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Small Town Spooky

Small Town Spooky

By Small Town Spooky

A spooky small town stories, local cryptids and urban legends podcast hosted by your sonic psychopomp Renée Meloche. Small Town Spooky is one part history, one part mystery, and 100% oddity. Come join the ghoul gang!
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E09: Holiday Special Part Two ❄️Ghosts of Winters Past

Small Town SpookyDec 30, 2021

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E09: Holiday Special Part Two ❄️Ghosts of Winters Past
Dec 30, 202146:42
E08: Holiday Special Part One ❄️ Horror for the Holidays
Dec 12, 202150:36
E07: The Monster Under the Bed

E07: The Monster Under the Bed

What's that shadow moving in the corner of the room? Better tuck yourself in tight, there might be something lurking in the dark...😴👹😱 @reneewrought illuminates the shadowy origins of the common childhood fear of monsters hiding in the dark. From folklore to creepypasta, imagination to the evolutionary origins of fear, depictions of under-the-bed monsters and nightmares in popular media, this episode is sure to vindicate the frightened child in all of us. Have a listen while you huddle under your blankets with the light on, and whatever you do, don't look under the bed. 🛏️

Follow @smalltownspooky on social media and check out smalltownspooky.wixsite.com/home for updates and extras. Find the transcript for this episode here.

Small Town Spooky is researched, written, and recorded by Renée Meloche. Sound design and mixing by Renée Meloche.

Special thanks to the providers of the music for this episode:

It’s Not Hard to Get Lost by Bryan Mathys (title theme); The Void Says Hi (long version) by Doctor Turtle; Evermore, Mercy and Smoldering by Kai Engel; The Silent Grove and Frost on the Meadows at Dawn (after Holst, Abroad as I was walking / Lord Dunwaters) by Axletree; and Autumn Sunset by Jason Shaw all licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Nocturne by Kai Engel licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0. 

Courtesy of Freesounds.org: “Slender” by CommanderDerp licensed under Attribution License 3.0; all other sound

Nov 28, 202153:18
E06: Dormitory Denizens and Haunted Halls

E06: Dormitory Denizens and Haunted Halls

Who's that knocking on the dorm room door, or rattling the window above your twin bed? Is it your roomie, back from a late night study sesh, or something more otherworldly? Join @reneewrought for a walk down the haunted halls of the world's scariest schools, including: Acadia University, University of Toronto's University College, Flagler College, Smith College, University of Notre Dame, Aberdeen University, University of South Wales, Durham University, St. Bede's Women College, University of Dhaka, Peking University, Downlands College, Waldniel Hoster School, and Brentwood College School, winner of STS's first listener poll. 

Follow @smalltownspooky on social media and check out smalltownspooky.wixsite.com/home for updates and extras. Find the transcript for this episode here.

Small Town Spooky is researched, written, and recorded by Renée Meloche. Sound design and mixing by Renée Meloche.

Special thanks to the providers of the music for this episode:

It’s Not Hard to Get Lost by Bryan Mathys (title theme); Meekness and Smoldering by Kai Engel; Running Waters and Autumn Sunset by Jason Shaw; Clusticus the Mistaken by Doctor Turtle all licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Nocturne by Kai Engel licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0. 

Reveille Variation/Drum Call/Slow Scotch/Quick Scotch/Yankee Doodle/Montezuma's Revenge by The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and “Farewell To Tarwathie” by JuliusH, along with all sound effects (courtesy of Freesounds.org) licensed under Creative Commons 0.

Nov 15, 202148:11
E05: The Harbingers of Halloween
Oct 31, 202101:02:59
E04: The Haunted Whooper of Dungarvon and Other Ghosts of New Brunswick
Oct 26, 202143:26
E03: What Lurks in Lake Champlain
Oct 19, 202147:35
E02: Unearthing Eldritch Edmonton

E02: Unearthing Eldritch Edmonton

Oct 10, 202145:22
E01: The Hometown Horror of Texas Road

E01: The Hometown Horror of Texas Road

In this first-ever episode of Small Town Spooky, meet your sonic psychopomp Renée Meloche and hear the history and mysteries behind one of southern Ontario's most haunted stretches of asphalt: Texas Road. Follow @smalltownspooky on social media and check out smalltownspooky.wixsite.com/home for updates and extras. Find the transcript for this episode here. TW: Mentions of colonial North America, First Nations genocide, suicide, decapitation.

Small Town Spook is researched, written, recorded by Renée Meloche. Sound design and mixing by Renée Meloche. 

Music in this episode is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License unless otherwise indicated.
Title song: It’s Not Hard to Get Lost by Bryan Mathys; Episode music: Lo-fi remixes of: Autumn Sunset by Jason Shaw (Audionautix.com); Lesicia by Kai Engel (Non-Commercial Attribution License); You’re Right But I’m Me by Doctor Turtle;  выходной by Kosta T. All sound effects licensed under Creative Commons 0, courtesy of Freesounds.org

Oct 03, 202133:39
Small Town Spooky Season 1 Trailer

Small Town Spooky Season 1 Trailer

This is Small Town Spooky with Renée Meloche, your sonic psychopomp leading you through stories of haunted roads, abandoned hospitals, French cryptids and little haunts on the prairie, just for starters. Our first episode airs October 3.

You can go to smalltownspooky.wixtsite.com/home or check out @smalltownspooky on all the socials for more updates, episode extras, and more on how to support the show. :)

Thanks for listening and hope to spook you soon! 

Background Music: It's Not Hard to Get Lost by Brian Mathys from FreeMusicArchive.org, clipped and  licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. 

Sound Effects: After Rain Wet Road Car Passby Urban Ext Night by Anton from FreeSound.Org, clipped and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.



Sep 26, 202100:35