, in the hall, and the hall behind her reflection was not empty. And there is the phone, which must never be answered once the steps have begun.

    This week it rang four times. On the fourth, she answered. A young woman's voice, crying, calling her Mum, saying her own name into the line.The name went somewhere and did not stay.

    Part 2 of 4.

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    14 mins
  • You Might Like - The Halloween Pop-up Channel: From the team behind Ghost-Scary Stories

    You Might Like - The Halloween Pop-up Channel: From the team behind Ghost-Scary Stories
    Oct 2 2026
    Halloween Pop-up Channel Apple.
    Halloween Pop-up Channel Spotify.

    Cackles. Howls. Shrieks.
    Something's stirring at Caloroga Media.

    The gates are open... and the Halloween Pop-Up Channel has arrived. Hundreds of episodes. One haunted feed. Every kind of fright you could want this season.

    Start with Ghost: Scary Stories, tales that'll have you glancing over your shoulder. Best enjoyed with the lights on. Craving something sweet among the tricks?

    5 Good News Stories: Halloween Edition is the full-size candy bar of the bunch. Hitmaker Chronicles uncovers the stories behind music's spookiest songs.

    Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs brings you creatures real and imagined... some of them extinct. Probably.

    For true crime fans, Murder Weekly and True Crime serve up real cases with a Halloween chill. Grab a flashlight. Check the locks.

    And Romance Weekly? Love stories with a dark seasonal twist. Happily ever after... with a little bite.

    New Halloween episodes drop every single day. It's free, no costume required, and like any good ghost... it won't be here forever. Once the candy runs out, it vanishes.

    This is the Halloween Pop-Up Channel from Caloroga Media. Search for "Halloween Pop-Up Channel" wherever you listen.

    If you dare.

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    2 mins
  • THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 1: It Saved Me. I'm Going to Teach It to You, Step by Step.

    THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 1: It Saved Me. I'm Going to Teach It to You, Step by Step.
    Sep 27 2026
    There was a stretch of her life, not long ago, when the fear came and would not leave. She was not a foolish woman. She ran a full, loud household; she was the one other people leaned on. Then something ended, and into the space it left, the fear came — a certainty, every night, that something was testing the edges of the house, looking for the way in.She checked the locks a hundred times a night. It didn't help, because she did it frightened and at random.Then she found the steps. The same doors, in the same order, a hand flat on each one, the name said out loud. And for the first time in months, the fear stopped.It came back, of course. A little bigger each time. And each time she did the steps, the relief was a little sweeter.Part 1 of 4.

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    14 mins
  • THE LISTENER — Part 4: The Last Voice It Learns Is Yours.

    THE LISTENER — Part 4: The Last Voice It Learns Is Yours.
    Sep 20 2026
    She promised, at the very start, to tell you how to stay alive. She kept every other promise. She told you she survived. She told you she'd give you the rule. She told you what it costs and what she had to refuse and what happened to the man three houses down.She has one thing left to tell you, and she has been building toward it for four nights. Listen the way she asked you to. The finale of The Listener. Part 4 of 4.

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    15 mins
  • THE LISTENER — Part 3: My Sister Begged at My Door All Night. I Never Made a Sound.

    THE LISTENER — Part 3: My Sister Begged at My Door All Night. I Never Made a Sound.
    Sep 13 2026
    There was one other house on that road with a light in it.The woman who opened the door was about seventy, and she knew everything before Marion said a word. She raised a hand to stop her. She pointed to her own throat, then to her own ear. She would listen. She would not speak.She wrote on a yellow legal pad, in careful capitals, and the first thing she wrote — before hello, before her name — was this:DON'T ANSWER IT. NOT ONCE. NOT EVER.The houses on that road were not empty once. They were full of people at the end of a road that goes nowhere, which is a certain kind of person. She had watched the lights go out, one at a time, for thirty years. And she had a list of names.Part 3 of 4.

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    15 mins
  • THE LISTENER — Part 2: I Talked to My Sister for Five Minutes. The Phone Was Never Off the Hook.

    THE LISTENER — Part 2: I Talked to My Sister for Five Minutes. The Phone Was Never Off the Hook.
    Sep 6 2026
    She stopped answering. She thought going quiet was the same as being safe.Every night it got better. The first phrases came out wrong — rhythm off, stresses in the wrong places, a voice reading letters it didn't understand. Then the seams closed. And it wasn't only voices it was learning. It learned that if it said half a sentence and let the silence stretch, she would lean toward it, aching to hear the end.Then it found her mother. Not just the voice — six years of that voice, every grain of it right. And in her mother's voice it said the things her mother never said in forty years. I'm proud of you. I'm sorry. I heard you. I always heard you.All she had to do was answer. One word.Part 2 of 4.

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    15 mins