For this month of Halloween, the editorial staff of Konbini is preparing a horrifying series for you. From creepypastas to underrated horror films to curses from beyond, a daily article will have you shivering until Day of the Dead. What’s more immersive than a good podcast? Especially if you’re alone at home, in the dark, well wrapped up in your blanket… With the small selection we’ve concocted for you, your senses will play tricks on you. Is it an evil figure watching you? in the corner of your room, or just your coat that you hung up incorrectly? Is it a poltergeist that manifests itself in the walls, or the piping that does as it pleases? After listening to these 10 podcasts, in French or in English, you will have a hard time separating the rational from the supernatural.#1 – In Tenebris Also to be seen on Konbini like a chronicle of miscellaneous facts, paranormal events. She tells the story of disturbing stories, more or less known to the general public. With her objective approach, she completes her narration with sound archives, testimonies and interviews specialists in the subject to try to lift the mystery on these phenomena that defy understanding. From the disappearance of the Croatoan colony to the legend of the White Lady, thrills guaranteed!#2 – Nuit BlancheFrom Switzerland, Anne Flament and Mickael Marquet of the RTS look into these true stories that haunt our nights. Like a journalistic investigation, the duo unfolds its stories, each more terrifying than the other, embellished with audio extracts from films or sound archives. All the theories are sifted through with great precision, in order to disentangle the true from the false. It is then up to listeners to make up their own mind.#3 – Ars MoriendiIn Latin, the name of this podcast which comes straight from Quebec means “the art of death”. Thanks to an original soundtrack and the acting of actors for larger than life reconstructions, Simon Predj invites us into his world populated by sordid miscellaneous facts and macabre discoveries. These true stories, from all eras, are likely to keep you awake for a while!#4 – CampfireTaous Merakchi is a bit like our own “Elvira, mistress of the dark”. Horror is her specialty, as she likes to remind us at the start of each episode. So just approach, sit near her around her campfire, and let her tell us the most terrifying stories. From the famous Enfield Poltergeist (which gave birth to the Conjuring films), to the cruel Delphine Lalaurie who tortured her slaves in her beautiful mansion in Louisiana, passing by Robert, the haunted doll, get ready to let Evil enter your home.#5 – In the shadow of legendsBehind the nickname Chandleyr hides a storyteller like no other. In each episode, he shares with us, not without a certain dose of masochism, disturbing fictions, with a sordid atmosphere, which he himself wrote. And the best part of all that is that you can taste it in small bites of maximum 5 minutes. Just enough time for us to spin the crumbs, and then goes away. Unless you’re the daring type and chain these morbid little fables…#6 – Strange and Unexplained (in English) the incisive storytelling of Daisy Eagan. This American actress leans more on the skeptical side of force, and it is therefore with undisguised malice that she takes us on a sleepy tale of legends (did Atlantis really exist?) , conspiracies (was the first moon landing a set-up?), or unfathomable mysteries (who was the Dune Woman?). And if you liked The Watcher series on Netflix, Daisy Eagan made it her very first episode, in April 2021, in which she revisited the strange events that happened at 657 Boulevard. #7 – Radio Rental (in English) This voice, you know it. Welcome to the last video club before the end of the world. It is held by the loner Terry Carnation, camped by the inimitable Rainn Wilson (aka Dwight Schrute in The Office). Be careful not to make eye contact with his demonic cat, Malachi (pronounced “Malakai”). falls, going through kidnapping attempts that will make you completely paranoid. All the anxiolytics in the world will not be enough to reassure you…#8 – Uncanny (in English)Very popular across the Channel, Uncanny is a BBC Radio 4 podcast in which Danny Robins tells us in his deep voice events that defy reason . Each new episode, supported by the story of those directly concerned as well as the expertise of a skeptic and a specialist in these phenomena, is more terrifying than the previous one. It is about haunted houses, souls lost between the world of the living and that of the dead, poltergeists but also UFO sightings. Not to be put between all ears! #9 – Supernatural with Ashley Flowers (in English) The title leaves little room for doubt. Here, all mysteries are welcome, and Ashley Flowers always gives them the benefit of the doubt. Aliens, ghosts, mystical creatures, disturbing disappearances and true crime cases, everything is expertly documented by the author of this podcast who gives all her references and her bibliography below each episode description. Using no artifice other than her voice, she dissects for us the great enigmas of our world and beyond.#10 – The Witch Farm (in English)Before launching Uncanny, mentioned above, Danny Robins rose to prominence with another podcast that traumatized more than one listener: The Battersea Poltergeist, an unsolved case of a house infested by a malevolent entity that traumatized England in the 1950s. This time , he returns to the field to investigate another unsolved paranormal story, in Wales, in a mansion said to be the most haunted in Great Britain. Danny Robins returns to the scene, questions witnesses, and gives way to reconstructions of the facts where the two main characters are played by Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Alexandra Roach (Black Mirror). The first two episodes are already online, and each week, a new one comes to raise the anxiety. Listen, if you dare…
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